Evening journal., 1894-06-26
A CANAL COMMITTEE.
Result Of the Baltimore Mass
meeting.
TWENTY ONE RBPRBsENTATIvEMEN

Badly This Inland Waterway Is Needed.
Senator German, In the course Of his
remarks. said:
THE plan for building the canal should
be arrived at definitely, and then Mary
land should 60 to Congress and ask, il
nothing more that the rivers on the
shores Of Maryland and Delaware be
dredged to a sufficient depth and
promise TO cut the sand bank through
ourselves. This work ought 60 be com.
pleted In this century. If Maryland
has hal the courage and enterprise she
has had in the past the canal will be
built
James Alfred Pearce. Of Kent county.
said among other things. Every true
Marylander has a warm spot in his heart
for the city of Baltimore There is
nothing the people OF Baltimore could
ask which would not be granted by the
| people OF the Eastern Shore IL within
their power. | believe the canal would
have been constructed II the capital OF
the country had not been absorbed In
the construction Of railroads
The Chesapeake and Delaware canal
| would be the best terminal facility
you could possess Such a canal would
reduce the distance to the ocean and
freight charges and would bring to
your wharves hundreds Of vessels that
now 90 elsewhere. AS means Of con-
centrating war vessels It would be Of
Importance to every city In the country.
IL Is no local work. It Is to those people
who are to reap the benefit that we
must look for aid l think we can look
to the government for an appropriation
20 survey and locate the route. hope
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port city of the country"
General Felix Agnus said he felt there
was but little hope Of getting the nation
TO build the canal. For the past fifteen
years efforts had been made In this di-
rection, but in vain. There we're two
other ways, he said Of having the work
done. The first was TO build the canal
by private enterprise, the next was TO
get the city and state 10 build it.
lie then offered resolutions authoriz.
ing the chairman OF the meeting to
appoint permanent committee. consist.
Ing Of 81 members, exclusive OF the
governor OF Maryland, the mayor Of
Baltimore, the presidents of the first
and second branches Of the City Council,
and the secretary OF the special coun.
oil committee on the ship canal,
who shall be members ex-ofiiciO. This
committee viii be known as the Mary
laud and Delaware ship canal committee,
will take in hand the prompt and
o energetic promotion OF the project, such
, as selecting the route. devislng ways and
means, whether national state city or
by private enterprise and viii report to
Z the mayor and City Council
b The following were named by Mayor
3 Latrobe as members OF the permanent
/ Nlnu Al
Alexander Brown. B. n Baker. Clinton
p Paine 4 Edward Hambeton, w. Il.
! Malster Edwin f. Abell, William 7. ID.
| Dixon, John Hurst, Major Alexander
Shaw, Wesley NJ Oler Edward Raine,
Douglas IL Gordon, Colonel a.
r II Douglas. Major N. II Hutton. Charles
f. Mager, George O. Wilkins, John B.
u ! Mcdonald, + L. Bartlett, j. Frank
4 Supplee and II. A. Parr; ex.ofiicio,
Governor Brown, Mayor Latrobe, Presi-
a dent Ssim, Of the First Branch City
Council, President Smith, Of the Second
Branch City Council, and John II. Wind
:. fielder, Of the special committee Of the
City Council
- A resolution, offered by William NJ.
Marine, was adopted favoring the
appropriation OF a sum not exceeding
50. 900 by the City Council to defray the
"a expenses of the permanent committee.
- The money Is TO be controlled and
o accounted for by the mayor and city
~ comptroller.
y In John L. Findlay's letter there was
rs the following paragraph;
lt Every fraction OF a cent saved In
N production, transportation and distribu.
)f tion counts In the fierce competition now
5, going on for trade. Argentina is now
D. shipping to Great Britain nearly twicl
,p as much wheat as the United States
30 A few years ago she did not ship
N bushel. The same is partly true Of
sr India. Wheat and corn can be brought
r cheaper TO Baltimore than to any othel
port. Cut this canal and make IL free
lr and they can be sent abroad cheaper"
le Fred. Schriver, Of the EricssoT
i, Line, wrote: ut takes our steam
x ers to 60 to New York by the
s. outside route forty eight to City
1t hours, while through the present cana
X down the Delaware bay aud up th'
a, coast to New York it takes but twenty
g. six hours. You will readily see what
pt saving can be accomplished with lsrgei
=. and deeper canal. "
IN In November, 1887, the seventh sessiel
Of of the Farmers Congress wal held a
the Palmer House, Chicago, at which
u, | JWouty-hlA states were represented
a During the proceedings the writer o
ut this communication introduced the fol
Is lowing resolution:
Resolved, That the city Of Baltimore
in from its geographical position. being
es considerably nearer to the grea
er commercial centres of the West snS
n. Northwest than any other Allan
tic city, and said city possessing
exceptional facilities for receiving from
and exporting the agricultural produc-
s. tiOns Of those sections Of our country a
& the lowest possible cost, this congress o
So farmers would therefore respectfully asl
nd the national government of the Unite'
q States to extend its favorable considers
& tion TO the construction of free ship
y canal from the Chesapeake to the Della
lt' ware bay, which work would shorten tn
= time to Liverpool, England, at least on
" day"
Is, Neshaminy Falls Excursion. June 29th