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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07
WANTS 10 EXTEND LINES.
City Railway Go. Desires to Hun Cars on
" Several add t,opaI Strsets.

SeNerHt SudlttOhui Streeth.
The Wilmington City Railway Go. is,
malsina arrangements for important ex-
tensions in the city limits and the
management hopes to have several
miles of additional track in operation
in the near future.
Tho company, through General Man
ager Joseph G. Lugar and Superintend
emit Harvey b. VANDERBILT, has made
application to the Directors of the
Street and Sewer Department to build
lines on SIXTH street from the western
boundary of the city to Church street
and up Church to Eighth to connect
with the East Eighth street branch;
on Ninth street from Market to Wood
lawn avenue; up Woodlawn avenue to
Seventeenth street, to connect with the
Rising Sun line; on Washington and
du Point streets from Front street to
Delaware avenue; also to put down a
double track on Fourth street from
Market to Monroe, making two tracks
on Fourth street from Market to Union,
and to relay O portion of the track on
West Eighth street.
The department has granted permits
sion for the work on Fourth and Eighth
streets and 1t is believed the other
privileges asked for will be given, as
the company is prepared to comply with
all of the legal requirements in build
ing the extensions. The material has
heen ordered for the work on Fourth
and Eighth streets and orders will be
placed for that which will be needed
on the other streets as soon as the per-
mission is given to do the work. The
company has also decided to relay the
special work at Fourth and Market and
in front of the p, W. d b. railroad
station. and improved material has been
| ordered for that work.
! The details for running the cars on
the proposed extensions will not be
perfected until work Is actually under
| Superintendent Vandegrift have
| figured out what. they hope to accom- !.
plish with the additional facilities.
The probabilities are that cars will
run both ways on Sixth street, although
| they may run north or south of that
street after reaching the city limits
and in time may run one way on Sixth
street and the other way on some other
.crosstown thoroughfare. The West
| Ninth street line may be used in con
junction with that on West Eighth
street, cars running one way on Eighth
/ street and the other way on Ninth,
with the terminus either at Rising Sun
| or Seventeenth street and Woodlawn
avenue, with connection for Rising
Sun. The object of the proposed lines
on Washington and du Pont streets
from Front street to Delaware avenue
is to have west side loop connecting
the southwestern section of tho city
1 with the northwestern section. Cars
will probably run one way on Washing
ton street and the other way on du Point
until business demands double service
on each thoroughfare.
The aim of the management in max.
ing the extensions is to give the people
living in the sections Of the city SOME
distance from the business centre
better facilities for reaching Market
street. the markets, railroad stations
and steamboat wharyes.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07
PENINsUL4 r4K4aRseHs.

j. Howard Love of Colora died at
Santiago recently.
The Rev. Q. ". DeVenish has bought
a cottage at Rehoboth.
The Elkton shirt factory has re-
ceived large order from a Philadel-
phia firm.
Two large boilers and nine water
wheels are being put in the Conowipgo
paper mills.
The Rev. Elmer E. Jones of Cecilton
has been appointed pastor of Armory
Church, Dover. 'T1'-T
Owing to another engagement, Ad.
miral Schley cannot attend the Della
ware State fair.
John g.. Constable of Elkton has
been appointed first lieutenant of the
Forty sixth Regiment. n
The Holiness Association has bought
SIN acres of land adjoining its carnp.
meeting grounds, near Denton.
William X. Grow, formerly of Elk
ton, has been appointed general north.
western freight agent of the Erie rail.
road, with headquarters at st. Paul.
MINI. 'e''
Licenses have been issued in Cecil
county for the marriage of the follow.
ing couples: Charles Holmes and Ed.
mona Curtis. James Pondeleon and
Rosa Gallo. George W. Crawford and
Emily n. Mussar. N
Farms near Centreville have been
sUld as follows: The Burns farm. h
William I. Bishop, for 81, 100; Wriebt.s
Chesterfield farm, to Mary Il. Harris.
son, for ST., 200; the FELTON, farm, IA
Joseph E. George, for "a, 63s: the
for 81, 10l.
Harry Long of Odessa was arrested
in Elkton few days ago upon a war.
rant sworn out by his wife last JuIy.
charging. him with assaultin9 her
They mad not lived together for some
time, and in July Long won't 10 Elkton
and demanded the child and, the wift
claims, assaulted her. He was reoi,ire]
! Thursday. -'N'
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07
BAY STATE GAS co. BUYS.
Acquires Twelve Properties Below Front
STREET.-THE Establish Electric Machinery

