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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02
suvDAr.scnoon STATISTICS.
Nearly twenty Thousand wilmington
ians Members Of the Principal AUXILIARY
IN the Church,

Na.,tv T,y.ntv Thousand Wilmington
tana Members OF the Principal Auxiliary
to the Church.
Charles II. Cantwell, who recently was
authorized to obtain for the eleventh cen
sns statistics of the Sunday-schools OF new
Castle county, has nearly compieteu lIle
work A representative OF TllEsGAnEIrh
was permitted on Tuesday TO eAan IN o Sue
statistics of the Sunday-schools OF TINS Guy
and from the figures he obtained the cal
culations which follow were made.
Wilmington's total Sunday-school mem
bership is 1928, or 324 per cent OF the
whole population. The white member
ship, including the Chinese, is l6,O23, or
1884, per cent of the white populations and
the colored membership is 2,315, or 20 per
cent of the colored population, IN sun
day-school membership the denominations
rank as follows; First, Methodist Epls-
copal; second, Presbyterian; third, Baptlst
fourth, Catholic; fifth, Protestant Epis-
copal; sixth, Reformed Episcopal; seventh,
Evangelical Lutheran eighth, African
Methodist Episcopal; ninth, African Union
Methodist Protestant; tenth, Methodist
Protestant; eleventh, Union, American
thirteenth, Second Advent; fourteenth,
Unitarian; fifteenth, New Jerusalem.
Fifteen denominations have Sunday
schools. There are 10 Sunday-schools,
divided as follows Methodist Episcopal,
%; Presbyterian, 10; Baptist, 49, CATHOLIC,
7; Protestant Episcopal, Z; Reformed Epls-
copal, .; Evangelical Lutheran, 2; African
Methodist Episcopal, 8; African Union
Methodist Protestant B. Methodist Protes-
tant, /; Union American Methodist Epis-
copal. 2; Friends, Second Advent Unitarian
and New Jerusalem, / each. Union sun
day-school has the largest membership.
Asbury ranks second and Ezion third.
Following is the membership Of each
school and the Sunday.school membership
of each denomination
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02
MILFORD.

special Correspondence Of Gazette and journal
MILFORD, March 26.-John W. Lynch, a
tenant on one Of Ex-Governor Halls farms,
near FELTON,, has curiosity in the form Of
hut one front leg and Is perfect in every
other respect. The animal is lively and
gets around seemingly without much diff
Guilty. 1t is now about two weeks old.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02

There are two or three tax bills before
the New York legislature which, like
the Fulton bill, propose in one way or
another to deduct mortgage debts from
the valuation of real estate; in comment
wherein the Ecening Post says that, un-
less the tax on the mortgage were made
lien on the land, sit would be possible
to release land from taxation altogether
by mortgaging it for its full value to
persons not residing in the state of New
York" There is no doubt that some
farms in Delaware, mortgaged up TO
their assessed value, would be released
from taxation altogether under the Full
ton bill-proyided itcould be enforced
but that measure does not contemplate
letting the mortgage held by non-resi-
dent escape. We do not recall the ma.
chinery by which such mortgages are to
be taxed but that it is there is sufficiently
indicated by the movement already be.
gun by outside capitalists to withdraw
investments from Delaware or to raise
the interest thereon to the full legal rate
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02

Mayor-elect Stuart of Philadelphia,
who will enter upon the duties of his
office next Monday, will not announce
his selections for directors Of public
safety and public works, but he states
positively that Directors stokley and
Wagner will not be retained. The
change may result in giving Philadel.
phia better gas and water and less police
Interference in politics.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02

The expenditure by the Fifty-tirst
Congress of over one thousand millions
of dollars seems almost incredible, but it
is none the less true. The people will
finally realize it when they are called ON
to pay the bills.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02

Every consideration of justice and
fairness, as well as due regard for the
public interest, demand the passage by
the Legislature of the bill providing for
pensioning the judiciary of the State. 1t
will simply be a just recognition of the
long and valuable services of a class Of
public servants whose labors have not
heretofore been adequately recompensed
by the laws of Delaware.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02

