The Port of Philadelphia: Its Facilities and Advantages (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Sproule, George F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332179665 ISBN 13: 9781332179664

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Port of Philadelphia: Its Facilities and Advantages

A harbor patrol of the river from Marcus Hook to Bristol is maintained by the Board of Commissioners of Navigation, under the direct supervision of a Port Captain, appointed by the Board, the Steamer M. S. Quay being used by him for this purpose. Naptha tenders under the charge of Harbor Masters are in operation both in Bristol and Chester. A daily supervision is exercised over the entire Delaware River water front of the State.

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The local administrative authority of the Port of Philadelphia was exercised from the year 1766 until 1907 by the Board of Wardens for the Port of Philadelphia which was a State and City department. This system, however, was changed by an Act of the Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania approved June 8, 1907, which abolished the Board of Wardens, the Harbor Master and Master Warden and divided their duties between the Department of Wharves, Docks and Ferries, a municipal department, and the Board of Commissioners of Navigation for the River Delaware and its Navigable Tributaries, a State Board.

Under the provisions of this Act of Assembly, the Department of Wharves, Docks and Ferries was given jurisdiction over the piers in the City of Philadelphia, the Director of the Department, who is appointed by the Mayor of the City, having large executive powers. He has authority to condemn and improve wharf property and is vested with other powers which have served to greatly stimulate the up-building of a modern port. There is maintained and operated by this Department a municipal dredging plant, as well as a fleet of ice boats to keep open the channel in the winter season. It might be well to mention that since the advent of the high powered steamers, which have superseded the sailing craft, the keeping open of the channel, even during the most severe winters, is no longer difficult and the work of the ice boat fleet has been minimized.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1332179665
• ISBN 13: 9781332179664
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 84