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 No. 6 — Commeroial Wharf 
 
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 Linrri»n-lndtan Line from CalrutU 
 jne lo Moll China-Japan Line from Yokohama 
 
 Amcrit-a I,inc In Kolierilam Clax Line (rom Fowey, England 
 
 No. 7 — Central, India and Foster's Wharves 
 
 No. 3 — Boston & Albany Docks 
 
 Cunard Line lo Liverjiool I,e^Und Line In I.ondnn 
 
 l.ey]and Line to Liverpool Leyland Line In Manchetter 
 
 luiian Line from Gemtt Nonh-trtnnan IJnyd Line in Bremen 
 
 Ruftian- American Line from Libau 
 
 No. 8 — Fisk A Harris Wharves 
 
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 moulK, N. S. 
 
 Si. John, N. B. F^ailem S S. Co. to New York EutesS. S. Co. to Poitland, Me. 
 
 EaalemS. S. Co. lo Bangor, Me. Boitia & Glouccfter I Ma»». I Line 
 Eutcra S. S. Co. 10 Bath, Mc. , 
 
 Mcrrhanli & Minen' Line to Philadelphia 
 
 No. 4 — National Docks ' 
 
 Houiioo Line Irom South America 
 Buher Line Ifnm Ihe River Plane. 
 South America 
 
 No. 9 — Constitution Wharf 
 
 Merchant, k Miner.' Line to Ballim 
 
 Commonwealth Pier 5 
 
 HamSnri: Amerinr, Line lo Hamborg 
 
 No. 10 - Bailcrr Wharf ' 
 
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The Port Book 
 
 of 
 
 Boston 
 
 Prepared under the Supervision of the 
 Publicity Committee 
 
 Thirty-Ninth Annual Convention 
 
 of the 
 
 American Bankers Association 
 
 Boston, October Six to Ten 
 Nineteen Hundred Thirteen 
 

 Copyright, 1913 
 
 H. B. Humphrey Company 
 
 Boston 
 
 
The 
 
 Port 
 
 Book 
 
 of 
 
 Boston 
 
 The New Custom House 
 
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The Port Book 
 of Boston 
 
 Boston Harbor and Bay 
 
 AT the present point of departure of the steamers 
 for the beaches and shore resorts stood the 
 old Sconce, or Southern Battery, in the eigh- 
 teenth century ; and at the present location of Bat- 
 tery Wharf, now occupied by the Merchants & 
 Miners' line, was the North Battery. Between these 
 two defences lay the Great Cove, which at that time 
 constituted the inner haven, stretching well inland, 
 as the land now lies. 
 
 The print by Paul Revere, of which a reproduction 
 is shown facing our title page, was made in 1768, 
 when the Revolution was already fermenting, and 
 only seven years before Revere made his midnight 
 ride to Lexington and beyond. The North Battery 
 is shown in the engraving, but the Sconce is not 
 included. The church almost touching the left-hand 
 margin of the picture is the First Church in Boston ; 
 the tower next as you travel to the right is that of the 
 
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 The First Steamer Plying Boston Harbor 
 
 Town House (now the Old State House) ; next 
 seems to be the old Brattle Street Church ; and then 
 comes Faneuil Hall. The Town Dock ran up con- 
 siderably closer to the ' ' Cradle of Liberty ' ' than 
 Revere 's picture would indicate. 
 
