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The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21
The PHILADELPHIA mZoo.n .

Philadelphians are showing some slight
interest in their Geological Garden. They
are unwilling to lose it. 1t is too good a
show place But at the same time they are
unwilling epay for il maintainenoe a
single cent more than viii kePp it OUT oi
abject squalor. So they have allowed
twenty-five hundred dollars to be extracted
from their pockets to be applied to the needs
of the Garden and the animals collected
there.
The people of Philadelphia claim that
theirs is the finest geological collection in the
country. 1t is very fine one no doubt as
most of the citizens of Wilmington will
attest to. 1t seems almost incredible, how
ever, that such a large and rich community
as that of the city of "Brotherly Love-
should find any difficulty in maintaining the
Geological Garden in thoroughly efficient
manner
There is one point strongly inimical to its
success, viz, that the ordinary entrance fee,
20 cents, is too large. 1t is not intended to
assert that that amount is too much of fee
to pay for seeing such fine collection of
animals as are found at the Geological Gar
dens iu Philadelphia but it is too large a
sum, in a business sense, whereby any gain
can be made by the Gardens Company. A
reduction fee would attract such prepon-
deratingly greater number of visitors that
the realizations upon for instance a ten cent
entrance fee, would probably quickly DEM
onstrate that though Geological Gardens
is the most popular OF shows, % cents is an
unpopular exaction, that is to say as the
hundreds of thousands of the poorer and
middle classes Of Philadelphia and its vici-
mage take it.
The cost of twelve cents for car fare both
ways, from down town to the Gardens just
double the cost of the visit and is sufficient to
make this otherwise attractive place almost
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21
How NIagnanimous y!

The friends of Secretary Bayard have
Congressman Lore should be his own sue
cessor. The true inwardness of this mo-
ment is too superficial to need serious COM
ment
Hon. q. b. Lore will not be a candidate to
to succeed himself in Congress, but Mr..
Lore in response to an almost universal
demand of his fellow citizens will be called
upon to habilitate himself with the Senate
rial toga.
The Bayard following may cry peace,
peace, but there is no peace until the dis
honor which tainted Senator Gray's election
on last March shall have been fully atoned.
Out of twenty-nine members of the last
Legislature who were present in Dover at
the Senatorial election fifteen entered the
Lore caucus. The presence of the fifteen in
that caucus was taken as indubitable proof
that they were committed to Mr.. Lore, that
of that fifteen one was venal one was cor
rupted but Mr.. Lore secured but four
teen instead of fifteen votes. If one was
corrupted, by whom was he corruptedP
Who was the direct beneficiary of this cor
ruptionP AS Senator Gray was the residuary
legatee of this modern Iscariot the supposi.
tion stands out in bold relief, that Senator
Gray was not ignorant of the means and
methods employed to debauch Legislator
and thereby annul the wishes of majority
of the citizens of Delaware.
Fifteen men declared upon their man.
hood that they would vote for Hon. G. B.
Lore for United States Senator, but Mr..
Lore received fifteen votes wanting one
who this compound of villainy, deceit and
treachery was, and the price he received for
his infamy are not pertinent to the issue
now raised?
Mr.. Lore does not ask for the Senatorship
but his friends will not be party to con-
doning the fraud and the bargainings by
which the sovereign will of the people was
betrayed at Dover in March 1885.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21
HypocriticaI.

