The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-01
Invitation to De pc I
Waterways Associa-
tion Presented.
FIRST BUSINESS
Is TRANSACTED
Virginians Named on Inportan,
Committees &C entur y-old
Movement for Inland Water
Course Gets Strong 1mpe-
tus-Congressn1an Small
Outlines South's Claims.
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tspecialto The Times- Dispatch.l
Providence. r. l.. August 3l.-con-
siderably larger In tho way of at
tendance than the one hold at Norfolk
year ago. the third annual conven-
tion Of the Atlantic Deeper Water
ways Association opened here to-day.
About the first thing to happen after
the delegates got together was tho
vitation to hold the 1911 convention IN
richmond. The delegates from that
Vicinity are putting forth energetic ef-
iorts to have the Invitation accepted,
urging that Richmond is becoming a
great convention city. no less than
thirty-od meetings being scheduled
there for the current year
Following the welcome addresses
and responses, letters were read from
President Taft. Ex-Governor Swanson
and Richmond Pearson Hobson.
After the addresses came the first
actual busineas OF the convention.
which included the naming of the va
flous committees. Harvey NJ. Dickson.
OF virginia, was named for the Gro.
dentials committee. and w. T. Dabney.
Q! the same State, was named by Pres.
ddent j. Hampton Moore for tho cor.
mittce which Is to consider the t,n,a
and place for the-neat meeting.
Among the Virginians already here
Tor the convention are: John A. Beach
er. Norfolk; o. y. Bachelor, Newpor.
News; G. Blek. Norfolk; W. p Butler.
T. NJ Darlington, M a. Chambers. j.
c. Corley. ". T. Dabney. r. A. Dunlop
and John B. Freeman. of Ricnmond.
Gets Strong Impetus.
With words OF encouragement an!
reports of progress from maoy speak
ers of national Importance, the cen
tury-old movement for an inland matsr
course along the Atlantic received q
at.ons impetus at the initial sess,oti-
OF the associations third annual con-
xsntion In this city to-day.
Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith.
OF the Bureau OF Corporations. Wash
inston. urged the delegates to give
confederation to the docks and water
terminals facilities: Commander Alfred
Brooks Fry. chief engineer of the
United States Treasury Service: Presi-
dent Lloyd D. Chaniberla!n, OF the
Massachusetts, State Board of Trade,
and other advocates OF water trans
portation discussed different phaAes OF
the subject. The speakers at the day
session also included Congressman w.
S. Greene. of Massachusetts,: Congress-
man John a. Small. Of North Carolina
and j. Hampton Moore. president OF
the association. and State Railroad
Commissioner Joseph f. Grey, of Geor-
gia. A paper by Calvin Tompkina
Commissioner OF Docks. New Yorl.
City, was read by Congressman Joseph
A. Goulden. OF New York. Illness pre-
vented Congressman Rlchmonu Pear
son Hobscn, Of Alabama. who WAS to
have been one OF the, spealsnrs, from
attending.
After Governor Pothier had wci-
coined the delegates on behalf of tho
state, Congressman William $. Greene,
Of Massachusetts,, chairman of the
House Committee on Merchant Marine
and Fisheries, gave a brief addrass.
Appreciation of South.
Congressman John r. Small. Of
North Carolina, then voiced the appre-
citation of tile delegates Of the South
for the cordial welcome which had
been extended to tEem.
while am loyal son OF the
South" he said, yet my colleagues
and I from that section have received
the same welcome and will. I am sure.
deserve the same consideration rs the
men OF New England or Pennsylvania.
because we are all citizens Of the came
great republic, protected by the same
laws and loyal to The same flag"
Congressman Small dwelt on the
great products and natural resonrc.s
Of the South. and added:
"Far removed as we are from you.
ve need to shorten the lines OF CON-
munication and cheaper tho cost Of
movement in. our Interchange Of pro-
ducts. we require your machinery and
your finer manufactured goods The
railroads have served and still sub.
serve a most important part in trans
portation. but there are limitations
which they have reached. We must
construct canals across the SIX links
which separate these inland sounds and
bays along the Atlantic seahoard. and
make the intercoastal waterway q
reality Then, not only shall our
norts. but our more than 1900 miles
Of nnvigabie rivers in the South A,lan-
tic states have cheap and easy conlmu-
nication with our ports, and our thou
sands Of miles of rivers and the conl-s
mercial Millennium OF prosperity and
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