| Show I Vote Government Funds to toI I Restore Historic Salem t Commemorate an Epoch in Maritime History Washington Allotment of of of public works funds for the restoration of the Derby Wharf Na- Na Na National Historic site Salem Mass has been announced by L LIckes Ickes secretary of the Interior and administrator of public works This is the first national historic site to be designated by Secretary Ickes under authority vested in him under the act of congress known as the historic sites legislation The area embraced within the site In- In Includes In Includes eludes Derby wharf Central the old Salem courthouse the tire Rich Rich- Richard Richard Richard ard Derby house and other ether associated associated aled properties of Important historical historical lea ical significance No federal moneys were expended In purchase of at the property the i er-i ena a ebbing legislation specifically de declaring daring claring against such expenditures ThE Th allotment will be used for rca res purposes providing em- em I- I Iby by the country as ns a whole A large proportion of these craft set sail from Derby wharf and anchor ed there between their forays The wharf took its name from Richard Derby a merchant prince of or the period whose Imposing house richly paneled and furnished with the treasures of the Indies overlooks the harbor In the stately old custom house at the head of the wharf Nathaniel Hawthorne spent long hours while serving as sur surveyor surveyor surveyor of customs and dreamed away many more in weaving the plots of at his immortal stories of co bonial New Now England Tradition claims that it W wis here while per por poring log over the dusty tomes lomes that the theme of The Scarlet Letter LeUer was conceived Then Its Is Star r n Salem s 5 star as a power which had begun to wane vane with the pronouncement of ot the Jefferson em embargo embargo bargo went vent ent into final eclipse stith Ith the industrial changes that accompanied accompanied the perfecting of the steam engine and the building of the rail railroads railroads railroads roads No longer were the high seas the chief roadways of commerce No longer were the tha waters of her harbor adequate for the ships of larger draft that came into being with railroad competition These memories linger on however In her quaint tree shaded streets with their stately private homes When the restoration of Derby wharf is completed the old landmark will fit fittingly fittingly fittingly tingly embody these traditions and vitalize the Salem of ot the past |