The Democrats of the Maine legisla-
ture, who have made sturdy fight for
ballot reform against the opposition of
ex-Speaker Reed and all the other
Republican leaders, Monday succeeded
and reform measure was finally
enacted. The passage of this bill, the
New York Times comments, is ga re-
markable triumph of an aroused public
sentiment over the power of politicians
who were supposed to control the ma
jority in the legislature and who were
desperately determined upon the defeat
of the measure. 1t was not opposed by
reason or argument, but by sheer
partisan resistance. The position of
leading Republicans like Reed and
Boutelle was virtual admission
that their party depended upon
bribery and coercion as means of
maintaining its ascendancy in Maine,
and not upon the convictions of the
people and the honest support of free
voters. 1t was practical confession of
all that has been charged against the
party for years past. Doubtless these
men understood what the effect of a
protection of the ballot from corruption
and intimidation would be, and they
made no concealment of their fear that
it would result in disaster to their party.
1t is encouraging to the Democrats that
triumph of public opinion throughout
the state should be admitted to be a
great victory for them. The Democrats
of the Delaware Legislature should
speedily follow the example of their
brethren in Maine, The failure of bal
lot reform would be very pleasing to the
Republicans of this State.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02

Abiding TO the proposition to repeal
the assessment law of 1873 and pass
well-regulated registration law, the
Mddtetoaon Transcript pertinently says:
"A new era has dawned upon the politics
of Delaware and the signs of the times
point to the necessity for an advance
along the lines of progress. We do not
mean to find fault with everything be-
longing to the past history of the party
nor do we wish to discredit the many
good deeds of the good men who have
held to the principles of Democracy be-
cause they knew them to be right, but
we do wish to be understood as advising
the elimination Of everything harmful
and the holding of everything good.
We believe that majority of the
people of Delaware are Democrats and
we also believe that dishonest methods
and dishonest men will be called upon
to take back seat. The time has
arrived when the good men of the
party must come to the front"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02

The proposition of Major Powell, Of
the United States geological survey, to
make a survey Of this State upon reason
able terms, is one that should be care
fully considered by the Legislature.
There are scores of ways in which such
a survey would prove of great value to
the public interests.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02

The highly protected operators Of the
Connellsville coke regions are now reap
ing the whirlwind from the wind they
sowed several years ago when they i'm
ported the cheap labor of Poland and
Hungary to take the places Of their
striking American workmen. 1t was
all very well, thought the operators at
the time their old workmen refused to
work for the meagre wages offered, to
import the Poles and Hungarians who
were willing TO accept the miserable pit
lance. But now that the cheap i'm
ported workmen have struck for a
slight advance in their pay, and are re-
sorting to lawlessness in order to pre-
vent the filling of their places by fur
Their importations, it is all wrong,
and they ask the protection of
the authorities. OF course, they
are legally entitled to this protec-
ton, and the men they imported to fill
the places of more worthy laborers have
no right to take the law in their own
hands, but the operators will receive
little sympathy from the general public.
They brought the whole trouble upon
themselves. And after all, now that
we are living under Tariff law that
was passed for the benefit of these very
operators, among others Of the highly
protected classes, and was to bestow so
many blessings upon the workingmen
of the country, why should they deny
the request Of even their imported
Polish and Hungarian pauper laborers
for slight advance in wagesI
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02

The Prison Labor bill prepared by
Judge Ball is now law, and in the
future the tramps and "bums" who are
so regularly sent from the municipal
court to New Castle Jail will have to
break stone for the benefit of the county
roads in payment of their fine and costs.
There are two direct and practical BEN
efits in prospect as the result of this
bill. In the first place, these worthless
vagabonds will have to render some
service to the county in return for the
expense Of their keep in Jail; and in the
second place, if the labor at the stone
pile does not agree with their delicate
constitutions, they will be compelled to
leave this neighborhood and afFlict some
other community with their presence.
The stone pile in the New Castle Jail
yard will not be pleasing sight to
these heretofore improbable gentry,
but if it impels them to reform or leave
the State the public will be so much the
better off. Judge Ball deserves the
thanks of the people for the excellent
measure of criminal reform he prepared
and presented to the Legislature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-17

