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is still a gay barterre, although
the opening" is passed. The
opening is merely the inaugu-
ration Of the season. Soon as
it is over the season proceeds,
and keeps proceeding until the
zenith is reached.
We want your attention
upon Furniture to-day.
On the third floor, in one of
the furnished rooms, you will
see a Mahogany Bedroom
Suite of wonderful beauty, well
worth your study. The style
is modern antique, with plain,
strong outlines, finished with
beautiful nargueteYle or inlaid
work on the headboard of the
bedstead and the front of the
bureau, above the drawers.
The large oval bevel-edged
mirror, the ample drawers and
swell front of the bureau, and
the simple lines of the bed
stead harmonic with but
greatly surpass the old furni.
ture of the colonial period.
This Mahogany Bedroom
Suite is but one of scores of
illustrations of the exclusive
styles that we command for
the Philadelphia market. The
constantly increasing demand
for our Furniture shows that
more and more are people Of
taste comprehending that in
Furniture as in all else we are
using the latest and largest
facilities for producing rare and
choice things as well as the
more commonplace and popu.
lar.
In another furnished room
you can see a bamboo-hnished
Maple Bedroom Suite, which
is only one of the many that
are on the floor in the depart
ment. This popular style costs
from $II5 to $I75 for Bed
stead and Bureau, while all the
other pieces, as Chairs, Cheval
Glasses, Clothes-Trees, and
Wardrobes, can be had to com.
plete the suite according to
your taste.
For bedroom furnishing one
of the prettiest woods now in
vogue is Bird's.eye Maple,
beautiful as satin, durable as
oak. There is a wide choice
among the suites at $IIo to
$225 for Bureau and Bedstead,
with extra cost for added
pieces.
1t was our privilege to in
troduce last year exclusively
the Sixteenth Century Finished
Oak Furniture. We still con-
troll the only perfect finish in
this style, which preserves en-
tirely the grain of the wood in
a brilliant surface with a tone
truly suggestive of ripe age.
There are imitations-pl plenty
of them. We have not only
the perfect and artistic, but
the poorer and inferior, and
can show both in contrast
what you can get here or any
where, what you can get only
here.
This particular finish can be
had for the Dining-room, Bed,
room, Library or Hall. The
designs, mostly Moorish, are
adapted to the wood, and the
hardware trimmings to both.
If you are not aquainted with
this Furniture we will be glad
to introduce you, even if only
to crafty your taste or add to
your information.
a speciality now running in
our Furniture stock with great
success are Couches covered
with Bagdad Curtains. They
are our own make, good
springs, thorough upholstery,
and genuine Oriental cover
ings. Recline on one and you
are for the nonce the veritable
Caliph himself. $25.
Our present purpose is
merely to suggest that just
here is the greatest aggrega-
] -. r IL -.
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SALISBURY denies it, He says he has
no thought Of dissolving Parliament
He must have been threatening only.
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sBERIFF.s SALES.

GHERlFF'S- SALE.-BY VIRTUE OF A
- writ OF Levari Facias. 10 me directed.
VIII be exposed to pub ic sale at the hotel
OF Alexander Maxwell. in Middletown ia st
Georges hundred. New Castle county, Del,
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He 7ltAbiuus osgV lVsso SEQ usao A@A&
Additional Trains.
Daily except Saturday and Sunday, leaye
Wilmington 8 II p. m, b. d o. Junction "a
p. M, Newbrtdge Al p. m Arrive Mone.
chanin SO y. m
On saturday only, will leave Wilmington 90
5 II D. m. Arrive at Newbridge at S Al .. M,
Leave Wilmington 10 IS p. m. Arrive at New
bridge 10 35 p. m, and Montchanin 10 So D. M
Leave B1rdsboro 10 p. m. Arrive Reading
GOING SOUTH
Daily Sunday
Daily lex Sunday ONLY
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ON SATURDAY
THE 5rn DAY OF APRIL, 1880,
At 2 o'clock, p. m,


The following described real estate viz:
All that ce tain lot OF land situated in the
town Of Middletown. ST. Georges hundred.
sew q stle county. state Of Delaware,
bounded and described as follows, to wit:
Beginning on the north side OF Main street.
