Evening journal., 1910-04-08
.STOP-OVER ON
ALL RAILROADS
Privilege Secured Through
Activity Of Board Of
Trade Committee


Wilmington, through the activity Of
the Board of Trade Committee on Nav
igation and Transportation has been
granted the stop-over privilege on all
railroad lines passing through the
city. This was announced by the
committee in its annual report TO the
Board Of Trade last night. The COM
mittee, Of which William T. Budd Is
chairman, submitted the following re-
port:
1T affords your committee pleasure
to advise the members of this Board
that, in response to our request 10 the
railroads passing through this city for
stop-over privileges on all tickets
reading through Wilmington Cthus
placing this city on a par, in that re-
spect. with Philadelphia and Balti-
more). The Pennsylvania Railroad
Company through Mr.. George w.
Boyd, General Passenger Agent. under
date of March %, 1910, has written to
this Board as follows:
1T has been decided to accord stop
over privileges at wilmington, Della
ware, on all excursion tickets isued by
this Company east OF and including
Pittsburg, north Of and including
Washington and south of and includ-
ing New York, reading through viii
mington, In either or both directions,
within the face limit thereof, without
deposit, this privilege to apply also to
excursion tickets issued by the New
York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Rail-
road at points north OF and not in
Guiding Cape Charles, Va.
ut will be necessary for this De-
partment to publish and file with the
Interstate Commerce Commission sup
| plements 10 our tariffs, allowing
thirty days notice, before the arrange
ment can be made effective. and we
will proceed at once with the neces-
sary details in order to allow the
stop-over at the earliest possible
date"
In response to the above quoted
letter from Mr. Boyd your committee,
after thanking him for his courtesy
and prompt attention, advised him
that, in our opinion, his action would
be entirely satisfactory and accept
able TO this Board and TO the City
of Wilmington.
"The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, through its city Ticket
Office, has also advised us of its fav-
orable action upon our request for
NAL notice of which will be forwarded
to us at ap early date.
by this action, Wilmington has been
taken out of the way station class
and will enjoy the distinction here
after of being a metropolitan city.
"As has already been pointed out,
in a previous report, all tickets be-
tween Philadelphia and points on the
Delaware Railroad and its branches
carry the privilege Of stopping over
in this city and all straight, or one
way tickets on both the Pennsylvania
and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads
/ carry the same privilege"
Regarding the subject of the col
lection Of data relating to the ton
mage Of the commerce on the Chris
tiana river, with the view of supplying
those who are interested in securing
government appropriations for the
improvement Of the harbor with facts
on which TO base their arguments and
pleas for larger appropriations. your
committee wishes TO report that thC
subject is receiving their attention but
we are not able to report or recom-
mend, at this time. any definite plan
1T affords us pleasure to assure
J Allt AOdiN AilhAf III Jul RliAAfANAAf NHN
present engineer officer in charge Of
this district is keenly alive TO the ne
cossity of Improving the Christiana
river to a depth at least equal to the
recommendation made by the Board
Of Engineers in 1896 which provided
for q feet at low water and is using
his best efforts to obtain sufficient
I appropriations to enable him TO give
, to this city a depth of water in the
, Christiana, commensurate with ia
present needs and to provide for tn
: future development Of the city
EFFORTS have been made by you
, committee through our Congressman
n Mr.. Heald. to have the construction
n work of the Fourth Light House dis
N trict transferred back to this Office
q but, pending the disposal by Congres
l. of a bill affecting this department
now being considered by the Senate
is cit having already passed the House
"a nothing will be done by the Ligl
n House Establishment at the presen
1t time.
n During the past year the variou
At members of your committee hav
been active in supporting the positio
l., which this Board has always take
Ia I'm advancing the cause of the i'm
,e provement of our waterways includin
n. tho projects advocated by the Allan
r. tic Deeper Waterways Associatio
m and the Rivers and Harbors Congress
,r and for a 80 foot channel i'm the Della
st ware River and we earnestly recon-
,t mend that the active support of thes
AZ movements be continued by this Boar
I'd I'm the future. We also urge that th
,r subjects Of a wharf on the DelawaI
y river. (for the purpose Of attractin
he TO this city particularly the trad
10 from the ports i'm the lower part {