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S. S. GREYLOCK OF THE STEAMSHIP LINES UNLOADING LUM- BER AT CITY DOCK AT PORT NEWARK port with perfect safety on all tides. In 1917 when the need for ships became acute and the government ac- cepted the proposal of the Submarine Boat Corp. to put up an erecting shipyard the company chose Port Newark and purchased a site of 132 acres. This property was _ highly developed for the purposes of ship- building. A railroad, with 26 miles of tracks fully equipped with rolling stock, locomotives and a_ classifica- tion yard connecting with the trunk lines, was laid down. An elaborate wet dock was built for outfitting the ships as they were launched. This dock is 4000 feet long and has three sets of railroad tracks and an over- head crane system with electric and steam cranes of 60 to 90 feet out- reach. There was also installed a 70-ton gantry crane. Warehouses were built for about 50 per cent of the length of the dock. When the . time came to turn from thoughts of war to peaceful persuits all of this equipment proved invaluable as a shipping terminal. The army base at Port Newark suspended operation in 1922 and Mayor Raymond, then commissioner of public works, and his colleagues attempted to obtain this property by purchase from the war department at a reasonable figure but without success. It was then decided that the city should develop the south side of the channel opposite the army base. The inshore channel was in- creased in width from 400 to 685 feet. A marginal dock of 1000 feet in length was built, paved streets, Sewers and other facilities for pros- pective tenants desiring waterfront 38 ISTHMIAN and before its completion the 30-acre site adjoining was leased for a period of 20 years to the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. This lessee is the larg- est wholesale lumber company in the United States. A fourth 1000-foot dock is now under way. The building of 2000 feet addi- tional docks on the inshore channel and five 1000-foot piers on Newark bay by 1930 will make a total of 4% miles of docks constructed to that date by the city since 1917. Ade- quate rail service to these piers will be necessary and it is likely that a municipally operated inter-belt ter- FLEET OF VESSELS UNLOADING LUMBER, SUGAR AND GENERAL CARGO AT PORT NEWARK THROUGH THE SEABOARD AND TRANSMARINE TERMINALS industrial sites were provided. Dredg- ing to widen the channel commenced in the fall of 1922. Work on the marginal dock started in Mareh 1923 and was completed with the neces- sary fill in June 1924. About $1,000,- 000 was spent in the construction of this 1000-foot dock known as unit A; but its completion made. available for leasing purposes 50 acres of water- front property valued at $1,250,000. City Builds Miles of Docks In November 1925 another 1000- foot dock with streets, sewers and waterlines known as unit B was au- thorized. This project was completed in June 1926 and months before this the forty acres adjoining were leased to Sears-Roebuck Co. for a_ period of 50 years. A plant for the con- struction of ready-cut houses was erected on this site at a cost of nearly $2,000,000 by the lessee and now not less than 18 houses are being shipped each day. Work was started on a third 1000-foot dock in July 1926. This project known as_ unit C was completed in January 1927 MARINE REVIEW—December, 1927 minal will be created. The rail traffic to the port in 1926 increased 50 per cent over that for 1925 and amounted to 12.585 cars all loaded moving in and out of Port Newark. By 19380 it is expected that this movement will be doubled. In addition to the two companies mentioned above as tenants on water- front sites at Port Newark two other companies have large interests and are firmly established there, the New- ark Seaboard terminal and the Trans- marine Corp. and its subsidiaries the Atlantic Port railway and Newark Bay terminal. The army base prop- erty of 133 acres was leased for a period of 10 years from 1926 to the Mercur Corp. known as the Newark Seaboard terminal. Over $500,000 has been laid out by this company in improving the docks and _ ware- houses along 1333 feet of waterfront. Contracts have been made with Cuban sugar brokers for the storage of 300,000,000 pounds of raw sugar. A transatlantic freight service out of Port Newark it is said will be start- ed before the end of the year.