Show TH THE WATERWAYS COMMISSION The waterways commission has sent a strong delegation to Europe to investigate what has hns been done clone and is being done to facilitate transportation by water on the other shore of the Atlantic The tron n intends to go direct by train from Bremerhaven Bre- Bre to Berlin where four days will be spent jn ill examining the c canals nals in and about abOlt that city Then fh n will come an examination of the Elbe Elba at al Dr Dresden then a two days' days examination of the Moldau l river dver at Prague then a weeks week's study of oi the Danube from Vienna to to Budapest Then the Danube from Budapest to with a visit i to o Belgrade and the iron gates of the tho Danube below below be be- low Then back to Strasburg by rail rail- railto to tofake take fake in the Rhine For this five live days day are allowed ed for the Rhine between Strasburg and Rotterdam Then the waterways of Holland will be taken in ron nf there to Brussels to see what B Belgium has t. t Then ten days will be given to the water- water Siy of France and finally fifteen days as will be gi given ep to what England has to show in the theay way ay oJ of Wat waterways the harbors of London and Liverpool t and nd the Manchester canal It ought to be a us useful ful experience but there should be a feature about American waterway im im- im- im which Europe does not consider That l 1 fea feasibility in all ll such imp improvements oi of of alJy irrigating ting the country f or irrigation io lh the li rule in the United States a few years ears earsL L cb both east and west t t |