Evening journal., 1913-02-13
rnAr ROuLEyARp REPEALER.

W LILLIAN B MILLER. of Salisbury, Maryland state
Road Commissioner in this city yesterday
morning. Subsequently he went to Dover and adj
dressed the members OF the Delaware Legislature
the evils that would result both in this State and in
Maryland should Legislature repeal the Boulevard
Corporations act and compel General I. Coleman
DUPONT abandon his S2O00O0O boulevard enterprise
His address was timely With the Democratic mem
bers Of the Senate and the House lined up by the
Democratic for the repeal OF the act, and
with the lieutenants OF that Democratic boss openly
boastng that they had succeeded in lining several
Republican members, Il time that someone should
step the front and point the legislators what
irreparable injury would he done TO the people of
our State by such unwise action.
There one assertion made by Mr.. Miller that at
racted extraordinary attention. That that the State
Maryland had appropriated $4,000 extend the road
from the southern terminus of the DUPONT Boulevard
to Berlin, there 10 connect with the system of good
roads leading to Ocean City and other points in the
Eastern Shores Of Maryland and Virginia. He
planned that with the DUPONT Boulevard abandoned,
that $4,000 road also would be abandoned and inca
culable injury would be done to the people in that
section OF the Eastern Shore.
Mr.. Miller appeared officially before the Legislature
10 urge q not TO take the ruinous step Of forcing
abandonment Of the DUPONT Boulevard and, with 1t,
the $4,000 road designed lead from selbyvlle to
Berlin The State Road Commissioner said he wished,
and the people of the State of Maryland wish, that
General DUPONT would make TO the State of Maryland
state
He added that the Marylanders would accept it, and
do 1t quickly He called attention to the fact the
Maryland Legislature had been prompt in Its recogn-
ton of the facilities for transportation and ntercom
munication the DUPONT Boulevard would provide for
Delaware. Maryland and Pennsylvania. When it was
proposed to a $4,000 Maryland extension of that
Boulevard from Selbyville Berlin the bill passed the
Maryland Legislature with scarcely any opposition and
the people in that section of the Eastern Shore fec
tated themselves that they would have through
line OF good road from far down in the Eastern Shore
Of Maryland to the interior OF Pennsylvania
Mr.. Miller told the legislators that the people of
Maryland disappointed when the litigation rela-
tive to the Boulevard taken to the United States
Supreme Court but they felt the Supreme Court
would affirm the decision Of the DelaVbre court and
that, with the litigation out Of the way, the Boulevard
would be built They amazed, he said, when
they received the that suggestion that the
Boulevard Corporations act be repealed being
considered seriously by msmbers of the Legislature.
Maryland would not have had its splendid roads il
It had listened to the private interests originally
rayed against the project" Mr. Miller continued point
edly but Maryland went ahead and those who were
the most determined in opposition at the outset
the greatest advocates good roads That is the
history everywhere. The people Of Delaware should
not be denied the benefits and general good that would
come with the dupont Boulevard because private
interests against it, We OF Maryland ask the Della
ware Legislature to be selfish. We have thought
/
us by not repeating the Boulevard law. We merely
as for reciprocal relations"
Had Mr.. Miller been a Delawarean, instead of a
visitor from another State, he might have said much
more without departing from the truth He might
have referred to the misrepresentation and abuse to
which General DUPONT and his proposed gift of
/ 600 road have been subjected by the personal ana
political enemies OF the public benefactor might
have told of the Vaccinations Of private interests Of
the disrepuabe work done by hungry lawyers OF the
rapacy of certain landowners and the unfarnesss
certain newspapers controlled by persons who had
| personal political grudges to settle with the man
who desired dover the people of this State with
the most magnificent gift offered in the history
| of Delaware colony as commonwealth Mr..
| Miller might have rected shameful chapter based
upon the poisoning of the minds of many persons by
false statements bearing upon the purposes for which
the Boulevard Corporation would use the land border
ing the road proper. He might have told how these
personal and political enemies had pictured General
dupont making millions from the use of those side
strips OF land. And. IN conclusion. he might have
shown that General DUPONT far from wishing to profit
from the Boulevard had offered 10 give the State
every dollar Of profit that might from the ul-
izaton of that land bordering the road itself
Taking the attacks and Misrepresentation in their
entirety they constitute shameful record of personal
and political spite and ayarce There never has been