The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-11-26
The Deeper Waterways
association
NEXT IN BALTIMORE
n.rmau.oi organization Formed Yes
.-rIa, md the Convention Ad-
fo.1urd Last Night-NOrth
taruliuianS Take PrOmi-
ncnt Places.
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pf.aa= .phia, Pa, Nov. 20.-Repre-
-+atss. uen from fifteen of the AT
...~ g..t-t States today formed a
.~rmaua.t organization under the
Lra Of The Atlantic Deeper Water
s As-Jciation," the object of which
III he T., bring about a system of wa
..~aays TO permit the free movement
- rafia by inland waters between
as rarl1us Atlantic seaboard States
aa Maine to the Gulf Of Mexico.
~ss is The outcome Of the two days
.-rtereu.c held in this city by dele
e5tes appointed by the governor of
ftsfe bodies in the States Interested
in the Atlantic inland waterway pro-
The association adopted resolutions
~declariu2 that all canals should be
free. and asking Congress to AXE up
the great project because it is demand
led by the commercial interests of 80
aea.a9G people on the Atlantic Sea-
board bongressman j. Hampton
Moore. IF Pennsylvania, was chosen
president, and d vice-president and
delegate at large was elected from
e.nn State The next convention will
he held i'm Baltimore.
Many addresses in favor of the
movement were made during the two
sessions today. The convention came
To- an md tonight with a banquet
which vas attended by nearly all OF
the 5e2 delegates to the conference.
Philadelphia, Pa, Nov. 20.-Con-
eres=man Small, of North Carolina,
Speaking Of the Norfolk to Beaufort
route of the proposed Inland Water
ways. referred to the dangers of ship
ping ia rounding the treacherous
shoals IF Cape Hatteras. If the Nor
fulk-Eeaufort route is built, he said,
millions OF dollars in ships and car
goes Would be ave from destruc-
ton. MI. Small in lis address went a
step further than the conference pro-
poses to go. He suggested the con-
tHuance OF the inland waterway down
and across Florida to the Gulf of Mex
leo, thus coming in touch with the
Mississippi river and the waterways Ct
the great Mississippi Valley. When
that dream is realized" he said, the
transportation problem will have been
solved Major F1agler, who a
charge of the government engineering
in five Of the middel Atlantic States,
said that from an engineering point
Of view there was nothing TO prevent
the carrying out of h project.
Congressman Burton, of Delaware,
presided at the afternoon session
which was almost entirely devoted to
NNA O. p1b ~
The Committee on Credentials re-
ported that 522 delegates had regis
tered for the conference and that they
We're appointed by the governors of
trade associations of the following
fifteen States: Maine, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island. Connecticut. New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Delaware,
Virginia, West Virginia, North Caro-
Ina, south Carolina, Georgia, Florida
and Maryland.
The PLATFORM.
Among the resolutions adopted was
one which may be said to be the
: PLATFORM of the new movement.
1t sets forth that the proposed Deep
Waterway lis demanded by the mutual
interests of 80, 900, 600 people of the
seaboard directly and indirectly and
ultimately by those of the American
people, The construction of the
waterways it was maintained would
give gravely necessary and perma-
nent relief to the business of trans
portation and it will surely result both
IN stimulating commerce and in re-
ducing h cost of moving commodi-
ties"
The resolution favored the digging
OF the canal by the government and
that the present Congress should be
urged to take the movement in hand.
1t was decided to call the new or
ganizatiOn, the Atlantic Deeper Water
ways Association, and its object is to
be the securing OF improvements in
inland waterways n harbors to the
end eventually there shall be an eff
Gent system of waterways permitting
the Tree movement of traffic by water
between the various States from Maine
TO the gulf"
The following officers were elected:
President, Congressman j. Hampton
Moore, Philadelphia; Secretary and
n
phja.
1t was decided to hold the next con-
vention at Baltimore in the latter part
of November, 1908.