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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-08
EXPLOSION or GAS.
Terrific Shocked Workman Killed.
Heavy Loss.

MERBRooKE, QUE, Jan There was a
serious explosion at the gas works here
late last night. The force Of the explosion
tore ont one side of the building and the
structure took fire. Charles Dinsmore, an
employe, was found half an hour after the
explosion under heavy iron door which
from his injuries five minutes after being
found. Another cmploye was severely
hurt and small hopes are entertained
for his recovery. The fire was soon extin-
guished. 1t was impossible to ascertain
the full extent of the damage or estimate
the loss last night as all was in darkness.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-08

R. L. Russell has sold the dry goods
store No. 306 Market street, to John 7.
De Haven of Conshohocken. William
H. De Haven of Philadelphia, a brother
Of the purchaser, will be manager. Mr..
Russell removed yesterday week to Hart
ford, Conn.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-08

been repaired by the company during the
past year. The three-masted schooners
L. q Endicott and Thomas G. Smith are
now at the yard for repairs. The last
named is on the railway.
ENocH MOORE.
Enoch Moore makes specially of repair
ing wooden vessels, but he built during
1890, the steamer Bridgeton, 1874 tons, for
the Captains Denny, and the steam barge
Harry, 143 tons, for r. W. Lutte of Hams
port, N. j.
He has under construction steam barge
Of about i75 tons, for Captain Dennis Sim
mons of Williamson, N. O., for which
baltimore parties will build the ma
ehinery.
Vessels were repaired as follows: U. s.
revenue cutter Hamilton; steamboats,, City
of Chester, Brandywine and Wilmington
steamboat Christiana, heightened 20 feet
light ship No. A; schooners %; steam
barges, ii; dredging machines, 2; tug boats,
s.; steam yachts, .; sail yachts, q scows, 8.
The Christina is on the railway at present
The schooner John w Hall, 3i6 tons, was
built for Ex-Governor Hail. by Nathaniel
Lank of Frederick; n schooner was recently
launched at Abhott's shipyard at Milford.
Numerous other smaller vessels We're built
at the shipyards through the state.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-08

For the year 1880 100 building lines were
marked for the erection of buildings valued
at about s500,0oO. In January there were
April 81; May, 50; June, 81; July. 3s;
August, 50; September, A; October, 10;
November III December, 4; total, 400.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-08

Judson McHenry, purser of the steamer
City Of Chester, and Miss Mamie Joy of
the bride yesterday week Irhey willpometo
this city on Saturday and will reside with
Captain and Mrs. Peter Bloomsburg.
Monroe Clark, negro was hanged at
Palatka, Fla, last week, for murder oom-
mitted five years ago.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-08
, deaths by months were as follows !:
BUILDING LIVES FoR 1890.
Report of the Engineering and Survey
ing Department.

The following building lines drawn dur
ing December are reported by Chief Engi-
neer lioughman of the Engineering and
Surveying Department. Prudence O. Ed
wards, addition to dwelling, on west side
of Poplar street between Twelfth and
Thirteenth. A. 5. Reed 4 Brother, refriger-
Third streets, Robert Anderson, stable, at
the northeast corner Jackson street and
Shallcross avenue. Paul Bright, stable on
the north side of Girard street between
Orange and Tatnall.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-08

A temperature of 6oO below zero was re-
ported at Fort Fsirchild, Maine, yesterday
week, tbeating the record" for5 that
place At Bangor $50 below zero was re-
ported.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-08

During the past year the arrests made
by the police, the fines and costs collected,
the patrol calls answered and the number
of dodgers accommodated were as follows:
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-02

