The Erie Canal is opening for the season. It has been expanded and the new name is the Barge Canal but most everyone still referred to as the Erie.

THE FAIRPORT HERALD

Wednesday, April 21, 1915

EDITORIAL COMMENT

The “Raging Erie,” according to the official announcement of Superintendent of Public Works Wotherspoon, will be in open to traffic on May 15. 160 miles of the new Barge Canal will be in operation. This will include 20 miles in Wayne county and a greater portion of the length between Rochester and Tonawanda. Fairport residents are always glad when the “Bog Ditch” is annually filled. It means a chance to fish, a place to motor and canoe, but the canal is never looked upon as a means of transportation for freight or produce that materially affects Fairport one way or another. If the dreams of the promoters of the Barge Canal are realized it may be that in the future the opening the canal, annually, may mean an increase of business for out village.

“Men may come and men may go,” but it looks as if the men who tinker with the laws at Albany have sufficient gray matter to realize that a goodly number of the men who operate the Jitneys and a large portion of the patrons of the quicker transportation facilities afforded by the operation of the Jitneys are voters.