New Britain herald., 1924-12-31

ably figuring that the only way 10 get profit out of it is to unload it . upon the government.
 Another pcrfervid project is to drcdge the Hudson river up 10 AL bany. enabling ocean steamers 10 go to the head of the Erie canal, . or the Barge canal, as 1t is now called we believe. The scheme is one Of those which appear feasible on paper: but in practice 1t IS doubtful whether enough big vessels Would make the trip in year to pay the interest on the investment.
 Another inland scheme - one Of greater dimensions than any other - is the so-called St. Lawrence waterway project. Here is 8 scheme that Is to make ocean ports of Chi- cago and Duluth, as well as Of the other snappy cities on the Great Lakes. All that Is necessary is for Uncle Sam to spend the money after coming 10 an agreement with tho Canadian government over the water rights. etc. A canal "ou'u have to be dug across the Niagara ;sthrus on the Canadian side - higrer and better one than the pres pnt Wellaud canal -- and locks would have to be built along the urper reaches Of the St. Lawrence to enable ocean liners to cruise past inc ranids. Maybe there also would have to be some dredging done It won,d he great and magnificent project,
 New York City looks upon this nroiect with the eyes of a viper the metropolis evidently fears 1t would lose the trade of a shjpload
 of goods or SO a year.
 Then there is the Chicago dram age canal. already built, and rt- parding which there arc tnterna-
 tional complications. This can" takes much water from the Great Lakes and guides it down the Ms
 sissippi valley, greatly to the cha
 grin of the states tributary to the H,okns east of Illinois. Legal conlen- +ton abort the thing has been in ! +ba courts for about ten years, ana ,,,norwhlIa much water rushes to the GuIt instead of tripping over Nl- apara Falls to tho St. Lawrence Indeed, Chicago, whose main ousi' ness appears to be killing hogs' IS
 likewise acting the hog in this mat u tcr desiring to divert unlimited water into its drainage canal ana
 ,,antinr thn St. Lawrence route " constructed at the same time II l. trern ia as much water diverted into
 the drainage canal as it ">she'
 ,bere may scarcely be any lett ''
 float the magnificent ocean hhe''
 or barges wLlch are expected to us' o the st. Lawrence waterway II IL j ever constructed,
 Ano,rer river that las been eat
 ,,c in the public treasury for year
 ,s the Ohio. From Pittsburgh to t4' .. .. Mississippi scrios Of locks nav haon built. all calculated to buttrfS
 tno river sufficiently to permit arg
 sb,ns to make th" trip. They certain
 1v are making the trip-abou' !"
 trips $ year.
 Tbon there is the Mississippi iron
 st Louis to Minneapolis and S'
 p,,1 A deal of dredging has bee done along tis stream, and the n' I rosnIts nave been the ability Of ce'
 tain light craft to make the trip De '0 tween the two cities-crat a 'r'' ''' t.ie,ra~ than was the case in the oIde ," ,ovs When Mark Twain sailed tn 10 r,,e. Ne didn't need any faNe g. dr..rgtos: but then. mayb" he col C. rr..5 most of his efforts to the streaI VII ~,,an Missouri whom tho pack 10 noborf E. Ice gained its fame. m There are muum rah'a ama'i'
 waterway protects which are bro'R' 'n 10 ,1o attention ot the goyvrn"e' 'Se from time to time but lew o' "A'' F rct action. Some 0. t"@s' mo 'O' oroper.y belong to tho SII'vs Il 'S' .nl6umont. Construction oi ca' 'S9 .rom the Connrctcut river to Ne ''S Britain as proposed so<era' yea
 aro would bo a matter for Conner
 cut. but drs,rab,e as fine ditch m'e
 lo considering ,b. mon'y it "oo save in the cos: of cool and oth ,n- lca>y freight. inc project las T a been hrard os for a long tune a ,y, n requires much optimism to tA'l .rs anything will ever come Of it.
 With no desire to rub il in,' 1