Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-09-01
The MONTHLY RECORD.
REPOR rs OF TIE ChIEF ENGIs
NEER AND THE ChIEF OF
POLICE, ETC.

Frederic II. Robinson, chief engineer
pf the Surveying Department, reports
hat during August lines we're marked
for buildings az follows: Mary B. Pyle,
house, west side Franklin street,
between Ninth and Tenth; Susanna
Pyle, twelve houses, east side DUPONT
street, between Tenth and Eleventh;
William Watmough, Swo houses, north
side Eighteenth street, between Rock
ford lane and Riverview avenue; Vul.
canized Fibre Company, office, north
west corner Tenth and Wilson streets;
Abraham j. Peters, houses, south side
4th st., between Lombard and Pine; p.
Aschenbach, house, north side Second
street, between Orange and Tatnall;
Martha Fl. Stratford, house, southeast
side Van Buren, street, between Gilpin
and Shallcross avenues ; James r.
Taylor, carpenters shop, north side
Seventh street, west of Union Jacob
Sinex, two houses, north side Chandler
street, between Maryland avenue and
jackson j. Matthew Gropp, store,
west side of Market street, between
Front and Second Thomas Ford,
stable, between Sixth and Seventh and
Monroe and Adams streets Leslie
Briggs, house, east side Scott street be-
tween Fourth and Fifth Hartmann
X Fehrenbach, hotel, southeast corner
Christiana avenue and Heald G. n.
Elliott, house. northwest side Tatnall
street, between Twenty-third and Twen-
W fourth William R. Brinckle,
church, southwest corner Seventeenth
street and Riverview avenue William
Davidson, storehouse, northwest corner
Ninth and King streets Martha j.
Means, house, north side, e,Seventh street,
between Poplar and Lombard; George
Powick, addition to dwelling, east side
Madison street between Eighth and
Ninth William Mooney, house, south
side Fourth street between Lombard
and Pine George w. Boulden, house,
solth side Front street betweensDuPont
and Scott. Total for the month, 35
buildings; total for August, 1888, SO
buildings.
ARRESTS BY THE POLICE.
Chief of Police Mcconnell reports
244 arrests for the month of August, the
largest number by far for any month
his year, caused in part by the numer-
Dus pic-nics, festivals, ETC., which took
place last month. They are classified
as follows: Drunk, 81; DRINK and
disorderly, 80 ; assault and battery, "a;
vagrancy, 80; larceny, 80; disorderly
conduct, IA violating city ordinances,
10; insane, 8 carrying concealed
deadly weapons, keeping disorderly
houses, trespass, 3 each assault with
intent to kill, Q drunk and resisting an
officer, selling liquor without license,
house breaking, cruelty to child, 1
each.
ALARMS OF FIRE.
The following fire alarms were struck
during the month of August Au-
gust 13, 8 45 p. m., box No. 13, Fifth
and French streets, slight fire in Will
liam j. Mays basket store, No. 403
King street ; extinguished with a few
buckets of water. Loss, $25. August
IA, 5. 45 p. M, box 3, Tenth and Orange
streets, slight burning of some rags
in the loft Of the Lafayette Hotel,
Ninth and Shipley streets. Department
respondei but services not needed. Au-
gust IS, $40 p. M. box No. 2, Twentieth
and Market streets. Alarm caus-
ed by burning of George Mil
ler's barn on the line of the B. & P.
Railroad. Friendship and Phoenix
lcompanies responded. Loss between
S2, 500 and 50, 900; partly insured. Au-
jgust 25, 3.05 p. M, box No. Al, on
Charles Warner 8 Co.'S wharf. Slight
fire in keg of sulphur in Charles War
ner 81 Co.'S south side warehouse. The
Fame Hose Company went into service
and extinguished the flames. Damage
trifling. August %, $40 p. M, box
No. "a, explosion of coal Oil lamp in
the house of Mrs. Sarah E. Cloud, No.
4l8 West Second street. Damage very
trifing.