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Show TO ABOLISH ICEBERGS Plan, Indorsed by New York Board of Trade, Before Congress. New York Jan 0 - A plan lor abol I ishins Icebergs is lo be laid before congress. The New Yoi U board of ! trade and transportation announces lis indorsement f a bill which Congressman Con-gressman "alder of Brooklyn will submit sub-mit at Washington, palling for a gov-I gov-I eminent commission to stud) the feasibility of constructing a b ige iel-ty iel-ty across the flrand Honks of Newfound New-found land The Idea, which Ihe members of the j Uard at first inclined to jeer but later adopted was explained In its originator. C I- Hiker of Brooklyn Me said he would obstruct the Lab-, Lab-, rador current by laying a steel cable I H inches in diameter across the Grand Banks against which the cur- rent vonld d osil sand and form a j ridse extending for 200 miles to the ensi of Cape Race. This, he declared, would be .sufficient lo shift the current cur-rent so that the warm Rtilf stream and the cold librador current would comniing e nieltms; the h e in the kit -tor and eliminating iceberss not only from the region of the Grand Banks but also from the entire Arctic circle. cir-cle. Greenland, he maintained, would' be transformed into a garden and England would be surrounded bj 'in rent as warm as the Carribean sea Mr. Riker declared that, however wild this project might seem at first sight, it had received much indorsement indorse-ment and even the tlnited stales by-drographic by-drographic ofifce had considered the project feasible. He i nlr uol, would cost about $L'0,(iuti,000 |