The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-17
MEET, AT WASHINGTON
 ATTRACTS NOTICE
Great Iron Industry To Be
 Shown in Pictures.

Washington. Nov 17@The simple facts regarding the growth of the iron and steel industry sin the Unitd States are more fascinating than hc- tion and true description of the methods and the machinery which are in daily use for changing crude ore into the thousand and one finished forms in which iron and steel are, used in our modern civilization reads like 9 fairy tale.
 Few people realize how greatly the developnent of this colossal industry in our country has depended on water .transp portation The fact that for many wears the United States has led the world in the manufacture of iron and steel is due, first of all, to the quantity and quality of the iron ores placed by nature in the Lake Superior region, and next, and scarcely second in importance. to the cheap transpor- tation for this ore which was, and is, furnished by the Great Lakes.
 One of the most inter esting special features of the Twelfth Annual Con- xention of the National I2iers and Harbors Congress, which, is to be held in this city on Dacember 8, and 10, will be the hibition, accompan- jed by an explanatory lecture of a remarkable series tof moving pictures showing every step of the process from the time the ore is dug by steam s1loveIs in Minnesota out of vast open pits that are like the craters of dead voIc anoes,4 until the finished pro- duct drops from the machines in Pennsylvania.
 The first canal at the outlet of Lake Superior was opened to- trafHo so years ago 1asf June. Since that time more than 300, 100000 tons of freight have been carried through this canal and it's successors, and of this vast to- tai more than 500, 100000 tons have been iron ore. Some of the ships that carry this ore can take IA, ,00O tons at load, and the speed with which they can be loaded and un- loaded is marvellous. On Sept 8, 1911 Great Northern ore dock No. 4, put 1O,592 nSt tons of ore into the steamer w. E Corey in f25 minutes. On August 8, 1912, the F. A. B, Wide ner5 came alongside a dock in Con- neaut, O., with 11,912 net tons of ore in, her hold. Two hours and fifty minutes later every ton of it had been taken out and put into cars for ship naent to Pittsburgh.
 Special emphasis will be gwen at this convention to the fact that the greatest possible prosperity for our country can only be attained and maintained, through the equal deveI- opment and the harmonious cooper ation of highways, railways and wat erways. Logan Waller Page, who was for years president of the Ameri- can Highway Association, and has been for a still longer time director of the office of public roads in the De- partment of Agriculture, is to give an address, illustrated with lantern slides, on fNThe Relation of Good Roads to Waterways" and it is hoped that a well known railway president will speak on "Co-operation Between Rail- ways and Waterways
 Addresses will also be given on ''The Motor Truck in General Trans portation,' The Motor Boat for Freight and Passenger Traffic. and Waterways for Health and Recrea- tion," the names of the speakers to be announced later. MT. A. E. Dill mont, of Argentina, will give an iI- 1ustrated lecture on the waterways and cities of that great South Ameri- can country.
 Col c. McD. Townsend, a member i of the board of engineers for rivers and harbors, and chairman of the