The port of Philadelphia, its facilities and advantages . western terminusof the Delaware and Baritan Canal. This canal extendsthrough the Stnte of New Jersey, affording an inland passagefor vessels ol limited size and draught to the Port of NewYork. Tlic i)urchase and improvement of this canal by the Fed-eral Ci(»\ernment is now advocated Iw the Atlantic Dee])erWaterways Association, it being one of the links of the Tnlra-Coastal chain of inland waterway i>assage from Maine toFlorida. 23 CUSTOMS DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA (j4ct of Congress Approved August 24, 1912) The United States Customs
The port of Philadelphia, its facilities and advantages . western terminusof the Delaware and Baritan Canal. This canal extendsthrough the Stnte of New Jersey, affording an inland passagefor vessels ol limited size and draught to the Port of NewYork. Tlic i)urchase and improvement of this canal by the Fed-eral Ci(»\ernment is now advocated Iw the Atlantic Dee])erWaterways Association, it being one of the links of the Tnlra-Coastal chain of inland waterway i>assage from Maine toFlorida. 23 CUSTOMS DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA (j4ct of Congress Approved August 24, 1912) The United States Customs district of IMiiladelpliia, in-cludes all that part of the State of Pennsylvania lying east of79° west longitude, all of the State of Delaware, and all of thatpart of the State of New Jersey not included in the districtof New York, with district headquarters at Philadelphia, inwhich Philadelphia (to include Camden and Gloucester City,Somers Point, Thompsons Point, Tuckerton, N. J.; Chester,Pa.; Wilmington, and Lewes, Del., shall be ports of entry. 24. o H<HW i-!<!Z M s B5Ed O 2; « RAILROAD FACILITIES The railroad faciiities of IMiiladelpIiias main water frontare unique among Atlantic i) Three great continentaltrunk line systems, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Philadel-phia and Reading Railway, and the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-road maintain well equipped marine terminals within a fewmiles of the heart of the city, at which ships of large sizecan dock and unload with dispatch and free of situation of the city on the west or continental side of agreat river makes it possible for the railroad to connect di-rectly with the marine carriers by means of trains run out onthe wharves alongside of the ships, and renders unnecessarythe expensive system of lighterage and transfer by car float,unavoidable in the port of New York and necessary in somedegree in most of the other Atlantic ports. In addition to the tracks of the Pennsylvania, Philadelphiaand Reading, a
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