The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-04-10
TO COST
EIGHT MILLION
Prerequisite to Expansion of
City, Andrews Tells Chamber
/, ~ in Annual Meet.
ANNEXATION BOOSTED

The cost of the proposed levee fol
Chattanooga, as officially announced
by o. B. Andrews at the annua
meeting of the chamber of commerce
Thursday night is to be approx
mately $S,000,000. An unofficial an.
nouncement to this effect was given
In The News about two weeks ago In
an article on the plans and cost OF
the levee. Mr. Andrews. who is
chairman of the food protection
committee for the chamber, an
nounced further that the final report
from the survey which is being made
by Engineers Nisbet Wingfield and
Maj. Dabney will be ready to be pre-
sented to the public in about three
weeks. The chairman gave a brief
resume of the general plans Of the
committee which was appointed late
last summer to go into the flood pro-
lection question.
Mr.. Andrews compared Chatta-
nooga to a person sick with some
terrible disease, where everybody has
some pet remedy or scheme that will
prove to be a sure cure. He declared
that the levee committee decided in
the beginning to get the best physi-
clans money could buy and then to
put the entire case in their hands
and follow their advice.
Mr.. Andrews pointed out that Mr.,
Wingfeld, one of the engineers en-
gagged In making the survey, abso-
lutely solved the food menace at
Augusta, Ca, and that Maj. Dabney
mas for years been connected with
the work on the Mississippi and is
considered one of the foremost hy-
draullc engineers In the country.
Knocking Expected.
Mr.. Andrews declared that when the
report is made public there will be
plenty of knockers from men to
whom a one-mill tax means more
than the future of the city in which
they live. He declared that these
knocks will have weight unless pub
nc-spirited men get behind the
project from the very beginning and
boost IT. Mr.. Andrews declared fur
Their that the engineers con-
WINGED the flood protection commit
tee beyond any doubt that their plan
VIII protect the entire CHATTANOOGA
valley against a 62-foot rise, or even
q higher flood, and that the city will
be just as safe as IL it were perched
On the top of Lookout mountain. He
explained that the levee when built
would protect everything from Mis-
'ionary ridge to Lookout mountain.
Mr.. Andrews declared that unless
chattanooga takes some steps to cure |
ne great cancer she has reached the |
enith of her growth. In telling those
present of the reason why a levee |
mould be built as soon as possible Mr.. |
andrews pointed out that CHATTANOOGA |
you'd not only be protected from flu !
a nd III HOODS pods but that something like
2O.000.OOO worth of property would be |
eciaimed. He said further that all of |
he land in the flood districts would |
e opened up, and that all the ground |
Dom necessary would then be avail
pie to build homes that are needed to
axe care OF the population as it grows.
In speaking of how the $4,000, 900
aised Mr.. Andrews mentioned the
act that during the war Chattanooga
INSCRIBED $26,000,000 in bonds and |
PANS and that she surely could raise
100000 to protect herself. He said
rther that the property owners in
lie lowlands should have to pay more
proportion for the building of the
wee than those who will not receive
3 much benefit from the project For
iample he pointed out that a man
wing within, or owning property that
in reach of a 25-foot stage of water
lould be willing to be taxed heavily
IF protection. and so on up according
the stage of water it will take to |
'ach their property.
kruesi on Annexation.
Paul ]. Kruesi, of the cham
II of commerce made an enthusiast
: talk on annexation. He pointed
It the necessity of getting the addi-
onal territory annexed II a levee is
be built. The first reason he pointed
It was that Chattanooga people can't
end $S.000,0o0 in improving territory
tside the city limits for legal reasons
ID for selfish reasons as well. He
ked the question If Chattanooga was
ing to wait to 1880 to become big
". or take steps to have the figures
at should be recorded at Washington !
t down in the 1920 government CEN
s statistics.
At the beginning Of the meeting when
lied upon TO read the reports about ,
enty-fve newsboys stoned the !
ditorium calling out extra" II :
owed to be an extra edition of the | ,
lattanooga News with n page devoted
the years work OF the chamber OF 7
I
n the absence OF the former presi- ,
Mt of the chamber, Fred II. Cantroii, v
rmer Vice-President Lewis Burke. (
led the meeting to order and after h
reports were made. turned the | (
iir over to the new President. +. G. 4
,kers, who made an excellent talk
ging the cooperation of all present
the coming years work. a
:. w. Howard. secretary OF the In
strial bureau read his annual report =
ich showed the number of factories y
II had been brought to Chattanooga |
ring the past year. and gave an out
e of the work for 1920. Con Mill | n
I made a report of the charity in !,
'sement committee. !,
hort talks were made tby represen- "
ives from various clubs in the city, II
luding Mayor a. w. Chambliss. Z
pt. X. J.. Jones, who told of the
ms for the new high school: Morrow 1
amberlain. president of the Rotary !