Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-07-03


option in the matter. As see it, tIaAiNI
real estate parties in Wilmington iilaf1
terested in the Cherry Island Marsh
project may oppose coming this way,
but IL they do can see that they are
working against natural advantages and
their own interests. If the railroad
people, the great industries Of then
south side or the south side peoplsV
Generally together with the great shipM
Yards and other industries on thtIa|
iCbristiana River, take up the matter.
andthe people Of New Castle are awake
to these advantages and possibilities
the union of the two places may be
brought Nabout amicably and to the
mutual advantage and to the mutual
prosperity of hundred thousand people
or more. Verysoon we would see Chris
tiana avenue in South Wilmington ex-
tended and prolonged to New Castle
and with improvements that would soon
follow on a we'll drained and wella
lighted avenue we would here have al
river front that even much larger townsA
than Wilmington and New Castlei
might be more than proud of, and theg
northern limit would soon extend tn
Edge Moor. The country is now onA
the top of a wave of great prosperity,
and Wilmington, prosperous as she is,
| can't afford longer to confine her
boundaries to the banks of stream
| already far from equal to her pressing
necessities. She must come to the
banks of the Delaware, and to the
banks of the Delaware her enterprisine'
! citizens will soon speed her, and In
| sincerely trust New Castle may shares
in her great and ever growing pros
! perity.
| Let Wilmingtonians 60 to the river
! front at Chester and see the great adj
| yances already made and being made
there. Let Wilmington take heed ;
| there is an object lesson at Chester we
should not overlook. The Christiana
| River offers no such inducements as
| does the Delaware front at Chester.
New Castle offers them ready made and
close at hand. The coming ocean
steamship for profit must be a very
large one, even larger, | take it, than
monsters such as the Celtic an Min
neapolis and Oceanic are now. The
port that harbors them must offer them
40 feet depth of water to ths> sea.
Philadelphia can't offer this depth, al
practical possibility. A canal through
Jersey would be cheaper. Chester can q
offer it. Wilmington extended To New
Castle can offer it with prastical
channel dredged to 40 feet to the sNe at
practical cost The ship canal Will
surely be built and the DelawareN VI
Chesapeake Canal enlarged will be TIN
ship canal. See the possibilities OF
Wilmington extended to New CASTLE
here. There is a growing trade BY
steamboats, on the Delaware. What
does Wilmington get from lower Della
ware and New Jersey from this factor.
Not cent Bring her to the rive:
front at New Castle and she will GO
most of it. l can't imagine why Will
mington allows herself to lose all thes
advantages and remain practically al
inland town when such an opportunit.
is at her very doors. Let Whining
tonians be encouraged by this grant
opportunity to build city in fact
, well as in name. Let WilmingtonyaF
not be discouraged because some il
progressive citizens, some citizens
terested in rival real estate deals, sol
non progressive newspapers oppose Il
just and glorious opportunity for
vancement, such an opportunity
only comes once in a century to sues,
thriving cities as Wilmington. La
Wilmingtonians take heed, let them e
to Chester and see the great and grow,
ing work being done there ON the rivei
front. Then lot them sail from thu
moath of the Christiana to New Castlt
. and see their glorious opportunity neg
/, lected. | am sure they will take heet
and development of that grand front
will quickly follow. The propositions
' is simple one. The hydraulic dredge,
the great mud sucker will solve Thu
problem safely, quickly. cheaply ani
presto, the river front is indeed [
reality. John j. Black.