Smyrna times., 1918-12-25
ROAO MATERIAL RELEASE
TO SPEED HIGHWAY WORK
PENNY HILL FROM WILMINGTON
To PHILADELPHIA READY.
Smvrna- Dover And Other Roads Will
bp Completed Next Year-Seek Leg
;slatiOn for Automobile Owners.

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delaware, are delighted to learn that
a good brick highway is completed al
most from Wilmington to the Penn
svlvania State line and soon a fine
tboroughfare will be open all the way
10 Philadelphia, without detours. Con-
tractors have now completed this
Years construction of the concrete and
brick roadway and over three miles of
the Philadelphia turnpike is now sur
faced with brick. The pike, however,
is to be shut off for two weeks longer
in order to allow the cement that
holds the bricks in place to become
thoroughly set up. Many failures of
brick roads in the past have been due
to the very fact that traffic has been
allowed to use the highway before the
roadway has become thoroughly set.
The brick surface is now complete
Over Three Miles of Fine Brick Road
from the Marsh Road to Penny Hill to
the Bellevue Quarry and from a quar-
ter of a mile south of the Overlook
Colony to the State line, with the ex-
ception of a stretch of roadway
through the Worth Steel Company's
property. a portion on top of Penny
Hill and in Claymont is barricaded,
allowing time for the concrete and
cement to harden. The short detour
around Penny Hill will be maintained
during the completion of the blasting
on Penny Hill over 1000 yards have
been taken out of the rock cut on the
hill. 1t is expected by the time the
brick surface is ready to be opened
that the fills north of Bellevue Quarry
will be in a suitable condition for gen
eral travel.
To Speed Up Work on State Highway
With the ending of the war and the
releasing of materials and supplies,
the coming year will mean boost not
only to good roads but the automo-
bile industry generally. The State
Highway between Smyrna and Dover
will be pushed thru to early compile
ton and the connecting link between
Dover and Milford will probably be
built. This will join up with the du-
POnt Boulevard through the Sussex to
Selbyville. The Sussex highway on
the Eastern side of Sussex County al
ready let out on contract will be, it is
hoped all completed next year. While
there is good stone road from Smyr-
ma to Wilmington, the State highway
commission is planning to build a per-
manent concrete highway in two
spurs, one from Blackbird by way OF
Odessa, st. Georges and the other by
way of Middletown and Summit
Bridge.
Want Legislature to Protect Autos.
Along with good roads, the Legisla
ture will be importuned next year tt
pass suitable laws for the protection
OF automobiles and for permanent
license number tags. New Legislation
the object of which is to stop the sys
tematized theft of cars and the sale o.
them by the thieves, will be con
Sldered. Prominent automobilists O.
Delaware are in favor of the MacPier
son plan. Here is the remedy a
pointed out by autoists: The manu-
lectures to issue an owners certificat
giving full description of the car
name, make, date manufacturer
number, weight. The owner Of tn
car to register the certificate at tn
tlme ne makes application for license
IN case of sale or offered Gale, tn
buyer must demand and seller mus
produce the manufacturers certif
cate as outlined in detail above. l
case the certificate is not produced,
snail be the duty of the propose
buyer to have the person in charge 9
tne car arrested at once. 1t will the
De up to him to produce the certif
cate before he can be released.
man who steals a car in Delawal
would be unable to sell it in Pennsy
Vama or elsewhere so long as
would be unable to produce the mani
1acturer S certificate. A length
Term Of Imprisonment for violation {
SUCH regulations would help the el
Iorcement of the law and there wou
Oe no need of insurance against the
'ne advocates of the proposed la
say. Stealing of automobiles is dol
Ior proft-either by selling the car
ny obtaining the insurance on the CT