survey Of the machines; we presented our
receipts and the rest of the force joined the
goat IN its Inspection; for you must know that
when one pays duty on bicycle in France with
the desire to reclaim the amount on leaving
the country full description of the machine Is
taken, Its name and number, weight and dimen-
sions and name of maker. all this being entered
of record at the place Of payment of duty, and a
copy being embodied in the receipt But they
could not pay us the money unless we were
going to enter Switzerland from the Haute
Savoie.
we came this morning. and thence to Cha
mounix instead Of following the road through
the adjoining department"
You will go to Chamounix by Bonneville?''
"Surer'
'You will not pass by this road?'
"Assuredly not. Only pay us our money"
So they paid us our twelve first deducting
the governments commission for the trouble
of keeping it for us, and heading our dusty
wheels for Bonneville We departed and in due
time were ensconced in the gable of Cha
mounix hotel IN the shadow of icy Mont Blanc.
AT cHAMoUNIx.
Chamounix is a naughty place. 1t has Its
casino with lively game of petit chevaux in
full blast and 'the boys of all nationalities ell
bow each other as they crowd about the board.
eagerly watching the circling Of the little horses
and hasten to ante for the next round Beside
the casino there is nothing in Chamounix. but
the hotels, the guides ard diligence offices,
shops chiefly devoted to knick knacks, includ-
ing alpenstocks, a cafe chantant and a variety
hall where imported talent afford entertain
ment Tor the apprecistive. In the season
the village is crowded with visitors, con-
stantly coming and going in carriages, the huge
buses carrying twenty persons or more, and
lastly but not least In importance, by bicycle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-17

listened patiently as with sad mixture Of French
and German we told him. in response to his in
quiries. where we had been and our plans for the
near future, at the conclusion of which he
again shook hands. drew himself together into
the position OF a soldier, saluted and was gone
The English bicyclist seldom takes any notice
OF the stranger wheelman. the Frencnman is a
little better, tips his cap and says bon jour, and
the Swiss bicycllst as we have seen, has even
more interest. Our soldier friend, by the way.
was probably some young business man for the
time being on the tour of military duty re-
CURED OF him. for Switzerland has no regular
standing army, strictly speaking. each person
by law made subject to military service, being
required to undergo a course of training in the
art Of war and the duty Of q soldier for a few
weeks at fixed intervals Z. E. 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-17
GRANT AND LOGAN.
Statues 10 Their Memory 20 re Er-csed ~
THIS city.

This city.
The committee OF the Grand Army Of The
Republic havirg in charge the matter Of having
marble statue made and placed In the Capitol
building, this city, met Thursday in PhilA-
delphia-
The committee BE- composed OF Gen. e. \
Burdea Of this city, Gen. Selden Conner Of
Maine. Gen. r. A. Alger Of Michigan. Col n.
b. BeatA Of Philadelphia. Col. T. = Graft Of
Ohio. Judge Neazey OF Vermont, horace 4
Mattoon Of Illinois and x-oHicer John Palmer.
the commapder-in-chiof. All the members were
present ut the meeting with the exception
OF Mr.. Clark and Gen. Alger. The latter. how
ever, came in On a late train. The funds for
the statue have been contributed by -rnnd
Army posts all over the country and are nov in
hand. by resolution adopted August IL. 1890
the statue Was accepted nv Congress aud au-
thority was granted TO place n IN the Capitol
building when II L. completed.
At the meeting yesterday the committee was
organized by the election of Gen. ;. \. Burdctt
ss chairman and Gen. Beath a. SECRETARY. Gen.
Burdett, when communicative inaugu-
rated the movement which has resulted in the
raising of this fund. The committee decided
that Gen. Grant should be represented By
the proposed statue in hs military
capacity. Ii will probably be a
year Hnd more before the statue
Will be completed. rs the committee h. anxious
TO have the work Ms nearly as possible perfect,
not only in design but in the execution ID
may be that the pedestal will he In place by the
time the grand encsmpment meets here neNt
year.
The committee. Of which Gen. Ager IL chair.
man, Will hold meeting shortly TO take some
steps 20 have the equestrian statue Of Gen.
Logan made. II is proposed to erect tins statue
In this city. and u is stated that fund'of co.
600 is already in hand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-17

