Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1914-10-01
ARE. TO INSPECT
PROPOSED ROUTE
OF SHIP CANAL
Start Here Oct. Is With Gov
ernor and Other State Not
ables - Plan for Recon-
mendations to Legislature.
specia! By United Press Wire.

CpbCtuS ~ DR1ESQ PTGSS Hfre.
Trenton, Oct. 1:-State Senator
Charles O'Connor, Hennessy, of Ber-
gen county, today announced that on
Friday, October Is, the members Of
the joint Appropriations Committee
and the River and Harbors Commits
sion will make an inspection of the
territory through which it is pro-
posed to construct the ship canal
p -Is;ss New Jersey from Bordentown
to New York bay. This project was
committed by the act of the last
legislature to the supervision of the
River and Harbors Commission.
1t is expected that Governor Field
er, State Treasurer Grosscup, Comp
troller Edwards, Presi> ent of the
Senate Slocum and Senator's Hutch
inson and White will accompany the
party. The last three named repre-
sent the counties through which che
proposed canal will probably pass.
Invitations have also been extended
to the New Jersey representatives in
the Senate and House at Washing
ton.
The official party will assemble
at Perth Amboy on October 16, the
date of the inspection, at $3.50
O'Clock in the morning, and after
viewing the waterway conditions at
the proposed east entrance to the
canal, will then proceed in automo-
biles to the Delaware river at Bor-
dentown along roads that will follow
as closely as possible the surveyed
canal route
Senator Hennessy today said that
the object of the proposed inspection
was to enable his committee to form
ulate recommendations to the next
legislature. There is a large ques-
tion of expense involved in this pro-
ject," said the Bergen man, "and the
problem is how best to provide The
money assuming that the Legislature
will deem it wise to go ahead with
the matter. The United States army
engineers have already recommend
!. ed the building Of this canal by the
federal government, if New Jersey
will provide the right of way. This
fould mean an expenditure by tho
sderal government of from twenty
1hto forty-aye millions of dollars,
ding to the depth of the water
mi The right of way to be sup
~ IA by the State would probably
$1,000,000.
Awe find that new interest has
il aroused in this undertaking,
Ymerely because of the recogni-
Yof it's great commercial import
y, but because recent naval hap
penings in Europe have demonstrate
ed that a canal of this kind might
be of immense strategical Importance
in the event of war. Secretary of
the Navy Daniels has recently given
emphatic expression to this thought.
'Should the canal be built with
federal aid as suggested, 1t would
provide more than sixty miles rof
new waterfront for the State, a large
part of which, it is thought, will he
available for manufacturing sites
while making a great addition to our
riparian values The owners of land
contiguous to the canal front would
be tremendously benefited by the
improvement and 1t has been sugv
gested that the cost of acquiring the
right of way might be shifted,jn part
or in whole from the treasury. f the
State, by a system of graduated as
sessments for benefits to be distrlb-
uted over the area contiguous to the
canal. This is one of the questions
that the committee will have to IN
vestigate"