 The great pier or dock, running^ far out into the 
 harbor, upon which the boat-loads of British soldiers 
 from the fleet are landing, is Long- Wharf. Just 
 behind the row of houses lining the wharf you see a 
 little offshoot, a sort of appendix to the main pier. 
 This was Minott's T, the predecessor of the present 
 T wharf. This T, in the picture, shows the point 
 where the Atlantic Avenue water-front of to-day 
 marks the limit of the harbor. The cove behind the 
 T was long since filled and built upon with ware- 
 houses and shops. The greater portion of the Long 
 
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 Mammoth Cabin Steamer Camden 
 
 Wharf of the engraving is now State Street. A 
 very different idea of the water-front and harbor is 
 to be g-ained from the " View of Boston in 1848," on 
 page 8. Doubtless it is more accurate, but it is less 
 interesting. Bunker Hill Monument, at the extreme 
 right, and the dome of the State House are of 
 unmistakable identity. Notable in this picture are 
 the great gable-ended warehouses along the docks, 
 presumably stuffed with the assets of East India 
 merchants, who flourished in that day. Yet from a 
 comparison of the two prints, one's notion of the 
 development of the port during a period of eighty 
 years gains emphasis. The transition from the age 
 of sails to that of steam is also apparent, and one 
 feels that the draftsman did his best to picture things 
 correctly. 
 
 The Norseman, Thorwald, is said to have discovered 
 
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 Castle Island and Fort Independence, 
 Marine Park, South Boston 
 
 Boston Harbor, in the year 1003. Eig-ht hundred 
 and seven years after that episode a steamboat line 
 was placed in operation between Boston and Plymouth. 
 The Eagle, of which we can, fortunately, show an 
 illustration, was the first steamer to ply Boston 
 Harbor, in 1810 ; the big: coastwise passenger liner 
 on the opposite page is shown by way of contrast, 
 and to give an idea of what a century has done in the 
 development of the " all-cabin " type of steamer. 
 
 Boston Harbor was favorably known to mariners 
 for many years before the settlement of New Eng- 
 land. The Pilgrims, touching at the tip-end of 
 Cape Cod, v/here now is Provincetown, cut across 
 Massachusetts Bay and bore to the left. Had they 
 headed a little more to starboard, Boston might have 
 turned out to be Plymouth. The Pilgrim settle- 
 ments straggled along the South vShore by the way 
 of Duxbury, Hingham, and the Weymouths to 
 Merrymount, now Quincy, and thus reached Quincy 
 Bay, a branch of Boston Harbor, by the shore route. 
 Point Allerton, now a part of Hull, where Thorwald, 
 the Norseman, landed in 1003, was Pilgrim territory 
 named for one Allerton, who married a daughter of 
 
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 Elder William Brewster. The group of islands 
 called " The Brewsters " was named for the elder's 
 children. Boston Lig^ht, from which transatlantic 
 steamers time their runs, is on Little Brewster. 
 The first light at this point was set up in 1716. 
 
 From the earliest days of the Boston colony the 
 development of the port and encouragement of mari- 
 time commerce was an important concern of the 
 settlers. Governor Winthrop himself built a ship 
 in 1631, at a shipyard established at Medford, a 
 few miles up the Mystic River. Ship-building be- 
 came a leading industry, and Boston merchants 
 waxed prosperous in foreign trade. An attempt 
 to make Cambridge the metropolis of the Massachu- 
 setts Bay Colony failed, for the importance of the 
 port and harbor was too weighty a consideration to 
 ignore. Boston is geog"raphically adapted for im- 
 mense sea traffic, and in the earlier half of the nine- 
 teenth century the clipper ships of Boston were the 
 finest and swiftest in the world. 
 
 Another product of the Boston shipyards was 
 the frigate Constitution, "Old Ironsides," launched 
 in 1797. This staunch old Yankee ship, pictured on 
 
 Deer Island and House of Correction 
 
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 George's Island, Fort Warren 
 
 pag'e 26, with her protective deck-housing, hes at 
 the United States Navy Yard, at Charlestown. The 
 Navy Yard includes about ninety acres and has the 
 largest dry dock in the country. Here is made the 
 cordag-e for the American Navy. There are usually 
 several of Uncle Sam's ships here. 
 
 Reference to the bird's-eye view, supplemented 
 by various pictures, will assist the reader to locate 
 points of interest encountered in a trip about Boston 
 Harbor. Besides the docks, of which note is made 
 in Section H, and on the charts, pag'es 18 and 19, 
 the tourist will be somewhat curious in regrard to the 
 islands and landmarks of the harbor. 
 