tourist party OF American wheelmen, Mr.. Hig-
gins in charge. who had arrived before us
Crossing the boundary line between states at
home makes no percepuble difference in
surroundings; but when. for instance, you
pass from France into Switzerland. at Geneva,
though you are in French Switzerland, you
Ind notices in German as well as French, many
German names on the signs over stores and
many German-speaking people. German names
are uncommon in France and German-speak-
or tneir accomplishments very conspicuous
AGAIN INTO FRANCE.
A few hours and we passed into France again
and beheld once more the familiar gendar-
merle rationale station, with its sign of tin
painted with the national colors and so hung
~ to make . very good counterfeit flag. the
TIN being folded TO initiate the folds Of a flag
The department of Haute savoie. being eI-
empted from the impost laws of France there
b an absence of the usual French customs
house. and 1t became our duty to look tor
place where We might reclaim the sl2 duty.
which We had kindly loaned the French GOV
eminent on account q our wheels AZ St Nalo
IL V not always easy to find out what you want
to know the most, and il was not until we had
asked innumerable persons. Of both high and
low degree, oficial and otherwise, that we
sscextained that the reclamation OF our good
szoney meant at least an extra twenty i've miles
over the mountains TO a customs station at the
limits OF the department. The sun smiled as
he had never smiled before and we wept tears
Of perspirstion as we toiled up q stony short
cut to the main road, the dogs barked a. they
had not barked for days, the inhabitants
stopped. stared and grinned in q manner un-
parslleied; yet we faltered not; we were after
our twelve. welcome descent ere very long
presented itself. and rounding . bend We came
upon the little customs station, the object Of our
search.
Lors.oy RED rApR.
The clerical force consisted Of two men and q
essk We smiled and the clerical force smiled,
- - goss proceeded 70 make preliminary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-17
Transfer Of Real Estate.

