NEW LIGHTS FOR THE
DELAWARE
1903
Washington, D.C. February
22, 1903:
A plan by the
Philadelphia Maritime Exchange for an up to date lighthouse system
for
the Delaware River channel
was introduced in the Senate today by Senator Penrose ,
prepared by Sherwood and
Neall of the Maritime Exchange and officers of the Lighthouse
Board of the War
Department
It is titled “
Establishment of Further Aids to Navigation in the Delaware River
and Bay'.
The bill provides a
$250,000 appropriation for the following improvements;
Lighthouse and fog signals
at elbow of Cross Ledge, lighthouse at George Island of
the Cross Ledge,
lighthouses at Grey Island flat of Horse Shoe Shoal, Joe
Flogger Shoal,
Miah Maull Shoal, Brown
Shoal and Arnold Point Shoal.
Also to establish a new
system of range lights for Cherry Island range, one on the
Jersey
shore at Old Mans Point,
a rear light on the Delaware shore, the front of that range to be
a
lighthouse in the river,
off Old Mans Point, with a fog signal.
Then to build a first
class steam steel self propelled Five Fathom Bank light vessel
with
lights o f high power and
a powerful fog signal.
Materially enlarge Cape
Henlopen day beacon and increase power of rear range deep water
point light.
Establish an upper Cherry
Island Range with a rear light on the Delaware shore near
Marcus Hook and with a
front light opposite Grubbs Landing for ranging through the
channel from point Cherry
Island range to Schooner Ledge range.
Raise the tower at Billings
Point the front light for Tinicum Island and Fort Mifflin
Bar Cut range and place
a fog signal at Brammalls Point.
Establish a lighthouse
and fog signal on southern end of Harbor of Refuge to clear the
Hen and Chicken shoals,
also establish a lighthouse at northwestern end of Harbor of
Refuge, and lighthouses
and fog signals on the east and west end of the Delaware
Breakwater.
Abstract: August 20, 2018,
by HARRISON H from Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday ,
22 February, 1903.
for www.delmarhistory.blogspot.com
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