Evening journal., 1897-02-25
NEWS Of NEW CASTLE
CLIPPED Off THE WIRES
Railroad and Trolley People in
Nice Row.
CUT LIGHT WIRES REGARDLESS

"PENNsY's" MEN RESENT THE AC-
TIoN or THE NEW TROLLEY
COMPANY IN STRETCHING
WIRES ACROSS THEIR RAILROAD
TRACKS AT NIGHT.
When it was learned that such lit
tie insignificant infant in swaddling
clothes as the Wilmington and New
Castle electric railway had stolen a
march on the Delaware toe of the great
"Pennsy's" corporation, by stringng its
electric light wires across the railroad
tracks in the dead Of night, there was
smoke and vapor in the air.
About noon yesterday a Delaware
railroad train brought up Chief Engi-
neer l.. J. Allen, Assistant Foreman
Beers, Lneman Taylor and others Of
the Clayton officials of the Delaware
road, and at once they began to hustle.
City Clerk c. Edwin Eckles was sta
toned in the neighborhood, and after
a friendly salutation Mr. Allen said:
who strung those wires across our
property"
Don't know" said Councils clerk.
Done during the night"
Did you ever hear of such effrOnt-
eryl What are they for?"
They're on the poles erected by the
new trolley company, which has con-
tracted with Council to light the city.
well. who is this trolley company;
who's the superintendent"
Cant tell you, sir, but Council has
passed and recorded an ordinance
granting the company the right to erect
poles and string wires through the
city -"
But before he had finished Lineman
Taylor had Skinned the pole nearby and
clipped the wires with a swish. At al
the crossings the wires were treated
alike.
COLORED MANS HEAD CUT
AT the Third street crossing, not only
were the wires cut, but a colored mans
head Jared the same fate The line
man, by mistake, dropped the electri'
light wire across another telegraph
wire. Seeking to throw it back, he at
tached a stone and threw the ston'
over the telegraph wire. In mid-air
however, the stone left its keeper ans
descended upon the head Of colorel
John Hall. inficting an ugly cash, ant
then bounding off to the tune of Hail.
choice anti-religious exclamation.
COUNCIL IN SPECIAL SESSION.
City Council held special meeting
last evening on the lighting contract
The contract with the Wilmington ant
New Castle Electric Railway Company
signed by f. II. Treat, president, and /
l.. Day. secretary, was read for thir'
time and referred to the city sOlicito
for his approval or disapprOval
Councilman Cooper offered a resolu
ton that instead Of zone year" tn
words "three years" be in
serted thus extending the tim
of the existence of the cor
tract. President Morrison said h
would never vote for one set of cour
cilmen to bind another for any tins
Mr.. Schuhardt wanted to wait and sc
what the city got this year before
tied itself up for any number of year
to a private corporation
Referring to the trouble over tn
electric wires. Mr. Harrington move
that a committee be appointed to cor
fer at once with the city solicitor as
whether Councils franchise granted
the electric railway company hadanyv v,
lidity, or whether Council had not tl
right to grant permission to erect pole
and string wires through the city.
The committee to confer with the 81
licitor was chosen by the president, an
Council adjourned.