 Of these, the most notable are : 
 
 Fort Independence, on Castle Island, South Bos- 
 ton. First called the Castle. Earliest defensive 
 structure built 1633 ; present stone fort built 1850. 
 
 Deer Island, with the city House of Correction. 
 Separated from the mainland by wShirley Gut, a 
 tide-race which an occasional prisoner attempts to 
 swim. 
 
 Fort Warren, on George's Island. Used as a 
 Federal prison during the Civil War. Mason and 
 
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 Slidell, Confederate envoys to Engfland, were confined 
 here. 
 
 Long Island Head has a light of 860 candle-power. 
 The island is yi mile wide and 1/^ miles long-. Light- 
 house built in 1819. 
 
 Nix's Mate. Hardly more than a reef, where 
 formerly stood a beautiful green island. Here pirates 
 were hung in chains. Nix's mate, said to have mur- 
 derecf his captain, being executed here, prophesied 
 that the island would wash away to prove his 
 innocence. 
 
 Bug Light marks the end of a long " spit " stretch- 
 ing out from Great Brewster Island, a dangerous 
 shoal with a heavy tideway. 
 
 Boston Light, on Little Brewster, marks the en- 
 trance to the harbor and the eastern end of the 
 transatlantic path. The light stands about 100 feet 
 above the water and is rated at 35,000 candle-power. 
 
 Spectacle Island was so named on account of its 
 shape ; the light is of 800 candle-power brilliancy. 
 
 The Graves. This is the most powerful light on 
 the Atlantic coast, excepting only Sandy Hook. Its 
 1,000,000 candle-power light has recently been re- 
 Long Island Head and Fort Strong 
 
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 Nix's Mate 
 
 placed with a new equipment, rated at 2,600,000 
 candle-power. The light-tower stands 90 feet above 
 the water. 
 
 Range Lights, on Lovell's Island, mark the inner 
 end of Broad Sound. Fort Standish is under con- 
 struction on this island. 
 
 Minof s Ledge. A very dangerous reef, exposed 
 to the full sweep of wind and wave. Two light- 
 towers were destroyed here previous to the building 
 of the present structure. The light is of 220,000 
 candle-power. 
 
 Of several points of interest, we show no illustra- 
 tion. Governor's Island, with Fort Winthrop, was 
 the site of the first Fort Warren, named for the 
 Revolutionary hero who fell at Bunker Hill. The 
 name was later transferred to a new fort on George's 
 Island. Quarantine for incoming ships is maintained 
 at Gallup's Island. Rainsford Island, bought from 
 the Indians by Elder Edward Raynesford in Colonial 
 times, is now city property and the site of a munici- 
 pal almshouse. On Thompson's Island there is an 
 agricultural school for boys, and on Bumkin Island 
 the Burrage Hospital for crippled children. 
 
 Boston Harbor is rich in historic association, and 
 although much has been written of it, to do it justice 
 
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 would require a far more ambitious volume than this 
 booklet. In summer the nearby resorts are crowded 
 with pleasure-seekers, and the cooling breezes are as 
 available for the poor as for the well-to-do. Nan- 
 tasket Beach, upon whose sands the ocean rollers 
 break unceasingfly, migfht be called the Coney Island 
 of New England — if it were an island, and if it were 
 not practically duplicated by Revere Beach, which, 
 though not quite within the harbor limit, is just around 
 the corner from it. On hot Sundays in summer the 
 visitors to these beaches run into the hundreds of 
 thousands. 
 
 Contrasting with these popular resoits, we find the 
 exclusive summer colonies of Cohasset and Scituate, 
 south of the city, while along the North Shore are 
 the cliffs of Swampscott, Marblehead, Beverly, and 
 Magnolia, crowned with the summer palaces of the 
 exclusive rich. 
 
