Daily Republican., 1881-06-04

the jackson & Sharp works in tw
separate sections which are now con
nected and merged together as one.
According to the report of the rive
: front committee made to the City Conn
Gil on Thursday evening, the Seventh
street route to the river has been SO
lected, and it is proposed to pay in nt
case more than nominal damages Mr.
jackson urges with much force and
consistency that the City Council has
no right to lay out a thoroughfart
through his extensive works without
allowing him damages and even
with more damages allowed than
the city is able to pay is still un-
willing that the road to the river should
he made to interfere with the jackson
a. Sharp works. He explained that the
neck of land between the two rivers and
upon which the Jackson 81 Sharp works
are erected, contains 92 acres, 20 which
belong to the }. & s. company, that the
Marsh Lane that some people call Sew
enth street, belongs to the owners of
the property, and that the City Council
has no more right to open Seventh street
through the works than it has to open
Poplar street through the Pusey & Jones
Company's works; Walnut street
through the F. W. x b. Company's
works, or West street through the Har-
Ian IL Hollingsworth works. $50, 900 Mr..
jackson says would not compensate
him for the damage to the j. &. S.
works ifthe road to the river is laid out
by Seventh street. The Eleventh street
Mr. Ia, (; ,I
teasible.t by taking it, no manufac-
turing establishment would be inter
tered with and d bridge across the Bran
dywine would be avoided, and thereby
would avoid placing further obstruc-
tions in the way of shipping in that
stream. Mr.. jackson admits that the
time will come when there will be %
road to the river by Seventh street but
while there are otter routes that time
need not come for twenty years yet.
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
After the representative of the RE-
PUBLICAN had left the works of the
jackson and Sharp Company yesterday
he called upon a number of business |
men vino were acquainted with the lOca- |
tion and surroundings Of the works to
get from them an expression OF opinion |
in regard to the benefits or damages
which might accrue to the works by the
opening ofSeventh street.
The nearest and first called upon was
The firm of James P.Hayes ~ Company,
car spring manufacturers.
"The injury to the works." said Mr..
Hayes, ''would be incalculable, $50, 900
being low estimate. AIN favorable
% n road to the river, and the opening
If Seventh street would be of great bene-
it to us, but If was in jackson s place
would hardly know where to begin to
,stimate my damages. Why the street
would be graded and would shur up the
easement shops, fence on each side ,
would have to be built and several gates ,
would have to be constructed aud each I
would require a gate keeper.
An other member of the firm said
hat the amount of damage in money
ould not be estimated
William G. Gibbons, President of the
'usey & Jones Company machinists and
hip builders, says there is no necessity
)r road to the river at all over any
lute, that it was ali mere matter of t
Deculation which would not result in q
ny real benefit to the city but would 1
ltail heavy taxes upon mannfactur- q
lg industries already heavily enough
lXed. The opening of a highway to
le river through the Jackson q Sharp
'Orks would be q serious and irreDara- . .
lie damage to the works.
j. II. Cause, Vice-President of the !
arlan & Hollingsworth Company,
nip builders, thought u road by ,
leventh street would answer the pur- {
1se as well as by Seventh street The
tmage from opening Seventh street =,
rough the Jackson & Sharp works, he
ought could not be less than $25, 900
those works.
Thomas S. Bellah, of the firm of Bel \
h, Quigley & Co., iron and coach hard
are merchants, did not think a road to G
e river would be any material benefit
the city while the damage to the
lckson x Sharp Company would be
ry great.
EnOCh Moore, Jr., wooden ship build
, thought there was no,,real necessity
+ opening Seventh Street through the =,
Lcksou & Sharp CompaDy's works u
lille as good q road to the river could
constructed by way of Eleventh tC
'eet bridge for less money He thought >,
c damages to the jackson and Sharp X
mpany could not be less than 500, 900
d probably much more, but he
ought commission could not be got
at would not award heavy damages. IN
Joseph L. Carpenter, jr., a large and eel
perienced dealer in real estate be
ought the damages to the jackson & e
arp Co., by the opening of Seventh N
eet to the river, could not be less than -
1000.
Henry Mendenhall, President of
o Diamond State Iron Company, was
prepared to make any estimate OF po
damages, not having given the W.
estion much thought, but they X;
uld be large. 10
Joshua T. Heald, one of the largest 63
l most enterprising real estate deal in
in the city, thought that the damage da
uld arise from the width of the street. Sn
it was opened to it's full width the aft
nages would no doubt be large, but he tes
$ not prepared to state any definite tht
ount. In some respects he favored str
route by Eleventh Street bridge, by
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