The Municipal Engineers of the City of New York

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Excerpt from The Municipal Engineers of the City of New York: Proceedings for 1912Freight terminals and the operating conditions whereby there can be rapid and economical transference of miscellaneous freight have not until recently been a matter of moment to municipal engineers. A freight terminal, whether for rail or water-home freight, formerly came within the province of the railway engineer and the steamship superintendent. In the United States, cities in the past have had little if any ownership in their water-fronts. The wharves, piers and bulkheads, and the structures upon them belonged either to private owners, to steamship companies or later to the railways. That a city should have any control over a rail way terminal, even though correlated with a water terminal, is to-day almost an anomaly in this country, although such combined terminals at the larger foreign ports are under the jurisdiction of public authority. There are a few similar ports in this country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.