The evening world. Newspaper, October 12, 1914, Page 13

PANAMA CANAL BUILT SINCE BARGE CANAL WAS STARTED Each Year’s Delay Costs the State Millions in Interest Charges Alone—City’s Loss Enormous. present overland charges. it, end our loss will be very great. and State Engineer John A. Bensel. Administration this work wa clear act of official sabotage. No State official from Gov. Glynn Fesponsibility onto some one else. ties prevailing in 1825. consumed ten ye Beard of Trade Secretary Says Dix and Bensel Are to Blame ‘To The Editor of The Evening World: Every year of delay in completing the Erie Canal witnesses diminish- {ng traffic through the port of New York, to say nothing of the enormous Joas of four millions a year in interest charges to the State on a canal almost constructed but unable to be utilized. ‘The Panama Canal is opened for traffic. materials can be brought around from Pacific coast ports to New York at much ‘ass than ra{lroad freight rates. Dleted these shipments could be forwarded, with but a single tranafer at New York, to Chicago and other cities on the Great Lak In return the products of the soll and fac- tories of the interior could be brought back and distributed from New York to South American countries and our own Pacific ports. It fy of vital importance that this new Panama Canal traffic be estab- Mshed through the port of New York. is diverted into other ports Mke Baltimore, Norfolk, New Orleans and Galveston it will tend to fix itself in those routes. We never can regain Tor the delays to the Erie Canal I blame directly former Gov. Dix diing block, and although that is a Federal Government project, the State is responsible for putting obstacles in its way. During the entire Dix ld back. Not only was progress impeded there, but it afforded contractors the excuse of laying down on their own work, because they knew this one part would be long delayed. It was a FRANK Secretary New York Board of Trade and Transportation. Cargoes of heavy and bulky If we had the Erie Canal com- it rates below If by our own unpreparedness it The Troy dam {s the greatest stum- 8, GARDNER, For ten years the work of widening and deepening the Erie Canal has been dragging along and more than $100,000,000 spent on it. For ten years canal traffic has been hampered, impeded and delayed ‘until it has fallen to a third of its former volume. For ten years the port of New York has been losing the benefits of the canal and the tonnage received here has dwindled to insignificance. down the line throuSh State Engineer Bensel, Commissioner of Public Works Peck and the various members of the Canal Board can tell when the Barge Canal improvement will be com- pleted or how much it will finally cost. Evatybody has excuses and every official related to the work shifts ‘The original canal was undertaken and opened for traffic in less than @ght years, even with the crude methods of construction and limited facili- The mere enlargement, voted in 1903 and begun in April, 1905, has now ‘8, and at the present rate several yeats more of time wil! be required before 1,000 ton barges can be run from Buffalo to New York. The great Panama Canal wae begun after the Erie improvement and @@ipse are now passing through from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, WAlle the journey of a tiny canal boat in the old canal from Lake Erie to the sea is possible only under extreme difficulties and excessive delays, Bomelody, some interest or some combination of causes, more or less premeditated, are blockading the Erle Canal. An average of $10,000,000 per year for ten years has been expended. ‘The interest charges on this cumulative sum already have amounted to $24,000,000, and not a penny in return has been received either by the State or by the public waiting for opportunity to use the canal. Every added year of delay from interest charges by $4,000,000. THIS CITY’S INTEREST IN opportunity for large barges to make inal canal ninety years ago. It was the Erie Canal that started the tide of tra Mc toward New York harbor and made it the greatest port on the seaboard. In recent years dis- eriminating railroad freight rates, the burden of heavy transfer charges and the activity of rival ports have stead- fly sapped the stream of trade away ffom the metropolis. The blockade of tbe Erie Canal has served as a bar- vier dam to divert still more the trade, The through east bound tonnage via the Erie Canal to New York ten years ago, when the canal improve- ment was begun, amounted to 560,106 tens, The same kind of tonnage last year was reduced to 331,664 tons. The total traffic on the Erie Canal just be- fore its improvement 6,457,556 tons in 1904. By y thie volume of traffic had fallen to tons. To socomaplen this stifling of Mi crusht ~ ee water traffic the Stal ineurr ae debt of $100,000,000, nM Teady spent $24,000,000 in interest charges and permitted the work to @rag out into indefinite years with no {indication when boats will be