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oe suchas: The riparian rights cipal be acquired for the full 4,000 ft. front? ¥ €eiptyot areveniie warranting' it® "bo 80 © age on the bay. 'This tract of land extends westward from Newark bay and it is proposed to bound it on the north and on the south by a main thoroughfare 150 ft. wide. The main canal will lie midway between these thoroughfares and will be 1,650 ~ {t. from each of them. It will be 700 ft. wide and designed for an ultimate depth of 30 ft. at low water. Provision has been made for large ships for regular ocean and coastwise shipping lines at the entrance to the canal and for public wharves at various places along its length, but the greater part of the space behind the bulkheads bounding it will be utilized for either manufacturing ot transportation purposes, as the necessities of the future may show to be desirable. Connections can be made with the Penn- sylvania, Lehigh Valley and Central of New Jersey roads, which are in the im- mediate vicinity and heartily endorse the project. A connecting railroad ruuning to other lines as well is.strongly recom- mended by the commission. Provision is made in the plans for street and trol- ley connections, and the head of the ship canal will run almost into the heart of _ the city. The second feature of the enterprise is the filling of the meadow land so as to increase the area of the city that is cap- able of profitable utilization. The cus- tomary method of carrying out such im- provements would be to open and grade the streets, then fill in the lots, and event- ually put in the curbing, sidewalks, water _ mains and sewers. If this improvement were made by filling carried out in the usual manner the cost of improving 950 acres would be about $9,066,800. If the filling were done by the hydraulic meth- od, it is estimated that the cost of im- proving the 950 acres would be $5,136,700, or $3,930,109 less, and in addition a navi- gable channel would be constructed dur- ing the process. These figures are given by the commission to show that even were its sole object the reclamation of the meadows, the most economical meth- od of doing the work would be by constructing a canal. The initial work, to which the city is now committed, comprises the expendi- ture of $1,000,000 for dredging a chan- nel from the bay to the shore line, exca- vating a section of the ship canal 350 ft. wide and 22 ft. deep for a distance of 3,400 ft., building a permanent bulk- head along the north side of this canal, filling the meadow land north of this bulkhead for a distance of 2,000 ft. and making various improvements in sewers and roads. The commission believes that this amount of water frontage will be taken up in a comparatively few years THe Marine REVIEW ment® has in the past left to the a states "the work of canal building, and 46 some extent, 'the canalization of riy- ers. Several of the states, after hay- ing made costly mistakes in the exe- cution of their earlier works of inter- nal improvement, have been disposed. ands by: that time the city wil be ingre= ahead with another installment of the work. COMMERCE OF LAKE . SUPERIOR. Whe ebinmerce of the Sault "Ste! *° leave to private capital the crea Marie canals for June, 1908, was tion of such waterways as special bus- iness interests might find it profitable to establish. In many instances the states have thought best to dispose of their waterways to the railroad com-. panies, which have generally found it unprofitable to maintain both rail and water routes. The policy of leaving the development of water transporta- tion to any considerable extent, either to the states or to private corpora- tions, is now realized to be wrong in theory and unsatisfactory in practice. 