. The Argonaut . n are heeded, more strandings. more wrecks, moretotal losses of ships, cargoes, and lives arepected. Arthur H. Di/t 280 THE ARGONAUT October 16, 1905. SOME EUROPEAN SEAPORTS. By Jerome Hart. What first strikes an American on landing in the OldWorld is to note the difference between the , quays, wharves there, and those in the NewWorld. I know of no American city which has stonedocks, or piers, or quays; all that I have ever seenin this country are built of wood. I never saw anyin Europe built of wood. This difference is the New World we build apparently
. The Argonaut . n are heeded, more strandings. more wrecks, moretotal losses of ships, cargoes, and lives arepected. Arthur H. Di/t 280 THE ARGONAUT October 16, 1905. SOME EUROPEAN SEAPORTS. By Jerome Hart. What first strikes an American on landing in the OldWorld is to note the difference between the , quays, wharves there, and those in the NewWorld. I know of no American city which has stonedocks, or piers, or quays; all that I have ever seenin this country are built of wood. I never saw anyin Europe built of wood. This difference is the New World we build apparently for cheapnessand speed, and we sacrifice safety and solidity. Longwooden wharves, covered with vast wooden sheds,may be seen in New York and every other seaboardcity on the Atlantic Coast. When these inflammablestructures burn down, as they often do, not only arethe wharves themselves burned, but their valuablecontents as well. Frequently the fine ships and theircostly cargoes, which are berthed at these wharves,. PORT OF LONDON—Surrey Commercial Docks. are also destroyed. Three or four years ago such afire took place across the North River from New piers at Hoboken, leased by the North GermanLloyd Company, were burned, destroying also some oftheir ships and cargoes. In this fire many people wereburned to death—some of them perished with theirheads sticking out of the tween-decks port-holes, insight of the horrified onlookers. In a few months, ex-actly the same kind of structure was constructed in. thesame place by the same Hoboken people. About ayear ago a similar fire took place under similar condi-tions in the same place, which burned everything ex-actly as before. In the Old World a seaport one-tenth the size ofNew York possesses massive stone docks and quays,and the buildings thereon are always fireproof. Inthese docks there lie steamships worth millions with-out their cargoes; in these ships are cargoes worthother millions—cargoes made up of such commoditie
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