Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-01-19
LEVY COURTMEN
GIVE HEARING ON
NEW BRIDGE SITE
Subject Discussed With Chamber
of Commerce Repre-
SentativeS.
OTHER CITIZENS CONSULTED

A,a conference of members of the Levy
Court and represer tatives OF the Chafnoe,,
~ Commerce, various views were eXpiesseu
on nronoscd rev bridges over the bIahaS-
vine Three views developed from the aus
,,ss,on Ore was that of County IN
n..r Cn,bb for a bridge crossing the
stream al point bcpnnipg at tieVehth
sad Church streets and terminating AT
Fourteenth and Thatcher streets; nc
Chamber of Commerce suggested ne"
bridge further up stream than the Plese..C
Eleventh street bridge and begnhug ih
the vicinity of kirkwood fark ana 'he
retention OF Eleventh street brdge' Icyy
Court Commissioner Jores iaVoreu tie
restoration of the Pue street prioee 'or
foot traffic and bridge starting nearer
Market street than the present fieve,' TN
street structure, but terminating "' 'ne
same point IS II now does AZ.
aifrsd u Warner. president OF the
,cLa,,I,or ~ Commerce. explained that be
understood that the col ference was Tor the
'',,rr.,se of securing views on the proposed
new bridges He suggested that one piah
A.. do.;Scd rpon bv al interested.
County Frgrecr Grubb read report
.,,hni,ted rece- tlv. ~ which he recon-
me ,dcd a rev brid = beginning al attieven'n d
nd Church streets and terminating az
Fourteenth and Thatcher streets and tor
another bridge between the ate o. tne
present Eleventh street bridge ana the
present Market street bridge.
rm,nd-te hle discussion followed ana
,,h,le Tins was takirg place, Levy Court
Commissioner 10! IS said that IN inc seiec-
non of a bridgc site il Was matter LOT
ihc taNpaycrs Of the district oucerned
D,prg his disr,isslnn it was brought out
Ina, 10 secure the passage Of a bill by the
fegslaturc il will lie Necessary Tor All
,n,crcsts "a H. united on ore measure.
Nr Narrc. sked that another meeting
he hcld saving that in the meantime the
bnaCe committee Of the ChambCr OF ON
fnerco viii hold .inather meeting IL was
leeided 10 hold the meeting reN tuesday
,sht Mr. Stctscr explaining that as Mr.
Iorcs Nantcd some Of his constituents 70
- gwen an opportunity 70 tax, inc
meeting would bc held AZ midnight
The question Of replacing the Eleventh
.tFeet and the Market street bridges
both oi which show the result oi wear
= now causing discussion An urgent re-
quest for bridge at Pine street was maue
-onie time ago but, after thorough
Inspection and because the county s
financial condition would not warranr
the expense Of such a project. Il WAS late
,lecided hv the county engineering de-
nxrfmens fhat u would be better 10 re
plare Eleventh street bridge with one
beginnIng AZ Eleventh and Church snd
cnd!ng az Fourteenth and Thatcher
.freets. II was claimed that this would be
ssfer in time Of Brandywine floods, and
would be Of more advantage 70 the people.
No action has been taken.
For the replacing Of Market stree
bridge the question Of accepting either OF
two proposals, one for the straight enlns
II Narke, street by building the bridge
in a straight line with the street, costlng
about sl.2p010. or the replacing oi the
eld bridge on a wider ard more modern
=cale. At n cost OF about 100000. Is con
fronting the authorities. The latter, anC
less expensive project Is favored by IN
county engineering department