Smyrna times., 1889-03-20
The Collins Beach Causewav.

There seems to be a division in
Blackbird Hundred over the adoption
/ 0y the State or county Of new cause
way over the Collins Beach meadows
and when bill was up to this effect
the first of last week, it was strongly
antagOnized by Mr.. BrOckson. the Rem
resentative from that hundred. This
called for earnest work on the part OF
It's friends and accordingly on Friday
the road committees of both houses
were visited by delegation of about
| twenty-five gentlemen who are inter
| ested in the new road which the Col.
Inns Beach Meadow Company asks the
county to take. The committees were
gathered in the parlOr of the House
and the delegation explained the mat
ter in detail and at length. They ex.
planned the situation and J. II. Hof-
fecker Jr., Esq, counsel for the Mead
Ow Company, presented the offer of his
client in its legal phases and pointed
out that 1t was no money making
scheme upon their part, but merely a
fair. square business proposition that
should not be disregarded The sit.
uation was explained by large dia-
gram which had already given the
members of both houses the first really
clear idea of what was asked.
ID. ). Cummins Of Smyrna, who has
use for the new road, now private
property, told what he knew about il
tie said that the old road was of no
| use whatever, and that the new road
was an absolute necessity to the grow.
ers IN the vicinity who wished to take
| their products to Fleming's LANDING
on Duck Creek, or to the wharf at
Collins Beach soon to be completed
The road, he'said, was in excellent con-
ditiOn, wide and well built. shorter
than the old road and in every respect
! desirable. Without the new road the
growers have to haul peaches seven or
eight miles around, aJ a great loss OF
time and money, as il took double the
number of teams to do the work and il
was not good to drag fruit so far
through the sun and over hot and
| dusty roads. IL was, be said. abso-
lutely necessary to repair the old road
and that being the case it would be
better to spend the money for the road
already In existence and which was
much shorter.
William II. Churchman of Wilminy.
ton, one Of the members of the Collins
Beach Meadow Company, followed in
the same strain. He told of the ex-
pense of digging the great bitches to
drain the land. and what the road was.
how built, its length, etc. He showed
that it was shorter and more direct
than the old road, which, in fact. was
not road any longer, and impressed
upon his hearers that no fancy or ex.
horbi.ant figure, as it had been init.
mated, was to be asked from the
county.
During the conference, which took
place after dinner, other members az
both houses besides those on the com.
mittee interested, dropped in on the
meeting and heard what had 10 he
said. The impression was good one
upon the members, and those who bad
opposed the Meadow Company's bill
We're made to think favorably Of Il
IL looks now as though there would he
no real opposition to the bill and that
there will be no delegation sent ~
oppose it. A committee of the New
Castle county Levy Court will 90 over
the new road and Il is probable that a
request will be made to have lepis-
.iative committee visit the road also,