cori er for lands OF "a illiam Cochran, thence
with Main street south 80 degrees, esst SO feet,
10 a corner for lands of Lydia Cannon; thence
with her line north ! degree west. 22l feet to
n S .ake; thence north so degrees west, ~ feet,
inches to q stake on the south side OF Ander-
son street; thence thereby south slI4 degrees
west 52 feet 10 inches TO a stake on the south
side of said street. corner for lands of William
Cochran: thence with said COchran's line
south 50 degrees east, 81 feet inches to a
stake, co cner for said lands of said Coo aran
thence south degree east 221 feet 10 the place
OF beginning; containing 1898 square feet
with dwelling house and other outbuildings
thereon erected.
Seized and taken in execution as the prom.
erty Of Elmira NJ Scowdrick and James II
Scowdrlck, her husband, and {. Is, and to be
sold by
ALYAN ALLEN, Sheriff.
Sheriff's once, Wilmington, March 10, 1890
CHEkIFF'S SALE.-BY VIRTUE or a
- writ of Levari Facias, to me directed. wifi
be exposed 20 public sale at the hotel of James
Dickinson, In Townsend, Appoquinimink hun.
dred, New Castle county, Delaware,
{, a
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NAI I1MINGrON AND NORTHERN RAIL.
w ROAD. Tinae-tahia. In effect Nov. q. 1855,
GOING NORTH.
Suns
Daily dAY
lex Sunday Daily. only
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A Smart Hotel Man Outwitted.

From the chicago tribune
Col. Sam Parker Of the Grand Pacific has
been behind hotel counters for many years, but
it was not until yesterday that he made his first
mistake. He will tell his guests what time a
train will start for Shelbyville. the best church
in the city, what hour a mail will arrive from
Yokohama, and the winner of the last Derby,
all in the same breath. He will take all sorts of
verbal orders write them down after awhile,
and never overlook one. Yesterday clever
purchasing agent OF the Union Pacific road,
who has stopped at the Grand Pacific for fifteen
years off and on, made bet with Col Parker
and won il.
The railroad man entered the hotel about
noon, and noticing that Col. Parker was on duty
he sent his baggage and overcoat into the check
room and strolled up TO the desk az if he had
been in the house month
"What kind of place do you keep here? he
asked of the landlord.
what is the NATTER" asked Col Parker.
"You don't call the guests when ordered"
such errors"
"You did with me"
"Are you sure?"
You remember the call for ME left with you
last night?'
Certainly, sir. Eight O'Clock. was it not?"
We'll. wasn't called this morning"
II remember distinctly thet sent a boy up
to your room and awakened You Perhaps you
oversight. Sorry, SIR"
III bet ycu a wine supper that your boy
never came to my room this morning."
III take that" quickly answered the land
| lord. But" he added when too late. how can
you prove that we did not cali you this morn
| Il just got in from Omaha"
4 THAT beats me-" sighed Col Parker and
he turned to charge guest for the use Of the
| telephone.
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be high class colt. He is rich chestnut in
color with white markings. He started eight
times last wear and won four OF the events. in
Guiding some stakes. He will be dangerous IN
the race for the ''blue ribbon"
That good sire Springbsk will probably be
represented by Eberlee, the property of Man.
ayers J. X. Megibben d Co., the well-known
Kentucky turfmen. He greatly fancied
last year. and was looked for by many to win
the Futurity. He started eleven times last
year and has one win to his credit. but il must
be remembered that he was always well up in
good company.
Mount Lebanon. a son of George Kinney.
now in training at Memphis, has been talked of
a great deal this spring. Indeed, | have heard
it rumored that Snapper" Garrison would go
down to ride him. He the winner OF the
Clark stakes at Lexington last year, and started
eighteen times.
The last that strikes me on the list is Gray
son. cracking good colt, another son of
George Kinney. He Is the property of z. NJ.
West & &C. or Louisville, n.y.. and they expect
great things of him this season. he only
started three times last year, but managed TO
pull off a good race at the Lexington spring
meeting.
These are some of those that expect to see
face the starter in the Kentucky Derby, but, as
1 said before, if had to pick the winner 1
would say Riley" GLEN CAIRS.
