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MEDIA
The Social
Commercial and Industrial Features of the County Town
The
borough of Media the county seat of Delaware County, by the establishment of
the trolley road has been brought very close to Chester. Chester looks upon Media as a sort of a
little sister, and younger, more sedate and pretty. Media, however, can no longer be called
“little,” for it has attained a population of over 3300 and with the impetus
given it ought to grow rapidly in the future.
The Media of 2000 will very likely be a much larger place than the Media
of today. Although it has no big mills
or industrial establishments, it has more than kept pace with other towns in
improvements and the Media of today is a far different place from the Media of
a decade ago. The improvements of the
past five years include electric lights, well paved streets, improved water
works, a well-equipped fire company and a new borough hall, and last and most
important of all is the connection with Chester and Marcus Hook by the trolley
road built by the Union Railway Company.
The road, opened on March 6th, has been liberally patronized
and is already proving a big thing for both Media and Chester.
NO
BARS OR SALOONS – Media became incorporated in 1851, about the time it was made
the county seat by the removal of the Court House. The charter granted by the State prohibited
the sale of liquor as a beverage anywhere within a mile of the borough. This has never been changed, although it has
been talked of several times, and Media can lay claim to being one of the few
prohibition towns in the State. The
prohibitory clause in the charter is strictly enforced, no liquor of any kind
being sold for “drinking” purposes, and the result is one of the most orderly
and peaceable communities probably in the land.
AS A
SEAT OF LEARNING – The town is known as a center of information and research
and there are few towns of the same size anywhere with better facilities for
mental culture and progress. The schools,
both public and private, have a wide reputation, and pupils come here from all
over the land.
The
Delaware Co. Institute of Science, an institution as old as the borough,
comprised of an association of citizens of the county having for its object the
dissemination of scientific information among the people, meets every Saturday evening
in its building on South Avenue for that purpose. It has a large membership which includes some
of the most prominent and intelligent citizens of the county. The building of the institute has recently
been modernized in the interior and now contains a tasteful and commodious hall
for its lectures and entertainments, a cabinet and curio room and museum and
library. Ex-Judge Broomall is president
of the institution, and included in its roll of membership are Collector T. V.
Cooper, Dr. Daniel Brinton, Graceanna Lewis, Dr. Isaac N. Kerlin, Henry C.
Howard, Captain Isaac Johnson, Dr. S. D. Risley, A. Lewis Smith and many others
equally as prominent.
THE
COURT HOUSE – The Court House is the largest and the most prominent building at
Media. When the Prothonotary’s office is
fitted up with metallic furniture and shelving, similar to the new offices of
the Recorder of Deeds and Register, it will be one of the most complete public
buildings in the State and will serve the county for many years to come.
The
building, with the new annex, makes a most imposing structure. It is situated in a pretty shaded enclosure
occupying a whole square of ground. The
Court House Square is the public park of the town, and the County Commissioners
have kindly placed seats here where, in summer time, the way worn traveler,
visitors to Media by the trolley or the tired citizens about town, can rest in
its cooling shades.
The
offices at present in the Court House are occupied by men who understand their
business, and have, for the most part, been elected for their ability and
business qualities.
Judge
Thomas J. Clayton presides in the big room on the second floor and deals out
law and justice here from the bench at the regular quarterly sittings of
Court. He has a handsome private office
in the new annex, just in the rear of the bench.
The
present officials occupying the various offices are as follows: Prothonotary and Clerk of the Quarter Sessions
Court, William L. Mathues; Recorder of Deeds, John H. Kerlin; Register of Wills, William H.
Hall; High Sheriff, John D. Howard; Commissioners, Harry L. Hipple, W. Lane
Quinn and James Clark.
HIGH
AND HEALTHY – The beauty and health of the town is well known to hundreds of
Philadelphian’s who reside here during five or six months of the year with
their families. A great part of the
permanent population is also made up of former residents of Philadelphia,
professional and businessmen, who, pleased with the locality, have built or
purchased homes here. A feature of the
place is the large summer hotels, one of these, Idlewild having a patronage
among the best people of Philadelphia and other big cities.
Media
is known far and wide for its splendid homes, beautiful situation, shaded
streets and handsome drives. It is
situated at an elevation of 400 feet above tidewater, and from almost any point
the eye is greeted with an endless variety of hills and dales, copse and
forests, and on a clear day from upper windows the city of Chester and the
white sails of passing vessels on the Delaware are plainly visible.
The
health of the place is proverbial, and such a thing as malaria or hereditary
disease of any kind is unknown. The
water is of the best and comes from the upper portion of Ridley Creek. The principal streets are wide and well
paved, and are fringed in summer time with the most luxuriant shade trees; and
are the pride of the town and the admiration of all visitors.
MEDIA’S
HOME LIFE – Few people are better housed and live in more cozy and comfortable
habitations than do the residents of Media.
They are better housed, fed and clothed than probably falls to the lot
of most communities. Then the working
classes, and there are some of them in Media, live in clean and comfortable
homes, and have every convenience to make life pleasant. Media is emphatically
a town of homes.
There
are many pretty and neat and some very costly houses in Media, and its
environments, Moylan and Wallingford, being included in the latter. There are no finer building sites to be found
that some of those in this locality and they are generally in the hands of men
who are willing to sell the property at a fair price, nothing more.
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