Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-31
Trip Down Mississippi Com
pIeted, President Receives
Royal Welcome in New Or
leans Attends Football Game
WATERWAYS CONVENTION
CHEERS CHIEF MAGISTRATE
Declaration in Favor of IS
suance of Bonds to Improve
Streams ArouseS Wild En-
thuSiaSm Among Delegates

lIIQOiCtOlIl H''C''CO
INV Morning journal Special Leased Wirel
New Orleans. oct S0-PresIdeht
Taft celebrated the successful termi-
nation of his trip down the Mississippi
today by addressing the delegates to
the convention of the Lakes-to-the-
Gulf Deep waterways association,
which has as its object the improve
ment of the Mississippi river and its
tributaries. on the arrival of the
president delegates and visitors
sprang to their feet
Many mounted their chairs TO get
a better view of the bowng, smiling
big man who was working his way
through the double line of secret ser
vice and police officers. He stood on
the platform a moment and then
bowed his appreciation OF the APP
plause.
President Kavanagh presented him
with a handsome gold badge and then
introduced Governor Sanders of
Louisiana, who in turn introduced
the president. The applause broke
out again and was reinforced with
some vigorous Yale yells
The president began his address by
having aIittle fun regarding the trip
doWn the river. lie sad IlN dangers
great had all been run" and that the
fleet had come through without the
loss of a single man. Mr.. Taft taunt-
ed the congressman and governors for
having resorted to the humiliating de-
vice of land transportation at one
stage of the journey.
The president declared that no
progress had been made in river nav
igation in this country in the last 40
or As years. The waterways of this
country, Mr.. Taft declared. must be
used eventually 10 carry the bulk Of
the heavy merchandise.
The presidents declaration that he
favored the issuance OF bonds for
carrying out the Ohio river improve
ment as one of the approved projects
of inland waterway, called out a burst
Of applause.
The Ohio river Improvement will
cost s63, 100000 Mr. Taft said that
he also favored bonds for all other
improvements, including the Mississ
ippi, just as soon as feasible project
can be decided upon and shown 10 De
necessary and justifable. The Ohio
river gives the bulk of business to
the Mississippi, he declared, and every
Improvement of a tributary tended to
Increase the value of the great water
highway to the gulf
The president told of the improve
ments to the Mississippi on the way
down and especially in protecting the
banks from further sloughing off at
the outside of The bends. The en-
gineers say they need 100000 more
a year, to carry on this beneficial
work as it ought to be carried on and
that it was a shame that congress did
not give IL to them. In conclusion
President Taft said
1T is now up to you gentlemen to
decide what you want. what it will
cost. how long it will take and what
the result will be. once that is done
You can command, not ask"
In his address this afternoon Presi-
dent Taft said.
4 am delighted TO be present (you
see We adopt in our administration
the Roosevelt policies in fulD and TO
near the highly honorable delegation
that has come from St Louis to the
suh We have passed through all the
hangers of navigation of the river and
'hey are not confined to the shoals,
sahd banks and the bends and we are
ne mere without the loss OF a single man.
mere some few of us who have
oraVed the whole way. and ! hesitate
20 speak OF those who resorted 10 the
nunillation of taking land transporta-
uon 70 get here. | hope that Will be
suppressed in the minutes OF this
meeting. When Uncle Joe addresses
your honoable body don't ask him
Nnera he left the river and when he
got back to it.
>, But testing aside. our coming in
eIcates what we hope may be an
epoch in the change of the character
% transportation in this country. DO
,ot mlsunderstand me. / don't think
mat We are going to fill the bosom Of
@ s'le mississippi river with barges snd
11Sean steamers tomorrow morni ig
ne change which is bound to be f.
1eeted with respect 10 that stream III
,tuHe gradually. II will come " IN
s demand that Is certainly growi X
~, an Improvement in our transpCr-
sNon and the cheapening OF that
au OF transportation. to wit: Bully
rrIehandise that ought to be carrie d
re .av cheaply than it is today
-, ne have seen human ingenuity d.
,.Oped Ia the highest degree in the
tIeNth of our railroad transportation |
-a1 the economy OF the conduct Cf
ri.,tosds But the condition OF our
of the apparently hopeless task
NJ ~" hins them useful. has turned the
pte attention from them and ther
-'" no reference to river constrUc-t