Daily Republican., 1888-12-13
BRANDYWINE HID.
BETTER POSTAL FACILITIES
WANTED.
It has Ten Po1tomoos, and More VIII
soon be wADtsd-rhe suburban
Towns WIN Not Do With
out Them.

Probably no hundred In New Castle
Couuty is 90 we'll supplied with p9st.
ohces as Brandy wine Hundred, ana
yet there is considerable complaint OF
the inconTenienos and irFAeulATity Of
the mails. On the east OF fbe hundred
are hdRenooT, Believes and OlAymout,
the two last named being on the p, w,
g B. Railroad and the 1Tst nhnsd pEfc-
tioally so. Farther 10 tho lntsTioT Aha
on the Baltimore and Ohio ore OArretOf
and Carpenter, the hIBI beInE establish-
ed only few Days ago. Farther TO the
interior are Grubb's and TAllsyyllls, the
lEet named being on the Concord turn.
pike.
eEubb's, taking It's name from Isaac
n. Qrubb, prssldsnt Of the Levy court
Of New OAalle CcuRty, ts tho Central
otnes In the hqndFed. II was fofaeriy
the gsYetemeRt has ont OF ell uBele6s
appspdGaes 10 lAs pkfilss Of postofficee.
and they are pow kupWn By bal 4 single
aud th6 shorteSt nAms. In the extreme
north western part Of the huhdred ia
BaaVeF Valley pogtpfilae, Ahd on tie
BvAndywine is Rooktand, mAEiRg 10 all
nine poetofiioeS located In Brandy WiRs
Hundred. Besides, Q large nnmber of
tn oitlzanB Of that huhdfed ere accom-.
modAtS4 by postal facilities psYond the
HUNDRED border. Booths, 10 Delaware
County, Pc lies bat Q quarter OF . mile
from the line, and Elan, in the same
county, 10 quite contiguous. After ali
IL 10 not improbable that WilminR Rton
supplies half Ss much mall matter to
the people Of that hundrsd a. all the
ofises ip The hundred combined.
the Tne KhilsdslphiA ana the Concord
pixies run through the huRdEpd, The first
noFthaaef and the other nptth, ahordins
etsy iaouitteF foH roAohlnk fhe city, and
g large number OF people come to the
turally become sub-mall carriers for
their neighborhOods. The toll.sS
Keepers on The two pixies ere also made
to do oonSideTRbls mail duty for tbs sc-
oOmmodatlop Of the people who daily
pass through.
1t has bssl but q few years sinos
Ulny mont and Beaver Valley were the
only post-Ofiieea In BrAndyWine HIM.
dred. Then Wilmington supplied the
most Of the hundred, and the Keepers Of
the toll-Retes referred 10 did heavy mail
service. Then followed the estsblish.
ment OF 9rubb'g oflOe, soon AfkerwArdg
followed by Rooklsnd.
The people waking up to the HdyAn-
tAges OF increased and better mall faoili
ties, and love Of SdueAtion becoming
more general, there were greater de.
mAnds for post -of1Oss until TAlleyvIiis,
Hdgemoor, Bellevue, Carpenter and
CArEoroit soon came on In quick auoces
sion ~ railroad and other advantage
Increased.
But the END Is not yet There will
soon, no dnpbi he . demand for a rost
ofase st Holly Oak. The sntsrprisipR
people who ate erecting country resi-
aenoes along the two lines Of railroad
shNs run through tho hundred, and eEs
buildinR up esuAtTy villas are not gotfAa
20 be long without o Dostofilos almost
81 thslE doom, End the possibilities are
that all Hast BrandyfSine hundred, from
WILMINGTON 70 Clay nopt between the
TWO lines OF railroad will be ere many
years, 2 oaRtinuOus succession Of suhUr
ban villages, zach With q postofioe,
All enterpFislng oitissns can bus say,
lst the p otehices come arm in arm with
aahcol hcusa and the result cannot fail
10 be benshoiAl.