Evening journal., 1894-01-26
SIXTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
''New Castle in 1890" Brings
Up Some Old Memories.
ONLY THE EXTREME EAST END

or the Town was Then Built Up and
settled. the other Was Forest Of
blackberry Bushes-vesseis Passing Up
The River. Wrecks or Resembling
wrscts After Contact with the Tidal
Wave-other Matters
Special Correspondence EVENING Journal
NkW CASTLE. Jan 90 New Castle
n 1880, the oil painting now on exhibi-
tion in Rayuard's window, Wilmington.
and a duplicate Of which was admired by
hundreds OF Worlds Fair Visitors in the
Delaware Building at Chicago last sum
mer has attracted. no little attention
from old New Castle residents Very
few of the present residents, however,
have any recollection Of what New
Castle looked like in that year. The
only familiar objects on this excellent
work of Artist Shaw's is the old Court
House. Emmanuel Church, the town hall
and the Read House The now promi-
Baptist Church Presbyterian Church
and NJ + Church were nowhere TO be
seen at that time, and even the Court
n
of the old Presbyterian Church-now
used as SUNDAY school buildiug-can
be noticed and the noble trees which
stood ia front of Mr. Nowlands resi-
dence, aud which then stood on the
picturesque Battery. are vividly por
trayed on the canvas
Some old residents tell very interesling
stories OF ''ye anCient times as it ap.
Manlove, who died last week, was PROBABLY
one OF the very Oldest native residents III
New Castle and she often told OF the
"blackberrying' parties she used 60 at.
tend when q girl. which gathered the
rich berry about where the Nj Il parson
age, Clewell's undertaking establishment
and morgue. Mayor Herberts residence
and many others now stand. That part
Of town was nothing but a snse vine
yard Of blackberry vines With road now
Delaware street runnlng through &c. Mrs.
Manlove also remembered an old toll
gate which was operated by an illustrious
citizen for two score years on the
knights corner. as the intersection Of
Delaware and Fifth streets is now
known.
Then an the residence portion of town
was the extreme eastern end Just as is
represented in the painting now on ex-
hibltlon In Wilmington.
The Princess Met the Tidal Wave.
Yesterday afternoon the American
Line steamship British Princess. from
Liverpool aud Queenstown, passed up
the Delaware TO Philadelphia badly
shaken up and with her saloon stove In
by heavy seas encountered In mid-ocean.
There were i25 passengers on board. who
declared on landing that this was their
last trip across the Atlantic in any
vessel ia winter While In mid-ooean
high sea. supposed to be the tidal wave
which struck the Normannia. swept over
The British Princess starboard bow.
carrying overheard everything not firmly
fastened 20 the vessels decks. The
atarboard corner Of the saloon was
crushed In and the iron plates bent
Inward by the overwhelming mass OF
water For days many OF the passeng gers
never saw the light of day, being Kept
below for their own safety.
other Battered Vessels Move Up.
The deeply sugaf-lsden Britlth steam
ship Ardanmohr, from Havana. came
up the Delaware yesterday badly listed
TO starboard, having been struck by q
sea, which shifted her enore cargo The
heaviest weather, Captain Anderson say s.
was between Havana and Alligator
Reef, in the gulf stream. Though So
badly listed, the Ardaumohr ploughed
up TO Philadelphia without further ao
cident and without serious damage.
The coasting schooner Emma G. Cot
ton, which arrived here yesterday from
Jacksonville, attempted TO make the mid
winter trip with a deck load of lumber
During heavy storm this was swepi
overheard and lost when the Cotton was
but a short distance Of the Florida coast
FAILING Onf M r.s,,l,.,~.t