The most despicable phases of human
nature, in all ages of the world, have been
deceit and hypocrisy. A man who has the
courage of his convictions always commands
respectful audience but sycophant and a
hypocrite are always to be avoided.
The dual characteristic in which Pres!-
dent Cleveland has been cavorting since the
day of his Inauguration has exposed him to
the scorn and contempt of his fellow coun-
trymen.
The President has mot signally commit
ted himself both in wr.ing and couyersa-
tron, over and over ag in, with the most
intense earnestness, to that portion of the
civil service reform which states that there
shall be no removals except for incompe-
tency or malfeasance; and Notwithstanding
the fact, that the President haa so repeat
edly reaffirmcd this as his rule of action,
yet, day by day he is giving the lie to his
professions; neither Democrat nor Republi-
can have any faith in thp declarations of the
President and his recJnt federal appoint
ments in Philadelphia Justify the belief that
his civil service decla1ltions were lust so
much hypocritical cants
Grover Cleveland was SO inflated by his
succession to power thai he really imagined
that he was little theds on wheels, and he
tried SO hard to make tJ, people believe that
he was much holier ihan the Democrat
party, but his aGCdai 'Sli5m. y nov
being taken and his s. phsion of General
Huidekoper, the Pos pItiter of Philadel-
phia, shows that the rbfdm President is
delusion and snare. There could be no
more serious violation of the spirit of all
decent reform than the removal at the begin
ming of his second term of so admirable an
official as General Huidekoper. If the
Presidents action in this case is sample of
the way he intends to enforce the law and
keep his promises, then reform under this
is grotesque farce.
The President would not have had his
right to make removals questioned had he
not prated so necessarily of his undying
fealty to civil service reform.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21
No Reason For 1t.

Why should their be such thing three
years contract for lighting the public
streets?
The term is unconscionably long. What
public interest is gained by it, or what
private one? If the citizens save anything
by such management of their representatives
in Council the revelation would be atten-
lively listened to by the people. In the
presence OF the impending incursion of the
advantages of the Edison Incandescent
Light and the Arc Light we would like to
know the figures on the different bids &c.
1t is naturally argued that science, by its
outgrowth electricity" has tended greatly
to reduce not alone the present but also the
prospective cost of street illumination. We
trust that the wise and judicious heads in
City Council will not neglect this fact 1t
is quite 'On the cards" that large percent
age in reduction of cost of all kinds of illu-
mnation may be made within the next
twelve months. 1t would be wrong there
fore that such contract be made that will
force the already uver-taxed citizens to a
two-years possible excessive rate for street
illumination. Under any circumstances
there is no need for a three years contract.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21
What might be Ameliorated.

If it be necessary that droves of oxen mus
.isl' - .lsa.Eap ~ saras an4
that the needs of those engaged 10 the cat
tie business require the use Of some Of the
principal streets of the city for that purpose
it is at the same time necessary that at least
ordinary precautions be taken for the proper
protection Of our citizens. That does not
exist now.
There is no necessity of referring to the
recent incident in this city when little girl
was badly gored by an infuriated OK, aud,
but for the timely assistance of passer- by
would have been killed by the maddened
brute.
The trouble exists in the fact that drovers
while driving their herds to the slaughter
house impress to their aid youths, usually
street boys, who volunteer in many cases
just for "the fun of the thing"
Cattle, while being driven along our
streets, should be in the hands of men alone,
who should carefully drive the beasts,
and be held responsible for their proper
care during the passage of the animals
through the city.
There exists no necessity for the drovers
accepting the proffered services of any gamin
that happens along. Nothing delights these
lads more than to goad the poor brutes to
scamper through the streets endaugering
life and limb thereby. The animals are
peaceful enough usually,if peacefully driven.
A common sight however is to see the herd
plunging and crowding, maddened by the
excited and demonacal cries of the lads who
are only too delighted with the prospective
fun. No wonder Que of the unfortunate
brutes, infuriated by the treatment escapes,
rushing heller skelter along the street, and
then the boys fun commences in reality
Then also the danger commences.
Boys are irresponsible, and under all
circumstances drovers should be forbidden
by the authorities from making indscrimi-
nate use Of their services.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21
A Fingerboard for Travellers


