The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-12-09
annex in having to buy all We need of
her by sail and boats Why its tho Della

annex in having to buy all We need Of
her by sail and boatY Why its tho Della
ware river and her system Of steam rail.
road and trolley system which We are de-
barred from having: through the energy OF
her Senators, Congressman aud City Coun-
Gil, Citizens Committees, they have got
the Delaware river channel % feet deep,
and arc urging the next Congress to mako
1t 30 feet doep They took away Smiths
Island, opposite Philadelphia, at the Gov
ernment's expense, giving them q spacious
basin to hold a large fleet of vessels in case
of emergency.
They arc extending Delaware avenue
out into the liver fifty feet, at cost to the
city Of two million dollars, and the owners
of the wharves and docks are required to
extend them at their own expense two or
three hundred feet, so the largest vessel
can lay to- They ure now urging on the
government the necessity OF putting in q
dry dock at League Island that VIII ac-
coInmOdato the largest man .of-war vessel
to be dockcd four miles from Phi!adel-
phii, and in order to get them to do it, the
contract for trolley line is given out,
running down the four miles through the
mash, 50 thcro will be no excuse that
they can't GO to it. What did tho Penn
sylvania Rallroad build the largest depot
in the world for in proximity to the City
Hall in Philadelphia, and tear down u
very nice one to extend their business?
Mr. President Llwton, in conclu sion,
having referred you to the worlds
progiess, in great projects, for their
millions of dollars while our outlay
would not cost but IL trflo comparatively
speaking. Our Christana riveri IS a nat.
ural double inland harbor. coming into
tho heart of oui city. The plants around
it must not be disturbed We must make
it conform TO their interest by straighten-
ing, deepening and widening 1t from tho
Newport bridge above Moore's paper mills
to the Delaware river, 60 feet deep, tho
same as the Delawr" river is now made
at the expense the government, by the
request and urgency OF tho officials Of
Philadelphia and which we have the use
of, in common with them for nothing.
All we have to do is improve it and we
are in full competition with Philadelphia,
1t ought to be wharfed on both sides and
all the mud brown out on the low lands
and spread out, which would do away with
malarai fever, and make the lower end of
our city attractive and not rs 1t Is now, u
common nuisance. 1t ought to be made
compulsory on he owners of tho land to
pny for the improvement or put n commits
sion on it and assess it at $50 or $l0) an
acre, Or let the city buy ii, and borrow the
mL ney to pay for it, when they could real.
ize on 1t $1,000 or more per acre.
see this man Smith, tho government
engineer, is talking abouta l5-foot channel
for the Chri,tana. What nonsense to huvo
the Delaware % feet deep aud our river 10
feet. That would be going up hill; in y
other words, Philadelphia would got all
the large vessels and We would get the
small ones; what it means 25 fcct or moth.
ing is my idea. We then will be second
to none.
The next thing to do is to annul the
charIer of our city railroads ana givo them
II charter in common with other railroads
coming into our city and couple up with
the Pennsylvania trolley and hmvc IL
line from Dulmar to phiiahtl-
pna and tax thom all in proportion 10 the
franchise given them say lw"-li'lh- Of
their gross earnings. same as Baltimore
and not le this Dover clique control us
lOu rnr i'm This dry rot husiupss