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Smyrna times., 1893-07-26
The Pennsylvania Railroad Exhibit
at the Worlds Fair.
A GLIMPSE AT IT'S INTERESTING
TREASURES.

| n uLAMFSE Al IFS INTERESTING
TREASURES.
! Of more real interest to the AVERAGE
visitor to the Worlds Fair than all the
confusing array of locomotives. cars
ships wagons, bicycles, and veloci.
pedes in the great Transportation
building is the compact yet compre.
hensiVe exhibit which the PennsvI.
Vania Railroad Company makes in its
| own beautiful little model RAILWAY
station. What with signal tower.
overhead fOo.-bridge, automatic
switches, tracks, baliest. and bitches
just outside its doors. and the original
.John Bull" locomotive, the oldest in
America, with its train of antique cars.
and the colossal iron vehicles upon
winch the huge Krupp guns were con-
veyed from Baltimore to the Exposit.
ion standing in the shadow of its walls
It's presents to the passer-by an appear.
ance so distinctly characteristic that n
careful inspection of the treasures Of
the interior is almost inevitable.
Once inside, you enter Immediately
into study of transportation history
in the United States on the kindergaT-
ten or object-lesson basis, and nv
means OF models, ranging from the old
Conestoga wagon, through a series of
curiously fashioned cars, up to the
standard locomotives and pnsseneer
coaches Of to day. you secure a most
effective idea of railroad propress
Nor do the models here shown have 10
do with vehicles only. In the cases
which line the walls of the cool. white
interior are also to be seen models of
track of all periods, various systems of
signal 10 use at different times. and
even tickets and time tables. not for
getting conductors punches and Ian
terms.
To furnish comprehensive idea of
magnitude Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road system no better method could
have been adopted than that which is
mere presented In the shape of a per-
spective map, thirty.three feet long.
showing the position of each train In
motion on the system at G D. m. ON
Columbia Day, October, 2lst, 1892, the
passenger trains being Indicated bv
Tiny gilt locomotives, and the freight
trains by similar locomotives oolored
blue. In addition TO all this there i
case after case of photographs, posters
letters, bills, and other documents. all |
more or less interesting, and a number
OF wax figures clothed in the uniforms
OF the Pennsylvania's working staff of |
employees. from baggage porters to CON. |
ductors.
Smyrna times., 1893-07-26
Business Changes.

Dr.S.A.F'ritts, who settled here three
months ago for the purpose of prac
ticlng medicine, taking an Office on
tue opposite side of the street from the
smyrna House, left yesterday for ST
georges, Del, to succeed DR.. Richard.
son, whose practice, lucrative one II
IS stated, he has bought, DR.. r. discon.
ulng active work and moving to vii.
mlngton because of failing health
Dr: Fritts leaves Smyrna from no dis.
satisfaction he says, having a paving
practice though he had been here onl9
a lew months, but goes to st. Georges
because he steps into a good practice
already made, and with no Opposition
Mrs. Z. NJ. Collins, a name we'll
known in Smyrna, where she did bu-
slness in line of ladies goods for soma
years, and who has been doing busi.
ness in Clayton since the spring takes
the room vacated by DR.. Frtts. and
Will move into it tomorrow.
The room at Clayton which Mrs
Collins vacates (adjoining the drug
store OF ThOs. L. Mason will be Ocon.
pied by DR.. James s. Cobb, of Wash.
ington, as an office, and he has already
entered on the practice OF medicine in
that community. DR. Cobb has had
between two and three years hospital
experience as we'll as some practice in
Washington, besides having previous
knowledge of the drug business.
Smyrna times., 1893-07-26
An Old Landmark Revivad