The B. & o.'s Chicago Limited, composed
of magnificent new Buffet sleeping and din
ing cars and day coaches, makes the run to
Chicago, without the change of a car on the
train, in twenty two s and fifty-fye
minutes, which is faster than any train upon
any other road running Limteds, upon
which extra charges are made, or any other,
The B. & O.'s Cincinnati Limited, composed
of elegant and most convenient new Family
room sleeping cars and day coaches, makes
the run through, without change, in sixteen
and quarter hours, or upwards of four
hours quicker than the Limited of any
other road, all the talk of "the Fastest
Trains in the World" to the contrary not
withstanding. The B. & O.'s Limited to st.
Louis is over an hour faster than the Limit
eds upon would-be rival lines, while the
same is true Of the B. g. o S Limited to
Pittsburg.
ANY inquiry concerning railroad transpor-
tation that may be addressed to Mr. @. R.
Mackenzie, the General Passenger Agent of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1888 Chest
nut street, Philadelphia, will receive imme-
diate attention. The B, & o. will ticket
you to any point west or northwest, south,
southwest or southeast, at better rates
than you can secure by any other line.
A party, or even one contemplating rail
road journey can have tickets sent to your
door and your baggage checked to your
destination by dropping postal card, day
in advance of your going, to Mr.. c. r. Mac
keuzie, 1888 Chestnut street, the Philadel.
phia office of the B. & o.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21
Across the River.

Those of our citizens who formerly re-
sided in Salem but who have not had the
opportunity of re-visiting their old home
for some years will be astonished to note
the transformation that has come over that
city within the past decade.
For years preceding and succeeding the
war, Salem was to all intents and purposes,
finished. Merchants were listless, the pub
lie apothetical upon all economic questions
and every avenue of industry was appar-
emily moribund. 1t used to be an exhlara-
ing sight to witness the crowds of both
young and old who would gather at the
steamboat wharf to peer at the new comers,
who might have the time to visit the ancient
city. Congregating at the wharf at such
times was about the only amusement that
the city afforded in those days. For years
and years the erection of a new building was
SO rarely undertaken that architecture was
numbered among the lost arts but this
state of affairs had been completely meta
morphosed, and to-day Salem is among the
progressive cities Of progressive New Jersey.
Thrift energy and enterprise confront
you at every turn. Her citizens can to-day
point with honest pride to her imposing
public buildings, her elaborate water sys-
TEN, her commodious churches, her public
libraries, her macademized avenues, her
new residences of grand architectural de-
sign, her glass factories, her immense oil
cloth manufactures, and, last but not least
to her whole-souled. and hospitable citizen
ship. We confess to most agreeable sur
prise in noting, in a recent visit, the mod
ernizing influences which have revolution
ized the Salem of fifteen years ago. Salem,
of to-day, is progressive, of great wealth
and of commanding possibilities, and her
citizens are proverbial for their affability,
courtesy and large-hearted hospitality.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21
How to Disarm Opposition.

From the st. Paul Globe-Dem,
1t becomes Mr.. Clevelands solemn duty to
pause and inquire whether he is accord with
the best sentiment of his party. He has no
right to shut himself up in the seclusion of
the executive Office and absolutely refuse to
listen to advice from those whose position in
the ranks of the Democratic party entities
their view to consideration. Such course
is autocratic and not Democratic. Force Of
character is an admirable trait in any man,
and nowhere can it be displayed to better
advantage than in the office of the chief
magistrate. But discriminating public is
always quick to detect the difference, between
digniied self-assertion and inexcusable bull
headedness. 1t therefore really suggests
itself to the public mind that the proper
thing for the President to do is to show a
disposition to consult with the trusted lead
ers Of his own party in regard to the policy
of his administration and, whatever his in
dividual convictions may be to this or that
matter, always conform. his policy to what
is demonstrated to be the best sentiment of
the party whose representative he is. When
he has done that he disarms factional oppo-
sition to his Administration and robs the
disappointed ofice-seeking gang of any
foundation upon which to build an opposi-
tiOn
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21
Teachers Institute.


