Daily Republican., 1880-04-01
ALns.uoUsE REnevAL.

for tins PfOpoyod Addition to tho
Insano Departments ReIeeted and
"a Committee Appointed 10 Exam
! sue she BnfldiAE with . View 90
Improving IL.
Owing 70 the latenses OF the hour
Yesterday afternoon the REPUBLICAN
was unable TO publish anything like
comprehensive report Of the arguments
presented by the citizens comnittee in
favcr OF removing the Aims House be-
fore the Trustees Of the Poor. Sum
maries Of the addresses are therefore
given to-day.
In the argument, which he made
after the reading of Senator Bayard's
letter, Mr.. Bush alluded to the fact that
Wilmington was purely q Insnutactur-
ing city, and that all her prosperity
was due to manufacturing interests.
He then proceeded to glance over Will
minzton'a business history, and told
how the carriage, the iron, the machine
and the ship.building busiuess had
grown. For long time ths town WAS
dead, bat at last the people found that
with lower taxes, lower rents, lower
markets, and more healthful situation
than larger cities, they could compete
with the industries elsswh here. They
went 10 work and soon the town became
the busy hive of industry which it is
ts-day.
In answering the question. as to how
all this related 10 the removal of the
Aims House. Mr.. Bush, remarked that
sflsot always accompanied cause, and
the success OF the city arose from GER
tain co.. ditions here found. Already
the manufacturers OF Wilmington were
beginning to ind outside competition
more difficult to NEE: on account Of q
decrease Of favorabls conditions around
them.
The speaker said the city was oncs
one Of the most health. nj In the Middle
States and property was very low. A
former citizen purchased land in Mar |
ket street above Eighth for $40 or sl2 |
per foot, and property on French street,
from Sixth to Eighth sold for So to %
per foot. II. said he could remember
when the city was small AID there was
much exosllent building land, the city
bsing bounded by French and Orange
streets. An increase Of population soon
filed the Iidgs aud the smaller houses
we're crowded down into the low-lyiug
ground. Property on the outskirts oil
the town soon enhanced in value and
now it Is almost impossible for labor
ing man to procure building 10. ex.
sept in PLACES where the air is impure
and there is no place for the children
% play except in the street.
He dwelt at length upon the popula-
lion of ths city, and said 1t WAS at least
10 900 now. The next decade would 1
Increase it 10000. Where, he asked.
ITO you going TO put ali these people
Shall they be confined in small tene-
nsnts III the central part Of town or
pushed out over the marshes, where
hey will bs subject TO malariAl fsvers {
'r afforded situations in healthfal part
Il town. q
The beautiful site for homes immedi- |
Itely ives. of the aims houss was point q
ID out and its merits, with high, dry
nd 6ns situation, and excellent for. /
nation for natural drainage, alluded TO, I
hen, instead OF procuring 4 lot l4s60 q
set, man could buy lot Of a quarter d
fan acre or more. /
Tho removal of the aims house 30 G
hat tho citizens could avail themselves :
t this property, wGs strongly urged by o
lr. Bush, and he said that in ten
ears, II this was done, the assessed il
alue Of the property west of Harrison :
trest, woold increase 81 100000. Hs &
bought the property would sell for at
EAST $75, 900 and went into figures to 4
rove hi5 assertion. On the aide Of l.
rootue street, bEtween Front and b
ourlh street, is stretch OF Sl9 feet OF .
ns best building yroperty in the city of ii
Wilmington, with view OF tbs Della. Il
are river and bay rhst Is unsurpassed Il
nd cannot be obstructsd. Tie dis
Iuce 10 Faukllu street is AT feet. III
on make these Brooms street lots sec Il
'et deep, magnificent depth for city "
It, think they would be very cheap id
, any man who wanted TO make q nice b
cme for himself aud family at $50 the D.
ont foot, $1,000 for 3 10! 50 by 800 u
et. Tho property on the west side OF oe
roon19 street is about 200 feet deep, IL
link, and it would be- worth at least Il
80 per foot. ii
Now if you take so feet at $50 and IN
ID feet ut $50 it givs5 you over $685. W
10. Then you have froLt on west ci
do Of Ftankiin street SIS feet by III .!
ct deep, on east side of Franklin OF
rect SIG by l45, and on west side otf r.
arrison street some 600 feet by l45
st, in all over 1900 feet, all good th
hiding property and easily worth az OF
'erage Of s25 per loot. tn
DR.. Read ]. Mckay addressed the or
'ustsss from q sanitary standpoint. ns va
i'd he had Just been through the %
lildiAg and found the apartments th
dIy arranged and fly ventilated. ",
10 odor Is 1s.seating as 1t reaches 90
q top 6f the building and the via.
We will not lower from the top. A 81
cf Aims houses aud hospit. DO
8 in Philadelphia, New York, London ne
ID Paris Cnabled him to speak intelli,
ntly Of ,his. 1t was his emphatic ob
Union that it aas extremely danger gr
8 10 have the Aims bouse within the In
" limits in oase Of a pestilsncc and
at it was decidedly detrimental to tic
9 health of the inmates 10 be com. to
llsd to live in such place. ha
Chairman Bird Of the Board broke in 10,
tn a question as TO ths condition
the part of the insane department ala
lioh it was proposed to build. He no
,eivsd an answer he did not expect.
was that 1t was In bad Condition, the
: better ventilated than even the are
in building. he