Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-15
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Rotary club and others interested In
the Susquehanna river development
should cheer up. Poughkeepste, N.
Y, has just won it's fight for water
way facilities after 40 years of in
termittent effort and seven years of
constant, untiring campaigning. ac-
cording to the Poughkecpsie Even
ing Star of recent issue.
New York City, PoughkeepSie,
Utica, Syracuse, Rochester and Buff
alo are the main points of the big
barge canal leading from the ocean
to the lakes and Poughkeepsie has
been given $950,000 with which to
build docks, wharvcs and big ter
minal canal basin.
when the oldest of Poughkeep-
sizes present day business men were
young" says the Evening Star, land
actively engaged in the struggle for
a greater Poughkecpsie, the propo-
sition of a Marine Terminal for their
city was one of the things which
loomed large in their thoughts.
The idea of Poughkeepsie as a
station on great waterway, one
half transcontinental in its scope,
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that time. That was something which
grew into being year by year, and
| which to-day stands complete in
| theory and more than half COM
pleted in practice.
| "Our fathers iourneyed to Wash
! ingtor, to Albany and elsewhere with
the thought in mind that Pough-
| kccpsie was a seaport, just as we do
to-day. The records handed down
| to the Poughkeepsie Chamber of 4
! Commerce. shows that they had the
same abiding faith in the destinies
of their city as we have. While the
reason they sought to establish a
Marine Terminal may not have been
identical with those of the present
generation of so-called boosters, yet
| the pioneers knew what they wanted,
| worked for it determinedly and it |
| naturally follows that we have it,
Their efforts were a legacy to the
present generation and the Barge
Canal Terminal appropriation, which
was voted by the taxpayers yester-
| day, also may he regarded as a leg
acy left to the next succeeding gen.
Grafton to he enhanced in value by |
development of the resulting project
| in the coming years."
ut will he seen because we reach
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to get a Marine Terminal. thatI
| Poughkeepsie is the lower Hudson
pioneer in this movement and that|
| other citteS-KingSton, Newburgh,
! y lonkcrs-whose fate was to be join
ed with ours by the passage of an
act on February II, 1917, providing
for the construction OF barge canal
terminals at certain places on the
Hudson river and incidental work
connected Herewith, including the
acquisition of property therefor, with
a view of improving the commerce
of the State and making an appro-
prlation therefor, really brought
about great good for her neigh
bors.' continues the Star
Even as a further step toward
the accomplishment of this main
purpose, Poughkeepsians, after tire
less efforts. secured the. formal
of Hudson Valley Federated Cham -
bcr of Commerce and enlisted the
active support of every Hudson river
city behind the movement"
Thus it will be seen that Pough-
| kecpsie proceeded somewhat after
the manner of Harrisburg, with the
| Federated Chamber of Commerce
acting there in place of the Rotary
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tion of the Susquehanna would link
up Pouehkeepsie with Harrisburg.
liz desired, by way of the Great Lakes,
for it is the thought of those back
of the movement that eventually a
canal shall extend from the head
waters of the Susquehanna to the
Lakes. The Susquehanna committee
lis in receipt of the news from
Poughkeepsie and is greatly encour-
aged thereby.
Eli n. Hershey. Chairman of the
Navigation Committee, will call a
meeting of all il terested to be held
some time during the early summer,
so that the army officers engaged in
making the survey may be given all
the assistance and information pos
sible and the whole Susquehanna
Valley enthused over the project.
The meeting will be held in Harris
burg.
| The black sucker is coming into
his own again. After years when the
fish was not much taken, reports are
being received by Commissioner Bull
| Ter that many are being taken with
rod, hook and line than for long
time. Some catching of suckers with
lhe nandS mas been reported, but
fish and game wardens have broken
up the practice. From all accounts
the opening of the trout season to-
morrow is going to attract many
more fishermen than for years, ow-
/ ing to the mild weather and the fact
that many trout have been dstribut-
ed. The State has adopted policy
of putting brown trout into streams
which are not much shaded, reserv-
ing the brook trout for streams
which have many trees along their