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This objection stirred Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck, outspoken chairman of the Albany Port District Commission, to advance a startling new idea at the Senate hearing: "Before the U. S. should invest in the canalization of the St. Lawrence, it should place itself in a position to be a 50% beneficiary by purchasing all land east and south of the centre line of the river from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. This could readily be done, without great additional cost to taxpayers, by crediting England with the purchase price on her War Debt."* At one sweep Mr. Ten Eyck would...
...Island & Pacific Ry. reorganization in 1917. is now a member of its executive committee, Wall Street was not surprised that the new board included two Rock Island men. Edward Norphlet Brown, chairman of the executive committee (he is also board chairman of stricken St. Louis-San Francisco) and Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck. At its first meeting the new board chose Insurgent Amster as president...