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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
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Fiag-I,aising, with Appropriate Exercises,
at Hanby's Corner Public school.
Special Correspondence OF Gazette and Journal
HASBY's CORNER, BRASDYwINE
HUNDRED, May 29.-Saturday' was a
red-letter day at this place. The whole
community, men, women and children,
turned out to the tiag-raising and the
ceremonies attendant thereto. The pole,
rs feet in height and straight as all
arrow, was presented and hauled by
Jacob X. Handy, who deserves and re-
ceves the thanks Of the community for
the generous deed. The flag, Il beauti-
fnl one, of elegant proportions, was pre-
sentcd to the llanby's Corner public
school bv the Athene Literary Society,
which had given two entertainments for
the purpose Of raising the funds with
which to buy the flag.
The weather was beautiful, the sun
shine never seemed more welcome after
the long spell of clouds, and nearly 300
persons were present. The programme
was as follows:
| Music. Prof. Thomas Birds Orchestra
| Presentation address,
Eben N. Baldwin. Claymont
Acceptance address. The Rev. L. ). Mace
"Star Spang!ed Banner, ........ Orchestra
Recitation, Answered Prayer
Miss Alice Handy
Music. .,............O Orchestra
Singing, Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, -
Quartet
Recitation. Miss Mable Handy
| MllSlC... ...... ,........... ,.... .OTcnestru
i's'S' Hiss E. Harvey
Recitation, "Union aud Liberty"
Miss Julia Handy
Reading........... Miss May Handy
Muslc..s. .......'''.' '''''.'... 'VrcnesIru
Recitation ..................Mis Miss Il. Pierce
Singing, America" .,.......,. The l.yeelin
Address. Ambrose ,. otteJ
Mr.. Shaw of Upland, also made {
pleasing address and sang n song.
The Rotations, music, and addresse:
were highly commended and creGitahle
The flag was swung to the breeze, ant
there was just enough wind to make i
spread beautifully as the hurrahs re
sounded again and again, and the people
waved their hats in boy ish gladness ant
delight.
Ice cream and cake were served to the
entire audience and most enjoyable
season followed.
The Athene Literary Society wa
organized in the early winter to affort
place for those who desired to spent
one evening week in debating thu
questions of the day, in declamations
readings, Rotations, &C., and among II
) other interesting features was the so
, ciety's paper, Tho 7dttler, which wa
sprightly and interesting.
Thus passed happy summer after
] noon at the old historic Hanby's Corner
| The public school is taught by Mis-
Elizabeth Harvey, who has 30 scholar
on her roll with an average attendanc
of about 25.
Jacob X. Handy is clerk of the schoo
| district and S. Larlxin Handy and Georg
= w. Handy are commissioners.
5 The present school house is the secon
9 one that has been built near the sam
spot, and it is safe to say that a publ
Y or paid school has been held there cor
r tinuously for much longer than 10
! years. A new porch will soon be adde
!; to the presen. building, which is quit
$ comfortable and In fairly good order.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
MEMORIAL sERVloEs.
The Exercises Sunday in Memory OF
Departed Heroes.

Services in memory of deceased SOL
diers were held in several churches last
Sunday. Smyth Post, g. A. r., visited
Harrison Street Church in the evening.
du Pont Post went to Scott Church in
the morning and to Mt. Salem at night.
Sheridan Post visited Rodney Street
Church in the morning, and, accom-.
panied by Encampment No. "a, U. v.
L., went to Grace in the evening. A
service which was attended by the
Grand Army men and the Sons of Vet
Grams was held in St. Paul's Methodist
Episcopal Church in the afternoon.
Harrison Street Church had UNITED
States service" and the Rev. +. Burgette
Short preached on "Our Country, Her
Perils and Her Pride" The sermon at
Scott Church was delivered by the Rev.
j. S. Willis of Milford. The Rev. s. M.
Morgan preached at Mt. Salem. The
preacher at Rodney Street Church was
the Rev. w. Frederick Lewis. AT Grace
the exercises consisted of sermon by
DIR. Hulburd, entitled "The Citizen
Soldier and the Soldler-C Citizen" and
special music. Joseph Pyle presided at
the service in st. Paul's Church and de-
livered brief address, and there also
were addresses by the Revs. John d. g.
Hanna and Il. E. Terry and music by
the choir. All the services were largely
attended and impressive. The several
churches were handsomely decorated.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
.THE ETHICS or EARLY CLOSING


