Evening journal., 1895-12-27
THE ROAD TO THE RIVER.
The Committee Appointed BY
the Citizens Still at Work.
THE SITUATION CLEARLY DEFINED

The CITY Needs 1t, Business Interests
Demand 1t and citizens AJAX for IL.
Government Stands Ready to Assist--A
Letter TO tho Street and sewer
Directors.
The committee appointed at the recsnt
mass meeting OF citzsns held ia the
Board of Trade rooms to look into the
proposed route to the river Is busy at
work and will be ready to report at the
next meeting which will bs called In the
near future. The Directors OF the
Street and Sewer Department. are inter-
ested in the movement and are giving
the matter their attention, while the
City Council has named a special
conmittee TO confer with ths Board
Trade with view TO determing upon a
proper route. This latter committee will
hold a meeting TO night and will
organize for work
The following letter has bsen received
by the Street and Sewer Department:
The Letter From Committee.
Gentlemen: The Board OF Trade
committee apprehending that they did
not fully present to you the views enter
which their appointment grew desires
your consideration of the reasons that
embolden them to ask you to give your
couutensnce and assistance to any pro
ject looking toward the opening up OF
direct connection with the Delaware
river front and the lands lying between
1t and the city proper,
I'm prims--we feel assured that it Is
deelred by very great majority Of the
business men aud tsxpyaers of the city
as has been evidenced by the action OF q
large and representative public meeting
ard It's endorsement by the B ard Of
Trade We do not believe that the COS
OF at least one practicable street will on
survey and estimate be found to be
inordinately expensive; and while
wharves, terminals, piers, bulkheads
cts etc will in the end bs necessary
for full enjoyment and development OF
the natural advantages OF our geograph
Ical position, those things will not come
and could hardly be expected before the
minor but equally necessary question of
ingress aud egrsss has been assured.
The Government VIII Assist.
This committee has been informed by
the United States government engineers
that they will co operate cordially with
the city authorities II they see a disposi-
ton on their part to take steps to utilizs
the river front. They could and we
believe they would be Of great benefit,
and this alone would authorize an
expenditure by your board. Il may be
true, as has been objected, that any
expenditures by you would incidentally
benefit private property bat this iE
equally true of almost any expenditure
made by your board and could hardly bs
avoided uuder the existing Law You
viii see from the enclosed resolution
/ thnt ne would bs doing less than oui
duty did we not endesvor to impress the
Importance Of this matter upon you We
would ask that you enable us TO report
to the meeting provided for by IT,
your opinion, better informed than thal
OF any other, or II neoeseRry that prellm-
mary surveys bs made to get at probabls
cost Of the different routes proposed
Anticipating from your department
that interest and aid In the project
which it Is within your power TO grant
and which our people generally look for
we are, gentlemen,
Very truly yours.
rs GARLAND, Chairman,
"ANsoN A MAHER, Secretary
The Resolution Enlossd.
The resolution enclosed In this letter
Is the one passed at the mass meeting o.
citizens, in which road to the river il
asked for, and COMMITTEES appointed t,
look into the matter ard report at /
future meeting This committee ha
been before the Street and Sews
1 niractors once and at that TINA uraae ntat
the needs of the city and the fac
that her property would be great,
enhanced by river front. A
this meeting or conference ex CITY
solicitor George Elliott suggested the
surveying of different routes and thR
| the most feasible be selects d, the rlgh
OF way be secured and tnat then the cit,
grade and put it into shape This strucl
the directors as practicsl and there i
every reason to believe will be actet
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