Evening journal., 1900-07-26
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
Act for the PeopIels Benefit 80
To the Editor Evening Journal.

To the Editor Evening Journal.
Sir: | see by your news columns
that Chancellor Nicholson has been I'M
Wilmington once more and rendered al
decision. It was not a decision of great
public interest. but one in which CONF
paratively few persons acre interested, |
pecuniarily on otherwise He continuesl
TO held In allegiance the decision in the
case of the Peoples Railway Company
although il has been before him for a
period of about four months. 1t seem
ingly is apparent that the people OF the
city are to be without relief in this
particular direction during the present
Summer season. and that those who are
interested in an important and legiti-
mate enterprise are to be delayed in
their operations by the dilatory work
ings OF the Court of Chancery.
/ For nearly ten years the Wilmington
and Brandywine Springs Railway Com
pany contested before the Legislature
for charter rights to operate a line OF
railway connecting our city with a rich
and populous section of our county
I All sorts of obstacles were placed in
the way, but dOgged determination not
to be beaten triumphed in the end and
the road was built. When an effort
was made to obtain access to a central
I point in our city, the Wilmington City
I Railway Company instituted proceed
ings which prevented it, and forced the
i Wilmington and Brandywine Springs
Railway Company to accept a traffic
1 agreement which was not only an i'm
position on it, but more particularly on
> the travelling public. Not a person
boards a Wilmington and Brandywine
atsta. M
? streets who does not pay a toll Of five
cents to the Wilmington City Railway
2 Company under that agreement which
r practically was wrung out of the men
z who had invested their thousands in
5 the new enterprise. Fer nearly two
5 years the contention between the two
, roads has been in Chancery in some
] form, and in it's latest phase Chancel-
: lCr Nicholson has had it before him
! since Spring. His delay is taking thou
- sands out of the pockets of the people
r Of Wilmington and transferring the
+ money to the treasury of the Whining
4 ton City Railway Company, and at the
same time It is impairing the value
s and earning capacity of the expensive
4 properties of the Wilmington and
= Brandywine Springs Railway Com.
pany. which is behind the Peoples
2 Railway project. / do not believe that
e the Court of Chancery ever was intend
I ed to work such hardships on the peo.
I pie at large. and on men who place
. their money in an enterprise which
serves a great public purpose
o II is time that the obstructive uses L
7 which the courts Of our state are be-
e ing put in this particular instanc,
- should terminate. Public sentimen
!, has reached such a state that somethini
r must be done to give the people of vii
" mington their proper rights in then
own city. They want the benefit o
o the five-cent fare guaranteed to then
I by the Wilmington and Brandywin,
r Springs Railway Company, and, in re
e turn, they want that company to en-
j. joy its proper privileges within thu
p corporate limits of Wilmington. Chan
!, cellor Nicholson cannot establish him
3 self more firmly in public esteem thai
j. by rendering an immediate and com
It nonsense decision on the impOrtan
If question now before him. There ar
& many other matters in chancery tha
l. can afford to wait until this question
L which involves the interests of nearl,
n 100000 Delawareans, is disposed of in
v manner consistent with fair-dealinl
i and public policy. W. II. Greenwalt
d Wilmington, Del, July Z, 1900.