Evening journal., 1912-06-05
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 5, 1912
TO WILMINGTON TAXPAYERS.

TO WILMINGTON TAXPAYERS.
TT HAS been represented to you by Councilman
stover, OF the Seventh ward and others who have
been eager jam this Delaware river waterfront
scheme of the Wilmington Terminal Company and its
associates through City Council with indecent haste,
that such necessary that rverront might
moi lose tho aid Of the Federal Government in building
the bulkhead from the mouth of the Cbrstiana river
up TO Edge Moor and making the twelve foot nil be-
hind IT, In proof that such assertions untrue, and
show that II will make difference either TO the
engineering force of the Federal Government to
city il the question be left open for monthR
n need be- publish first page two intervif
with Major Herbert Deakyne United States enainees
in charge Of The Delaware river improvements ~
the bulkhead and FIJI in front of ouE{rN> nqpsl'4p
only small part
One interview obtained by stpH 7orfSspondent
for THE EVENING JoURNAl vaa'f'EaFt % Phlsdel-
phia yesterday afternoon Msl Ns8 6siong talk with
Major Deakyne. II .wl ahaslsA eH Of you that when
Councilman stoyef and eNsf We're insisting that such
great haste was nassarytn putting this Wilmington
Terminal cnmrt deHI throueh delay might result
in thSpuhi tIhk he benefit Of the bulkhead and the
AZ la Sifnef wore trying wilfully deceive you
Nsla k61fsht OF the subject they discussing. The
oihefsAltrview with Major Deekyne obtained by
tAesentative certain pubic-sprited citizens who
are watching progress Of he proposed rverfront
deal
You will by what Major Deakyne says that
there no reason. the work Of the Govern
ment is concerned why the question of tho constitu
tonality OF the Bulkhead Law Of 1901 shall not be
tried in the the proposed agreement be-
tween the city and the Wilmington Terminal Company
and its associates held up until the Legislature may
decide winter whether Il desires TO repeal that
Bullhead Law. conserve those hundreds Of acres Of
land for the benefit of the public and give them to
the city so it its waterfront and dispose
Of for the public good rather than for the enrichment
of marsh land spectators
We also wish TO say to YOU taxpayers that there is
ample legal authority show that the title those
hundreds Of Of land In the State and not in
the Wilmington Terminal Company and its associates.
that there is ample legal authority warrant
the Legislature to repeal that Bukhead Law at any
prior the building that Government bukhead,
assuming that the Bulkhoad Law is constitutional
which Is denied by competent and dsnterested lawyers
Your interests are affected vitality by this effort Of
Councilman Soyer and his associates TO push this deal
through Council for the benefit Of the Wilmington
Terminal Company and its associates with sixteen and
one-quarer Of sop for you taxpayers hanging g.
These nen hopeful Of being able put the deal
through ultimately. despite your protests. Let
THE EVENING JOURNAL remind you that on April 20
last this same Councilman stovor who with Council
White Of the Sixth ward, is the leading advocate
OF the Wilmington Terminal Company scheme, gave
interview in which he explained Why he eager
shove the thing through that time In that inter-
view he said:
1T was deemed advisable not 70 hold open meetings
the subject uut something definite had been done.
Every week there was change OF some kind in the
and change for the benefit of VIII
mngton. The city will get ground than it viii be
able 70 in 200 years ground along the river
front than the city Of Philadelphia its river
front We have been pushing the thing along because
II necessary. az the Government will begin
the work dredging hiry-hve channel and it
necessary to settle the matter of the river front in
order TO settle the question Of place 90 deposit
teria taken from the river bed
"t makes no difference 10 me whether some of the
who own land the river front made rich Just
the city is being well cared for for one would
like 10 get al tho river front for the city but that Is
Impossible I have consulted with lawyers and am
convinced that the riparian rights Of the present
ers along the Delaware must be respected II we did
10 Court would be three probably before the
could be settled. and informed that Il would
be against the city. In the meantime the opportunity
to have the river front hed in BY the dredgings from
the river presented itself and had be advan.
tage Of at once"
We urge you TO read and compare that with what
Major Deakyne Of the United Engineering Corps
has say in another this paper Then we thnl
you viii decide that little wonder that in som,
sections Of country, communities afflicted with
such statesmanshp clamorng for the right to re
call public officials That Stover interview is an apolog,
for Star Chamber meetings It confession OF th
Councilmans Ignorance that the city Of New York tn
greatest seaport on the Western Continent and on,
of the greatest in the world. miles upon miles o
waterfront which it leases and from which It derive
millions in revenue It is appeal for Wilmington