THE WATER FRONT-Continued.

tan. Next northward is Pier A, occupied by the
From
Dept. of Docks, which has exclusive supervision
over all the wharf privileges of the city.
there northward on various piers and bulkheads
are terminal facilities for the receipt and handling
of freight. Also conveniences for the many thou-
At
sands of passengers and the freight by ferries,
ocean-going steamships and river steamboats.
Barrow ct., Pier 43 is arranged for recreation in
Between Perry and Gansevoort sts. five
summer.
new piers constructed are leased to foreign steam-
The largest of the Manhattan
ship companies.
markets-West Washington-is at Gansevoort and
W. 12th sts. In the work on the Chelsea improve-
ment between Gansevoort and W. 23d sts., dredg-
ing is practically completed; the river wall about
finished, and three of the proposed ten piers are
At W. 23d and
built and ready for leasing.
24th sts. are to be concentrated many of the ferries
connecting the railroad terminals on the New Jer-
sey shore with the uptown West Side of Man-
hattan. From W. 29th to W. 38th st. the frontage
is occupied by freight depots of the New York
Central R. R. and West Shore R. R., Ontario
The piers and
and Western and Penna. R. R.
bulkheads from there northward are occupied by
corporate and individual interests to W. 59th st.
Between W. 59th and W. 72d sts. is another freight
terminal of the New York Central R. R., connect-
ed with which are nine piers, two grain elevators,
stock yards and abattoir. At W. 51st and W. 129th st.
are recreation piers. Between W. 153d and W. 158th
sts. are Trinity Cemetery and Audubon Park. Ft.
Washington and Ft. Washington Park are between
At W. 219th st. is the
W. 170th and W. 185th sts.
mouth of the Spuyten Duyvil Creek and the Har-
lem Canal, which connects the Hudson and Har-
lem rivers. Beyond, Mount St. Vincent, 15 miles
from the City Hall, is the northern limit of the
From this point to the southern extremity
city.
of Staten Island the air line length of New York
City, from north to south, is upward of 35 miles.
EAST RIVER SHORE LINE.

which the Croton aqueduct crosses the Harlem
roads, Washington Bridge and High Bridge, on
River. High Bridge Park borders for a consider-
able distance the west side of the river. North of
the eastern outlet of the Harlem River, and con-
Some
tinuing out into the head of Long Island Sound is
Port Morris, the freight and transfer terminal of
a branch of the N. Y.. N. H. & H. R. R.
two miles beyond Port Morris the Bronx River.
the limit of city improvements on the east side
From that to
Fort
Neck is located
empties into Long Island Sound.
At Throggs
Throggs Neck the shore consists chiefly of salt
marshes.
Schuyler. Salt marshes again border much of the
the northern and eastern limits of Greater New
shore in this section, and on to Pelham Manor
York. From there across the Sound the city line
takes its course to Long Island, reaching the land
at Little Neck, on the east side of Little Neck
Bay. On the western side of the bay, jutting ou
work to Fort Schuyler.
into the Sound and closely approaching Throggs
as a consort defense
Neck, is Willets Point, which is strongly fortified
Whitestone, College Point and Flushing line the
shore to Flushing Bay. At Bowery Bay is an at-
of Bowery Bay the villages of Steinway, Astoria
tractive summer resort, called North Beach. West
City, where there are extensive petroleum refin-
and Ravenswood fill up the space to Long Island
numerous piers for shipping. The western termi-
eries, paint, varnish and other manufactories and
nus of the Long Island Railroad is also located
at this point. At Harris and Vernon avs.
Ravenswood are the Long Island piers of the
fourth or Blackwell's Island East River bridge.

Staten Island.

