Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-21

These have reassuring significance for Vermont
of the Champan link in the great international
waterway sure sooner or later to link the metropolis Of Can
of the Of the vast domain tributary to the Great
LII the s n ns na Of still clos
General Black has long been an ardent advocate OF the
Of the army engineers contain many and figure by
him in support of this great undertaking One Of the Chief
ngo has been that the people ports be benefited should
show sign of e and appreciation themselves
guilty facedly as community to utter failure show
public spirit enough to meet this requirement
Vermont boy born in Hartland in 1861 He is therefore in
position e to appreciate the % 5 Of the edsm
hood push projects Of this MAGNITUDE and 0
in this cennecon Capt. Ellison Of Cincinnati for.
e secretary of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress
ways association and Walter Dickey vice-chaan of the
Kansas City-Missouri River Navigation company.
The function of this organization will be to bring together
the companies engaged in inland water transportation to
make efficient the facilities of the ma
ton where the shortage of freight interfering with
Secretary William G. Redfied Of the department Of COM
has issued patriotic appeal for the development of
r and of
ways of the land almost unused statement which dwell
every river lake. and canal should be used Every enter
prise large Or small looking toward their practical use should
Secretary Redfed calls attention to the way in which
the railroads of the whole country confessedy overwhe
freight Since the first Of November last less than
900 engines and 1900 have been placed
locomotives and 100000 yet these additional acil
ties will not meet the gigantic task confronting the transport
taton masters of America.
Some idea of the magnitude Of the work have under
anen can De gained from Mr. Kedfes statement tnat each
winch must be ready by September will require no less than
begun in the far Southwest and for the handling Of
crops are being actively demanded.
In order meet this situation Secretary Redfed shows
200
senge trains from its usual summer schedule and another
inclined to complain because three trains have been
withdrawn in accordance with governments needs should
in all possible directions and realize how little really
doing ourselves to Lid, aid in this. this war;
DEVELOPMENT Of water transportation as affecting railroads
He says Nohng which the M Of the coun
poraton systems of the land There reasonable
is the Of the other and the Of each is the
long helpful to the other"
That is true and it is the best kind of argument show
the mistake of the federal policy that prevents the Central
1T from from USING the G t boat Lines giving it en-
steamboat lines the Great Lakes to reach Chicago and
pressed by President James Hill of the Great Northern
railroad and builder of our commercial Empire of the North
vest At the first great Conservation conference held in
the White House in 1908 accordance with the call of Pres
that railroad construction had overaen by the
development of industries and he showed that hey
not
that other nation of abundance naur
waterways and he declared that the development
of water by the of the most
dahl na by the national
We should be impressed in this connection by the way
in which France deepening it's canals and rivers
hand and starting boat service because the
handling Of freight economically enters not only into the
situation but also into the industrial and commercial
conflict nation preparing wage when present
hostilites end
One of the leading railroad presidents of the United
States authority for the statement that present the rail-
roads of the United States are carrying more freight than
before in hir history but when they have
traffic up 100 per of their capacity there still
25 80 per cent of traffic which it is impossible for them
carry at ALL
That serious situation now and it means still great
handicap the business and industry commerce
this great nation when the development following
the close of this war is ushered in.
The attention of the commission will turn first eventually
to development of the inner route for along
antc shore The opening of the Cape Cod Canal has
this project good start another link being Long Island
Sound The Delaware Chesapeake bay and other waters
with short canal work and canazaton of rivers would help
possible send shipping by the elmer route"
Massachusetts to Georgia. protected not only from storms
but also from attack by submarines from the
For the immediate present, however, the commission