A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50704 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: The Philadelphia Inquirer Article Date: December 7 1907 Article Description: Sons of Delaware Talk on Delwaware River Ship Channel: Article Text: Philadelphia, Pa., Dec 7, 1907: Delaware Congressman HIRAM R. BURTON, of Lewes, Del., declared last night at the eigth annual banquet of the Delaware Society of Philadelphia that he was more favorable to a thirty foot channel for the Delaware River, 1200 feet wide, that for a waterway thirty-five feet deep and only 600 feet wide. He said: " I believe what the Delaware River needs is a thirty foot channel at low water, 1200 feet wide. I would favor such a channel over one thirty five feet deep and only 600 feet wide. The majority of the pilots on the Delaware River live in my home town, Lewes. I have interviewd all and have found them, as a unit, favorable for a thirty foot channel, 1200 feet wide". Congressman Burton also lauded the movement for a chain of connected inland waterways from Boston to Florida. He was eulogistic in his praise of Congressman J. HAMPTON MOORE, of this city. The dinner was held in the Red Room of the Belleview-Stratford. Among the guest were JOHN O. SHEATZ, State Treasurer-elect. JOHN J. HOFFECKER, president of the society was toastmaster. Other speakers were County Commissioner RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG, of this city; WILLIAM H. HEALD, former Postmaster of Wilmington, and JOHN S. RUSSELL. Governor STUART , who was to have been one of the speakers, sent his declination in the afternoon because of the press of official business. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com