Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1916 — HAPPENINGS in the METROPOLIS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS in the METROPOLIS

New Yorkers Want to Build an Artificial Island NEW YORK. —There will soon come before the war department at \\ ashlugton for approval a plan to build a new artificial island in New York harbor which with the buildings on "ifwill cost $40,000,000. The proposal to

make this alteration of the face of nature was made by a group of wealthy men, and the New York harbor line board has held a hearing here on the question. The board’s recommendations will be forwarded to Secretary Baker. v. The new Island would have an area of 440 acres and cover the Red Hook shoals. On the made land, one mile long and a quarter of a mile wide, would be built transshipping sheds and warehouses, railroad tracks, huge

slips for barges carrying freight trains, and on the Brooklyn side 18 piers. The plant would be run along the lines of the great Bush terminal. At the hearing opposition developed from representatives of the Bush {terminal and of a proposed new terminal at Bayonne, N. J. t while prominent shipping men appenred both for and against the project. If thp war rippwrtment’s HpHginn lg.,_CttvarahU> —tho men Behind the_ , project must get the consent of the state legislature to lease the right to the shoals and then put In a successful bid for the lease. There Is some sentiment for having the city of New York i*self build the new terminal, and in any event the group pushing the Idea expect to incorporate in their lease a clause providing that the state or city shall get the terminal after a period of years. i • ■ **>*•<