 Ask who has the best time — the millionaire with 
 his castle-on-the-rocks, or the summer squatter in a 
 breeze-shaken bungalow of canvas and boards. Let 
 the location be near Boston Bay, and the answer is 
 "Both! " 
 
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 BO sir ON K \^^'^ 
 
 
 The Commercial Water-front 
 
 18 
 
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 The Entire Harbor, or Boston Bay 
 
 Explanation 
 
 These charts show, the one on page 18, the harbor 
 proper ; that on this page, 19, the outlying waters 
 and the approaches from the Atlantic. 
 
 The numbers on the water-front chart, page 18, 
 indicate : 1 — The new 1200 foot, $3,000,000 dry dock; 
 2 — Commonwealth dock development, with Pier 5 
 and the great fish pier ; 3 — Recently purchased 
 Commonwealth property in East Boston ; 4 — The 
 B. & A. Terminal (Grand Junction), the best 
 equipped ocean-railway terminal in the world ; 5 — 
 Hoosac Terminal of the Boston & Maine R. R. ; 6 — 
 
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 Mystic Terminal of the Boston & Maine R. R. ; 7 — 
 New Haven Terminal. 
 
 It should be noted that freight transfers from ship to 
 car or car to ship are accomplished without lighterage. 
 
 Bug Light 
 
 Reference to these charts and to the bird's-eye view 
 on inside front cover will assist readers to a clear 
 appreciation of the facts set forth in this book. The 
 solid black shows the Commonwealth's property. 
 
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 II 
 
 The Commercial Water-front 
 
 Boston with 
 
 Fifteen Million Net Tons (thirty billion pounds) 
 of shipping annually is the second commercial port of 
 the western hemisphere, and the sixth in the world. 
 
 There are 141 Miles of available water-front in 
 Boston Harbor, of which 41 miles are represented by 
 the lineal measurements of the docking space in the 
 upper harbor. There are 6 miles of docking space 
 with 30 feet of water or more at mean low tide, and 
 40 feet at high tide. Docking accommodations are 
 available for ships of the deepest draft. 
 
 The Principal Boston Docks are not only steam- 
 ship piers, but fully equipped railway terminals, with 
 many miles of trackage alongside the berths of 
 the ships. This means the entire elimination of 
 lighterage and a minimum of demand for car floats. 
 
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 Head House, Commonwealth Pier 5 
 
 The Boston & Maine Railroad maintains two 
 terminals, with grain elevators of J, 500,000 bushels 
 capacity ; the Boston & Albany Terminal elevator 
 is of 1,000,000 bushels capacity. A ship may load 
 with gfrain at the rate of 10,000 bushels an hour. The 
 New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad has 
 extensive terminal facilities on the south side of the 
 harbor. 
 
 Boston is therefore a favorable inlet and outlet for 
 foreign trade for the entire country. 
 
 Included in the volume of freight handled at the 
 port of Boston annually are : 125,000,000 lbs. of 
 foreign wool, besides 15,000,000 bushels of grain, 
 and 7,000,000 tons of coal. The value of foreign 
 trade at the port for the year 1912 was $216,330,169 ; 
 the imports being $150,637,523 and the exports 
 $65,692,646. In the last ten years the value of the 
 foreign trade at Boston has increased 31 per 
 cent. 
 
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 Commonweaitn Pier 5 under Construction 
 Arrival of the Hamburg-American Steamship Cincinnati 
 
 Boston is Nearer Europe by 24 hours than New 
 York. 
 
 On June 7 last the sister ships C/cve/a?id and 0?ia'n- 
 nodhoi the Hambu rg - American line, sailed from 
 Bosfon - and Ngw YrvrTr jrespectiveh', at 12 o'clock, 
 
 noon, for Hamburg. Both are 17,000-ton boats, of 
 similar design and like speed. The 0';/r/« ;/«-// reached 
 Cuxhaven, at the mouth of the Elbe River, below 
 Hamburg, 24 hours ahead of the Cleveland. 
 