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NJ w Tbo WILL WIN the Derby2
Y 4 n 1t was just about this time last
ANB year that group Of racing men
" VI stood at the paddock gate on the
Louisville track and watched the
flyers come brushing through the stretch,
while the early mornings sun cast its lights
and shadows on their glossy coats.
As we chat big chestnut gelding with white
markings rounds the upper turn and comes
swiftly down the homestretch next the rails,
while his white face weaves restlessly from
side to side, and ever and anon. as some other
horse races past him, he lifts himself with a
mighty effort and throws the soft sand in
clouds behind him in his frantic endeavor to
break away. But Finnegan, the little Irish
jockey, sits him like a centaur, and as he passes
us his head almost touches his chest, and the
veins, standing out like whip cords on his neck,
all indicate that he is in high fettle.
'Who will win the Derby2"
1t is Col. Harris who asked the question and
tall. sturdily built man. looking like a we'll
down before US, pulled up short and faced the
speaker.
There amt but one hoss in it," said he SEN
tentiously, for it was sam Bryant who spoke.
There amt but one boss in it," reiterated
the tall Kentuckian, AN that's that big Teller
q
half Of course he will. I tell you boys
when that little old drum taps if old Proctor
doesn't go marchin' to the front from end to
end then L don't know nothin' bout HOSES, an
hev ben with 'em, man an boy, sence wuz
thirteen year old.
FIRST VIEW OF SPOKANE.
The next week found me at Memphis and
on one beautiful sunny morning l journeyed
out to the track in company with Mr.. Charles
Doherty he Of steeplechase fame, and we
stood under the shadows of the club house
watching few of the derby candidates in
their work. Two or three passed us without
exciting particular comment, but suddenly nv
friend grasped my arm and CALCULATED, Look
out for that chestnut fellow that's coming into
the stretch. They're going to work him three
quarters"
who is hep" l asked.
That's Spokane of the Montana stables
and as my friend spoke he pulled out his stop
watch.
Nearing the three-quarter pole the big fell
low increased his speed and was racing when he
crossed the line. He galloped with the regu-
larlty OF a machine, and when he reached the
half-pole on the back stretch our watches reg
istered 1:19 fat
Can they beat him?" asked nv friend, in
qurlnglv. and as | looked at the face of nv
timer and mentally calculated that he must
have had l25 pounds on his back came TO the
same conclusion and registered nv opinion
that had seen the future winner of the Derby.
few days afterward my peregrinations
brought me within the gates of famous old
Belle Meade.
or course, all your readers have heard of
Belle Meade, one of the most famous thorough
bred breeding establishments in the world.
with Its 5000 acres of beautiful rolling land.
with its deer park. with the priceless animals
that roam at will over its broad meadows. the
home of Luke Blackburn. Iroquois (winner of
the EPSON derby, Enquirer, Great Tom and
stanch little Bramble.
UNCLE BOB.
But perhaps you don't know "Uncla Bob >"
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yen times last raar and
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won twice. He will be dangerous horse in
the race, but | can't say l would pick him as
the winner; still he is very much fancied in
some quarters.
take Blue Blazes next on the list II is
pretty certain that he viii start for under
stand that Mr.. Cassidy, his owner. thinks well
OF him, but can not say that at any time last
season did he show the form OF Derby horse
Now we come to Riley, the good son of Long
fellow and Geneva. He is a big bay colt a
typical Longfellow. and like him better than
any horse In the race. In the first place like
him because he is a Longfellow and You take a
Longfellow who has shown well rs a two-year-
old and il is shoes 10 plates that be is better in
his three-year-old form. His dam is a War
Dance mare and the Longfellow-War Dance
cross is one of the stoutest strains We have in
the stud book, so he is bred right any way to
go the mile aid half
RILEY.
like Riley because he was a consistent per-
former last year. He showed himself to be
good colt in the spring and toward the end of
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the faithful old colored retainer who has lived
there from boyhood and who is Gen. Jackson's
right-hand man.
Uncle Bob is peculiar character. His good
sayings, and they are many, are treasured up
by western turfmen who visit the farm, and II
he believes in one thing more than another il
is the invincibility of Gen. Jackson and the
Belle Meade colts.
When Proctor Knott won the Futurity Uncle
Bob went nearly wild with Joy. The bells were
rung at Belle Meade and the rejoicing was gem
erai from the highest to the lowest on the
farm.
