Evening journal., 1910-09-02
GREAT DEMAND
FOR WATERWAYS
North and South United for
Inland Canal Along
Atlantic Coast
RICHMOND GETS
NEXT CONVENTION

PROVIDENCE. R. l., Sept 2.--If
shallow rivers and other streams and
If puny canal from Maine to Florida
are not widened and deepened by the
United States government it will be
no fault of the Atlantic Deeper Wa
terways Associatian, for the men COM
posing that association, headed by
their president, Congressman ].
Hampton Moore, have done, are do
ing and will continue to do all within
their power 70 make these contem-
/ plated avenues of commerce realities
| in the near future.
The earnestness and enthusiasm,
/ the determination of the association,
whose members include governors Of
states. United States Senators, Con-
! gressmen and representative men in
every walk of life. have been predom-
] mating features in the third annual
convention of the Atlantic Deeper
J Waterways Association, which will
[ close its business session today. and
then plunge into a round of enter
tainments, excursions and pleasures,
which will last until Saturday night,
when home returning will begin.
Richmond Wins.
Back TO the South, back TO Virginia,
where the convention met last year,
Norfolk being the convention city, II
will go again next year. Richmond
was the city selected, and the time
about October Is.
Colonel William A. Boykin, of Bal
timore, who is a native of Virginia,
turned the tide in favor Of Richmond.
Albany, n. Y, and Trenton. n. j., were
strong bidders before the committee
on place and time Of the next conven-
tion. This committee met this morn
ing, and a big delegation from Rich
mond pleaded for their city Colonel
Boykin went to their aid, and made an
eloquent speech for the Virginia city.
Mr. Higgins Speaks.
Former Senator Anthony Higgins,
of Delaware, presided at the morning
session and Joseph A. Goulden, who
is a Congressman from New York, and
a farmer in Carroll county, Nd. pre-
sided in the afternoon.
Mr.. Higgins, in his opening ad-
dress, said in part
why is il that in this great prob
lem of opening up the waterways Of
our coast New England has, as II
seems to the rest of US, Jagged behind
and been the last of the procession
Surely, never before has she been ac-
cused of being slow to protect her
own interests, and so We are left to
! conclude that for some reason or 9TH
er she must not see in tre matter what
real interest is.
New England wants--indeed If we
may belieSe reports. she is almost
ready 70 fight for-free raw materials
from Canada and a near and ready
market there for her wares. BY the
same token does she not want. nay,
| does she not need, by a cheaper cost
of transportation, to get her raw ma
! terials from the teeming fields, forests
and mines from the south OF her? Does
she not want an easier and reader
market than she can now command
either by rail or sea?
Ten Millions Of dollars will com
plete the canal from North Carolina
to Virginia, already begun. Ten mil
/ lions more will give sea lever canal
of twenty feet depth across the Della
ware Peninsula, and both can be COM
pleted inside of four years. What the
/ canal across New Jersey will cost in
time and money awaist the report Of
the engineers, now In the hands OF
the War Department Mr.. Belmont's
corporation is building the Cape Cod
canal. which is likely 10 be In use
within two years, and if Providence
and Boston can show the need OF an
other canal to connect Narragansett
and Massachusetts Bays. then let their
people get busy.
All Benefits Reciprocal.
All these benefits are reciprocal
and not merely local l can vel be-
lieve that the industries on the Della
ware, the Chesapeake and the North
Carolina Sounds Will not benefit more
In reaching more cheaply the New
England market than New England
Will benefit in obtaining cheaper raw
materials
We are then brothers in a com.
mon cause; and We hope that this
convention of the Old Thirteen will
evoke as deep and earnest a feeling
for the new water transportation in
New England as that which stirs the