Evening journal., 1889-10-10
BANQUET AT DOVER.
a Farewell Testimonial In Honor or civil
Engineer Allibone.

a Farewell Testimonial IN HONOR OF CtNiA
Engineer Allibone.
Special correspondence EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, October 10-0ne Of the hap
piest events that has taken place for
years among the Delaware railroad men
occurred last night at the Capital Hotel
here. l.. w. Allibone. who for seven
years has been the civil engineer OF this
division is about to sever his connection
with the road to take charge Of the
Tyrone Division Of the Pennsylvania
railroad. with headquarters at Tyrone.
Mr.. Allibone is one OF those sort of chaps
who makes friends as he goes
along through life, TO hold them,
and this quality having been exercised
here for years, the result. of course, was
that from the bluff old superintendent,
l. N. Mills, down to the very latest
''plug" who fondles a telegraph key on
the Division, Mr.. Allibone had the
warmest friends These friends deter.
mined that his separation from them
should be commemorated in a way that
he would not be likely soon to forget,
and hence the gathering last night.
There We're among those assembled in
the handsome parlors of the capital Sen
stor A. B Richardson, Hon George V.
Massey james r. Whitaker, Esq, Cash
lei Of the First National Bank Bateman,
General R. r. Kenney, Colonel e T.
Cooper, N. II. Hutchins, Secretary Of
State Salisbury. George A. Millington
and G. S. Barkley Of Dover; b. b Allen
Of Smyrna George Stevens, divis.
ion freight agent; f. r. Sipple,
assistant engineer; T. King Walker
and w. +. Brown Of Philadelphia, David
Rice OF Oxford and the entire corps from
Clayton. l. N. Mills, Bradford Murphy,
r, II. Henry, j. H. Berkeley, j. +. Den
ney, d. II. Mackey Il. l. Martndale and
other railroad men representing every
branch of the service on the road.
In the spacious dining-room covers had
been laid for fifty persons and there
we're no vacant chairs The banquet It.
self was in keeping with the excellent
reputation of mine host Milling and the
company that did justice to it, one that
could not be surpassed on the
Peninsula. There were toasts and
speeches and songs and stories until
the walls OF the dining-room echoed with
them. and at pre-arranged period Hon.
Leo. V. Massey sprung a surprise on the
guest of the evening, Mr.. Allibone by
presenting that gentleman in neat. lit.
the tall lawyer is famous for with a hand.
some gold watch, an elegant chain and
charm and pencil case combined-one OF
the costliest and prettiest golden combi
nations that Caldwell Of Philadelphia
could produce, as a testimonial OF
the esteem in which his friends
here held him Mr. Allibone
responded like a man who didn't know
what TO say exactly but he said enough
to convince the donors that the gift wat
appreciated Until it was time to take
the special train north near midnight,
I the company made merry, and then they
parted with Mr.. Allibone like men VIII,
were losing a brother.
, l.. w. Allibone Is man who stands a
, the top notch of his profession and il
addition to being a skilled engineer, h'
is in the truest sense a gentleman anC
the best recommendation that the mel
Of the Tyrone division can have is tina
! every man on the Delaware railroad
sorry to part with him
A slight fire, which caused as muc
commotion as it did smoke, occurred las
. night about o'clock on North street
: : near Queen. A coal oil lamp in q hous
occupied by John Woolley upset. settin
fire to some bed clothes, melting up
/ quilt and section of the flooring 1t
also stated that some greenbacks whic
, the resident had saved up fell a prey /
the flames The Robbins Hose boys wer
Z on the scene in time TO check anythin
that looked like fire.
! Miss Lizzie Turner and sister of Ocea
Grove are visiting their uncle, Ley
I Griffith, on North street
: The friends Of James @. Wicks Of the
Dover Delswarean gathered to the mum
. Der of ffty at the residence Of his brothe
on North street last Tuesday evening i
honor of Miss Ida Wrightington, rela
1 tive visiting from Wilmington. Tn
. hours were pleasantly spent in games o
! every kind, after which large supply O
ice cream and cakes we're served,