Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-04-26

Dover News.

UUNCl NUN D
The Levy Court of Kent county
held a special meeting here Tues
dav to make an effort to raise out
of the water the Bombay Hook
road" This particular driveway
has given the county trouble and
Yesterday the court. determined .
upon a plan that will cause the
water to part and the inhab-
itants to walk over on dry land the
distance of one-third of mile from
Woodland Beach over Bombay
Hook lighthouse. The court de-
cided to advertise for bids from
dredgers to throw up a high and
solid embankment on each side
of the road, to shell the causeway
and to put in two sluices. The
committee to look after the work
consists of Commissioners Baggs,
Moore, Mayberry and Benson.
Governor HUM has announced
the following appointments: JOS
eph B. West, Republican, to be
Justice of peace and notary public
of Gumboro, vice L. Theodore
Hearn, Democrat, term expired;
Or. Thomas L. Cahall, Democrat,
member of the State Board of
Health, vice DR.. Robert G Ellegood
/ Democrat term expired.
A large force of Italian laborers
were taken to Dover last week, and
on Friday morning the first work
was commenced on the new Elec-
/ trio road under the new promoters.
The Town Council of Dover will
grant the right of way providing
4 the company will macadamize the
street on which its tracks are laid
two feet each side of the tracks
and keep the road-bed in good re-
pair. Loockerman street, Dover
principal business thoroughfare
must be macadamized from curl
to curb. John J. Berkery, contrac
tor, began work Monday morning
with one hundred Italians. The
first work was relaying the one
mile of track that was laid las
year by the electric railway com
pany to make good its charter, bu
; was not properly laid. Tuesday
steel rails will arrive to be PLACED
on the streets Of Dover and exten
ded as far down as Camden. Tn
work will begin at the Delawar,
+ railroad station in Dover and will
. be continued through the Dove
a streets first, then toward Camden
!; all the material being hauled owe
the track as completed by DUNN
. engine, which will push three gon
{ dola cars. All this work is bein
y watched with great interest by tn
. people of lower Delaware, many {
!, whom know very little about til
: construction and operation of elec
: trio railways.
4 John Mcleod Murphy, the il
. ventor Of the third-rail system
r. the system to be used, arrived
n Dover tonight to personally SUI
+ erintend the application OF his pa
Il ent. The third rail will be place
' in the center of the track and wi
/ be fed by a feed wire running III
Ie der the outer ends of cross-tie
+ from which the electricity is draw
by a magnet in the moving ca
Is The third rail is not a live rail,
4 is feared by many, and is not cha
" ged either behind or ahead of the ca
nj Regular shipments Of material W
k begin OH May 10.
ct Gov. HUM appointed as Pill
is Commissioners Capt. Horace WI
ne son, of Wilmington, and Pilot Hen
ST V. Lyons, of Lewes. He also dc
IS ignated Francis S. Bradley to
m Magistrate of the city of Wilmin
ell ton, for seven years.
20 William Sirman, night operat
ev of the Delaware Railroad here, W
~ go to Middletown on Friday al
t. assume charge Of the day office
g the station there. Mr.. Sirman
N. been night operator here for
10 years. Operator Cosden, of XII
as wood will succeed him.