Pilot lore; from sail to steam . en grew under its benigninfluence. The first real improvement came when Stevens built the Morrisand Essex Railroad, bringing it into Hoboken through the old Erietunnel on trackage rights from the Erie. Next came the building of a pier for the North German LloydLine and shortly after a pier for the Hamburg-America Line. Stevens also contributed a famous improvement in the shape of ashipyard where he built and rebuilt the ingenious steam floatingbattery for the U. S. Government and also built all of the steamferry boats for his ferry to Barclay and Christopher St
Pilot lore; from sail to steam . en grew under its benigninfluence. The first real improvement came when Stevens built the Morrisand Essex Railroad, bringing it into Hoboken through the old Erietunnel on trackage rights from the Erie. Next came the building of a pier for the North German LloydLine and shortly after a pier for the Hamburg-America Line. Stevens also contributed a famous improvement in the shape of ashipyard where he built and rebuilt the ingenious steam floatingbattery for the U. S. Government and also built all of the steamferry boats for his ferry to Barclay and Christopher Streets, NewYork. So the Stevens family made Hoboken and today are still makingand doing for Hoboken through the Hoboken Land and Improve-ment Company, which owns and controls most of the waterfrontproperty, factories, private dwellings, semi-private dwellings, flatsand apartment houses. The following is a list of the large improvements which havebeen made by the Hoboken Land & Improvement Company on thewaterfront: — 290 —. PALMER CAMPBELL President and General Manager Hoboken Land andImprovement Company m /z\ XJ /z± XJ XJ XJ £\ XJ /Zv V7 M zi t7 XJ XJ /Z\ XJ z^. XJ /n rjxi /3, XJ XJ M$\ Two large double decked piers for the Holland America Line. One 1,000 foot pier for the Scandinavian America Line. Two piers built by the Lamport & Holt Line on land owned bythis Company. One large double decked pier and bulkhead built by the Eller-mans Wilson Line Ltd. on property owned by this Company. The Hoboken Land & Improvement Company built four 12-storyconcrete buildings for manufacturing purposes, and built to con-nect the Hoboken waterfront, industries and piers with direct tracksto all trunk lines—a railroad commonly known as the HobokenShore Road. M&PRCUS H. TRACY CAPTAIN TRACY began his deep sea experience at the age often years with his father, who was a shipmaster. Born in theState of Maine with a long line of seafaring people as an in-heritance, his whole life, with few i
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