 Six million dollars are being spent for dock im- 
 provements in London to save 3 hours in docking. 
 Query : How much is Boston's 24 hours' advantage 
 over New York worth, at $2,000,000 per hour ? 
 
 The Port of Expedition. So^ne Amazing Figures. 
 
 Boston is 194 miles nearer Liverpool than New 
 York ; 858 miles nearer the Panama Canal than Los 
 Angeles, and 1,225 miles nearer than San Francisco, 
 30 miles nearer Rio de Janeiro than New York, 80 
 miles nearer than Philadelphia, 480 miles nearer than 
 New Orleans, and 596 miles nearer than Galveston. 
 
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 Hoosac Terminal, Boston & Maine R. R. 
 
 The Port of Good and Improving Service. In 
 
 the year 1912 there were 105 sailings to Liverpool. 
 (Over two a week — a better Liverpool service than 
 that of New York- ) 
 
 In the same year there were 87 to other British 
 and Scotch ports. 
 
 Other Sailings, direct 
 26 to Antwerp, 
 26 to Rotterdam, 
 28 to Hamburg", 
 22 to Copenhagen, 
 15 to the Mediterranean, 
 58 to Central America, 
 70 to West Indies, 
 10 to Havana. 
 
 Also (indirect) 
 
 South America 32, 
 Calcutta, China, and Japan 80, 
 and many domestic and Canadian coastwise sailing's. 
 The number of sailing-s is increasing annually, and 
 
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 Grand Junction Terminal, Boston & Albany R. R. 
 
 the service improvingf in reg-ularity, number of ports, 
 character of ships, and docking: facilities. 
 
 For European Passenger Service Boston offers 
 not only the advantag'e of 24 hours g^ained en voyage, 
 but 
 
 Quick Docking. Boston Lig-ht is only 1 hour from 
 the piers. . 
 
 Fine Ships of the leading transatlantic lines. 
 
 Expeditious Transfer and the Best Train Service in 
 every direction. 
 
 Boston is the doorway to America's Greatest Play- 
 ground and Vacation Territory. Boston, itself a 
 magnificent city, with scores of historic, artistic, and 
 literary shrines, the largest park area in the world, 
 ample hotel accommodations, and its ready access to 
 the lovely old New England country of which it is 
 the metropolis, is well worth a visit ; and to tourists 
 en route it holds out a delightful hospitality. Boston 
 is a city of peculiar individual charm, which, when 
 once felt, prompts a real fondness for it on the part 
 of visitors as well as residents. 
 
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 " Old Ironsides," Boston Navy Yard 
 
 ** Sail from Boston," therefore, is a slogan of real 
 practical significance to travelers. 
 
 The Development of the Port. With a great 
 natural basin protected from the force of ocean dis- 
 turbances, wide and safe anchorages for deep craft 
 and many estuaries and navigable feeders which 
 render a large number of towns directly accessible 
 by water, Boston Harbor is capable of vast develop- 
 ment. 
 
 Impressed with the enormous economic importance 
 of methodical development and determined, efficient 
 exploitation, far-sighted citizens, with the best inter- 
 ests of commercial New England and Boston at heart, 
 have worked for years toward the desired end. The 
 Boston Chamber of Commerce, which is the largest 
 civic organization of its kind in America, has ren- 
 dered valuable service to the community in the shape 
 
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 of serious, carefully considered work with adequate 
 harbor development in view. In this work it has 
 been upheld by the newspapers and business inter- 
 ests of the city. Mayor John F. Fitzgerald has been 
 a persistent and consistent advocate. The following: 
 statistics emphasize the importance of civic effort. 
 
