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this board tonight — in fact, to make it 

 available for any emergency. The con- 

 struction of this great inland waterway, 

 we believe, will be productive not alone 

 of increased manufactures, but will afford 

 an opportunity to the cotton planter of 

 the South to send his goods north at a 

 cheaper and better rate of freight, and 

 will open up the farm lands that have 

 barely been considered in the general 

 waterway agitation up to this time. 



If you will take your maps when you 

 return to your homes and draw your 

 finger clown the line from Boston to 

 Beaufort, you will see a water-course a 

 thousand miles long, through which you 

 could pass in a small boat from the 

 southern side of Cape Cod, but through 

 which no large boat could pass uninter- 

 ruptedly, because there is not sufficient 

 depth to make it available for purposes of 

 commerce. There are several strips of 

 land in the way. Cape Cod itself has not 

 been cut through. But one canal is now 

 being cut through by the government of 

 the state of Massachusetts, and another 

 is on the plans for construction. There 

 would be a saving of seventy miles 

 around the perilous shoals of Cape Cod. 

 Following the course down Long Island 

 Sound you would come from the harbor 

 of Xew York through the Raritan Canal, 

 a distance of 34 miles, across New Jer- 

 sey to the Delaware River. That canal is 

 entirely too shallow for commerce or 

 war. It should be made deeper and 

 broader to meet the necessities of the on- 

 coming generations. Pass on down the 

 Delaware to the city of Philadelphia. 

 Pass Trenton and Wilmington and come 

 to the state of Delaware, and there you 

 strike the Chesapeake and Delaware 

 Canal. Only thirteen miles of open 

 water-course would carry any vessel not 

 exceeding 9 feet in draft, out into the 

 Chesapeake Bay, and on down the Ches- 

 a peake Bay to Norfolk, and then through 

 the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds out 

 through the sand dunes of North Caro- 

 lina again into the Atlantic Ocean. You 

 speak of those things that are attractive 

 to you in your geographic studies, those 



things that are pleasant to you in your 

 scientific research ; think of this as a 

 problem of the future; think of this as 

 something that will help to develop this 

 country and unite the sections in bonds 

 of commercial and industrial intercourse ; 

 in those bonds which make for the peace 

 and prosperity of the land. 



MEMBERS AND GUESTS PRESENT 



Mr C. E. Adams. 



Mrs Harriet Chalmers Adams. 



Capt. Roald Amundsen. 



Senator and Mrs Ankeny, of Washington. 



Hon. O. P. Austin. 



Miss Austin. 



Miss Bagley. 



Mr Reid S. Baker. 



Mr and Mrs W. H. Baldwin. 



Miss Baldwin. 



Mr and Mrs O. W. Barrett. 



Representative Bartholdt, of Missouri. 



Mrs E. J. Bates. 



Dr and Mrs L. A. Bauer. 



Mr George Herbert Beaman. 



Mr and Mrs Charles J. Bell. 



Mr Sydney Bieber. 



Mr E C. Billard. 



Mr Frederic de Billiets. 



General John S. Black, President Civil Service 



Commission. 

 Mr and Mrs John S. Blair. 

 Dr Wm R. Blair. 

 Col. and Mrs Henry F. Blount. 

 Mr and Mrs Scott C. Bone. 

 Mrs Linnie M. Bourne. 

 Mr Randolph Bourne. 



Representative and Mrs Boutell, of Illinois. 

 Representative and Mrs Sidney J. Bowie, of 



Alabama. 

 Mr. C. S. Bradley. 

 Mr J. A. Breckons. 

 Mr Robert Brott. 

 Miss Anna B. D. Brown. 

 Mr William Wallace Brown. 

 Mrs. Brown. 



Hon. C. Brun, The .Danish Minister. 

 Dr Joseph H. Bryan. 



Hon. James Bryce, The British Ambassador. 

 Mrs Bryce. 



Captain Buckle, British Royal Artillery. 

 Mrs Buckle. 

 Rev. Dr S. J. Buel, President of Georgetown 



University. 

 Representative and Mrs A. S. Burleson, of 



Texas. 

 Representative H. R. Burton, of Delaware. 

 Representative Theodore Burton, of Ohio. 

 Hon. Y. Calderon, Bolivian Minister. 

 Madame Calderon. 

 Mr Frank G. Carpenter. 



