Evening journal., 1893-01-12
FROM SHORE TOSHORE.
Delaware River Frozen Over
and Ice Piled Up.
sQUABBLEs TO END IN COURT

The Refusal OF the Trustees of the Com
mon TO Grant the water compans's Ap-
-r preparation win Probably Bring
About Litigation -omcers swoop Down
ON Fast Drivers, Enforcing the Law
but Causing Some Dissatisfaetion.
Special Correspondence Evening Journal.
New CASTLE, Jan. 12.-The Delaware
river, which is nearly two miles wide at
this point, was frozen over from shore
shore to shore this morning for the first
time for nearly twenty years In some
parts the floating ice had piled up until
immense gorges looking like miniature
icebergs appeared in the western chan
nel Had the frigid weather continued
through the day, teams could have
passed over the thick crust. At sunrise
a channel was opened and the larger
steamers began TO pass up.
Every steamer that hove in sight here
yesterday was coated with ice, some of
them looked like phantom ships with
their masts and rigging covered with
sleet and their color being completely
hidden. The Red Star Line wreck tug
international. which has been ont on a
fruitless search for the derelict schooner
J. NAPLES Ponder could only be recog-
nized by her signal, so completely was
she covered with frozen spray
The schooner Arvesta. which came up
the bay as far as Fort Delaware was
caught in field of ice and was so
hemmed in that everybody thought she
would go to pieces when the tug Childs
went to her rescue and towed her into
harbor here. The schooner has iron ore
from Charleston. She is badly cut.
A number of large coastwise schooners
have put into the harbor here and cannot
proceed farther
The handsome four masted schooner
James G. Beecher, for Philadelphia, in
ballast, arrived here last evening and
tied up TO wait a break in the ice above.
The interior Of this schooner is heated by
steam and her crew have accordingly
suffered from the cold The Reading
steamer Lancaster, light, for Philade.
phia was compelled to put back last
night and remain here in the harbor.
The tug Pride also tide up to avoid the
damaging gorges.
A later arrival in the harbor is the
four-masted schooner Andrew Adams.
with coal from Philadelphia TO Boston.
Her captain fears that she will be ice.
bound here for several days. The four
masted schooner Rob Roy, with 500
tons Of coal for Cienfuegos. is awaiting
break in the ice so that she can proceed
down She is the fourth four-masted
schooner that has arrived here in the
past few days.
Trouble to End IN the Courts.
Litigation is likely to result from the
action of the Trustees of the Common in
refusing to pay the semi annual appro.
piiation to the New Castle Water Works
Company, according TO an ironclad agree
ment TO do so which was made when the
water works were brought here.
prominent trustee said yesterday TO
the EVENING JOURNAL reporter: ''The
agreement will certainly not stand I'm
the courts and IL action is brought the
Water Company will have its trouble
for its pains. The only people whom am
sorry for are the bondholders who will
doubtless be frightened into selling
their property at greatly reduced rates.
This will be unwaIranted, but some of
them will be glad to do IT, "
10 is the general belief that the Water
Company is now self-supporting and can
be run on paying basis. The Trustees
OF the Common, however get over So
900 worth of water and are willing to
pay fair rates for il. There are FORTY
t~o freplugs in the city worth nearly
$50 year; all the farms belonging to
the city, with three exceptions, are sup
piled with water from the mains. The
trustees, in their Strengthened circum-
stances as a board, cannot afford to con
tlnue a So, 600 appropriation.
Family Scattered over the Earth.
Shoe Repairer Thomas H. Beatty went
70 Wilmington last night to say farewell
10 his last relative in this section of the
country His daughter and son in. law.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Lynch sail TODAY
for Port O'Spain, South America. Mr..
Lynch, who is an expert engineer, will be
employed there for several months. Mr.
Beattys relatives will then be scattered
all over the country. A son, Joshua. is
employed in large factory in Philadel
phia. Another son, Frank, is in Portland.
Oregon. A daughter. Mrs. Clara Adams.
also lives in Oregon
Incidents of the Day.
Edward T. Holland. a respectable and