Address by the Rev. :. Il. Meescr at the
Second baptist Church Sunday Favor
ing Early Closing.
The Rev. S. b. Meeser addressed q
large gathering at the Second Baptist
Church Sunday evening on the subject,
"'rhe Ethics of Early Closing" Mr..
DIeeser feared it possible that some peo.
pie may not quite agree with him in the
position he takes upon the question OF
early closing. The question is: why
should business men close their stores
earlyp" IT is well understood fact
that in stores and many branches of
business work is kept up from early
morning to comparatively late hour at
night. This is done to such dregree
that both proprietors and clerks are in
q condition of chronic WEAKNESS and
are rendered unfit for the other duties
Of life, and existence becomes constant
drudgery.
Mr.. Meeser put the direct question as to
whether business demands it. He thinks
il does not. There is no rule COIN
polling it, The responsibility rests be-
| tween the proprietors and the patrons
of the stores. The proprietors do not
want it, and the blame, therefore, rests
with the people who go to buy in the
night. We, he said, are the taskmastcrs.
We have the power to cure this evil.
| The wrong exists only under the tyranny
of public demand. Night business
seldom pays expenses. The wrong
should be opposed in the cause of a
common humanity. The customer alone
has demanded longer hours. The long
hours keep man from attending to his
family and from the duties of church
life. That which prevents the cultivation
of the mind and soul is supreme cause
for interest and opposition. Jesus came
to save men, their bodies, minds and
souls. .. .
Mr.. Meeser had special pleasure in
discussing the subject as it is one Of
those social movements which cos
nothing and are of the greatest benefit
to our fellow beings. The men who are
kept down SO close to business have nc
time to cultivate their minds. II j!
brutal. The same principle which
argues for Sabbath of rest applies alst
to the early closing movement TIT
long hours weary the workers and maxi
them too tired to think. Nothing bu
the grace of God could keep such peopl,
from hunting stimulants or recreation
in the saloon, the brothel or the variety
theatre. Mr.. Meeser closed his address
with warm appeal to all who listenct
to him to encourage the movement TO
early closing.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
DEATH DID NOT PART THEM
An Aged Couple Meet Death
Together at Newark.
BOTH SUFFOCATED BY COAL GAS
Their Fate Not Discovered for
Five Days.


Special Correspondence Of Gazette and Journal
NEWARK, May 2S.-Suffocating by
coal gas and lying dead for four days in
their bed, their bodies suffering from
rapid modification, was the sad fate of
Emanuel and Rachel BeltZ, an aged
couple who had Just moved to this town
from Newport and whose first night in
their new home proved to be the last.
This sad fact was revealed late on
Saturday night by a search of little
frame house on North Chapel street into
which this couple had moved on Tues
day morning and from which neither of
them had been seen to issue since. All
this time the house has been tightly
closed and while some near neighbors
were inclined to suppose that the house
was still untenanted there were others
who had grave suspicious that all was
not well within the little house. The
more the neighbors talked about the
matter with bated breath the more ap-
prehensive they became and finally
George Badson went to S. NJ. Donnell,
the agent OF the property, and asked
him to enter the house and investigate
the mystery. Summoning several others
Mr.. Donnell went to the house about 8
p. M, and receiving no response to re-
peated knocks the door was broken in
and the light of a lantern which they
carried revealed a sad and CHASTITY sight.
Both were lying dead in bed on the
first floor. The mans position and fea-
lures were quite natural, but the
woman's face was absolutely black and
her position such rs to indicate that
great struggling had preceded her death.
Suspicion of foul play at once arose,
but an examination of the premises
soon cleared the mystery and pointed
conclusiyely to coal gas as the cause oil
death. The room was tightly closed
and stove near the bed with lids open
was half filled with coal half burned
showing that fire had been started Il
dry the house and had burned so slowly
as to fill the room with gas and asphyxi
ate its inmates. Their death most prob
ably occurred on Tuesday night, as theii
bodies were in an advanced state of de
composition.
Deputy Coroner Palmer came out oil
the midnight train and summoning jur,
with S. NJ. Donnell as chairman, ex
amined thoroughly into the circum
stances of the affair, after which TIL
jury declared that death had beef
caused by coal gas. The bodies wer,
at once taken in charge by Undertake
Hart and yesterday afternoon the.
were buried in the Methodist cemetery
few steps from their little house. Tn
victims were plain and hard working
people and were the parents of Joshui
Beltz, night engineer at the p, W. g. 3
water tank.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
EINDERGARTEY YORK.
Miss Fishers Address Before the New
Century club. Saturday Afternoon.

Century club. Saturday Afternoon.
The address on the topic "Kindergar-
ten as Preparation for After Educa-
ton and Life" by Miss Fisher of Bos-
ton, was very largely attended by the
club members. The lecturer was intro
duced by Miss Negendank, president Of
the Delaware kindergarten Association.
Miss Fisher pleaded for the establish
ment of kindergartens and expressed
surprise that city SO large as Whining
ton has not introduced them in the
public schools. They are being intro
duced even in village schools now. The
lecturer said in part:
"Many think that the kindergarten is
merely play, but it Is not. just because
the child enjoys itself is no reason for
saying it is play. Is all work unpleas-
anti Ought we not, do we not, gain
great deal of pleasure out of our work.
1.-THE kindergarten plants the seeds
for future flowers. A child who has
attended kindergarten will be at least
two years ahead of child who has
never had their privileges. The child
carries the kindergarten into his home.
The mother soon asks to be taught the
songs that her child sings and the games
that he plays. The father, too, begins
to spend his evenings at home listening
to and playing with his children. How
wide is the field for good in the kinder
garten?
Glow much better arc the games
played in the kindergarten than those
| played years ago, such as Little Sallie
Waters Oats, sweet peas and barley
grow The kindergarten games, such as
'rhe Wheelwright,' Blacksmith, Shoe
maker and Farmer have meaning
at the bottom, and the children soon
forget the meaningless games when they
are substituted by those more real.
"The child is taught unselhshness
The mere fact of his being brought in
contact with other children tends &c
make him unseltish. If he sees his play
mate in trouble over his blocks he wishe:
to help him and asks if no may do SO.
His wish is granted and he is made
happy by helping others"
The lecturer explained that mora
teachings existed as an undercurrent in
all kindergarten work. In everything
the divine is pointed out. The child Ii
taught to love Him who made HEAVIER
and earth.
AT the close of the address Miss Fishei
was greeted with the warmest expires
sions of applause.
Mrs. A. d. Warner then gave brie
outline of the free kindergarten worl
carried on in this city. There are nov
seven free kindergartens in Wilmington
Two are at the Frebel House, Churcl
and Taylor streets, in charge of Mis-
Rumford, Kindergarten; at the Yves
End reading room; at Bancroft's Banks
both in charge of Miss Carrie Nutter
over Eleventh street bridge, Miss Ander
son, Kindergarten; over Brandywine
Miss Clara Clark, Kindergarten, anC
the one under the association at Seventh
and Rodney streets, Miss Julia Both
we'll kinderrhrtnnr
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31

Evangelist Davenport preached to a
good-sized audience Sunday evening in
the Auditorium. His subject was "'rhe
Second Coming of Our Lord" lie said
the signs of Christ's coming are among
us. The Bible tells us that the time for
coming will be when there is great oppo-
sition to Jesus Christ. 1t is forming
now. The destruction of the Christian
marriage has begun already. Laws to
give power to the rich and to Cypress
the poor are being made. Society is
breaking up. These are the signs, 1t is
not only in this country, but the world
over. There are signs of people refusing
Gods Son. God has wrath and He
will let it loose on these people. Mr..
Davenport will preach at the same place
next Sunday evening.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
BUILDING RECORD.
Permits for New Work Issued by the
Building Inspector Last Week.

Permits for New Work Issued by the
Building Inspector Last Week.
During last week Building Inspector
Dohl issued permits for new work as
follows; .. .....=..
A. Stewart, open porch, No. 1908
Lowering avenue. ..
j. A. Booth, one. story brick kitchen,
No. 900 West Ninth street.
George w. johnson, two-story brick
dwelling, No. 1924 West Fourth street.
G. Dorsey, repairs to No. 1918 West
Fourth street.
II. w. Connell, one-story brick store
house, southeast corner Fifteenth and
French streets.
S. L. Tarbutton, one story brick
kitchen, No. 102 South Jackson.
u. f. Stewart, one three story brick
dwelling, southwest corner Seventh
and Rodney streets. ...5
c. l. Swayne, alterations to three
story dwelling, southwest corner OF
Fourteenth and Broome streets. Also
alterations to No. 221 Market street
and No. 900 Delaware avenue.
Four chimneys, one water closet and
one gable were condemned.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31

During the week ended at noon
Saturday II deaths were reported to
Registrar Colquhoun, as compared with
20 for the corresponding week of last
year, classified as follows Males, 8;
females, 81 white, 12; colored, 8; adults,
0; minors, 8; native, IA; foreign, 8.
Death resulted from the following
causes: Commissions, 2; consumption,
A; anacmia, apoplexy, angina, pectoris,
congestion of the lungs, congestion Of
the liver, diphtheria, valvular heart
disease, inanition, old age, softening of
the brain, whooping cough, / each.
Eighteen births are reported, 8 white
males, II white females, colored male.
Sixteen white marriages are reported
compared with A for the same week last
wear.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
SERMON Ar VEST CHURCH.
A Discourse by the Rev. A. N. keigwin
Sunday Night on "Faith."

Sunday Night on "Faith."
The Rev. A. N. Keigwin preached in
West Church Sunday night on "Faith,"
taking for his text Exodus w, "a I:
"And it came to pass by the way in the
inn that the Lord met him and sought
to kill him."
Up to this time Moses, he said, was
not worthy of notice, voluptuary,
tyrannical, cowardly; but the Holy
Spirit is faithful in mentioning faults of
scriptural characters. God does not
expect us to be perfect; our faults are
shown that we may overcome them.
The bottom of Moses trouble was lack
of faith, as shown by his failure to cir
cumcise his son. The fault of many
Christians to-day is lack of faith. The
seal and sign of baptism now is what
circumcision was at that time. e.
Faith transforms and changes life;
faith has sense of sin. A Mohamme-
dan who got Christianity in his life was
asked what made the change and said
at was looking at the cross of Christ
which gave me sense of SIM" We
must put cross before us and assume it.
There Is state of religious feeling in
the church that man is fanatic ii he
believes Christ may come second time
Therefore get decision in religions
Many protesting faith are dead. Men
of Egypt knew Moses was not sincere
by his neglect to circumcise his son
There are multitudes of Sunday-schoo
children looking at their teachers and Al
their parents, wondering that they dc
not live the religion they teach. Men de
not live religion because they have none
Do not expect the blessing of God O.
success in life if you profess religion
and don't live Christian life. Be SINGER
if you would do good to your fellowmen
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
A PRISONERS TESTIMONY.
There is No Room for Complaint by thu
Inmates of New Castle Jail.

Editor Gazette and Journal. The writer
having read in your paper copy of
the Stidham letter to the New York
World, in reference to the Jail here, is
SO struck by its untruthfulness, which
is unjust to Sheriff Gould, that he feels
it his duty, as a prisoner, to contradict
the statements made.
The Jail proper is in healthier and
better condition than 1t has ever been
before. The food given to prisoners is
wholesome and of the very best quality;
besides each one receives an extra large
ration; more, am told, than given by
any previous sheriff. am of the opinion
we are not sent to this place to be
"banqueted;" those of an epicurean taste
should not be tr2nsgressors OF the law.
In regard to the statement made shat
colored prisoners are the favored few"
wish to say most emphatically that this
is not true. Sheriff Gould is kind
hearted man, just at all times to black
and white alike. He is ever ready to
grant favor which will conduce to a
prisoners comfort, and 1 am of the
opinion that if the next sheriff is up to
the same standard, we prisoners will
have no cause to complain.
4. B. MILLIKIN.
New CASTLE JAIL, May 28th, 1894.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31