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At St. George, 5,000 feet of the water front is owned by the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Also the freight terminals Co., on which is established the ferry landing and depot of that company. of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. Adjoining is the property of the U. S. Government, appropriated to the lighthouse establishment at TompThe next adjoining 800 feet belong to Beyond At the southeast corner of Battery Park is lo-kinsville. cated the ferry to Liberty Island, the Barge office, the American Docks and Trust Co., which has 4 a department of the customs, a bureau of immi- great piers and 10 extensive warehouses. gration, office of the U. S. Marine Hospital, ship Tompkinsville about one-half mile of the shore is Williams & Son, lumber dealers: 1.800 feet by the news office and ferry to Governor's Island. Next owned by the Rapid Transit Co.; 1,000 feet by I. T. on the East River are the ferries to Staten Island The succeeding and Bay Ridge, L. I. Adjoining are the ferries estate of George Bechtel, and another long stretch to Hamilton av., Atlantic av. and 39th st.. Brook- by A. B. Stickney of St. Paul, Minn., Pres. of the these ferry landings, freight ter- Chicago Great Western Ry. Co. From lyn. The remainder of the held by private owners. minals of canals and railroads, steamship, steam- 4,000 feet to the U. S. Government fortifications are shore to the waters of the lower bay is the propboat and other vessel landings take up the space erty of the State of New York and the United to the pier next south of Wall st., which is octhat side of the Narrows. cupied as a depot of the U. S. Quartermaster's the fortifications on Department. At Wall and Fulton sts. are fer- States and occupied by the quarantine station and Beekman Fulton and Between South of the Narrows is South Beach, a stretch of Adjoining is ries to Bkin. two miles, used as a seaside resort. sts., on the bulkhead and Piers 22 and 23, is loAt Prince's Bay the White Dental Midland Beach. At Tottenville, the cated the principal wholesale fish market of the city. At Roosevelt st. are established the westterra cotta works. ern piers of the first Brooklyn bridge. Pike slip is Co. has a large manufactory. west piers of extreme southern part of the Island, on Raritan Bay, are brickmaking and the site of the foundation of the River bridge. Northward at Rossville, on Staten Island Sound, is "Manhattan" or the third East an ultramarine manufactory. Next, at LinoleumCorlears Hook Park is between Jackson and Corlears sts. Between Broome and Delancey sts. is ville, are large manufactories of the floor covering from which the place derives its name. From there located the anchorage and west piers of the sec1903. At a wide expanse of salt marsh borders the Sound to bridge to ond Bkln, completed in At E. 4th st.. the place at which is established the abutment of This Stanton st. are two dry docks. also two dry docks. Between E. 26th st. and 28th the Arthur Kills railroad bridge, which connects Bellevue Hospital. the states of New Jersey and New York. st.. lies the possessions of At Hollands Hook, oppoConnected with the hospital are ferries to Black-bridge is free, and therefore accessible to all the At trunk lines of railroads. well's, Randall's, Ward's and Hart's Islands. E. 37th st. is the power house of the N. Y. E. L. site Elizabethport, the S. I. Electric R. R. Co. has 84th st.. built a terminal and operates a ferry to ElizabethFrom E. 42d to E. H. and Power Co. At Mariner's Harbor is located the largest excepting at E. 71st st., where the tunnel bored port. On Shooters' Island, in Staten under the East River from Ravenswood, L. I., flouring mills in the Eastern States, also the Dean linseed oil mills. Island Sound, is the Townsend & Downey Ship by the East River Gas Co., reaches Manhattan, the Jewett Next comes the shore front is used in small local interests. Building Co.'s plant." At E. 59th st. the fourth East River or BlackAt E. white lead mills at Port Richmond; also the Benwell's Island bridge reaches Manhattan. At West New Brighton ts the house of the Manhat- lee ship building establishment and J, H. Starin's power is 74th st. Between E. 84th and E. 89th sts. is vessel repairing yards. tan R. Co. and East River Park to Av. B. Within these limits C. W. Hunt's portable railway manufactory and business Frank McWilliams' shipbuilding plant and dry for plant and dock of the piers several new em- dock, and beyond this the st. 90th E. to A quarter of a mile 89th E. Between this recreation. braces the Roman Catholic Institution, House of N. Y. and S. I. Electric Co. the Good Shepherd. Between E. 111th and E. 115th eastward is Sailors' Snug Harbor. sts., the East River and 1st av. is Jefferson Park. point and St. George there remains but New The circuit of the At E. 127th st. is the outlet into the East River Brighton, at which are plaster mills by which are of Nova Scotia plaster rock. of the Harlem River. Spanning the Harlem River reduced to commercial conditions millions of tons are draw or swivel bridges; at 3d av.. those of the N. Y. and Harlem and N. Y. and Northern rail-' island water front aggregates 51 miles.