Some two weeks ago we noted the
fact that Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh G. Nc.
Cauley, of New York, were on a visit
OF several weeks to the Misses Cum.
minis of "Woodlawn," mile down the
state road. Out OF this has grown a
new feature, viz from visitors tbev
have merged into residents. not ex-
actly at the stately mansion but az
near to it as practible-the dwelling at
the northern extremity of the farm
next to belmont" and separated from
1t only by the public road that leads
down the Neck and to Leipsic.
To our older inhabitants this place
mas historic interest, and to whom il
was known as 'Letherbury's Corner"
forty years ago the garden attached
TO the house stood prominently as the
best and most varied garden of flowers
IN the whole section and Mrs. Lether-
bury at the head of practical florists.
The present generation know nothing
OF the garden and its varied beauties
for after her death the care of the oar.
ueh ceased, and in a little while it
passed from view and even the old
dwelling with its rustic attractions
was supplemented nearly a score of
years ago by new one, only the trees
or part Of them, remains as in the
days of yore.
The period between the school bow
days and the manhood of Mr.. McCau.
ley were spent here in the store of
Geo. w. Cummins-'46 to '5l-and
with a most vivid recollection of the
people and incidents of that day. as
the years creep on it brings back the
home" feeling aud he wishes to settle
down here for that quiet that belongs
TO the russet days of life after its activ-
ities are over, his wife, who was a Phil.
adelphia lady, fully acquiescing with
him, as they are alone, their children
being off fighting life's battles for them.
selves, one physician and the other a
Presbyterian minister.
The dwelling above alluded to is be.
ing put in readipess for COSY home
for their early occupancy, and as il il
to be connected with Woodlawn bv a
telephone, the two families will be as
tar as social intercourse is concerned.
very much the same as If occupving
different apartments of large estab.
lishment.
Smyrna times., 1893-07-26
SEWERAGE AND ELECTRIC LIGHT.
BOTH ENDORSED BY VOTE OF THE
PROPERTY HOLDERS.

The election held on Monday in nc.
cordance with an act of the Legisla-
ture to decide for and against sewering
the town, and on Tuesday for and
against Electric Lights, shows that the
property holders are in favor of bond
ing the town to accomplish these re-
suits, and so expressed by a decisive
vote.
For drainage the vote stood 1412.
against, 146; or reduced to persons
"a for to IL against. A considerable
number did not vote at all. Itisano.
tlceable feature that every vote cast by
women was for the measure.
On the question of Electric Lights
yesterday, the vote was very similar
l2|4 for, to 13O against, or II individu-
ais for to 13 against.
This vote does not say it shall be
done, but only gives the Town Com.
misSioners authority to proceed with
the work when they deem it advisable
The vote of the people seemed to be
to entertain the question without un.
necessary delay.
Smyrna times., 1893-07-26
Peach Notes

One of our old farmers, who has
grown good many peaches IN the
past, Is far from being assured of a
crop IN the year of grace, 1898. He is
the rather, assured that there has been
great miscalculation in the estimate
an Inflated estimate that will cause
many persons to be deceived in the
quantity OF baskets that will be re-
CURED for marketing. He does not be.
lleve that there will be half the crop as
estimated by Mr.. Mills, and his neigh
Dorhood (west of Smyrna) not one
quarter of the crop of '91-that in the
counties opposite us in Maryland thew
VIII likewise be seriously effected nv
the yellOws, and as for Sussex. he can
jump over the trees there, and their
production cannot of course be i'm.
mense.
Another farmer who in June exnec-
ted 5000 baskets on his farm near Clav.
ton is not assured he will have anv
quantity for shipping-has not bought
a basket and does not intend to until
doubts. "0
The long continued drought has
Deen very much against the deveIoD-
ment OF peaches, and it looks as if this
fact would affect their size.
Mitchell Layton shipped $50 baskets
otBrlggs's Red May peaches last week
from few less than 200 trees near
Bridgeville. "'
A Cape May tradesman saws that
that place is poor market for peaches
this year, owing to the scarcity of
guests.
The Centreville Record says: A well
informed peach grower in the upper
part OF the county reports that Deacbes
IN the vicinity Of Millingtou are rinen-
Ing prematurely and that the cro6 in
Inat section OF the county between Mil
IIhgton and Blue Ball branch will be
short Premature ripening of peaches
i7 sure indication of yellows. The
0ulk OF the fruit grown by Governor
Blggs and his two sons lies in this i'm.
mediate section.
Says the SusseF Republican: We
have had little to say about the peaches
on the principle that it is best not to |
count your chickens before thew are |
Matched. From observations and the
pest information we can gather we are |
now prepared to express an opinion
we have all along been impressed that
tnere was not the tremendous crop
CIV gwen out by the Peninsula papers. |
The glowing descriptions given of the |
immense crop is calculated to cause !
the growers to lose money by raising
the expectations of consumers for |
cheap peaches and in this way bring
down the price. We do not doubt but |
that there will be fair crop of peaches
but not 100000 of baskets, as esti.
mated by some Two years ago the
Delaware Railroad shipped over 1000.
200 baskets. In our opinion that is
more than will be shipped this year.
Smyrna times., 1893-07-26
An Improved Dwelling.