able to rug throyah from lakes to ocean. ere are various Kinds of excuses given by high State officials for this ition of affairs. The Canal Board ts: posed of the Lieutenant-Gov- , Secretary of State, Comptroller, er, Attorney-General, State r and Superintendent of Pub- ‘orks. The last two are the most iy concerned—the Engineer as uctor, the Superintendent as manager. Glynn was asked by The Eve- World what he intended doing it the conal. am a deep water ways thegugh and through,” he replied. "I am atrong for the Erie Canal improve- When I was Comptroller and of the Canal Board I fought advancement. I am not now a ner of the board and have not di- Authority to push it. I would like pee it completed as quickly as pos- EVERYBODY RESPONSIBLE HAS DIPPERENT REASON FOR DELAY. Byerybody dodges responsibility. Contractors say they cannot complete ae, Sections because railroad tracks stair bridges are not removed or other tructions are in thelr way. Eagincers say they cannot drive the New York City is vitally concerned in this canal improvement. now on increas the dead weight of CANAL VITAL. The the run from the Great Lakes ports to the ocean without breaking cargo is expected to give the same stimulating impetus to commerce of the port that was supplied by opening of the orig- Diligent inquiry by an Evening World correspondent in Albany seek- ing to pin somebody down to some form of definite statement when the canal may be finished resulted in the following report recently made to the Sonat Board by State Engineer Ben- sel: bullding of +his crossing (a railroad crossing near Utica) will take practically a year, and on its comple- tion the canal probably will be able to be opened between Oswego and Wa- terford.” This means that only the eastern half of the Erie Canal, between Os- wego on Lake Ontario and Waterford on the Hudson River, can be opened for traffic in the spring of 1916. But even then 1,000 ton barges cannot pass down the Hudson River to New York unless the Feaeral Government completes the new dam at Troy and makes a 12-foot channel at that point. State officials, asked when this would be done, said they did not know, as it rested with the Govern- ment contractors. At the Oswego end of the line the Canal Board asserts that the Govern- ment will have to deepen the harbor to twelve feet before boats can get into the canal from the take. Again, no- body knows when this may be done. WHAT ENGINEER BENSEL HAS TO SAY ABOUT DELAY. In the latest bagge canal bulletin State Engineer Bense! makes this ad- Gitional report: “The most gene: statement that can be made at this time in regard to construction work along the line of the barge canal 1s that it is pro- gressing rapidly, At present the largest part of canal work is going on along the Champlain, Between Northumberland and Whitehall, a distance of thirty mes, the new canal is finished, Not knowing when the Troy dam will be com- pleted by the Government con- tractors, it cannot be said when the entire Champlain division of the barge canal will be completed. “From Tonowanda (the Lake Erle end) to a point about six miles west of Rochester there thas been finished @ prism of barge canal dimensions, From Rochester east for a distance of fifteen miles there are six rall- road crossings, and as this raflroad problem has been ene key to the canal situation work has been de- layed to a great extent, “Next year the State will have completed a stretch of new canal garreciors ahead because litigation fallroads about crossings holds © shem up; also city terminals must be Canal Board officials assert that the United States Government is slow in certain river and harbor eee from Rochester to Fox Ridge, near Syracuse. Mpxt Year, will also wit. ness complet! between lox Ridge and Utica, “According to latest information ge Sas of the 846 miles of canal be- bany and Buffalo about 70 Bereta of Phe work has been turned eseenieel lon of the barge canal|} nile: Menge THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, aa: Green Stamps FREE Tuesday 30) * With P Purchases of $1 or More (Present Ay! HY H a eueeetge- CUT OUT THIS COUPON -equnuune It is good for 50 (FIFTY) &a¢ Green Trading Stamps FREE with purchase of $1 or more to- morrow (Tuesday) on oy (October 18). tz These 50 FREE stamps are of the same kind as those which you would ordinarily obtain i your purchases. In Addition to this wonderful offerin of 50 FREE stamps wit purchases of One Dollar or more, we will give Double Stamps in the Forenoon § A. D. MATTHEWS’ SONS, Ine. and Single Stamps Thereafter. fauu Senneee These Thrifty Tuesday Specials --in. conjunction with the above offer of fifty (50) free 4a Green Trading Stamps should bring you to the House of Matthews Tuesday without fail: a jee Laces Muslin Dress Goods ("1 _ Watches Underwear New Orientll | yard-wide | Newy storm | Children’stine | Women's brace- | Men's Winter: let watches, in 25- lace flouncing, 18 TK ieached| serge: yard | Tib cotton in 25- | weight ohirte taches wide, tu ithe wide; yarn dyed; | yarn stock. | Year gold-filled | and drawers © variety of very | Pe petial | specially ault- etek, “at pred las guar. | of naturel attractive de- | fF Tuesday's | atte tor skirts | 0110 tlightly | jowel movenenn, | SY weeks signs; 50c value. | *lling at, the | and suite, Excel- | irregular. baeeh oii Tuesd lent. value Pair white or gold ‘uesday $10 value. 