Evening journal., 1913-02-06

ping to the front and saying; "Gise little bt!"
and In little while the syndicaes would have every
thing and the State and its people would have Moth
ing II this syndicate is to be permitted to step in
and take It's thirty acres, there is valid why
other syndcaes shall not be permitted to do the same
thing. Surely this would be entitled to more
rights In the matter than any other syndicate
The men who behind the Blackstone notice may,
and doubtless viii, plead that they cannot build their
amusement park and pier within the corporate limits
Of Rehoboth because OF the riparian rights Of those
who own the beach. Then let them buy the beach
front property they need 10 obtain those riparian
rights and not resort 10 the miserabeexpedent OF
endeayoring TO get away with thirty Of State
land We given to understand that one Of the men
in the proposed park deal is worth apprOxi
matey SsO0OOO and that men Of substance are asso-
cated with him. II that be true, let them into the
real estate market in RehOboth and buy the land they
need at the market price, They should not belittle
themselves by becoming State House importunators
whom the public cannot respect.
Let not the men who behind this Rehoboth Beach
State Land scheme take TO their souls the comforting
JUNCTION that the people Of Che state Of Delaware look
upon seaside amusement park as an eeemosynary
/ institution. Such parks II matters not whether
they be at Coney Island, Rockaway, Long Branch,
North Beach, Atlantic City any place else, esab
/ Iished money making propositions The men who
invest their money in them do II in obedience to a
strong commercial instinct. They want to get out Of
the public every dollar they and as rule they
see 10 II that they do il. That being true, let these
men WHO wish to risk their Judgment and their money
against the funhunting tendencies Of the summer pop
ulation of RehObOfh, start right, play the game fairly
with the public and not have the efrOntery to go to
the Legislature and ask for donation OF thirty acres,
or any other number Of acres, Of State land.
II Wilmington mechanic clerk or labOring man
were to go TO the Legislature and ask il to give him
a building LOT the oceanfront at Rehoboth, so he
and his family might spend the warm weather there,
he would be looked upon by the members as menda-
cious freak who ought to be squelched. What, then,
shall be said Of wealthy who go there and ask
for thirty acres Of that State land for nothing, next
TO nothing!
No gentlemen, II will not do! You have planned to
go into the wrong real estate market for amuse-
men park site. You may make the plea that the State
land at RehObOth is not worth than 81 or 81 an
acre II the State will survey is oceanfront lands AT
RehObOth and lay them out in building lots 25 by 1O0
feet in size, will advertise them free OF charge and
II that the State receives not less than $50 an
acre. assuming that will make eight building
lots. after the street beds have been provided. The
State hasn't enough land at RehOboh, and il posses
ses hundreds Of ncres, to supply the public demand
for seaside building lots at such prices. VI the STATE
land Is to be disposed Of let il be done for the benefit
OF the people, and not for the benefit OF speculative
syndicates.