Milford chronicle., 1912-04-05
UNFAIR TACTICS.
LLNI

The Morning News has been trying t,
show that there is opposition in Ken
county to the dupont Boulevard, but Il
deals mostly in generalities, and in one
of the few clses in which it has venturtd
10 be specific it is charged with misrep-
sesentation by the man it quotes as de
elaring that the people of Smyrna are
opposed TO the boulevard. Former Con
gresham Walter O. Hofeckerssssis thus
represented by the News, but he resents
seing placed in such an attitud. toward
a great public enterprise, and declares
over his own signature that sentiment
generally in and about Smyrna is in ia
Vor of the boulevard and not against it.
Other men write to the same effect, and
they do not use nom de plumes, but ex-
press their sentiments over their own
signatures. Among the men of substance
and intelligence who have important
mterests in Kent county are Orlando
Harrison, one of the leading nursery
men of the country, who resides in Ber-
an, Md. and Chas. NJ. Hammond, of
Milford The former says: II
nope the people of Delaware can be
shown the value the road will be to
them, and the latter, who is a prosper
Gus real estate dealer, says he is in re-
eeipt of a great MANY inquiries from peo-
pie outside of the State of Delaware de-
string to purchase farms along the du-
Pont Boulevard, - which of course clear /
ly indicates the importance of the boule-
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ahe route of the road. Manv other letters
sf similar tenor have been received by |
Mr. DUPONT, and are no doubt open to !
she inspection of any person who is seek /
ing the truth upon this very important |
subject
The Delaware Republican of Dover, I
whose editor has a wide circle of acquain- I
aances, and whose business it is to ascer-
tain the public feeling upon matters of
general interest, has this to say of a re-
sent publication in the News concerning
ibe sentiment in Kent county: "Yester
days Morning News contained an arti-
Gle purporting to give objections to the
aew boulevard here in Kent, claiming
many land owners are opposing the pro-
posed route and objected generally. The
News must be hearing things at long
range. We are right here on the ground /,
and can say that farmers and citizens
generally are hear tily in favor of aiding
General duPont's magnificent gift. Our {
people want that road and want it badly. h
fhe News quotes some Smyrna citizens as
objectors to the route. History records !
that it was some Smyrna citizens who
drove the Delaware Railroad a mile from
the town, and we know that Smyrna S
citizens are now, iguratively speaking /
sickiug themselves because this blunder
vas made. The citizens of Smyrna will
zot repeat it. -
From Sussex we hear from such men /
IS Richard Duffy, farmer near George q
Own, who says his farm has been in t
reased from So, 5O0to IS 900; from Chas. {
}. Hamblin, near Selbyville, who says /
lis property, which is crossed by the
oulevafd, will be very much increased a
a value; from Joseph J. Ward, farmer q
ear Georgetown, whose property is cut t
q half by boulevard, and who says 1T il
Dok eight acres of my property right u
lru the middle of it, and since that r
me I have refused double what l asked e
or the land before the road went thru it," o
-om ]. 6. Townsend. Jr., a real estate
ealer Of Seltyyille, who says land b
lereabouts has in some cases doubled in p
alue and in others quadrupled; from E. Ia