Acquires Twelve Properties Below Front
STREET.-THE Establsih Electric Machinery
Plant.
The Bay State Gas Co. has bought
Il properties in tho neighborhood of
Front and Justison. The purchase in
cludes the property of the Kent &
Weeks Lumber Go. at Front and Justi-
sou streets, all the adjoining proper
ties on the west side of Jnstison street
north of the p, w. Il B. railroad, and
several properties adjoining the Kent d
Weeks property on the south side of
west Front street. All the properues
bought touch each other except on
West Front street where the line is
broken by single building owned by
the Wilmington Coal Gas Co.
President Hippo of the Real Estate
Trust Co. of Philadelphia transferred
the properties to the Bay State Gas Co.
yesterday.
The company proposes, it is an
nounced, to establish plant for the
manufacture of electric power general
ing and distributing machinery.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07
STEAMBOAT FOR ECUADOR
Contract Has Been Awarded TO the
Pussy & Jones Co. Of This City.
TWELFTH FOR THE GUAyAQUIL
To be Built Here and Shipped
in Sections.
A CREDIT TO WILMINGTON HANDlWORK

The Pussy & Jones Go. has Just con-
tracted with New York house for the
construction of side wheel steamboat,
freight trade on the rivers of Ecuador.
This boat, with its machinery, will be
shipped in sections to Guayaquil, at
up aud finally completed.
An interesting fact in connection
with this order is, that this will make
the twelfth steamer built by this COM
pany for Guayaquil, tho records show
ing as its predecessors five steamers
under the order of ono customer, at
different times; these being followed
by one named Chimborazoo another,
Olmedo; then the Chimbo; two for
still another customer; then one named
contract, making twelve steamers for
the section referred to.
The Daule was shipped just as the
present boat will be, in sections. The
owner of tho latter, in Guayaguil. has
been in consultation with the Pussy &
Jones Co. Of late, and brought to its
office photograph of the Daule. taken
upon the river at Guayaquil, showing
had not before appeared to her builders.
The picture is doubly interesting, with
its uncommon background of perennial
palms and other picturesque and tropi-
cal scenery along the rivers banks.
And as the palm has SO long symbol
lied that which is superior, the peculiar
appropriateness of such symbol APP
pearing in conjunction with Whining.
toms handiwork, may be easily recog-
nized.
The construction of the new boat
will be promptly put in hand, to meet
the urgent needs of its purchasers.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07
STRIKE AT. CRAMPS.

One Hundred and Fifty Expert Machini'u
and Their BeiperH Went Out This Morn
inE-The Entire Works Will be CLOSED
Untii September lin. iH"
Philadelphia, Pa, Sept. LIN &C.
cordanco with the resolution passed at
their meeting last night, $50 expert
machinists and their helpers, employed
at Cramps shipyard, went out on
strike today. After quitting work, the
men went TO hall near the shipyard,
and held a massmeeting, at which
they discussed their troubles. The men
demand a nine-hour day and the rem.
statement of discharged employees. II
was the intention of the machinists 70
have u committee call upon the tirm,
but up to noon this had not been done
The blacksmiths employed in tho ship
yard were to haye struck today, but
that department was shut down at
noon yesterday, thus frustrating the
plans of the mon.
THE entire works will be closed down
tonight, and remain closed until Sep
tember 18th. The only reason given tor
the shut down is that the firm desires
that the visiting Grand Army veterans
shall have full opportunity next week
to visit the works.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07
COVE S. MANNERING KILLED.
A Former City hallway Motnrman Meets
Death While at Work in New York.


Death While at Work in New York.
Cove S. Mannering, aged % years,
who formerly lived on South Clayton
street and was motorman in the en-
ploy of the Wilmington City Railway
Co.. was killed Thursday while at work
in New York City. He was killed by a
fellow workman, at reservoir in the
upper part of the city dropping a
bucket on his head. He lived only a
few minutes after the accident.
In response to a telegraphic message
concerning his death, his mother, Mrs.
Mary Mannering Of. No. $50 Rodney
street, and brother, v. Burt Mannering
went to New York Friday.
The funeral took place Sunday In
terment was made in New York City.
Deceased having resided in Whining
ton the greater part of his life, was
we'll known here His relatives living
here are his mother and several brothers
and sisters, James A., Wilbur S., and
V. Burt Mannering and Mrs. Mary
Cloud, Mrs. Lillie Weldin, Mrs. Martha
Jacques, Mrs. Amy Humes, Mrs.
Eta Curry and Mrs. LAURA Weeks.
James A. Mannering is a motoman in
the employ of the City Railway Co.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07
ayrons Famllr Rrun,en.

