. Review of reviews and world's work . -tails of this you can find in the yearly reportof the MerchantsExchange and the JobbersUnions. Meanwhile, Oakland is spending$15,000,000 on her harbor, San Francisco$9,000,000. Wooden slips and pilings arebeing replaced by concrete and steel. Oneconcrete quay 3000 feet long is being builtat Oakland. On this quay the United StatesGovernment has spent $1,500,000, the city$2,500,000. A fill-in is to give 300 moreacres for warehouses and terminals. In spiteof the railroads belittling Panama, the South-ern Pacific is spending between $4,000,000 and$5,000,000
. Review of reviews and world's work . -tails of this you can find in the yearly reportof the MerchantsExchange and the JobbersUnions. Meanwhile, Oakland is spending$15,000,000 on her harbor, San Francisco$9,000,000. Wooden slips and pilings arebeing replaced by concrete and steel. Oneconcrete quay 3000 feet long is being builtat Oakland. On this quay the United StatesGovernment has spent $1,500,000, the city$2,500,000. A fill-in is to give 300 moreacres for warehouses and terminals. In spiteof the railroads belittling Panama, the South-ern Pacific is spending between $4,000,000 and$5,000,000 improving Oakland docks. Whenthe harbor plans of both cities are carriedout, Oakland will have twenty-six miles ofwater-front, San Francisco thirty-six miles. THE QUESTION OF A MERCHANT MARINE But perhaps the most interesting featureof preparation for Panama at San Franciscois the agitation for the revival of a merchantmarine. The city does not attribute thedecline of the marine solely to railroad in- 12 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS. _£ rf 0 «-: t ?r. S E ^ >. 0 n _1 S j:: 3 0; 5. f- a< n H rt & s 0 0>. tr TT a> E a ^ 0 a; ; 0 a E n u MC ^ CIJ w n ?S tA rf i^ oc rt^ C •0 rt K ^ t CJ ^ UJ > .-35: o d aj > « «j:^ ^ w. 3t: p/; M ,1; c M E^ lluence. Far stronger factorshave been—first, the cost oflabor and material in theUnited States being from 60to 100 per cent, higher thanabroad; second, the old UnitedStates navigation laws com-])elling the building and op-erating of United Statescoasters with United Stateslaljor and United States ma-terial. At least that is practi-cally the working out of thelaws which will not grant reg-istry to vessels built or boughtabroad and will not permitvessels to ply between UnitedStates jDorts which ha\-e beenbought, built or mannedabroad. San Francisco is ask-ing for free trade on the sea,that her hands be untied, thatthe old navigation laws be re-pealed. She is also asking thatI^urely American shippin
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