Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-08
WATERWAYS BODY
DISCUSSES link
New York Bay Canal to Della
ware River Would Cost
$1OO,000,OOO.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON. october 8-The twenty
fourth annual convention Of the At
lantic. Deeper Waterways Association
combined an inspection Of the Cape
Cod Canal today with discussion of
the missing link" canal across New
Jersey, and other projects.
The So-called missing link" canal
Is a projected 25-foot waterway from
New York Bay to the Delaware River
which, would complete continuous in
land route from Boston to Norfolk, Va,
by way of the Cape Cod Canal. Long
Island Sound. the Delaware River and
the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.
1t was pointed out that 1877 rivers
empty into the Atlantic which could be
linked with the trunk line canal system
from Florida to New England, and that
through the Hudson River. the COM
merce OF the Great Lakes could be
joined with THAT of the canals.
SIOO, OO0,OOO Canal Cost.
Army enginears have told the con-
vention that the cost of the New Jer-
sey canal, If constructed as projected,
would be well in excess Of $l00,000,000.
James H. Preston, former mayor and
police commissioner of Baltimore. Md,
last night told the convention how the
Port Development G commission of that
city is preparing to- spend 100000, 900
on harbor facilities.
Preston. who is chairman of the COM
mission, solicited the' conventions in
dorsement for a numb er of important
projects in the Baltimore districts in
Guiding the need for deepening the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal from
II to Is feet, and a further Federal
appropriation for deepening the city
harbor channel to 81 feet.
S1O,OOO,OOO Already Npent.
Ten million dollars alreaG- have been
spent by his commission, hA said, and
$40,000,000 remains The in itial prof.
ect was terminal which is b eing used
by the Western Maryland Railroad, one
of the lines which has been ,allocated
to the Baltimore & Ohio system under
the Eastern Trunk Line plan.
G. H. Pouder, executive vice pa esident
of the Baltimore Association of Com
merce, in an address before the ola ses-
Sion urged the need for imma ,diate
deepening of the Chesapeake & Del
aware Canal, so that ocean-going 8 hips
could utilize 1t as we'll as to make it
more available for larger ships in sthe
coastal business.
He pointed out that the distance fro m
Baltimore to Philadelphia was 37O mia IS
by the deep sea route, but only SO b
the canal, and that the trip to New
York was cut down by the canal from
430 miles by the outside route to 1874.
Cape Cod Canal Work.
The Resolutions Committee chairman.
former Representative John H. Small
of Washington, D. c., reported infor-
mally an agreement of his committee
to recommend a deepening of the Cape
Cod Canal from its present depth of 25
to 80 feet, with a bottom width of 200
feet and an overall width of $50 feet.
1t would also recommend, he said, the
construction Of one tidal lock to con-
troll the swift currents which at present
are considered menaces to safe naviga-
ton of the canal
Col. S. A. Cheney, United States Army
engineer at Boston, yesterday told the
convention that the canal eventually
would have to be enlarged to the di-
mansions of the Panama Canal.