Daily Republican., 1883-04-30
FIFTH EDITION,
OVER THE PARK.
Tn" City Council and Park Com
mission Fake u Stroll.

The City Council met on Saturdav
afternoon at 2 o'clock In the Council
chamber prepatOry TO starting to tho
new proposed park grounds. Before
starting a resolution was introduced IN
pay Clerk Fraim S525 for copying the
city assessments. The resolution was
referred to the Finance Committee, and
he clerk was instructed to proceed
with the copying. Council then ad.
journed, and taking the first street car
that came along went out to Mt. Salem
lane, where they disembarked and
chose Mr.. Bailey President pro teln..
Mr.. Conrad having remained in the
city. President Candy, Treasurer Car.
pentor and William T. Bancroft, of the
Park Commission, and Francis n
Law, one of the heirs Of the Law estate,
having joined the party, all proceeded
to Mt Salem church, and after viewing
and praising the handsome interior of
the building they started up the stair.
way to the top Of the steeple, which
they reached putting and blowing, and
with weak knees.
The view not only of the proposed
new park ground from the exalted em.
nencc, but of the whole surrounding
country Tor miles in every direction,
was one of the grandest imaginable.
Away off down the Delaware river
which wound like a string of silver
braid, from Edge Moor southwark, were
the smoke stacks Of Taskers' great iron
works at New Castle. To the west of
that the round head of Iron Hillprotru.
ded into the blue ether above the inter
vening forests. West and North was
the beautifully variegated landscapes
that are the crowning gloryofChristiana
and Brandywine Hundred
Down between the 'hign rocky bluffs
on either side the Bran,lywine runs,
dashing over dam breasts and rocks on
its way to the larger creek. the
Christiana.
A little over there to the west rises
the steeple Of Green Hill Presbyterian
farther to the right stands a
Protestant Episcopal church with
steeple towering above the tree tops, and
farther up is seen st. Joseph Catholic
church
Away to the southeast, spread over
hills, nestled in forest of
shade trees. lies Wilmington with her
tall steeples piercing the lower strata of
clouds, and there are her hundreds of
smokestacks which carry off the smoke
Of thriving industries. Down there
along the farther bank of the Brandy
wine il strung out few and far between
a little villa of powder mills, little and
lnpretentious buildings but powerful
when spark communicates with the
dynamite within.
The landscape is further embellished
with lhe prosperous villages of Silver
Brook, the Highlands, Rising Sun,
Bancrofts and Riddles Banks. What
\ grand view. Nature seems to have
'obbed some other section of its beauty
md concentrated it around Whining
on. From this place President Candy
out the boundaries of the pro-
'oscd new park to the Councilmen the
boundaries OF the tract of land offered
" the Bancrofts, also the boundaries
If the proposed purchase of the Law
property. After viewing the surround
ng country, the company retrared their
teps and took stroll around the prop
rty. tarrying a considerable length of
ime to see and admire Wells Rock.
Several romantic spots were passed,
nd in the Bancroft woods were two or
hree very strong running springs of
vater Councilman Blake tested the
merits of one of the springs and pro
ounced the water tirst-class, though a
iugh was raised at his expense by the
that he wasn't well enough
with water to know whether
was good or bad. The company en-
Eyed the rainble andal were impressed
nth the admirable adaptability of the
roposed land for public park.
The company then returned to the
liddle depot where the members of the
ity Council and their friends refreshed
lemselves with plentiful supply of
olquhoun's ginger Favored soda water,
18th IA considerable snap in It, The
'iddle depot cu'verf, now being built
cross Delaware avenue, beneath the
ty Railway track, was viewed by the
ty fathers, and the proposition to
,nnect the culvert with the sewer
nder DUPONT street was favorably
'nsdercd.