Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-25
FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK
BUSINESS AND CIVIC INTERESTS
TO MEET HERE.
Plans for Deep Waterways Confer
ence Next Month-Four Thou
sand Delegates Expected.

Representatives of business and civic in
terests all over the country will meet
here December to II for the deep water
ways and river and harber conference
1t is expected there will be 1000 dele
gates. including among others members
of the southern commercial congress.
which is to meet here December s. and of
the Ohio Valley Improvement Associa-
ton.
One of the main objects of the con-
gress will be to urge the government to
make provision annually for river and
harbor work and carry it forward on
systematic scale. instead Of leaving the
riber and harbor bill as a pork barrel
measure with which to dump a few mil
lions into congressional districts where
1t will do the most good on the eve of an
election The President will have this
view of the measure presented to HIM
and with his known interest in inland
waterways the delegates hope he may be
moved to effective action.
For Commercial Navigation.
The congress desires that the Ohio and
the Mississippi rivers be deepened and
improved for commercial navigation and
it Is also particularly interested in the
development of the inside passage along
the Atlantic coast, so that warships, scat
tered at different Atlantic stations. could
run, under shelter to rendezvous.
Among those who will deliver addresses
before the congress are Andrew Carnigie.
Ambassador Bryce of Great Britain Am
bassador Nabuco of Brazil. Maj. j. A
Ockerson Of the Mississippi river commits
sion Gov. w. F. Frear of Hawaii, Secre
tary of the Interior Garfield. Horace Nc
Farland, president of the National Civic
Federation; Gov. n. r. Broward of Flor
ida. and president Of the National Drain
age Association; Admiral c. III. Chester,
who was delegate to the international
waterways congress recently held at St.
Petersburg, and Samuel Gompers. who
will discuss 'Labors Interest in Water
ways Development
Southern Commercial Congress.
Papers of more than usual interest in
connection with the material development
ing of the southern commercial congress,
which precedes the meeting of the rivers
and harbors commission. The committee
of arrangements has been appointed. 1t
Is large one and the members are
drawn from all of the southern states.
1t consists of G. Grosvenor Dave of Mont
gomery, Ala: John A. Betjeman of AL
bany, Ga; John A. Patton OF Chatta-
nooga,, j. r. Arnold of Fort Worth. w.
Of Petersburg. H. H. Richardson OF
Jacksonville, e. S. Shannon of Nashville.
James E. Smith Of ST. Louis. NJ. B.
Trezevant Of New Orleans.
Subjects to Be Discussed.
The program is comprehensive and
touches most OF the vital problems of
southern business life. The papers in
clude Southern Health Conditions,
Climate and Temperature" Sugeon Cen
eral Water Wyman; THE Influence OF
the Panama Canal on the Industrial De-
velopment Of the Nation" Gen Wright.
Secretary of War; Ports OF the South
and Foreign Trade" NJ. J. Sanders, New
Orleans: Water Courses of the South"
John A. Fox. Arkansas; Southern Rail-
roads and their Needs John F. Wal
lace: New York; Water Power" Frank
S. Washburn. Nashville. Tenn: ''The
Commercial Meaning of the Appalachian
Range" Clifford Pinchot. chief forester;
Goal Resources" Prof. l.. c. Glenn,
Nashville. Tenn: Iron Resources f. c.
Eckel. Washington. d. c.; General Min
eral Wealth. c. w. Hayes, chief geolo-
gist; Cotton Monopoly and Cotton Man
ufacture.' Ellison A. Smythe. Pelzer S.
C.: Building Materials Cement. marble.
c!ays. grantee William J. Oliver, Knox
Vile. Tenn; Timber Resources Of the
South John l.. Kau. Birmingham Ala:
THE Agricultural Revolution Clarence
FL Poe, Raleigh. y. c.: Present and
Prospective Educational Progress" DR..
E. A. Alderman, University OF Virginia.