1t was stated in the month of Ma,
that Mrs. Raymond was making i'm,
portant improvements to her bome
near the depot. They were completed
last month, and seemingly leave moth
ing LETT in the way of artistic effect OF
change for comfort, to be done. The
chlef change was the enlargement OF
the doors-viz: the doors leading from
the hallway to the parlor on the one
side, the library on the other and from
this to the dining rOom-the same size
some eight feet, portiere separating
the Two last-the three including the
hall being virtually thrown into one
room, when occasions require in win.
Ter or as now In summer, to give free
circulation of the air The grille arch
over the dining room entrance Is an AT.
tractive peace Of workmansLip execu.
ted by j. ID. Evans. All these rooms
were papered In the newest and most
attractive pattrens by J. E. Carter.
But In the line of winter comfort n
a great change was made for heating
the house. The old heaters were ali
removed and an additional cellar du0
IN which large furnace was construe.
ted with pipes running to all the rooms
OF the house. This necessitatsd some
addltional changes at the rear. ali
bringing facilities to the domestic de.
partpent, The library or sitting room
las ~ addition 10 the other, an omen
grate nlled with asbestos into which
tne gas is turned when a speedy
warmth is deslred-as 10 the case In
sne Fali and Spring, when guests call
desirable changes are being made also
dwelling. SA' y 'u0
Smyrna times., 1893-07-26
MRS. A. D. HELVEsTON.

Mrs. GeOrgiana Helveston, wife O
"A. ID. HelvestOn, residing near Walk.
er's School House, died on Saturday
evening after long and painful illness
III the 18th year of her age. Mr.. and
Mrs. HelvestOn moved to this section
from Pennsylvania some twelve wears
ago and won the regard and esteem of
the people of the vicinity, by the quail
tiles of good citizenship they eyerv-
where maintained. Mrs. Helvestop
was a member of the PRESBYTERIAN
church where she came from-and re-.
talned her membership there, but
attended with members of her family
services at Friendship Church. and in
the midst of her long and painful i'll
ness expressed great comfort in the
faith that had been the stay of her
life. Burial services were held at her
late residence by Rev. f. H. Hynson
at O'Clock yesterday, with a short ad-
ditlona service at Friendship church
before depositing the remains in the
cemetery.
Smyrna times., 1893-07-26

The hot wave which was prophesied
for us by Sunday, was held in check
by a colder wave from northern Nova
Scotia, sending the thermometer down
to co. both yesterday and Monday
morning. This hot wave which was
held in check, has made it exceedingly
uncomfortable for Wyoming and South
Dakota. A dispatch from there has
the following to say:
For some days last week at Fort
Mckinney, in Wyoming, the tempera-
ture was 112' in the shade, while the
mercury in the sun stood l3O to 1902.
This is the hottest weather recorded
for eight years. Not a drop of rain
has fallen for nine weeks and the range
is completely destroyed. Buffalo is
surrounded by forest fires. In South
Dakota the heat was so intense Satur-
day that work in the barley and rye
harvest fields was abandoned. The
thermometer has ranged from SO to
1862 during five days.
Smyrna times., 1893-07-26
Half Rate Excursions 70 the Worlds



The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company will run a series of sneciaI
excursions to the Worlds Fair for
which excursion tickets to Chicago will
be sold at a rate of one fare for the
round trip from Baltimore and all sta.
tlons west of there as far as the Ohio
River. The dates selected are August
lst, Sth and 18th. The special trains
will consist of frst-class day coaches,
equipped with lavatories, and other
toilet conVenienoes, and an experien-
ced Tourist Agent and train porter
Will accompany each train, to look
after the comfort of passengers. Stops
for meals will be made at meal stations
en- route. The tickets will be valid for
the outward journey on the special
trains only, excepting that from way
points they will be honored on local
trains to the nearest station at which
the special trains are scheduled to stOp.
They will be valid for return journey
in day coaches on all trains LEAVING
Chicago within ten days including date
of sale.
Following is the schedule ofthe spec.
lal train and rates from principal sta
tions in this vicinity
PHILADELPHIA. Oath and
Smyrna times., 1893-07-26
Obituaries.
MRS. CLARENCE PRETTYMAN.

