Show GOOD BOOD FOR COUNTRY V IMPROVEMENT OF WATERWAYS WILL DEVELOP RESOURCES s OF EVERY SECTION FREIGHT CARRIED CHEAPLY CHE CH PLY Ly j jM I Make Mako M n Direct Saving 6 In of Tt Trans Transportation n by tho the Water WOlter Rout Roule and J Indirectly Serve to Railway Carrying Raton Rates Tho claim nan has been beon made in inous 1 p I ous and f and nod fW given to suPPort the claim that t li a carry freight moro more cheap cheaply I than the do or 01 can enn and tw they compel compol tho the railways to CUry freight more cheaply than thoy the y othe also wito would making a saving of or of at millions of or dollars a ar enn under present conditions and andIng Ing a vast Increase In that It I MI all I waterways should bo be Improved Am AU then tho the surprising assertion a amade u made that tho way to the and Increase tho the of ot the railroads of at tho United slats Is le to Improve the tho waterways of the e R United States J Tho The best beat guido to tho the future la hi the experience of tho the past part so BO let lot un Wi what rr ri 9 I actually 1 hap had f pont to railways whet watery rd have boen been Improved Improve That tho Improvements In tho the c t 1 nelA neis and harbors of ot the Inke ha h been of great eat benefit both to tho the ral ways parallel their chorea sh and to those which run from lake laico cities to the Interior Is IB a I foot fact BO so plain that It needs no argument to support It IL There are no moro more prosperous and profitable roada In tho country than those that servo serve tho the region re on tributary to the lakes lakon But no ono tho wisdom of ot continuing tho the Improve Improvement ment of ot tho the lakes or of our ocean r l harbors The real roat question quo Uon la Is as to i the tho Improvement of ot our rivers and It If E Ewe we wish to study the tho effect of river Improvement elthor either on 00 railway rove t flues or national development wo we mutt mUG co go O to Europe In Bohemia l During tho years that Im tin were ero under way on tho the 1 Elbe El river In Bohemia the river elver trat traffic i itic tic fie as n a natural result of the tho better belter channel Increased fivefold But traffic traffic fic on tho competing railways In f crossed creased cro sed still sUll more largely and tho the on the main lino 1100 from G to rose 1030 to 16 10 per cent per I annum i Sli liar results followed tho the V i of ot the River Main from May Mayonce onto once on the Rhino Rhine to Frankfort i which was finished In the latter part of ot 1830 1886 Tho The river traffic which amounted to only O tons In that year began to grow and has haB kept on I 1 growing being b tons In IO There Ibero are two railroads s between Frankfort and one ono on each eldo Ildo of or tho the river What happened to them thorn Did their business show a serious se 10 e rious falling off Or wore they thoy tho forced rore I Into the hands of n Q receiver On th this contrary their traffic which was W 3 tons In 10 1880 1380 also aleo began to 10 grow and by 1902 had reached tons or more than double what 1 when hen the railroads r had a practical caI I v ti monopoly of ot tho business of ot Frank Frankfort t fort fork L I The mero mere statement of ot the In Increased creased d tonnage does doen not tell the j whole truth troth of or the tho matter for tho the l tonnage was not only more than doubled In quantity but greatly raised In grade so BO that It lL could pay h hand 1 and did pay a much higher rate rato per k ton per mile Fine Gorman German Waterways Practically nil all the railways of or Ger Germany Germany Germany many are state owned state oper a atod od of a total of or miles In round numbers only about 2600 miles are operated op by private com corn companion panics panion Germany also has ono one of ot tho the finest systems of or waterways In tho the world and a study of ot tho the balance balanco sheet of at tho Gorman German railway system shows shown that the results which followed the tho Improvement of ot the River Main are arc not an exception a mere mero coincidence coincidence dence dance but are aro tho the natural J of a principle of or general In n the calendar year car 1907 after payl pa pay Ii for operation oP maintenance reps renewals now equipment Interest bonds hondR contribution to the tho sink fund and every other Item which most moat careful bookkeeping require bo be charged ch up the tho Gorman railways turned of or absolutely not Dot revenues Into Joto the treasuries of the various stales This was WAg pet per mile mila of ot line ll e operated while the corr figure 4 re on States Status rail railways railways ways for the th T fiac year was only 1967 a u 11 Jt over as much I B Much the tho part pm Of ot the thc total toW I revenue of t Gorman German states Is IB do rived fromer from Crom railways 71 coots cents out of ot every Avery l tar Jar ir received by Prussia In 1907 beks be so ao obtained Yet Gorman states ko keep l on year yeu after year spun rp n money moner earned by their rail Way Ray building and Improving water T r d to with those thOS same Home rail Tan 1 fl 9 on which they depend d as 8 tho the source of or national Income m a the light of or tho the facts given above Kit It will not do to say that these Ger Oer German German I man moo statesmen do not n t know bow what they arc about On the th contrary thoy they ore fire acting aa na has bas boen been well sold Bald m In fur furtherance therance of or a policy tho the wisdom of which time U and experience ox have bavo fully confirmed Always and everywhere tho result sult Is tho the some the Improvement of a n waterway is a Q benefit to competing railways Per For this thin result as for tor any nn other there thor Is le a good and sufficient reason but It must toilet be loft for tor another V time to tell teU what that reason la Is 1 j |