Pilot lore; from sail to steam . ess and failure of business interests which have enjoyed itsfacilities. The most comprehensive terminal system in this country wasplanned by a young man who saw the necessity of bringing thefactory, the warehouse, the railroad, and the steamship into juxta-position. That man was Mr. Irving T. Bush. As a result of hisenterprise there has been developed at Bush Terminal, South Brook-lyn, New York, the largest single coordination of industrial andshipping facilities in the world. It is not too much to say that aknowledge of Bush Terminal is essential to a full und
Pilot lore; from sail to steam . ess and failure of business interests which have enjoyed itsfacilities. The most comprehensive terminal system in this country wasplanned by a young man who saw the necessity of bringing thefactory, the warehouse, the railroad, and the steamship into juxta-position. That man was Mr. Irving T. Bush. As a result of hisenterprise there has been developed at Bush Terminal, South Brook-lyn, New York, the largest single coordination of industrial andshipping facilities in the world. It is not too much to say that aknowledge of Bush Terminal is essential to a full understanding ofmodern port development. It forms a striking and definitely workedout illustration of the inter-relation of industry and has the only co-operative grouping in the world of manufacturerswho are brought into direct relation to world lines of rail and oceantraffic. It is scarcely more than a quarter of a century ago that the siteof Bush Terminal was a vacant waste. Its development since that — 160 —. -6- W W k* |V7 -e- *6* 6**0 AA ^A -e- & V7 r> \r- w w \J |w period is an epic in American industry and shipping. First groundwas broken on Bush Terminal in 1895. Mr. Irving T. Bush, thena young man scarcely beyond his majority and joint inheritor of aconsiderable fortune, cherished an ideal of what a modern terminalshould be. He had a vision of a complete terminal plant upon thosevacant acres. He clearly foresaw the ever-increasing congestionthat was bound to develop at the piers of lower Manhattan. Hewas confident that increased facilities to care for the traffic of theport would be demanded with the growth of the nation and of thevast community centering in New York. But there were many whoregarded Mr. Bushs plans as visionary. The proposed site seemedtoo far away. It was suggested that he might as well have planneda terminal at Coney Island. Though confronted by disheartening and seemingly impassableobstacles, the young man set about courageously
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