Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1874-07-11
FIRST EDITION.
PHILADELPHIA.
OUR sATuRDAY LETTER

aIRARD BANK RENOVATED, ETC, ETC.
Special Correspondence of the Commercial.
PHILADELPHIA, July 10.
We are ''enjoyng,n as the phrase goes-and
very wide of the mark as phrases often are
real midsummer weather, yet there are few in
dicatons of the season except the heat-that we
have always with ms. Some of the Wholesale
tradesmen announce the early closing of their
places of business in the afternoons and this
being the dullest of all dull periods in the mer-
camille year, it is not expected that any marked
business revival will be felt until about the mid
die of August but with all this the city is live
lier than it is usual to find it at this time Of year.
1t is evident that there is to be much less than
the usual amount of "eaving town. and that
the panic and the subsequent retrenchment of
personal expenses, added to the sh ort-sighted-
ness of the proprietors of summer resorts in
keeping up prices, while their true policy was
evidently to make considerable reductions,
are to result in "spoilinB the Season
from out of-town point of view.
OF course things are dull, but the
streets are full and no one seems to be missed.
The blindness of summer managers to the signs
of the times IL inc xplcable. III Cape May OF
Atlantic City had combined to put first class
board at SO. day they would have swept the
board but S4. 80 per diem, with "extras' making
board nearly Sc. day, is a very different mat
, ter. The usual answer of the shortness OF the
season, &c, will be made to this, but there Id a
great compensation in full houses, and crowd
ed hotel at 50. day pays better than one half
or third full at "a. so day. The story, 1t is fear
ed il already told 1t is nearly week since the
"Fourth," and the rush which always sets out
ward in prosperous seasons immediately after
the holiday has not commenced, nor are there
any signs of it.
Council held last night was looked for with con-
siderable interest. 1t was understood generally
that this meeting was held for the purpose of
! putting the Walnut street Bridge Loan on it's
! passage, notwithstanding the Finance Commit
tee Of Councils had declared overwhelmingly
, against the project The TACT that the bridSe
Party has sufficient strength to command a
' special meeting of Councils and that against
+ a vote of IA to in the Finance Committee, and
against the voice of the press without exception,
it should 50 gather adherents as TO
lose an immediate victory by but a
single vote pretty clearly demonstrates its pow
t er. Yesterday it SO evident that extraordln-
ary efforts were making to consider the minority
II report of the Finance Committee, and those WIG
~ generally know best were 30 full OF sage sur
: mise, that it would have astonished no one IL
it the current of affairs to have learned to day
> that the proposed loan had been granted. The
vote stood 20 to 28 against considering the MIN
orty report and so the matter Will rest untl
after the recess. But one imagines that Il
" will rest there finally. motion to reconsider
i will then be made and accessions made III tn
IA meanwhile will give the majority required. I'M
: strength put forth within fortnight proves It
III and shows plainly enough that that bridge vii
10 soon be built.
10 One of the best evidences of wisdom in thi
=, ''mortal vale" is for man to know when he l
"a beaten. Hon. Leonard Myers cannot then b.
called wise man. He is beaten but he doe
not know it. 1t is very stupid of him my cor
" poral in the Republican Invincibles would kno'
better Being a.gentleman OF earnest s pol,slca i
y consider how his bread is to be buttered III a
-, the long years TO come, and moi punuly drlV
= = against wall in his stubbornnesh and dsappon
" ment. As n shrewd public servant, @hen ne ioull
that the Hon Mr.. Harmer had the best Of IT, II
cd should have smilingly stood aside, watching &c
A chance to pop in somewhere else where h
could devote himself to the commonwealth, bt
by taking his present line OF actloh he elieclsa
" debars himself from serving the public fo
ne evermore Yea, the word has gone forth -
o Let the Kettle TO the trumpet speak,
H. The cannOns to the heavens, the heavens TO earn
a The Ring Kinks to Hdrnter
NO There is very general concern felt in I'll
Germantown child-steaing case A week az
last Wednesday little boy, son OF Mr. y.
ch Ross of the well known Market street hrin
re- Ross, Sholt e. Co.. was carried away from I'll
street where he was playing, near his home
Germantown, and remains absent to this hou
oil An older child brother of the lost boy, was alt
ci- enticedaway by the thieves but was subsequent
itb released and left to find his way home from
10 distant part of the city. He reports that tN
o men induced them to get into a carriage, saylI
rs, they should have ride, and that afIer gong
long way he WAS told to get out and go nom
Ia, The anguish of parents under such crcumsta
80 ces can easily be imagined-at leastby other pa
., ents 1t ia supposed that the thieves are hodll
little Charlie (who s remarkably handsom
bright boy, about four years Old, ior
ransom, and one of the current stori
is that the thieves have written to Mr.. Ross
say that his reward published is insuilicle
but that they will restore the child safe al
ac- sound for 41O00O. 1t IL certain that sever
'Personals" have appeared in the Ledger. viii
new are commonly supposed to refer to the cat
hat The first was addressed to "Ros," and said st
ner parties are ready to negotiate" Next day a II
$50 lines appeared seemingly III answer TO the apo
~ stating that "Ilosn was endeavoring to raise
,no money! 1t is as likely as not that some det
~, tive scheme was involved in this. All that
III vi really known to the public is that little Char
is still missing. 1t is sort of crime that start
are every one. OF course the thieves will only a
the duct the children of rich people, where they
tal certain of heavy gains and the villany suppot
ave considerable preliminary work and oDservati
The and GOOD knowledge of the ground to be two
be- ed" The offence is an odious one and there '
be great feeling of relief when the Germ'
town thieves are brought to justice. IL the
lice and the detectives should allow them
escape there will be real sense OF puphc
is a security.
his The success of the renovation of the mar
Ohm front of the Mechanics Bank on Third str
ster | near Market was so marked, that tne eflr'
the Bank authorities determined upon similar
uvenation of their properly. How lasuhg
a., i; process may be remains to be seen but 1t IL c
S 10 taip that the immediate result is very gratify
aay The Mechanics Bank was shabby and dingy !
ieA' ,', looked altogether behind the age it is now
ii"- cleaning and brilliant as when first built, !
thing ia done more than to rub the snrf
down with sand and water. The process is 81
cor ME but it must conscientiousy carried out,
'ript reouires q great amount of "elbow grease to
Will mt into it, No machine but the human mach
oeen can do this work. scaifolding GOV
man the whole surface to be worked up
and then men go at it, polishing inch
inch superintendent talked with SAID
sday renovation brought out the stone quite equa
iool; new. for the rubbing given entirely removed
osed old and discolored surface and left the mate
,ises inst az it might be supposed to leave the h
and ~ the stone dresser. 1t may be 80 but til
the are doubts OF all deceptive things l know
! re- nothing more so than pair of secured pal
lars, looms Do you? l speak to male readers,
10 is course. They look beautiful for the first we
ence Int then they seem to so back on you, all
sudden But whether this marble removal
has A heightened life not it abundantly pi
Phil n il treat to sec the stately facade oil the
pas rard Bank come out from its shroud oil SIN
and mould. and it is altogether pleasant to kl
fo, that it is to give distant generation someti
sar- Of the delight experienced by people fam
"a" ,y,tl, ii when it was first raised. 1t il one OF
finest pieces of pure architecture ln the G
reau, NJ pdp,rSte, in his oration on the 4th of
Ghere iIaS tha Zoo, that il was designed by IatI
q his tta aantrnI buiI1inn of the