the fat old gentleman who cannot swim.
| The way in which he splashes like a water
logged balloon amid the breakers, jumping
up and dow while he rubs his bald head
or pats his protruberant stomach is a farce
comedy of itself. but when he persists III
making a ring with two or three children
and Il couple of forlorn old maids and
dancing round and round in the surf it would
compensate any feminine spectators for all
the criticism lavished on girl bathers.
Judging from personal observation, /
should say that swimming is less rare as an
accomplishment among English and French
women than among Americas daughters.
And yet the undertow. or as it is called in
eome parts on our coasts 'the sea-puss," is
as strong in the Dover channel as in the
open Atlantic. Every child should learn
to swim. It may mean life not only to the
child, but later on to others, as no fearless
swimmer ever hesitated to plunge in when
a fellow creature is drowning.
10 those going to Europe it may be use
full to know what are the most character
istic bathing resorts. In England. Scar
borough, on the coast of Yorkshire, is far
its more modest %neiehbor. Filey, is much
more beautiful, the rocks and cliffs being
more than picturesque. In the south, East
bourne has the most attractions, Brighton
being a winter resort for Londoners. Mar
gate and Bamsgate are more like Coney
Island. B~onrnemouth and the isle Of
Wight are most fashionable and admirable
for bathing and yachting, but very expen-
sive. In France, Trouville is still queen of
watering places. Boulogne has too many
English visitors, but the bathing sands are
superb. Ostend has great attractions for
the German and Belgian visitors. Dieppe
has annually whole troops Of French and
English. and may be we'll recommended as
a typical watering place.
DAVID WECHsLER.
Co%pyright,
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divided into two or three compartments for
ladies and children. At Irouville. lltretat
and Biarritz, at Ostende and Blankenberg,
all fashionable resorts either for French or
Belgians, the cabins as at Long Branch or
Narragansett are in use.
Fashion first began to trouble her head
about the modes for bathing when the beau
tiful Eugene, empress of the French, made
Biarritz the only place for lovely women.
She wanted sea air at that period. There
the fair Spanish-Milesian first instituted
the costume de boire, which has since be-
come 30 necessary an adjunct to the trous-
seau of every fashionable beauty.
At that time the English women wore for
sea baths a dark blue flannel garment which
tied around the neck with a string and COM
ing down to her ankles, made her look like
q shapeless bag; added to which she con-
cealed her hair in a yellow oilskin cap.
Very proper, no doubt-except when some
libertine wave insisted in pulling it over her
head-but t~asteless and encumbering to a
degree.
But at Biarritz the Frenchwoman intro
duced the artistic boomers. Some of the
beauties of tbs imperial court followed suit
to the empress innovation with elaborate
tanoies; and frills and ribbons coon gracel
the robes that Madane de Mouchy and the
Countess de Pourtales wore when bathing,
while every woman wore sandals on her
bare feet and carried a long Louis Seize
bathing stick as she pavaded the beach be-
tween France and Spain.
On the French coast the sandal is a ne
cessity in some form, on account of the
prevalence of an annoying fish (Trachinus
Draco) known III England as the weaver.
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among the groups on the sands, whore the
babies are making castles and moated
oranges with their spades, as some abnor-
mally thin old maid helplessly ambles past
into the ripping water, or some overgrown
matron shakes the shore in her lauaable
attempts to conceal her nvoirduEois among
the breakers. In England this ordeal is
not one of the miseries of life. The English
have no bath houses such as we have in
America. All bathing in the sea is done
from what are called bathing machines.
These are simply cabins on wheels drawn
out to the axles, higher or lower. as the Gus
TONER may demand, with steps at either end
to enter or descend into the waves. On
many shores these machines have awnings
like the head of q baesinet or the hood of a
parambulator, efectually concealing the
fair occupant till she emerges beyond its
protecting tiounce into the open sea: and
though the lounger ION the beach is de-
prlved the pleasure of witnessing the
plunges OF the siren and the froilcs of the
nymph, the unwieldy matron and the ossi-
fled old maid are saved tho chagrin o. an
offensive notice which often yerees on con-
tcmpt.
In some places, as at Brighton, where the
beach ls preclpitous or shelving the ma
chimes are let down by cables from Il wind
lass, hut usually horses are used. and when
4 stranger finds himself for the first time
LETT in his wooden cabin in rnginc sea
while his hull and the drivers depart to
haul another machine his dismay may be
better imagined than described.
In England the bathing woman Is an in
stltution. Though living all the summer in
tie sea, she looks more like = porpoiss than
q me maid; but she is most useful in 1;viro
confidence to beginners and even in teache
ing ladies' how to swim. She is replaced in
france by the baigneur, who takes ladies'
in his arms into the deeper waters and il
much patronlzea when a strong bearer and
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-02

