Smyrna times., 1888-08-15
From the Farm and Home.
Smyrna and Vicinity Improvements

Smyrna and Vicinity improvements.
A few years ago Grace Greenwood
| lectured in Smyrna, and on being asked
| how she liked the town replied; very
we'll. only it looks as if Washington
had slept all over it, so old do the
houses appear. While this may
have been true of that time, it is also
| true that the fashion to reproduce the
! exact models of these old colonial
houses to service in handsome modern
residences is in great favor. Superin-
tendent ]. n. Mills, of the Delaware
Division, has built his elegant mansion
at CLAYTON on the colonial style, which
revels in bay windows, quaint porches,
irregular recesses that are continual
surprise in producing the finest effects |
in house building. Nor is this all. |
The play of color among these quaint |
old reproduced gables gives an added |
charm to what otherwise would become
without them of questionable taste.
Of these, then, Smyrna has burnlshed
y nm the old and built up the new until
now Miss Grace could enjoy the dog
, davs very comfortably and elegantly IN
y beautiful Smyrna, and still be proud
. of the fact that Washington so far hon
: ore1 the town as to " sleep all over it."
= The pressure water works system
> introduced a few years ago, is a decid-
ad suceess. either when examined IN
= it's financial or efficiency merits. While
IiLre most other methods the supply OF
nnre we'll water is available at all times
p direct from the pumps, the pressure
r for domestic and for fire purpose IS OBJ
n tanned from stand pipe 100 feet high
,e and 10 feet in diameter. This pipe
eh when filled with water from the
20 pumps. sustains bursting pressure oi
ce fiftv-fve pounds per square inch OF IN
nd terror surface. This ever ready pres
ire sure becomes extremely valuable II
100 | case of sudden fires as a dozen streams
of water from the street plugs can IN
few minutes surround and etfectually
on drown out any fire burning with thu
put utmost fierceness. No doubt exist
ate now upon this score since the promp
the handling of three fires taking plae
ot- last winter in the business portion
lies the town. and during the night while
ate furious storm swept the place. Fac
ela- time in no case did these fires bur
les. themselves out, but were put out.
iVll INDUSTRIAL WORKS.
OF these, four phosphate mills in tt
immediate vicinity, but with their Du
D. mess offices in Smyrna are, at Ih
Jail writing, Lying on their oars, - pr d
d at vious to starting up for the 1aiI q
that mand. Next are two basket mus !. :,
who Tschudy & Cats, and Mustard o., q - =
ton, now straining every nerve 70 M a. y
paid constantly increasing oruers loi viio
e of we'll known makes Of fruit carriers,
now view of the promised bountliul Gro
had Of peaches this season, and the stea
pton SoInand there will no doubt be for 0i
time I-etg All through the harvest. Inc
two firms wisely took time by the 10
III, and removed some Of their an
seen o,,,tad machinery and substituted !
wers 55roved kinds which enables them
the aa,reatlv increase their output as
Nile, eeesaet a saving in labor and mater
)ther Formerlv the custom was 10 saw
le Of ~ tba boops required from elt
ribes Ino.5s or the log. This method
N Of .,oI,,e6 considerable handling OF
ones ..,' T,aterial which added to the
thor ,,anse rsn to0ether with the liability OF
only boons to break even after being pas
nited ,brdnoh a bender. The improvem
frag- consists of a chopper, working ~
ween matically both as to feed and "loVn
''''s~' hoops. ..-.s..o do all
., :. - xvor,x of a modern basket mill now'
Nor veneerlng lnaS1sI 1I;.i, hese tools how,
lones' 9,o,, Il becomes an easy matter for
eSSgs SSit mills to turn out $4,000 baskets a,S aa
. ,,ood. olsl great gain over former years. we
soon 49,, 5eave. the basket mills now ana
:. 3 i1In a. around for other industries. As
';,,'a~ = ~ mass through town we cannot Ia
5,o ~ "a notice the fine display OF goods y, Sne
~ n,.s4s saa ferent stores make in their bulk
= u SI5o dows. The dressed window seem \
Of the be insepafaDle iiorh 49,