Evening journal., 1897-02-12
WEDDING OUT PROCESS
State Will Not Give $4,000
a Appropriation to Farnhurst.
THAT BRANDYWINE SPRINGS ROAD
INTENT or THE BILL TO OPEN A
ROAD THROUGH PRIVATE PROP
ERTY AT COUNTY EXPENsE-DT-
VORCE COMMITTEES WORK.
sou CorTespohdenee EvenInr Ionrnal.

stan Correspondence Evening Journal.
DOVER Feb. 12.-The Divorce Com
mittee held two sessions yesterday. one
in the morning and one in the after
noon. -Four cases were heard. Last
evening the members left for their
homes. Both houses and the Constitu-
tional Convention win reassemble on
Monday.
BkANDYWINE SPRINGS ROAD.
William jerks Fell. of Fanlkland
has sent to Senator Pyle for introduc-
tion an act to lay cut a new public
road, partly in Christiana hundred and
partly in Mill Creek hundred. Ii ap-
points William Armstrong;. William NJ
Bracken and Robert c. Justice COM
missioners to lay out the road which ia
TO be fifty feet wide. and to begin at
some point on the road in Christiana
hundred known as the New Road " at
or near and within half q mile of its
intersection with the road leading Ia
MarshalltOn. said intersection being
known as Prices Corner" thence in a
northwesterly direction to the point
where the right Of way of the Whining
ton and Brandywine Springs Railway
between the lands of John Evans and
the estate of Franklin Fell: thence bv
said right of way, which shall form a
portion Of said new road to a point on
the west side of Red Clay creek ana
thence, by a course approximately the
same as that by which the proposed
new road reached the last named point
to the road leading from Falkland sta
tion TO the Newport and Gap turnpike
SO much of said road as uses the right
Of way Of the Wilmington and Brandy
wine Springs railway for part of its
width to conform to the grades of said
railway The road cannot be opened
until the plot and assessment of dam
ages are approved by the Levy Court.
In his letter OF explanation Mr.. Fell
says: THE construction of the Will
mington and Brandywine Springs rail
way is now assured; all the financial
arrangements for its building have
been completed and actual work on the
ground will commence as soon as the
weather will permit The Brandywine
Springs property. with adjoining lands
to the extent Of about 100 acres. is to
be converted into a large pleasure re-
sort. somewhat after the pattern of
Willow Grove some miles beyond the
limits of Philadelphia The object of
the bill ] send you is to open a direct
road from WILMINGTON TO the Brandy
wine Springs that is proposed to be
done by opening a new road about a
mile IN length, from Prices Corner to-
the road now passing the Brandywine
Springs Hotel There will be n direct
saving In distance of a trile over one
half mile, besides avoiding several
hills"
A careful reading OF the section Of
the bill, above quoted, shows that the
real intent of the bill is to open a road
way through private property, atcounty
expense along which the proposed elec-
trio railway may run without having
itself to resort to condemnation pro-
ccedings ard the payment of damages.
TALK OF WEDDING OUT.
There is talk Of appointing a Joint
committee TO so to the insane asylum,
at Farnhurst, and weed out all idiots
and other harmless inmates and send
them back to the several county aims
houses. The members feel that the
state cannot provide the s91 600 asked
for for the next two years, and by the
weeding-out process they hope TO re-
duce the necessary appropriation to
$4,000, which il has been for the past
two years.