Evening journal., 1894-12-14
SEVENTY YEARS AGO.
Interesting "reminiscences Re-
lated BY Rev. w. w. Taylor.
WILMINGTON THEN AND NOW
A Delightful E1ourslOn Into the Past on
whieh the Pupils and Guests of the
FrisAds' school Were TAken-An Enjoy
able Address.

/ able Address.
The pupils OF the Friends School AZ
| Fourth and West streets, and a large
number .of their parents and friends
! gathered In the spacious rooms Of that
handfome structure this afternoon TO
listen to literary and historical treat
In the shape of "reminiscences Of VIII
mington and OF the Friends School OF
seventy years ago, by Rev w. w.
Taylor, one of Wilmingtons best known
citizens. The address or talk was full
Of Interesting data, amusing incidents,
and able pen piotres Of half n century sgo
and was listened to with the closest at
tention. Or. Taylor is anatlvs Of vii.
mington aud he has watched its growth
and progress during his long and active
| life.
He began with his early school days.
| The first that he remembers OF these
was when but seven years of age he
attended little school kept by the
| Misses Debble and Polly Thelwall on the
west side OF King above Second street
In 1918 he attended school
kept by Miss Woodcock, the
location of which he does not re
member, although he does remember
his progress through Dllworth's spelling
book, the standard textbook Of the
school. IL was while attending here
that he recollects great explosion OF
the DuPonta mills Houses all over the
city we're shaken, windows broken aud
many people we're 30 frightened that
they fed IN terror out Of the city, many
across the Christiana At that time
there were powder mills over there
built by Peter Bangsday and later by
the Garashes.
Another sensation Dr. Taylor very
clearly remembered was the reported
sinking Of a Spanish ship In tha Chris
tiana near the rocks A local timer
named Beckley made a coat Of tin and
sent diver down to look for treasure.
He found the bottom Of the river but no
coin
The next school the reverend doctor
attended WAS kept by Jonathan AllAton,
aJ Second and Walnut streets The
house still stands. On the second floor
looking East, was a broad piazza, and
there the pupils used TO 60 every after
noon to have their spelling lesson. The
view TO the river was fine He remsm-
bered also attending the old stone
academy, built In 1865 and torn down la
1889 It stood just back OF Market
street east between Eighth and Ninth,
and was kept by Mr.. Matthews While
there he remembered the funeral OF Rev.
DR. Reed In the graveyard or the old
brick church, Tenth and Market
When about IA years Of age he went to
the Friends School jesse Cause was
one OF his teachers One OF the memories
Was the daily walk There were no girls
in the procession and the walks we're
looked upon as irkaomes When the United
States ship. John Adams, was anchored
in the Delaware the whole school
paid visit TO t. The play
grounds then we're larger than
now, but sometimes the ball was
knocked over into the vats Of the tanner
les on the east or among the negro
settlement on the west. Q Iaker Hill, as
Third street was called, was good Shedding
In Winter At the foot was a spring OF
cold water, arched ever. The pupils had
only one holiday Saturday afternoon
and many we're the trips they took to
the rocks or Old Swedes Church, never
after dark, however, as there were
rumors of aspectre. Then there WAS
swimming Ia the race on the Brandy
wine when Isaac Kendall acted as In.
structor, and skating on Barley mill
dam. Every Fifth day the children had
to 20 TO meeting, which they were apt
to look on as tiresome. The handsome
old elms were then young and had not
the spread OF limb as now.
Dr. Taylor gave sketch Of the settle.
ment by the Swedes, the coming of the
Quakers and French emigrants after the
revolution, and the growth from 1910,
when the population was less than 1900.
to the present day. When he was boy
there we're twenty-five square rlgged veB-
sells sailing from Wilmington 10 all parts
Of the world aud Front and Second streets
were made alive by the songs and foot
steps Of sailors.
In 1918 the town was chartered a
borough by George II and In 1882
made a city The packets were running
whom Dr. Taylor was boy. he told an
incident OF Captain Bush letting all his
liquor into the streets as the result OF
temperance lecture, and OF Captain
Garrison telling his men when It blew
heavily to carry on her boys she's all
oak" showing the quality OF our ship
ping. The Vesta was the first steamer
and then came the Wilmington, Captain
Miner, when pine was used for steAming
lup In 1888 we had four whalers In the
Pacific
He told Incidents Of Dutch ships sell
ing passengers for their fare, and of q
half crszy woman who used TO be the
bans Of military company the boys
formed. Once this company visited
Delamore Place, then occupied by Colonel
Samuel B Davis, the hero Of Lswistown
who reviewed them and gave them So
for a drum. He remembered Colonel
Mclean, Governor Bennett and Mayor
Jaquett, an officer OF the Delaware
Regiment, renowned for bravery, and
/ which participated in all the main battles
. of the revolution and lost 900 out Of 500
men at Camden.
DR.. Taylor also remembered the
} MARQUIS Lafayette with whom he shook
+ hands as he stood outside the inn of
Patrick O'Flinn on the southeast corner
of Third and Market streets he also
! referred to the old market houses on
Second and Fourth streets. the old Candy
h,ur mills built in 1852, the paper and
snuff mills way up the Brandywine. The
I labels of the tobacco bore stcut OF four
{ men smoking One says Good tobacco,
8 smother, yes excellent; :" the third asks
+ "Who made it?' while the fourth an
3 swers, Isaac Jones
Q In concluding DR.. Taylor summed up
p, ths growth and progress Of the city and
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