Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-01
MONTHLY REPORTS.
The Various City Departments wOrE for
the First Month in the Year.

Fires for January-Tillerman James p.
Kerrigan Of the Delaware truck reports
the following Charms of FIRE struck during
the past month: January 5, box 10, 8. 10
a. m, caused by smoke issuing from the
chimney of house ON Lord street be
tween Spruce and Pine; 8, box "a, g. 10 a..
m, carpenter shop of John Cassidy, rear
of No 1921 West Fourth street, owned
by Thomas Ford, loss $500, insurance
$500; 10, box "a, 10 90 p. m, ignition
of feather bed by the upsetting of a
coal oil lamp in the room of Daniel
Deputy, No. 406 West Front street. IL.
box 50, Z p. m, false alarm; 49,,
box 81, 3. SO p. m, false; 90 box "a,
3. II a. m, fire in Kent & Weeks's lumber
yard and in B. Lundy Kent S morocco fac
tory at Front and Justison streets, loss
$25. 600, insurance $50, 600; 20, box 50,
| TO- 81 a. m, dwelling of J. n Wright,
Tenth and Railroad avenue loss, $500.
fully insured; 20, 624p. m breaking out
afresh of lumber yard fire; 90, 1l.29
m, Rudolph & Giles store, No. 703 Mar
ket street. $500, loss fully insured; 81,
box "a. ? a. m. breaking out of lumber
yard fire afresh; 81, box "a, 2 81 a. m,
store at Second and jefferson streets: de
partment not needed.
Arrests for January-For the month
of January Chief of Police Swigget re-
ported 204 arrests, as follows: Assault
and battery, IS cruelty to animals,
| corner Longing, 3; carrying concealed
weapons, drunk, 40: drunk and disOr-
derby, l3 disorderly condact. IS; disor-
derby house, 6; gambling, 49, highway
robbery, 4; keeping house of i'll fame, B,
larceny, %; obtaining money under false
pretenses, l patients, 6; peddling with
cut license, A. receiving stolen goods.
q selling liquor without license, 4 4; sus-
picious characters, 2; selling liquor on
Sunday, 2; trespass. 2 vagrancy, 2 VIC
lations of city ordinance. 3 violation Of
market ordinance, witnesses held, T.
Building lines marked-Frederic H..
Robinson, chief engineer of the City Sur
veying Department, reports that during
January, 1889, lines were marked for
buildings as follows: Andrew b. White,
two dwellings, Twelfth street, north side,
bet ween Head and Claymont streets
George W. Booker, eight dwellings, Pop.
lar street, west side, between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth streets. John H. For
rest. two dwellings, Railroad avenue and
Fourteenth street, southwest corner.
Samuel +. BlackistOn, stable, Bassett
street, west side. Eugene d Messick,
stable, between Eighth and Ninth, and
! Adams and jackson streets Daniel
DOhl, three dwellings, Third street, north
side, between Lombard and Pine streets.
Patrick Bolen, two dwellings, Linden
street, south side, between Franklin and
Broome streets William T. Hickman
store, King street, east side, between
Fourth and Fifth Samuel gilbert
dwelling Lombard street. west side, be
tween McCaulley and Twelfth streets
John T. Dickey, Patrick Neary and
Nathan Lieberman, one store and dwell
ing and nine dwellings, Franklin anC
Conrad streets, northeast corner. Charlie:
9. and Frederick c. Mammele, store
Poplar street, east side, between Fifth
and sixth streets. Total for the month
80 buildings; total for January 1885,
buildings
Rainfall-Frederic H. Robinsoa. chic
engineer Of the City Surveying Depart
ment, reports the rainfall for the month
of January IS 4.97 inches. Two inohe,
Of snow fell, equal to 20 of an inch OF
rain. This is large rain fall for tn
first month in the year.