The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-03-14
SATURDAY. MARCH ~. 1854.
gho silverbrook Condemnation.


Tho bill for the condemnation Of Sill
yc,'brook has boon recommended by
the City Council and by the Street and
Sewer Department. and will be before
the Legislature next week. The con-
domination Of this brook as a sewer is
+ 1raught with much interest TO tho
western part OF the city, especially
khat part OF IL lying west OF Clayton
street and south of Eighth street,
which section includes the major por-
tlon OF the Twelfth ward, in which is
the town of Silverbrook, the wost end
OF the Fifth ward and the thrifty grow
ing suburb of Elsemere. AS the city
cannot grow fast in an casterly direc-
ton, It is compelled TO push its way
out west, southwest and northeast. A
city with 5000 population must ne
eessarily have room for expansion.
In the next ten years II the city in
creases in the same proportion that 1t
has for the last ten years, 10000 more
will be added TO the population, which
imply the building Of 5000 new houses,
the opening and paving OF numerous
now avenues and streets, the extension
of water and gas and the laying OF
now lines. Of city railway. All this
cannot DO done without the absorption
OIL new lerrltofy that lhe laws OF
health demand shall be subjected to
health regulations. The instincts of
coInilcn sense teach us that sewers
must be opened up Tor the aec0inmo-
dation OF TINS fast-lhcreasing p9pniar
lion, anu where are those naturat
sewer courses put along Inc streams
oil newly acquired territory! Both Sill
Verprook ana Mll creek from hich-
ardson's mill to the Chrlstlana' are but
natural sewers Tor population and
Trade and any attempt at preserving
thelr waters III tieir pi1stlne purity as
when there were but Ecre and There u
house anu farm along their courses is
but an attempt to run counter to the
natural laws OF health
Every year the little rivuletof Silver
brook Is becoming more crowded with
dwelling houses and manufactures.
There would have been moro OF the lat
ter had they not been fought of and
turned in another direction by the
vain attempt to keep tho stream pure
FOR the accommodation OF one large
manufacturing establishment ut the
mouth oil Mill Greek into which silver
brook empties, and for two or three
farms, portions OF which have already
been sold OH for building lots, at The
rate Of thousand or mole dollars an
acre.
The question arising in asking the
= legislature to give the Street Gnd
Sewer dep;Rtment power to cor@em
this stream IL, shall one large ..Jn /,
factory aud the foolish demand @, a
couple OF farm owners, tho latter al
ready selling property for building
lots, be permitted to stand as baI
against the overflow of population
westward, and the acquisition OF
manufacturers and wealth to the city
All the streams that have heretofor.
come In the way of progress have beef
converted into sewers.
Shipley ran was at one time as pur,
q stream Of water as Silyerbrook nov
- Is, but how foolish would have beer
the attempt to keep Shipley run pure
How conld Stallcup run ever have bee
kept pure and the same question ma,
be asked as to number of stream,
that once ran clear and pare through
suburbs that now compose the com
pact part OF the city 1t will DO as i'm
possible to keep Silverbrook clean am
pure as it was to keep Shipley, Stall
cup and Iiattlesnake runs pure, an
this fact might as well DO recognize
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