. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . yvil Creek was unbrokenand untrodden — Fort Gansevoort, which stood near thepresent market-place, and Fort Washington at OneHundred and Seventy-Fifth Street, being latter-day works. But a great change has taken place since the days ofthe Dutch, or the English, or even the American occupa-tion. Less than a hundred years has transformed theNorth River into a water-way for the ships of the world,the meadow front is now a broad street with the unceasingreverberation of traffic; and the waters edge, from theBattery to the Riverside Par
. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . yvil Creek was unbrokenand untrodden — Fort Gansevoort, which stood near thepresent market-place, and Fort Washington at OneHundred and Seventy-Fifth Street, being latter-day works. But a great change has taken place since the days ofthe Dutch, or the English, or even the American occupa-tion. Less than a hundred years has transformed theNorth River into a water-way for the ships of the world,the meadow front is now a broad street with the unceasingreverberation of traffic; and the waters edge, from theBattery to the Riverside Park, is occupied by long piersand sheds where ocean liners are docked and ocean-carrying trade of New York is now locatedthere. Practically all the important fines of passengersteamers have their docks there, or across the river atHoboken. Along the Chelsea region of the North River, scat-tered like the sky-scrapers on Broadway, are the hugetransatlantic liners with sharp noses pushing in towardWest Street. With them and near them are the smaller. Pl. 74.—The Mauuetania DOCKS AND SHIPS 335 steamers plying to Havana, Mexico, South America, Spain,Italy, Greece; the immigrant steamers coming up fromNaples, Palermo, or Trieste; the coasting steamers fromNew Orleans, Galveston, Boston, Providence; the whiteriver steamers running to Troy and Albany. In theforeign passenger trade alone there are some three hundredor more of these craft coming and going to this port;and the number of coasters that creep into the harbor atodd times and in strange ways mounts up into the thou-sands. The tramps, fruit carriers, cattle and tank steamersare of all kinds and descriptions, come from all over theseven seas and beyond, and fly the flags of every nationhaving a merchant marine. Besides these there are shipsand sails of old-time merchants, perhaps, that haveno regular sailings, casual ships with strange cargoes thatcome up from the underworld of China or Peru when theycan, and go o
Size: 1364px × 1832px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublishernewyorkmacmillanco
