Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-05-18 | Page 6 | Possibility of War Advanced

POSSIBILITY Of -AsCecsca -for F ourteeh Xhicca to Gulffl- " S' o 6) ' CHICAGO. May 18. The ) .""grave possibility f a' war . with England, -coupled with a . ' ' ) -word. picture of the mammoth Brttisa battleship . , .Dread- . . naught 'bombarding Chicago tt the : range of ten miles, while " " the proposed American-rival, re- " - ' . oently nicknamed th '"Skeered . . of Nothin' " by John Sharp Wll- ". llama. Jay uselee at the mouth " N " of ' the Mississippi : fiver, was . presented last night as a sum- . " dent reason for the construction ' of a'toorteen-foot-deep water- j way from Chicago to the Gulf. - ; The Idee, was - advanced -by Henry . T. ftalney. member of " "' Congress from the Twentieth ' vvr Illinois district, af the banquet - -.of. the Chicago Commercial as-- . : aociatlon at the "Sherman house. . . ' The banqueters were addressed A by Ave members of Congress, all .' advocates of water transports- v. tlon as a remedy for the high - "freight rates of the railroads. t , ,