The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-20
MORNING SESSION
Of MUCH INTEREST
CATTEJL SAYS COUNTRY SUI.
F'ERS FROM UNDER CON
SUMPTION. NOT OVER
PRODUCTION.

Hon. William h Head. who repre-
sents the State OF Delaware in the
national House of Representatives. was
introduced by President Moore as the
presiding officer Of yesterday morn
ing's session Of the Atlantic Deeper
Waterways Convention in the I'M
avoidable absence of Congressman
Covington. OF Maryland.
Rev. George w Mcdaniel. pastor
of the First Baptist church. offered
the Invocation, after which Mr.. Nj X
King, OF Virginia. president of the
Lake Drummond Canal Company. de-
livered an interesting address on the
inland waterway situation in Virginia
and North Carolina. In closing he
illustrated the i'll effect of railroad
control OF water facilities by reciung
the following incident;
During the past year a company
employed sail vessels to carry pack
age freight from Norfolk to Sound
towns having railroad terminals. Some
of the cargoes included freight for
inferior towns. and the vessels car
ried it 10 the railroad wharves for
forwarding. preparing the roads local
charges TO destination. Very shortly
this was met by the deterrent wharf
age charge. not unreasonable In it
self. but declared by the State to
be discriminatory under the circum-
stances existing, Then 1t was de-
inanded that the inland shipments
should not be made locally but under
Joint through rates, This would have
brought the vessels of the company
under the control of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. as was in
tended. with no protection against
NJ
was declined. Whereupon the roads
applied
The good old rule. the simple plan
That they should take who have the
power
And they should keep who can"
and simply said your vessels cannot
come to our wharves.
Sooner or later this feature of
waterway development Will press for
attention. Who IL to undertake it?
The water towns Will be content with
their advantages and the State COM
missions have troubles with those
under their control without seeking
those that are not so.
Ought not this and similar asso-
ss.latians that are seeking ta create
the conditions out of which this
problem arises also agitate for its
solution
Catteli Makes Fine Speech.
Mr.. f. j. Cattell, statistician of the
city of Philadelphia, was called on
for a speech TO take the place OF
Mayor Reyburn. OF Philadelphia, who
was unable to attend the convention.
Mr. CatteI made one of the several
really brilliant speeches of the con-
vention He told how Philadelphia
had appropriated Twenty-Five millions
of dollars for the Improvement OF her
harhor and that in short time at
the mouth of the Schuylkill she would
have dock with twenty-five hum
dred feet frontage. capable of hold
ing two Olympics and a five hundred
foot boat beside, He made the re-
markable declaration that on the
Schuylkill alone the city of Phila-
tfelphia has a water frontage of % i-2
miles, which would. after many years
OF neglect, now be developed. For
two and half miles this river will
have a depth of 20 1-2 feet. He said
that while the city of Wichita was
being advertised SO greatly some years
ago for making its magnificent pro-
gress from one thousand to twenty
five thousand in a brief period Phila-
delphia, which had been asleep, had
put on 100000 people ana built TO
accommodate them. His city had
$4,000 dwellings,. ne said. and since
the first of January last there had
been erected over nine thousand brick
or zone homes, all with modern
sanitary conveniences.
Under Consumption.
Mr.. Catteil charged that the trouble
with the country at large was not
over-production but under consump-
ton. 1t Is crime against God and
nature. he declared. that high cost