The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-20
ATLANTIC WATERWAYS.

Delegates from Seventeen ssates As- semble in Philadelphia.
 Philadelphia, Nov. 19.--Delegates from seyenteen States met in conven- tion here stoday to further the protect for an inland waterway along the Att iantfc coast from Massachusetts to North Carolina. M Much of the route of the waterway already exists and it is proposed that the channels of the canals, rivers, bays. etc., that are to be a part of the great water course, be deepened and widened so as to permit the passage of the iarg- est warships. It is the idea ofthe pro- jectors to run the waterway from Barnstable Bay on the north side of Cape Cod. tc Beaufort Inlet, N. c. This would require the cutting of a canal through Cape Cod from Barn stable Bay to Buzzard's Bay on the south. reducing the water distance from there to New York about seventy 1 five miles. The course of the route would then run through Long Island Sound and down to the Raritan Canal at Perth Amboy, N. J. The route then would be through the canal, down the Delaware river past Philadelphia and through the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, down Chesapeake Bay to Nor- 1 folk, along the Elizabeth river and | through a cut across Virginia to Cur rituck Sound.
 The route then would lay through Coanjockt Bay. A cut through North | Carolina into Albamarie Sound. then l through Croaton Sound into Pamlico Sound. into Mouse River. By deepening and widening Adams Creek and Core Creek. the route would end in Beaufort Inlet and the ocean. It is believed that | this route would save many millions of dollars in freights to the business | interests of the North and South, be- | 9fdAas fno xxraf fnw cfo co | of coastwise steamers.
 Congressman Bingham of Philadel- phia, presided at the first session. Af- | ter the disposal of routine matters, the report of the com mittee appointed to interest the President of the United | States in the matter of improvement of Eastern inland waterways was read. The report said the President indicated his purpose to treat the subject broad l ly in his coming message to Congress. The Following telegram was sent to the President by the convention.f
 Atlantic Deep Waterways Confer ! ence. assembled in Phiiadelphia, ap-
 preciates your interest in the import ant question of waterway transporta- : ton and sends hearty greetings" | Among the letters of regret read was l one from Congressman Burton. Chair l man of the Rivers and Harbors Com | mittee of the National House of Rep l resentatives, saying that he will l gladly assist the project under con- 1 sfdefation.
 Senator Newlands was the first | speaker. He spoke of the work of the I National Waterways Committee, ap- l pointed by President Roosevelt and | said the committee doubtless would at
 an early date. take up the Atlantic 1 coast problems. Continuing, Senator | Newlands said:
 l Confidence in American corpora
 tions has been shaken, both here and | abroad. Investors are alarmed and improvements absolutely necessary to | the transportation of the country are | held up. When Congress meets, there 1 will be many plans for relief, but that body will never take up this question
 in any adequate way until instructed | by public opinion. We should imme-
 diately have a conference at Washing
 | ton. devoted exclusively to the trans
 | portation question in its broadest as-
 l poets, and composed of men expert in
 | the financing. operation and control
 | of transportation. including the Gov | ernors of States and members Of public 1 service commissions. | sAfter full debate and deliberation,
 | the country will be. astonished to find how few the points of difference are lbetween the transportation managerh I on the one side and the public on the | other, The nation and the States have | knocked together the heads of rail- roads in such fashion as to make them realize that they are simply public agents: and they will come to such conference in a much more conciliatory mood than heretofore. believe In
 constructive rather than in punitive retaliation." a '.e. P