Daily Republican., 1881-05-27
FOURTH edition.
OUR CITY RAILWAY.
Formal Opening of the Road Yes.
terday-The Ride 10 Chester and
Trim Through ROach's Ship.
NarsaR

Formal opening OF tne NOhu hes.
terday-The Ride 10 Chester and
Trip Through Roachs ship.
Yards.
The Fourth street branch of the City
Railway was formally opened yesterday
afternoon, by IA complimentary eXcur-
sion over the road, and on the Susie
Mccall TO the neighboring city of CheS-
ter and back. The afternoon was rs
pleasant as could possibly have been
desired. The large excursion car Of the
City Railway Company, t" which four
horses were attached, brought large
number of cXcurSioni>tS in from the
avenue, and the smaller cars for an hour
or so before the time for starting were
heavily loaded. The Susie Mccall,
with about POO cxcursiOnistS aboard,
left the wharf al two and hafo'rlock.
Amongst the eXcursOni>ts We're many
of the leading business men Of tn" city
Job II. Jackson, Washington Jones,
Edward Belts, j. r. Heald, and many
Others. The City Council and City oiti-
GERS were largely represented, Mayor
Almond, Chief Engineer Mclnliro and
Others being of the company.
Associate Justice Houston was also
one of the party. As the Susie Mccall
steamed down the river the various
manufactures and proposed improve
ments were points OF concentrated in-
teres Gentlemen well informed
pointed out to others the route Of
The proposed road 10 the river, the re-
nova, of the government store house at
the mouth of thc Creek, the operations
of the National Dredging Company, the
tramway outlined in the distance and
other points of interest, Edge Moor, the
new liwht house AZ DuPont'S Pier, the
Riverside Bee: Sugar Works, the new
light house and government signals on
the hill above them, Bellevue, Holly
Oak, Claymont and Marcus Hook all
underwent rigid scrutiny and each IT.
cciyed its mede of condemnation or
praise according To the ruling feeling.
The old two story brick house on the
beach above the maiu thuroughtare at
Marcus Hook, said at one time 10 have
been the home of Commodore Porter
was special object of interest
to those who were appriScd of the facts
related. The boat kept near the wcs-
tern shore giving the eNcursioniStS a
good view of every thing along the wes-
tern margin Of the river. All along
from the Hook 10 Chester is a c0ntinu-
Ous line OF manufactures, boat yards
and dwcllings-indced it looks AS If
Chester was reaching ont her brawny
arm to catch Delaware by the topof her
head and give her Il shaking up. Let
Chester come on down the river, there
is still room enough for both cities to
spread themselves.
After passing continuous succession
of steel works, oil works, machine SHOPS
and shipping, the SUSIE Mccall, tied
fast TO the wharf at Roach \ sons ship
wards, and the whole party OF eNcur-
sioniSts except few ladies diselnhark-
ed and " ere welcomed by Mr.. RUacA,J
and conducted through their extensive
works, IN all probability there were
hut few ON board who had ever before
beleld such a vast panorama of shops
and vessels underway. The operation
OF bending huge iron ship ribs,
clipping and punching the plate
of iron and rivetting them 10 the snip,
were sights that the ladies, especially,
and probably some OF the gentlemen
were unused TO. After visiting several
shops, led by Mr. Roach and Mr., John
Price, brother Of :. \. Price, Of this
city, the eXcursiOniStS were led around
over numerous plank walks al the rear
of several large iron vessels on Ill" ways,
To give them some idea Of the work re-
luuired in building one Of these monster
vessels which when finished skim the
waters like n thing Of life.
Some idea may be formed Of these vast
'yrrkS whrU we state that ut the present
time there are seven of these huge
leViathanS on the ways in different
stages approaching completion. one or
Two Of them will be ready to launch in
ten days or Two weeks, the kCels OF 9TH
ers have just been laid,
Coming across Mr.JUhn Mills Il former
Wilningtomian and now superintendent
of the yards, he informed IA represent
tatiye of the REPUBLICAN that there
Were at present employed in the yards
1900 hands, the pay roll OF when
amounted to about $1,000 per week.
This does not include the cost of mate
rial for the building Of the boats. Ar
irving at the Susie Mccall, the eXcur'
sioniSts We're soon all aboard again de
lighted with the attention that had been
shown by Mr.. Roach, Mr.. Price, Mr..
Mills and others, and AS the little
steamer turned her Prov down the
river, handkerchiets We're waved and
other friendly demonstrations evidenced
the extreme pleasure of the party.
The ice cream cans and cake baskets
so literally supplied with full contents
were agaIn drawn upon as they haC
been on the way up and if everybody
did not get served with all the Ice cream
and cake they could eat it was the.l
| own fault.
When near the mouth of the Chris
tiana an impromptu meeting was or
ganized with NJ. l.. Lichtenstein a.
| President and Merris Taylor as Secre
tary, the object being to thank all the
parties concerned in making the eXcur
sion a success and a real pleasure
Messrs. {. b. Lore, ESD, Job II. Jack
son and S. HerSey We're appointed {
committee to draft resolutions expires
sive of the sense of the meeting and at
ter few minutes returned with the fol
lowing resolutions
Resolved, /. That we, the guests 0
the City Passenger Railway Company
hereby tender our hearty congratuia
tions to the company on the opening o
the Fourth street branch of the road tt
public use, as another step i'll th'
growth of our city and for the comfor
and convenience of our people.
2. That to James Bradford, ESD, tn
president of the road, and to Captall
Samuel NJ. Denny, of the steamer Susi,
Mccall, and to Harb0r Master Enocl
Moore, we tender our hearty thanks 70
our delightful trip ON the Christian
! and Delaware rivers, which thei
urbapity. courtesy and kindness hav