The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-07
CANAL CONVENTION
IMPORTANT MEETING BEGINS IN
 MOBILE TODAY.
Delegates win Be Present From Four state When Mir. Craft Con-
 venes the Body at

tercoastal Canal Convention will meet in this city tomorrow and large att l tendance of delegates is expected. The convention was to have been held | in Pensacola and was transferred to Mobile on account of the street car strike in that city and the unsettled | state resulting therefrom- | Among the delegates already on hand are Leland J. Henderson. of Apa- lachicola. Fla: c. A. Waterman. Pen sacola, Fla. and Warren B. Reed. of | New Orleans.
 Mir. Henderson is secretary of the hoard of trade of Apalachicola, and one of the leading spirits in the effort to promote the construction of the can al. Referring to the project today. MT. l Henderson said: ..,.-.. The cana. will benefit Mobile and l Birmingham more than any other | points. It will require the digging of | twenty five miles of canal to connect the Apalachicola bay with the Misis- sippi river while it will require the digging of two hundred and fifty miles to connect the Mississippi and the Rio Grande, They are working on their project and 1t behooYes us to work on ours."
 Mir. Reed. is hera to represent 'The | Intercoastal Canal in Louisiana" and 1 the AtchafalaYa Bay Shin Channel Company" He Is the engineer who built the .Atachafalays- Basin and is ! enthusiastic in his advocacy of the l scheme of which the convention tomor- row will treat. as auxiliary of the pro- | ject in which he Is more directly in- terested. His address tomorrow will be one of the most interesting of the day. dealing as 1t does with a distinct branch of scheme too large and too important to the whole country to be I ma Ia cNaha tA,.t saR l interests.
 The convention will be called to or der at noon tomorrow by Hon. John | Craft, President of the Commercial Club. The following program will then be observed: Address of welcome by Hon. P. j.. 1 Lyons, Mayor of Mobile. Address, Waterways and the Purpose of the Canal-Leland J. Henderson. Sec retary Apalachicola Board of Trade, Apalachieola, Fla.
 ! Address. The Connection of the Ten l nessee with the chattahoochie- Charles J. Swift of Columbus. Ga. Address, TAe Int2reostal Canal and l Its Outlet to the Gulf in the State of | Louisiana-Warren B. Reed New Or l leans. ...
 l Address. The National waterways--- 1 Hon. T. G. Bush, Birmingham. Address. Benefit of the Inter-costal | Canal to Bay St, Louis and Vicinity Judge w.. Mcdonald. of Bay St. l Louis, Miss.
 Address, Mobile and Her Waterways Hon. E, L. Russell, Mobile. Address Benefit of the. Inter -costal Canal to Scranton, Miss.--Hon. M. A. Dees, Scranton, Miss - Address Benefit of the Inter-cos Canal to Gulfport. Mlss.-Hon. Horace Bloomfield of Gulfport, Miss. .-
  Canal to Birningham-Hon. E. J. Bry- an, Birmingham. Address Relation of the Waterway Canal to New Orleans-M. B. Trezvant of New Orleans.
 Address Benefit of the Inland Wa terway to Apalachicola and Vicinity Hon. J NJ. Spece. Sumatra. Fla.
 Address. Benefit of the Inland Wa terwav to the Chattahoochie DlStrict-- Hon. Richard Howard. Columbus. Ga. :.
 Address. The Relation of the Gulf Coastal Canal from the Lakes to the Gulf-H. c. Barlow. Executive Direc- tor Association of Commerce Chicago. III.
 Address. The Relation of the Water ways Canal to Pensacola. Fla.-G. A. Waterman, Pensacola. Fla.
 A partial list of delegates appointed to the convention is as follows:
 Appointed by Governor E. F. Noel of Mississippi-Judge W. T. McDonal of Bay St. Louis, Miss; E. J Rex, Bay St. Louis. Miss; M. A. Dees, Scran- ton. Miss; J. D. Clarke, Nugent, Har- rison County Miss; Horace Bloomfield. Gulfport, Miss.
 Appointed by the New Orleans Pro- gressive Union-William J. Kelley, New Orleans. La: E R. Hicks Osh- kosh, Wis.
 Appointed by G. c Gardebled, May or of Bay St. Louis. Miss .-G. G. Gar debled. Bay St. Louis. Miss: Richard Mendes. Bay St. Louis, Miss; Charles Breath Bay St. Louis, Miss.
 Appointed by Governor Newton C. Blanchard of Louisiana-H. L. Guey- dan, Gueydan, La; W. c. Underwood. Franklin, La; H. c. Pharr, Patterson La.; c. A Kaplan. Kaplan, La. Appointed by c. S. Meriweather. Mayor of Pascagoula. Miss.-M. w. Young. Peter Smith, F. H. Lewis, B. H. Ellis, NJ. G. Treore, NJ. N. Wat kins. Dr. J. T. Evans. Capt. S. H. Buggie, c. B. Chaptman,, all of Scran- ton, Miss.
 Appointed by J. W. Stanford. Pres ident Cuthbert, Ga. Board of Trade J. W Stanford. R. L. Move. R. D. Gay, E. A. Jackson. all of Cuthbert Ga.
 Appointed by the Commercial Club. l Blrm Ei ydh, OOAh IA Raul both of Birmingham.
 Appointed by Gulfport Board of i Trade-J. D. Hardy Gulfport. Miss; S F. Naylor, Gulfport, Miss; " A. Grifath, Gulfport. Miss; J. W. Corry Gulfport. Miss George A. Foote. Gulf port Miss.
 Appointed by Mayor of Pensacola. Fla.-C. c. Goodman. Pensacola. Fla .. Appointed by Governor Conner, Ala i bama-Col E. L. Russell. Mobile i; Hon. Joseph Norville, Mobile; Hon. Sid Lyons. Mobile, Hon. C. W. Hooper, | Selma.
 l Appointed by City of St. Andrews, Fla.-J H Drummond. St. Andrews, Fla T. D. Sale. Southport. Fla; R. l.. Mckenzie. Panama City, Fla; H. H . Boyer. Milville. Fla.
 Appointed by Joseph F. Ransdall, President River and Harbor Congress T. c. Bush, Director National Rivers and Harbors Congress. Birmingham.
 Appointed by L. l.. Chappell. Mayer, Columbus. Ga.-Richard Howard Ca lumbus, Ga; John F. Tourney, Colum- bus. Ga Hon. Charles J Swift. Co lumbus. Ga T s. Methvin. Columbus Ga Leo Loewenherz. Columbus Ga
 Appointed by the Apalachicola Board of Trade-J. ". Spence( Sumatra. Fla. .
 Leland J. Henderson, Apalaohicola Fla