Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-01
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Propriety Of Celebrating the Com.
pletion Of Trentons New Della
,Uarc River Dock--Edisons
Pessin,ism About the
American Chemical
Industry
Washington, ID. C., March 1.

Washington, ID. C., March 1.
| NEWS comes from Trenton that the new
L Y dock and terminal, for which Mayor
! Donnelly has been laboring for years, will
| be In operation, with trolley and railroad
| connections, along about the first of April.
| This work is so closely allied with the
intracoastal project from New England to
| southern waters that a suggestion to cele-
| brate It by fitting demonstration on the
Delaware from Philadelphia to Trenton is
in order. This would give Mayor Ellis. OF
| Camden, who is now probably the dean of
the Delaware River Mayors; Mayor Nc
| Dowell, of Chester, and all the intervening
Mayors chance to cooperate with the
Mayor of Trenton. 1t would also give the
| Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association an
opportunity to show what has been done
on the upper Delaware and to prove the
value of our North and South waterway
connections. II the river and harbor bill,
az now agreed upon by the Senate and
House conferees, is not obstruCted, the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal will be
securely placed upon the map. That will
bring the waters of the Chesapeake Bay
10 lne ltldWdIe river as lar 1lOTln as
Trenton. It will suggest the wisdom of.
proceeding at once across the state of
New Jersey to New York, project to
which Governor Edge is committed and for
which it is expected he and Senator Fre-
linghuysen will now contend in Wash
ington. Phadelphians may have some
satisfaction in the knowledge that Mayor
Preston. Of Baltimore, and Mayor Hylan,
Of New York. are agitators in favor Of the
cross-cut New Jersey project. That would
carry the waters of Chesapeake Bay by the
city Of Philadelphia to Raritan Bay at the
port OF New York. and by the same token
would afford direct connection with Long
Island Sound and New England
COLONEL JAMES f. BARNETT once
~ State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, has
been visiting Washington. So has Senator
A. f. Sisson, formerly Auditor General of
the state. Barnett keeps in close touch
with western Pennsylvania Congressman
and has a warm spot for his old Philippine
partner. Colonel Tom Crago, Congressman.
at-large. Ssson looks up Senator Clark,
the Erie member. who is soon to retire,
and other old.timers. to hasten the passage
, Of the Longworth bill creating a commits.
sion for the maintenance of the Perry
Victory Memorial, Put.in.Bay Island, Lake
Erie. Sisson is one Of group of Pennsyl-
vanians, included with General Nelson A.
Miles, former Speaker Warren J. Keifer,
Of Ohio, and others, who are expected to
keep green the memory of Commodore
Perry and his victory. Other members
| from Pennsylvania include Milton w.
| Shreve, who is to succeed Senator Clark in
| Congress; Edwin II. Ware, who needs no
| introduction to Philadelphia audience;
| T. c. Jones and George w. Neff. Presi-
dent Sissons address at the launching of
| the Niagara, the Perry flagship. that was
| recovered from Misery Bay is now safely
| ensconced in our historical archives
| ENAR be it from us to en,er an epistoary
L but goodhumored controversy between
| Thomas A. Edison and Herman A. Metz
| formerly Congressman from New York
| concerning the manufacture of parani-
traniline and other dyestuffs in which
America is now endeavoring to compete
|
that to Billy Matos's brother DR.. Walter
A. Matos. who has been lecturing in WASH
ington and elsewhere on the subject. All
we care to do at this time is to quote
| Edison to Metz concerning paranitranilne
at $3.50 per pound in December last as
| against the German price of sixteen cents
before the war. mo matter what the tariff
| may be-" says Edison, 81 have a VI ion
that in a few years the owners of chemical
| works here will be around with a hand
organ and a monkey trying to make a
| living"
WE HEAR much about the work Of the
w Council of National Defense Lieu
tenunt Governor Beidelman made a speech
on this subject at the Sproul dinner giving
statistics as to Pennsylvania's participation
in the war which are still remembered.
The name of George Wharton Pepper is
| frequently mentioned and that of Efflng.
ham B. Morris. whose son made record
on the other side. But Joseph ]. Tunney
awaits an introduction to Washington
favor. Tunney is Philadelphia lawyer
who came from upstate and formed a
| CollIeCtioll ioT time with lne ONCE OF
Murdock Kendrick. He is now associated
with Meredith Hanna, Charley Joy and
Bob Brannan the old-time side partners of
the late James W. King. Tunney has not
yet attained the reputation OF a Brightly
but his digest of the war.risk insurance
acts foE the beneht of Philadelphia war
workers has given him fair start.
THERE are four thirty.third degree
Masons in the House of Representa-.
tives. and they have been photographed to
gether. They are William Kettner, a
San Diego Cali Democrat. who manages
to get Republican support Harry II. Pratt
Of Corning, n. Y, from up where Sloat