 The population of Boston, compared with that of 
 other American centers : 
 
 New York, inside 50-mile radius 
 Boston ,, ,, ,, 
 
 Philadelphia ,, ,, ,, 
 
 Chicago 
 St. Louis 
 
 7,321,485 
 3,470,587 
 
 2,943,848 
 2,843,057 
 1,228,184 
 
 Persons not familiar with Boston, or appreciative 
 of her real place among world cities, judge her only 
 by the census figures of the so-called ' ' municipal 
 city," which credit her with 686,092 inhabitants. 
 Municipal Boston has a restricted area, and to omit 
 the suburban communities adjacent to Boston, analo- 
 gous to those included in the municipal areas of other 
 American cities, gives an inadequate idea of the real 
 Boston. 
 
 Boston Light, on Little Brewster 
 
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 Spectacle Island 
 
 Including- these suburban communities, within 
 the metropolitan park, water-supply and sewerage 
 districts — called, collectively, Metropolitan Boston — 
 the population figures are 1,423,429. 
 
 Metropolitan Boston Stands First among 
 American cities in the following particulars : 
 
 Acreage of parks. 
 
 Number of high schools. 
 
 Value of boot and shoe products. 
 
 Value of rubber products. 
 
 Value of textile products. 
 
 Value of wool imports. 
 
 Value of fresh fish products . 
 
 Per capita assessed valuation. 
 
 High school attendance, proportion to population. 
 
 Number of post-office stations. 
 
 Per capita wealth. 
 
 Miles of boulevard. 
 
 Miles of railroad trackage (within 50-mile radius). 
 
 Neiv England consumes annually one and a half 
 billion dollars' worth of raw materials, turning the 
 same into two and one half billion dollars' worth of 
 manufactured goods. 
 
 Boston turns three hundred million of raw mate- 
 rials into half a billion of manufactured goods. , 
 
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 Figures like these almost lose graphic force because 
 of their very immensity . 
 
 Custoins Collections for the Port of Boston turned 
 into the Federal Treasury amount to about $25,000,000 
 annually. 
 
 Port Development is receiving- the close atten- 
 tion and scientific study which it deserves. 
 
 The Directors of the Port constitute a commission 
 establislied by legislative enactment in 1911, and 
 consisting of five members, all appointed by the 
 Governor of the Commonwealth. 
 
 The Port Directors are required to prepare all 
 necessary plans for the comprehensive development 
 of the harbor, to administer all terminal facilities 
 which are under their control, and to keep them- 
 selves informed as to the present and future require- 
 ments of steamships and shipping, and as to the best 
 means which can be provided at the port of Boston 
 for the accommodation of steamships, railroads, 
 warehouse and industrial establishments. To carry 
 
 The Graves 
 
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 Range Lights, Lo veil's Island 
 
 on their work, an initial appropriation of $9,000,000 
 was placed at their disposal, to be expended in their 
 discretion. 
 
 Commonwealth Pier 5, the Largest Pier in the 
 
 world, is being- built by the Directors of the Port at 
 a cost of $3,000,000. It is 
 
 1,200 feet long 
 400 , , wide 
 It has 50 , , of water at hig-h tide 
 40 ,, ,, ,, ,, low 
 
 Could dock the Imperator with 300 feet to spare. 
 
 Has three 2-story sheds of steel and concrete, 20 
 acres of floor space ; six railroad tracks, with space for 
 150 freight cars : is as large as the four famous Chel- 
 sea piers at New York, which cost $23,000,000. 
 
 The head house (see page 22) at the shoreward 
 end will be connected with Summer Street by an 
 immense viaduct for foot, carriagfe and motor traffic 
 spanning the railroad and trucking approaches. 
 
 The Port Directors, with these superior accommo- 
 dations, have been able to reach an agrreement with 
 the Hamburg- American line, and a regular service 
 of magnificent express steamers has been established 
 
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 Minot's 
 
 between Boston and Hamburg. The Cincinnati and 
 Clei'eland zxQ. now maintaining: two sailings a month. 
 With the addition of other boats, the service is to be 
 increased in 1914 to three sailings monthly and in 
 1915 to four. 
 
