Milford chronicle., 1911-03-17


upon the survey and topography c
the country. Where there is a bi
hill or a big fall. the road will hav
to be perhaps 200 feet wide, and thi
question would depend so mucl
upon the survey that l could no
make an intelligent guess"
Representative Hoffecker askeC
whether or not the main course o
the road would bring it through tn,
principal towns of the State o.
whether any Of the principal towns
would be cut off from the main
course Of this road. For instance,
going down through New Castle
County, would it pass through
Middletown, then through Smyrna,
then through Dover, then Milford
and so on down through the State,
he said.
TO PASS BY THE TOWNS.
Mr.. dupont replied 1T wonld be
impossible to pass it through all of
the principal towns, for instance,
through Milford and Harrington. 1t
would depend on the survey. As 1
have said, I am willing to leave the
location to a commission to be ap-
pointed by the Governor. But per-
sonally. l do not think that the road
should 60 directly through any of the
principal towns, because frequently
it would have to make sharp turns,
and it is not probable that if the
road was in town, it could be made
into a boulevard. If it would go
through a certain section within a
half mile of certain town, the
name Of which | will not mention
at the present time, a gentleman
there will Join hands with me in
1 part expense of a boulevard to con-
meet the town with the road. In my
judgment, | think it would be better
for the road to be at least one-half
a mile to a mile from a town; if not
there might be a continual conten-
ton between the authorities of the
town and the State.
President pro tenn Monaghan an
nounced that anybody was privil-
eyed to ask questions. J. P. Cowgirl
in the audience, said he would like
to ask what the conditions were in
regard to that trolley line.
Mr.. dupont then replied that he
asked a guarantee that it would be
built. If l have that franchise to the
right of way, and anybody wants to,
within a reasonable time, build
trolley line, l would only want an
absolute guarantee that it would be
built" said General dupont.
MR.. RICHARDS EXPLAINS.
Atthe request OF Senator Marshall,
Robert H. Richards was given the
privilege on the legal phases of the
proposition. ''Mr. DUPONT discussed
the question OF building a road and
giving it to the State with me about
two months ago. and since that time,
there have been vigorous discussions.
After the proposition was made by
Mr. DUPONT to the Governor, which
has been transmitted to the General
Assembly and with which you are
all familiar, Mr.. Hastings and
have been Occupied in drafting a pro-
posed act to carry into affect the
made by Mr. DUPONT
We have not done this in any sense
as anticipating the wishes of the
General Assembly. We have not
done this on any presumption, but
we realized that the end Of the Gen
eral Assembly is fist approaching,
and that if the General Assembly {
should think favorably of the pro- t
position it would be necessary, if t
anything was done, that it should
be done expeditiously l might say
hat in the early part of the discus {
sion with General DUPONT | found a
hat his enthusiasm was so great and t
nis desire to accomplish this great :
work for the State was such, that he
vas very lOath to accept the sugges-
ion of an amendment to the COnsti-
ution of the State to enable the con-
,tructiOn OF such a road
II have always had very serious
doubts as to the rights ofthe Assem-
by to pass legislation to construct a
.oad, even though that road might
)e State long, because l have always
)een unable to distinguish between
local and special law relating to
oads. Therefore, we attempted to
levise a means of legislation which
would not be in any sense open to
he voice of unconstitutionality, and
which would be absolutely free of any
possible question as to its validity
lpon constitutional grounds.
TO AMEND CORPORATION LAW.