Smyrna times., 1906-01-03
CONSTRUCTION ON TROLLEY
TO START WITHOUT DELAY
SAYS PROMOTER U. @. CLICK WHO WILL
ORGANIZE COMPANY WITHIN A WEEK
Constructing Engineer Mccarthy Left Chicago
Yesterday and Will Take Up Work Here
as Soon as His Equipment Arrives.

Constructing Engineer Mccarthy Left Chicago
Yesterday and Will Take Up Work Here
as Soon as His Equipment Arrives.
Now that the Holidays have passed |
President U. G. Click of the Smyrna,
Kent County and Delaware Bay Trac-
ton Company has taken up trolley
matters with renewed activity and
purposes pushing it on without delay.
He has received word that the con-
structing engineer, Mr.. Charles H.
Mccarthy, left Chicago yesterday,
where he has been spending the hol
idays, and will go direct to New York.
Mr.. Click will meet him there and
look over machinery matters with the
General Electric Company. AS soon
as the machinery is shipped and the
construction equipment arrives Mr..
Click says they will positively begin
work without any unnecessary delay
and will not only construct the line
from Smyrna to Woodland Beach but
will build from Smyrna to Dover. In
the meantime an effort is being made
to get the necessary timber, such as
piling, ties, poles, etc., and those hav
ing such material should confer with
Mr.. Click or his representatives.
Considerable timber is needed and
farmers will find it profitable to look
into the matter. AS to the organiza-
tion, we are informed that it will be
made within week and will be done
in the usual form required by such
companies taking out charter in Del
aware. The forfeit money Mr.. Click
says, will be put up as required with
out depending on the $500 now in
the State treasury, over which a legal
opinion will be announced shortly.
Promoter Click has not given up his
fight for this fund and contends that
it rightfully belongs to his company
since it his acquired the right, title
and assets of not only the company
which put up this forfeit, but all pre-
. vious Delaware companies.
: Promoter Click is now preparing t.
meet the session of the Smyrna Tow
Council with the view of making then
! a proposition for the Electric Ligh
Plant. The Council, it is understood
. would be favorable to selling the plan
i at fair profit but do not want to tax
: the responsibility, for it is contends
: it will have to be put to vote of th
!. property owners. Here the questio
: of municipal ownership" will be in
= yolved and may make a strong issu
+. at the coming town election in Febru
|, ary. There are some who think th
: town would be better off without th
= cares and burdens of the light plar
and that under a corporation we woul
get better and more up to-date servic,
g Mr.. Click, it is understood, wants IL
!, plant and will make the town a GOO
offer for it. The Trolley Power st
tion must be centrally located and
os Mr.. Clicks company gets the SmyrI
:. Light Plant be will furnish day al
:, night current and reconstruct the lig
IL service on up-to date principles. III
=. sale of the light plant would not i
=. clude the water and sewer whi'
:. would still be under the control of 4
bo town. 1t has taken time for Promot
on Click to accomplish what he has, {
rol it was done step by step and tho
20. oughly Now he feels assured of t
outlook and insists that he will 81
loo the people of Kent County the servi
~ they have long hoped for. As the W
-. mington journal aptly expresses
- "The people of Kent County are al
ious for the trolley and they wol
like to see the cars going from Smyi
through to Milford. down in Suss
A. and over to Cambridge, Md. II
would make a road that ought to
ent considerable business and the loy
te. state people, no doubt, will do all IL
the can to hurry it along -skeptical thou
,el- some of them may be"