Show Waterways Waterways' That Are Small but Important To 10 be told that there Is I. an Amen Amerl- nn nn waterway y a little less than sl sli III allies riles In length that carries more than the entire Mississippi river liver from Cairo to New Orlem would 1 be startling to geography classes 4 Yet ret such luch Is I. Newtown creek reek a short tidal arm of the East river that tbd winds It Us way 9 Inland 1 and with three miles Ales of ot main channel and ond two miles more worn of 01 tributaries furnishes hundreds I If t f New York Industrial concerns a waterway wa wa- service I No 10 one ODe has boa been named Domed great In Inthe Intile tile the school histories as the discoverer discoverer t I of t Newtown n creek and Its UI mudd muddy wafers wa we Vets fers resemble most of ot the streams that hat carry more than their share hare of ot commercial burdens burden Dut But the spars span f f shipping and and the tell tan chimneys of 01 factories tell Its It It story or It Is la dirt dirty and lacks Inch romance romance because It Is used for or ether ther purposes purpose These Thue short streams that seem ocero to lUll have no nu particular usefulness suddenly take fate on great Importance when hen located lo lo- where they CUM can be bo by byan byan an en Industrial population The Chicago river liver Is III hardly on I the he maps mape but Its Ite Importance e In giving Chicago several precious n dou in lies of ot p port rt facilities has tins I never levu been underestimated The Rig fig tIdy Muddy ta to southern Illinois may some Borne stay he be one of the greatest coal car cor rives l rl In the world In the tile waterway world a n stream d does ts not h have C to he be large to be useful Size counts fur for little Utile The wonder Is II that In places where There nature h has S been heen so fro generous r n ith her waterway Y bounty we have hn made so 10 little use of 01 It Quincy Whig Journal |