Evening journal., 1895-04-17

in the hands Of committee, sdbisc to the
tortures OF the Wilmington City Railway
Company, with George Massey Jones as
lord nigh lnquisitor.
Chairman Harrington told Richard w.
Crook that no action would be taken on
the Wilmington and Brandy wine Springs
Railway supplement before Friday.
The amendments to the Senate bill 20 In.
corporate the Wilmington and West Ches
ter Electric Railway Company have been
drawn and will be placed 10 the hands OF
Chairman Harrington in few days by
Walter II Hayes, attorney for the In
corporators One amendment is that the
tracks shall not be laid on Concord turn.
pike without the consent of the Will
mington and Great Valley Turnpike
Company, but shall not be built more
than half mile from II in case Of fall
ure to secure the use Of he road The
charter Of the turnpike company provides
for road bed of certain width aud an
electric road would reduce 1t below the
charter requirements Another amend
ment allows the company to construct it's
road from the Pennsy lvania line 10 the
city line, and there It must sUop II the
old company will bJ lid out and connect
with II; otherwise the ne " road may be
built in until it intercepts the old line on
Market street in the Ninth ward
The Old and the New.
The men who want the old boundary
line between Pennsylvania and Delaware
restored came to Dover last evening and
had hearing before the special House
committee having charge Of the bill
introduced by Mr. Walker The visitors
we're ]. I johnson, William Il Smith @
Q Hopkins, Eli Davis and David ]
Murphy, all Of Mill Creek and White
Clay Creek hundreds. They do not want
the General Assembly TO rstify the
finding OF the interstate boundary
commission appointed four years ago.
Several Delawareans were transferred to
Pennsylvania by the new lines run.
Wants to BE superintendent.
Ex- Representative William Cooch. of
Pencader hundred. and Fish Commits
sioner Mulligan, OF Delaware City. and
Magistrate Smith, Of Newark, were in
Dover yesterday. Their visit was due to
the aspirations Of Willard I. Smith, prln.
cipal OF Delaware City public schools He
wants to be superintendent OF the free
schools of New Csstle county. Governor
Watson gave them bearing during the
day. They presented TO him the endorse
ment Of the faculty OF Delaware College,
from which he graduated with tue
highest honor, together with the en-
dorsements Of the school commissioners
OF Newark, Delaware City and the rural
districts in which he 6rst taught
A Medical Bill Hearing.
The old school physicians were the
guests OF the Senate Committee on
Revised Statutes yesterday afternoon as
their homeopathic brethren had been the
day before. The doctors who appeared
before the committee in advocacy of the
House bill regulating the practice of
medicine in the state were Z W. Cooper
X; q Eiegood, Hiram R Burton, Peter
" Tomlinson and E. Downs
The two men who addressed the
committee on the merits of the bill were
Drs. Cooper and Tomlinson. They made
q very favorable Impression but the
committees. did not take fnal action on
the bill.
Mr.. Whiteman Assumes once.
One of the first official duties of secre
tary OF State j. Harvey Whlteman was to
convey TO the judges the Joint resolution
requesting them to give an opinion as TO
whether New Castle county can have
larger representation ia the Constitu
tional Convention than Kent or Sussex
Mr.. Whitemen, who, by reason OF his
legislative service, knows nearly every-
body in Dover, was warmly congratu-
lated by everyone with whom he came Ia
contact, regardless Of politics
Peter HIinuit Memorial.
The Peter Minuit memorial services
will take place In the Curt House. at
Dover. 10 the presence Of both houses OF
the General Assembly. Tuesday, April
23. 1895, at 80 p m The program will
b.: Prayer, BY ChRplsin Murray, of the
House; historical sketch, by Chaplain
Cort. Of the Senate; address, by Henry
q Conrad, ESQ Before Jehovah's
Awful Throne, 20 God, Our Held In
Ages PAS, and "a Hundred Years 10
Come, by cOmps' ent Dover singers.
This Is the Last Day
several Of the stockholders Of the Del
aware State Agricultural Society were
noticed in the lobby yesterday afternoon
II they neditated any effort to secure
reconsideration of the vote by which
their appropriation bill was killed It was
not sppsrent on the face Of the proceed.
ings. This is the third and last day for
AcCuuaAucEhblOus
Legislative Notes.
Enrolling Clerk William 4. Parvis has
returned from Chester, whittier be went
to see his youngest sister, Mrs. Joseph
Harper, who is believed to be dying.
e I. Dilworth, of Wilmington. had a
hearing before the House Committee on
Private Corporations yesterday in behalf
Of the House bill TO incorporate the
Delmarvia Telephone Company. The
original bill has been amended but Mr.
Dllworth seemed to be fully satisfied
The House passed the Senate bill to
incorporate the Sussex Mutual Insurance
Company with an amendment allowing
the co npany to insure sgsinst damage
BY lightning where fire does not ensuo 4
The House bill authorizing the mayor
and Council OF Wilmington to borrow
$3.50 600 for streets and sewers had its
first and second readings in the Senate
and was referred to the Committee on
Cities and Towns
A bill author zlng the Marshallton
school district to borrow 81 900 to build