Complex sentence: The plan now was to reach Baltimore with a boat across Delaware Bay, a railroad across the Delmarva Peninsula via Smyrna, Delaware, and then by boat again across Chesapeake Bay, according to a statement issued in 1873 over the signature of Jay Gould, President.
Split into simpler sentences: The plan now was to reach Baltimore with a boat across Delaware Bay, a railroad across the Delmarva Peninsula via Smyrna, Delaware, and then by boat again across Chesapeake Bay. An announcement to that effect was made in 1873 over the signature of Jay Gould, President.