Evening journal., 1913-03-10
LAWMAKERS
HAVE CHANCE
TO SAVE ROAD
dupont Boulevard Company
Puts Acceptance Question
Fairly Up to legislature
DONOR MAKES MANY
LIBERAL CONCESSIONS

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del. March 10-In the
legislative halls the opinion seems
general that the Coleman DUPONT
Road, Incorporated, which is the Of
ficial name of the company that pro-
poses to construct the DUPONT bouie-
ward, has put it up to the Legisla-
ture so far as getting the road the
entire length of the State without one
cent of cost to the State is concerned.
The amendments proposed TO the
boulevard corporations law, as sub
mitted by Robert H. Richards and
Charles w. Cullen. as counsel for
General Il. Coleman dupont and the
Coleman DUPONT Road, incorporated,
to the joint legislative committee on
Saturday. do not leave much for the
opponents TO the boulevard construc-
tion to stand upon, Judging from the
expressions heard about the Legis-
lature. and from public opinion gem
orally expressed.
General duPOnt's 0ffer.
The amendments submitted by Mr.
Richards, to which he said General
DUPONT had agreed and which he
would accept voluntarily, provide for
a cutting down of the width of the
right of way for the boulevard from
two hundred feet to one hundred feet,
the construction of a forty-foot road
way instead of a thirty-fOot roadway
for vehicular travel, the striking out
OF the clause eXempting from tax
alton the lateral strips for fifty years
or until they are used for public util-
ity purposes. and the substitution in
stead of a requirement that within
three years after the completion or
the whole road for vehicular travel
there must be completed on the lateral
strips one of the public utilities that
can be built under the boulevard cor
poratiOn laws. The amendments pro-
posed also strike out that the bOule-
ward right of way may also be used
for any other purpose mot unlawful
and strike out the words eat any
time" insofar as they permit the con-
struction. maintenance and operation
of public utilities on the boulevard,
this being TO strengthen the amend
ment proposed that at least one pub
lie utility shall be built on the boule-
ward within three years after tho
roadway is finished.
General DUPONT, while asking for
an amendment to permit the construc-
tion of lateral or branch boulevards
that he may build a boulevard down
the western side OF Sussex county, II
he so desires. Abandoned the amend
ment he had asked for that the bene-
fits to properties as well as the dam
ages should be taken into consider
alton by commissions IN condemnIng
a right Of way for the boulevard.
Up 10 Legislators.
Counsel for General DUPONT took
the initiative in submitting voluntar-
fly these proposed amendments, show
ing a willingness to grant the con-
cessions voiced by General DUPONT at
the hearing before the Legislature on
February II. There is a difference oi
opinion over one proposition made by
General DUPONT, it being his offer to
buy five years hence, at five times the
present assessed value, farms through
which the boulevard right of way
passes, provided an agreement to that
effect is entered into now, Some OF
the members of the joint legislative
committee suggested that this be in
cOrporated into the amendments To
the boulevard corporations law
but MIR. Richards said he would not
agree to that, he cOntending that II
was a matter for agreement between
General DUPONT and each individual
property owner, and should not be-
read into the law as binding boulevard
corporations generally. Mr.. Rich
ards said the offer was made person
ally by General DUPONT and not by
the boulevard corporation.
Purchase of Farms.
At the meeting of the joint legisla
tive committee to consider and have
prepared amendments to the boule
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