The daily gazette., 1878-08-31
FIFTH EDITION.
4 BRIDGE ON THE DELAVARL.
What Senator Sa u Is hurry shi In
OF Wflnlngt tom and the
From fhe IlaIauareaI

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Gazette.
From the Delaw arean.
Wilmington with its advantage for COM
merce and Its great ship-yards and manu-
factories Is put off with 81 900, while at
the little inlasd town of Dover, where
| $1,000 TO $4,000 would have bought as
good house for po- toffice as the good
people of that town desired the govern
ment is completing post flee building
at cost OF $50 900. Had the latter sum
been expended In n stone ice pier and
bridgeway to it at the mouth of tie Chri
tana, where the government has light
house and wharf, something beneficial
might have resulted to commerce and to
the conve nience of all the people living
on the Delaware river who wished to
come or go from Wilmington. The wis
dom that directs or permits such mon
strous folly in expenditures is worthy of
more severe condemnation than IL gets.
Yet While this waste proceeds little d. Ia
ware mas 10 pay her million dollars year
Iy to the U. ). treasl ry-Gazette.
we clip the above from recent num-
Der OF the Wilmington Doity Gazette. and
have noticed in other issues of that naner
complaints on account of all. ged small
appropriations for the city of Whining
.ou. Ine appropriation of 81 900, for the
Improvements of the Christiana river ia
regarded by the Gazette as entirely TOO
small, and 1t wants 100000 expended in
tne construction OF a stone ice pl,r ami
bridgeway at its mouth. The comnlaint
OF the Gazette is without jusiification and
arises, perhaps from desire to find fault
with the Representative and Senators IN
Congress. ."
We doubt whether the Gazette il in NOS
session Of sufficient information in refer
ence TO appropriations proposed 10 he
ihade even In the ne'ghborhood of Will
mington t. express an intelligent opin-
ION upon the subject. We doubt, in fact
whether the Gazette knows that appro-
furnished by the government enginaers
after examination and surveys are made.
we VIII gratuitou>ly inform the Gazette
that the appropriations made for ,he
improvement of the Chfistiana have an.
proximated the estimates of the depart-
,nent charged with the duty, more close
.han many other points, and we be-
heve have beef fully equal :, the re-
quirenebts of the business on the Chris
uana' AT The end Of the 44th Congress
there were six thousand dollars of fnr.
mer appropriations for Christiana nm. x
pended, AMI which at the end of tn. 6s.
cal year, on the Both of June following
would have been covered, iuto the treas
u'y ,na1 uot our worth Representative a.
we are informed called the attention of
mayor Whitley aud Mr.. Tay lor Cause to
tne mater, who doubt. IS int. re-, ted
thst time.
The people Of Delaware are Justly
proud OF the enterprise and success of
tne business men of Wilmington, and are
slaa @ 70 see the city advancing in wealth
anu prosperity, but everybody knows
that IL can never be- n commercial metre
poh,, ana nobody, but the Gazette would
think the expenditure of $50 OOO 10 build
an ice pier and bridgeway at the mouth
oI the Chrietlana, anything but a foolish
expenditure OF the public money. The
Id@ette Is the champion of ecouomy, and
travagance imaginable.
Inc hing of the Gazette at Dover, and
us new post office building, is prompted,
perhaps, by that petty jealousy too often
observed by the depizebs ofrowps in the
same state. Dover does not claim any
great degree of Importance as a business
piace, anu sets up no rivalry with the
city OF wilmington in that regard. 1t is,
however, an improving town, and the
capital OF the State, and when at n time
Wheh congress was making appropria-
tons for public building in MANY other
state capitals, her citizens, without party
distinction, pelitioned congress for a
post-otnce building, and through the eff
forts OF the members of Congress. obtain
Ell an appropriation for that pnrpose.
No appropriation could have been oh
tained II Dover had not been the capital
of the State.
Thousands of towns in the countrv
much larger, had no public buildings, but
Congress, having previously appropr,a-
ted money for buildings in the capitals
Of several of the new States, recee nj zed
the justice of placing building i'm the
capital of Delaware one of the original
thirteen. The building is a hand ONE
structure, suitable to the present wants
OF this place, but is perhaps the smallest
public building of the kind in the coun-
try
. We pity the envy or jealousy which
carps at every advantage which Others
I enjoy, and with all our charity cannot
r 6tleve that the objections made by the
pAZErrE are prompted by desire for
1 economy since it would have diverted
the appropriat; ons for the post-office TO
/ building an ice pier and bridgeway at The
mouth of the Christiana.
If the Senator will only get 100000 an.
a propriated for an ice pier and a bridge T.,
: 1t and the mouth of the Christiana ws
!. VIII endeavor to have it completed h,
e some means afterward, and our people
! A