The descendants of the late james
S. and Susan Hyrons held family
reunion at Brandywine Springs Park
last Thursday. Those present were as
follows: Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ.
Hyrons, Misses Bertha, Mabel and
Ruth Hyrons, Mrs. S. h. button, Miss
Agnes button, William H. Dutton,
Mrs. John II Hyrons, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jesse Way, Harmer Way, Mrs. Mary II.
Bowers and daughter, Miss Ella Kirk.
man of Oakland, Cal. Mr.. and Mrs.
R. S. Griffith OF Sassafras, Md. {; MIR.
and Mrs. William z. Hyrons, Edgar
G. Hyrons of Philadelphia, Pa. Mr..
and Mrs. George Mccall. Mrs. John
Howarth. Miss Nita Howarth, Miss
Anna Howarth of Chester, Pa, and
Mrs. Mary L. Lynch,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07
FIRST DELA W4RE BATTERY.
Pleasant Reunion of Survivors at Tyre
Woods.


The First Delaware Battery Associa-
| tion held its annual reunion in Tyres
Woods, near Shellpot Park, Thursday
Those who responded to the roll call
we're: Lieut.. William Lea, A. W. Jones,
Parke Mason, G. L. Jefferis, William
Ion, John B. Kelley, jackson W. Cox,
Maurice B. Henvis, John Brear, W.
W. Lackey, Robert Liddell, j. L.
Mason, William B. Adams, Robert G..
Turner, all of this city; Samuel L.
Garrett, Fairyille, Pa. Michael
Dougherty, Henry Clay; Bernard
Daley, Chester; William b. MARITIME,
Booths Corner; Lewis G. Clair, Elan
u. K. McKinsey of Newark; II. Walter
Townsend of Avondale; Wesley l. Hus.
bands of Rockland; 4. L. Il tiknson, New
Castle; Pierre Gentieu, Henry Clay
William A. Talley, Booths Corner
Owen Mackin, Philadelphia; William
Wilmot, Marshallton.
Others present included William
Lawton, E. E. Hanna, John Lynn,
Phillip Tyre, Samuel Hawkins, George
Phillips, James Monaghan, Harry
Williams, Edward Lea, Frank Mason
Fred L. Kelley, Moses We'll and Edwin
G. Jefferis.
The following officers were elected fol
the ensuing year: President, Frank S
Vernon of Linwood, Pa. Vice Presi
dent, Lieut.. William Lea; Secretary
w. w. LacKey; Treasurer. John Brear
Chaplain, John b. Kelley; Color
Bearer, Carleton L. Jetferis, all of thi
city.
The picnic was begun with the un
furling Of ''Old Glory Dinner wa
served by the women of the veterans
families who we're in the picnic party
OF the l6l members of the batter
who served in the war, 80 are still lir
ing. 1t was announced that James w
Green of st. Louis, member OF til
association, will attend the G. A. r
encampment in Philadelphia wit
Sheridan Post of St. Louis, and his oil
comrades can see him.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07
THE BUSINESS SITUATION.


Bradstreet's IN Saturdays issue says:
"Witb an exceptionally heavy business!
already booked for the latter portion OF
the year. the mercantile community
faces the trade situation with oonn-
dence, testified to by very general urn
prices and with quotations in numper
OF lines showing further marked al
vances. Tho most conspicuous excep.
ton to this is found in cereals, whlch
are weak and declining. Most staples
are either firmly hold or evince deoided
progress upward, notable in this latter
respect being iron and steel OF all KINDS.
Trade reports would seem to Indicate
that a good part of the productive
capacity of the country is already en-
gag I'd for the first half of 1900. sym
pathetic strength is eyinoed by other
classes Of material. among the materials
advancing this week being bar iron at
nearly ali markets, steel billets, rolled
iron and steel, tin plates and nails. a
feature remarked upon in nearly every
dispatch to Bradstreet's this week is
the backward state of iron deliveries
affecting current production Though
demand is backward for anthracite
coal at the Fast, prices arc reported
| further advanced at the interior, and
predictions are Of further advances ut
| tide water in tho near future. Scarcity
of material and backward deliveries OF
same are reported by clothing manu-
| facturers at many points North, West
and South. Special activity is noted
| in iron, coal and lumber. Satisfactory
reports as regards demand, indeed, come
from nearly all lines of New York trade,
and confidence in the future is noticea-
bic.
Bank clearings at seventy six cities
for August, specially telegraphed to
Bradstreet' show an aggregate Of
S., 500, i63, 443, "A total smaller, as was
to be expected, than for any preceding
month this year, but larger by % pei
cent than those of August year ago,
in which month, it will be recalled,
very large increases first began to be
| noted ~
II. G. Dun & Co. S Review says
1.-THE astonishing feature is the magpi-
tude of demand. Notwithstanding prices
which would ordinarily check it. In
products directly consumed by ind,
vidualS the larger employment and
better wages of the working force give
| explanation. Efforts to meet the de-
mand call for more stores, manufac
turing works and machinery. and facii
ties for transportation, as if every
mans wages were in part diverted Il
build up the nations machinery o.
manufacturing and distribution. The
occasion promises quick profits, the
building is largely for the future. and
it goes on in spite of unusual prices.
THE cotton year ends with spol
quoted at 6l4c. The crop has SURPASSED
all others, and with commercial stocks
here and abroad and mill stocks abou
600, 600 bales better than year ago thu
actual consumption of American cotton
seems to have been about 10. GOO, 00l
bales, so that crop of 1000, 600 bale!
would leave stocks about where they
were year ago, if consumption should
remain the same There is prospect o
increased consumption, but also of
yield exceeding 10000, 600 bales, not
withstanding recent losses. y
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07
MEETING OF Gu UyCIL.
Business Of the City Transacted with ri,
patch.

