Milford chronicle., 1912-07-26
WHAT OTHER PAPERS THINK
ABOUT BOULEVARD DECISION.

ABUUl BUULEVARD DEClSlUN.
In order that our readers NAV learn
the manner in which the different papers
Of the State have spoken about the de-
clsion of the judges in regards to the
Boulevard Law as passed at the last
session of the Legislature, we are pub
fishing the editorial comments of several
of the exchanges which have come TO
this Office. The Wilmington papers at
titude toward the project is of interest.
They are as follows:
The BOULEVARD.
Step off fourteen feet in a field and
you have an idea of the size of the road
the State is to get if the dupont boule-
ward should be built. Continue steppinp
up to thirty feet and you have the en-
tire width of the highway that is to be
the property of the State. Then con-
tlnue on to 200 feet and notice the diff
ference between what the State gets
and the road corporation gets You will
have vivid idea, and the comparison
viii be suggestive.
In other words the State, under the
bargain made with the Boulevard Cor
poration, is to secure a macadam road.
or a road built of some other suitable
material, fourteen feet wide. The ad-
ditional road up to thirty feet will not
play very important part in the trans
action between the State and Mr.. du-
Points company, for, according to MANY
OF the surveys made. the new road will
be IN parts of the counties where it is
not needed. In other words if the coun-
ues where there are no improved high
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small macadam highway themselves they
would nave as much for practical put-
poses as they viii get by the DUPONT
good road. If the stretches of road be- /
tween the northern and southern parts
of New Castle ecounty-and there are not
many of them which have not been i'm /
proved should be converted into macadam
roads, we should have. for all practical
purposes, as good highway as we shall
get It the DUPONT road is finished.
After 1t is finished the State must
maintain the road in addition to paving
Tor the upkeep of the other county roads.
New Castle county from which source
the State derives almost all its income.
therefore, will get, for practical Dur-
poses, only few miles of road fourteen
ieet wide, if the plans that Mr.. dupont
mad IN mind before he ceased work.
should be carried out.
And New Castle county must maintain
ITS present good roads and in addition
maintain the boulevard. Under the
scheme 1t must also pay heavily towards
sustaining the DUPONT road in Kent and
Sussex counties. l
Looking at the matter from another
point of view, for the State to get this =
'oad fourteen feet wide farms are to be
'ut and slashed in every direction. In +
iome instances the present roads. re- e
sardless of whether they are improved t
y not improved, are to be almost par
.lieled. The surveys in many cases 90 a
iagonally across valuable farm proDer- o
res, destroying the present lines andl f
iacIng the owners of properties at great a
t
Some of these properties will be slashed S
3 that they will be hardly recognizable. II
he surveys that have been made in p
ome instances go between farm houses F
I'D barns, and such a road would cause Il
= farmer much trouble in his daily G
Not onlysis this the situation as it r,
ands at present, but the Boulevard tC
wants amendments which
ould permit it to assess benefits as well tr
damages. Many a land owner not "
ly would have his property cut into l.
eer shape, but he would get nothing tu
r it. Most of the land taken would be 20
Id out of use indefinitely, and the land lie
'ners, if they wanted it put in use til
ght have to sue in the courts. tu
This being true, and it being entirely fu
lbtful as to how the assessment Of ev
nefits would operate, especially in re- IS
ms where the political powers that be op
! in active sympathy with the boula- vi
ri promoters. is the thought unreason- tn
b to qriv candid man that the boule- col
N project as it has developed is cans tio
a great deal of mental pain and po
lietv among those who feel that thew Of
/ he seriously and adversely affected the
mid this road be pushed to connlerion2 col
1orning News. Ia