Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-04-18
SEvENTHISTREET BRIDGE
Members Of lne Levy Court View the
Structrs Now Being Built.
4 ROUGH toAD TO TRAVEL OVER
Work onthe Bridge Progress
81 ing Slowly.
OTHER BRIDGES ARE TO BElNSPtuTED

Seventh street extended, on which
some haye pinned hopes fer road to
the river, had n surprise, Friday
afternoon, through its circuitous length.
Tho cause Of this sensation was the
passage Of two cabs over lie ash and
rubbish .bedeolsed surface 10 the western
approach of Seventh street bridge. In
the cal were the Heven memi ers of
the Levy Court Of New Castle county,
who had Determined uron an inspection
Of the work On tho bridge.
SevAnt street extended is rarely
enough Travelled by vehicles of any
A dascr Elton. leastwise by coaches Of tho
kind which visited it Friday. 1t is
not road to travel n unless one has a
distinct object in view. Seventh street,
below Church, begins to assume various
contours, IL passtd between the shops
'ha jackson n Sharp Co.. and the
Mccullough Iron Co., Just below the
~. ", ~ u. raj road, and past the
shipyard and lower shops of the Jackson
( Il Sharn Co., and then bends towards
the christina, so that when it reaches
the Brandywine, it Is where Fourth
street would be il the line Of Fourth
street were extended TO that point
The street runs down the peninsula
formed by the Christiana and Brandy
wiue Rivers. This peninsula bel Nv
the main section of the car and ship
works comprises about 50 acres, winch
Is owned by the Brandywine Marsh
. Go. Last year a largo section Of the
property on the Christiana River side
OF Seventh street was filled in with
diedgiugs from the stream, and a
colored man was p'owing it yesteIdny,
preparatory to planting corn. The
dredgines mako very rich soil. On the
Brandywine River side of Seventh
street the ground is still low and won d
doubtless improved by filling in.
Il visitor to the PENINSULA may well be
impressed by the great quantity oil
room in 1t for manufacturing plants,
and the future may find there more
str 'nuous industries than that Of
raising crops.
When the levy courtmen reached the
western approach to Seventh STU
bridge they found q ssctiou OF the
old woodwork remaining, but there hag
been No bridge for many months tht
lid wooden structure and it's draw
which swung from one end, having beer
torn down by Patrick Fahey, the con
tractor, for the construction OF tho new
iron or steel bridge, winch is 10 Coz
1926, 600.
Some time back, the court hac
adopted resolution criticisiug tb,
sowness of the work and relieving
Henry M. White from the position o
superintendent thereof, to which tn
old court, of which he was a member
had appointed him. Yesterday tn
commissioners saw that the contracto
ha6 k,.sl NkA. L.. A
of the two piers that are TO he In tn
stream. Work has started en- the othe
pier, but no stone has been laid for tn
western ahutment. 1t ie understoo,
that the superstr ucture ID being don
at the Edge Moor bridge works an
that it is about ready. Delay has bee
caustd, it is said, by bad weather.
The contract for the bridge was give
to Mr.. Fahey about September, 1896
and he was instructed in September
1900, to proceed to build 1t. Since tina
fine be has received s12, 900 on account
The bridge.is TO be of iron, 134 feet Ion
and "a feet wide.
When q reporter visited the scene
Friday afternoon, he saw one ma
saving planks on shore, and a gang {
men on floating pile-driver who di
not seem to be very busy.
President John Lynn of tho Lev
Court said today that Contractor Fahe
had been DELAYED in the work by til
court itself. 1t has been decided to ad
two feet TO each of the four piers
order to get more surely above extri
ordinarily high tides. Mr.. Lynn sal
that in the freshet OF some weeks nc
the water was two feet above the pil
on which the machinery for operatir
the draw is to BIZ placed. Hence, it
deemed advisable to increase the heigl
OF the piers.