Evening journal., 1897-04-21
NO TIME TO QUIBBLE.
Influential Business Men De-
mand Prompt Action.
TROLLEY CARS MUST COME in

NOT LISTENED TO WILL CAUSE
EVERY RAILROAD CROSSING IN
TOWN TO BE BRIDGED OR TUN-
NELED.
Public sentiment never shaped itself
so strongly in favor of any public meas
ure as it has in behalf of favorable leg
islation to the new Wilmington and
New Castle Electric Railway Company.
Everybody is sanguine that the authori-
ties of the state will recognize that the
will of the people is sovereign, and
that if railroad companies are going to
claim ownership of the city's most inn
portant thoroughfares to the exclusion
Of everything else and the will of the
people be damned" then it will only be
question of weeks when every rail-
road crossing in the city will be lacked
up thirty or forty feet.
The opposition being advanced
against any legislation favorable to the
Wilmington and New Castle Company
getting its passengers into Wilmington
proper and taking them from here,
seems to exist solely among rival trans
portation companies, whose business it
is, of course, to keep down all competi-
ber of Wilmington largest business
men and heaviest taxpayers expressed
themselves on this subject to-day, and
in no uncertain tones.
AN INJUSTICE TO THE PEOPLE.
William NJ. Kennard said: Put me
down as being heartily in favor of any
| legislation that will extend to those
people their rights. Why thousands of
people should be inconvenienced and
forced to walk a mile over Whining
| tons hilly streets, l cannot see. We
want that railway to come into the
city, and into the heart of the city. II
will be a big help to us, a greater con-
venience to Wilmingtonians, and a
priceless benefit to the New Castle peO-
pie There is no question that the peo-
pie now demand this facility"
MUST HAVE ITS RIGHTS.
Herbert X. Watson said: "I cannot
conceive why anybody should oppose
such a public act for the public good,
unless it is some rival company. We
want this railway company to have the
same rights as any common carrier, and
it will help our city and state"
IN THE HEART OF THE CITY.
Joseph Hill, of Crosby & Hill, said:
Il cannot see why legislation to give
us increased accommodation can meet
with opposition. We certainly want to
see the New Castle road come into
Market street. want to see Seventh
and Market the Wilmington terminus
of the New Castle railway, as there is
no line on East Seventh street, and car.
= coming into that terminus would make
it much more convenient for the pas
sengers. who would then not have tC
climb any Fourth street hill"
WORK WITH THE WILMINGTON
CITY.
Harry L. Evans, of H. L. Evans
Co.. said:
Il am certainly in favor of the New
Castle people and Wilmington passen
gers having the additional faclitie.
that terminus at Fourth and Marke
would afford but by no means shoulC
the new company be permitted to vic
late its contract witA the Wilmington
City Company. If it comes into Fourtl
and Market it should come over thi
tracks and under the agreement of th'
Wilmington City Railway Company"
BUSINESS AND PLEASURE, TOO.
Harry Il. Robelen, of Robelen & Co.
v said:
It's a strange thing to me that thi
new trolley railway, with all its mod
ern facilities, has such a continuou
J struggle to get into Wilmington. If tn
I people and majorities are to rule in thi
country, then l should say that tn
u New Castle electric railway will hav
l. to come into Wilmington. / canno
find one man opposed to it. The rail
d way extended would be a boom to busi
ness, a public comfort and a source @
much pleasure in the Summer season.
: MAKE THE RAILROAD GO OVER.
2 Former Magistrate Levi A. Bertc
i lette said:
Everybody is in favor of the exter
sion of that trolley road. 1t is an in
provement that the public demand.
the steam railroad company kick
make them go overhead or under
- ground themselves. Steam railrOa
p: lcrOssings at grade are a nuisance
4: any city. If there is anybody kille'
4: the locomotives and not the trolley cai
: will do the killing"
MORE PRAYERS FOR SUSSEX.
: Petitions and urgent letters continu
to pour into the General Assembly frol
down the state, especially all over SUI
sex county. One of the strongest can
in to-day, containing over 100 wei
: known Sussex names, meaning that
: is the will Of the people for the Ne
: Castle company to have the right to el
10 large its plant and extend its lines. II
days petition is as follows:
f. To the Speaker of the House of Repr
sentatiYes:
al We, the people Of Sussex county r
~ spectfully petition the General Assem-
J.. bly, to pass the measure now pendir
-, before them entitled an Act to Amer
~ the Charter of the Wilmington al
,r New Castle Electric Railway Compan
Va This company is the only one OF Il
al many that have been granted fra
oh chises that has shown its good faith
Sc building a road It has built eve
To foot of railway authorized by q
a state, and is successfully operating &
ge same. 1t now seeks to extend its lin
s to Pennsylvania and to extend the
south from New Castle to Smyrna, a.
il seems to us that every public int