29c 39 $7.98 Main Floor, Main Floor. 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Underwear | Underwear H’dk’ch’fs | Petticoats [ Wall Paper Women's extra dean's eee r Wosnea's plate plain | Messaline and | Si stripes, large size under- in Russian style ith white | silk Jersey top | oisin ‘ fs tunic or with white Pl peneil wear; cotton rib: | fleece lined | med with Roman | #2d colored | Petticoats i ® | stripes and fleece lined; high | vestand pants, striped silk or | embroidered large variety of gold pastor neck vests with ] in white and} jisuecollar. Size | corner; also} “P!* colors | oad twoe long sleeves: 6 to 14 years. | men's hand- | S24 black. Ex- | vine soom ankle length %4.50 value— | Kerchiefs, ceptional values pants, Tuesday 6 f for Tuesday or 29c 25c] $2.98 Main Floer. Main Floor, Second Floor. | te prevent Formerly Broadway at Ninth A. T. Stewart & Co. New York 6,500 Men’s Shirts Cc (Six for $5.50) $1.25 to $3.50 Wanamaker Grades Including 672 Pure Silk Shirts Because of the limited quantity of these silk shirts we must limit their sale to two silk shirts only to one customer. We never use baits. These silk shirts are not .. bait. They come to us as part of the 6,500 purchase—we paid for them no more than for the other grades. We sell as we buy—so the silk shirts go along with the others at 95c. The Others are Cotton-and-Silk, Woven Madras, Mercerized Woven Cords and Fine Madras —All Soft Negligee Shirts With Soft Cuffs Sizes 14 to 17. Patterns run into hundreds. The maker of these shirts has been making shirts for 40 years, They ought to be good shirts—and they are! Sale opens tomorrow, Tuesday, on the Main Men’s Floor, New ° Building, and at Subway Entrance. Be Early for These Silk Shirts! It Makes Little Difference What You Need, a World “Want” Ad, Will Go and Get It, MORNING | _ A Fine | $1,14 Coupe do Al Weel Storm ‘ease benal hs. may aot pe “Ee eae, eae "eit inngtha of fi of fine qu | Siena tess Pe se eterna atts Cie odel—hematitched r jong sleeves—fancy but- FIRST SHOWING OF BLACK FLOUNCINGS or border—very pretty and effective, Alse These Meot-Wanted— BLACK LACES mines Con ceaerhly, a 4 rea taf antt-on Black br nd uae, ail'new designs. ab . .08 Bintubroldered’ Net Wi Heute og oa Black mynacels iets i ; 810° 88 PigstlS widths ne, 69 to 1.08 Piastiele widths... iy Biggs Law Allover: ayes yy "Eat ae eine for are’ fanaeh cesses Yds «LD to 1.98 TOMORROW (TUESDAY) UNTIL 1 P. M. dealers baying, quantities restrigted. Mo Mail or Telephone Orders. “4 gure ply orienta rug designs —reversible. BASEMENT? 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For Tiny Tots and Little Girls Blots, emtintaceion te thes 7. “INSTRUCTIONS TO OUR BUYERS” semly: tnck-away garments sO PRICES ARE TO BE ADVANCED. but to Nightdrawere—fieece “ane “ALL, FALL AND \aieen Goo! eae ER DS are te be fan priced one With feet, 1 to 8 yri This becomes doubly beneficial to our customers for the follow- | P™aanelette, Nis ing reasons:— Our every Selling Puce are lower others, AND NOT BEING BURDENED with old debts, rents, ete., we can and do carry out above policy, Not in print, but in practice, resulting In— The Best Merchandise for the Smallest Outlay. The proof of the pudding is the eating.” ‘The proof of our merchandising Is Our Always Busy Store uo Two Special Purchases Fine Lace Curtains Values $2.98 & $3.49 Sale 1.95 Marie Antoinette c irtains, mount~ ed_on French Cable Net—-white and Arabian—15 styles. Irish Point Curtains—neat or sho al and Lacet—Whit Arablan—value RODS AND CURTAIN POLES hing new— A complet pilin 4 wake. ing Wood Curtain Poles—complete— with ends and brac oak or mahogany—reg, .25 Extension for long taine—seme) 33 we 2 reg «10. erereeccersonncs, Fi Planneleste Pajamas —military style, : paca aul Tthtroges Flannelette Nightdre: Mentbraldtrimet told praee quality—ele: iT scalloped ruftie— y ria’ Kimonon—flannelettes— " xtra quality--Empire style—_°* desirable ght and dark solots am -6 to 18 yra—reg. $1.49 age oly tig eo de WINTER-WEIGHT COMFORTABLES To be forewarned is to be for unrter Pe ets White Down—rew $148 4:80 er Pillows—extra choice white Geeno Feathers—best herringbone tieking— Why wait until cold weather is ‘ 22x30, ... worth $2.9 |This list is submitted for immediage 24x30....worth $34 | consideration: — 26x30... worth $3.9 Full slz0—silkoline covered Feather Ned Ticke— Pillow and Mattress Tielka— plain backe—reg. .98. 69 full and % #lze—assorted Turkey red back—figured to atripes—worth $1.69 Full and three-quarter deat ticking—worth $2. 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