Middletown transcript., 1891-05-28
DELAWARE CITY.
HAPPENINGS OF WEEK IN A THRIv-
ING TOWN., PERSONAL
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

town on Wednesday.
Miss Ida Broadway Of Atlantic City
is visiting here this week.
Mr. M w. Hibshman spent Tuesda.
and Wednesday in Philadelphia.
= Mr. VIM. A. Davidson is the PROUD
father of brand new daughter.
- Mr.. Samuel Reeves and wife Of Phoe
nixviIle, Pa, are visiting here this week
= Mr.. William Hibshman, who ha'
been i'll at his home in Myerstown, Pa.
for several months is not improving.
= Miss Tillie Murch of Wilmington.
spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. E.
Milne, at the Robinson House.
= The tug G. G. Ash left here on Mon
day evening with tow of pilings for New
York City, by way of the Raritan canal.
= Miss Belle Starr of Philadelphia. who
has been visiting here for several days, re-
turned home on Tuesday.
- The annual May procession of the
children of st. Paul's Catholic Sunday
school will take place on Sunday evening.
Mr.. Frank Hancock has resigned his
position as clerk of the Robinson House,
and Mr.. Frederick Tregend has succeeded
him.
Mr.. Scott and family of Wilmington,
have returned to their summer residence,
Lexington, near Delaware City, for the
season.
- Mr.. P. Cunning has had new porch
erected in front of his building on Clinton
street above Front, occupied by Mrs.
Colwell.
- Miss Annie Boulden of Chesapeake
City, who has been spending few weeks
with Miss Lizzie Davidson, returned home
on Wednesday.
Mr.. George Hayes who left here few
weeks ago to work in the ship yard at
Milford, Del, met with severe accident
while AIDING log there. He is now able
to move around on crutches, and is simproy-
ing slowly.
= The steam yacht Sapphire of New
York City, which has been South with her
owner and party of friends on board,
passed through here on her return trip on
Wednesday She is one of the handsomest
steam yachts that sails out of New York.
= The hedge fence which has for many
years stood in front of the yard of Christ
Episcopal Church, has been removed and
replaced by neat curbing of artificial
stone or cement.
- Mulligan's Hall at the corner of Front
and Clinton streets has been entirely re-
novated, newly papered, and put in first
class condition for public entertainments.
The hall is sp1endily located in the centre
Of the business part of the town, and its
use as public hall will be great convent
ence to our people.
= The handsome residence of Mrs. A.
B. Maxwell is offered for sale. 1t is an
elegant cottage with beautiful grounds,
pleasantly shaded, and commands a
superb view of the Delaware river. 1t can
be purchased at reasonable fgnre and
would make an elegant place for any
person desiring summer residence.
= The first strawberries of the season
we're picked here on Monday by postmaster
VIM. A. Price, whose extensive strawberry
beds cover a number of acres, and who
supplies Wilmington with the choicest
'ruit of this kind that goes into her
markets. He also has the model truck
farm of this vicinity.
- A large delegation of rod and reel
fisherman from Germantown were here on
Wednesday, where they spent the day
fishing along the canal. They made large
,atches, and left well pleased with the
rip. The Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal at this point is a favorite resort for
large fishing parties COM
ng from there every few days during the
ummer season.
Our shad season is drawing to close.
The season has been fair one, but is not
to be compared with last season which was
good. Nearly all our fish
ermen are now engaged in fishing for stur-
,eon, which have been very plentiful this
ar, although several good catches have
been made this week, the most of them
being COW sturgeon, which brought seven
1ollars a piece. Good catches of herring
4re still being made, for which the fisher
men find ready sale.
The favorite excursion steamer
Thomas Clyde will make her first excur-
ion of the season on Thursday, June 4th,
when she will take the Brandywine Sun
lay school to Woodland Beach. She is
thoroughly rem ovated and has every con-
'enience for the comfort and pleasure of
Ter patrons, and her officers are uniformly
ourteous, competent, and careful. Wood
and Beach has had many improvements
dded, among them toboggan slide or
and will be more popular than
ver this year. The Thomas Clyde has
more excursions booked than ever before
his early in the season.
Mr.. J. E. Simpson of the well-known
irm of J. E. Simpson & Co., who have
lready built some of the largest dry docks
n this country, has about decided to build
large dry dock at Delaware City, and
Ir. Simpson will be here this week with
lis surveyors to lay out the ground. The
ite of the proposed dock is on his farm
which borders on the Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal and Delaware river. The
lock will be large enough for vessels of two
thousand tons capacity, and the building
f it will cause the expenditure of from
wo hundred thousand to two hundred and
Ifty Thousand dollars, which will give
reat boom to our city. The dock will be
'uilt under the supervision of Mr.. George
ihuster of this city, who has superintended
he erection of number of these docks,
mong which were the immense dry dock
t st. John, New Brunswick and that at
brooklyn.