The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-10-28
TAFT AT vtckSBURG
Hearty Welcome Awaits Him in Ais.
toric clty-New Orleans Saturday.

torie clty--Ne~ Orleans Saturday.
New Orleans Oct. prcsldcm
Tafts great fleet s. today speeding
down the river toward wick ,burg
where he will b. greeted by grca,
Concoursc OF the people OF Mis- ,lssippi
and Louisiana. The historic old cit,.
the scene of 30 many thrilling Incl.
dents OF the civil War. will give a
hearty welcome 10 the chief eXccutiv.
of the nation. The president will de-.
liver an address and visit the National
Cemetery and Military Park. Natchez
and BATON Rouge will entertain the
president tomorrow. and ON Saurda,
he will reach this city
New Orleans will do itself proud in
its greeting 10 the president the gov.
crnors and other officials and the dele
gates To tn" I.akes.tothc-Gulf Deep
Waterways Convention Already the
streets have assumed a festival attire
and IN, advance guard of waterway
boomers are arriving at the hotels.
The arrival Of tn" fleet Saturday
morning will be- the signal tor thun.
derous salute. The president will ad.
dress the Waterways convention on
Saturday. and scores OF other men dis
tinguiShed in all walks OF life viii add
their testimony To the general demand
for the Improvement OF the nation
greatest waterway.
The association that will continue
the discussion oil these importint
questions was organized In 1900 IS the
people of the Mississippi valley. who
s-'nt loo delegates 20 C.1v"ntibn
that was held at ~. Louis. The next
convention was held at 1907 in Mem.
phis President Roosevelt was 50
much Interested in that convention
that he went 10 st. Louis and thence,
as the guest OF the ~, ociatiOn, 10
Memphis, whore he addressed the con
vcntion. At that time President Roosc.
welt declared 10 the seventeen govern
ors who accompanied him that IA,
United States should build tho great
waterway by issuing bonds II neccs.
sary.
The third convention Cf the aSsocia.
tion was held In Chicago in 1905
Three thousand hve hundred and rev-
cniecn delegates were present Mir.
Tart was there, and in an address he
said that the project should, i'm his
opinion, b" treated as the government
had treated the Panama canal and
that provision should BE- made by
bond, for the setting aside ot a fund
sufficient 10 complete il As rapidly "a
possible. William j. Bryan also spak 9
on the Importance OF the project and
its early completion
\ brief resume Of the condition OF
the deep waterway work viii show Ju,
present status OF the proiec, The san.
itary district OF Chicago has built o..
deep waterway 20 Joliet lu. f1r
miles from Chicago, and SGyOo",Uuu
that thus far been expended ON the
work. The entire route OF the lakes Jo
the gulf deep waterway t.om Jolirr
/ 10 New Orleans. through the D,s
PLANES river, the Illinois and the Mis-
sissippi rivers, has been surveyed uu
der direction OF congress by govern
. mppt engineers and have Officially l,.
ported that the building OF the wat,r
way Is feasible. Illinois has adopted d
constitutional amendment for bond
issue OF $50. 900, ,00J 20 be- spent in con.
structing the deep waterway south
ward from Joliet \ bin is pending -,
congress providing for the issue By the
government OF bonds to thr amount -.