Evening journal., 1912-06-15
SATURDAY, JUNE Is. 1912
ROSS rAYnRs INIrNcTI0N.

TT owARD d. ROSS. twice City Treasurer, promi-
nent aud active member of the Wilmington Board
OF Trade leading merchant in our city and also con-
spicuous for years as a Republican, gave an interview
today In which he says the Delaware River Waterfront
Exploitation Scheme of the Wilmington Terminal Com
pauy and its associates ought be defeated even il It
be necessary to get out injunction against city
Council to prevent favorable action upon It. He also
says the Wilmington Board Of Trade-which had been
led believe that the marsh land specuators and not
the State owned tho land beyond low water mark and
that quick action TO obtain from the Fed
eral Government the buikhead and the hll-now must
set itself right before the community and longer oe-
cupy the position of being of the hackers of the
riverfront exploiters.
Such utterances. coming from man Of Mr. Ross's
position In the community much They show
that She business Of our community are determined
that the deal proposed shall not through, even
though the Wilmington Terminal Company have such
tight hold on certain Of the City Councmen that they
may try to jam it through. When man who has the
standing Of Mr. Ross in the community talks seriously
OF the Importance quick resort to Injunction pro-
ceedings it something. lie and the men who are
associated with him the effort TO this 10000 feet
of waterfront and hundreds Of acres Of land that lie
back OF it, are not the who viii content themselves
merely with talking They determined that neither
the city nor State shall lose that waterfront prop
ery and the city shall not be left at the mercy of
waterfront spectators the Of the opening of the
great inland waterway and the Panama canal
One OF the most important features of the interview
Of Mr. Ross has do with the duty Of the Wilmington
Board of Trade in this emergency AS member Of the
Board OF Trade and one who when It organized in
its enlarged form took in thirtysix members, he
admits the board today the side Of the
waterfront proposition and that It must set itself
straight the people lie points out that mani
festy is Wrong it stand in the Of the city of
Wilmington obtaining It's waterfront and that it is
Tor it be advocating free tolls for Amer
team ships passing through the Panama canal and at tho
same time trying to put the waterfront Of our city in
the hands Of men would be able TO exact tolls
they pleased from shipping that might into our
harbor
Taken an in all the Ross interview is splendid one.
II shows that alive the situation and that he
also candid enough admit that the Board of Trade
Is in wrong when is IN wrong. With the opinion OF
City Solicitor Hastings in the hands Of City Council
and spread fully before the public there no
longer is any for the Board Of Trade to give
countenance or support either to the Wilmington Ter
unal Company and its associates those members OF
City Council who working in the interest Of the ex-
ploers 1t should itself straight before the COM
munity without delay the end that the questions in
yosed may up speedily and the actual work
getting that great waterfront for the city may be
put under way.