The Morning herald., 1875-09-27
n TRADE Against ,PIKES.
A FIsHY sUBJECT-THE ANCIENT AND
FIsH-LIKE SMELL" OF our CODE.

FIsHY sUBJECT-THE ANCIENT AND
FIsH-LIKE SMELL" OF QUIZ CODE.
at is stated, but the authority is some
what triaing, that a lam had ferry over
one of the rivers Of Paradise, and charged
Eve ten cents to carry her over, when his
queen was 10th to swim the smooth flowing
stream. Charon, more likely, was the
father of ferrymen, and by this time has
made golden island of the coins taken
from the 81 ostly wayfarers who crowd the
turbid sty1. But this thing of ferrying is
an old time notion; some one invented
bridges, and ferry me over the river is
getting to be an echo from the misty
mountain tops of carly earth life.'" So
quoth poetical Granger whom the HERALD
man, riding along the Newport pike, had
the honor Of taking by the fingcr-tips and
putting to him the leader, What do you
think of this Internal toll-gate business %
"And," continued the Granger, "ofcourse
bridges according to natural consecution
would be owned by private corporations pri-
marily; they would build from their own
purses and very naturally stick up toll
house at one end to catch the dimes"
"Ah yes, very true, doubtless, but
shouldn't this turnpike, for instance, be
turned into respectable free road" .,r
"Oh, no, let's have few of the romantic
customs left-for the sake of old-time asso-
Citations, you know, and things of that kind
y don't object to paying few pennies; no
truble at all, not bit, here's gate now"
SO saying, the old gentleman began rum
maging his pockets for coins; 40 cur repre-
sentative drove on, he looked back and saw,
a face as ruddy as the sun just setting, he
heard voice Of despair and modification
with some lamentable CALCULATIONS thrown.
in, and as he moved out Of sight, was con-
scious that wordy battle was going on in
his rear. The Granger had left his pocket
book at home. :
"No doubt" unused we, "the old fellow
is now cured of his respect for inconvenient
tradition five are to pay for good roads
let it be by taxes properly levied The turn
pixies are, as general thing, kept limo bet
ter condition than the roads under the
charge of county appointees. Corporations
OF this kind have no business to exist. They
would not exist, but to make money,
consequently it would be cheaper for the
people OF the county to pay their road
money in the form Of road tax. The Re-
vised Code of Delaware Laws publishes the
corporate powers ofthe Wilmington, the VIII
mington and Kennett, the Wilmington and
Great Valley, the Wilmington and Philadel-
phia, and the Wilmington and Christiana
Turnpike Companies, with charter grants
made from February /, 1903, to January 80,
1878. The average toll for ordinary vehi-
cles is ~ cents per mile. Hogs, sheep,
cattle, &C., are charged by the score. Ele-
plants and hippopotami are not mentioned
in the wise provision. People are not
charged going to or from funeral or elec-,
tion. How the former are 6cad heads ie
plainly seen, but there is difficulty in ac-
counting for the latter. There is scarcely a
citizen OF the county who does not look upon
these turnpikes and their costly inconve-
nicnces as intolerable nuisanccs. Very mapy
wayfarers have found themselves. in the
same prelicamcnt as the pOrtly GRANGER
mentioned above. The old enemies mud
and sunkcn ruts--are sill found, despite the
provision that the road shall be turnpiked
for at least, twenty feet, and kept In good
order. '..l, ,',Iflgy
, Tht public roads, under the supervision
Of road commissioners arc of that width and
generally i'll excellent driving condition. If
the public roads are not kept in good order,
il is on the face Of THINGS that a matter of
so much importance must be LOOKED to by
the Levy Courts. A petition to the Legisla-
tnre for the repeal of, turnpike charters !.
would be signed by a large majority of the
free holders of New Castle. Why not rid
ourselves Of the nuisance I., .ga II HirG
There is bridge in Sussex county spapn-r
ing the Nanticoke at Scatord and connecting
that town with ropulous district, which
has gathered in toil-money for forty years.
Foot passengers pay a couple of pennies, a; =.
tour-horse wagon loaded, 3715 cents. Night
travellers often wait for "a haH
an hour, in the storm Il likely; Il
to get across. A man feels as if he is a pil-,
grim, makikg deadly progress; not that Sea-
ford is, Celestial city. Every year or two
Sussex Countians talk of buying the bridge, -"
but the owners ere too high in their price.
the latter fact being accounted for, doubt
less, BY the rich harvest CLEANED. Such
matters are for State and county investigas
lion. True, other States have toILgatcs and
bridges. We have in Delaware a whipping
post; incorporated nuisances in the shape Of
;oll-bridges and highways, and, moreover.
our Code says: at shall be unlawful for any
person to shoot, kill, or chase any wild deer
within this State, under penalty of forfeit
ng ten dollars" 1t is unnecessary to state
hat hundreds Of sportsmcn are daily incar
'erated for violating :he statute just quoted;
ORPHANS FAIR