Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-11
BOARD REPORTS
SUCCESS TO COUNCIL
River Front Project Now As
sured and Active Work May
Begin Monday.

Inc tsp1f1 OF fadfRti itffiitNSSiti-
ers viii meet this afternoon and it
is very likely that at this meeting
the final authorization of the harbor
contract viii be given the du Pont
Engineering Co. Officials of the COM
pany will meet with the Harbor Com
nlissioners and discuss the arrange
ments.
Since the company was tentatively
awarded the contract last Friday, Of
ficials have been arranging for sup
plies and other details so that q start
may be made promptly. With the
assurance today that they may pro-
ceed, il will enable the company's
officials to place definite orders for
materials they have made inquiries
about.
Because the depth Of the channel
at the start of the port program viii
be but IS feet, instead of 30 feet, il
is not believed that it viii be neces-
sary TO build the jetty on the north
side Of the Christiana. to prevent the
channel from filling up. IL viii be
question whether the jetty viii be
needed and until 1t is. there viii be
no furtheI Qpsideration given the
matter.
This brings the actual expense to
the city, as far as the channel is con-
cerned. down to the maintenance of
it, Until 1924 the city will not have to
bother about cent of that expense.
Then IL the cost Is more than S65,ooo
the city and government viii bear it
equally, but from Investigations made
by government officials the main
4 a., l-.afx 50, h. ~, saS
of that amount.
| Members of the Board of Harbor
Commissioners in a lengthy conference
with the members of City Council, sit
ting as a committee of the whole, last
night, submitted a detailed report OF
their trip to Washington on Tuesday
and their meeting with the Board OF En-
gineers of the War Department relative
to the river front harbor project and
the dredging which Will have TO be
done in order to insure the success
of the undertaking. The commission
ers were mere than gratified to bs
able to reptot last Iight that they had
secured everything they asked for IN
connection with the new harbor work
and after listening to their report anc
/ explanations of details the Councilmer
unanimously voted their approval oi
all that had been accomplished by ths
board This meeting was in accordanc,
/ with the harbof boards repeated state
nent that ii would keep the Council
advised of every step taken in rela.
Etion 10 the building of the Wilmington
harbor.
The Council and the harbor board
are in absolute harmony on the pro
ject and it is therefore more thar
likely the contract for the work viii
be definitely awarded, probably toda,
or tomorrow a special meeting o
1.-The harbor board will be called for thii
purpose and in the event the du Pom
Engineering Co. the lowest bidder, j
Instructed to proceed, the work vii
be started at once and within a fev
days the river front will be hive o
industry.
The Harbor Commissioners informe'
the Councilmen that the Board of En-
gineers in Washington agreed to res
emrnend the development of tn
Christiana river on the part .of tn
government along the following lines
To connect the Delaware river channe
with the Wilmington harbor by ;
ichannel 400 feet wide. % feet deep a
mean low water and Epnning betweel
c ,0o0 and 1000 feet up Stream. 1t !
proposed to widen this channel to 70
feet at point opposite the new ter
minal as turning basin.
What Government VIII DO.
The engineers board further agree
to recommend the removal of the pres
ent dyke and entraining wall on tn
south side and replacing it with
modern dyke extending from the bulk
head to be constructed by the harbo
board about 1850 feet easterly towar
, the mouth Of the Christiana river. Tn
Continued on page 10.