Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-08-18

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Special Correspondence of he Commercial
PHILADELPHIA, August IL.
Ihe matter of the yellow fever epidemic a
Lazaretto is of almost as much interest to vii
mington as to Philadelphia You are very little
farther from Lazaretto than we are in this CITY
and communication between that station and
wilmington is frequent. To these facts vet
another must be added. A quarantine regulation
i9'o the effect That parties taken from infected
vessels may proceed South, but in no case can be
ahowed 10 come north. Now Wilmington lies in
tile direct southern line from the Lazaretto. so
direct, IN TACT, that the Bringer Of Bad Tidings
could hardly miss it if he tried
we had then in all this condition of affairs
Tor wilmington, that was from one point of view
suiiciently alarming. Yellow fever is the most
= contagious OF all diseases. A single case might
pe siincieht to cause raging epidemic in CITY
the size of yours. All the cases that have oc-
CURED in Philadelphia were contracted from one
person who. oddly enough, left the infected shin
under the rule above noted, but broke the order
and came to Philadelphia instead of going to
wilmington. So you see,and so you zee ho,c. YOU
were sayed.-there was no further risk. for tbis
was the only individual who was allowed to leave
the fated ship
Az to how much yellow fever there really was
or Is IN the city, or at Quarantine there are di-
verse statements. There have been twelve or
fourteen deaths, most of them at the Lazaretto
and such of them as occurred here are traceable
decidedly to the eccentric individual whose nm |
lawful orbit has been already noted. But unless |
| the people are deceived by the Board of Health
(whlch Ii not very likely there are no new cases
Deing reported. The dreadful contagion was
Kept within bounds, thank God and the sicken-
ing danger is over
| Philadelphia has Especial horror of this tlisease
Tor she was once in fair way of being depopu-
| lated by it. That was in 1880, the mournful
year when streets were fenced up, and when it
| required written pass to enter the city from
any direction. That was somewhat before your
time and mine, but the part tradition PLAYS in
our lives is no mean one, and the "yellow fever
time" is SO real to most Philadelphians, from
nearing it talked about extensively that it
seems l, only eight years ago. instead of eighty {
:, Those OF your readers who feel any interest in
the case of the "Public Ledger" uersus the {
Public Record" will be amazed, and perhaps n
little indignant at the latest deyelopments.
!. Inc Record published, few days since, an ar
% tisle IN ~ its money coimn speculating upon the
effect Of the European war upon stocks and Sc
curities. The next day the ledger published the Il
same article. The Record then claimed that the
Ledge'' was guilty of a gross plagiarism and for
snort twenty four hours appeared to have p
made some slight capital out of the affair." IL b
appears. now that the article which made so "
much ado was taken bodily from the N. Y Ere A
,ang Post and that it was properly credited by W
the Ledger, while the Record coolly printed il AZ n
original The town is laughing at Mr. Swain's q
fac simie harder than ever. 1t may well be e,
doubted however, if the Recoditsel is laugh- al
ing matter to it's proprietors n
The number and magnificepce of the churcbea | h;
now being erected in the city occasions much h,
comment The movement is 80 strong one III
that a former resident here but who had been fe
absent tor say ten years, would upon returning al
not know that church building has increased in re
greater proportion than building of other kinds,
,dt It 1T has not it is kind of work more parti-
'eins but an individual ;-as Mr. Wordsworth su
triie altered remarks flew there are who lol
NOW when it begins to BE-" A church on the Ma
.ner hand r. sort OF public property and from io'
ne time OF its rudest commencement is watched 81
nd talked about. This is true of all churches thu
nd in the cases when Il buildings erected are ed
e1tabIe ; temples it is the fashion to call sOx str
Ugh temple, but do not refer to those grand Rit
itallsl the interest is proporionately increased ho
10 is impossible that should mention all the no
e5did % churches now going up, or recently fin se'
ons, from their great spendor, and the cost of wa
leir erection. One of these is the new Presby- but
'rsn Church being built at Goth and Walnut enc
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gain in the neighborhood at least in the direct
ght OF such beauty. The body of the church
of beautiful rich brown stone, not smoothed TIL
,,w,ii, but hewn roughly. This is relieved by
ndstone and oolored marbles. The effect Il 7
ost rare. 1t is poem in stone, sure enough SIM
The Baptist Church just finished at Broad and nf,
oruce IS hardly less beautiful. There are no New
ch contrasts in the material used as in the case
st mentioned. but the design is perfect and the tbe
nensions noble and satisfying. That is great snrl
ing ing i in church building. A cramped-up or thei
tter dinner of Potsherds (nobody knows Ian
lat they mean bythe-by) where Love is, than a p,
llled OK lwhat is stalled p and Hate with no
tly as suits him or her best. INN,
Still another splendid church is that being Mon
ut at the corner of Broad and Arch for the inn,
'thodists. II is of pure white MARBLE and is peac
mammoth dimensions. 1t will have when fin h. d
~ ~ u .ne nncs spires Ill Ine clty, ana one som,
~, lne hiI,u youI subscriber anects, yiz;-One thrill
de OF the solid stuff and not out of shingles legel
/, "a ';neo' 10 never couiu ne made to be- the {
1t is perhaps not too much to say
t l never will. The old style of wood su
,sa Tl,u;. sun 1,i ds we see IN the state cible
II q Th,ro, n anu d. Wadsworths old in til
,aI =, ~ a; ou az Men enough, Dut the new lInol
eren th;n ;d5 'he present DAY are very back
hi, pf s5o q. ,.iueeu. -, truth
ta - roaI 81 o,. sPie MN unuouptedly be fortl
mite marble Steeple two hundred feet high
ill be worth coming to the city to look at,
en the great Masonic Hall which adioins the US, n
rch is finished this square will be one of our
V distinguished architectural neghborhoods m.
VIII remember that the splendid Brownstone ~
tist church stands on the North West corner Vlnel
II Is ramored that yet another great church instai
Probably no ctv u; o ~ .he noutn west cor Willia
sight as that neghborhood would then be' in his
iult has been found in some quarters with .T
bude 3 of the marble church, for placing it featu
uch close contact with the Baptist brown ] ccntu
Q. it IL SAID by these critics that the effect Ion
ne will be neutralized by the other To nv there
the exact reverse is the fact. The eye, it popul
~ 10 me, Will move from one to the other world
enjoyment as 1t takes in the contrast be- agrici
m the two structures. l do believe it would has /.
peen petter TO have divided the opportuni- nearly
OF sightseeing by placing the churches in tluG
rent sections, but do not think that they bloom
ere WIN each other IN the slightest degree with Q
ls marble church will, perhaps, all things been 4
ldered, be the finest one in Philadelphia. gone
9 is another religious edice, however, also the st
3 up on Broad street, which is claiming at passed
as much, II not even more attention, lLiug
y y u the mammoth building of the new OF the
sh synagogue. Departing from the sober of vel,
winch have heretofore characterized their | when
~ Duilng IN these parts, the Hebrews enplgl
~ tnis instance given their Eastern pro- not on
les Iun sway. inelr new Synagogue breathes few
orienI ahd all manner of strang and mys- sdewa
ings There is sort of barbaric grandeur One fe
u, very suggestive and irreslsby attrac- overo.
IL IL touching to me also as proving this, the ex
ne Jewish people are but now beginning to vote OF
themselves as they are. They have been should
isient anu kept down among us. The o!la lie
ed breath was not merely the figure of pi,ysic,
oct But the Hebrew is of an essentially raitse
poetic, and ideal nature. Memnon and which
phynx p are his blood kindred, and in build voted
'is proau otreet synagogue he shows that of mon
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