Milford chronicle., 1922-04-07
new JETTY PLANNED
TO SAVE REHOBOTH
Believe Beach Front Protection
Will Bring About Boom For
Resort.
IRENEE DU POINT BOOSTER
Has Purchased Ten Acres At
Delaware Resort and Proposes
To Build Thereon.

Through the construction of thret
jetties, which it is believed will save
the beach front at RehOboth from
further serious encrOachments by the
Atlantic ocean, and through the sup
port of prominent Delawareans from
this section who have been quietly
maturing plans to boost the resort
present indications are that Rehoboth
is due for the most substantial boom
it has ever experienced.
The RehObOth Beach Commission
named at the direction of the General
Assembly to spend the appropriation
of $4,000 which the Legislature made
last winter to save the beach, which
had been severely cut up and washed
away in places by storms on the At
lantic, have advertised for bids for
the jetties and these will be opened
on April II. It is hoped that the work
can be done in a month and every
thing completed before the time for
summer visitors to arrive at RehobOth
in any large numbers.
Last year. when the commission adj
veFtised for bids, there were no con-
Germs which replied. The contractors
gave their reasons which appeared
sound enough and announced that if
the job was available this year they
would submit bids.
In order that there might be no
complications, Engineer CressOn went
to Rehoboth last week where he spent
Friday and Saturday, looking the
beach front over and comparing the
plans made last year, with present
conditions. This was done in order
that the specifications for which bids
were asked might be up to the min
ute.
The jetties will consist of a hook
lefty supported by stone and two
straight jetties, unsupported. These,
it is believed. will be sufficient to
cause the current of the tide to wash
back some of what it has removed.
In addition to saving the beach
front the commission also hopes that .
the jetties may result in the Cape
Henlopen lighthouse being saved, the
structure now being threatened by the
action of the sea.
Irenee du POnt To Help
Because of his faith in RehobOth
and willingness to help in any way
that he may to boom the only sea-
shore resort Delaware has, the NAM
ing of Irenee du POnt as a member of
the RehObOth Commission, to succeed
United States Senator Coleman du
Pont. by Governor Denney, will bring
10 that body not only an enthusiast
ever boosting the resort, but one who
has observed the action of the ocean ]
at other Atlantic resorts, and who,
while not an expert on such matters, I
has valuable ideas of his own. Mr..
lu Pont, who was named to the COM t
mission on Saturday, but had not re-
,eiyed his commission, when seen {
said that he would accept the commits v
;ionership because he wanted to do
What he could to save the beach front c
md protect the resort, @
"Why should we go elsewhere to h
pend the, summer" asked Mr.. du r
'ont, when we have RehOboth?" We .
annot expect any one to invest, how q
yer, in realty at RehobOth until the
each front is protected
BreaHWater Is Blamed
While Mr.. du Pont has a summer
ONE at Atlantic City, he has pur- b
hased ten acres on Rehoboth Beach H
nd proposes to build there. In his pl
Outh Mr. du Pont spent his summers h;
t Cape May, and he remembers his 29
Iders telling about the time not M
lany decades ago when the Cape ed
enlOpen lighthouse was completely al
lrrounded by sand. Now the sea is g.
washing the surrounding
md away This Mr. du POnt sus- ma
ects is due to the building of the th
elaware breakwater in $780, Sc
While at Cape May, Mr.. du Pont tel
Id opportunity to observe how the sh
"a attacked that beach and also of nil
e protective measures taken at
Crest. Not an expert on hi.
Ich matters but an interested OBJ vo
rver, Mr.. du POnt believes that the m.
ashing away of the beach front at
ehoboth is due to the change in the of
trent by the breakwater. be-
In discussing the matter Mr.. du mi
mt said that he favored obtaining De
e aid of experts in rehabilitating the lee
ach front, and that once Rehoboth DIR,
ach was assured of protection from the
e sea that the resort ought to go of
rward. ine
From his present ideas, it is likely ga1
1t Mr.. du POnt will have bungalows ne,
instructed on his seashOre property. is
My idea of an outing at the sea- the
1re," said Mr.. du Pont, "is to live in are
bungalow something with roof trn
protect from the rain and well wa
'eened, and as much of the time TOW
mt in the open as possible" bIe
The members of the RehobOth Com Iv !
ssion are Senator J. Carey Palmer ma
Milton, chairman; Senator Charles
Murphy, Harrington; Representa-
IS Thomas Turner, Lewes; Repre-
tative H. E. Clendaniel, Lincoln
Y, and Mr.. du Pont of Wilmington. v
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