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New-York tribune., 1900-01-01
COAL AND WOOD.

COAL AND WOOD.
AWEIO Coal pockets Z3s ". 5Oth-
G1l3GNIIlu st Best quality Coal only
Established s6S. Telephone sST Columbus
DECORATIVE PLANTS. ETC.
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PERMANENTLY preserved natural pains
ferns. etc. The Tropical Decorative
Plant Co., ELMORE, successor. I Union
Square Entrance 14th-st-
New-York tribune., 1900-01-01
THE CHATHAM NATIONAL BANI

QUARTERLY DIVIDEND.
Fy9E BOARD OF DIRECTORS have this day
L declared q quarterly dividend Of FOUR PER CENT.
three months. payable on
% AFTER January 1900 which transferbooks
"''i &c Il p DoREMUs Cashisr.
New York December p 1888.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-01
TYPEwRTTERs-

TYPEWRITERS bought. sold, rented re-
naired. best machines; lowest prices
trial tree; telephone CONSOLIDATE - -
TYPEWRITER EsNC'FT AHCE. PAL u way.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-01

FOR sALE-Ten R.IPA-N.S for cent
- A. FtsI~' ore gives reiirf.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-01

MIR. MONTAGU COLLET NORMAN grand
~" on of our Sir Mark Wilkes Collet Bartl who has
sig ea per procuration'' Brown Shipey
Co in London, this day been admitted partner in
our firms in this country and in London and
time L reside IN London
New Yark January LIST. 1900
II AND 10 NASSAU STREET.
New York. Dec. 81. 1898
NTR. J. Il. LATHAM retires from our firm and
~ his interest this day.
wLNsLow. LANIER & CO
NOTICE Is hereby given that James T.
= wetherzIz retires this from arm OF Pettin-
~ and Company. Advertising Agent No - Scaool
=. Boston Mass, and Nc l2o Bro-lvay, New York
City.
Boston January LIST, 1900.
NV York Dec anth 1899.
THE FIRM OF ROCkFELLoW & SHEPARD
l. IS thi. day dissolr I'd by 4nu.aa con mt.
firm of RockfelIEv & Co assumed all the
Indebtedness and viii collect al! Cctstandtng accounts
ROCKFELIOW SHEPARD.
York Jar. Ist 1900.
" = POCKFEIsLOW and : Nj. SHEPARD have this
5av formed copartnershp the firm style OF W h
& CO. Tor u transaction OF Cornn1ls
sion BUSINESS LII n RocKFELLow.
EsSJ. SHEPARD.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-01

New York, Jan'y 1st. 1900
THE COPARTNERSHIP heretofore existing
under the Dodge. Meigs 81 Co is this
dissolved mutual
Fit r partner is authorized to sign in Liquidation
GEORGE E DODGE.
TITUS B. MEIGS
FERRIS J. MEIGS
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-05-10
A NEW-FoUND WooD.
The Red 0uebracho Makes the Best Rail.
road Ties Known.


road Ties Known.
Baltimore American.
A new and thoroughly suitable
wood for railroad ties has been found
in the forests in the northern part of
the Argentine Republic. 1t is the red
quebracho. 1t is an exceedingly hard
wood, and in its interior. not alone in
the bark, is 10 to 20 per cent, of tannin,
which keeps the wood from rotting,
no matter in what substance it is
buried. The wood has been used in
Europe for tanning, but outside of the
Argentine Republic its utility to rail-
roads, It seems, is yet to DO discovered
and appreciated. Posts made of this
wood which have boon buried fifty years
in land furfowed and quilted by the
torrential rains of summer have been
found to be in as good condition rs
II they had been felled recently.
In the Argentine Republic ballast
for railroad beds is unknown, and the
ties are laid on the ground. which fire.
quently is sandy and exposed to heavy
rains and dried by intense heat. So
iron cross ties we're used until IL was
found that the red quebracho was un-
deniably the host wood that could be
used for the purpose 1t not only is SO
hard wood that 1T has to be bored
before spikes and bolts can he driven
into it, but it is unusually heavy. II
does not split or become compressed
with blows.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-05-10
The Object of school and co,,.r,

