Evening journal., 1891-08-03
ALONG THE RIVER.
WORK { ON THE BIG JETTY lat
FtNN'S POINT AGAIN RETARDED.

Receiver Dicksy Pays His First Visit
Special Correspondence EVENING Journal.
NEW CASTLE, Aug 3.-Managar Mad |
den, Of the base ball club, has arranged a |
splendid schedule Of games for this |
month, and every game will positively |
be played If the receipts on next SRtur- |
day are large enough. For weeks past |
this has been the only thing that has |
prevented him from having some of the |
best clubs In this part Of the country to |
come here and play the home club, |
namely, thu insufficient amount Of gate |
cash. BE has decided to give the people |
fine exhibition Of ball play ing on Satur
day and II they appreciate the efforts In |
this direction, and enough money Is
taken 10 10 coser all the heavy expenses
the national game will be revived in
New Castle and the best exhibitions ever
seen here will follow. The manager does
not expect the fair visitors, or those OF
the gentle sex, at the park to contribute
In any way towards the expenses, and
any man, be he big or little, who attem OF )
to toss In few pennies will also be
passed by.
The club that will visit here on Sat.
urday Is the Brownson Library Assocl-
aiion's team Of Wilmington, with Day
and McCafferty as it's battery and host
OF other star players, who do not TOSS the
sphere for the fun OF It aud to please
other people. Then, II the receipts equal
expectations, the strong Elkton, Md.
team will come here on Monday with a
heavy Eastern Shore player in each uni.
form, and Pitcher Hawke In the box. On
the following Saturday the Kurtz Club,
the well known Chester vlctors, win play
here. The Salem, N. j., team, which Is
new, but quick and alert, will appear on
Battery Park In bright uniforms On
the Saturday after that the champion
Warren Club Of Wilmington will visit
this city for the first time and try to add
another to its long list Of victories.
Other clubs which will be brought here
are Delaware City, Delaware Field and
Port Deposit, Md.
Over 200 feet OF the new Fiun's Point
jetty will have TO be torn up and re
built The lines given to Contractor
Mclean by the United States govern
ment engineers were found TO be mac
curate, and the Engineer Corps have
employed Contractor Mclean by the day
to tear away the 200 feet Of piling and
rebuild that part OF the jetty This
work begsn on Saturday, when nineteen
| piling were drawn out. IL Is estimated
that forty piling only can be drawn out
| per day, and this will hold the work of
completion for more than month Con-
tractor Hathaway, meantime. is pushing
his work, and both supervisors expect to
have the jetty in readiness to be turned
| over TO the Engineer CorDs by October
Contractor Alvin r Morrison men are
still doing Contractor McLesn's work, aa
| d IL,
pulled under by the strong current. is
still in the bottom OF the Delaware. The
divers who have been employed there
report that they can not find her boiler
which, with the other machinery was
torn from her by the rushing waters
County Tax Receiver John T. Dicxey
made his frst official visit to the rural
hundreds Of the county ON Saturday
when he came TO this city, sat In tbs
mayors office, and received the taxes o
New Castle hundred taxables. Their
WAS big rush for tue office, aud nearl,
$1,000 was taken in.
The body Of Deck Hand Grose. Of "a
steamer Major Reybold, WAS found o
/ Friday evening and taken TO bis lat
home Ia Philadelphia from which inter
ment was made yesterday.
All the services at Mt, Salem NJ, E
Church, which was reopened after beipl
beautifed, yesterday, we're well attended
The church is now one OF the most at
trsctive in the state.
Captain Israel Riding. who has super
! intended the execution Of a scor,
Of criminals in Delaware, will g,
to Dover on Thursday to erect the gal
lows and assist Sheriff Cole In the execu
; tion OF James Thoroughbred.
It is fashionable now for the beau,
and bellies of New Castle to take Ions
strOlls on the shell road three miles from
town at midday, in the fresh and ho
: ozone from the meadows. to cool off
The Delaware Iron Works and tn,
Riverside Rolling Mills resumed opera
tIons this morning, after a suspension o.
two weeks.
The New Castle, Jr., and Delawar,
Boys played fine game Of base ball a
Z Battery Park on Saturday. For eieh
innings the score stood TO 4, but tn,
Delaware Boys scored the winning run IL
the ninth. Ward and Taylor, aud Var
tine and Hunter we're the batteries
Alexander and David Bowers OF Phila
delphis, spent yesterday as the guests o.
I Mr.. and Mrs John Naylor
I Andrew C. Gray, the eide son Of th,
Senator, who is being educated at Prince
ton, is visiting his old home and asso
ciates here
Mrs. Even b. Jemlson, formerly oI
this city, hut now OF Washington, b c.,
In on an extended visit to her father
5 Farmer William White on the Stat,
road,
Mrs Harold Sudell, wife Of the chief
clerk Of the Delaware Iron Works, IL
I sojourning at Chsmbersburg, Pa.
Miss Clara Grimes has gone to Red
Lion for an extended visit TO friends anc
. relatives.
William Hunter OF Chester has re-
returned to his home after a short visit
to Harry Hunter.
Miss Laura Todd of Wilmington is
spending few days here as the guest OF
the Misses Hamilton.
Miss Name Staeger and Miss Emms
Fry OF Schuylkill Haven are the guests
OF the Misses Kuntz,
Rev. P. b. Lightner has returned from
Sea Git. N j.. and occupied his pulpit IN
Emmanuel Church yesterday.
Mrs. Charles l. Lancaster Is seriously
i'll at her home on Delaware street.
Loomis o. Wise has gone TO Middle
town, where he will spend his vacation.
Miss Bessie Herbert has gone to Ocear
Grove, where she will be guest at the
Aldine House.
Edward Il. Duncan OF IPhiladelphii
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