Deeds in fee have been filed 40 foliowr:
A Greenless ct al TO Thomas Barnett, lot q.
blk. l, South Takoma; $4,000. Hector McNeal
TO Sarah Mcdonald, lots A and As, blk. "A, wss-
ley Heights; sl,0o0. Mathildi Peldhaus 20 +.
B. Bishop. pit 4. 50. 1888; e. ID. b. McCarry,
trustee, to l. c. Barley ct al, in trust. pt. sub
5, So 3I3; e. J. II. Lewis 20 b. +. Elsck. Iot
II. blk. !. Trinidad; ss,000. II. L Goodman 20
Elizabeth J. Fnllaioye, sub ~. 50. IS. George
town; $500 L. A. Fish to E. Tanner, Lot z,
Peters MAJ Seat; g s. Bensinger 70 T. W.
smith ct al. lots 20 to e. so. 75S.and 10. 20 and
p, So 7ss; e. J. +. Batchelder 20 W. Mayse,
sub ~, 50. zoos; $500. ii. z. Montgomery to
X J: D,ckey, sub "a, 50. Ssl; e. i. Hayes 10
W A. Young, sub les, 50. els; q. 500. A T.
Morse TO Helen n Janin ct al, pts II and H.
50. 2s5; e. II. Browning TO NJ l. Weller ct al
in trust, lots to 40 and "A and Is. 50. ass; e..
u. L Hall 10 J. M. Hall ct al, in trust subs A
and u, So 1856, lot lls, %. Ss7. sub h. %. 4s6,
and pit Il, 50. 264; e.. Pitt Cooke 10 ". I.
Jones, one-tenth int in sub lots 70 Is and 10
TO "a, go ll2 Cooke Park: e. Z. H. Hckling
70 .. A. Heenan ct Al, in trust, sub l62 - u,
Georgetown; g..
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THE VILLAGE FOUNTAIN.
to today" The manager, after a moments
thought, for there are many guests, and most
Of them have been absent sightseeing, tells
him "Oh, yes i never can remember these
COMPOUNDED Dutch names. That's where you
want to go tomorrow" and he gives directions
% minute that, to borrow a familiar quotation,
"any child might find the wav." This is the
American whose lavish expenditures create the
impression in the foreign mind that all Ameri-
cans are millionaires- Governing his expenses
solely by an American standard, he lives liter
ally on the fat of the land and chuckles to think
how cheaply he is getting it.
As you go southwark from Paris the plump.
round Norman horses gradually disappear ard
in their stead come donkeys. mules and Oxen
Instead of the great round loaves of Normandy
or the stats of life. the long. club-hke loaves
OF Paris, the bread appears in the form of u
cart wheel
OUR ALPINE CLIMBING
began with the Juras and mile after mile we
walked and pushed our machines up ascents,
between great wooded slopes crowned with the
rugged battlements Of castellated rocks. then
through narrow gorges where the cliffs frowned
down upon us from above and streams rushed
madly down their rocky channels beneath u.s.
Now the surroundings were striaingly similar
TO the hills of the Black Forest: then approach
ing In grandeur the grandest of more fire.
quented Alpine scenery. There was an alb
sence of that tedium that chGracteriZes many
Swiss Alpine passes-a long succession of ter
raced windings up and another series down,
and We turued from one strikingly beautiful
scene to another as in endless succession they
came into view.
TOWARD GENEVA
OF the city and lake Of Geneva we obtained
our first glimpse from the mountains ten miles
distant The country was spread out before
MS like large map colored in natural tints.
We could trace the windings Of our road as it
vriggled in circuitous loops and doublings
down the mountainside and away in straighter
lines toward the city. The tall poplars with
which it was lined looked at this height and
distance mere broom straws with the bushy end
up Down we went, through Gex to Ferney,
Voltaire's town, founded by him in 1885, then
over the imaginary line into Switzerland and
Geneva, where We found the Elwell-Higgins
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-17
BICYCLTSTS ABROAD.
Washington Boys Wanderings on the
Continent.
WHEELING IN SWITZERLAND.
How English 10 spoken-The Typical Amer
lean Abroad-At Chamounix-Grand Views
and Splendid Roads-In the Valley of the
Rhone-Brother wheelmen.
Written for The Evening Star.
MARTIGSY, SWITZERLAND, Sept. Is,

MARTIGNY, SWITZERLAND, Sept Is, 1891.
HNHE CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN HOTELS
Il sometimes make attempts'at English for
the benefit Of their English-speaking pa
irons At a certain Swiss hotel we found the
following English exercise in the form of
printed notice: ''The gentlemen-travellers are
invited to intrust their objects Of value to the
proprietor Of the hotel, who only in that case
can be responsible for it." This was accom-
panied by another notice, as follows: The
prices Of the rooms are dearer for gentlemen
travellers who consume nothing in the house"
The latter notice cautions you against simply
rooming at the hotel and is as much as to say
that you are expected to take at least your
morning coffee, rolls and honey at the hotel
n you expect to hold your room at the usual
rates The best patrons of the great hotels at
the popular resorts are English and Americans.
The proprietor Of the leading hotel at one Of
the principal Alpine tourists centers informed
Ms that were it notfor his English and American
patronage there would be no conceivable object
In his maintaining his establishment.
THE TYPICAL AMERICAN.
1t IL at these "English-spoken" hotels that
you find the typical American, who knows not
. word Of any language but his own, has
money and the best in the house. and will sit
up all night with you drinking ITO the United
States Of America" or until you cry enough"
He recalls the time when he was a school boy
and read about "a soldier of the legion lay
dying in Agiers." who thought Of his home
''st Bingen. sweet Bingen on the Rhine" He
often said that if he ever went to Europe he
should go and see sweet Bingen," and now
that he had come to Europe he had been to
Bingen and looked the town over. spent a night
there in fact, and it is a blank fine place. He
has been on q side excursion durinr the dav
which interested him very much and he recon-
mends it to you But the difficulty is he does
not remember the name of the place. Pounc-
ing upon the manager of the hotel, who
"speaksEnglish," he bluntly inquiries: .'What
was the name Of that place / went