Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30

street. lney turn lett OH spruce
street to Fourth, left on Fourth,
going over the Christiana River,
down Christiana avenue to the
Wilmington Marine Terminal. Go
ing down Christiana avenue, after
crossing Third street bridge, you
will see a number of the Wilson
Line boats tied up; then, up the
Christiana River you will see the
huge shipbuilding plant of the Pu-
sey and Jones Corporation, on the
right, and on the left, down the
river, the shipbuilding plant of
the American Car and Foundry Co.
Going further down Christiana
avenue you will first come on the
left to the plant of the Delaware
Floor Products Co., who are man
ufacturing felt-base floor-covering.
They are building large extern
sion. On your right you will see the
plant of the Eastern Malleable Iron
Co., who make malleable iron pro-
ducts. A little further on, on the
left, you will see the plant of the
Pyrites Co. and huge piles of py-
rites irOn-Ore. This company i'm
ports this ore from Spain; it pro-
cesses the ore and extracts there
from gold, silver, copper and lead.
1t elevates the ,Ore to a high-grade
cinder and sells it to steel plants.
A little further on, to your left,
is the plant of the LObdell Co.,
who manufacture machinery and
other steel products. Look quickly
to the right, as you go around the
corner, and you will see the plant
of the Cork Insulation Co., who
get their cork from Portugal by
ships and make all kinds of cork
products. Also on the right you
will pass the plant of the Eastern
States Farmers Exchange, which
deals in feed, fertilizers; just be-
hind them, on the right, is the
plant of the North American Smelt-
ing Co., who manufacture all nom
ferrous metals.
2:30 p. m.-Now you enter the
Marine Terminal property, which
is operated by the Wilmington
Board of Harbor Commissioners.
The huge piles of lumber you will
see are brought around from the
| West Coast by boat, through the
Panama Canal. Your busses will
stop at the office and pick up
guides who will take you through
the Terminal property. 1t Is hop
ed there will be ships at the Ter
minal unloading cargoes from In
dia, or Portugal or Sweden and
other ships loading cargoes for
South America. You will inspect
the piers and warehouses.
$3.50 p. m.-After a visit to the
Terminal, proceed at $3.50 p. m,
back Christiana avenue to New
Castle avenue, where you turn left
and go out the Heald street cutoff
to DUPONT Boulevard. Here the Will
mington police escort turn you over
to- the state police escort and you
go south on the DUPONT Boulevard
to the New Castle County Airport
where you turn right on Basin
Road, enter the airport and in
spect the operations of the Trans
World Airlines there. These large
four-mOtor "Constellation" planes
will be coming in from Cairo
Egypt: Rome, Paris, London, and
also planes will be taking off des-
tined for those points.
4 $3.50 p. m.-YOu will inspect the
planes. and at $50 p. m. you will
have dinner at the airport, at the
M. & M. Restaurant as guests of the
Chamber of Commerce. After din
ner your busses will leave the air.
port and go by Basin Road to the
dupont Highway, turn south for q
safe trip back to Milford
At the conclusion of dinner a
the airport the home trip will in
clude visit to the University o
Delaware and historic Cooch''
Bridge. These children have earn
ed the money for a trip which the.
, took to Philadelphia last fall, ant
!, after this fine trip is over ther'
! will be enough left for a short tril
near home, presumably in tn
southern part of the state.