Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1909 — Deep Waterway Advocates Organize [ARTICLE]

Deep Waterway Advocates Organize

At a meeting of the representatives of Illinois and Indiana, who are interested fit the proposed new deep waterway between South Bend, Ind., and the Illinois river held at the Oliver house, South Bend, Monday, the representatives formed a permanent organization and adopted the name Indiana and Illinois Deep Waterway Association. D. W. Place, of South Bend, was elected president; W. W. Parrish, Jr., of Momence, vicepresident, and Frank J. Cook, of Lacrosse, secretary of the association. The plans are to secure aid of the states and government to build the waterway utilizing the Kankakee river by making it deeper and wider. From South Bend a waterway of seven miles will have to be dug to cdnnect with the river. A committee consisting of Mayor Fogarty, Wm. D. Oliver, of South Bend; Simon Straus, of Ligonier; F. J. Cook, of LaCrosse; A. J. Bunnell and Jacob Keller, of North Judson; Joseph Adams, John Tully, Judge Olson and F. M. Trissal, of Chicago; W. W. Parrish, Jr., B. F. Gray, John Fedde, of Momence; Len Small and Wayne Dyer, of Kankakee, were appointed to meet next week at Chicago to prepare plans to be presented for the consideration of the states of Indiana and Illinois and congress. The organization, will hold the next meeting at Kankakee, 111., March 16th, to which the general public are invited. Considerable! interest is being taken by the manufacturers of the cities which would be benefitted by the waterway.—Kankakee Valley Review.