Newark post., 1911-06-14
Interesting Letter.
Delaware City
Delaware City. June a, 1911.

Delaware City. June -, 1911.
To .ne Editor Of The Pest,
Dear sirs-since the first appearance
Of your SPICY .o-r1&l IN circulation IL
this community yoE- correspondent has
teen anxious 20 SICK his appreciation ot
your interesting addition TO Dels.are's
loesI newspaper family, by Offering
ccEtribution for your column devoted to
amateur ~r!t@rs, that your editorial dis
elimination Nigh, consider worthy a
place outside your cfice waste basket
TIE first step il this direction would o.
course Involve the selection Q. { subject
TO write upon and this sometimes is
quite pe-plezing matter, The proper
settlement Of which might have con
siderable bearing On the success or fail
Ere Of ones effort in such al undertzE-
Ing
Quite number Of years ago when
Prof. c. c. TyudaI was superintendent
Of public schools for Kent county your
correspondent attended coIored teach
e-s' State Institute at Smyrna, Del. OLe
part Of the exercises for the day vas
the reading of al essay By one Of the
teachers. The colored gentleman rho
read this essay before opening MS manu-
script addressed his fellow teachers &c
| the effect that when be understood he
vas down for the reading Of an essay
before the institute he Immediately com
meneed TO wonder what should be his
subject. Fret, he said, y thought Of
| choosing history and then l thought
| what could ! say before historians. Then
thought Of arithmetic, but what could
| ! say before mathematicians; then Of
| Geography, but what could ! say before
| Geographers; and finally thought Of
/ my school. He then, with My school,
/ as subject, read quite an Interesting
| paper, in relation thereto. So my sub
/ lect for this occasion, shall be My
| Town delaware City, situated thirteen
miles from Newark, and connected there
| with By the Newark and Delaware City
branch Of the r, b. d W. r. K
| Delaware City is not 50 large nor such
z thrifty, enterprising and growing town
| as Newark, although il enjoys natural
| advantages which are denied not Only
Newark but TO all inland towns Della
| ware City is an old town having teen
founded many years ago. Indeed the
| State can boast Of few settlements that
antedate Delaware City from an histori-
cal point Of view. few years ago at
| commencement exercises OF our upblic
schools young lady graduate read a
paper entitled Delaware City-HistoricaI
| Points Of Interest-that proved to be
such revelation to County superinten-
dent spaid, who was present and heard
the points as brought out that he asked
for copy to ne filed by him for future
| reference.
| The material advantages Of Delaware
City for manufacturing location are in
deed what would supposedly attract
seekers for suitable place to establish
plants, but such has never proved to be
the case. The vastly important matter
OF deep water frontage is here in
abundance, besides the Delaware and
| Chesapeake Canal. steam and trolley
connections, making in ali Just what
other towns outstripping Delaware City
most essentially lack and which they
would like most to procure But not
withstanding the fact that Delaware City
has no manufacturing plant, her many
| other attractions are of a character suf-
hcient TO give her good standing among
her neighboring progressive towns scat
tered throughout out State. Her wide
streets and lofty shade trees, her many
| attractive, elegant, cosy and substan-
| tial houses, no over crowded tenements,
but many small and fair sized houses
| surrounded by sanitary conditions in
every particular that excludes any ques-
| tion of proper homes for all classes.
steady employment at good wages for
the laboring class, prosperity among all
classes, no slums, no monopolistic and
| multibillionaires or other "undesirab BILE
citizens, is something We deem not only
worthy of our pride but worth telling to
the outside world The farming country
adjoining Delaware City includes some
| OF the finest farms in the State Espec-
| tally those owned by Ex-U S. Senator
Anthony Higgins and Ex-U. S. Consul
to Dundee, Scotland, John c. Higgins,