Show T TAFT FT FAVORS NEW FORT AT CAPES N NORFOLK Va Nov 19 The The navy should not only be te worth seeing but should be DO able to fight dent Taft aroused enthusiasm today by making this statement in a an address address ad ad- dress before the Atlantic Deep Waterways Waterways Water Water- ways association convention The pr president expressed his interest interest inter inter- est in a proper growth and declared Hampton and nd Chesapeake bay baj should be protected by an nit island fort erected midway mid Jj between the Virginia VirJinia capes lIe Ho urged this method of dc do- c 3 as secretary of war ar ho he said au and would continue to it as president dent Mr Mi- Taft regarded the theor Norfolk or olk navy yard as probably the most important place in the countr country antI and Hampton Roads as i tho the greatest point of ot naval 31 a rendezvous OIlS CZ n Regarding waters waterways avs President Taft reiterated his posit position on with regard to waterways improvement and dc do c. c dared he ho would earnestly support nn any pro project which i hould provo pro prove its practicability and worth orth and which redound to the tho general good |