man what is right; it wants nothing
more and nothing else will lie accepted.
While those men and their families are
hungry II is an outrage for the Pullman
Co to declare dividends. When ii is
necessary TO protect their iiresides the
men will fight. He would say to the
plutocracy II has no injunctions strong
enough, no armies large enough and no
dungeons black enough tointimidate the
American Railway Union.
The concluding speech was made by
II. j. Martin of Minneapolis, national
lecturer of the knights Of Labor. Never
since 1876, he said, have the hosts of
labor been gathered in such large NUM-
bers under the banners Of the American
Railway Union and the Knights Of
Labor us they are now. The two giant
organizations are standing shoulder to
shoulder. lie complained Of the divid-
ing of trades and asserted that the shoe
makers trade is not one-siXty. of
what ii used to be. The combination of
wealth is the cause of the cutting up of
trades. lie declared the American Rail-
way Union aud the Knights of Labor
intend to marshal their forces from the
Pacific 10 the Atlantic until no amount
OF money or monopoly VIII be aOlo to
lace them. Tie contended that under inc
Constitution OF the United states capital
has no rights. Capital Is simply the
name OF tools OF labor, nothing put
dull, dead, inert matter The founders
OF the country recognized that capt
tai has no rights. They recog-
nized that the Will oil the ma
jority should rule. Nhen he was
coming in from the railroad station lie
passed elegant houses with VelVety
lawns. This country was not founded
for the people who occupy those houses,
but for the people lie was addressing.
The founders OF the country did not
intend that men should work Tor ~
cents and $l.50 per day. The object OF
the labor organizations is TO restore the
common masses to their rights. The
societies want the united support and
| sympathy of every working man Ill
| America and they want to act peace
fully. They need every man, ana Then
they wont have to fight. Peaceful
methods will win if the men arc united
They have great power IN their hand:
and they want every man to contribute
his share to the effort. lie related the
ancient story of Pat converting the Jew
and expressed the hope that In con
yerting the workingmen they woui.
| not have to resort to rats method
lie urged his hearers to not bu!
goods manufactured at establishments
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
ORPHANS coURT.
An Appeal in the Allen VS.. Leach Case
Various business Transacted.

Chancellor Wolcott presided in the
orphans court last Monday.
Philip @. Churchman was granted an
appeal in the Allen VS.. Leach case.
The petition presented by Austin
Harrington for leave to cxpend the
principal held by Mary L. Shultz,
guardian for the Shultz minors, for their
maintenance and education, was granted.
A renewed order was granted Victor
B. Woolley, trustee, to sell the real
estate of Charles L. Cooper, deceased.
The petition for partition sale, pre-
sentcd by Herbert II. Ward for Ellen
Moore and others was granted.
The return of the sale of the property
of w. r. Stops, deceased, by John IL.
Rodney, was confirmed.
Charles B. Evans presented the petit
ton of James Hossinger, administrator
of William Dean, deceased, to settle a
certain judgment lien against Joseph
and w. K. Dean in the real estate OF
Margaret Dean, deceased, which was
granted.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31

CHEsTERTowN, Nd, May 27.-Blight
in the growing wheat is general through
out Kent county, but some fields are
much more seriously affected than
others. The trouble is a black fungus
growth on the head of the wheat, COM
pletely destroying its vitality. The ex-
tent of the damage is variously esti-
mated from one-cighth to one-tenth.
Mr.. l. r. Leaventon puts the damage
atone-tenth, though some of his neigh
bors put it much higher.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
Changes in Delaware Bay Buoys.

Notice is given by the lighthouse in
spector that the following changes have
been made in the buoyage of the Fourth
district; A gas buoy, showing a white
light, has been substituted for the spar
buoy marking the Elbow of Ledge,
Delaware bay and the following changes
made in the buoyage OF Cape May
channels; Eph Shoal buoy (outer eud)
from a spar to second-class can; Cape
May Spit, buoy No. 2, from spar to u
tirst-class nun; Elbow buoy, No. %,
now No. A, from a spar to second. class
nun; Cape May channel, buoy No. A,
now No. 6, from a spar to second-class
nun; North Shoal buoy, No. 3, from o
spar to second-class can; Mummy
Shoal buoy, from spar to a second.
class can; Crow Shoal buoy No. 6, now
No. s; Upper entrance buoy to Cape
May channels, from spar to a second
class can; Through buoy from a spar tc
second.class nun; buoy abreast Of
Brandywlne Shoal, No. s, now No. 10
The colors of the buoys remain un'
changed.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
THE HARRINGTON BURGJARIEs.
Arrest of a Coiored Burglar Who Was
Fond OF Candy.

A colored youth, about is years old,
who had been bound out to Dr. Barber
recently, was caught in the act of burg
lariously entering Quillen's general mer-
chandise store, at Harrington, Thursday
night. lie had bored hole in the store
door and thrust in his fingers for the
purpose of sliding back the bolt, when
he was seized by some men who had
secreted themselves in the store in an
ticipation of his visit.
While being taken to the lookup he
confessed that he had committed the
numerous small burglaries which have
mystified the citizens of Harrington
during the last two months and re-
marked that he would rather spend next
winter in Jail and have good food than
be compelled to work. He had pen
chant for stealing candy, pocket knives
and other cheap articles.
The boy is now locked up in Dover
Jail.