The main object of school and college
is the same-to establish character and
to make that character more efficient
through knowledge, sayn L. B. r. Briggs
in the March Atlantic; to make moral
character more efficient through mental
discipline. In the transition from
school to college, continuity of the best
influence, mental and moral, is the
thing most needful. Oddly enough, the
only continuity worthy of the name il
often Tin its outward aspeets) neither
mental nor moral, but athletic. An
athlete is watched at school as an ath-
lete, enters college as an athlete: and
If be is a good athlete, and if he takes
decent care of his body, he continues
his college course rs an athlete- with
new experiences, 1t is true, but ALWAYS
with the thread of continuity fairly
visible and with the relation Of train
ing to success clearly in view. Pal
panly bad as the management of college
atnletics has been and is, misleading as
the predominance of athletics in an in
stitution OF learning may be, the fact
remains that in athletics lies a saving
power, and that for many q boy no
better bridge of the gap between school
and college has yet been found than
the bridge afforded by athletics. The
Freshman athlete, left to himself. is
likely to fall behind in his studies but
unless he is singularly unreasonable
or vicious, be is where an older student
OF clear head and strong will can keen
MIN straight-can at least save him
from those deplorable falls that, 10 a
. whole life. - ' $50
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-05-10
WHY SHAD ARE PLENTIFUL.
Those Caught This Year Were Hatched in
1897 by the U. S. steamer Fish Hawk.

Those Caught This Year Were Hatched in
1897 by the U. s. Steamer Fish Hawk.
CAPT. James Smith of the United
States Fish Commission steamer Fish
Hawk, which is at Gloucester, N. j.. 4,
thus explains why the run OF shad is SO
large this year:
"The shad now being caught are
those which were Matched on the Fish
Hawk IN the year 1897. In that year
we matched GS, 600, 600 shad eggs, ex-
ceiling all previous SEASONS. The young
shad when placed in the river begin a
tour down the Delaware and go through
all the Southern waters. In the course
of three years they return to these
waters again, and therefore those
Matched in 1887 are now being caught
by the fishermen all along the Della
ware. Next year the shad will not be
go plentiful, since, in 1888, the Fish
Hawk was taken out of commission
after short stay in these waters and
sent to Cuba during the Spanish war.
That year only l2,00O, 000 shad eggs
were hatched,"
Last year the Fish Hawk went into
commission again as fish Matching
station, and during Its stay at Glouces.
ter Matched 52,000,000 eggs, which is
16, 0O0, goo below the mark of 1897.
This year Cart Smith hopes to exec
the year 1897 in number OF shad eggs
| patched.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-05-10
THE LATEST BACK.


One can sympathize with the woman
who never has her summer frocks made
until fall, nor her winter ones until
spring, for fear that she will not get
the latest of the season. Is styles, when
one hears now that the box-plaited
skirt is no longer considered desirable
since it has been SO generally adopted
that it has lost its exclusiyeness and
that there's a later favoiite in tho field.
TITS enough to make the most pious
of females say profane words to hear
such news, when no doubt her box
plated skirt has just arrived from the
couturiere's and hasn't even had a
chance to have an airing,
The "back" now pronounced most
desirable has three three-eighth-i inch
tucks on each side of the center stitched
down for about five inches, and then
allowed to hang full. This style will
be particularly effective in soft goods
| for heavier materials, no doubt the
box plated back will remain in favor.
At all events, milady may comfort
herself il her frock is made in the latter
fashion, with the reflection that she'll
have plenty Of company, and that it's
| by no means certain that the tucked
skirts will not shortly, after tho fashion
of things sartorial, lose their exclusive
| ness also. .a.N
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-05-10
STATE HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