The local newspaper has freouent
painful duties to perform, but among
them there is none so sad as that
placed beyond remedy by the relent-
less hand of death, those whom we
would feign believe had on the credit
side of life's ledger scores of happy
years to bless their families and
brighten social friendships. Such is
prominently the case in the death OF
Mrs. Alice S. Prettyman, wife of Clar.
ence Prettyman, who died of diph-
liberia after painful illness of ten
days on Monday morning, contracted
she knew not where flor it has not
been here this season., possibly among
excursiOnists at the baysde.
Her case naturally excited the deem
est sympathy in the community. hone
and fear alternating throughout the
week until 1t was announced the in
eVltable must speedily come. If thew
could lend an alleviating hand in some
way bring sympathy to the sufferer.
or Kind words to the afflicted, it would
have been a relief, but for prudential
reasons this even was not permissible.
Despite all that medical attention and
trained nurse could do, the death
grip became tighter, the current of life
weaker, and at 7.30 o'clock on Monday
morning pulsatiOn ceased, and the
spirit took its flight.
She was in her Doth year and the
ninth of her married life, but with the
looks of one who had scarcely passed
the bloom of young womanhood.
While pity goes out to the husband
there Is to the little boy and girl an
additional touch of tenderness. Thew
were old enough to accompany their
parents to church and did so regularly.
challenging the admiration of those
around them for their excellent de.
pertinent, the four occpying a pew
thus the Sunday before she was seized
with the fatal illness.
Mrs. Prettyman had been a regular
attendant on the church services bnt
mad not been a protesting christian
until the revival last March She
was IN the full realization of her facul.
ties throughout her illness that separa-
ted her from her children and those
friends that would willingly have
smoOthed her pillow and shared her
pain, but she bore up throughout nm
complainingly, in full Christian forti-
tude.
The nature and circumstances of the
disease and the possibilities that might
accrue, precluded the idea of a public
On the evening of that dav.
as the sun was sinking towards the
western horizon, Rev Mr.. Stengle and
a few friends gathered in the yard in
front of the dwelling, a blief SER
vice was held, aud the casket was
borne to the Odd Fellows cemetery to
be lowered to its last resting place.
Mrs. Prettyman was the daughter of
Jehu M. Reed, residing near Frederick.
who with his wife feels most painfully
the unexpected and sudden bereave-
ment
Smyrna times., 1893-07-26

THE action of the Directors of the
Worlds Fair, in closing the grounds
on Sundays has met with popular fa-
vor. The fact that the Fair failed to
have enough patronage on Sundays.
goes to show that the science of duty
to God and our fellows, or rather the
church universal, is growing stronger
as civilization advances. True it is
that some denominations have worked
against the measure with extraordi-
nary zeal, only to find that the spirit
of the age was against them.
The stand which our representative,
Hon. Geo. V. Massey, took on this i'm
pOrtant question is a source of admira-
tion to the citizens of Delaware, who
recognize in him a type of noble christ
ian manhood.
Smyrna times., 1893-07-26
WIN. B. SHARP
& CO.,
Fourth and Market ST.,
WILMINGTON, DELAWApp

We are on the last Of Our
celebrated Pineapple CLOTH. tI.
= genuine French - finn
sheer and beautiful sIImmo1
fabrics. Nothing else will
compare with them, becauyo
nothing else is r~aI p1'
Schrgrer, Rott & Gle are tbo
only French makers; here iS
the only place you can rct Of
them; all else are imita,
tlons. Reduced from %
cents to Is cents per ward
at a which price you can af,
ford to anticipate.
Our reduced Shirt Waists
are going out at a rattlino
pace; no such variety IS
shown in our city. In adj
dltion to the five lots that
are reduced nearly one-haIf
we have added two more
very fine numbers. which
are reduced as follows:
49,. Pink Waists, $3.50: now
Sl.25, with double rufIIed
front, shirred yoke and cuffs,
sizes 81 to 10.
White Waists, So; now
Sl.75, with fine tucks back
and front, trimmed with
handsome null rufles and
embroidered le edge, tucked
and puffed sleeves.
All our plain and rufled
Parasols are very much re-
duced in price.
Embroidered Handker-
chiefs, scalloped edges, at
tractlve and pretty, are re-
duced from % cents to l6
cents.
An odd lot of Embroid-
cred Hemstitched Handkcr-
chiefs for men are reduced
from 70 cents to Is cents.
Initial Handkerchiefs
with small neat letters. two
for % cents are very desir-
able. With them are a lot
, with colored borders, regu-
lar 25-cent Handkerchiefs.
which we shall sell two for
% cents.
Fine quality of children's
Llsle Thread Stockings in a
nice assortment of tans for
rusSet shOes-25 cents.
Smyrna times., 1893-07-26

