Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1913-03-24
MONDAY, MAR. "a, 1913.


RrOW that the Wilmington Terminal Company lobby,
~ with the assistance OF State senator Renhardt
and his senatorial aides has succeeded In defeating
the Crantland Bukhead Law Repeater, IFS first step
probably will be to cndea,or TO induce the Federal
Government to resume and complete the building Of
bukhead from Edge Moor down to the outer end OF an
extension Of the present etty at the mouth of the
Christana river. In no way other than by the COM
pleton OF that bulkhead may the Wilmington Terminal
Company and its associates he placed in position
20 the Secretary Of State Of Delaware and demand,
under the Bukhead Law Of 1901 deed from the state
svT the busAH1ad and The see 81 land that
would he created back Of H.
Every patriotic WiImingtonian, In view Of the work
done by the Wilmington Terminal Company lobby In
Dover against the CrantIand Waterfront hill should
protest against the Federal Government and is funds
being used for such purpose. Every patriotic VIII
mingtonlon should take firmly the attitude that Il
would he better for the city TO wait for that Rulkhcad
and ill the fight for the possession OF that water
front by the public may be fought TO successful con-
clusion, than TO have the Federal Government proceed
and pave the way possibly for the delivery for all
time Of the waterfront 10 the private and speculative
interests that are after II and that have controlled
the action OF the State Senate.
No doubt cnoris viii De made by the marshand
spectators and their friends TO stampede city Coun-
ell into precpltac action and the acceptance OF lug
handled proposition such ms was proposed by Che VIII
mngton Terminal Company and its associates last year
The public must insist that Council shall not per-
nit itself to play into this hands Of the spectators by
becoming parties to such stampede. Now Is the time
Of all times for those CouuciImcn who voted in APP
pro,al of the cranand bill TO stand firmly against tho
opportunities Of these Spectators and their friends In
any new and iughandIcd proposition they may ad-
vance.
Our Councllmcn not only should refuse 10 treat With
them TO become their partners In any Of their
schemes TO arouse the Federal Government 10 activity,
but they should follow the suggestion of Councilman
Sto,er TO carr, the light into The courts and TO have
tried out there the questions involved IN this contro-
1erss. Every inch Of ground, In court and out OF
court should he contested by eur city Councilmen in
bchalf OF the people and the city and IFS commercial
future. Two years Of waiting for municipal ownership
Will be far better than preciptatc action and etcr-
nifty Of private ownership and qptocratic dciaon at
the hands OF the Wilmington Terminal Company and
it> associates
We have no doubt that tie marsh-land spectators
and their Interested friends entertained the idca that
when their lobby bad lined up Senators Rcinhardt
living aud the others who composed the inglorious
thirteen in he State senate. they had overcome all op
position and that the fight was They mis-
taken. The fight onl has been begun. Never, since IN,
Bulkhcad Law OF 1901 passed have The people
aroused thoroughly to he iniquity OF It's pro,i
slons than they today, II they needed anything a
all to awaken them TO realization Of the danger tina
threatens The people the city. Il the triumphan
work of the Terminal Company lobby and the merci
less way in which its legislative sympathlzcrs slaugh
tered the crautand hill drawn to save the Wilmington
waterfront for the people.