Daily Republican., 1881-07-16
PENNS0ROVE.
The Busy BustAmE Little Tswn
Acs0ss the Delaware.

AcS01S the U010WAR0s
Pennsgrove Is .1ast grow ing into ,
busy bustling little town. As Whining
ton her large sister across on the Della
ware shore grows, so ogrows Pennsgrove
and as Wilmington is talking of road.
to the Delaware and wharves upon tn,
same, Pennsgrove, already on the river
cOntemplatesa an addition to the wharve,
which she already has. The Susie A
Mccall, the jaunty little steamboat tina
has done double duty AS a passenger
and ferry boat for several years pas
between Wilmington and Pennsgrov,
is making u profitable run this season
and now makes her regular trips eacl
and every day. The West Jersey and
Delaware shore Railroad, which con
meets Pennsgrove with the interior net.
work of railroads in the State and
which was lying in d semi-eomitose
condition until it passed into the hands
OF the DuPonts, has now developed into
d business road, running four trains
each way day now, compared with
two short time ago. The expectation
is that the new owners of the roaC
will in short time have new wharves
built upon both sides of the rive,
and regular boat will run between ths
two. Such a conSummatiOn will ba q
big thing for pennsg'ove and no incon.
siderable thing in Wilmington.
Pennsgrove has only one hotel, and
that is kept by Mr.. John French and
according to the manner of modern day
hotel keeping it is kept in first class
style, having all the modern conve.
neuces for the accommodation of board.
ers. There is another summer boarding
house owned by Philadelphia party,
on the shore and is surrounded by q
beautiful lawn and shaded trees in the
centre of which is a handsome construct
ed pavilion. Though there are no min
eral springs at Pennsgrove and the
drinking water has a brackish taste in
spite Of ice, great many boarders from
a distance come to the place and spend
several months during the summer on
account of the beautiful and picturesque
scenery and, the fresh river breeZes,
The leading merchants ofPennsgrove are
the Leap Bros. and Denny and Bro,
Their stores are large and each have a
large trade from the surrounding coun.
try. The Leap Bros. are building a
three story mansard roofed addition to
their store which will also be used for q,
dwelling house.
The Dennev's are a notable family.
There are six brothers of them two en-
gagged in merchandising, one fformer
captain of the Susie McCall) engaged
in undertaking and furniture business,
and three of them are now running the
Susie Mccall, one being the captain,
)ne pilot and the other a clerk. They
are all good men and their places in
Pennsgrove would be hard to ill if they
were TO leave it.
Ship building is carried on to some
sxtent. job Baxsrer has on his stocks
/ steam yacht a most friShed which on
account of the person ordering it, Civ,
ny it up is an elephant on his
lands. 1t is almost eighty feet in
ength and would be just the thing Tor
..ther business or pleasure.
Charles Daughertyg formerly employ
ID with Enoch Moore, Jr., of this city,
$ engaged in repairing an old schooner
which was blown ashore last winter.
The vessel belongs to Philadesphian.
BY the time Mr. Daugh .rty puts in
lew ribs, new masts aud new every
hing, the boat may be of some service.
L is strange THAT people will spend
money on such an old hulk.
The season for sturgeon fishing is
bout over They are caught and clean
nj on some old projecting wharf, and
his gives the place u "tishy' smell
which is rot very agreeable to the SEN
tive olfactsries of eXcursionists. A bout
ne hrndred tons Of sturgeon have been
tOred away i'll an immense refrigerator
There they are kept in a frozen state
II summer and shipped when needed
} the Philadelphia and New York mar
cts. This is the third summer the re-
'igerator has been in operation and the
apacity IL increased each year.
The drinking wafer in Pennsgrove is
trocious, even with ice, and to make
latters worse advantage..s taken of the
al water by man who has d reStaur-
mt at the entrance Of the grove who
eals out q conCoctign called soda
ater at ten cents glass, and small
lates Of ice cream with big chunks of
e in it Tor the same price per plate.
l Villain yton the best sofia water is
lly five cents a glass.
From Gbout four o'clock until seven
the evening Interest concentrates in
the steamers as they 90 up
I'd down the river. The "Major Rey-
,li' trAt comes along from Philadcl-
Tia bringing a large number of excur-
Dnists just for the ride who return on
g "Thomas Clyde about an hour
ID half later. The next that shoves
n prov up the river and stops at the
barf is tie "Perry,' an old and popu-
r river boat but mostly used for freight.
osely following the ''Perry" comes
e "Thomas Clyde" generally with
usic abroad.
The Clyde is a beautiful boat, large
ID very popular with eXcurSionists.
osely following the Clyde, the John .
Warner putfS up the river without
,pping, as if Pennsgrove was entirely i,
} insignificant place for his majesty
pay any attention to. Then last !,
ough by no means least is the steam y
Republic that comes along from Cape =
ny ploughing the waters "almost to :,
eir depth" h
The Susie Mccall meets the Republic 4
the middle of the river and takes from i
he passengers destined for Whining a
/. By this time the evening shades :, "
,in to gather and Us the sun sets be. +,
I'd an illumination of western glory. u
Pennsgroveites gather in the !,
we, elderly people to talk over times i, i
& past and younger ones to fan the l.
he of loves young titful dreams. a, AZ
Hack for KIverview. ia
William Barker who resides upon the CT
lofield property, near RivervieW d.
netery, will commence on Sunday nt
It, the 18th inst, to run q hack to and ar