4,334,183 tons, as against 8,865,442 tons for June, 1907, a decrease of 4,531,259 tons. The movement of freight to July 1 of the present year has amount- ed only to 6,002,325 tons, being there- fore 2,863,117 tons less than the move- ment for the single month of June last year. The movement to July 1, 1907, was 17,788,319 tons, which is in excess of the movement for the cor- responding period this year of 11,785,- 994 tons. Following is the compara- tive' statement of the commerce < brought up to July 1 of the present As a consequence of the failure to year with corresponding data for the reach an agreement by the joint commis- two preceding years: sion of the Russian Duma and the Coun- MOVEMENT OF PRINCIPAL ITEMS OF FREIGHT TO AND FROM LAKE SUPERIOR. To July 1, 1906; Items-- | To July 1, 1908. To July 1, 1907. Coal) anthracite net tons. 64. on eo ee. 364,914 435, 940 92,084 Goal, bituminous. net: toms o.0..0.. oes ce ee 1,396,961 3,305,572 2,111,114 PitGhs ote; uel tons. 62 ce cee eS. 2,733,430 11,840,412 10,366,948 Wihea tee se Dushelo.: 4s ee Ga ates ee ie Sirens 22,442,683 30,016,884 21,354,474 Hours. bartels. <n ee eo ee ee ae tes 1A 79, 406 1,709,465 1,578,148 REPORT OF FREIGHT AND PASSENGER TRAFFIC TO AND FROM LAKE SUPERIOR FROM OPENING OF NAVIGA- TION. LO JOLY 1 OF EACH YEAR FOR THREE YEARS PAST. EAST BOUND. Items-- To July 1,,1908:_ To July. 1, 1907. To July 1, 1906. Coppee fet one ee 27,484 22,100 34,301 Grain, other than: «wheat, bushels. 2.22... ae 7,293,272 14,180,677 18,052,688 iouh. Gates ole ek a le 1,179,406 1,709,465 1,577,968. Mon: Ore, « MetprtONS ci eee occ hens 2,733,430 11,840,412 10,366,948 from pies net tons ce. cP. Se. 4,364 6,431 8,317 Dumber Mh fh BR Ne ee 112,227 221,918 277,093 Wiheats DiUsSHelS sot. ss ike a er wee ee so 22,442,683 30,016,884 21,354,474 Unelasstted freight. net tons... ve ee 20,583 21,699 58,433 Passengers: "mMumbere 27015 foe ses ees ees 4,052 4,554 5,085 WEST BOUND. ; Items-- To July 1;1908. To July 1, 1907. To July 1, [90e @oal? anthracite, net tos)... 43. eee, 364,914 435,940 192,083 Coal. bituminous; nets tons... ia ee 1,396,961 3,305,572 211d 414 Wlote "barrels: ose et he eC oe ogee we ec ks | ules see ey 180 Grains? bushele sik: veh esi ee a Ss ss VOOs ee 6,749 Wanirachtned. Tron. Neb TONS... 0.) ee ee 82,602 96,187 121,241 Salty DArrCls tac oe ee ee ae eh. 199,915 157,085 151,183 Unelassitied-freieht, met "tons 2.0 6s ae eee 190,592 278,137 316,707 Pascenserss MUIMDer . 65 ee oe ee eG ce 4,809 4,534 6,170 SUMMARY OF TOTAL FREIGHT MOVEMENT. Items-- To July 1,1908.. To July 1,1907.. To July 1, 1906. East bound freight of all "kinds, net tons... 04... 3,937,509 13,649,105 12,112,667 West bound freight of all kinds, met fONS. <i... 2,064,816 4,139,214 2,765,013 Spotal. freioht. net tons: so... s se 6,002,325 17,788,319 14:877, 720 Total number of vessel passages to 'July 1, 1908, was 3,295, and the net registered tonnage, 4,775,940. OUR INLAND WATERWAYS. (Continued from page 29.) as social: and industrial conditions in the United States approach more closely those prevailing in Europe, we shall find it increasingly desirable to provide ourselves both with well-devel- oped waterways for handling much of our bulky traffic, and with railroads more efficient than present conditions permit them to be in the handling of package freight. We, as well as Europe, will find it profitable to min- imize capital and warehousing costs. cil of the Empire, which was recently created for the purpose of conferring re- garding the naval budget--the 1907 bud- - get still remains in force. The Council of the Empire had adopted a budget which provided for an appropriation of $5,500,000 for new battleship construction, although the Duma had previously re- fused to sanction such an. item. Ihe 1907 budget contains an item for $18,000,- 000 of new construction and the funda- mental laws provide that in case the rep- resentatives of the Council and Duma fail to agree the previous regular budget shall take effect. The construction. of. ¢analsand -the improvement of rivers in the United States have progressed slowly, in part at least, because the Federal govern- -- The Great Lakes Towing Co. has sta- tioned the lighter T. F. Newman at South Chicago.