Smyrna times., 1911-09-06
DUPONT'S SURVEYORS TO
REACH SMYRNA THIS. WEEK
ENGINEER MADE AN ADVANCE
VISIT TO SMYRNA SUNDAY
To Look Over the Course Selected by
Smyrna Town Council ard the
Board of Trade-Survey Soon.

-NON O'eI t"S OOurSe selected by
Smyrna Town Council ard the
Board of Trade-Survey Soon.
Chief Engineer F. M. Williams, rep
resenting Gen. T. Coleman Dupont
who is to build the great So, 900, 900
boulevard through Delaware, drove
into Smyrna Sunday in his big tour
ing car and stopped at the residence
of Walter o. Hoffecker, a member
of the Boulevard Committee of the
Board of Trade, to learn the route
selected for the survey. Mr.. Hof-
fecker boarded the touring car and
accompanied Mr.. Williams to the
proposed route east of Smyrna, as
endorsed by the Board of Trade and
Town Council, and gave him the d.
rection it would come into and pass
out of corporate limits. Engineer
Williams left Smyrna shortly after
ward and expects to return sometime
this week to make the survey. The
engineering corps has reached Dover
and will work their way up as
rapidly as possible into New Csatle
County. General Coleman DUPONT is
said to be seriously delayed if not
tiled up,'' on his State boulevard
project by the refusal of people who
own four miles of land between Ell
lendale and Selbyville, to deal reR
sonably for right of way.
May Abandon Sussex Eastern Route
General Dupont went to George
town recently, to take the matter up
with residents of the eastern
side of Sussex county, who now
realize that unless the rights of way
can be secured in few days, the
eastern or middle route through Sus-
sex will be abounded. This is the
route which needs road improve
ments as much as any other section
of the county. Some trouble is be-
ing had to secure the right of way
at Milford and Dover. In the latter
town the contention is the right of
way through the Bradford estate.
General DUPONT went to Laurel Sat-
urday on an inspection trip with a
party in two of his large automo-
biles. The guests included Governor
PennewilI, Col. w. D. Denney,
Theodore Aitkin, of Scotland, F..
M. Williams, chief engineer for Gen.
DUPONT; D. Tybout, Chief Engineer
Cosby, of the Maryland Good Roads
Commission, and ]. B. Harrison, of
Berlin, Nd.
Boulevard May Go Mile West of Dover
The DUPONT boulevard pro ject for
Dover is somewhat at sea since the
departure Sunday of Chief Engineer
F. M. Williams, James H. Dallett,
Morgan 7. Gum and S. S. Hoff of
the DUPONT road engineering corps.
The engineers admitted that sur
vey had been ordered around Dover,
about three thousand feet west of
town. The engineers did not feel
free to discuss the reason for his
new survey when it was thought
a route through Dover had been
agreed on after much tribulation.
Trouble to get few rights of way
from owners who are demanding
money, and also the cost of "filling
i'm certain low places along the pro-
posed route, which would make it
cost several thousand dollars are
attributed as the reason for this sp-
parent shift to another route. The
Dover Board of Trade, one of the
first to endorse the DUPONT road and
which has had one of its best COM
mittees hard at work on the project,
will have another meeting Thursday
evening.