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Show Z2Z .i.2S to C 2 C .3- rilfce of Ccr.Tess. CHICAGO. May 10. "The posstbtlltlea of making Chicago a great seaport" will he discuMed at an Informal dinner to be given by the Chicago Commercial association as-sociation on next Thursday In honor of the sub-committee of the House River and Harbors committee. The . Illinois Manufacturers' ' assoclayon., the Board of Trade, and the Chicago River Improvement Improve-ment association will assist in perfecting plans for bringing hls subject before the publle. - I - . Congressmen Edgar C. Ellis of Missouri, Missou-ri, Joseph" E. Ransdell of Louisiana, James Davidson of Wisconsin, and Henry T. Rainey, secretary of the Deep-- Water-Way Water-Way commission are on the programme for addresses. - If. C. Barlow, executive director of the- Commercial association, predicted yesterday that the great waterways water-ways which were here before the railroads rail-roads would become again the most important im-portant arteries of commerce, and said that completion of the drainage canal . and deepening of the Mississippi would aid Chicago. . |