diversity of political beliefs and
preJudices gave this statement to the
country as the platform of the Demo
cratic party. 1t was announced to the
country that the existing system of
tariff should be modified to the extent
OF a tariff for revenue only. On this
basis the candidates of the party now
in power were elected. The enormous
manufacturing interests were, of
course, duly impressed, and business
has been compelled to suit itself to the
condition to which the Chicago plat
form must logically lead.
ut is impossible to bridge over sud-
denly the wide chasm intervening be-
tween comparatively free trade and
the protective system under which the
nation grew rich without prolonged
convulsiOns in trade. Great economic
changes do not adjust themselves with
celebrity, hence, fearing changes. facto-
ries stop, workshops close and prices
shrink.
IF the Chicago enunciation of prin-
ciples is to be maintained business
must prepare for change. According
to its principles the Government is
pledged to reduce the tariff to the
standard of the Chicago Convention.
The business of the country cannot
prosper under these circum stances.
Distrust is widespread, everything Ian
guishes.
The heterogeneous political ele-
ments that will meet at Washington in
August will represent free trade and
many theories contrary to business
stability. The conservative people of
the country stood aghast at possibilities
of legislation, and are trimming sails to
suit the weather The outlook is dark
because It is difficult to see how relief
is to come.
The distrust might be dispelled,
perhaps, but how? In one sense the
situation is theatrical; excitement NAV
be calmed by stroke of inspiration.
A panic is sometimes averted by a
band striking up a popular air, just as
the frightened crowd is about to rush
and trample over one another.
How can the present somewhat
analogous condition be changed by
suddenly.inspred confidence? The
leaders of the party in power will
scarcely acknowledge that its princi-
pies are mistaken ones, that the Chi
cago platform was false and should be
repudiated. I can see DO Moses at
present who will lead the business
world out of its Egyptian darkness"
General Harrison cOngratulates him
self daily that he is free from the cares
and worries of public life. He sympa-
thizes personally with President Cleve-
land, who is carrying, he thinks, about
as heavy burden as mortal man can
bear up under.
Smyrna times., 1893-07-26

NEARLY two hundred banks have
closed their doors since the first of the
year and still they are closing. The
disturbance is becoming more wide
spread than ever, thus making the
strongest plea for an hasty action on
the part of Congress in bringing this to
a proper basis. Our national prosper
ity is at stake and the sooner this great
financial gap is closed the better will
it be for the welfare of our country.
The unfortunate condition of fnan.
cial affairs in Colorado, Kansas and
some of the other Western States is
not likely to extend to, or to be felt
seriously in. other sections of the coun-
try. As Comptroller Eckels pointed
out in his address in New York, the
failures which have occurred have
been mainly in the boom cities and
States Of the West, where speculation
has Outrun discretion, and where reck-
less business and banking methods
have been substituted for the sound
and safe rules of finance and trade.
The institutions and business of the
East, mot less than of the South. have
thus far escaped, and will, because the
foundations upon which they are
builded are of rock and not of sand :"
The failures in the West are. in
word, the logical result of the high
pressure system upon which they have
been doing business. The immutable
laws Of business, says the Baltimore
Sun, cannot be violated with any more
impunity than the laws of nature or
OF health, and spectators who invest
their money ia castles in the air can
expect nothing but a dissolving view
OF their investment. Or, as Mr. Eckels
well puts it, "the fnancieF who stakes
his all upon an unbuilt city reaching
out into the waste places of the earth
must bring about the ruin of his own
~ @--AACN ihsLitullDus WQlCn nave
trusted in him and pinned their faith
to assets yet unborn" The comptrol.
Ter took occasion to emphasize the fact
that the principal thing needed to
steady the financial nerves of the
Western States is confidence ip the
ability OF the count. sa.s safely
through the disturbed conditions which
prevail just at present. The disasters
in the silver States ought very prop
erly 10 destroy their confidence in the
financial theories and commercial prac-
tees that have produced these results
But these disasters should not DESTROY
confidence in the stability of the rest of
the country, nor should the sufferers
despair of their own future. Thev
have learned bitter lesson, but with
wiser legislation and more prudent
conduct Of affairs, they will soon re.
trieve the losses of to-day and build
their prosperity upon a more solid
fou ndation for the future.