Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-12-20
MAYOR GIVES REPORT
ABOUT RECENT TRIP
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ftSpt CHaIup CfAfky Alex
ander and Ransdall, gave the dele
gates considerable information and
many suggestions and ideas to occu-
by their time and thought. The
motto of the congress, "A waterway
Policy, not a waterway Project" was
fully explained. This motto makes
it necessary to lay aside all local at
tempts at log rolling in the national
congress and makes the River and
Harbors Congress a power commit
ted to a national policy for improv-
ing, and deserving water curses in
the interior and along the sea coasts
that give promise of increasing and
cheapening transportation facilities.
Importance of Port.
From the fact hat Perth Amboy
Is the fourth in importance and size
as a port of entry, by reason OF the
vessel tonnage and of the
government, you can readily see that
we should stand very much forward
in the opportunity for improvement
of the waterways leading to this
port; if ours claims be properly adj
vocated and our advantages be prop
erly set forth. / regret to say, how
ever, that the lack of public interest
and lack of appreciation of import
ance of the subject on the part of
the general public, left me without
much assistance to properly present
that importance and those advan-
tages. Persons representing small
creeks in the southwest and west,
aad those representing manufactur-
ing towns at the head of navigation
far inland, were very strongly adj
vocating the reasons for the improve
ments of those waterways, both by
large delegations of prominent citt-
zens and much printing, and other
ways of urging their claims.
Conventions generally bring to a
persons notice a wider view of any
subject that he may ordinarily deal
in everyday life. The consider
ing together of subjects which are
treated differently In different local
tiles, will produce ideas concerning
those subjects entirely differept 0
those heretofore entertained. 1t
seems to me that we all in Perth
Amboy, for instance, have looked up
the deep waterways Improvement
purely as referring to Staten Island
and Raritan bay. Attendance
at this convention certainly has op-
ened my eyes to the national I'M
.portance of the organization, and the
ultimate Importance of the move
ment to this city.
Perth Amboy Interested.
We certainly in Perth Amboy are
interested In the movement.
especially are interested
businesses depend upon water
TRANSPORTATION. The washington
Post of the eighth of this month,
among other things relating to the
convention, editorially said: "A
strict adherence to the policy thus
outlined will doubtless characterize
the utterances of the speakers that
are yet to be heard during the two
days Of the session remaining. And
there is no apparent reason why the
statements should not be accepted at
face value. Free from partisan pol
itical control, answerable to no local
selfish constituency, representing Rll
portions of the country, and thor
oughly versed In the relative merits
Of the various waterway plans that
are being advocated, the membership
of the Rivers and Harbors Congress
is admirably constituted to deal with
the questions to which it has applied
itself, and to recommend only such
as win rebound to the I'M
iversal good of the people"
Should Effect Organization.
For myself, / will say that the
attendance upon the sessions of this
congress and the mingling with the
members who were enthusiastically
Interested in the aims and objects OF
the convention, added to the consid-
Grafton which / had had previously
of the Importance of 1t. If l can, by
this report, bring to the notice of
our prominent citizens the import
ance of the congress, the moneys the
city have invested, haye been well
spent. 1t seems to me that some
organization should be effected by
which e provision will be made
for the attendance of a large delega-
ton at the next session of the on
gress. To do this, a great deal more
of public spirit must be shown than
has been shown heretofore, and l am
quite sure that any who may here
after attend, will be more enthusi
in the work, because they will
realize more fully it's Importance to
our city.
Dated Perth Amboy, N. j., DeceIn-
Der 10, 1910.
Yours respectfully,
A. B~OLLSCHWEILER,
Mayor,