Annual Meeting and Contracts Awarded
flor the Next -Four NIothns.
The Trustees OF the State Hospital
for the Insane held their annual meet.
ing at the hospital at Fnrnhurst yes.
terday. DIR. John, j. Black Of New
Castle was ro.elected president and
treasurer and DIR. Paris I. Carlisle Of
Frederick secretary. Contracts for the
ensuing four months were awarded as
follows:
Bread Henry q. Roller.
Groceries Charles l.. Simmons.
Mutton and veal-Frederick Kienle.
Beef--John p. Devine.
Dry goods - jesse L. Sheppard of
Middletown.
Drugs Wilmer G. Tay lor.
Queenswnre-Wi William Lawton.
Shoes and slippers-Jesse L. Shop
pard.
Mems clothing-Jesse L. Sheppard.
Coal-The George W. Bush & Sons
Co,
In the matter of bread Mr.. Roller,
the only bidder, agreed to furnish 1t at
2l4 cents per loaf. For furnishing coal
the bids were as follows: George W.
Bush & Sons Co.-Broken egg coal,
81. %; stove, 81. So; egg, "a. As; soft coal,
81 10 per ton; Charles Warner Co :
Broken egg, "a. 40; stove, $3.50: egg,
$3.50; soft coal, g. 10. Mr.. Kienle
was the only bidder Tor mutton and
veal, his bid being as follows: Mutton,
cents; veal, 10 cents. In addition to
Mr.. Simmons, Frank P. Turner, g. s.
Hurlock n Bro. and w. f. Frank bid
on groceries. Mr.. Sheppard had no
opposition for clothing and shoes, hut
William B, Sharp 4 Co., also bid on
dry goods. Mr.. Sheppard agreed to
furnish shoes and slippers at the follow
ing figures: Women's shoes, so cents I;
carpet slippers, 80 cents; mems shoes,
81. 10; slippers, 35 cents. John P.
Devine, who received the contract for
beef, bid 6 cents. Frederick Kienle
bid GLE cents. Besides MIR. lay lor, N.
b. Danforth bid on drugs. Mr.. Law
ton had no opposition for queensware.
| Another bid was read, but it had no
signature. In deciding as to groceries
and drugs the trustees figured on the
articles used most at the Institution.
Superintendent Hancker's report for
April showed the following: Population
at the beginning of the month Males,
175; females, 1873; admitted 3 males
and females: deaths, 8 females; total
at the end of the month, 17S males and
122 females, 300.
The receipts on account Of board OF
patients during the month amounts to
S4l4. 80. The expenditures for Manhat-
tan tables ordered at the last meeting
amounted to sl42. 80. The report of the
auditor showed that the expenses for
the past four months were 50, 176. 46,
and for last month, 50, 1853. 81.
Samuel Barton was appointed car
penter and Levin Stats hoster.
President Black appointed the follow
ing committees for the ensuing year
Standing oommittee-Drs. Black, Orr
and Carlisle; supplies Wilson. Baker
and Capelle; finance and accounts
Capelle, Hopkins and NAPLES; build
ings and grounds -Canelle, Gilpin and
NAPLES. State Treasurer T.. Heisler
Ball and Robert @. Justis of Falkland
were visitors to the institution yesterday
morning.
Drs. Black and Wilson and Mr..
Baker, whose terms expire this month,
will, in all probability, be reappointed
by Gov. Tunnel.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-05-10
PASTOR HOGG GOES TO CHESTER.

Unanimously Invited by the Congregation
of the Third Presbyterian Church.
The Rev. William Charles Hogg Of
Waynesboro. Pa, former pastor OF the
Presbyterian Church at Bridgeville,
was last night week unanimously elected
pastor of the Third Freshly terrain
Church, Chester, Pa.
Mr.. Hogg was born in County Derry,
Ireland, August Gath, 1873 Like all
his predecessors in his new charge. he
is of Scotch Irish ancestry, being able
to trace his family history to the Pres
byterians of Ciomwell's time. Having
finished his preparatory education at
the early age of 16, he entered the
Magee Presbyterian College, in Lon
donderry, from which he graduated In
1893, taking an honorary position in
two subjects aud u prize in mental
science. After completing his first
year in theology, he entered Princeton
Seminary and took his diploma from
that institution in 1896, passing the
examination for the A. NJ. degree in
Princeton University at the same time.
In his last year at Princeton Semi
nary he received an invitation to a
church in Minnesota and one from a
church in Canada. He finally accepted
a unanimous call to become pastor of
the Presbyterian church at Bridgeville,
where he labored fot three years with
| much SUCCESS, the church more than
doubling its membership in that time.
For over year he has been the pastor
Of the WayneStoro Presbyterian Church
at Waynesboro, Pa. He received the
call in January, 1899, aud on Thursday,
April Goth, of that year was duly in
stalled pastor by the presbytery OF
Carlisle. When he first went to Waynes-
boro church the people Immediately
extended to him unanimous invitation
| to the pastorate.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-05-10

