The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-19
MrLL,oNs ron WATERWAYS.


which $ic,5oo,o00 worth of property
Was destroyed. including the value OF
ships and cargoes. and 1900 lives we're
lost In the last thirty years there
has been a great decrease in American
whipping employed in the domestic or
yearly occurrence, and from Cape COD
10 Cape Canavcral the shores have been
strewn with the wrecks OF vessels
loaded with the commerce of this coun-
try. The money lost in the last ten
years by the destruction of our chips
would be sufficient TO build a ship canal
: across the State of New Jersey from
tine port CT New York to the Delaware
River. Multiplied By two there would
be money enough to build barge canal
from Boston TO Beaufort Inlet, south
Of HRtteras. in North Carolina, dis
tance OF 500 miles, and with the addi-
tion OF s2o,000,o0o q serviceabIe water
way could be completed along tho
whole coast from New England to tho
Eouthermost key of Florida. With $780,
but If the cost should he four or five
times that sum 1t would be worth do
inR.
The Panama Canal will cost the
United States $500, 900 600 before It Is
ready for service, and an immense sum
every year for its upkeep. It viii have
10 be provided with ample military de-
lenses, a large contingent of salaried
officers OF the Government will be re-
quired for its administration. and 1t
will be used for the beneht OF the com
mcrce of the world as well as for the
benefit of the commerce of this coun
try. II will be worth all II cost
and VIC would not withhold any ap.
preparations necessary for it's compile
ton; but there is an immense domes-
tic commerce that should be conserved
and that can be conserved by the com
piction of IAN inland waterway from
New England to the Gulf of Mexico
even more necessary to the commerce
OF the country than the building OF
tho Canal which is to unite the two
promotion of which the Atlantic Deem
er Waterways Association was formed
and in which it has been engaged for
four or five years, and for which the
Convention now in session in Richmond
is planning.
At the meeting OF the Convention
yesterday, the Hon. j. Hampden Moore
covered the subject in his moving adj
dress in such way as to remove the
scales from the eyes of the blind and 10
encourage the hope that Congress will
determine upon. the building or this
great Waterway "A little digging here
and there, broad and deanite plan
approved by the engineers of the Gov
eminent, and ample appropriations by
Congress would be of the largest pos
sible benefit TO the country Three
special boards OF engineers acting un-
der authority OF Congress have com
pleted their surveys of this mira
coastal project and plans and esu-
mates based upon these surveys will
be submitted 10 Congress at its next
""'ihs 10 me abundant la
pofs OF Mi, Moore and Mr. Small and
'heir associates the work was never
:" peter cohd'tion ana the work that
mas peeh already done in patches has
proved mat although The project is a
most ambitious one 1t is in no sense
an Impossible one, bur on the contrary,
is readily within the reach of our Ma
nohai resources
1t is proposed that wherever It Is
desirable existing canals shall be used,
with the result mat the ultimate cost
Of the project would to this extent be
reduced. For example, the Delaware
and Raritan Canal. which connects the
city of New York, the greatest Of our
American cities. with Philadelphia, the
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