Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-01
.TOMARKET PRODUCTS
Demand for Added Means of
Transportation.
TO DEVELOP WATERWAYS
Aim of the Rivers and Harbors
Congress.
TO OPEN WEDNESDAY
Notable List Of speakers-Eminent
Men Coming-Three Thousand
Delegates Expected. CO
TO OPEN WEDNESDAY

Secretary Root is formally to open the
national rivers and harbors congress
Wednesday. This was decided yesterday
at a conference between the Secretary Of
State and Representative Joseph E. Rams
dell and Capt. ]. F. Ellison, president and
secretary, respectively. of the ~organiza-
ton. Ambassador Jusserand also will be
one of the speakers at the opening ses-
sion, and his address will deal with the
development of the waterways of France.
The list of speakers is a notable one
The governors of a half-scOre Of states
will address the convention, as will prom
inent business men and big shippers from
throughout the United States. Ambassa-
dor Won Sternburg also will talk on the
rivers, canals and harbors of the father
land, which probably has brought this
especial system of transportation to
higher state of development than any
other country.
In fact the waterways of Germany will
days of the convention. Oscar P. Austin,
chief of the bureau Of statistics, Is to
dwell upon them; Thomas p. Anderson of
Boston. who has just competed an In
vestigation of the rivers and canals VII
give lecture at one of the evening ses-
sions, the lecture to be illustrated with
stereopticon views, and JudsOn c. Welh-
yer, Washington newspaper correspond
ent, who spent two months abroad this
summer investigating Germany's water
also will report the result Of his trip.
Notable Men Coming.
Many notables are to be present to take
part in the deliberations. Andrew Car
negie, whose love for water led him to
give a made-to-order lake to Princeton a
short time ago, will come at the head of
delegation from the Pittsburg Chamber
Of Commerce. Far-on Washington, Ore
gon and California are sending their rep
resentative men. and Secretary Ellison
yesterday received telegram, dated at
Houston. Tex, from former Gov. George
C. Pardee of California, declaring the
special car; containing the delegation from
lower California was headed this way.
One Of the interesting characters who
will attend Is Capt. Alexander McDougall
Of Duluth, MINI. Capt. McDougall for
forty years has been a captain on the
Great Lakes and has amassed a fortune
in the carrying trade He Is the inventor
of that queer type of craft known as the
whaleback. Capt. McDougall has lived to
see the traffic borne on the inland seas
grow from practically nothing to the
enormous total of 1885 OO3 net tons. as
reported in the government figures for
October of this. year.
Railway Presidents Expected.
A most significant feature of the con-
vention will be the presence of three
ley Of the Southern, James ]. Hill Of the
Great Northern and NJ. E. ingalls, of the
Cleveland. Cincinnati. Chicago and St
Louis. Mr.. Finley has announced the
subject of his address as THE Economic
Relationship Between Waterways and
10 ntlruva fnnto IN lob
will speak has not yet been made public.
Mr.. ingalls, has not yet signified his In
tention of taking an active part In the
program, although he Is registered as a
delegate from Cincinnati.
The presence of these railroad magnateS
is Interpreted as a public denial that the
railroads are in any way opposed to a
broad and liberal national policy Of water
ways improvements. This opposition un-
doubtedly existed in the past, when the
traffic, but now the steam lines realize the
crying necessity for an auxiliary system
Of transportation.
Means of Transportation,
Mr.. Hill has been especially outspoken
in his Endorsement of the work of the
National Rivers and Harbors Congress.
A few days ago. in the course of an ad-
dress in Kansas City, he pointed out that
while business was increasing from 10 ito
Is per cent annually railroad mileage was
being added to only at the rate of ~ per
cent. Within a decade Mr.. Hill forsoes
stagnation of business, with all its at
tendant Ills, unless some add ed means of
transportation be developed to market the
immense increase in the products of field,
factory and mine.
Others who will speak at the gathering
are Chief Forester Pinchot, Chairman
Burton of the rivers and harbors COM
mittee of the House, Senator Newlands,
Lieut.. Gov. A. B. Davidson of Texas,
Lloyd E.. Chamberlain, president of the
Massachusetts, State Board of Trade; DR..
N. G. >Blalock of Walla Walla, wash;
and Leroy Percy>6f Greenville, Miss.
Secretary Ellison declared last night
that 2,235 delegates were registered with
him, and that every mail was bringing in
more who announced their intention of
being present. In Mr.. Ellison's opinion
there will be 5000 delegates registered