The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-31
FROM RICHMOND no THE SEA.

! with excellent railway transportation
/ facilities. possesses advantages over Il
/ city Will poor railway facilities. y
| city having good transportation facil-
| tiles by both land and water is iii
position TO attract large enterprises;
that could not be attracted If either
/ the one or the other Of these means Of
communication were lacking. These
propositions arc commonplace. and Will
not be denied by any one.
Richmond has both water ana rail
| way lines. hut neither has been de-
veloped to its ful capacity or any
thing like its full capacity There is
the projected railway to the Northern
/ Neck. territory containing more than
4 thousand square miles Of the most
( fertile country in Virginia and seventy
thousand people. the most OF whom
arc native NiTginians, practically as
I far away from Richmond az if the
Northern Neck were thousand miles
distant from rs, and yet VIC have been
working for weeks and months 10 i'm
press The progressive and cnterprsinS
pcopc of this town with the import
aimee q adding this territory and it's
people 10 the trading district Of Rich
Mond. There is the James River which
affords Richmond the opportunity for
water commerce with the world. an
! opportunity possessed by few otncr
towns in this country. and the River
runs Is TO the sea without anything
like easy and needed Improvement Why
not make the most Of it? Whr not
straghten out its curves? Why not
Keep IT from doubling back on Itself
in It's course? II can he done, but ii
| vii! cost money TO do it.
The cut at Dutch Cap has greatly
! facilitated commerce and materially
reduced Tie DANCE, and loss OF freshets
al Richmond By afording the water ali
easier outlet 10 the sea than there
twas before Dutch Gap was opened
/ Iherc are two other curves III the
River that ought TO he treated in the
same wly. II these two bends We're
! cut out. from ten to twenty miles
| would be saved in the distance from
| tichmcnd TO the ocean and the dan
/ ser Of frcshcts 1T Richmond would be
practically removed forever. In addi-
! ton. such Improvement OF the nav
! ication OH tic James would afford
| Richmond a reduction Of about one
I! dollar the ton on heavy merchandise
| ana corresponding reductions on other
classes Of freight to and from New
England and other atlantic ports Not
! only would there be a natural and
certain reduction in the Cost of carry
| ing goods. but there would also be a
] reduction of cost in handling goods
! For example. With these twists in the
! course Of the River Strengthened ont
| one tug could readily haul a string
| Of barges whereas, owing TO the sharp
bends III the River. ii is now difficult
| for a tug 10 tow even one barge
/. It would be practicable to cut out
| the bends in the River at moderate
| cost to the Government thus improv-
1 ing our great waterway not only for
commercial purposes in which the
Government would share in the way of
iHSi SaSeu REVENUES. out also III the
Improvement Of the strategic Import
ance OF the River from a military
I, point Of View. Tile cuts could be
made easily by pump drcdges as the
material to be removed consists large
~, II not altogether OF sand ana mud.
which shrown upon the low ana
swamp lands along the River would
raise tlen above the freshet line. and
render them open TO settlement and
cultivation.
| The railroads at Richmond would
not object 10 such Improvement OF tho
James RiVer as We have suggested
Il ;hat is TO say, tie railroads at New
1 York. Boston philadelphia and a.
other large commercial cities do not
r1jert 10 water competition. i, being
rec"sn!2cd that the larger the volume
foi if~is,hts carried BY tlie water lines
% Q community the greater the ben
Gifts % the railroads serving such COM
munity Tie state OF Ncw s. or" has
X appropriated and is cxpcnding one
hundred million dollars for the Inn
i.PFpNtiicHi oi inc CaHdi system IN that
state now raraleled by four railroad
lines or more.
Richmond is no, doing tho most or
the best with the natural advantage il
, tbs IN Inc James River II the James
River were IL Atlanta what time the
/, cnierprslng peoplc Of that tom would
!. have ~ making it really the biggest
-. iii.in9 in tile state OF Gcorgy:"
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GOOD FOX koIILsAAT.
! II III kohlsaat publisher Of the Chi.
cage Record Herald. told the State
6 Senatc Investigating Committee a,
Springfield on Wednesday that lie knew
100000 had been used TO procure the
Z election Of William l1orimcr 10 tn,
( United states Senate from Illinois; bu
I HE drcIircd To answer anv OF ,hc ,Ics