FOREWORD
NATIONAL WATERWAYS with this its initial issue makes its bow to the public. The magazine enters the field without any blare of trumpets, flurry of flags, or extravagant promises. The publishers believe that they have produced a good magazine, good both from points of contents and appearance—a good magazine of which this initial issue is but a fair sample and not a special effort. With the cooperation of our readers we hope to improve our product rather than to lower the standard here set.
It is the usual custom to make the statement of a new publication that it is here and here to stay. NATIONAL WATERWAYS is here to stay. It is here to work earnestly in the cause of waterway improvement. It is here to entertain, to instruct, and to please. Study well the pages submitted in this issue, and if we gain your approval, tell us so. If we do not reach your ideas, again tell us so. for NATIONAL WATERWAYS is its readers' magazine——your magazine.
