Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1920 — URGE LAKES-SEA WATERWAY [ARTICLE]

URGE LAKES-SEA WATERWAY

Shippers and Manufacturers Appear at Detroit Hearing to Boost improvement. Detroit, Mich., Oct 25.—Further evidence to show that the proposed deep waterway linking the Atlantic with the great lakes is necessary in the Middle West was presented here at a short session of the hearing before the international joint waterway commission. Part of the day was allotted to entertainment of the members of the commission. Prominent manufacturers and shippers appeared and urged the undertaking of the tidewater improvement. The chief arguments were that the business of the Middle West would be developed by making each great lakes city virtually an ocean port and that time and money would be saved by shippers by overcoming freight cengestion in eastern centers.