Smyrna times., 1911-04-12
DUPONT GIVES OUT SOME
OF HIS BOULEVARD PLANS
DISCUSSES THE POSSIBILITY OF
ROAD PASSING THROUGH TOWNS
Upon Certain Conditions After a
Right of Way Has Been Granted
Station Every Ten Miles

General T. Coleman Dupont, pres
ident of the Dupont Powder Com
pany, who will build Delaware
state wide highway in consideration
of financial grants, arrived in Will
mington from his country home near
Cambridge, Md, yesterday and made
the announcement that three corps
of surveyors will start out this week
to make tentative surveys in New
Castle and Sussex counties for the
boulevard. Two squads of engineers
will start in Sussex county and the
third will start in New Castle county.
1t is expected that the surveying en-
| gineers will be ready to report
within two months. With the pros
pect of more settled weather, how
ever, General DUPONT is ready to
| get right down to the preliminary
details, and he expects that the sur
veys will have progressed sufficiently
in two months to permit the Commits
sioners designated under the law
empowering the DUPONT boulevard
construction-the Governor, the Sec
retary of State and the Lieutenant
Governor-to determine upon the To-
cation of part of the road at least.
Boulevard Might Run Through Town:
Asked for his plans relative tC
going through towns on the line ot
the road, General DUPONT said: "l
have been giving this subject greaf
deal of thought. There is strong
sentiment in some places in favor o.
the road going through the towns
and if the road commissioners fee
that this is advisable l am willing
to consider it along the following
line, but we must remember the con
dition to be kept in mind: Th
streets are in many instances to-
narrow and crooked, and are no
/ likely to run in line parallel to tn
{ proposed road. No arrangement ha
been made with . the municipa
! authorities, each case must be han
died separately, according to loca
circumstances. If the town woul
give right of way from its north
0 ern to its southern boundary say 10
$ feet wide running practically paral
n lei to the survey of the road, an
a should pass necessary ordinances t
n properly maintain the road at a.
times, the said right of way to b
n one of the present streets widened
e perhaps, or an entirely new street
as might be determined, woul
e then consider building through tina
f town, say four roads, sixteen fee
r wide, and two sidewalks, separate
r by grass plots and trees or curbing
e One road each way would be use
y for vehicles, pulled by animal c
: man, and one road each way for me
: tor propelled vehicles. woul
n share the additional expense wit
f the town. and the amount would /
} governed by the adopted plan. Tt
:; town might well give 200 feet ar
/. have a more beautiful and attractiN
boulevard for it's people"
May Establish Station Every 10 Mil,
General DUPONT further said: Z"
j. practical / want to establish SO
N every ten miles, a station, whel
d patrons of the road could stop al
IS ask questions about lands, crop
u properties for sale, be given info
r nation about surrounding countr
= feed horses, get gasoline, lunches
'k or tea, have minor repairs made
le automobiles or get horses sho
keep early plants for farmers, a
perhaps thoroughbred stock, di
"a, tribute circulars telling of the a
vantages of Delaware, and for ma
other pt1rnoqoa