City Council transacted it's business
with dispatch Thursday evening.
On the recommendation of the finance
committee orders were drawn to pay
the bonds due and payable today,
1927, 800, and also 81. 9sl. so, the interest
on bonds aggregating sT0,050
The following payrolls for August
were allowed: Police Department,
s5.644. 80; Council, $276. %; miscel-
laneous, s3,074.71.
The weekly statement of City Treas
urer Hamann showed balance of
1921, 900. 48 to the credit of current ex-
penses, 1872, 736. AS in the Union National
Bank and S33, 621 in each of the four
depository banks; also fund OF
S17, 534. So for the purchase of park
land. His receipts during the week
were as follows: From Tax Collector
Sayers, 81, 1850; Collector Lewis, 81, 496.
In view of the fact that the bound
books containing the city charter and
ordinances have become scarce and
some members have none, 1t was de.
cided to have Is copies bound, after
oil important ordinances passed sine,
the last book was compiled have beer
added
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07
AN EXPLOSION AT PITTSBURG
Occurred at the Republic Iron
Works Friday Morning,
FIRE INCREASED THE DANGER.
Five Men We're Killed and
Seven Injured.


Pittsburg, Pa, Sept. IA boile,
EXPLOSION at the Republic iron works
on South Twenty fourth street. short,
before daylight today, killed five mes
and seriously injured seven Others A
fire, which broke out following the ey.
plosion, added to the horror. The mill
was partly wrecked, and the entire plant
was compelled to close down. The list
of killed and injured is as follows:
Killed David Matthews, heater,
Thomas Beavens, q heater; William
Thomas, heater; John Warmirski. A
heater, and an unknown man, crushed
almost beyond recognition.
Injured Malachi Donahoe. mud.
dler, badly burned, not expected 10
recover Neil Donahoe. his son, burned
about the head and breast, will die;
Frederick Herb, helper, skull frac.
tured and burned all over the body, will
die; Stephen Milacaski, laborer,
bruised and cut, will recover; Gregory
Sanders, pudder, not serious; Peters
Schnitzer, helper. not serious, and
an unknown man, cut about head, loft
the hospital without giving his name.
The explosion occurred just as the
night force was leaving and the
day force was coming on duty, so that
there were only few men in the mill
at the time. Ii it had happened bali
an hour later, the list of dead and In.
jured would have been appalling. Il
occurred in the 14-inch department
and the conclusion was terrific. Build.
ings mile distant were shaken, and
dust filled the air for two or three
blocks. 1t entered open windows, and
nearly suffocated persons who were
aroused by the roar and the shock,
Immediately following the explosion
the wrenlage took fire, and this added
to the difficulties encountered in rescu.
ing the burned and mutilated victims
| A fire alarm was quickly sounded, and
in a short time the flames were under
control, after which the tiremen were
employed in searching the ruins for The
dead and injured. The first two bodies
taken out were identified as those Of
Beavens and Matthews. The bodies
we're lying against a wrecked furnace.
The men had been knocked down by
the flying bricks, and were roasted to
death by the heat of their own furnace.
The others were found soon after, and
sent to the morgue. The injured vert
removed to the South Side Hospital. :
When the boiler burst, section
weighing four tons was blown through
the roof. and crushed into the side of .
house about 200 yards distant. Tht
building was wrecked, but the occu
pants escaped. This flying portion O.
the boiler tore down the central sup
ports of the roof, which fell in ant
partially burned some of those injured
The cause OF the explosion has no
yet teen determined. The damage Il
the plant is heavy, but the firm canno
estimate il at this time.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07

