Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-07
365 REGISTER
FOR MEETING;
TOUR RSTARTED
Extension of Canal to
Valley, Great Lakes
Predicted BY Ash
burn

HARLrNGEN, Nov. From all
parts OF the country, and from all
walks Of life-but mostly men in
fluential in navigation matters Of the
nation-delegates 70 the Annual Con-
vention Of the Intra-Coastal Canal
association gathered here today, in
session which has ms its main object
the extension Of the canal 70 Point
Isabel, and to the Great Lakes.
From the talks made at the open
ing session of the convention an op-
timistic outlook on this object was
taken BY the delegates. and work to-
ward this end is to be planned.
With 356 delegates registered, the
first session Of the convention open
ed Monday morning at the Harlingen
High school. with Boy Scouts Of the
city doing duty as ushers.
Sees Bright Future
General T. @. Ashburn, executive
head Of the Board Of Inland Water
ways corporation, of Washington,
ID. c., in one Of the feature addresses
of the morning session, declared that
the extension of the Intra-Coastal
canal to the Great Lakes on the
north, and 20 Point Isabel and up the
Arroyo Colorado to Harlingen on the
south is not a dream, but a clear
vision which should be realized in
the shortest possible time. Such a
plan will be carried through with
united effort, he declared.
Other speakers were equally ~ op-
timistic over the future Of the canal.
The delegates left Harlingen at
12:45 Monday afternoon for Stuart
Place, where a barbecue will be
served in r T. Stuart style.
Barbecue Lunch
From Stuart Place the visitors will
continue their automobile tour on up
the Valley to Sharyland, where they
will be the guests Of John II. Shary
at dinner, 1880 Monday evening.
They will return to Harlingen TO
spend the night, and will start the
second day in reverse order making
an automobile trip first, and ending
the day, and the convention with a
business session in Brownsville.
The delegates will 90 to Rio Hondo
for breakfast, and will then 20 20
San Benito, from which city they will
proceed to Point Isabel. to view the
port being developed there. They
will be served a fish dinner at
Point Isabel, and will return 20
Brownsville to open n business ses-
sion at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
To Name Officers
Nomination committees and resolu-
tions committees which were named
at the session in Harlingen Monday
morning will report at the meeting
in Brownsville, and officers of the
association will be named at that
time.
As the delegates reached Harlingen
Sunday and Monday over lines OF the
Southern Pacific and the Missouri
Pacific they were welcomed by VAL
ley people, and taken to the Reese
Wil-Mond hotel, convention head
quarters, 10 register.
s. Finley Ewing, mayor cf Har.
lingen, made a brief address Of well
come at the session here, in which
he assured the delegates they would
have an opportunity to ascertain
what the Valley IN doing In the way
of development. He was followed by
c. s. Holland of Houston. president
Of the Intracoastal Canal Association
who stated that call energies OF cur
association will now be directed
toward extending the canal south
ward from Corpus Christi TO the
mouth of the Rio Grande. The pro-
posed canal will be 100 feet wide
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