The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-20
Or manufacturing and transportation

for manufacturing and transportation
purposes?
with these facts considered. 1T must
be admitted that Richmond is the nat
ural gateway to the South.
VIII Have Ocean Liners
Our present water approaches are
good. and are susceptible of great i'm
provement. We now have a depth of
sixteen feet from our city wharves to
the sea: twenty five and a half feet
is promised by the general government,
ana as soon as we can secure the use
or one OF those great Panama dredg-
Ing machines, we expect thirty Ave
feet These improvements viii enable
ocean liners TO enter the James. and
then there VIII be nothing to prevent
Richmond's becoming the great fresh
water inland port OF America, as liam
burg is of Europe
Hamburg is ninety three miles in
land; with Strengthened river. Rich
mond VIII be about the same distance
from the sea. We now have one cut
Dutch Gap--mnde with pick and
shovel. largely under the supervision
'of General Butler during the war
This cut. although only 200 feet in
length saves seven miles travel A
Few more such changes VIII stin fur
Their the distance about twenty Ave
miles. When this shall have been ac-
complished, our city will make ample
provision for the accommodation OF
transatlantic Liners. Our wharves on
this side of the river are now being
extended and improved, and on the
south side very large basin or dock
can easily be provided. according to
plans already carefully worked out,
which Include the most up-to-da,e ter
minal facilities and railroad connec-
TONS to be found any.ybera
Bring Country Toga her
After reviewing the possibilities OF
the city. Mr. Freeman expressed the
opinion that: Not since the Fourth of
July, l77s. has anything been attempt
ed in this country that Will contribute
more towards bringing together. in
brotherly love. the people Of the North
ana OF the South. than the opening Of
this safe inland waterway"
Briet addresses at the openinp of
the night session were made By Frank
H. Howe. Speaker of the House of Ran.
resentatives OF Vermont and Il. Homer
skinner member of the Canal Com
mission OF Massachusetts, The latter
said that other States copy after Mas
sachusetts, an instance being in the
matter of free school books. which he
said his State has had for forty years
rms morning the delegates who have
49, iSiN ihc CITY "iI4 DOdru the steamer
Pocahontes. OF the Old Dominion Line,
Tor trip down the James to Old Point
Comfort. including a stop of an hour
and half at old jamestown Island.
Inc boat leaves the wharf at $3.50, and
street cars VIII connect with it run
ming from all the principal hotels.
Those who viii return home by boat
VIII catch New York. Philadelphia and
Washington steamers at Old point to-
night, The Alabama will not leave
that place until midnight, on her re-
turn 70 Philadelphia. Others who go
home by train from Richmond will be
brought up TO this city this evening by
special train. leaving Old Point at 6
o'clock. and arriving here at S.
Luncheon Will be served on the Poea-
honias by the Richmond committee
The women OF the party were enter
tanned at the Country Club yesterday
afternoon. being conveyed there on
special cars. The feminine part OF the
convention this year has numbered $50,
adding great deal 10 the pleasure of
the occasion.
On all hands are heard expressions
TO the effect that the Richmond conven-
ton has been the most successful. from
every standpoint, in the history OF the
Atlantic Deeper Waterways Associa-
ton,