The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-05-24
FOUR TIMES A FAILURE.
las Not Success In BuxInuss vrnturei
A1xxny2 Th1s ~ Gaia

It's Not Success In BuxIncss Ventures
Always Tint Turns TO Geld.
Two OF our Market street merchants
purchased some twenty acres of marsh
land from one OF our building loan as
Boclations who had taken 1t a. part of
the assets OF the late ex,Judge Walter
Cummings. who had planted 1t with
willows. The ex-JudRe's pet sche me
was to start willow basket Industry
IN our city which would rival anything
like 1t In the country.
But man proposes. and God disposes
and Walters money failed to hold out
shook the Delaware soil from his shoe
strings and coat tall. Our two enter.
prising merchants let the Willows
grow for some two years. when the
baskets failing to appear on any or the
trees they had them reduced to kind.
ling wood and watched the flames from
those willow tree go dancing up
thelr chimmeys during the winter
months. 1t all ended In en- oks. They
then planted a crop OF corn which
grow finely. came out in ear tho Wis
ION Of so bushels TO the acre filled their
hearts with mirth at the prospect
OF having fat bank account when the
corn was harry ested and sold.
The corn pro spered and headed up
fine, was cut and stacked ready to be
husked. when the wind arose and the
water came down In torrents. The
waters arose and burst the Cherry Is.
land bank and swept away nearly
every vestige Of the corn. The crop
was total loss. This was discourage.
msnt number .. DO You think they
became dIshsartened2 No, they
thought II we can't get corn crop we
Will undertake frog industry. So
they hired several men and boys to
catch lfrogs for their pond, which
had now been transformed into and
| commenced to raise frogs by the i'm.
proved Incubator process.
II was rather slow aud costly work
at first, but at last the frogs commence
cd to thrive and the price of frogs
having gone up to % cents a pair, live
| weight. the merchants fairly chuclled
In their glee at fortune smiling SO sue.
cessfully on their third venture
But alas some wicked South side
boys came in the night time and cast
thsir nets and scooped In the pot"
fairly cleaning out the frog pond. and
their owners financial prospects at the
same time. Thus number three ex-
pertinent turned to dross.
This year the ground was got ready
and oats were sown. They came up
OF mother earth. The green serial
fairly shot up and was loeking ex-
| cept.onally fine for a fine large crop
OF oats to the acre. whom IL should be
harvested In July or August. Last
week 1t rained, IL raiped water In
bucket fulls over the South side Tho
wind blew so Violently that tho water
was carried over the marsh banks and
the oat fields Hooded until the tops of
1t were invisible. The question now
ID What will tho harvest hep There's
brighter day dawning we hope for
these land owners over on Cherry
Island marsh.
Moral: One of the owners took
ONE friends over on Tuesday to SOC
the oats. What was his disgust on
drawing near TO the patch to discover
several boys In boats engaged In row
ing over the field and over the top Of
his crop of oats. lie was so mad That
he came to the city and had signs
painted which read: Keep Off tho
Grass, which he had placed in several
places on his Held. ..