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MARKETS.

Coal Weighing Stations.

The following scales have been designated by 62.742 the Mayor as weighing stations for coal and coal 73,128 vehicles under the provisions of chap. 174 of the 540,354 laws of 1897: Under this law every purchaser of 4.784 coal in New York City has the legal right to sen 39,439 any load of coal so purchased to any of the fol783 lowing scales to be weighed, provided that the 17,200 scales shall be no more than one-half mile distant from the place of loading or the place of delivery 19,519 of said coal.

The weighmaster is entitled to a fee of 15 cents 2,601 a ton, which must be paid by the purchaser. After 3,423 the loaded vehicle is weighed and the coal de1.497 livered to the purchaser the driver must take the 153,339 empty vehicle back to the scale to be weighed. and the weighmaster will then send a certificate 54.987 of the weight to the purchaser.

477 Washington, 608 Greenwich, 508 West, W. 881 14th, cor. 10th av.; 560 W. 23d, 293 9th av., 373 10th av., 475 11th av., 513 W. 54th, 555 W. 55th, 646 W. 55th, W. 95th, c. B'way, 227 St. Nicholas av., 2402 B'way, 3240 B'way, W. 151st., c. 7th av.; 13 W. 136th 245 South, ft. Delancey, 88 Mangin, ft. E. 3,897 4th, ft. 5th, E. 14th st., c. Av. D.; ft. E. 20th, ft. 879 E. 32d, 610 1st av., 624 1st av., ft. E. 49th, ft. E. 56th, 206 E. 65th, ft. E. 74th, 502 E. 80th, ft. E. 700 94th. ft. E. 107th, 2330 1st av.. 444 W. 138th Bedford Park, 496 S. Boulevard, E. 161st st., c. 3d av.. and W. 135th st. and 4th av., Mhtn.

PRINCIPAL LAWS AFFECTING NEW YORK CITY AND LONG ISLAND. Passed by the State Legislature, 1904.

to examination of immigrants at the port of New York.

Chap. 341-Amending Greater New York Charter relative to trials of police force.

Chap. 343-Amending Greater New York Charter relative to powers of chamberlain. Chap. 346-Amending tenement house act. Chap. 350-Amending primary election law. Chap. 358-Amending Greater New York Charter relative to police department.

Chap. 362-Amending Greater New York Charter relative to poor persons.

Chap. 369-Relative to city marshals.

Chap. 370-Amending Greater New York Charter relative to cession of streets.

Chap. 375-Amending Greater New York Charter relative to the board of taxes.

Chap. 382-Relative to taxation of special franchises.

Chap. 396-Amending Greater New York Charter relative to corporation counsel.

Chap. 399-Amending Greater New York Charter relative to relief fund, fire department.

Chap. 409 Amending Greater New York Charter relative to powers of board of aldermen.

Chap. 410-Relating to Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

Chap, 413-Amending Greater New York Charter relative to appointment and removal of commissjoner of deeds.

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Chap. 430-Relating to appeals from City Court, of New York City.

*Chap. 431-Relating to membership corporation. Chap. 432-Relating to employment agencies. Chap. 438-Amending tax law.

*Chaps. 451, 468, 543 and 551-Amending insurance law.

Chaps. 455, 740, 741-Amending Greater New York and charter relative to Department of Docks Ferries.