This nance comes from the French Vive,
given it by the coast fishermen in r%ecogni-
ton of its power of living out of water for
some time after capture.
Ammonia is always kept by the pYoprie-
tors of the bathing establishments j case
Of accidents caused by this particularly OBJ
jectionable fish. He is not large, but the
prickles of bis Gill covers and dorsal fin
sting almost like a hornet. and I have seen
a foot and a hand swollen to double their
stoned. In France it is compulsory by law
for fishermen to cut off the stings of these
fishes when caught.
The bathing sandal is much thought Of
by its wearers In France. Not so MANY
years ago, Paris was plaoarded with the col
ored advertisements of a sea-sandal christ
ened Amanda, by its manufacturers. Nal
les pas aux Bains de Mer Sans Amanda
(don't go to the seaside without Amanda),
stared the Partisan and his guests in the
face from every wall.
Az much care and taste are displayed in
these sea shore sandals as Helen of TROY or
Phryne of Athens could have used in past
ages. On the French shore there is doubt
less some variety of color and form in the
dress seen in the waves. Every Partisan
dressmaker wishes to stamp even a BATHING
dress with his or her individual taste: but
1t IS not by any means good form, or bon
ton to show too much of the figure as carl
caturlsts would lead people to suppose, md
indeed anything like immortality is left to
those few individuals of bad taste and
worse morals. who will always find a way to
make themselves conspicuous in public,
In every country and on every shore there
are t%houghtless dudes with no idea beyend
their own selfish vanity who encourage
girls to make idiots of themselves, in no
country perhaps more SO than in France.
1t a bathing costume is wanted more ex-
aggerated and extravagant than another's
it will be found either on the Trouyille
shore in France or on the variety stage in
america; but rarely, if ever. on our east
ern coasts, from Atlantic City to Nara
gansett Pier. In most French watering
places part OF the bathing area is roped for
men alone; only those with ladies and fam
lilies being allowed to battle together. Ropes
are dsed as with US; but there are always
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-02
in a ball room or on Broadway. For one of
those reasons only known to the lawmakers

in a ball room or on Broadway. For one of
those reasons only known to the lawmakers
of society a lady may show a great deal
more than her shoulders in a bali room; but
were she to exhibit ten inches above her
ankle Ga modicum of leg which the ripples
with what they often wash she would be
regarded as a brazen thing, unfit for
Newport Casino or Delmonico's Patri-
archs. But let the bathing season COM
mence and how few pretty women appear
on the ocean whose figures can not
be OWNED beneath their dark bathing
suits, while many are the wonderful out
lines of Fictitious beauty which fade into
terrible reality when their frauds are given
away by the heaEtless sea, and of course one
of the most fruitful joking grounds for the
summer journalist is the watering place
not merely for the firtatioEs on tho piazza
around the hotel or boarding house, nor for
the chase after man wten the week days
take the fathers and husbands away to New
York; but more especially for the never
ceasing attacks or girl bathers and
their vanities; their diminishing suits and
their out-of-sight modesty. After studying
marine life among the bathers of most sea-
shores l cannot say that women in America
display more than the natural amour propre
every woman ought to possess, as evinced
by a desire to look her best, and as little
ridiculous as possible in trotting across the
sands from her bath house to the water.
The most trying moment for a bather is
the entrance on the scene; the promenade
down the beach when the eyes of those in
the water and those %lounging around will
detect any flaw or deformlty, any incon-
gruous appearance or unfortunate ten
denov which nature or want of taste may
Accumulate.
The woman who knows she is we'll made,
can walk with the demarche of a goddess
and is certain there is nothing in her COS
tune which calls for criticism or cavil, may
set out from her boarded boudoir where sho
has left the fig leaves of fashion, and calmly
traverse the strip of sand separating her
dressing room from the sea, conscious that
makeup will enhance her attractions or
prevent her beauty making it's mark, while
the cruel smile goes round from lip to lip
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-02
EAH bathing women and French baig-
lNX neurs. Remember, my love. we

NT1 bRtulnR women ana frenCn DalE-
INx neurs. Remember, my love. we
are going to Trouville this !Asar.
You must have your bathing dresses made
in Paris,'' were the words said by an Amer
loan mamma to her daughter who made
such a sensation last year at Bar Harbor by
wearing white flannel suits which were
everything that was respectable until
dipped in the water. After that their color
changed to pink, SO indiscreet was the
ocean swell and SO Transparent its treat
ment. What her mamma hoped the Paris
ian dressmakers would be able to turn out
for her daughter which would prove more
attractive to the casual loungers on the
French coast il .s difficult to s%urs-ise, but it
must not be supposed that at foreign water
ing places costumes used by ladies at the
court of Neptune and Amphitrite are more
becoming than those in use in America.
1t is conceded in all polite society that at
a certain time of the year when the 10y
waters of the Atlantic begin to modify their
temperature and the waves court the swim
mers or merely the wading bathers who
seek for ozone and the invisorating tonic
of a plunge, that men and women may cast
aside much of the conventional covering
propriety demands and appear together on
the sea beach in costumes which would not
only be comical but utterly reprehensible
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-02
NOTICE Or APPLICATION TO CUT TIMBER

