Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28
BIG WATERWAY MEET
Thirty-Five States to Be Rep
resented at Convention.
MANY SECTIONAL BODIES
Rivers and Harbors Congress to Be
Largest in History.
TOLEDO SEEKS 1910 ASSEMBLY
Thousand Delegates From Ohio Val
ley Improvement Association.
President to Receive Them.
TOLEDO SEEKS 1910 ASSEMBLY

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Acceptances of invitations to attend the
convention of the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress here, December 8, .
and 10. are pouring in on Capt J. F.
Ellison. secretary of the association, who
has opened headquarters in this city.
He declared last night that the conven-
ton will be the largest gathering OF
waterway advocates ever brought togeth-
er. Governors of thirty-five states have
announced their intention either of be-
ing present in person or sending repre-
sentatives.
Gov. Harmon of Ohio will address the
convention on a subject uppermost in the
minds of the people, The Duty of the
Government Toward Its Waterways" Of
ficers of the National Rivers and Harbors
Congress look upon the address of Gov.
Harmon as second only to that OF Presi-
dent Taft. who will deliver the opening
address Wednesday, December s.
Secretary J. r. Ellison, whose head
quarters at the Willard is among the
busiest places in the capital, said that
reports of the most assuring kind were
received from all sections. of the coun-
to the largest waterway convention ever
held.
Delegates From Sectional Bodies.
A thousand delegates are expected to
represent the Ohio Valley Improvement
Association at the convention, special
trains from the lower Ohio points merg-
ing with others at Cincinnati. President
Taft will meet this big delegation in
the east room of the White House Thurs
day, December 8, at $50 o'clock, when
the resolutions adopted at the fifteenth
annual convention of the association, re-
rectly held in Cincinnati, will be present
ed to the executive
Five hundred delegates will be present
from the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Association
Ex-Gov. Francis of Missouri, recently in
New Orleans, dramatically remarked that
the time for theorizng about waterway
improvements had passed and the time
for action was at hand.
Gov. Sanders of louisiana, a stanch
friend of a comprehensive policy for
waterway improvements on the part of
the federal government, has written Sec
rotary Ellison that he has appointed 800
representative men of the state as dele
gates to the sixth annual convention of
the national rivers and harbors congress,
while Mayor Buhrman of New Orleans
has appointed sixty delegates.
at the recent convention of the Atlantic
Deeper Waterways Association held In
Norfolk. President J. Hampton Moore
the Washington convention. This task
he is now engaged upon.
EX-Gov. George c. Pardee of California,
member of the board of directors of the
national rivers and harbors congress, has
telegraphed Secretary Ellison that the
largest delegation of Pacific coast advo-
Gates ever assembled in waterway
cause will make the journey across the
country to lend assistance in influencing
Congress In declaring for fixed policy to-
ward the rivers, harvors and canals of
continental United States.
Kentucky Sends Two Hundred.
Gov. Wilson of Kentucky, a state that
has the largest water front of any inland
commonwealth, extending for over thou
sand miles. has appointed 200 delegates to
assist in the work which the national
rivers and harbors congress mapped out
for itself six years ago, namely, to insist
that Congress provide a permanent policy
of waterway betterments with fixed year
ly appropriations until every meritorious
project be completed
Director J. n. Teal of Portland has ad-
vised Capt. Ellison that Oregon will send
the strongest delegation in it's history to
the convention. Similar advices come
from Seattle and Walla Walla.
The Missouri River Improvement Asso-
citation, the Upper Missouri Association
and the Missouri River Navigation Con-
gress have already appointed strong dele
cations. President Thomas Wilkinson of
the Upper Mississippi River Association
has appointed one hundred delegates rep
resenting the territory from st. Paul,
Mimi, on the NORTH to Alton, ILL.,, on the
south.
T. Edward Wilder Of Chicago, di-
rector of the national rivers and har-
bOrS congress, has reserved sixty rooms
at the Willard to house the delegates and
wires that hundred representative men
from the metropolis of Illinois will be
present during the sessions Of the con-
greSs.
New Organization Represented.
The Connecticut River Improvement AS
ISOLATION. an organization but recently
effected, will send strong delegation,
headed by Gov. Frank b. Weeks, as will
the Mississippi to Atlantic Inland Water
way Association, of which Senator Dun
can u. Fletcher of Florida is president
1t is stated that the Toledo Ohio,
Board of Trade will be in Washington in
force for the purpose of securing the 1910
convention for that city, believing the
time has come when this great body of
waterway enthusiasts should leave the
National Capital for a swing around the
circle
Two hundred and sixty-six mayors of
cities and $50 trade organizations have
appointed delegates ranging from five to
fifty. Thirty-five of the forty-SiX gov
ernors of states will be represented either
in person or by delegations rejecting the
industrial and commercial interests of the
several sections and enthusiastically COM
mitted to a comprehensive policy for the
DEVELOPMENTS of the nations natural
highways, its waters.