Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29

ington from commercial and Industrial
standpoint are fnnumerable. Washington
is becoming great city. Industries are
bound to spring up here, in spite of all
efforts to keep the city merely city of
residences. The people need an outlet
for their labors. Factories will grow up.
Why should we import goods which we
can make here as easily, il not better.
than they can be manufactured else
where? This new water connection,
bringing great territory in close con-
nectiOn with the city. would mean UNI
doubtedly that many new industries
would be started here.
| The time has come for more indus
I tries in Washington. Our sons cannot all
| be real estate brokers or bankers or
| storekeepers. We need industries to give
them employment Now many Of the
! young men go away from Washington
because they cannot find work to do.
| IF the proposed ship canal is con-
structed another city lying to the east
! of the Capitol will grow up along the
banks of the eastern branch and the
canal. There will be an enormous de-
| yelnpment.
The present evil conditions of the
eastern branch of Anacosta river and
: the AnacoStia flats Will be done away
with. For deep sea level canal con-
Meeting Chesapeake bay with the river
! will mean the improvement and doing
away with all the fats and the illness
which they produce. For years the east
! ern branch and its flats have been an
/ eyesorc and a menace to the health of
the District of Columbia We have tried
/ to get Congress to appropriate money
/ to reclaim the flats. and gradually this
| is being done but there is still much to
do II the proposed canal was construct
/ ed we would have no more of these dis
agreeable fats.
There has been a great increase in the
cost of living in Washington in recent
/ wears Much of this is due. it is said, to
i the freight rates charged on the neces-
! sites of life, which are brought here
! from distances. The canal would provide
! a water route, at cheaper rates for the
! freight and, as 7 have already said. it
would aid in the development of our own
| factories and enable us to produce much
| of which we now import.
| Survey Authorized.
| 1.-THE resolution before Congress now
| does not appropriate any money. II
| merely authorizes a survey of the pro-
| jected canal by the War Department. If
| Congress later decides to build the canal
| the money need not be appropriated and
paid out in one year. but may stretch
over several years. and so not be much
| of drain on the Treasury.
Maryland will benefit from the con-
| struction of the canal, as well as the Dis
| trict of Columbia All the country
| through which it runs will be enhanced
| many times in value.
| The least expensive route probably
! will be found near an air line from Bia-
! densburg to the Severn river, about eight
miles above Annapolis. This line crosses
| the PatuXent about one and one-nalf
miles below the confluence OF the No. tn
| branch, and is seventeen and one-half
miles in length.
The other route will not be far dis
| tant from an air line from Bladensbuig
| to the Patasco river, near the mouth
| Of Deep run, distance OF twenty-one
! miles. The distance from Deep run to
| baltimore by the channel of the Pa
| tapScO is very nearly twelve miles, or
about thlrty-five miles from Washington
| to Baltimore.
Two routes have been surveyed, both
| of which are near this air line. That
| which seems to be the least expensive
! was examined by Isaac Trimble in or
ABOUT the year 1898. 1t is nearly twenty
| four miles in length, following the Ana
| costa river above Rladensburg for ten
miles. This route, after leaving the river,
! passes ridge l., feet above tide. Then
| crossing the PatuXent two miles east of
| the air line, it continues four miles far
| Their to the North branch of the PatuX-
| ent. passing over in this distance a
| ridge 135 feet above tide: then, crossing
| the North branch two and one-half miles
| east of the air line, it follows up a creek
| for two miles, and crossing over to Deep
| run 1t follows this stream to the Pa
| tapsco river.