The actual collections of the infoi ma.
tion by the enumerators, which will
begin on June LIST, will last from 10 to
~ days. Fifteen days is the time
allowed for cities above 5000 ropula-
tioIi,. and 30 days in the country. In
Alaska the work will probably take
longer, and will cost per capita more
Than in any part of the United STATES.
when the first returns are in the great
work OF counting will begin. 1t will
interest most people to know that the
work OF counting will be done by ma
eninery so far as possible. 4 machine
VIII count as many as 800, 900 names .
day. Briefly, the system is 10 punch
holes opposite to the answers to the
various questions, the position of the
mole determining the fact of the person
named on the card being black or
white, married or single. The machine,
Goes the counting by the perforated
hole permitting the card to slip into
Its right place In the mechanism. Tho
machine will even cotreot errors. For
instance, If married person is set
down on the card as being three years
OF age, the machine will refuse TO pass
any such absurd statement. and viii
call attention to the fact of something
neing amiss. --Harrer's Weekly.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-05-10
CHORUS GIRLS CRIME,

Miss Frances Wilson Confcsses to Stealing
s352 In Cash and Jewelry Worth 81 900
From Mrs. Charles Bigelow.
Philadelphia, Pa, May 3-Frances
Wilson, the leading chnius girl of
Anna Held's Papa's Wife 20. and one
of the prettiest girls in the show, was
gwen hearing in the Central Station
Police Court today, and held in $500
bail for trial, charged with stealing
1852 In cash and jewelry worth $1,000
from Mrs. Charles Bigelow, member
Of the company and wife of the
comedian Of that name.
Miss Wilson was arrested after the
performance last night, and spent the
night in cell at the City Hall.
Detectives testified at the hearing
today that she made full confession,
and restored all the jewelry and money,
with the exception of $40. Miss Wilson
said she stole because she has child
that she wants to educate. The missing
$40, she told the detectives, were sent
to New York, to pay months board
for this child. Mrs. Bigelow went on
the stand, and identified the jewelry,
consisting of FIVE diamond rings, pair
Of diamond earrings and a diamond
brooch. She was followed by Charles
Bigelow, her husband, who pleaded for
clemency for the disgiaced girl, saying
she had been punished enough for her
offence. The magistrate determined,
nevertheless, to hold Miss Wilson for
trial. Ii is not believed, however, that
the case will be heard of again. Miss
Wilson, while in the dock, wept con-
stantly, and seemed overcome with grief
and shame.
The robbery occurred during the first
act Of the play at the Chestnut Street
Theatre on Tuesday night. Mrs.
Bigelow and Miss Wilson occupied the
| same dressing room. Mrs. Bigelow
carried het money in channels bag,
| which she left in her room while on the
stage When the property was missed,
search was made, and Miss Wilson
was SO jealous 10 her efforts to find the
money and jewels that suspicion was
finally directed toward her. Last night,
detectives who had worked all day on
the case confronted Miss Wilson with
| evidence that they had secured, and she
broke down and made clean breast Of
| her crime.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-05-10
DIsADpASTAG rs or WHITE.
The Stout Woman Should Pass it by on the
Other Side.

Baltimore News.
White is very properly favorite
dress for summer. 1t is cool, becoming
and effective, but Notwithstanding this
combination of virtues, it should be
avoided by the stout woman.
Every feminine who has an over
abundance of too, too solid flesh is
perfectly aware of the exaggerated
effect that light colors give, and yet
one sees any number of these laCiiOs
wearing costume consisting of white
shirt waist and skirt that makes them
look like moving mountain of snow.
Not always q cool mountain, either,
FOR pique, the material general selected
by the stout ones, is far from being
cool fabric.
The filmy black that one sees now
would be infinitely more becoming and
equally as cool, SO oSe wonders that 1t
is not oftener worn by this class OF
persons. Instead, with that strange,
Inconsistency for which femininity IS
noted, one sees slim girls wearing gowns
Of black organdy Or lawn over slips OF
black taffeta, while their mammas
trudge laboriously beside them looking
like ships under full sail in their
Volumlnous snowy gowns.
summers time of latitude to be
sure. 1t time when even that homely
grub man develops into butterfly
without rebrke, and anything eccentric
IN the wardrobe line that a woman
chooses TO assume goes, But it's also
n time when the becoming should be
especially considered.
1t takes all the art of which a woman
is mistress to enable her to loog well
with the mercury high up in tho tube
when her face is flushed and her hair
out OF curl and she pants for breath,
so it's nothing but melancholy lack
OF taste that induces her, if she's over
large, to add 10 these deplorable con-
ditions voluminods flock that greatly,
exaggerates her size by It's lack Of Color,
There are unusually beautiful thin
materials in black this season, any Of
which, made with long lines and fitting
easily, would apparently cause q
gireatly-to-be- wished-for reduction in
size.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-05-10
4 NOTEL CAPE.
Washington Post.