Announcements are made for Teachers
Institute of the teachers of this county
to be held in this city December 2 to in
elusive.
Perhaps it would not be out of the way to
suggest to that august body should they
have time after listening to the the lengthy
and probably interesting string of lectures
promised them to consider one or two mat
ters of local interest to their schools in this
city and the children who attend them.
Teachers are patient people as class.
They have to bear great deal of the bur-
thens of others outside of the great respon-
sibility which naturally falls upon the
shoulders of those in their difficult profess.
ion.
growl about, and in this case it is one of the
old questions again. How many Of our
city teachers consider that their pupils, we
refer especially to those who are engaged
upon that most abstruse chapter in arith-
metic, percentage have a comprehensive
knowledge of the subject. 1t is probably
true that very few understand much about
it. We know that the children have head
aches and worrying hours in yainly at
tempting to bring to recitation any worthy
comprehension of this most difficult part of
mathematics. May it not be that too many
examples, in varying applications of the
rules are given out for one particular days
task. We modestly assert that if one or
two examples in percentage were thoroughly
understood, not in the sense of parrot-like
work of ''getting an answer" but in the
ready understanding and application of the
principle involved, this by each member of
the class, good work, though perhaps slow
work would be accomplished. Percentage
is the very climax of common school arith-
metic. Uncle Sam asks no higher mathe-
matics for his lads and lasses than that. If
they thoroughly understand the principles
contained in percentage they will be well
enough educated on mathematics to hold
any position in our government, from Presi-
dent of the United States Or minister to
England down to that of Collector of Port
Of Wilmington. So see if you cannot
give lighter task in this abstruse
branch and apply any surplus energy
to more complete digestion of the
principles intended to be evolved by
your pupils. 1t is likely thus at the end of
term we can pomise you more general satis-
faction in what has been more thoroughly
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21
PRICE TWO CENTS.

istic features of the topography of the land,
afford ample opportunity. These higher
attitudes that form the eastern slope and
watershed of the great plateau of Thibet and
the Himalaya mountain range once passed,
there opens to view the fertile plains al d
valleys of China proper, with her tecmng
population of frugal and civilized inhabitants
ready for any degree of traffic and barter if
only the Chinese authorities are found will
ing.
To the end, with au eye always open to
commercial gain and to new avenues for
industrial enterprise, the far seeing English
authorities are directing their eyes. 1t is
this fact that has most heavily weighed with
the Yiceroy of India, Lord Dufferin, to
wage war with the imbecile King Theebaw,
Of Burmah. The latter sovereign's petty
att0mpt to levy an immense embargo o!
several million dollars upon an English ira
ding community and otherwise to trammel
| commerce is but the assumed reason for
the English declaration of war English
gunboats are now laundering up the IRA
waddy, one of the largest rivers of the
world. The war will probably be altogeth-
or one-sided affair terminating in the
deposition of the drunken monarch, and his
substitution upon the Burmese throne Of an
English nominee, one more likely to make
easy the necessary steps towards clear road
along AMMAN and the north of Farther India
and ready introduction of manufactured
goods with all the variety of commodities
that Birmingham, Sheffield and Manchester
can supply.
Imagine the advantage to any manufac.
turing nation the addition of such market
to its list would be I! 5OO,O0O,OOO people,
the extreme eastern periphery of which only
has been touched A prospect like this is
sufficient not alone to set the looms of Lam
cashire, the factories of Birmingham and
Shffield, and the furnaces of the "black
country" flying to work again, but to react
on the industries of the world This country
wonld feel the effects of such an opening up
of trade. The big prospect painted SO
brightly of the Congo region, by Henry NJ.
Stanley, pales in insignfcance before posi-
blities such as these China is not peopled
by savage race but has population not
very inferior to ourselves and one that can
thoroughly appreciate the general line of
goods manufactured by us.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21
The Incandescent Light.

