Evening journal., 1911-07-10
IL KENT
WANTS ROAD
ISineSS Men Leave to Gen.
dupont to Select One Of
Three Routes
EAR OF PLANS AT
BIG TOWN MEETING


81 oecial to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del, July 10-Dover is in
g,N dilemma. Unlike other dilemmas,
lis dilemma has no horns when it
,4 lght to have three.
The duPount boulevard has done II.
over wants three boulevards now in
M ead of one.
Nearly two hundred men, all in shirt
aists except Archdeacon Thompson of
hrist Church, and Professor Wesley
4. Webb, who presided over the Board of
y Hrade meeting, swarmed into the
s5 oard of Trade rooms Saturday night
.l o meet General T. Coleman DUPONT
nd his corps Of engineers and inn
nediately there grew out of the null
a tude of fevered brows and clean Sun
z ay linen three cliques, but the most
5sS powerful of the three appeared TO be
7< he farmers who want to take the
I boulevard around Dover and make
M Dover move toward it.
* The Paving Dover" meeting, prob
lbly the greatest civic meeting ever
M leld. here where business was talked
8 and done, paled into insignihcance
n With the July meeting with the du-
81 Pont road promoters. Farmers from
<4||
43 void swarmed in with the Dover busi-
9 ness men.
IA Through it all, General DUPONT, in
white shirtwaist and without any lev
IS ty or frills, but right down to brass
81 tacks," worked, talked figured and
drew maps as though possessed Of as
dexterous a right hand as a mind.
Al His engineers training was drawn on
more than once for he figured out that
S. the loss of a foot more of channel to
4 former Senator r. H. Lewis would
s mean the loss of 10000 gallons Of
M water. Twice he had to figure on the
IS length of time it would require 10
make a complete survey of a mile Of
tortuous territory. Once he had to es-
innate on moving a building. II was
like eating ice cream at $40.
All Want Road.
In all that sizzling, exciting meet
M ing, there was nobody in sight who did
not want the boulevard-they all not
only wanted it, they we're clamoring
M for it. When a mans name was called
out as doubtful over the right of way
# through him." he was looked on with
an air of disdain by his fellow citizens.
When the Rev B. F. Thompson de-
clared that Christ Church vestry had
even given a part of the historic bury
kIOuHQs
~ up. more enthusiasm still. Former As
~ semblyman F. NJ. Soper, J. Wesley Tay-
lor and c. H. Paradee and a number
81 of Magnolia men who have practically
settled the boulevard question we're on
hand to help whoop it up, notwith-
standing that they are all Democrats
D. NJ Wilson, Danner Brothers, z. j.
u Hall, r. II. Lewis, F. f. Lewis, j.
N Frank Moore and other farmers, from
lust North and East of Dover, seemed
TO have organized for the occasion
with Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. Hall, who is a
Philadelphia lawyer as their spokes-
men.
The all-Dover route had as its
spokesmen Professor E L. Cross, J
Pomeroy Jones and Glider D. Jack
son. The farmers wanted the boule-
ward taken out of Dover at Division
street (the center), and the all-DoveI
advocates wanted it built right
through Dover to Silver Lake bridge
The town men were made happy by
the way General DUPONT figured or
their route.
Meantime, E. L. Jones and othel
business men of Dover got back agair
at the old Kirkwood street route
which had been abandoned on account
of expense, but they had some stronl
arguments for 1.-THE solid street o.
made ground, the removal OF an ave
nue. of eyesores and the substitution
of a beautiful parkway and boule
Il ward on the railroad side of Dover lik'
South Bend, Indiana.
The farmers We're insistent, how
ever, and finally got a compromis
through in the shape Of reorgan
ized committee.
The reorganized committee wa
finally constructed, by the aid OF tn
cool engineering of Professor Webt
who presided, without seriously hurt
I, ing anybody's feelings, as follows
\. William H. Baker, chairman; A
r Benson. Walter Morris-all oil
members-and Glider d. Jackson ia
voring the route all through Dover
and Robert E. Lewis, Jr., favorin
=. the route on Division street.
Put II Up to General.
Some of the business men bega
TO think it was all up with Dove
ever getting the boulevard. FINAL,
DR.. Cross got through a motion ina
the meeting ask for an engineer to
over the routes with the committe
TODAY and survey each route, estimat
ing the total cost of right Of way an
making ground, and then putting
nm 70 General DUPONT to decide, IN
citizens to abide by that decision.
This is just what the Board of Trad
members feared General duPon
would not do. but he fooled theI
again.
: "All right, you leave it to me an
I'll decide It., but look out If some
body is hurt; it's your fault nc
mine"
That sounded so good that the meet
ing adjourned and the attendant
went out of the oven-lilSe chamber
commerce down to hunt up some lemo
sodas, cherry frappes or pineappl
water ice and for the time let tn
boulevard 60 to Houston.
General DUPONT was accompanle
K. Nsre by his chief engineer, F. NJ. Wi
ans, who was chief engineer OF Ne
* state and built the SlOOOOOOO
patent lock canal, and won't out
office by only a small margin, wit
the recently unsuccessful Republica
ticket
His business manager, S. H. Henr,
was also in the party, Mr.. Henry
time is almost exclusively given
buying new road building and house
moving machinery and believes th'
the mechanical department of the dI