Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-09-03

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waterways and in which ne severely
| arraigned the Western and Middle
| Western mes~Jers Of congress who
had fought appropriations for East
| ern waterways.
New Jersey" he said. lis the
gateway Of the nation. Products
travelling from the east and from the
J west come through our hands, and
| rs want the facilities to transport
| them. For this reason ! am heartily
in accord with this great ship canal
| project and Will do all in my power
I to aid its advancement" Senator
| MARITIME concluded WITH an eloquent
| plea for a merchant marine owned
/ built and controlled by America
R. V. Hamburg. president of the
/ Newark Board of Trade. made q few
/ remarks pledging the aid Of his or
ganiZatiOn in carrying forward the
movement. and the last address of
! the evening was made by President
I J. Hampton Moore, of the Atlantic
| Deeper Waterways Association
President Moore said "The CON
struction of a modern waterway across
the state of New Jersey is one Of the
most important projects Of national
/ Improvement now before Congress. and
] the question whether it shall be con
structed or not depends largely on the
/ course taken by the state Of New Jer-
{ sey. The Atlantic Deeper Waterways
! Association, an organization in which
/ politics does not figure, has request
/ ed the United States Congress that it
provide for a survey for the construc-
/ tiOn Of continuous inland waterway
along the entire Atlantic seaboard,
| passing through a chain Of bays and
sounds and connecting into one trans
| pOrtation system all the ports and
/ rivers of the Eastern seaboard.
" Congress authorized this survey in
the River and Harbor Act Of 1909, and
the final report Of the Army Engineers
was submitted to Congress August 9,
1913. 1t definitely recommends the con
| struction by the Federal Government
of lock canal twelve feet deep and
ninety feet bottom width over route
surveyed between the Raritan Bay at
| Morgan and the Delaware River at
Bordentown. 1t is most important that
the work be finished and a definite
policy decided upon by the State of
| New Jersey before the assembling of
| the new Congress in December. Al
though the provision was made for ae-
quiring the right of way, no actual pur-
chases have been made, and this i'm
portant appropriation of 100000 is
lying idle. +"
The menu follows:
Celery Olives
CLANS Half Shell
/ Chicken Consomme with Pice
Broiled Bluefsh
Hollandaise Potatoes
Roast Stuffed Chicken
String Beans Rissolee Potatoes
Lettuce and Tomato Salad
Neapolitain Ice Cream
Cream Cheese and Crackers
Coffee
Among those who made the trip
across the canal route and who were
in this city are: Senator James E.
MARITIME; Congressman j. Hampton
/ Moore, of Philadelphia, president Of
! the Atlantic Deeper Waterways As
sociation; Congressman George P.
Darrow. William j. Browning,
Thomas ]. Scully and H. " Watson;
IWilfred H. Schoff, secretary-treasur-
er of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways
! Association; Durell ShusteT, assist
ant secretary Atlantic Deeper Water>
ways Association; J. B. Fisher, su-
perintendent New York Division of
the Pennsylvania railroad, who came
to this city in his special car; A. V.
Hamburg, president of the Newark
Board of Trade; ]. Spencer Smith,
president of the State Commission
of Commerce and Navigation: 3. F.
! Cresson, Jr., chief engineer of the
Board of Commerce and Navigation;
Walter Wood, former member of the
New Jersey Ship Canal Commission;
Frederick W Donnelly. mayor of
! Trenton; Howard R. Heydon. secre-
tary of the Commercial Agricultural
and Civic. Federation of the New
Jersey Chamber of Commerce;
Mayor Ferd Garretson, of Perth Am
boy: Col. c. H McKinistry, of the
! United States Army Engineers
( Corps; ". F. R. Griffith. who made
a partial survey of the canal route;
| James NJ Reilly, secretary of the
Newark Board of Trade; former
Senator Harold B. Wells, Of Burnng-
ton; W. L. Kuehnle, U. s. Engineers
! Office: former Senator George W
Shinn, of Ocean county; Senator
William E. Ramsay; John Preiffer,
president of the Perth Amboy Board
of Trade; Col Henry B. Salter, sec
retary of the Trenton Chamber of
| Commerce; Dr. Robert n. Keely, of
Browns Mills, worldwide traveller
who holds the distinction of being
Robert n. Peary's ship surgeon on
several trips of exploration IN the
Arctic regions, and who accompa-
MED Peary on his dash to the north
pole: William A. Spencer, Republi-
can candidate for senator; Jean Du-
Bois. Jury Commissioner Fred j.
Cox, Oliver w. Ramsay, Alderman
John J. Clark, Isaac Alpern, Viii
liam H. Fraser. Ira R. Jones, Alder
man John Kutcher, Alderman Chris
Jorgensen; S. Roy Heath, R. B.
Newton and E. T. Scott, of Trenton;
M. Warner Hargroye, postmaster of
Browns Mills, n. j.; George A.
woodward, Cookerton: Charles L.
lLavine, Trenton; ]. P. Holm: viii
liam F. r. Griffith. Morristown;
John G. Preston, l. w Maple, Berry
TX. Frost Edward L. Titus, John L.
NJ. Kelly and James F. Dale, OF
Trenton; Edward Pfeifer, L. H. Nc
Hose. H. S. Hulse, c. w Rice. AL
bert Leon, Arthur Stern. H. A.
Bovine. W. F. Kelly. Cullen M.
Worth, Franz Nelson, ]. c. Done
hue, William ]. Leavy, j Logan
iCleyenger, C. D. Snedeker, Ira
Crousa Harry Couard. Sidney Har-