New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-06
MAN WHO tanned NILE
MAY END FLOOD PERIL
Palestine Expert Recommends
That AsSuan Dam Engineer
Be Consulted.
SECRETARY LANE IN LINE
Will Urge Newlands Bill or Sim
liar Measure-Fifty Towns
or More Inundated,
Says Bicknell.

/ Washington. April 5.-Franklin k Lane
Secretary of the Interior. will recommend
! TO President Wilson, and through him 10
Congress- that control of food waters be
| dealt with i'm a comprehensive way by
the national government. He reached
| this decision after a conference with Or.
! Aaron Aaronsohn who has been engaged
in reclamation and irrigation work IN
! Palestine.
III. Aaronsohn recommended that Sir
William Willcocks. the British engineer
who built the Assuan dam. be consulted
| about the control Of the waters of the
Ohio and Mississippi.
In handling the situation" said Secre-
tary Lane. 81 believe we well might get
the benefit of the experience Of men of
other countries VINO have dealt largely
and competently with similar projects.
shall urge upon the President the enact
ment of the NcwlaIds bill. or some SIM
lar measure making provision for drain
age. forestation. reclamation. power and
| irrigation projects on comprehensive
scale"
! The total contributions received by the
| Red Cross for the floods fund amounted
! to Sl,2sl.752 to-day.
Ernest =. Bicknell. Red Cross director.
| reports the flood situation very serious In
Indiana. He says twenty places in that
state are inundated. as well as thirty
cities and towns I'm Ohio and many IN
West Virginia, Kentucky and Iliirois.
Major Normoyle has dispatched three
carloads OF foodstuffs 10 Hamilton, ohio.
10 relieve twelve thousand destitute per
sons. He found five hundred families
homeless there. To relieve their distress
and furnish accommodations FOR twelve
hundred persons sleeping on damp floors
he has ordered 800 cots ana 800 blankets.
Regardless of existing differences on the
Panama problem, the President of Co
lombia sent a message of sympathy for
the flood sufferers.
Il offer to the American government
and people says the Colombian Presi-
dent. the attest Of the Colombian gov
ernments and peoples sorrow for the
great and deporablc disasters that have
taken place in the territory OF several
states Of the American Union"
To-days food bulletin says 1t is not be-
lievcd that a falling river at Cairo Is set
assured The Mississippi is rising above
= AFRO ana continues 10 IlS' o'AN''li III ~
and New Orleans. The Cumberland and
the Wabash are falling.
Chicago. April The Chicago Associa-
ton Of Commerce to-day began active
preparations to relieve Southern Illinois
food victims. Five thousand dollars has
been contributed, and provisions and sup
plies will be shipped 10 Cairo ana Shaw
reetown as soon as possible Captain
Henderson Of the United States lifesaN-
ing station. left here to-day fot Cairo
with three boats and twenty men 10 as
sist IN relief work.
Austin. Tex. April J.-GoveInor -. T..
Colquitt received contribution Of 81 ~
to-day from 10J prisoners IN the state
penitentiary at Huntsville. to be sent TO
the food sufferers in Ohio aud Indiana.
The warden OF the penitentaTy knew
nothing Of the collection until 10 was
turned over 10 him.
San Francisco. April San Francisco
food relief fund reached $1,000 to-day.