The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-19
MAYOR GAYNOR'S PLAN
10 ABOLISH TRUSTS
w 70 Repeal Law Allowing Holding Companies.
New York Dock Commissioner Saws Locahtie;
MUST AID Waterways Plan Rchmond's
Lack of Terminal Facilities.

Sc T. bartol. president of the
fhiiaueiphia Bourse, and first presi-
Gent OF the National Rivers and Har-
bors Congress, presided at the after
noon session OF the Atlantic Deanar
Waterways Association. He had a
good word for the rivers and harbors
BODY. saying that special projects, such
as the intracoastal plan, depend for
success on the general propaganda.
inland waterways. he asserted. will
amount to nothing unless localities
provide terminal facilities He did
not mean 10 be personal. but he had
noted that R'chmond, for example. has
no terminals visible TO the naked eye
nowhere for an approaching vesse,
to discharge its wares.
Referring to the Chesapeake Raw
and the James. Mr.. Bartol said that
the interest OF Virginia in the inland
waterways plan was probably greater
than that OF any other State with
cheapest coal, with the best climate.
with fertile soil. given cheap trans
portation, 1t would take a position
which could be assumed by no other
State
Is n Southcrncr
J. d. Riddick. Mayor of Norfolk, was
the next speaker. Ills subject was
supposed to be Norfolk as a Water
way Centre" He said that every dron
OF his blood was Southern. and that
II II were not he would tear It out.
inland waterways are necessary for
the proper interchange of the products
OF New England and of the South. ac-
cording to Mayor James II. Preston. of
Baltimore. The manufacturers must
come South for their staples. and this
section must supply that part OF the
country with foodstufs CarriaR. dou
DleS ~
creases the price of cotton. AS a re-
suit many plants come to the South.
HIS most special Interest was the Wild
ening and deepening of the canal which
exists between the Delaware and the
Chesapeake Bays. so as to carry the
wheat and the coal of the nation.
New Jerseys Work
Mayor Frederick w. Donnelly of
Trenton, traced the success of the local
movement in his State. His own CITY
VIII build municipal terminals The
Legislature has created shin canal
commission and has appropriated $500.
| 200 for the purchase Of rights of way
1t is now waiting for the engineers 10
complete the intracoastal plans. so that
the route to be bought may be deter
mined
Terminals, he said. should be under
State Jurisdiction, perhaps to be leased
stricttons. The. railways he argued
should not be hampcred by unjust con :.
troll. but should be handled in such a
way rs to produce the best possible
results.
William J. Gaynor. Mayor of New
York. was the next speaker. In Mr..
Barton's introduction he spoke OF New
York rs tho worl's third largest city.
Mayor Gaynor said that New York is
the largest municipality under one gov
eminent. London being made up OF va
! rious boroughs and counties, the city
Itself having n small population. gov
erned by "a Lord Mayor with less to
do than the poundmaster of Richmond.
u find the affairs Of New York quite
large" he said, large enough without
some people conspirng to make them
4 harder. On the train on my way hero
] had n problem confronting ME. to
Five equal pay to women teachers 70,
equal work,
II need not enter into "details of tho
inside waterway along the Atlantic
coast which You advocate. 1t is per-
tectly plain. Any ono VIII, Will take
the map can see that. beginning in Bos.