Josephus Daniels to Woodrow Wilson

Title

Josephus Daniels to Woodrow Wilson

Creator

Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948

Identifier

WWP21701

Date

1917 July 26

Source

Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers, 1786-1957

Text

ADDRESS REPLY TO
THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
AND REFER TO INITIALS
AND NO.28689-5.

Op-17


My dear Mr. President

Replying to your letter of July 25, 1917, regarding the deepening of the Hell Gate Channel, I have to-day addressed a letter to the Secretary of War, to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, and to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Rivers and Harbors, urging that the deepening of the Hell Gate Channel should include also widening and straightening so as to make a commodious channel.

My original recommendation was to deepen, widen and straighten the channel through Hell Gate to Long Island Sound to a depth of thirty-five feet and eventually to forty feet, with a channel adapted to use of vessels up to 1,000 feet in length. In my letters above-mentioned I have repeated this recommendation.

Sincerely yours,
Josephus Daniels


The President,
The White House.

To

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/WWI0520.pdf

Collection

World War I Letters

Citation

Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948, “Josephus Daniels to Woodrow Wilson,” 1917 July 26, WWP21701, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.