Bush Terminals Taken Over By U. S. as a Supply Base I Staff Correspondence | WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. The Bush Terminal piers and warehouses in Brooklyn were to-day taken over by ? the United States government for the period of the war, the War Depart I ment announced to-day. Major Gen . eral George W. Goethals, acting quar? termaster general, took over the facilities, and his department, will have charge of the property while it is under government control. in announcing the acquisition of the Bush properties Secretary Baker au? thorized this statement: "The War Department, through the acting quartermaster general, to-day .requisitioned the Bush Terminal pier3 : and warehouses in New York City. 'These terminal facilities will pass im ; mediately under the control of the War Department, in accordance with 'elegraphie notice to Irving T. Bush. Of the piers and warehouses available on the Atlantic seaboard the Bush piers are regarded as t. ?> best for the purposes ot the War Department." Bush Wiilin~g~d. S. Should Take Terminals Irving T. Bush, president of the Bush Terminal Company, did not know, until informed by a dispatch from Wash? ington laFt night., that the government had decided to commandeer his organ? ization's pisj-s nrd warehouses. "I have known, of course.." he ?aid. "tha* the government was considering the matter, hut I did not expect any immediate action. It is net a Btep that I welcome, as a business man, a Though as an American, I am willing to hand over to the United States anything that I possess."
