Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-19

Senator Thomas Brown, who has
Just returned home from Charlestown,
south Carolina, where he has been
attending the Atlantic Deeper Water
ways Association Convention, as a rep
resentative Of the State, City and New
Jersey Inter-Coastal Canal Associa-
ton, has issued a statement to the
, EVENING NEWS of the work done
by the convention On reference to the
sea level ship canal across New Jer-
sey.
One Of the most surprising SEN
fences in the statement Is that peo-
pie of other States are manifesting
more interest in the construction Of
New Jersey canal than the majority
OF citizens in New Jersey themselves.
He goes on to say that If the people
of New Jersey and their representa-
tfves In Congress take an immediate
and sincere interest in the New Jersey
Canal project, they will receive the
support of the citizens of the States
upon the Atlantic Ocean and their
representatives in Congress.
Senator Browns statement in full
follows:
The convention of the Atlantic
Deeper Waterways Association, held
ut CharleStown, South Carolina, from
November the 10th, to the 14th, in
elusive, was most successful from
every viewpoint.
THE delegates present were bust
ness men representing large business
Interests from every state along the
Atlantic Coast, from Maine to Florida.
1T was a pleasure to see the in
tensive n unselfish interest that
these men took IN the work of the
convention. One is forced to the ir-
resistible conclusion that the think.
ing business men along the Atlantic
Coast from Maine to Florida are deep
~ interested in the waterway subject.
The early business and national
strength of this great country was
fostered by the natural inlets, rivers
and harborS along the Atlantic Coast
long before the Railroads ever became
a factor in the business life of the
country. The advent of the railroads
has placed in discard many of the va
terWays hat were in extensive use
prior thereto. The construction of
the railroads acted as a magnet, draw
ing the residential and business inter-
est OF Atlantic Coast along the route
of the railroads.
The present congestion and excess
i've cost of transportation has demon
strated beyond peradventure that rail-
roads are unequal to the demands of
our Industrial life and commerce In
general. Much of the p~erishable pro-
ducts of the South never reached the
middle Atlantic or North Atlantic
States. Very often those products
when taken from the fields to the rail-
road station in the South are delay
ed at the shipping point or Transport
tation to such an extent that they are
destroyed before they reach their des-
tination, and very often these pro-
ducts have been permitted to rot in
the fields rather that be subject to
transportation. The delays and costs
of transportation all along the Atlantic
Coast bear the same criticism.
There are 14S n~avigable rivers and
water ways from Maine to Florida ex-
tending from the Atlantic Coast in
ward. II those inland water ways
were connected by canals and other
artificial means, 1t would bring into }
life much of the agricultural produc-
tive soil Of colonial times as well as
reduce to a high degree the cost of
transportation, other sections of the
country then the territory traVersed
by railroads. would be developed and
inhabited.
THE convention demonstrated that
there is a kindly feeling existing be-
tween the people Of the South and
North along the Atlantic a because
of their general Interest in the water
ways subject. The development of
the inland water ways is creating asl
much true A~mericanism as any other
medium in our public life.
1.-THE citizens of the North and
South along the Atlantic Coast feel
most kindly towards each other and
the interest taken by them collective
" In the subject of inland water ways
has resulted in removing many of the
~preiudices that heretofore existed. !
History is repeating itself. New meth
DDS and means of transportation are
carrying the gospel of truth, and I'M
Outstanding from the people of one
section to hat of another.
The Intra Coastal Canal across the
State of New Jersey was almost tne
exclusive topic of the convention. The
delegates of the South and the North
at the convention were as one In the
opinion that the first order of bust
ness OF the association should be the
construction of this canal by federal
E L..
at may be ventured without con-
tradiction that the people of other
States are manifesting more interest
in the construction of the New Jer-
sey canal than the majority OF the