Milford chronicle., 1923-02-23
BOY DESCRIBES A TRIP TO
WILMINGTON

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Just before tile holidays of last Deem
Der, number of boys and girls zvere
taken on a triP to Wilmington, from SnS-
Sex County. The trip qvaS giVeH as re-
zVard for excellent Ser0ice and zVOrk in
the VariOHS public schools OVer SUSSEX
and this boy from the Sycamore School,
has zVrOte his impressions of the trip as
a HexerciSe in English COMPOSITION in his
educational cOHrSe.-EditOr.
The letter follows:
! The fact that Sussex County, after
a long sleep has at last opened its
eyes to a sense of duty was proved
Saturday, December 9th, when from
one of her little towns there mOtored
to Wilmington a bus load of children
representing several rural districts in
the good old sands of Sussex, and it
makes me feel very proud to think
that 1 was one of that number, sent
as a representative of Sycamore
School.
We met at Seaford, Saturday morn
ing at o'clock sharp. The bus in
which we went arrived on time beau
tifully decorated with flags and slo-
gans. We stepped into the bus as our
rames were called, and off we start
ed for Wilmington Mrs. Elizabeth
Todd, of Bridgeville, acting as chaper-
one. Our parents and several others
that had gathered around the bus
wishing us a good time waved their
hands as we were slowly moving away
and we (Old Sussex hoping their
mould oo7,oo f7,,1o 1vaxrod
at them. Mrs. Annie E. Snyder, Ru-
raj Supervisor and Edith 1. Jones,
Secretary of State Department Office,
at Georgetown, followed the bus in
their machine.
We went up the State Road by
Bridgeville, Pennington, Harrington,
FELTON,, WoOdside, Camden, and thence
to Dover where we made our first stop.
After going through the State Capitol
and seeing many beautiful and histOr-
ical things, we went up to DR.. HOllo-
ways Office and gave a yell for the
State Department. We were then
seated in the bus and again moved OFF
for Wilmington by way of Smyrna.
Going from Smyrna to MiddletOwn
we saw st. AIMS Episcopal Church,
sula; Delaware and Chesapeake can
al that connects Delaware City with
Baltimore and makes the lower part
of Delaware an island and stopped at
CoOch's Bridge, where the stars and |
stripes were first unfurled in battle, !
Sept. 3rd, 1777, and had our pictures
taken in front of the monument that /,
has been erected there by the Patri-
otic Societies and Citizens of Della
ware
From Newark we made a direct line |
to Wilmington, going to MarshalltOn.
We were met at the outskirts of the |
city by two mounted policemen who |
led and directed the way to the Hotel |
DUPONT where we lunched as the |
guests of Josiah Marvel and Mrs. A.
D. Warner.
After lunch, accompanied by Mr..
Marvel, Mrs. Warner and Mr.. Ballan-
tyne, Boys Director of the Y. M. G. A.,
we went out to Longwood to see the
beauties of Pierre S. duPont's horti-
cultural garden.
The sight of so many different |
plants and flowers bearing their fruit |
at this time of the year, fairly en-
tranced us. But when the supervisor
of the garden gave us each a newly |
picked banana, which was grown in |
the garden our joy found no express
sions except by cheering Mr.. dupont |
who was standing by. After exploring 1
the estate for several hours we then |
came back to Wilmington where we |
had dinner, later attending the thea
oh, hn6
then the boys going to the Y. M. c.
A., and the girls to the Y. w. G. A, |
we retired.
Sunday morning, we arose about z
o'clock. About $3.50 we all went to the
Hotel DUPONT where we bTeakfasted.
At o'clock we were taken thirteen
stories high in the hotel where we
viewed the city. 1t was indeed very
beautiful sight as every building in
the city was covered with snow.
At 10 o'clock we visited Old Swede
Church, the first church ever built in
this State.
We attended religious services in
The Y. M. G. A. building about 1880.
The services were conducted by Mr..
Ballantyne and Mrs. Snyder.
Josiah Marvel was our host in the
early afternoon at his home in Chris
tina Hundred before we left for our
return trip to Sussex.
After an hours stay with him we
eft 70 rhome coming by way of Odes-
sa and Smyrna and then down the
state road to Dover where we stopped
20 see DR.. Holloway but he wasn't
nome. Then we left for Seaford
thinking that it would be impossible
or us to get to see him. To our sur
Prise we met him on our way from
Dover to Seaford where we all shook
lands with him and he seemed very
slad to see us.
Bidding him goodbye" we again
esumed our journey. We reached Sea-
ord about 4 p. m. where we were met
y our parents. Everyone's expressions
eemed to show that he or she had y
realty enjoyed the trip. more than :
njOyed mine and I think that I voice
be sentiment of all who went when I )
ay, unhesitatingly, that I had en- t
raved upon my mind an experience T
vhich will not fade away as long as
fe shall continue to exist with me.
CRAWFORD DUKES,
Sycamore School, 9Th grade. T
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