Evening journal., 1893-02-06

Road-The Haul Made by Professional
BurgIals-John Landers Dead.
Special Correspondence Evening Journal.
NE1 CASTLE, Feb. Steamship
after steamship started down the Della
ware yesterday but found that the ice.
bergsD were stronger than their wrought
iron hulls and when the latter began to
show positive proof Of this, they put into
the nearest harbor along the river or
turned directly around and put back
to their Philadelphia docks. The
steamship Sorrento, Captain, Jor-
genson, bound 10 Hamburg.
put back to her dock with two
bow plates broken and rudder injured.
Pilot Harry Long who took her out, said
that they had got as far as Reedy Island
when the ice became very bad and she
had to return after vain attempts 70
force passage She will be surveyed
for repairs. Bark Unionen from Bergen,
Norway. went ashore on Hen and Chick
en- Shoals, but got of without assistance
and arrived at the Breakwater.
The four masted echooners George A
McFadden, Captain Malcolinsen, and the
Frank Stinson, Captain Hodgson, arrived
here on Saturday night, and are tied up
on account of the ice now in the lower
Delaware The McFadden Is bound for
Boston with coal and the Stinson has
coal on for Havana The ice is badly
Jammed and piled up around the harbor
here and along the shore of the river for
miles north and south. All buoys in the
river and bay have been carried away by
the ice or displaced so that they will
have to be taken away by the Govern
ment boats
The Reading barge Keystone. large
coal-carrier, Is beached of the p. & s
Companys wharf with her bow stove ia
and leaking badly, she was being towed
down and out to sea when she got in
an ice jam with disastrous results. The
Keystone is being repaired, temporarily.
this morning but viii have to put back
TO Philadelphia for an overhauling be
fore she can proceed out to sea- Nearly
every week during the cold spell some
one OF the Reading steamers has been in
distress in the harbor here.
Two wsil-Known People Die of Cancer
John Landers florist and grape grower.
died at his residence ON Landers avenue
on Saturday afternoon, Of cancerous
affection. Mr.. LADDERS had been i'll for
some time but, as he was only CO years
old his death was entirely unexpected.
He was the father Of Road Commissioner
Samuel 4 Landers and Of Frank A. Ian
d RS and had lived here for many years.
having stands for the sale Of his fruit
and flowers in the Wilmington and New
Castle markets. His funeral will be held
early Wednesday morning, leaving the
house nt 81 45, and services and interment
will be at st. Peters
Mrs. Josephine, the beloved wife of
ex-rax Collector William B McCov. died
at her home just below this city on Sat
urday Of cancer, with which she has for
some time been a sufferer She was 45
years old and had large circle
Of friends ia the neighborhood
in which she lived Funeral services
will be held at her late home at 10 o'clock
wednesday morning and interment will
be private Mrs Mccoy was the fourth
person to die in New Castle on Saturday
within the short space of twelve hours.
Electric Railway Ways aud Means.
Few projects have been discussed At
every Preside and in every workshop as
has the electric railway connecting New
Castle with Wilmington. Every Young
man or prominent citizen who can afford
il, 1t is said will brush up his old silk
hat and 60 TO Dover next Wednesday
night to help lobby for the Wilmington
New Castle bill and to cheer the efforts
IN public discussion Of its champions.
The trip can be taken at a reduced cost
and a hundred men can get special
train 70 run right to Dover and return
after the meeting, at an individual cost
OF less than the regular fare.
Harold Sudell. who is well-versed on
metropolitan Improvements, especially
rapid transit, said this morning.
My idea is upon the advent of an
electric railway that property new worth
$Lol0 would. IN a year from now, be
worth 81 600. DIR. Black.
Nearly every body in New Castle
wants the electric road, but it is feared
that It will be difficult to get it, as
~ all probability it would be some time
before 1t would much more than pay it's
running expenses, as it would run for the
greater part Of the way through a dis
trict which is not built up. and until that
district was builtup II could not hope for
very heavy traffic. But its adv ent
would add to the value of the property
IN the vicinity of its line far more than
the cost Of the road
The city of New York is now wrest-
ling with the problem Of rapid transit,
1t appointed commissioners to investi
gate as to the best plan and thew
recommended one which would cost
from $40, 600, 600 to $50, 600. O0O The cost
Is so great that they have been unable.
as yet to find capitalists willing to un-
dertake it. It is expected that IL IL
were carried out. it would ada about
$SUO,OOO. 900 in a very short time
TO me value Of real estate in the city
'Philadelphia is signing for a boule.
ward from City Hall to tie mark which
will cost S6,c0O.0O0 to $1,000 600 The
city is not rich enough to undertalse tbis
now, though the building of it would ada
Two or three times its cost to the valne
OF the property through which it would
run.
HOW long are we going to allow Gus.