Evening journal., 1896-06-27
THE RESENTFUL MAJOR
He Now Proposes to Shut
Up Smyrna River.
SENATOR GsAYs FORoIBLB TALK

He Cannot Believe That Msjor Ras asmond
VIII Reoome n Party to a Scheme such
as That outIined-smyrna River, wood
Iaud beach aud Collins Beach Threat
ensd.
special Core ,pondence Evening Jogrnal.
SMYRNA. June This section OF
country Is terribly worked up over a
proposition made by Maj r Raymond, OF
the United States Engine ring Corps, to
build a dyke from !. iton's Point
to a point below Bombay Hook In this
county, thsrsby shutting in Smyrna
river, aud about ten miles OF the
Delaware river shore includ
ing Collins Beach aud Woodland
Beach, the only two watering resorts in
this section Of country.
1t is understood here that the ms or
feels 80 sore over the recent sitting
down which Congress gave him at
the instsnss Of Senator Gray that he ls
determined to make Delaware have a
dyke somewhere. His Llston's Point
project having been held up he
now proposes to revive some old law
which authorizes him to build Il
dyke about ten or twelve miles
long shutting off all this section
Of country from accsss to the Delaware
river and bay.
The very audaclty OF the thing has
almost paralyzed people heresbouts and
when the people living along the shore In
the lower part Of New Castle county hear
about 1t they will suffer sImilar shock.
General Bartlett, Of the United S.Rtes
Engineering Corps, has been down here
for a week or two In the IN
terest OF Msjor Raymond. d,
has been driving from one END
of the route to the other endeavoring I,
obtain the assent OF the owners Of ripar
ian rights to the outrageous project.
He has found but few of them
willing to relInquish their rights. TIT
owners Of Collins Beach and woodlAn,
Beach say that they will never stop fight
ing against thing so ruinous I
them and their. resorts, while ever
] person living along smyrna river will b
up In arms II such thing as the buidln
stone pile across the mouth Of on
OF the most important streams Of Ken
county be attempted.
General Bartlett was evidently no
very favorably impressed with the re
ception he got while in this nelghbor
} hood. He left here for the North, mos
prObsbly stopping of in Wilmington
aud larger one now designed by Mpj1
Raymond. Whether the company will
, do so is . matter OF onjecture.
, Should the situation become crltlca
Senator Gray, who defeated th
l move to confer with the Delr
ware Construction Company people
who, It is understood here. will be aske
o to transfer their Llston's Point and Reed
Island project contract Cor the reWe
! shut in Blsckbird and Appoqulnimip
creeks, will be appealed to to oommun
cate with the Secretary Of War and hav
I the mtior stopped In his ms
q career of improving the Delaware riv,
by shutting of the most important {
It's tributaries In lower New Castle an
upper Kent counties
r There ia trouble In store ior somebody
n but whether for the msj or or the psOp
4 who live along th e Delaware and Smyrr
q rivers will depend largely upon tn
Secretary Of War. Oae thing Is certai
above all others, and that is that thei
will be one Of the biggest hgh
for riparian rights ever know
n in the State Of Delaware n
. lass Msj-r Raymond rellnq quishss b
, present attempt to get even with senat
. Gray at the expense OF the people {
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