. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. to be expected,its annual amount is by no means inconsiderable. About seventy per cent,of the tonnage is coal; thirteen per cent, general merchandise in steamers ;four per cent, lumber and three per cent. oil. The oyster business is verylarge, 2676 boats having been counted by the harbor master in 1909. Ofother vessels there were 2342 steamers, 1355 barges, 797 tugs, 322schooners and 5 barks. The number of passengers carried by steamersis about 2,400,000
. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. to be expected,its annual amount is by no means inconsiderable. About seventy per cent,of the tonnage is coal; thirteen per cent, general merchandise in steamers ;four per cent, lumber and three per cent. oil. The oyster business is verylarge, 2676 boats having been counted by the harbor master in 1909. Ofother vessels there were 2342 steamers, 1355 barges, 797 tugs, 322schooners and 5 barks. The number of passengers carried by steamersis about 2,400,000 per year. Considered as the Southern Gateway of New England, it is worthrecalling that but two other ports in the whole Western Hemisphere have solarge or so wealthy a population, or such extensive industries, locatedwithin the radius of two or three hours travel distance. When the historyof other harbor development works is studied, it does not seem unreasonablethat a direct channel of thirty-five or forty feet should be demanded forthe very short distance necessary to make Providence one of the greatestof modern commercial ports. 49. A BIT OF NARRAGANSETT SHORE THE PLAYGROUNDS OF THE PEOPLE The visitor arriving in Providence steps forth from the Union Station into a Civic Centre that atpresent has no counterpart in the United States. Washington, to be sure, is proceeding rapidly in thecreation of a magnificent approach, and several western cities are looking forward to the day when theyshall greet their incoming guests more worthily: but a combination of fortunate circumstances brought theProvidence plaza into being some years before the modern movement had begun. Its existence is amemorial to that long contention that preceded the establishment of the present railroad approach, and tothe resulting compromise between those who were striving for a much larger central park area, andothers ivho believed in a commercial use for every inch of space. |F Greater Providence had not
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