Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-12
WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SEES
Senceekly Touching the Washington
Familiar 10 Philadelphians
BY J. Hampton Moore

New York State barge canal which has
the hearty approval of Governor Whit.
man, is looked upon as a valuable adjunct
TO transportation along the Hudson and in
New England The Delaware should keep
IN touch with what is going on elsewhere
ID. j. Murphy, Jr., whose experience as a
steVedore enables him to speak with a
degree of authority told the Rotary Club
bit of the truth the other day when
he spoke of the Philadephians who didn't
know their own port" but preferred to
waste time and money searching for the
other ports from which to make interna-
tional shipments. Unfortunately there are
shippers who cannot see what an asset
Philadelphia has in the Delaware River.
They seem to agree with that tinid class
of "deep-sea sailors" who find it danger.
Gus to navigate an inland stream" May all
such be commended to the tender mercy
OF Captain John Virdin and his fellow
members of the Delaware River Pilots AS
ISOLATION when the sea is running rough.
CURIOUS how interesting the United
~ States is to us when we move about
There is Ralph Henry Cameron, the last
NsNP"phN"h utlcSdlt ITOIIl lne lerrltOry OF
Arizona. He fought to have Arizona ad-
mitted to the Union. saw his wish gratified
and then stepped out of Congress. Ralph
was born in Maine but took to mining
and stockraising and among other things
built the Bright Angel Trail into the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado; and yet
you would be as likely to find this Yankee.
born Westerner in the corridors of the
Waldorf-Astoria or the Bellevue Stratford
as upon horseback. In addition to giving
encouragement to the Department of the
Interior In its efforts to pass a $50 900, 900
mining bill TO gather up American mineral
resources during the war; Cameron is now
conducting big timber.cutting operation
In New Jersey. somewhere between
Browns Millsin.the.Pines and Writings.
Camerons appearance in New Jersey Is u
reminder that when Arizona was a terri
tory New Mexico was also a territory, and
that its delegate was William H. Andrews,
of Albuquerque, formerly Bull" Andrews
Of Warren County, Pennsylvania. An.
drews. who had been an active participant
in keystone State politics when Quay, Mar.
tin and Durham were names to conjure
with, had quit the Republican State chair.
manship I'd become the president of a.
southwestern railroad. He did not forge,
his Pennsylvania political training and
| almost Immediately landed the New Mexico
delegateship to Washington. When the
Territory was admitted to Statehood,
Andrews became Senator and served side
by side with his Pennsylvania associates,
Penrose and oliver, for term of six years.
He was defeated for reelection, but there
are indications that the famous Bull"
intends to make one more charge upon the
senatorial battlements.
MIR. AND MRS, FRANK M. CHAM
AVA DLER, of Philadelphia, know their
Washington almost as well as they do their
home city. For many years Mr.. Chandler
has been associated with the Cramps. He
started in when the concern was largely
the personal property of the Cramp fam
lily, and has remained through the various
corporate stages until the Government
stepped in and assumed control. He Is now
downtown manager of the big enterprise.
Occasionally Mr. Chandler runs over to
the capital on business. and when he does
Mrs Chandler generally goes along. She
is q good traveller and has made II q point
to keep web pested On shipe ana their
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