Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07


the territory, and there n likely 10 be NJ
trouble about II, but they want the quee
blunder Of the stupid old surveyor SETTLED
somehow or other.
OF course every one has observed I'd,
northern boundary Of little Delaware
how 10 describes a hall circle. Did yol
ever hear the history OF this queer fact
Well, for many years no one took Thu
trouble TO tx a line between Delawar,
and Pcnnsylyania's domain. There wa
20 much land lying around loose that i
wasn't thought worth while Finally Q
private secretary 10 Lord Delaware,
who was somewhat Of a surveyor dis
covered that the distance between the
courthouse at Newcastle and the
Delaware river was exactly
twelve miles. Being called upon
TO recommend some line for the boundary
he suggested that IL be hall circle, hay
ing a twelve mile radius with the court
house al New Castle as the center. The
suggestion was adopted, and that Is why
the northern boundary OF Delaware Is
circular.
But the qusck surveyor Numbered. His
twelve mile radius was all right on the
eastern side, because that was exactly the
distance TO the Delaware river, but IL
failed to connect on the west. He thought
the western end Of the half circle radius
would strike the Pennsylvania
Maryland boundary--but II didn't.
II lacked about mile of doing IT, The
result was d 'inat-iron," about a mile
wide on the north and tapering off TO u
point at distance Of about three niles
That lat-iron exists to-day II really be-
longs TO no state and the people who live
upon 1t vote In one place for one officer
and at another place for. another and pay
all Of their taxes under protest. Whether
they are Pennsylyanians, Delawareans or
MarylandeEs they have never yet been
able to hnd'out.
Every school boy is familiar with the
three-cornered bit Of Pennsylvania terri.
tory that leads out from the northwestern
part Of the etate aud borders upon Lake
Erie. II Is there as perpetual memorial
OF stupid surveyors mistake. The
state boundary line between Pennsylvania
and New York was fixed by Joint com
that took certain engineers
word for II that line run directly west
from the Delaware river at the forty
second parallel, 260 miles, would strike
the south shore of Lake Erie at the boun-
dairy line between Pennsylvania and Ohio
The latter was at that time
part Of Virginia. Accordingly the
grant was drawn up and the
1850 miles west to the shore of Lake
Erie" employed, The deeds were APP
proved and filed in the respective state
archives.
When the line came to be run over, 1t
"A htaNaunFAH hat sIn IL a
did not take the line to the lake shore,
1ut stopped about fifty miles short of it,
New York said that the lake shore was
meant and that, in fact, the tract be-
ongod TO her. Virginia, which then
pounded the triangle in dispute on the
vest, disputed New York's claim, and
iaid the territory belonged to her.
Massachusetts,, also, on the general
principle that her original grant
ook in everything west OF her
n the same latitude, and that what had
lot been granted away still belonged TO
Ter, set up claim for the triangle. /,
Modest Pennsylvania seems TO have been
bout the only state That did not claim it. |
If course the national government had TO |
&c appealed to, and in order to keep
verybody friendly, congress proposed |
living the disputed territory TO Pennsyl. |
ania, chiefly because she didn't ask for |
t. II was an early case of a successful |
ark horse
But Pennsylvania had her scruples
bout Indian rights. She would not take
he triangle because ii belonged to the 4
indians and had never been paid for SO 1
he United States bought II In trust for
pennsylvania, paying as cents per acre for
J, IT was then cedod TO the Keystone
tate and named Erie county, because 1t
ordered on the lake OF that name. And |
MS is all there is OF the interesting
istoly OF Pennsylyainla's triangle.
The business world, which was begin.
ing TO feel the effects of revival, is
realty disturbed just now by strikes.
ONE men never know when they are
ell OFF They strike before they know
" what they are striking. do not saw
.borers should work for Just the wages
acrimonious employers choose to
n.y. but they ought not
} kick with one foot before they have
ucceeded in getting the other foot firmly
lchored If they do, the result is usu-
lily disastrous. That Is exactly.what has
ONE about among the wooden mills of
Ms city and many Of the mines in West
IN Pennsylvania. These operatives have
sen out OF work for months, and now,
hen they are beginning to get in full 4
me, they strike, not for better wages,
at because they do not happen to fancy Il
'me foremen. 1t IL an unfortunate cir n
instance. There are something like
1000 men and boys out,and IN the mean
me better business prospects stand
'or show. There are as yet no advances
'oking to settlement ADMIRAL,