Identifier: newenglandmagaziv37bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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that Providence, situated two hundredmiles nearer the South than Boston, oughtto have become the principal sea-gate ofNew England. General Brayton explainedthat for a dozen miles below the city Nar-ragansett Bay is shallow, and that in orderto maintain a good channel it would benecessary to dredge constantly, at largeexpense. He did not tell me that the rail-road, whose chief legislative representa-tive he is, receiving a large annual sal-ary, had subtly opposed harbor improve-ments; but, remembering how the trans-continental lines have always, openly andsecretly, fought the Panama Canal project,I wondered whether Providences lack ofharbor facilities might not be due to thequiet manipulation of the railroad. Thegovernment has to dredge constantly inthe harbors of New York, Galveston, NewOrleans, and other great ports, and itsoriginal outlay for harbors in these andother cities has been greater than it wouldneed be at Providence. It seemed to me WHATS THE MATTER WITH RHODE ISLAND? i37
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Robert Hale Ives Goddard, who answered Lincolns first call as a private, and was a colonel at the end of the war. A fellow of Brown University, treasurer of the Lonsdale Company and the Berkeley Company, prominent in other manufacturing and financial institutions of Rhode Island. Democrats and independent Republicans hope to make him United States Senator that Senator Aldrich, the most powerfulmember of the United States Senate,could have got for Providence at leastequal favor with New Orleans, Galveston,and Houston. But we have onlv two representatives in the House, said Gen-eral Bray ton. The explanation seemsscarcely sufficient. Rhode Island would certainly profit largelyby procuring a deep harbor and adequate

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