Chap. 457-Amending Greater New York charter relating to City Record.

Chap 458-Relating to special jurors. Chap. 460-Relative to damages to owners land fronting approaches of East River bridge.

*Chaps. 479, 492 and 607-Amending anking law. Chap. 485-Relating to places where traffic in liquors shall be prohibited.

Chap. 487-Relative to boards of inspectors (election law).

*Chap. 488-Amending primary election law. Chap. 490-Amending general corporation law. *Chap. 494-Relating to trade marks.

Chap. 512-Amending Greater New York Charter relating to police pension fund.

*Chap. 523-Amending labor law.

Chap. 532-Amending Greater New York charter relative to abandonment proceedings.

*Chap. 535-Amending tax law-notices of demption.

LAWS AFFECTING NEW YORK CITY AND LONG ISLAND-Continued.
Chap. 84-Removal and production of records.
Chap. 93-See New York City.
Chap. 167-See New York City.

Chap. 171-To provide for the continuance of the
office of commissioner of records.
Chap. 232-See New York County.

Chap. 237-Amending law relating to cemeteries. Chap. 257-Relating to appointment and duties of commissioners of jurors.

Chap. 279-See New York City.

Chap. 357-Relating to public administrator of Kings Co.

Chap. 530-Incorporating Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Chap. 678-Amending Greater New York Charter relating to playgrounds in Borough of Brooklyn. Chap. 699-Relating to clerks in register's office. Chap. 738-Relating to pay of deputy sheriffs. Chap. 745-Relating to compensation of clerks to justices of Supreme Court.

Chap. 746-Equalizing salaries of attendants of courty courts.

Queens County.

Chap. 93-See New York City.

Chap. 237-See Kings County.

Chap. 279-See New York City.

Chap. 435-Relating to the recording and transcribing of maps.

Chap. 533-See Long Island.

Chap. 586-Amending fish and game law relative to Jamaica Bay.

Chap. 618-Amending Greater New York Charter relative to cemeteries in Queens County.

Chap. 647-Relating to State Armory at Flush

ing.

Chap. 686-Relative to tax claims, Long Island

City.

Richmond County.

Chap. 237-See Kings County.

Chap. 277-Relating to fire districts.

Chap. 279-See New York City.

LEGAL

New York City.

Chaps. 578, 579-Amending forest, fish and game laws. Long Island.

Chap. 33-Relative to sale and conveyance of mission property.

Chap. 34-Amending village law-tax sales. Chap. 35-Amending village law relating to incorporation.

Chap. 46-Relating to incorporation of villages in Suffolk County.

Chaps. 100, 101-Relative to village elections. Chap. 122-Amending village law relative to credit in constructing sidewalks.

Chap. 124-Compensation of town officers.
Chap. 146-Relating to town insurance compa-
nies.

Chap. 153-Relating to road machines.
Chap. 155-Relative to powers of supervisors.
Chap. 183-Amending highway law.

Chap. 193-Relating to powers of board of village trustees.

Chap. 231-Amending village law as to time of annual election,

Chap. 277-Relating to fire districts.

Chap. 281-Amending school law.

Chap. 282-Relating to fees of justice of the peace.

Chap. 286-Relative to sale of ginseng.
Chap. 309-Relative to repacking of fruit.
Chap. 311-Amending fish law, close season.
Chap. 312-Compensation of highway commis-
sioners.

Chap. 329-Relative to town assessors in Nassau
County.

Chap. 342-Relative to bicycles on side paths. Chap. 381-Relative to excise taxes in Nassau County.

Chap. 445-Relative to bonded indebtedness of Hempstead.

Chap. 497-Relative to sprinkling village streets. Chap. 533-Relative to public highways, Nassau and Queens counties.

Chap. 582-Amending game law, Suffolk County.

WHARFAGE RATES.

For 600 tons and upward, 12% cents per 50 tons in excess of last rate.

