The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-26
KAVANAUGH HEADS ASSOCIATION FOR DEEP WATERWAYS Great Project for Improve ment Outlined by Col.
 Roosevelt RESERVOIR SYSTEM
 IS TRUE SOLUTION The Colonel Drops Politics for Day. Will Address Levee Association in Memphis Today = Talks
 Bear Hunting

Little Rock, Ark. September 25.-Wil- liam K Kavanaugh of St. Louis was re- elected president of the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterways association at the an nual election of officers late today. AL though MT Kavanaugh was prevented by illness from attending the convention, no one else was considered for the presi- dency.
 Other officers were elected as follows;
 First Vice President-Colonel F. Con- way. Chicago.
 Second Vice President-Sidney NJ. Nelly. Memphis.
 Third Vice President--Crawford H. FL liss, New Orleans
 Fourth Vice President--Charles Scott, Rosedale, Miss.
 Fifth Vice President-Robert Hollen- berg, Little Rock.
 Treasurer-Edwin S. Munroe, Jol- iett, III.
 secretary-Thomas H. Lovelace. St. Louis
 A board of governors with one member from each state directly interested in the proposed waterway was also elected
 stul INdilupipli ol 1HltdSo. engineer for the Chicago drainage dis trict, was the principal speaker at the afternoon session. He declared the deep waterway project practical from an engi- neering standpoint.
 It was decided to raise a fund by means of s5 subscription from each member to inaugurate a campaign by means of dis +,ri1, ha han efits of deep waterways.
 Roosevelt Outlines Great Project
 A great project for improvement of the inland waters was outlined today gates. He said the national govern ment through a commission should be- gin work taking up as a single project the deepening of some single waterway and then create reservoir systems at tho bends of the waterways with kins dred enterprises of Improvement The now employed in construc- ting the Panama canal, he said, could be utilized He declared himself in favor of government control of the wa terfront terminals He said this would prevent railroad corporations from mo- nopolizing them.
 The speaker was asked to talk along the line of politics, but declined.
 Tn Congress the rivers and harbors bills in the past have so often been tainted with robbery as to make many citizens reluctant to take up such a consistent, we'll defined project as yours" he continued. T believe that such project as this should be han dled by commission, instead of leav- | l. a..t. -4,t s.. terests. I want to see the project con sidered independently as a whole. as we did with the Panama canal It is mere barbarism on our part to make impossible at any time on account of floods and possible at an- other time in the opposite condition. It is our business to create reservoirs at the headways of the Mississippi river and its tributaries
 Could Be Used for Irrigation
 Reservoirs such as these could be used to lengthen the season of navigation and at the same time could be employed for irrigation purposes. Only the federal government can deal with such a prof ect." he continued, 'and the national gov ernment will not take any interest in it unless you make 1t take an interest. speak from experience I hope youi will make up your minds to see thatt the public servants formulate a real policy to have the whole problem treated as one mammoth problem feel like preach ing a sermon on the subject. I have always thought I should have belonged to the garbed ministry instead of the cloth of the statesman, so I could have been a preacher There Is a method of pre- destiny in regulating the episcopacy of waters and keeping off the railroads. If you allow the railroads to get control of the water fronts there is not much use of putting steam packets universally on the rivers. The federal government should control the terminals so the people could have access to them.
 Nathaniel Butler of Chicago univer- sity also spoke. A. Rodenburg, a rep resentative of Illinois, who was sched- uled to make an address, did not reach the city. Resolutions were adopted ex pressing regret on the death of pr. Will liam McGee formerly an official of the bureau of soils, department of agricul- ture.