Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1928, Page 4

HISTORY OF C. &0. CANAL ISRELATED [The Grandson of Waterway'sf Founder .Tells of Early | Struggles of Promoters. | (Editor's Note — The ome hun- dredth enniversary of the breaking of ground jor the Chesapeake - Ohio Canal will be celebrated at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow. The following a: count of the program and historical sketch of the canal was prepared for The Eveming Star by Dr. Andrew Stewart, 1442 Clifton street, grand- #0m of Representative Andrew Stew- art of Pennsylvania, one of the cenal's founders.) BY DR. ANDREW STEWART. Tomorrow there will be staged fust below Chain Bridge an elaborate pag- eant, marking the one hundredth anni- yersary of the commencement ol rthe bullding of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, designed to link the waters cf the Atantic seaboard with those of the streams of the Ohio region and th» Valley of the Mississipp! The effect of this. it was conceived would be to stimulate intercourse with | the then West, by affording an outlet for its products to waiting markets in | the East. and in consequence would more firmly knit together the peoples east and west of the Alleghenies. The scene selected for this pagean’ is the spot where the ground was first broken for the building of the canal. Directed by a competent committee ! | arrangements, under the auspices of the | Progressive Citizens’ Association of Georgetown, and with the co-operation ©f the community center departments, | District of Columbia schools: Chidren | of the American Revolution and other | patriotic societies; Federation of c""l sens’ Association. yacht clubs. Federal and municipal officials. and representa- tives of the Baltimore & Ohio and other railroads, it cannot fail to develoo | into an occasion that will be as out- | standing an event in the present history | of the District, as that which it com- | memorates was in its day. Again will be seen the beaver hat, the long-tailed coat. the stock and peckerchief. and the elaborate courtesy of prim gentlemen: the flowing gowns, imposing ecoiffures, and gracious dignity of the fair women of 1828, as the ancient scene of breaking ground for the again is inacted. Impersonates Adams. in add: There will be impersonations of Presi- | ;rhdndln: | the West closer distinguished mutual amity and interest through' inied him to the spot where the | Opening up avenues to facilitate trade | dent John Quincy Adams and the mem- bers of the assembly that | make Wills Creel further sooner, however, had hostilities ceased | Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania CANAL PAGEANT Cars & Buses~- Via Dalecerlia PI. - STReET CAR PassencErs- Via Norton St. SCALE QF MILES Y Map indicates spot on the Chesapeake and Ohie Canal, where the exercises | commemeorating the centenary of the censtruction of the waterway will be held | tomorrow. These attending the services at the Distriet Line may proceed by pri- vate automobiles via Conduit road and Dalecarlia place to rton street, where parking space will be provided. Streel car passengers should leave car at Norten street. Bus service also will be provided. {from which it drew its patronage, has n it navigable from tidewater to ik | Then the Revolution broke, terminat- | ing for the time being all thought of | internal improvements. No | and the affairs of the new country | settled themselves into some sort of | buf order than Washington, rel | | the cares and exactions of military duty, i leased from ressed himself to the subject | the peoples of the East and | together in bonds of | shevelful of earth was taken from | between them. in commencement of the | work of canal construction | On July 4, 1828, at an early hour. the members of the Capt. Turner's and Capt. Tyler's troops s h g ::nvury. commanded -yhnjl, Stew- : (FH “0ld ) were contending. and in ' by;ulnm'hkhn e imation It was Washington's pian, as already . | indicated, to use the bed of the Potomac Washingten Explores Route. In 1784 Washington explored in per- and disadvantages of several alter- had examined. considered the Potomac-Ohio to be unequivocally the best route for approx- of Eastern and Western waters. s.i;g 3 uence of | Juncture | of the| Andrew Stewart, fsther writer of this rising _young ' po | of 112 pages on December 8, 1826, giv- ! July celebation on Clay Island in the | | Youghiogheny River in 1825, Stewart | | able sentiments entertatined by many of (lhou whom I had the honor to repre- | surveys made upsn my own responsibil- plished engineers . | other country, assisted by several bri- | present on this occasion, gave the whole of . confirmal Maryland | prosecute the work to the Pennsylvanis under survey and produced a report, including | a map. | Two Chesapeake & Ohio Canal con- | § ventions were held, one in 1823 and the other in 1826, at which delegates from assembled to take measures for the | of a continuous canal along the | lines as developed through Stewart and | Shriver and these who collaborated in | the scheme. At the second convention Andrew Stewart was appointed to sev- eral important committees, among them the so-called central (a sort of exeeu- tive) committee. As chairman of one of these committees he made a report ing estimates of costs for building the canal. Clay Island Speech. In a speech delivered at a Fourth of | “You have also been so kind as to attribute 1o me the honor of having first pr in Congress ‘the design of uniting the eastern and western waters by the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal.' Though I was the first to bring this subject before Congress, yet, I as- sure you, the honor was at that time by no means enviable, although I asked