Il knowed it all de time" said Uncle Bob in
speaking to me OF the event. Il knowed dat
dey couldn't nebber beat dat shuah huff colt
An dey can't beat i'm goin' over dat Derby
course neither"
l told him what had seen Spokane do at
Memphis, but the old man would not hear of
anything better than his favorite.
Didn't raise dat colt?' said he. II knowed
him when he war a baby, an knowed his
nanny an his daddy afore him. Yo can't
tell me muffin bout no Hyder Ali colt. Dey
can't make dat ole Proctor boss stretch his
neck"
Such was the feeling all through the west
with the exception of Memphis. before last
years Derby. We all know the history of the
Louisville and Chicago events, for il is mat
ter of turf history how the Montana cham
pion trailed the banner of Tennessee in the
dust.
l have, perhaps. gone rstle outside the
flags, as we would say in racing parlance. in re-
lating these incidents, but | have done SO to
show that IN many cases, when horses in future
events are considered well nigh lnvincible,
often they are disappointed In fact the record
of the great events will show that in the ma
jorty of cases the favorltes have been beaten,
and. indeed, this race has always been particu-
larly productive OF surprises.
THE DERBY WINNERS
For the benefit of those who would study
statistics append table showing what horses
have been the winners of the Kentucky Derby,
with their sires, the number of subscribers,
starters and the time
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BY elancing at the above table it will be seen
that this event was never won by mare and
never twice by the same owner. The greatest
number of starters was fifteen. being the year
that Aristides won il, and the least number FIVE
in 1850, when the blue ribbon was carried off by
Fonso, the property OF Mr.. J. S. Shawhan.
This year the nominations number lis, the
second largest list ever published in the history
of this classic event. In 1887 10 entries were
received, but only seven horses faced the
starter. and for that reason it would be some
what useless to review lot of horses who have
been entered but who will never be prepared for
this event. Ishall, therefore. speak Of those who
have shown most prominently in their two
year-old form and who will be likely to 60 to
the post
FIRST on THE LIST
is Prodigal Son, bay colt by Pat Malloy, out
of Homeward Bound. APPLY enough named,
you'll say. He is the property of the cele-
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an excellent Morse" operator he, shortly after
his arrival here, toyed with the '''Printer," us
the House-Hughes printing telegraph instru-
ment Is called. and soon became one of the
three expert printing operators in Washing
ton-Fred Royce and Jack Lombard-both old
timers and still with the Western Union here
making up the remaining two-thirds of the
printer force of the Office. Mr.. Austin is a
charter member. and has been for the past
eight years secretary of tine Teegraphers' Mu-
tual Relief Association of Washington, an Or
ganization that has carried cheer and comfort
to many sick mans home.
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EXPERTS AT THE KEY.
Washington Telegraphers Noted For
Their Skill.
A SCORE OF FAST WORKERS
Operators In This City Always Called
Upon For Important work-Sketches
of Men Who stand i'm the Front
Isank.

NN SENDS better Morse than any
lnE other man in town" said telegraph
z expert to a STAR reporter the other
z evening. Just as to who the "he"
u " referred to was is matter of no
Particular consequence so far as the general
public is concerned and the geographically
disposed Of the community can guess as to his
identity. There is a great variety Of frst-class
talent among local operators, and it would
be difficult indeed to find any one man OF
whom IL might truthful!y be said that he
was much in advance of score OF brother or
sister IabOrers at the key" All over the
country Is recognized the fac: that Washington
operators are in the front rank. Whenever a
great political convention is held It is the
Washington Offices that are most frequently
called on to furnish the operators.
When President Garfield was removed to FL
boron 10 die force Of Western Union operators
from this city sent out the news Of the wounded
mau's condition and finally of his death. Enor-
nous is the amount of press and mercantile
mater sent out from the two telegraph offices
on street.-The Western Union and the Postal
COMPANY. When Garfield was shot the West
ern Union was suddenly subjected to a most
unexpected strain, but Il was equal to the emer-
gencv. and when the last tired operator had
stumbled sleepily off to bed there had been for
varied TO the various newspapers of the
country special dispatches aggregating 245 900
words. 70 say nothing OF the immense number
OF private kilograms on that and other subjects
That was 4 large days work for one Office but
it was a nothing when compared Wi tn the Ia
Dor that wearIed every operator in town on
that mIsCrably wet and thoroughly disagree
able dav when Presto nj Harrison was iuaugu-
rated. The total number of words OF news
matter on that occasion was GA. yS2.