NOTICE Or APPLICATION TO CUT TIMBER
~ In accordance with the proviaions of section
3, rules and regulations urescribed by the honora-
pie secretary OF the Interior, Mayo 1891, !, tbs M.
dSslRned, here by give notice that at the ext ration
OF TWEEN y-one days from the first publil alton Of
thus notice, ! will mike written application to
tho honorable secretary 1t the interior for au-
Gaw-logs. pine, FIR and ta,narack tim Der on the
following described pubic la d, to wit:
BENG a certain piece OF unsnrveyel land lying
running north from said sections about one and
one-iialf mile to haso Of monntains, containi.g
5000 COO feet of pine, fr and tamarnck timber.
said land is rocky benches and not adapted to
agriculture. and located in MissoulA county in
tia state Ct Montana. At
MONTANA LUMBER AND MFG. co,
WILLIAM THOMPSON, Manager.
First publication June 10. 1881.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-02

Special Treatment for and Wonderful Cures
made OF all
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-02
MODES AND MODDS1Y IN BATHING.
WITH SOME TYPES OF BATHERs.


a good swimmer. Such a haigneur ia the\
hero of u French play by Meilhac. in which
public. q
'fh English bathing machine has been
adopted at many of the French watering
places, more especially those contiguous to
England. Calais, Boulosne and Dieppi are
all fond Of bathing machines, and the
French ave introduced family cAbina
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-02

one or more hoatmen rowing up aud down
continually during bathing hours to guard
against accidents. and there is one accom-
mediation universal which might be we'll
introduced into America. If Il bather 10
tempted to stay III the water too long it ia
not necessary to wait till he turns bIne IN
discover 1t. His feet will grow cold, Now
TO avoid Ill effects, on fe-ontering the cabin
or machine the balquense or old woman in
a blue bloomer and rough straw bonnet will
btlng a foot bath of hot water into which
the iess are plunged while dressing. The
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-02

benefit ia incal oulahle and the institution
consumption.
Men hathers are Just ne open to criticism
al tho opposite sex only as they are not
40 attractive they are often spared obsarva-
tion. But of all comical shows on the
watering place beach nothing comes up to
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-02
CHRONIC, PRIVATE And WASTING
NOTICE TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF
~ the Three Mile Mining and Milling CON

pany.
You are hereby, notified that a meeting of the
stockholders of the Three Mile Mining and Mill
ing company will be held nj the office of ~ Walsh
d >ew1nan in rooms Gil and PIP in tie Power
block in the city Of Helena, county Of Lewis and
Clarke, and stateo Montana. on the 9Th day of
August, 1881. at 10 O'Clock q. NJ. of said day. The
object and purpose of said meeting 10 to sail or
otl.erwise dispose of the entire property of sud
Iines Mile Mining and Milling company. con.
s,stlng OF the Helena Copper Quartz Lode and
the Three Mile Lode, ana other property of lie
company eitnatsd in Three Mile Mining district
IN Lewis and Clarke county. Montana, aud to
disincorporate said corporation.
Given under our hands this 18th day of June,
1891. W. RI,
JOHN Ii. MbtRILL,
&, w. KNIGHT.
Trustees.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-18
A FANCY DRESS BALL.
a Delightful Social Event at Montgomery
Springs.

