Evening journal., 1913-10-23
DEFENDS The
INLAND CANAL
DEVELOPMENT
President Moore Insists That
Baltimore Will Profit by
Free c. 6 D. Route
ALSO ANSWERS THE
NORFOLK CRITICISM

With the approach of the Jackson !
Vile Convention of the Atlantic Deep
er Waterways Association. and the
recent inspection Of the Chesapeake
and Delaware Canal by representa-
tiyes from New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland
and Virginia, who held an enthusias-
tic waterway meeting on the banks
Of the canal, September nth. inter-
est in the Atlantic Deeper Waterways
! Associations project is increasing.
The favorable reports Of the United
| States Army Engineers upon both the
northern and southern links OF this
continuous chain have also brought
the whole subject to such public no
tice as to do just exactly what is al
ways to be expected when the goal Is
in sight-arouse opposition.
Thus far the seven years cam
paign of the Atlantic Deeper Water
ways Association has been conducted
with comparative freedom from ad-
verse comment George Gray, when
United States Senator, said in effect
that the chief danger in the matter OF
a free waterway from the Chesapeake
to the Delaware Bays, which in effect
means from Florida to New England
Law in the fact that everybody approx
ed it. The inference was that It was
nobody's business to demand the re-
moval of this barrier between two
thriving sections of the country be-
cause it was everybody's business.
: The Atlantic Deeper Waterways Asso-
citation has undertaken to make the
opening Of this passage way part OF
its business in securing a safe In
side passage for vessel engaged IN
commerce along the Atlantic Coast
The resolutions of the conventions OF
the association approved the removal
of this barrier as the very next step
In this important program OF com
= mercial development. The necessity
for this improvement, now fully sup
ported by the War Department and by
T commercial bodies. will be empha-
sized at the Jacksonville convention.
We are ready to put the matter
squarely up to Congress and the pros
poets of favorable consideration at
this time are exceedingly bright.
Hence the opposition is beginning
to take notice Baltimore bankers
see great danger in the opening OF the
13 miles Of waterway from the Della
ware River to the Chesapeake Bay be-
, cause the fish and oysters in the
= Chesapeake might be affected by
c sewage from the Northern States.
n ]. Hampton Moore, president of th'
e waterways association, In his October
= bulletin, commends the bankers o
d Baltimore to the Chicago Drainag
Canal and submit that sea-level wa
- terway, such as they propose &C hay
IN between the Chesapeake and Della
Of ware Bays will promote rather tina
n. retard the public health and viii
8 destroy a single oyster nor distu
al minnow.
M But sadder than all is the oppos
O. ton which is being stirred up by tn
Id lLedger-D Dispatch of Norfolk. Norfolk
Is the northern terminus Of the soutl
Is ern spur of the Atlantic Deeper Wa
n terways project, now written in th
N law for the freeing of the North Car
4 olina sounds and canals, so S6uther
n business may find Norther
,s outlook. The Ledger-Dispatch, whic
10 has discussed this subject since tn
- great success of the Norfolk Conven
n ton of the Atlantic Deeper Water
~ ways Association approving the en-
4, tire scheme and exulting over South
~ ern prospects with Northern con
=, nections, may not be influenC
90 ed by the railroads and the railroa
owned steamships which have pref
ty firm grip on Norfolk. but 1t is actu
y, ated by the fear that Philadelphia an
~ Baltimore by opening trade to- MOI
folk inland, may be putting one over
on that enterprising city of the Sout
ng MIR. Moore says that shippers wh
know their business have said th'
tie with a free waterway inland fro
NJ the Delaware River to HAM
ton roads and Norfolk there will be
ied saving of freight rates on coal OF
'in least 20 cents per ton They say IN
uli on fertilizer, which comes from q
ige North to Norfolk. in large quantiuS
the rate would be 45 cents per Z
or 80 cents less per ton than Z
as' present rate. and this without a
An loss of profit to the carrier. IN
hc' say that pig iron can be shipped
Norfolk at a saving Of from 80 to
- cents per ton. That lumber, viii
comes up from Norfolk and 9th
Southern points for consumption
the Northern States, could be shipp
for so cents per cord less than It
today. and that railroad ties col
be forwarded by the Norfolk ope
tors at cents per tie less than
up present rate.
your Virginia and Norfolk are interes
il: in lumber, all of which they have
ana ana sell. The opening of free waterv
eals. to the North would mean increa
iuite shipments from Southern points
suits lower rates to consumers genera
Unless there is a determination
stand still and put up with exist
ar. freight rates and shipping condluc
n Of Mr.. Moore says what has Norfolk
Igish any ether city along the Atlal
thsl coast line to lose? There is moth
nul- In einht hut an innrnasa in hmsIn