For now the wharf and crane and other conveniences are affected with a public interest, and they cease to be juris privati only; as if a man set out a street in a new building on his own land, it is now no longer bare private interest, but is affected by a public interest. [De Portibus Maris, Hargrove Law Tracts, 77-78 (1787).] This public interest test provided the Munn court with a reasonable an