Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-09
ASSERT THAT THIS CITY
CAN BE MADE GREAT PORT
Fall Campaign Opened With
Addition of Forty-three to
Membership Roll.

dredges of the Atlantic Gulf and Pa
cIfic Company frequently occupied
the entire channel in the river, fore
ing other craft into shallow water.
The matter will be Investigated by
the rivers and harbors committee.
The board voted to accept invita-
tions to visit the home of the Young
Womens Christian Association on Its
dedication and the Newark Technical
School Alumni Associations celebra-
ton of Seth Boyden Day on Novem-
Der II.
The regular business of the session
was dispensed with quickly to give
more time to the speakers on I'm
land Waterways" and the business
of the meeting was wound up with the
announcement of the committee for
the annual dinner and delegates to
three conventions.
The dinner committee was named
as follows: Rudolph H. Conklin, c..
Louis Fitz-Gerald William Bittles, j.
Lewis Hay, Paul E. Heller, George p.
Hoerner William b. Kinney, Gilbert
R. Potts, Henry c, Rommel James t.
Smith, Burnet W. Stratus.
Delegates to attend three conven-
tons were announced by President
Hamburg as follows:
Delegates to the sixth annual con-
vention of the Atlantic Deeper Water
ways Association. to be held at jack
sonville, Fla, November IS to I'll:
Richard G. Jenkinson, John H. East
wood, Peter Campbell, John F. Kehoe,
Calvin Tomkins, George F. Reeve,
Edward Randolph, Charles Bradley,
r. Wayne Parker Dudley Farrand,
Ambrose Tomkins,, C. w. Feigenspan.
Delegates to the national conserva-
ton congress to be held in Washing
ton, d. c., November 1920 James
Crowell, Louis Schlesinger, Thomas
Tonks
Delegates to the sixteenth annual
convention of the American mining
congress to be held in Philadelphia,
october 20-24, Edward Randolph,
James Flockhart, Cyrus o. Baker.
Congressman j. Hampton Moore was
the first of the speakers introduced.
He and Mayor Frederick w. Donnelly,
of Trenton, both officers of the New
Jersey Harbor Commission, described
the proposed inland waterway from
Maine to Florida, at Jacksonville.
Former Dock Commissioner Calvin
Tompkins, of New York, and j. Spen-
Ger Smith, president of the New York
Harbor Commission, and B. F. Cres-
son, jr., an engineer on the commits
sion, were the other speakers of the
evening
The addresses were made for the pur-
pose of acquainting the board men,
bers with the inland waterways that
have been proposed or are under way
and to secure the cooperation of the
board members in completing the
schemes. Eight maps each, Sx10 feet,
were used by the speakers to illustrate
their addresses.
Congressman Moore said in part:
I'VE in the East have been so busy
building up our industries that we have
permitted ourselves to be handicapped
by inferior transportation facilities,
due largely to the fact that we have
not insisted upon having them like
other sections of the country do. This
is especially so with regard to water
way improvements. The old Della
ware and Raritan Canal, which ought
to do for Newark what the Erie Canal
did for New York, Is substantially
restricted to the limitations prevail
ing when it was completed in 1884, and
the condition today is worse. The
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal be-
tween the Delaware and Chesapeake
bays Is no better than 1t was in 1929.
Boston, for instance, now realizes
that lack of adequate port facilities
and want of competitive transporta-
ton have been injurious. She is
spending 100000 of the States
money improving the harbor. She
wants forty feet to compete with New
York. If New York Is to have COM
petition, what is the position Of New
ark? Newark, carried to the bay
would be a seaport with advantages
accruing from a completed coast line
of inland waterways such as few
other cities could boast. Give us the
project up and down the coast that
passes the Newark bay front, and
there is no method of estimating the
volume of commerce that will bea1
the Newark brand.
I'VE are pressing this project not
because it would be of advantage to
Newark alone. but because the Whoie
coast demands 1t. We have brought
1t up from below Cape Hatteras TO the
head of Chesapeake Bay and 1t Is
coming south through Cape Cod. II
means modern facilities, cheaper
freight. a larger business and cheap
ening of the cost of living.
THE canal which runs through
Newark and Jersey City, and which
once did a big business in frelgh'
TRANSFORMATION, since it has been &C
ouired by a railroad corporation is II
such condition that it cannot be USED
When it was designed to take the
model of the Half Moon through il
to Philadelphia it was found 1mpos-
sible to do so.
I'VE have deepened the Delaware
River from Philadelphia to trenton
so that the largest steamship thai
ever sailed that far went up there
the other day, making Trenton l6'
miles from the seaport"
Congressman Moore went on tc
show that Texas and the Western and
Southern States generally are get
ting large sums of government money
which pays salaries and helps loca
| Industries. without doing much fol
waterways, while the Atlantic Coast
States get nothing, Or next to 1t, fol
real purposes.
Mayor Frederick w. Donnelly, Of
Trenton, an acknowledged authorit,
| on inland waterways as they appl!
! to New Jersey, made a strong speech
He said:
'The greatest question before tbs
people today-greater than the cur
rency question or the tariff question
| is the transportation question, ant
7 am not going to take up your tim
telling you what you all know-hov
| the institution of this inland water
| way is going to reduce costs of living
and of manufacture by cheapenin,
the cost of transportation. / thinl
that we ought to have canal across
New Jersey with a twenty-five-foo
depth and at sea level At any rate
the twelve-foot-level canal, with it
locks. will do for the purpose of thi
great project.
! II hope l am not saving too mucl