The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-02-28
Things in Quaker City.

PHILADELPHIA, Fob. %, 1885,
Washingtun's birthday coming as it
did ON Sunday caused the celebration of
the day to be broken up, some setting
apart Saturday and some Monday, while
the real day was given over TO the
preachers for appropriate reference.
After the defeating Of the lofty pile at
Washington, the preachers minds were
expanded so that they were able to soar
to flights, and the little cherry tree story
was completely ignored and the poor
Sunday School child sent away empty.
Many Of our rising youth have been
taught so much mandy lirmbysm in re-
gard to the life of Washington, that they
are beginning to be startled because GER
tain debaters are talking over the prOba-
bility of Washington having theistic
ideas TO be sure there is nothing to
bear this proposition out, except as to
certain unauthenticated remarks of some
of the iniidels of Washington's time,
land there seems to have been plenty of
them, but still there are even persons
now who hold ia fills view Of the sovin,r
of his country. At any rate Washington's
nrw in old Christ Church ON Second
street, is pointed out, where he sat and
worshippcd i'm the faith of the ENGLISH
Church. This is proven beyond cayel
and if fine prant WASHINGTON acted the
hynocritr il is II very seriorls tbouabt
for lis nil to contemplate. which will take
m,rr than thr Bimsv sonhistrics of srotI.
crs ia reconcile.
The mast week Ina. been thc most dis
nstrious onp as regards fires that has been
orr LOT to witness for many wears. The
ohns Lnusn fire was had and MIGHT have
hanp worse for had the wind brcn in an
opportunc direction nothing could have
saved the entire building, and the sacri-
frin, Of many more human BEINGS. The
destruction of n score of nnatics was n
scrious affair. and cave shock to sensi-
tive nerves. but after while peoplc be-
Gan 10 think il WAS Quick way of get
ting rid of a bur,lensomc part of our"bodv
snriol " and if passed as n DAVIS wonder
Int when the fearful catastrophe of n
whole family being nearly swept AWAY
under fine most terrible circumstances bv
Gro ,.h,, tLoro uos a ubocl, that hos
hoo,, cIf 60 LoonI,, th,t II viII hc v,eol,s
-, - ~,
before II VIII Slc"" l'Sel'' lhiS NlliE
family who were so fatally visited were
omnnu fine MINER ten of the CITY. and
- ,,a,,,oi,;,,. ,,o ,ho., of ,jor,,,.-
"h"'' '"'''''' ''"''.' CIV -
men ana plyamli'ilS' VIZ Nlhs was the
son of Il retired Episcopal minister, and
his ,viG, WINS fine doucbtrr of n retired
,,,,.Ii,ir. M, ,,,,os+;,,,, 1910,
''"'''i vi i''''',,.''' u. i"'"''''' "iP'
most III the public MIMI Is, why did not
some means present itself for them to
nsr,nc dcstrurtiono What was Mr. Kinp
Mil. an A. o.,..'..'....,,.',
doiIE ali tlle "'il'e tili '''v i'aiilcS re"cileu
him? What parallzed all his energies?
Was il from fear or was il from other
a,rgog, So,,, ,,,. tl,ot Mr. Kin, ,otol
'''''7''' '''' ''' '7 CIV
very unccremohlosly Wheh he summoned
a policeman ut an earlier hour to eX-
tirm,isb a fire in an ash horrrl and
.,..',-,i H., It'll.
tilcn "'S'iilSSe'i nun "'''io"' Selrcli''g
further for smolderlng cmbers. Looked
at in any light, it is most heartrending
.cc;lerf whore five nersons ,ra cor,ed to
''N'','Ni'' -, WV = ~
'Hoii'"i'iE "cN'ilH WIN 'l'rc were ;"
many willing hands below to help them
The whole tragedy hinged on an ''if." If
there had not been large fire at another
section of the city, plenty of fire escapes
would have been forth coming. If Mr.
| King had kept the family up after rous-
ing them once, instead of ordering them