The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-22
NEW CASTLE NEWS
Correspondence OF the REPUBLICAN,.
NEW CASTLE. March 90, 1897.

| luo IlDsu SAL RulAb Vi uuI pcuplb WGTG
awe struck at the number Of people car
rled by the electric cars between Whining.
ton and this city. In the morning the
two oars on regular turns carried about
| % passengers. As noon timO arrived tho
| numbers increased to 80 and by O'Clock
| the cars were insufficient to carry the pas
| sengers.
Two more cars were added to the ser.
| vice and for three hours each car came into
| the city with from IS to ll0 passengers
| aboard. New Castle was an entirely new
town. Friends visited friends and the
majority Of peopla laughed over the sue
cess of the road because it was the first
day in the history Of the city that It's peo-
pie were given chance to go away on
Sunday or for friends from Wilmington
TO come to New Castle
But there can be nOestimate mado by
outside parties as to the number of pas
seDgsrs carried, as some people place the
number at 4U9D and others at over 60D9
On Saturday nearly 5000 passengers
travelled over the line Every one who
did travel gave it as their unbiased opin-
ion that the high bridge is an unsigbtly
unnecessary object that ought to be taken
down
On Saturday afternoon The funeral of
Mrs Elizabeth Cotfman took place.
The funeral services were conducted at
Beattie Wylic, pastor of the Presbyterian
Church InterInent was made In the
Presbyterian cemetery, The pail bearers
were John y. Stoops, John Fle!ning,
Lewis H. Eliason, i, h. Lancaster Harry
W. Hushebeck, and James t. DUNCAN.
Rudolph A. Vallette, the we'll known
baker of No. 81 North Second street, met
with painful accident Saturday. Mr..
Valette wa; engaged in taking broken
- Pn,NN Of In hII1l ttftp.
dows when his left hand slipped and tho
knuckle Of the Index finger was cut off.
The Shakespeare Club will meet at the
homo of Miss Estella Deakyne on March |
80, The study will be Macbeth"
Ex,Sheriff ellis and family will take
possossion of the Peters Nursery farm on
March 25.
The Womaus Suffrage Association held !
an election at the home of John A. Walls.
The following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, May Phillips; vice-president, Mrs.
Ira Lunt; secretary Miss Cordelia Dea-
kyne: corresponding secretary j. NJ.
Wiso treasurer, Miss Lydia Moore.
Tho Y. w. C. 4. U. will hold a social
meeting at the homo of Miss Ida Wilhelm,
OH Delaware street, this evening.
Tomorrow evening the first trolley par
ty will go to Wilmington when 25 NOM
bers of the A. 0. U. W. will pay frater-
gives a smoker that eyoning.
On Saturday morning while at the
United States Hotel Mrs. Perry Joyce re-
ceived paralytio stroke and since then
has been in critical condition. Her
right side is completely paralyzed and
the sufferer is unable to speak TO those
around her. Il
Bishop Coleman confirmed class Of
eight persons In Emmanuel church yoSter'
day. {
On Saturday night the Bishop addressed |
tho Senior Brotherhood of st Andrew. /
The fisherman cannot understand their
good fortune on Saturday as five boats
caught nearly 800 of the fish of which
Delaware is so proud.
The Electric Railway Company should
appoint q special officer for Saturday and
Sunday to see that good order is preserved
ON tho cars and that tho small boys are d
kept from hanging on the back end Of the 7
oars
Tho trolley cars are annoying, (O to
some of the religious people of New Castle
and they assert that the old blue laws
must be put in operation and the cars |
must not be run on Sunday. The people 4
are in favor Of Sunday traffic and we II
must have it.
VIM Stoops says he does not favor the p
European dish, baked cat.
,'clock the cat that had been at the e
Stops home went into tho oven of the
toye. Mrs Stoops closed the door and the
amily retired for the night. Yesterday
q peculiar odor tloated trough :,
he house. Stoops started on tour of u
Investigation and found that tho cat had
)eon roasted to n crisp.
The different places OF business at pres
mt here received n boom on Saturday G
light by the crowds Of people that came
rom Wilmington.
The property-owners will present petit =
ion this week to the Legislature asking
or the passage Of the new city charter. a ,
arge number Of those who signed re.
lonstrance against its passage will with. a
raw their names as they signed uDdor Il
alse idea. z
One woman signed because sho was in
ormed that it would cos SO GOO to trim
l0 trees In order to 8 ing tho electric
ght wires. 1t is truo that thoro may be
rouble over tho electric lights but still it
unfair to uso false statements to bolster
p n case to defeat the progress of the
ity.
Mamie and Ella Silva, Ellie Woods and
hOmaS Woods and Qurk of Delaware
ity visited New Castle friends yesterday.