Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-11-11
Library Of Congress
From the Bnii

1t is stated thst tire Psnnsylyan Rail.
road Company 10 now expe nding, in i'm
pruvements within the city and acquiring
new ground and buildlngs, aboute2, 49,
600. The old Delaware Market, at Della
ware avenue and Vine street, was pur-
chasta early in the year for s625, 900, and,
In place Of the old sheds, the company
Will erect brick freight station, to cost
SS76,OO0. A number Of flreproof freight
sheds will be built OF iron and CORFU
gated steel, and new wharves are to be
built, extending out to the Port Warden's
line. This 10 to be q receiving place for
all freight thSt has TO be shipped or un-
loaded into or from barges.
The improvements at the Christian
street wharf, on the Delaware river,
when completed, will have cost bout
$500, 900, chiefly for new freight station
houses, wharyes and now tracks. Two
large freight stations have been erected
here, one Of which has been leased TO .
largo New York fruit exporting and i'm
porting house. Pier No. AZ, which Is IN
course OF construction, 10 q very large
one, md negotiations are now pending
between the Pennsylvania Railroad off
cia's and officers Of the Mediterranean
Steamship Company to lease the wharf.
An officer OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company iniipated that the new line
would not carry freight alone, but would
make bid for passenger travel.
At the old nAvy-yard, which has 0
frontage on the river Of 2, 400 feet ex-
tending from Reed TO Queen street, eight
large, covered piers, ranging from 80 to
In length, and this year three large, open
| x.laxa aaah Inn faag .wtAa and EftQ fuaf
long, have been built. There has also
been erected large freight station, and,
besides this, . number Of the wharves
have been put into order and rooted.
The total expenditure this year will be
t150,000 The sum OF Sl00, 900 will be
spent at Greenwich Point for new
wharves and dredging, so that the
largest vessels may load and unload
there. The elevators at Girard Point
will be overhauled and the dock dredged.
Tho repairs will cost $685. 900, aud tho
dredging el0, 900. The freightstation al
Fifteenth aud Market streets 10 TO bt
made into an addition to the passenger
station, and next Monday tho. new sta.
tson at Seventeenth and Market streets,
which has been built At cost OF 500, 600
will be opened for traffic.
A new h.ur warehouse 10 being erected
at Eighteenth and Market streets. II Il
TO be five stories high, and will be bull,
OF brich aud DO flreproof. 1t 10 to cos
SIS, 900. The new freight station al
Gray's Ferry Road will coat 5000
Many improvements arc 10 be r.ade O.
Engies.de, on the New York Division
branch, at cost Of e6s,00 At Ger
mantown junction t26 900 will be ex
pended In new tracks, etc.; at Nortt
! Penn junction go. 900, and at Tw enty-
secoud and York go, ,OoU. The changing
OF the grade on thu New York line, nea
Frankiord, on account Of elovating tn
tracks. will have cost $3S5,0o whel
completed. The construction oi the new
read to League island will cost $40, 900
and the right Of way great deal more
J The ownera OF property along the lin
! are asking such exorbitant prices tha
! the ground will have TO be condemned
before the road can be built A larg
amount OF real estate has been bough
| along the Trenton Ave- ne line and eev
, erai freight stations have been built Ia
1 the Northeastern part OF the city.
The expense will foot up to nearly
, $500, 600. The company has invested q
Girard Point Sl,06i, 200 in stock snt
$593, 900 10 five per cent. bonds In th'
. Glrard Point Storage Company, and
has loans amounting TO one-half as mucl
: more, besides $726,00 In the InterDa
tional Navigation Company. Girart
Point has frontage on the schuylkil
river OF nine hundred and MY feet, viii
four piers, two elevators and two freight
stations. At Greenwich Point the COM
pany owns q frontage OF i've thousand
two hundred and eighty feet on the Della
ware river, five large coal piers and ons
iron pier and all the necessary apparatuI
to transact bituminous and anthracit,
coal trade OF Q, 500, 900 tons yearly. Al
Front and Federal streets there Is I
frontage Of two thousand four hundret
feet on the Delaw are river, with thre'
, large oren piers and eight covered, he
sides eight brick and iron freight sta
tions, one brick and one iron elevator.
las also piers at Market Dock, shacka,
maxon and Vine streets, all OF whicl
? have docks deep enough to allow tn
largest vessels to enter. All OF thes
, are connected or soon will be by raj
lines.