Evening journal., 1890-04-10
a BUILDING BOON.
Dwelling Houses Rapidly Increasing CITY
Councils Meeting-Colored masons.

Dwelling Houses Rapidly yIncrenEing-Ctty
Councils Meeting-Colored Masons.
Special Correspondence EVENING JOURNAL.
NEW CASTLE, April 10.-The spring
building boom has assumed vigorous pro-
portions and the contractors and carpen-
ters are as busy Fas bees. ]. I. & l.. X.
Eliason's frame houses on South street,
which are being built by Contractor Ball
will be completed In few days. IL.
Taggert's houses on Delaware street near
Eighth. being built by Contractor Nc
Cnully are rapidly nearing completion.
The large house on the Ecxles farm, Just
above town, will be completed about
April %. Contractors Hance q Wise are
at work on a frame house on Vine street,
for Mrs. William F. Lane, and frame
house on Chestnut street for Noah Town
send, colored. William Whites new
houses on Vine street, Contractor J. O.
Jemison, will be ready for occupancy in a
few weeks. Matthew Wall, the butcher
on Orange street, will erect shop, the
foundations for which have already been
laid, few doors below his present estab.
lishment. The new engine house at the
Delaware Iron Works, Contractor Ball,
TO replace the one recently DESTROYED by
fire, has been completed.
At the regular meeting Of Company II,
N. g. D.. last evening. ]. S. Bridgeman
was elected an active member. An invi-
tation to attend the musical and novelty
exposition being held in Institute Bali.
Wilmington, by Hyatts Military Band
on Monday evening next, was read. The
company will probably accept the invi-
tation. A letter from Major g. Leroy
Brown of Delaware College, formally
congratulating the companyi on its ap.
pearsnce and behavior was read by. Ser
geant Cannon.
City Council viii meet and organize in
the mayors office on Friday evening at
z 80 o'clock The new members will be
sworn in and officers for two years will
be elected. Orion A. CarTick will proba-
bly, be elected president and Frank e.
Herbert, clerk
Prince Edward Lodge, No. IL, F. A.
A. Y Masons. under the jurisdiction of
Harmony Grand Lodge Of Delaware, will
celebrate its sixteenth anniversary this
evening. The members, with delega-
tions from Wilmington, Christiana and
Newport lodges, will meet in full uni
FORM in the colored hall and move to the
A. u M. e. Church, where Rev. Gay
Lloyd Peterson of Philadelphia will
preach to the order A big reception will
then be held in the ball.
The New Castle Wooden Mills and the
Triton Cotton Mills, which shut down
for the Easter holidays, have resumed
operations, the former on full time. The
William Lea and Sons Companys -four
mills are still idle. The other manufac-
turing Industries are all running on full
time.
The Delaware Gun Club is making
active preparations for the match with
the Nonsuch Gun Club of Newport on
Saturday next. The match will probably
take place along the banks of the Mar fow
Dyke, and Captain Mahlon Lancaster will
have charge of the home team.
The Choral Society has changed its
time Of meeting from Tuesday to Monday
evening, and expect TO have large at
tendance on Monday evening next. The
society has an excellent collection of
music, every. number of which has been
carefully rehearsed. The membership is
rapidly increasing.
1t is rumored that another big remon-
STRANGE against the granting of a liquor
license to the Dobbinsville Hotel, Martin
Leonard proprietor, will be presented to
the Court Of General Sessions next
month.
The schooner Raymond is expected to
arrive here tomorrow, with 500 tons of
Eastern ice for Joseph Il. King The
Raymond was badly wrecked, and thus
delayed for several weeks, soon after
starting on her voyage from Kennebec,
Maine
Railroad men are placing in new turn
table on the site Of the old one, opposite
the old engine house, on the Battery.
The funeral Of Joseph Gardiner, who
died very suddenly on Tuesday evening,
will take place from his late resldsnce
tomorrow afternoon