Identifier: progressofempire01cona_0 (find matches)
Title: The progress of the Empire State a work devoted to the historical, financial, industrial, and literary development of New York
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Conant, Charles A. (Charles Arthur), 1861-1915
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Publisher: New York : The Progress of the Empire State Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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onstant expansion. The Bush Terminal plant occupies two hundred acresof land; has seven modern extension piers, each nearly aquarter of a mile long; has 130 warehouses and railway yards,and trackage for two thousand freight cars. It possesses itsown locomotives, tugboats, car floats, lighters, barges, and allthe other equipment necessary to the movement of freight.At these piers are anchored vessels from every quarter ofthe world. Apart from the big Atlantic liners, run chieflyfor passenger service, a larger number of vessels with greatertonnage arrive from foreign ports at the Bush Terminalthan at all the piers of the mainland. Incoming freight isloaded directly on the cars by automatic machinery, whileoutgoing freight is transferred from the cars directly to thevessels which are to carry it to Europe, India, South Africa,Australia, and other remote parts of the world. By thesystem of tugs and car floats, freight which is not to beconsumed or distributed on Manhattan Island no longer
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THE BUSH TERMINAL PLANT This presents a general view of the scope of this large freightterminal, with its facilities for docking ocean-going vessels andloading and unloading freight directly from cars to vessels andcars to warehouse. The plant occupies two hundred acres; hasseven extension piers, each nearly a quarter of a mile long; onehundred and thirty warehouses; and railway yards and trackagefor two thousand freight cars. It possesses its own locomotives,tug boats, car floats, lighters, barges, and automatic equipment. THE FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF NEW YORK 105 congests the streets of the city, but the cars are taken fromthe New Jersey and New England terminals direct to theBush Terminal plant. Even manufacture for export is carried on in buildingsspecially designed for this business, with ample light andair, and with quick telephone and transit communicationwith offices in New York. The radical reconstruction ofNew England railway connections, bringing traffic acrossLong Island S

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