The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-10-25
INLAND Waterway LEAGUE.

Bayou Lafourehe Route Recommend
ed as Section Of IntercoastaI Ca
unsuccessful Convention at
Orange.
By Walter Lemann.
The ninth annual convention OF the
Interstate Inland Waterway League
held at Orange, Texas, Friday and
Saturday, Oct. II and Is, was the
most enthusiastic meeting of the
league since it's organization. Over
| two hundred and fifty delegates
from Texas and Louisiana We're pres
emit to participate in the deliberations
of the convention, not counting the
delegates from Orange, of whom
| there was a large number in attend
ance at all the sessions. The con-
vention opened Friday morning with
| an address of welcome on behalf of
the city of Orange, Which was re-
sponded to by Hon. John Marks of
| Assumption.
Notable addresses were made by
| country which will be linked togeth-
er by a great waterway when the in
| land coastal canal will be completed
| Especially noteworthy was the adj
dress of Congressman Henry of
| Waco, Texas, who looked upon the
work which the league has in charge
as second in Importance to phe
Panama Canal. Starting from the
| Rio Grande on the west, a line OF
waterway will furnish through trans
| portation to the Mississippi on the
east, thus putting in close touch the
| two great States Texas and Louisi-
| ana, besides opening up a large ter
ritory which has been undeveloped
on account of the want of transport
tation facilities.
The entire Lafourche country, and
Donaldsonvflle in particular, is vital
ly interested in the great work which
| this league is vigorously prosecuting
| to completion. The convention IMAM
imously adopted among other reso-
| lutions one recommending the water
route from Morgan City to the La
| fourche, via Gancienne canal, as a
part Of the intercoastal canal. The
/ Immediate availability Of this route,
coupled with the fact that it is the
/ shortest route to the Mississippi
river and maintainable at but little
cost, was pointed out by the several
| delegates representing this section.
/ Much tonnage is expected to pass
through the inland waterway when
l nj h
ton but that with the route open
through Bayou Lafourche to the Mis-
sissippi river, the great bulk of the
trade will pass this way. A number
of prominent. delegates from Texas ex-
pressed themselves strongly in favor
of the route via Bayou Lafourche and
Donaldsonville.
On Friday night the good people
of Orange entertained the delegates
with a smoker and dance at the
/ Elks' Home, and on Saturday after
noon the delegates were taken for
a ride down the Sabine river and
/ on one of the canals which is now
being dug. There large dredge was
in operation excavating a canal about
sixty feet in width, with a depth of
six feet.
For the convention next year both
1 New Orleans and Houston were ap-
1 plieants, and decision thereon was
left to the executive committee. All
/ the present able officers of the
league were reelected, and Clarence
/ Barton of Assumption was elected
a member OF the executive commit
tee from Louisiana.
The, ACCOMPLISHMENTS delega-
ton, through whose efforts the La
fourche-C ancienne route was recog-
nized, comprised Messrs. Clarence
Barton, Eddie Gianelloni, John Marks,
H. c. Whiteman and Walter Lemann