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York Press wire with code system.
1t has been very difficult to make anything
like thoroughly fair selection of representa-
tive operators. great many A men have
necessarily been omitted. not perhaps TO their
entire disadvantage. Among those who might
have been mentioned at greater length are Fred
Royce, Del Marean, George l.. Dlvin, W. Fl.
Mayer, Joseph q. BIckers. J. II. Collins, W. T..
Bingham (who works the heaviest wire in the
CapItol-that OF tine Associated Press), Louis
klotz, A. q. johnson, John A. Ryan, A. J. Lom-
bard and Ii. II. Fry.
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telegraphv. At the death of Gen John A. To-
the Inter Ocean and sent it in less than four
hours. Recently he sent over two thousand
words in twenty-five minutes. using the code
system, and it was received in Chicago by Mr.
Charles HAYS. Mr.. McKeldn has always been
selected as one of any detail which was sent
out to do especially rapid work He was one
of the seven expert operators at the jail when
Guiteau was hung. and he also went to Long
Branch when President Garfield Was removed
thither.
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more and Ohio with the Western Mon in 1887
hs went TO Decatur. H., with the Wabash Rail-
road COMPANY: He was afterwsrd with the
Missouri Pacific railroad in 81. Louis. the
western Union in Chicago. the Postal Tele-
graph and Cable Company in New York and
came to Washington in Septe mber 1888 for
the western Union He is q very fast and legi-
bic sender and was assigned tn one of the Asso-
ciated Press circuits. where lie sends from ten
to fourteen thousand words Of newspaper mat
ter nightly.
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Philip F. Brown was
born in Baltimore in
1857 and began tele-
graP hing on the PLila-
delPhia. Wilmington
ana Baltimore railroad
in Baltimore in 1874.
In ISs2 he went 70 Cam
Gen station in the sery-
Ice OF the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Com
pany and in the fail of
that year was trans
ferred to the baltimore
and Ohio (CommercIal }
Telegraph Company 5
once. Upon the con-
solidatiOn Of the Balti-
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wM. r. A. HASsOy.

wM. r. A.
VIM. F. A. Hasson,
born in Cecil county,
Nd. entered the tele-
graphic service in Bal
timore with the Amer
lean District Telegraph
Company in 1876. After
a varied and valuable
experience in Balti-
more and Pittsburg he
came to this city in Oc-
tober, 1899. and obtain
ing a position with the
Western Union was at
once assigned to one of
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was the first operator on the rolls of that
company; lie was soon appointed night man
ager, and after the amalgamation with the
Western Union became night manager Of the
Baltimore ard Ohio Telegraph Company under
Col Harry Clarke. and continued as such until
they were bought out by the Western Union
After the abs orption of the Baltimore and Ohio
Telegraph Company Mr.. Kelser was appointed
official operator at the House Of Represents
tves. which position he now holds He is also
private operator for Gen. Boynton chief of the
Washington bureau Of the Cincinnati CONNER
shorthand telegraphy" or 'code."
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IERBERT S. wRIGH

Another OF the United
Press 'swifts" is Her
bert S. Wright, who
alternates with Mr.. Aus
tin on the Capitol wire.
Mr.. Wright Is a Wash
ingtonian. who COM
menced the dot and
dash business in 1869
with the Baltimore and
Ohio Telegraph Com
pany. Mr.. Wright is
beyond question "a rapid
telegrapher, but his ex-
tremely sensitive nerv-
Gus organization upset
when he tried his luck
at the national fast
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NORELL NABEAN.

One Of the most thor
ough operators and a
race horse as to speed is
Ar. Aorell Marean,
manager Of the Western
Union Office in this city
IN d a practical all
round electrician. bIr.
Marean took his first
lessons in telegraphy at
NontrOse Sta ton. Pa.
on the line OF the Della
ware. Lackawanna and
Western railroad. In
1861 he came TO this city
and worked a kew for
the American Company.
being successfully night
chief operator dav