Evening journal., 1905-02-01
LEGISLATORS HEAR
ABOUT SHIP CANAL
Board of Trade Committee
Urge Assembly to Sup
port 1t
ABLE ADDRESSES WERE MADE
speeIal 10 rhe EvenInE IournaI


Dover, Feb. Thomas T.. Bayard,
Captain Philip Reybold, ex-Judge
David r. Marvel and Alfred O. Crozier,
special committee of the Whining
ton Board of Trade, made addresses
in advocacy Of the Delaware and
Chesapeake ship Canal before the
members OF the Legislature yesterday
afternoon. The meeting was held in
the House chamber. The committee
who advocated the canal project be-
fore Congress, asked the Legislature 20
adopt a resolution endorsing the canal
resolution I'm Congress.
No action was taken by the Senate
or House following the hearing, but a
resolution endorsing the canal project
and urging Congress to provide for
the construction Of the ship canal viii
be offered to-day. Some of the down
state members are said to be opposed
to the Delaware and Chesapeake pro-
ject unless some stand Is taken favor
able to the Assawoman canal project
also.
Speaker Denny presided over the
lhearing.
The Addresses Made.
Thomas +. Bayard. chairman Of the
Board Of Trade committee, explained
briefly the objects OF the Delaware
and Chesapeake canal project to con-
meet the two bays hearing the name Of
the waterway
Captain Philip Reybold was the next
speaker. He said he was present in
behalf of the American Association Of
Masters and Pilots of Steam Vessels
to advocate the construction OF the
Delaware and Chesapeake ship canal
Captain Reybold spoke Of the import
lance of the canal as a means OF
national defense and 20 commerce.
He said the Delaware and Chesa-
peake ship canal is designed as link
in contemplated great chain Of in
land waterways from Narragansett 10
Beaut ford, North Carolina. He point
ed out that the canal would make
Baltimore 40 miles nearer the ocean.
Advantages Outlined.
Mr. Crozier made an able adress
He said:
Delaware is the great powder
manufacturing State; Pennsylvania
and Maryland are the great coal States
, No fleet in the world can fight with
out coal and powder. Therefore, the
. first combination Of foreign powers
against us would be directed to strike
b first the Delaware Bay, Wilmington
and Philadelphia With a ship canal
we could head them of.
n Twelve million people, one-sixth oi
/ the population Of the United States
4 inhabit the five States bordering or
= the Chesapeake Bay. A ship cana
e connecting this Bay with the Della.
ware Bay, and with no tolls. would
n enjoy more commerce than the com.
bined business OF the great suez Cana
land the new Panama Canal Their
> lare 5000 registered merchant vessel
in Chesapeake Bay, but they canno
get out. The ship canal would carr
r them through Delaware and its tribu
itary streams woulud be alive Will
them; transportation would be cheap.
er, and every farmer within the sounC
Of my voice knows what that means
What would be the result Of bettei
% transportation facilities? More fact.
u ories. more farms. more farmers. more
r people, more markets. more money
e why cannot Seaford. with her new
e Board of Trade. enjoy large CONNER.
cial prosperity? Because nothing car
be gotten away from there, but witt
e ship canal. philadelphia is within
e easy reach. via. the Nanticoke and tn
e Chesapeake"
= ExJudge Marvel spoke along tn
p same lines as Mr.. Crozier. He reat
f the resolution which It was desired Z,
d have adopted by the General Assembly
b I'm advocacy OF the Delaware and
b Chesapeake canal project, now pending
{ in Congress.