Canal boats, 50 cents loaded: 30 cents unloaded. Vessels freighting brick upon the Hudson river same rate.

Clam and oyster vessels, under 200 tons. 11⁄2 cents per ton for an inside berth and 1 cent per ton for an outside berth, but no vessel to pay less than 25 cents per day, nor for less than one day.

Twenty-four hours from the time of day or night when a boat reaches a pler or slip constitute a day for canal boats, brick vessels, clam, oyster, and all other vessels; a fraction of a day counts as one day, and vessels remaining any fraction over twenty-four hours pay for another day.

Top wharfage on merchandise, 5 cents per ton.

(Accrues after the expiration of 24 hours from time of landing.)

At city piers which are shedded, the foregoing rates are doubled except for boats navigating the canals of the State.

Free Lighterage Limits, established by the railroads for water delivery of their ordinary freight without extra charge (but not less than car load lots except for export), are as follows:

NORTH RIVER.
Manhattan Shore-Dock dists. Nos. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10,
12, and in 14 to 135th st.

EAST RIVER, HARLEM RIVER AND UPPER
N. Y. BAY.

Manhattan Shore-Dock dists, part of No. 1, the whole of Nos. 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and in 15 to Jerome avenue bridge.

Queens and Brooklyn Shores-Dock dists. part of 17 and 20, and the whole of Nos. 18 and 19, to wit: From Pot Cove, Astoria, to Second Bridge, Newtown Creek, and points in Wallabout Canal west of Washington Av Bridge, and to Hamilton Av Bridge, Gowanus Canal, and to 66th st, South Brooklyn.

Richmond Shore-Dock dist. part of No. 1, viz.: Points on the north and east shores of Staten Island between Port Richmond and Clifton, both inclusive.

Dock Charges in Europe and at New
York.

For a steamer 1,200 tons register, with 400 tons
of agricultural implements, and bark 850 tons
register and 400 tons of agricultural implements,
the dock charges are, respectively, for each:
At Liverpool: Steamer, $1.075.43; bark, $640.44.
At Antwerp: Steamer. $484.48; bark, $339.41.
At Rotterdam: Steamer, $430.54; bark, $424.63.
At Hamburg: Steamer, $614.39; bark, $355.66.
At Copenhagen: Steamer, $543.96; bark, $610.20.
At Stockholm: Steamer, $420.82: bark, $263.90.
At Havre: Steamer, $741.52; bark, $534.92.
At New York: Steamer, $548.84; bark, $430.96.

Town Clerk.

Willis B. Inglee, Amityville..... Joel S. Davis, Babylon.
Winfield S. Bennett. Geo. L. Chichester, Patchogue.. Geo. D. Lee, Port Jefferson.
George A. Miller Everett J.Edwards, Easthampt'n Geo. Strong, Easthampton.
Girdell V. Brower... H. Luther Weeks, Hempstead.
John W. Arthur..... Daniel M. Gerard, Huntington.
Julius Hauser. Frank Parker, East Islip...

A. Abrams (Rec.), Hempstead.
W. S. Sammis, Huntington.
Chas. O. Doxsee, Islip.
Thos. Fagan, Roslyn
James L. Long, Oyster Bay. Edw. E. Craft, Locust Valley.
John H. Hagen, Riverhead.. Frank L. Skidmore, Riverhead.
Edgar P. Baldwin, Shelter Island H.K. De wson. Shelter Island Hts.
H. W. Hallock, Smithtown Br... Edward H. Lewis, Smithtown.
William J. Post, Southampton.. W.H.Winters, W'st'am`t`n Beach
Wm. J. Mills, Greenport.

Edwin C. Willets.... Monroe S. Wood, Roslyn...
William H. Jones...
Geo. L.Wells.
Byron L. Griffing.
Edward H. L. Smith.
Thos. W. Lister.

B. D. Skinner, M. D..William Y. Fithian, Southold....
Nassau County Official List.

Suffolk County Official List.