but $10,000 to make the necessary surveys: yet so general was the impression that the project was utterly impracticable that when the vote was taken I found myself in & very lean minority. “To increase my mortification, on my return home I found the same unfavor- sent. “] determined to have the necessary ity. It was the result of thzse surveys that removed all doubt as to the prac- ticability of this work. 830,000 Appropriated. *“During the next session of Congress $30,000 was appropriated, and a board composed of the most able and accom- in this or, perhaps, gades of hical engineers, many have the pleasure to see Toute a thorough examination. and their report demonstrated not only that it was practicable but that it could be accom- plished at an expense small compared . the magnitude and utility of the work. ‘During the last session a bill was $40,000 to continue the surveys, to which, in the Houss of Representatives, there was not a word ition. Also, another act was , with the unanimous assent of 16 States and but 34 negative votes, tory of the laws of Virginia and ting companies to 2 which nine commissioners have recently been appointed to carry this object into effect.” ‘The route of the Chesapsake & Ohio Canal, as contemplated in 1926, was as follows: Weshington (Georgetown) to Cumberiand, along the east bank of the tomae; thence along Wills Creek, Sl of the Twentieth Congress. The old Potomac Co. had surrendered its charter to the new organization for building the independent canal on May 16, 1825, The first board of directors of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, con- sisting of six members, among whom was Andrew Stewart, was elected in the Spring of 1828, The canal was operated successtully | up to 1924, when it s\ nded business, It was very seriously aged in that year by two freshets following each other in rather close succession. This, together with declining lonnlfe, due to competition of more rapid freight tran- sit by rail and to business depression and strikes throughout the territory so far prevented a resumption of Iits activity. Over the placid surface of this digni- fled old waterway have passed millions of tons of freight, especially coal, grain, hay, stone, lumber and other commodi- ties that may be successfully moved to market in leisurely fashion. Many old residents of this city can well remember the days of the canal's activity and re- call the bustle of its water front Georgetown, with the assembled boats | bia: Maj. Cary Brown. Maj. Edwin B. t| Alice Harvey, Ambrose Dirkin, Amelia and mules and the strange, Gypsy-like {folk who had their livelihood by it and | who passed their lives upon it. | Who knows, however, whether from | this old line of slow communication | there may not spring a new. modern avenue for swift-moving traffic? One| wonders whether over the old canal. | | filled to the brim with solid earth and | Andrew Stewart, in the enacted scenes | topped with glossy asphalt, automobiles | may not some day scurry along, or[ alth of freight rushing to/ distant markets. In Charge of Pageant. In charge of the pageant for Saturday are the following: A general | committee, composed of Mrs. Fred T. Dubois, wife of the first Senator from | € Idaho, president; Miss Etta Ta; honorary president. Elizabeth Sullivan first vice president . John Butler, second vice president; Ruth Case. secr tary: honorary chairmen. former Sena- tor Fred T. Dubois, George L. Nicholson, Daniel E. Willard, Charles P. Carusi, Dr. Frank Ballou, Sybil Baker, Susie R. Rhodes. Dr. Charles Lyons, Mrs. Gilbert or, Commodore A. B. Bennet, D. Mrs, Joshua Evans, Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, Isaac Gans;, J: nes E. Yaden, Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, Mrs. Bessie L. Wright, Mrs. Alfred Brosseau, Mrs, Josiah Van Orsdel. Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, Kenneth Wales, Rose Gouvernour Hoes, Mrs, Minnigerode Andrews, Ran- dolph’ Keith Forrest. Alblon K. Parris, . Miss Helen Stout, Mrs, G. W. Irv- Driscoll, Dr. Andrew Stewart, Isabel Seer Goowin, Clarence Miller, Dr. Clarence Owens and Com- modore R. 8. Doyle. The following compose the executiv: committee: Chairman, Marie Moore Forrest; Edna M. W. Dubots, Alice Coyle Torbert, Mary Lazenby, Derryle Brown and Margaret Lamb. Officers of the day-—~Maj. Gen. John A. Lajeune, commandant of the Marine Corps: Brig. Gen. J. E. Fechet, Army Alr Corps: Rear Admiral Edward W.| Eberle, Rear Admiral Frederic C. Bil-| lard, commandant United States Coast Guard: Col. William B. Ladue, Engineer | Commissioner of the District of Colum- | Hesse And Eara D. Merrill. ‘The music committee is composed of Grimes and Capt. Taylor Branson. Chairman of printing, Maude Hurley: | publicity, Bess Davis Schriner ani Toussain Dubols: souvenir program, Elizabeth Dubois Cannon, and chairman of aiteraft, John Arnold Cannon, Rev. Earle Wilfley will represent | President John Quincy Adams. and Dr. | Andrew Stewart his grandfather, Hon of the pageant. Gradnate MeCormick Medieal Glnsses Fitted Callege Eyes Exumined Dr.. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight “Slpecin list ERVICE 21 SATISFIES We Lay Our Own Goode SUPERIOR LINOLEUM CO. Dealers in Armstrang Linalenms 13 E; N W e St. N. W Main 10293 UPERIOR HAT THIS weather needs is organized protest from leading citizens. Action! Tomorrow step defiantly forth in a smart new Knox “Comfit,” a Panama or a Leghorn Straw Hat! Knox Straw Hats, $5 to $50. Raleigh Haberdasher | 1310 F INC. Street AFARNRLADRRAY How Home Movies have been | | | | | | New Shoes for Little Money YOU need smart, good-looking shoes to wear with your new dress or suit and your new. hat. 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