Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-03
MONTH"; REPORTS.
Building Lines, Arrests, Fires and vita
Statistics.

Lines for new buildings were marked
by the city engineering department
during the past month, as follows:
Philemma Chandler, store, northeast
corner Eighth and West streets.
Henry w. Scott, stable, west side
Bradford street between A and b.
Michael j. O'Toolc, two dwellings,
north side d street between Head and
Claymont.
A. s. Reed & Brother, convent, situ-
ated on the block between Gilpin, Shall
cross, Bayard and Grant avenues,
Henry Dugan, dwelling, east side OF
Townsend street between A and i.
Florence II. Crumlish, four dwellings
and stable, south side of Rowland street
between Clayton and du Pont
William 4. Hickman, addition TO
store, cast aide Of King street between
Fourth and Fifth.
Anna Publ, two dwellings, cast side
Of Poplar street between Tenth and
Eleventh.
William G. Guthrie and John j,
llorncr, two dwellings on west side of
Thatcher street between Vandever
avenue and Twenty second street.
Francis P Dillon, northwest corner
Front and jackson streets, five dwell
ings.
Kate II. Palmer, office and shop south
side of Tenth street between Orange
and Tatnall
William Z. Reybold, creamery north
side of Lancaster avenue between Madi-
son and Monroe streets.
A. b. Vernon, store and dwelling.
southeast corner Tenth and Clayton
streets.
John Hamilton, four dwellings, south
side Third street between Broome and
Rodney.
E. 5. II. Butler & Son, store cast side
Market street between Fourth and Fifth.
Andrew J. Travis, stable, north side
Lancaster avenue between Adams and
Monroe streets.
McClosley Brothers, two dwellings,
south side Gilpin avenue, between
Union street and Grant avenue.
). j. McClenaghan, addition 10
dwelling, northeast corner Kennebec
and Walnut streets
Mary p. Garland, dwelling, south west
corner Bayard avenue and Park drive
way.
Total, 81; total for February last year,
3; increase, 20.
WORK OF THE POLICE.
Chief of Police Blackburn reports 1913
arrests during February, classified as
follows: Arson, !; assault with intent
to commit murder, 2; assault and bat
terry, IL; burglary, 3; bastardy, A; con
tempt Of court, 2; drunk, 105; drunk
mud HianrInrltr on, Itrr.l.pI.,
10; embczzlemcnt, !; exposing person,
!; firing pistol in the streets, i inter
fering with an officer, i insane, /; in
tcorrigible boys, /; highway robbery, 1;
larceny, 81; obtaining goods under false
pretences, /; patients, ID; pointing Il
gun, l; runaway boys, 5; selling liquor
without license, 8; trcspassing, 5; va
grency, Is; violating city ordinance, 3;
witnesses, B; committed to New Castle
Jail, SO. Fines and costs collected,
S5oL45. Lodgers, GA. Calls answered
by the patrol wagon, 1853.
TEN FEBRUARY FIRES.
Reported by Charles Shull, fire re-
corder of the Delaware truck company
February Cd, at 1916 a. M, box No.
63, fire in McNealy u Co.'S hair ware
house, Fifth and du Pont streets, loss
$500, no insurance; February 4th, HOG
D. m, box No. Z, fire at the Office of DIR.
james G. Pickles, No. 705t Market
street, loss $500, fully insured; Feb
ruary 9TH, 0.23 p M, box No. 81, fire ut
baseball grounds, Front and Union
streets, loss $50, no Insurance.; February
sth, 1887 p. M, box No. III, fire in d
frame house ON Searles street above
Fourth, loss $500, insured; February
18th, $50 p. m, box No Sc, fire In col.
ored church, Browntown, loss 500, in
surcd; February 10Th, SAG p. m, box
NO. q, fire in James Batson's frame
stable, Ninth and Walnut streets, loss
$500, insured; February 18th, 426 a. M,
box No. B, fire at No. or West Seventh
street, loss $500, insured; February 10Th,
6.55 a. IN, box No. Is, fire in the rear of
No. 527 East Fifth street, loss $50, no
Insurance; February 2lst, 1916 n. M,
box No. ~, fire at home of State Sena
tor John i. Donahoe, No. 4oi West
sixth street, loss 300, fully insured;
February 9Th, 5.5S p. m, box No. 1l5,
slight fire at j. b, Malotte's cigar store.
northwest corner of Taylor and Poplar
streets, no loss.
VITAL sTATIsTIcs,
Registrar Colquhoun reports liz
deaths for the month of February.
divided as follows: Males, SO; females,
b9i adults, 55; minors, 81; white, 1G; col,
ored, l6; native, %; foreign, Is. Births
White, males, "a; females, 30; colored,
males, A females, 8; total births, ~;
stubborn, white, b; colorcd, 6; total, Ii.
Misunderstanding 20; colorcd, A; total,
.3. Bodies passed through the city for
interment, 8; brought here for inter
ment, II; sent away, IA; coroner's cases,
8. For the corresponding month of
last year there were: Deaths, "a; births,
l02; marriages, 20.