Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-01-25
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appropriations are expended in that
section, while the East goes a-begging
One-half. said Mr.. Moore, of the Con-
gressional appropriations go to the
Middle and Western states.
And with the consequent improve
menr of the waterways of the great
Mississippi valley, the industries of
the East are becoming overshadowed,
and the peculiar fame which has been
attached to certain cities by reason
of heading their particular fields of
industry is slowly slipping away. BoS-
ton is no more the leader in the shoe
industry; ST. Louis, with its many
railroad trunk lines and with it's
water transportation facilities, has
usurped that proud title; and why ?
1t is because Boston is limited in it's
transportation facilities whereas st.
Louis is not. Boston has but one or
two trunk lines of railroads; st. Louis
has seven. Boston's water tranSpor-
tation must be carried on past Cape
Cod, where a thousand ships have
found their graves in the past twenty
five years, and with such great dan
ger in transportation via water, in
surance rates are very high, and ship
ping rates via water are raised above
what they usually are when water
transportation is used If Congress
had appropriated money TO cut thro-
ugh Cape Cod, the danger would have
been eliminated, and access to the
port of Boston made safe, and Boston
would still be in the lead.
The great Importance of navigable
waterways is but beginning to be real
lied. 1t is now seen that railroads
have a limited carrying capacity, and
that in the times of great plenty they
are inadequate to satisfy the needs or
respond to the demands for car=
Hence the need for water transporta-
ton, and for safe water transporta-
tion, so that danger from. storm and
hurricane may be eliminated, and
hence the agitation for water trans
portation the length of our Atlantic
seaboard which may be out of the
reach of the destructive arm of the
ocean.
The appropriations for the Missis-
sippi river and it's tributaries are
greater than are allowed for develop
ing the waterways of the East In
1907, the commerce on the Mississippi
amounted to 100000 tons; the same
year on the Delaware river, the COM
merce amounted to 27,000,000 tons.
But we have made a beginning in
deepening the Delaware and a ten
million dollar appropriation has been
secured to dredge out a 35 foot chan
mel; and since that announcement was
made, four new steamship lines have
signified their intention to make Phil
adelphia one of their ports, which
formerly never entered the river.
Congressman Browning was intro
duced as the last speaker, and as he
was anxious to catch the last train
out of Woodbury. had only time to an
nounce that he had just received a
phone message from Assistant-secre-
tary of the Treasury Bailey, that the
Best-Green site, as recommended by
the Board of Trade as the location
for the post office, had been selected;
and that recommendation would be
made to Congress that an appropria-
tion be made for dredging the creek,
as the preliminary survey had been
very satisfactory.
The guests were: Hon. Samuel H.
Ladd, Joseph n. Coombs, Anthony w.
Durell, Louis n Albright, Edmund H.
Carpenter, j. Frank Wilson, Charles
w. Wilkins, Louis K. Wilkins, VIM.
Goldy, Geo. H. Croft, Walter Budd,
Simon NJ. Shook, John Mayhem, Jas.
A. Hutchinson, Albert Card, John G.
Whitall, Joseph R. Newton, Frank
K. Miller, Benjamin w. Cloud, Hon.
G. W. F. Gaunt, Hon. James Laf-
ferty. James w. Baird, Samuel E..
Wilmer, Adon W. Cattell, F. M. Bail
ey, Prof. H. C. Dixon, Admiral Sam
uel P. Comfy, Wilson T. Jones, Hon.
VIM. j. Browning, Hon. J. Hampton
Moore, Warner w. Cooper, Major D.
T. Mathers, William H. Duffield, Hon
John Boyd Avis, William H. Albright,
VIM. NJ. Carter, James d. Carpenter
DR.. Duncan Campbell, Ellison H
Davis, Francis b. Davis, Thomas S.
Davis. Charles NJ. Garrett, D.F. Hen
erickson, W. G.. Jones, Edward G.
Leels, w. H. Livermore, John H
Leppee, Frank D. Pedrick, George E
Pierson, VIM. c. Pancoast, Preston
r. Rice, Owen Carter, William s.
Conner, George B. Hurff, Edward L..
Sturgess, Walton H. Chew, james
Stretch, Hon. Franklin Moore, Chas
E. Carpenter, NJ. C. Hutchinson, Geo
S. McCarty, Joseph F. Morgan, Jos.
3. Best, DR.. H. H. Clark, Samue
r. Burkett, DR.. G.. j Palen, Johf
Rachor, C. Walter Shivers, Clifford
n. Shivers, Arthur Starr, Austin H
swackhamer, Ernest A. Stoerrle
warner Underwood, j. Maurice vii
kins. Hon. David o. Watkins, Johr
s. Twells, Robert G. Cunningham
Thos. Hutchinson, John E. Estell
Z Oscar Allies, DR.. j.. Harris Under
wood, DR.. Amos 2. Underwood, Gar
ence H Batten, VIM. e. Keat.
IA county association OF the Z. =
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