The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-12
DEEP WATERWAYS
E. H. Warner Wants New
 England to Get Busy
CHarrford Courant.l

 tative of the Hartford Business Men s Association to attend the sessions ot the National Rivers and Harbors Con- greSs. MT. Warner was chairman or the state rivers and harbors commis- sion and a vice president in the At lantic Deeper Waterways Association. Being intimately connected with the activities for waterway improvements in state and country, what MT. War her says has the weight of respons1- bility. Tn ah ,interview yesterday afternoon, he described the great growth of enthusiasm in the West. He said:
 "A great battle is facing us in New England in the next ten years. I wish I could take every man to such a meeting as we had at Washington, to show him what the rest of the country is doing and what we are not doing. You realize that we. do not raise enough of anything or mine thing to use for Ourselves.'
 This national congress. with every state in the Union that has water ways having representation, is stimu- waterway project. It has just closed its eighth convention. It was in ses- sion Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of last week. The congress had 1000 attendants. That New England shares in the awakening for waterway inn pTONGIlGulS WdS S1OWu Dy Il0 dtlOlO- ance of 100 members of the Real Els tate Exchange of Boston. Connecti- cut had larger delegation than at any previous congress, which MT. War ner reckons to be a sign of greater 1n- terest which Connecticut must have to develop her channels.
 For the State Business Mems Asso- citation the delegates were Secretary F. s. Valentine of Derby. S. E. Vim cent of Bridgeport and R. J. Patrick of Derby. The State Board of Trade was represented by Frank V. Chap pell of New London, a member of the state commission. Oliver ,Gildersleeve state commission, was the governors s appointee to represent the state off, ciaIly, and he was appointed vice. president of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress for the ensuing year. Richard T. Crane and R. w. Miller attended for the Bridgeport Board of Trade.
 Despite this unusual Connecticut delegation MT. Warner with emphasis adds that the state must progress The men in Washington, Oregon and Cali fornia are enthusiastic. He ~contin- ued:
 'sThey have taken away from us our director, John A. Fox of the Ma tional Rivers and Harbers Congress, and they have made him director of the San Diego Exposition to be open ed in 1915. They have raised $10,- 000, ,000 to support this exposition, and they have raised this sum for the ially in San Diego. MT. Fox will come to Connecticut to inspect pros pective exhibits at that exposition. The congress gave him silver loving cup. His resignation will take effect Jan uary l. Secretary and Treasurer J. B. 4~ h0 come general manager of the Port of Para Company, located at Rotterdam in Holland The Para River in Bra gil will have a fleet that will take more of the trade away from the Uni, ted States. South America offers op- realize. R. W. Miller of Bridgeport succeeds Herbert C. Warren as direc- tor of the North Atlantic seaboard di- vision. I spoke for the state of Con- necticut at the congress. MT. Vim cent represented the, state on resolu- tions.''
 MT. Warner said that the members of the real estate exchange of Boston, 100 strong, were interested in the up- building of the port of Boston, and the general prosperity of New Eng land, The morning session on We'd nesday was opened Dy the President, Joseph E. Randall Secretary Henry ll. gave the opening address. During the congress speeches were made by Edgar C.. Ellis of Kansas City, Mo; J. Hampcon Moore of Philadelphia, who was president of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association; Sec retary Walter L. Fisher of the de partment of the interior; General Will liam H. Bixby, chief of the United States army engineers; August Bel mont of New York, president of the Cape Cod Canal; Mayor William J. Gaynor of New York and Governor Herbert S. Hadley of Missouri
 Senator Francis G. Newlands of Ne vada criticised both branches of Con- gress for laxity in properly developing the waterways of the country. Gen. eral Bixby said that in going over the general conditions there were a few publications of some note. Among these is '"The Port of Hamburg" by Edwin J. Clapp, MT. Warner in his narration of events lifted copy of this book from the table. Mir. War ner says the volume is the greatest thing ever gotten out on waterways. The Hamburg line has more tonnage than all the commercial steamship lines of the United States. And the company has just contracted for another boat to be over 1000 feet long,
 General Bixby referred to the report of the Connecticut rivers and harbors commission to the last General As sembly as being one of the greatest additions to the library on this mat ter. One copy has been ordered for each, of the engineers in the war de- partment at Washington. In a per sonal interview with MT. Warner, Gen. eral Bixby said that the development of the port of New London would be a great factor in determining the pres-i .tige of New England. It was at this point that MT. Warner spoke of the battle ahead for this section of the country. He spoke of the metal pro- ducts which originate not in New England but in the Lake Superior re- zion, Alabama and West Virginia. MT. Warner continued:
 "At the same time,s the fuel we have to burn has to be transported hun dreds of miles to us. The Boston Chamber of Commerce showed in a re- cent report, after a thorough investi- gation of the coal industry that New England paid heavy sum for the transportation of it's coal. These are some of the factors we are up against in drawing our materials here. Our products are bound to increase in a certain ratio with the increase of pop ulation. But our increase is nothing compared with that of the Middle States and the South, as they are pro- ducing to-day. For instance, in De- troit alone, the value of the produc- tions of the manufacturing industries bv the census of 1900 was S101 000 OO0