The Edison Incandescent Light will
make its first appearance as an illuminator
here next week.
The results of the great inventors labors
are long time getting around to us. But
we suppose that now this best of electric
illuminators has gotten here it will stay.
Most large communities in this country have
it in use, some of our more considerable
cities for several years. 1t has been sue.
cess elsewhere. The prediction is therefore
that the Edison Incandescent Light will
not be unpopular with Wilmingtohians. In
some important features gas is undesirable.
Light is Indispensable and to an enterpris-
ing community the theory of getting the
best illuminator, all other things being
equal, is an indispensable argument.
1t is understood that there is not very
much difference, if any, in the the contrast
ed cost of gas as against Incandescent
h'Bhu, puU mhoh ~ ~ Aeihehpeieu IhaI the
latter always maintains an equable, fixed
lights never deteriorating in brilliancy, and
the formers normal status is as a rule
fraudulently beneath what it claims to give
as an illuminator There will not be much
hesitancy as to the nature of the welcome
with which this clean, inoffensive, inno-
cuous, and healthy light will be received.
Additionally there is the great advantage in
connection with the use of the Incandescent
Light namely that there is no possible dan
ger of fire from its use.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21
Hanna's Dcatll.

Ii was sad sight on Wednesday last as
young Hauna was borne to his grave followed
by a score or two of his fellow newsboys.
The cause Of his death was most probably
the purest of accidents. But at the same
it shuld be stated that there is a great deal
too much Of this rough horse-play going on,
and especially upon the public streets. 1t is
a relevant question to ask whether it is pru-
dent to wait until another death occurs be-
fore restrictions are placed upon the boys
while on the streets. This is the season for
those dangerous games 'shinney" ''hock-
ey," and "cat-stick." Newsboys and street.
boys are not the only transgressors. The
neighborhood of almost very public school is
made dangerous to pedestrians from the
'catty'' whose sharpened points, as the
small piece Of wood fos through the air,
threaten the eyesight of the passer-by. The
street corners where these noisy boys con-
gregate are terror to the neighborhood. 1t
would be well perhaps that our police
authorities take the matter in charge,
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21
Disgraceful.

"The DEVILS Auction" has been freely
advertised for Monday and Tuesday even
ings of the coming week, anil from the
wood cuts as appearing in Morning Ne,os
and Epery Evening illustrating said perform
ance it is safe to say that the devils Hope"
would he more apropos for the name of the
performance than the DEVILS Auction. The
advertisement is repete in its suggestive
ness of lewdness and vulgarity, and it is a
sad commentary upon the management of
the Opera House, that performance SO
demoralzing in its nature should have
ru~iine xs-aS LiIlf
access to the Masonic Temple.
Females in a state of almost complete
nudlty-females assuming attitudes which
would be scarcely tolerated in baudy houses
is the entertainment to which the people of
this city are invited on next Monday and
Tuesday evenings.
The hoodlums, scabs and the blisters
will be there, but the true, the noble, the
exalted woman will flee the performance as
she would the kissing adder.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21
Praise for Bayard.

Among the appointments made by the
President during the present week was that
of VIM. B. Herbert of New Castle to be
marshal of the consular court of the United
States at Kanagawa, Japan. Mr.. Herbert
is a son of County Treasurer Herbert. He is
well qualified for the position having held a
post for some years whose duties cannot be
very dissimilar from those entailed upon
him at his new posi-. 1t is presumed that
Mr.. Bayard's kindly offices may be perceived
in this act of the President. They are as
thoroughly appreciated as they are deserved
in this new Delaware,sppointment.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21
Personal.

The quiet, unpretentious, honest-hearted
farmer, Giles Lambson, will have a following
for the Sherifalty nomination which prom
ises to be most formidable. The easy, ap-
proachable way of Mr.. Lambson is well
calculated to create a strong and an abiding
friendship.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21

By the courtesy of the Philadelphia Times
we present on our second page an article
the methods by which the un-
are ''roped in and done for'' in
Philadelphia. The Times has fought most
vigorous warfare against all species of gam
bling, and it places the Bucket Shop and the
faro business in the same category,
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-21
Another Political Mistake.

From the Montana Miner,
The appointment of young Bayard to be
Secretary of Arizona is a political m isSake,
contrary to the Democratic teaching and
precedents.