Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-04-11

Some lively scenes were enacted in the |
vicinity of the old Jessup 4 Moore ware |
house. on the north side of the Brandy
wine. opposite Walnut street, yesterday
those who have been occupying the build
ing having received a hurried order to
vacate. and the evacuation was rather in
teresing. The property has been purchased
by the Wilmington Light, Power d Iele-
phone Co. which has taken possession
and is making preparation to build its
new powerhouse there.
Originally the building was used by
the Jessup & Moore Co. as a storage house
for rags Many years ago rags were
shipped there by the carload and sorted,
and after being sorted were taken to the
company paper mills, further up the
Brandywine. but for the past few years
it has not been used for this purpose.
Recently the building has been occupied
chiefly by naphtha launches and other
small boats plying on the BrandyWlne,
being taken there by the owners during
the winter or at other times when they
were out of commission, and during the
past winter about a dozen OF these boats
have been kept there.
On Friday night the owners received
word that the purchasers OF the property
had taken possession and expected to get
TO work on the new power house at once,
and as a result it was necessary 70 vacate
without delay. In consequence OF this
information, all OF Saturday was con-
sumed in preparation to get the boats out
and some of them were gotten on
the wharf and launched into the
Brandywine yesterday. Some Of these
boats are well known in local waters
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The power company expects to put up
a large building on the site. There is now
large building. the warehouse referred
to above, and in front of it a large wharf
/ property. which will give ample room for
! the requirements of the company.
The change at this location will obliterate
what has been for years headquarters for
many of the Brandywine boats and also
for many Of the professional fishermen
on the Brandywine, who used the roomy
wharf property, in front Of the buildin &
| for their boats and nets, while boats were
! also tied up at the wharf. The place is
not on a public highway, but It is accessible
! from several directions, and those who
have had interests there had no difficulty
in reaching the place.
Originally there was a shed over the
entire wharf, which furnished shelter for
the fishermen and also for the boats which
were kept there, but the shed was taken
down a few years ago, and since that time
the wharf has been exposed.
Prior to the time the Wilmington City
Railway Co. built its powerhouse at the
foot of Buena Vista street, which is only
about two blocks nearer Market street,
many of the boats tied up at this location,
which was then known as the Rocks, fol-
It was a solid mass of rock from the chan
mel of the Brandywine as far back as the
Augustine branch of the Philadelphia
Baltimore & Washington railroad, but
when the powerhouse was built the boat
men had to move to another location
and most Of them went to the wharf
which has been purchased by the new
power company.
Where the boats will be kept is moi
definitely known, for now nearly all o
the water front on that side of the Brandy
wine, as far down as Walnut street, i
= taken up by business concerns, and below
that point there is no wharfage for half
mile, where the Delaware Granite ant
Mining Co. has a wharf, but as it is privat
property, which is constantly in use,