 The Nexv Fish Pier. Also on Commonwealth prop- 
 erty, down stream from Pier 5, and under charge of 
 the Por^ Directors, is arising the new Commonwealth 
 Pier 6, the second largest fish pier in the world. This 
 will cost the wState $1,000,000, and a private corpora- 
 tion will spend another million 
 for buildings. It will relieve 
 the congestion of fishing vessels 
 at T Wharf and free that dock 
 for other uses. 
 
 The Largest Dry Dock on this 
 side of the Atlantic is being- 
 built by the Port Directors at 
 a cost of $3,000,000. At pres- 
 ent there is no dry dock on an 
 Atlantic seaboard big enough 
 for the largest ships. The Com- 
 monwealth dry dock will accom- 
 modate two 500-foot ships with 
 200 feet to spare, or a craft like 
 the Imperator and still have 300 
 feet leeway. Hitherto, all the 
 big liners have had to dry-dock 
 on the European side. The 
 allied lines are to pay the State 
 $50,000 a year towards the cost 
 of maintenance. 
 
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 A lYc'ii' $1,000,000 Pier is planned for the location 
 adjoining' the Boston & Albany Terminal docks at 
 East Boston, shown on the map on page 18 in black, 
 
 This dock will have spe- 
 grain from the Boston & 
 
 with the index number 3. 
 cial facilities for loading 
 Albany elevator. 
 
 Reclaiming the Shallo^vs. Another work of the Port 
 Directors now in view is the reclamation of the 
 State flats. One hundred and seventy acres of these, 
 just below the Boston & Albany Terminal, as shown 
 on page 18, will be made available by using the 
 dredgings from the new ship channel. This will pro- 
 vide deep water alongside and filled land in one opera- 
 tion. This reclamation will add two miles to the 
 available wharf space of the port, with deep water for 
 ships of heavy draft. 
 
 Other reclamation work will accompany the build- 
 ing of the new dry dock. A ciuay wall aroimd the 
 
 "On Moonlight Bay " 
 
OF BOSTON 
 
 site of the dry dock will be built, with a deep channel, 
 thus adding another two miles of wharf space. 
 
 The Channels. The main ship channel is now 
 1,200 feet wide and 35 feet deep at mean low water. 
 Another channel, shown on the charts, pages 18 and 
 19, will run north of Governor's Island and, like the 
 main channel, lead into President Roads, an im- 
 mense anchorage basin for deep ships. 
 
 The Tiarbor entrances are shown on page 19, being 
 three in number. Broad Sound channel, now used 
 by the transatlantic boats, gives 30 feet at mean low 
 water. A more direct approach is being dredged to 
 35 feet, north of Broad Sound. This channel, when 
 completed, will be 2,000 feet wide. The third, or 
 "Old" channel, giving 27 feet, M. L. W., running 
 out past Nantasket, is deep enough for all ordinary 
 shipping, but will be deepened to 40 feet. 
 
 The gentlemen who are now serving the Common- 
 wealth as Directors of the Port of Boston, and under 
 whose supervision these large projects are being car- 
 ried forward, and a multitude of lesser activities 
 directed, are : 
 
 Hugh Bancroft, Chainnan. 
 Joseph A. Conry. 
 W. F. Fitzgerald. 
 William S. McNary. 
 Francis T. Bowles. 
 
 William R. Mahoney, Secretary. 
 
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 THE Publicity Committee of the Associated 
 Banks, Trust Companies, and Bankers of 
 Boston acknowledge with due appreciation the 
 courtesies shown and assistance extended by the 
 chairman and secretary of the Directors of the 
 Port and by the ofificials of the Boston Chamber 
 of Commerce in the preparation of this book. 
 
 Charles E. Bockus, Chairman. 
 A. B. Chapin, 
 
 A. P. Stone, 
 
 B. W. Traffori), 
 
 Publicity Couiuiittcc. 
 
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OCT 6 1913