Word: ogdensburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snow, 50, had got a head start at St. Lawrence, partly because it is the smallest of New York's 18 state hospitals (never more than 2,300 patients), partly because it is the biggest employer in Ogdensburg (pop. 17,000). Many city officials, including the mayor, are on the hospital staff. Ogdensburgers pay little attention when patients with downtown privileges wander through the stores. For Dr. Hunt at Hudson River, it was tougher. Poughkeepsie (pop. 40,500) is all but surrounded by custodial institutions, some for violent criminals, and the people of Dutchess County have a horror...
...Harriman's fateful association with railroading began in 1879, when he married Mary Averell, daughter of the president of the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain Railroad. The bride's father provided a special train with the name "E. H. Harriman" painted on the locomotive. E. H. became a director of the road the next year. By the time he died, in 1909, he was the dominant figure in 75,000 miles of railroads worth $5 billion; he controlled Wells-Fargo Express Co.; he was president of 16 corporations and a guiding genius of 27 others...
...Congressmen watched the heavy ore boat traffic through Sault Ste. Marie. Then they cruised on the Canadian icebreaker Ernest Lapointe through part of the 120-mile bottleneck preventing similar navigation past the St. Lawrence rapids below Ogdensburg, N.Y. Even with fuel and ballast reduced to cut her draft, the Ernest Lapointe could barely squeeze through the antiquated existing locks. The Congressmen also noted that even now the river is busy with small boat commerce-evidence of potential Canadian profits if Ottawa carries out its threat to build the seaway alone. At Barnhart Island (once a rum-runners' hideaway), they...
Jobs & Lobbies. The main St. Lawrence bottleneck is a 120-mile stretch from Montreal to Ogdensburg, N.Y., where there is now a system of locks and canals providing a channel 14 ft. deep. Under the 1941 agreement, this would be replaced by a 27-ft. channel (deep enough for 80% of the world's shipping) through construction of seven new locks. Additionally, five dams would harness the International Rapids to spin 36 turbines at Barnhart Island. The project would cost Canada $412 million, the U.S. $523 million. It would take six years, provide 15,000 jobs, consume...