The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-21
DEEPER WATERWAY
A PERMANENT ORGANIZATION IS
 PERFECTED.
,c.v~ut,ou Came to . Close Last Night Wfth a Brilliant Banquet--Over Five Hundred Delegates
 Present.


 ph,,aaelphia. Now 20.7-Representa- tiye men from fifteen of the Atlantic coast states. today formed permanent oreanfzation under the name of the At lartic Deeper Waterways Association, inc object of which will be to bring about a system of waterways to permit inc free movement of traffic by inland water between the various Atlantic seaboard States from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico.
 This is the outcome of the two days conferencef held in this city by dele- gates appointed by the Governor or trade bodies in the States interested in the Atlantic inland waterway project. The association adopted resolutions de- claring that all canals should be free and asking Congress- to take up the great project because it is demanded by the commercial interests of 30,000,000 people on the Atlantic seaboard.
 Congressman J. Hampton Moore of Pennsylvania, was chosen President and vice-president and delegate at large was elected from each State. The next convention will be held in Balti- more. Many addresses in favor of the movement and pledging support were made during the two sessions today.
 The convention came to an end to- night with banquet which was att tended by nearly all of the 522 dele gates to the conference.
 Congressman Small of North Carolina speaking of the Norfolk to Beaufort route of the proposed inland waterways referred to the danger to shipping in rounding the treacherous shoals of Cape Hatteras. If the Norfolk Beau fort route is built, he said, millions of dollars in ships and cargoes would be saved from destruction.
 MT. Small in his address went a step further than the conference proposes to go. He suggested the continuance of the inland waterway down to and across Florida to the Gulf of Mexico, thus coming into touch with the Mis- sissippi river and the waterways of the great Mississippi Valley. When that dream is realized" he said, the trans- portation problem will have been solved"
 Major FlagIer, who has charge of the government engineering in five of the Middle Atlantic States. said that from an engineering point of view there was nothing to prevent the carrying out of the project.
 Congressman Burton, of Delaware, presided at the afternoon session. which was almost entirely devoted to effect ing permanent organization.
 The Committee on Credentials res ported that 522 delegates had regis- tered for the conference and that they were appointed by the Governors or trade associations of the following t1f- teen States:
 Maine. Massachusetts. Rhode Island, Connecticut. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware. Maryland. vir- ginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia and Florida.
 Among the resolutions adopted was one which may be said to be the plat form of the new movement.
 It sets forth that the proposed deep waterways ''is demanded by the mu- tual interests ofs 30.000.O0o of people on the seaboard directly and indirectly and ultimately by those of the American people,"
 The construction of the waterway, it was maintained, would give gravely necessary and permanent relief to the business of transportation and it will surely result both in stimulating com merce and in reducing the cost of nov ing commodities.
 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.
 It was decided to call the new organ ization the Atlantic Deeper WateF- ways Association" and it's object is to be the securing of improvements in in- land waterways and harbors. ito the end eventually that there shall be an efficient system of waterways permit ting the free movement of traffic by water between the various States from Maine to the Gulf"
 It was decided to hold the next con- vention at Baltimore in the latter part of November, 1908.
 Congressman J. Hampton Moore of Philadelphia, was elected President, and Addison B. Burke of Philadelphia, Secretary and Treasurer.