Thirteen cars on the Baltimore e.
Ohio railroad will be named after
prominent hotels in cities along the
limo, most of them. however, bein g
New York hotels. The new names will
be Waldorf, Astoria, Savoy, Neither
lands, Manhattan, Imperial, Walton,
Holland, Raleigh, Carrollton, Bruins
wick, Massasoit and Brevoort. Hereto
fore, as a rule, Roman generals were
honored by having their applications
artistically lettered in gold upon the
sides of the cars. d. ~
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07
DR.. DOOD TO LEAVE ST. ANDREWS.
He will Assist Dr. Batten at St. Marks,
New York.

The Rev. E. Arthur Dodd, Phi. D.
assistant minister at st. Andrews
Episcopal Church, will conclude his
period of service there the last of this
month, and will go to New York to be-
come assistant to the Rev. L. w.
Batten, Phi. d., formerly acting rector
of st. Andrews, but now rector of St.
Marks Church, on the Bowery. DR..
Dodd is now on two weeks vacation.
The services at st. Andrews on Sum
day will be in charge of the Rev. w.
S. Baer of Philadelphia in the morn
ing, and tho Rev. Henry Ward Cum
ninghan Of Calvary Church in the
evening.
Prof. w. M. Groton of the Philadel-
phia Divinity School, who will assume
charge of the church in October, is to
remain until rector is secured. Mr..
Groton has preached at st. Andrew IS
before and has made friends there.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07
CHANGE IN ICE 0oMPAsIEs.
HyEeia Ice Co. Has Bought the Pocon
COMPANY.

The Hygeia Ice 20. of No. 600 West
Front street has purchased the Pccono
Ice and Coal Co., which has offices at
No. sos King street and at Lombard
street wharf. Jacob Pussy is manager
Of the Hygeia Co. The officers of the
Pocono company are Richard Howell,
president; Louis Paulmier, vice. presi-
dent; Arthur P. Paulmier, treasurer,
and Samuel F. Ogden, secretary.
By combining the two companies,
both manufactured and natural ice will
be handled. 1t is announced that the
main office will be at the foot of LON
bard street.
The consolidation went into effect Fri
day, when the two companies organized
under the charter of the Hygeia Co. /,
with the following. officers President,
Richard Howell; Vice President,
Samuel r. Pussy; Secretary and Trea-
surer, Samuel +. Ogden; General Man
ager, Edward r. Pussy. The Hygeia
Co. lakes the entire coal and retail ice
business, the old Pocono Co. retaining
only the Wholesale ice business.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07
FERRIS soHool MANAGERS.

Calvin C. Thomas Becomes Secretary and
Linaley @. Kent Treasurer In Place Of
Wilmer Palmer.
AT an adjourned meeting of the
board of managers of the Ferris Indus
trial School last Thursday, at the resi-
dence of Alfred D. Warner, No. 1202
Delaware avenue, Calvin G. Thomas
was appointed secretary and Lindley
Q. Kent, treasurer. of the board. These
men succeed Wilmer Palmer, whose
resignation as secretary and treasurer
went into effect yesterday.
The board adopted an expression OF
thanks to Mr.. Palmer for his long and
faithful service as secretary and treas
urer. He continues as a member of the
board. with which he has been con-
nected since June 10th, 1896.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07

Marshall A. J. Springer of No. 1926
Washington street, died Thursday. He
fell down stairs at his residence and
seriously cut his tongue. dying of the
resultant hemorrhage He was 46 years
old aud for several years conducted an
agricultural implement store at Front
and Tatnali streets. He was son of
tho late John p. Springer, formerly
clerk of the peace of New Castle county,
and weil-known in local Democratic.
politics,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-07

The incorporators of the Delaware
Office, Realty and Trust Co. met last
Thursday and elected the following di-
rectors: Former Governor Robert j.
Reynolds of Petersburg; William NAL
ster. mayor Of Baltimore; Former State
Auditor %. L. Lewis of Harrington !;
Lewis j. Spence of New York, eastern
freight agent Of the Southern Pacific
Railway; Thomas N. Stayton, Minor
Q. Smith, Martin j.. Smith, Artemas
Smith OF this city and Louis Pflomm
of Brandywine hundred.