Evening journal., 1893-01-14
THE BATTLE OF WORDS.
A Good Crowd Attends the Third SPELL
ing Bee-A Hard Struggle for Honors.

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The third spelling bee in the last two
months was given in the Opera House
last night. An audience which half filed
the house showed by its attendance that
It endorsed the charitable worth of the
enterprise and rolled up a comfortable
nest egg for the new free dispensary Of
Delaware College. Professor A. H. Ber-
lin acted as pedagogue, Job II. Jackson
and Edward 4. Candy were judges. and
Willard Hall Porter was the referee
The bee was marked by few appeals to
the judges, and the words were generally
fair.
The prize winners were awarded prizes
as follows: First, Miss Mary Mckelvey,
a single room will be papered by Preston
Yeager the value being $16 TO $1S sec
ond. Mrs Florence II. Boss, etching.
"The Old Mil, by Shield. donated by
George Hardcastle third, Miss Annie +.
Shaw, violin, II. A. Bradfeld; fourth,
Miss Nora Stuart, fine umbrella, Crosby
& Hill; fifth, Robert Adair, s. John NJ.
Harvey sixth, @. r. r. Bates,
dictionary, r. s. r. Butler & Son !;
seventh, Miss Sue Walters, pair evening
gloves. William NJ Kennard eighth Mrs.
Charles f. Bourbon, preserves, John p.
Almond & Co f; ninth. George H. Kerr,
basket OF fruit, Frank Turner; tenth,
Samuel Connor fve-pound box Of candy,
James Morrow & Son; BOBBY prize No /,
Miss Mary Wiley, Mother Goose Rhymes +;
BOBBY prize No ., Clarence S. smeltz, live
goose.
After an overture by the orchestra
Willard Hall Porter briefly introduced
Professor Berlin After preliminary
test the fight began. Miss Mary Wiley
was the FIRST to go down, salable being
the stumbling block The first male CON
testant TO suffer defeat was Clarence S.
Smeltz, who found complaisaut a tartar
In the first round eight boys and six
girls won't down ont Of the sixty contest
ants Round second began with the
word incredible and ten succumbed, the
misspelled words being anomalous, tran
quillity, available, oscillate. inscrutable
sinister, scintillate, diyisible, assessable
and cannonade The third round sent
one to the rear; the fourth round, three
the fifth round, one the sixth round
two; seventh round, ten; eighth, seven
ninth, four
IL took nine rounds TO reduce the rank
TO the ten prize winners. Mr. Connor
missed feurdelis and Captain Kerr heb.
domadal Inhnitessimal was too much
for Mrs Bourbon Miss Walters could
not spell kayak and Mr. Bates failed on
hexaphyllous. Robert Adair went down
on lacininte.
With Mr.. Adair down four young
women were left as the first four prize
winners.
The rank was broken again when Miss
Stuart failed on lanceolate. Miss Shaw
offered moneyed for monied, and then
there were but two left
Mrs. Boss held her own until the word
otiose was given out. She could get no
nearer to 10 than "ochoise" and left Miss
McKelvey the deserved winner of first
hon0rs.
The presentation of the prizes was
made by ex-Mayor Austin Harrington
He likened the contest to the feats Of
olden time in the arena. The booby
prizes were presented last. OF the goose,
Mr.. Harrington said that It was the only
quack ever given out by the Delaware
Hospital
The affair was arranged by Dr. Swithin
Chandler, who was assisted by Mrs. Will
lard Hall Porter and Mrs. Austin Har-
rington.
The contestants were as follows:
William Edwards, Mabel Smith, Flor
ence Smith. John Collins j. Paul Blore,
Mrs. f H. Boss, Elizabeth Carlisle, Sue
T. Walters, Mary McKelvey, Mrs
Charles J.. Bordner, Emma Groves, Fran
ces Gallagher, Nora Stuart, Hettie r..
Pawley, Clarence e. Mentzer, E. A. Lloyd,
Clara G.. Traynor, May Il. Traunor,
Clarence S. Smeltz, Clarence M. Dillon,
Thomas r. Mechem, Shearburn Rice,
Frank Hama Theodore Bates. William j.
Mcmahon. Ella Woodrow, Harlan Jeal-
onson, Matte Sipple, Elva Hopton, w.
Hail. Bessie Parker, Bette Crawford.
Jenny Sooy. Elsie Steele, Marguerite
Hall, Mary Zeigler, Mary Crawford, Lidie
Hopes, Mrs NJ. Helen Forbes, Estella l..
Deakyne, Mary E. Regan, John p.
Regan, Edmund J. Gee, Mrs. T. p.
Adair, Robert Adair Elwood Layiield
Lurie Primrose, Ellen J. Primrose,
Florence B. Primrose. Martie Alexander,
Ella Taylor. G. H. Kerr J. w. Crum,
Annie A. Fell. Annie r. Shaw. Virgie
Jones, lola Chalfant, E. A. Dougherty,
Manerva Pedmlle, Louise Leach. II. c.
Saville Nellie Haughey, Agnes Lang.