Delightful Social Event at Montgomery
Springs.
MONTGOMERY SPRINGS, Aug. 17-[Spe-
cial l-One of the events of the season at
this pleasant resort was fancy dress
ball given here last Friday night. Forty
couples participated in the dance, and
many Of the costumes were strikingly
unique. Among the characters repre-
sented were the following:
Folly, Miss Bessie Roberts; Night,
Miss Lucy Clifton Briggs; Air Fairy,
Miss Virgie Rogers, Water Nymph.
Miss Virginia Jones; 30 Peep, Miss
Annie Childress; Spanish Girl, Miss
blanche Feterman; Peanut Miss Maud
Fiskman; 30 Peep, Miss Linda Rogers;
Poppy Fair, Miss Katie Storrs Marguer
cite. Mrs. Lunam; Gypsy, Miss Ager;
Roberts; Baby Mckee, Master Watson
Roberts; Tom Thumb, Master Cabell
Childress; Turk, Theo. Rogers
Among the moro maturcd in years
were the following characters, all of
which were splendidly portrayed Gre
clan girl, Miss Jennie Taylor; Grccian
girl, Miss lilly Aaron, Grecian girl,
Miss jennie Taylor; Grecian girl, Miss
Clara Dams; Grecian Girl, Celest Jones;
japanese, Miss Addie Rogers; Priscilla,
Miss Wiley, Tam BOURNE Girl; Miss Susie
Payne; Blackeyed Susan, Miss Mary
Hunt; White Daisy, Miss Moneta
Rivers: Yellow Daisy, Miss Helen
Coyle: Turk; Mr.. Willie Jones; Cour-
tier, d. Perry; Muse, Mr.. Willie Hunt,
Old Maid, Mr.. Ed Fagg; Head Waiter,
Mr.. 7. z. Spencer: Baker, Mr.. Ruth.
Jockey, Mr. Robert Fagg; Cow Boy, Mr..
Hope Hull.
AT IL o'clock the german was com
menced, which was handsomely led by
Mr.. r. Lawrence Clark, Of Roanoke,
with Miss Jennie Taylor, of Lynchburg.
Those present from Roanoke were
Messrs. Payne, Robinson, Cooper, Clark,
PAYNE and 4. II. Dickinson.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-18
VANNORT FOR GOVERNOR.
Maryland Republicans Looking After n
Man Who Can Secure Alliance Votes.

Maryland Republicans Looking After q
Man Who Can Secure Alliance Votes.
BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. 17-lSpt-
cial There is moro in the talk of run.
ming Capt. William J. Vannort as tie
Republican candidate for governor than
would appear on the surface. The Re-
publicans arc making strong bid for
the Farmers Alliance vote, and they
propose TO have a candidate for COVER
nor who will secure to them the support
of the Alliance as body.
Vannort is one of the chief organizers
on the Eastern Shore and very popular
with the farmers, being one of tho most
extensive agriculturists in Kent county,
and president of the Kent County Farm
ers' League. He has, besides, a very
good war record and is supported by Ill
the old soldiers. The Republicans OK
pect that by placing him in the field
they will moro than countcract the in.
tiuence just now cxcrtcd by Farmc r
Frank Brown. The Republican conven-
ton will meet on the 27th instant at
Ocean CITY
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-18
FATHER AND son LYNCnED.
Hanged to the Same Tree by II Mob of
Gcorginns for u Small Cause.

Hanged to the Same Tree by II Mob of
Gcorginns for u Small Cause.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug IA spe.
cial from Cullman says few days ago
Monroe Evans and his son John were
arrested at Baileyton, in that county,
charged with shooting Pierce Mooney
last May. On Saturday they we're taken
before q local justice Of the peace, who
declined to try them, but bound them
over without bail.
They were put under guard at a
neighbors house over night. About
midnight they were taken from the
house and hanged to tree. The
guards say large crowd came up and
supposing them to be Evsn's friends
come to rescue the prisoners, they fed.
Mooney has about recovered from his
wounds OF last May, and good citizens
are indignant at lynching that seems
TO have been without palliation.
THETIMES desires special corresr ond
eats In every town in Southwest Virginia
ana the Shenandoah Valley,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-18
MILLIONAIRE ROYCE DEAD.
He Was Prominent In the Coal Trade at
Baltimore-A Queer Marriage.

He Was Prominent In the Coal Trade at
Baltimore-A Queer Marriage.
BALTIMORE, Aug. IT. - Special =
James Boyce, millionaire coal oper-
ator, died this afternoon at his residence
near this city in the siXty-ninth year of
his age. Mr.. Boycc was native Of
New York and began life as a grocer's
clerk.
After years service he took posi-
ton in q New York coal office, where he
mastered knowledge of the business.
Soon after he attained his majority he
came TO Baltimore and was elected
president of the Franklin Coal Com
pany, small concern at the time, but
which he succeeded in developing and
ibsequently became sole owner.
He bought land in the bituminous re-
gion and organized the Georges Creek
Coal Company, now one of the wealthiest
concerns in the country. He also specu-
lated in coal lands in Pennsylvania,
and during the war made fortune sup
plying the Government with anthracite
coal.
Later still he secured the contracts to
furnish the Atlantic lines, and had his
own feet of vessels. in which he trans
ported the coal. lie was married three
times. his third wife, whom he married
a year ago, being the divorced wife OF
the man who subsequently became bis
SOn-in-laW