The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-16
IS
COMING TO THE
FRONT AGAIN
INTEREST is REVIVlNG IN THE
WATERWAY MOVEMENT-MRS
MAUDE WOOD HENRY is HERE
TO CONFER WITH CITIZENS.

Pensacola Is coming TO the front
again on the waterway movement,
At the invitation of some of the
leading business men here who were
in attendance at the recent annual
conventio nof the Mississippi to Allan
tic Inland Waterway Association held
in Montgomery. Mrs. Maude Wood
Henry, field secretary of this organiZa-
ton, is here to urge the citizens to
keep on in the work of which they
took hold in liberal moral and financial
support. following the convention of
last November held in the San Carlos
auditorium.
Immediately succeeding the silver
service celebration, a committee of
prominent men in Pensacola will go
out with Mrs. Henry to raise funds
in furtherance of the splendid cam
paign being waged in the interest of
cheap water transportation for the
gulf states.
John E. StilIman. Alba H. Warren of
the Pensacola Electric Company, and
others from this city were represented
at the Montgomery convention as off,
GERS of the Mississippi to Atlantic
Inland Waterway Association and
pledged United States Senator Fletch-
er, its president, that Pensacola would
hold up her end Of the work again this
year.
Montgomery Is Alive.
Montgomery has just raised a fund
toward the campaign, the Business
Mems League assisting Mrs. Henry
there. The Coosa- Alabama rivers, with
billions of dollars of mineral, timber
and agricultural wealth and 100000
horsepower waiting to be harnessed,
form a valuable asset in Alabama and
the people of Montgomery are wide
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Improvement and the advantages to be
gained through an exit to the gulf
and connection with the entire gulf
and Atlantic states and Mississippi
valley by means of the proposed net
work of waterways east Of the Rocky
Not only Montgomery. but all the
larger towns up the Coosa- Alabama
rivers to Rome, Georgia, will be en-
listed in the waterway work this win
ter. A committee from Montgomery
proposes to call upon these towns with
Mrs. Henry and organize them as a
part of the work of the waterway as
ISOLATION which embraces Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and
Florida.
To Visit New Orleans.
New Orleans has agreed to help
Also" said Mrs. Henry, and I shall
visit there this winter. Three of the
big inland water projects meet in New
Orleans Mr. John NJ. Parker, whom
Senator Fletcher succeeded as presi-
dent of the Southern Commercial
Congress, pledged his assistance in
organizing that city as a part of our
work. which has already been en-
dorsed by the Cotton Exchange and
business organizations.
1T is rather significant that the
head Of Georgia railroad attended
our recent Montgomery convention to
invite US to meet in Albany, Ga. next
year. l have secured several appro-
priations from southern railroads to-
ward our waterway campaign.
Senator Fletcher Alert
Senator Fletcher who is standing
| by our guns in Washington, is alert
and active in attendance upon the en-
gineers meetings and is doing fine
| work for not only Florida but the
| whole south. He considers this a most
! critical period in our efforts for a
canal along the gulf, as the engineers
| reports are piling in to Washington,
the result of two years surveys. The
barge canal across the peninsula of
| Florida had its final hearing a few
| weeks ago in Jacksonville and while
| the report goes to Washington be-
| fore being made public, we are ex-
pecting favorable action.
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great strides and the entire route from
| the Apalachicola river to the Missis-
| sippi, with the exception of a small
| link now being re-surveyed, has been
| favorably reported by the special board
of engineers in charge of the different
| divisions.
Senator Fletcher says 1t would be
| most disastrous to cease our efforts
now that success is within reach. An
| altogether pull OH the part of the gulf
| states. with the tenacity necessary to
| the accomplishment of any great pur-
pose. will give to this entire section
Of the south what it needs more than
any other one thing. cheaper, more
! and competitive transporta ton.
Headquarters in Pensacola.
| Now that our secretary. Mr.. Lee
! land J. Henderson, is coming here as
! secretary of the Commercial Asso-
citation. the headquarters of the Mis-
! sissippi to Atlantic Waterway Associa =
| ton will be transferred to Pensacola
and we earnestly hope that this city
will present a solid front in the in
| terests of waterway development and
| back Senator Fletcher Mr.. Henderson
are giving time. thought and money to
| the work"
| Mrs. Henry is at the San Carlos
: hotel. She is we'll known to Pensacol
| through ten years of industrial and
! immigration work for the L. & n
railroad, which produced great results
| for the south. She is the only woman
in the waterway field. and is ranking