Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-10-24
Third street Bridge.

'ii-hiN'l'Nf oCl. ltlll, 1861,
TO he Edifors " Tie Commercial.
will trouble you again ms the Editor of the
Delaware Ga-eRe pitches into into the Third
Street Bridge, and tile Levy Court generally.
viii make another statement with regard to That
accidental bridge In the first place the I.cpsln
ture never ought to have made conditions TO tho
building of the bridge They ought to have said
New Castle county might build the bridge acres,
the stream, or should not do it, without any re-
gard to where the inurey was 10 cu,nn frnu,, /
tiilhk NE Legislature never intended that there
should be bridge there: they thought The mar
Tics would not raise the money to do il. but tLc
parles c!lht into Court and voluntarily pnyt
thcir bonds Tor eighteen Thousand dollars.
although the Attorney of the Levy Cont yn W
his opinion las the court lad NO right 10 a,,l,r,
pirate any money to build the bridge. six mem
Defs Of the court thought differently bliryiu,r il
was Tor the best interests OF the county to build
per IN the centre of the creek that would he /,
monument honor ofnstcad otfolly. Thai ,ier l. !,
good one AMI when the bridge and draw are All
gone and ruticd away that pier will be rood fnI
Two generations to come ] would here stt,tf
mat no man has n better opinion of the Attorut,
VI tiie curt rs gentleman and Il lawyer than /
nave, M III this one case could moi see Ms h,
'i', and i with others, took the responsibility n
appr pirate eight thousand five hundred dollar,
OF me countys money To build said bridge. and
ipei perfectly clear in having so done belle,
~ Two years the county would have had to buill
NE bridge altogether, at the expense Of M,
county. w
Inc writer u the article referred to- chnl,,t,
NY Lazy tollrt with negligence and nccipi,ry
ilc Court Is not perfect and probably makes /,
s,ell many mistakes A mans election to Al
INN more perfect than his fellows.
The next complaint is that we have yynst,,
.l''ooo or sl2,OOO OF the public money b,.
iieT ", we ll',vr saved the county just slS0 900
ine hcNt complaint Is We put INTO il political
i'lNoritcs pocket :SD1D. Now one Of Ills nnrt,
pun III 70 build the bridge, but he wanted sid M
70 90 IL. Two other gentlemen mi iii to bnlId
.he bridge ut .2G,00O; just five hundred dollar.
iess thail we gave Mr.. Qngley. Nsw these zen.
.lclliell are very clever men; one of them IS in
soou Standing ~ our party, but Mr.. Qniylrv's ry.
ptrlehcc MS bridge-buildtr was worth NOR, H., :,
iivehnndred dollars. we did precisely Ms sbnnId
have done if had been building ior myself.
me writer says tluisley could have BULL il iol
,,ec ~ iour llioiisahd dollars less. lie did build
the bridge but we could not get lim to come
down down five hundred dollars. lust what othn,
parties offered to | uld 1t for
Inc next complaint is We run the comfy in
aenl sSuoo' Inc county has never got in debt,
nave paid OFT some OF the debt, though probable
not us much MS we ought to have done.
AS for the bridge tender, have nothin,, 10 saw.
Mnaiever party was in power the bridgc-tcndcr
would have to be paid
| Now. as to finishing the britl,tc Mr. on;4l.,
did finish il without one cent additional cnst +,
me county, and that is according To the agree.
ntnt There were TO be no extra charges.
NOW me next charge Is We tried To ret the CITY
council INTO the expense of finishing the Lrli.e.
| MY opinion Is the Council did not do their dir
to the bridge nor what was for the Interest If IL,
| ciy HE ConAcil are my political friends mos,
| oi Them my personal trlchds--;na if lhrv wnpt
go with me will 30 with them. and we will IL
| ways be found right on election day. / feel
Obliged to the Gdsede Tor his good FEELINGS /, j.
wards The Levy Court, and think il IL ri.rhf mud
Just 70 hold public servants to u strict account
JOHN w. HAWKINS