People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — Wants to Widen the Erie Canal. [ARTICLE]

Wants to Widen the Erie Canal.

Washington, April I.—Representative Mahany (N. Y.) has introduced a bill to appropriate $2,000,000 to widen the locks of the Erie canal so as to permit the passage of modern torpedo boats for the protection of the lake ciMea.