Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-12-17
The New POAt-OHice,

Tho movement to secure better ant
more convenient Post office accommo
dAtions for our city. 1t seems almost
incredible that city Of fifty thou san,
people should have borne 40 long will
our present ill-locat"i and il-contrivet
post office with scArray murmur
Unless the post office h.i been LOCATED
about midway up the hill either or
Third or Fourth streets, W. can hardl,
conc ,ive mora ineligible site than thu
present location. II stanls now at tn,
junction of two hills, one very steel
one on Sixth street and the other OF
King street. In slerty weather per
son coming down SIKH street. from
Market, unless thew gage Themselves
fairly and aim straight at the pile o
stone steps in front will ind them elve
speeding past with considerable veloci
ty down towards f nch street, and i
they come down kiu5 street they will
have to adjust the propeIllng power
very CAREFUL to biz he stone abutmen'
at the corner and il they miss that they
will bring up sonlrn here about David
oOn'S marble 'rlr, square farther
on. Besides tn -" i'tie Aindrances the
greater danger OF ore Or two hundred
boys with siedS APPEARS, and if the
pedestrian gets through all these dan
gers and mounts the steps up into the
corridor he is lucky. When he reaches
that point he is hat through the dan.
gor. A fall coming down the stone
steps is not a very pleasant thing and
then In returning there is the same
gauntlet of SEEDS to run
A Post Office is a place where every
body has business. A classes of hu-
manity 60 to the Post Office. The Ger
man. the Irish, the Italian, the negro,
the Chinaman, the society "dude,' all
expect letters and all repair to the Post
Off to get them Decrepit old men
and women are As anxious to hear from
their absent children, as young men and
maidens are to hear from their absent
Sweet-hearts and lovers Strange is it
not that place to which every body re.
sorts daily or weekly should have been
located on the brow of a hill difficult OF
access.
But there was some excuse for choos-
Ing that location when the present
building was erected The city the,
only contained some fifteen thousand
inhabitants. lfanyb,dy at that time
had predicted that Wilmington would
in 1888 have fifty Thousand inhabitant,
how our old fathers and mothers would
have torn their eyes open and looked a
as as if We were taking leave Of ou
senses Such thing al Wilmington
becoming tn leading city i'll the CnIui
for the building of iron steamships
never en'ered the heads Of the peop''
who led public enterprise in those days
Neither was it expected that in proper
hon to It's population II would AT TIM
time bt without rival in the maui
facture Of morocco and carriages.
Little the most progressive Of oul
citizrus think in those days that tht
great pa ce cars which ornament every
Reading railroad III the United States al
this day should hay" upon them The
business impTlutS Of The Harlan q Ho.
llngsworth Company, the jackson x
Sh irp Company, the Delaware Ca
Work. Of Bowers, Dare ~ Company
and the Lobdell Car Wheel Company
No one a. that TINE had ever Thought
that the EdgemoOr steel work, would
furnish the iron work for Tn" grea'
Brook. yu hiLgr; Qr that great NA.
tiona lu~ rtlroad should bcnYw bui.d.
ing thrun,u The no, tlrrn part Of UuJ
cily whlrh Vas thcr nothing hut corn
and wh"a 0rll>, + o,e Qurrt r"tirru
citizens VII" looked for the appoAriurt
OF Mr., t;Don -tou, " nington'- SINGLE
letter carrier in hose days, urvt
dreamed that now there should h
II of Them, e.iyb with heavier laden
p,uru-s tnAn ever ar. BlhCk>tUn ear
rid. The -Naddtln-. clothes in whicl
Wilmins rur was buru ntO a city hay
been iall aside Aud site IS now pushlU
onward and upward 10 "A higher static
in The list OF American cities. II iSur
al al surprising MAT the Pos -"ttjc
built for the accom- mediation Of 'ittee
,rtweHty thousand people should b
fpnud mAitlua,c to accommodate lift
thuusahd
Where shall the new building /
cree o. > This inquiry looks Ike coun
l. z chickens before they are hatche'
Are We leAlly to hav, Il new POst-oIticr
&c 'taiuly we are. : ia he whole deli
cation If the Sovrrr,at State of Del
ware ~ the NlriOt ! Congress ask !
vain Tor th,- bp,in ? one # onr Sen;
tors is "A candid IT., + The Prpsiit"c
of this great Republic Shall he rs
in vain? Shall Mr. Salisbury, ate
having Ipcurrd NptrHdid Post-otlc
for his own capital Town, refuse 10 a.
for this boon tor the metropolis of 81.
Stat, that huuors h'tn Who ran d"ul
that Mr. Lore, o popn ar at home Wit
his winning way, e aspopHiar d
Washington and rx"rcI-" ~ potent
influences there AZ Ii" docs at home. W
will surely get new Post'"ffice. "
wi get it in the first place because "
need it and in the secou place b'r4u"
shr government has moro money in Il
' ,rlts than it knows what to no WIN
W II, then, where shail the new fo8'
office be located ? The Board Of Iradt
though not decided on location, wa
wise 10 u desuItory talk in SuEg"stlo
that il be erected on Market street
sOmew here between Seven h ana Elghll
..bnr. n wnu11 ba rritrai and in