You wouldn't pick out tailoring
establishment as place where you'd
be likely to stumble ON romance, but
it was at a fashionable woman's tailor's
just the other day that ! came upon the
most romantic thing l'ye seer 10 days.
1t was just great big, warm looking
travelling cape; hut it was cape with
story to il. 1t was a soft gray color,
tieecy and oozy, with border stripe oil
dark hlue and lining CT bright red.
1t is to be part OF the troussenu of a
girl who Is to marry a soldier, and
that's how there comes to be story to
it. The soldier lover has but recently
returned from duty-really, l forget
where he has been stationed, but a part
of his equipment was one of the gray
blankets Uncle Sam provides for his
boys in blue and khaki. He USED to
sit on il when he wrote letters to his
sweetheart, and it wrapped him while
he dreamed of her by ght. When he
came hume his resoureeful lady-love
asked for the blanket. little beating
and cleaning removed all signs of weaI
from it, and the taller did the rest. II
has been made into one of the most
delightful capes I've seen this year,
and one Of the prettiest brides of the
season will wear 1t. ~.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-05-10
Delaware River Improvement.

Washington, May 1.-The House
committee on appropriations, today,
concluded the consider nation of the Sun
dry Civil Appropriation bill, which is
the last of the great supply measures.
1t appronriates s6l, $50, 10. of which
$4,000, COO is for the census. The bill also
authorizes contracts for the improve
ment of rivers and harbors under the
authorizations contained in the River
and Harbor acts Of 1892, 1886 and 1899,
to the amount of S12, 200, Co.,, For con !.
tinuing the work on the harbor of
refuge, Delaware Bay, S450,00o For
continuing the Improvement of the
Delaware River, Pennsy lvania and New
Jersey, s270, 50o.r For completing the
improvement of the Wilmington harbor
and Christiana River, 5000, 900.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-05-10
SUPERIOR COURT TRIAL LIST.
Ninety-eight Cases on the Trial and Thirt
on the Argument List.

Ninety eight Cases ON the Trial and Thirty
on the Argument List.
Parliamentary Victor b. Woolley has
issued the list Of causes for trial and
argument in the Superior Court at the
May term, which will commence Mon.
day, May 2lst. 1t includes the list of
jurors, the assignment of judges and
information concerning court rules
with reference to filing papers. The
trial list contains 9S cases, of which
AZ arc new cases, but generally speak
ing, none are of especial note. Among
the new damage suits are one against
tho Wilmington IL Northern railroad
four against the p, W. g. b. railroad,
one against tho Wilmington City Rail
way, one oase against the city and one
against the city and the Baltimore d
Philadelphia railroad jointly.
On the argument list are 30 eases of
which ID ate new. The following di-
vorce cases are on this list: Mary L.
Primrose VS.. Henry Primrose, Margaret
M. Baldwin VS.. Joshua Baldwin, Sibyl
Ida Swartz VS.. Samuel C.Swartz, Mary
e. Hammond VS.. William Hammond,
Jacob A. Null vs. Annie Null, Joseph
w. Dolan VS.. Mary Ann Dolan, James
n. Flanagan vs.. Mary Flanagan, Ellie
M. Brown vs.. Joseph Brown, Emily r.
Reed vs.. John r. Reed, Lille Nc
Lauehlin VS.. Samuel McLaughlin,J ames
S. Lowe vs. Florence l.. Lowe, Bertha
O'Biien vs.. Walter W. O'Brien,
Maggie Fyfe VS.. Paul I. Fyfe, Sallie
II. Hitch VS.. Samuel b. Hitch, Mabelle
L. Cauls VS.. Fletcher Caulk, Mary C.
Collins W. William b. Collins, Jared
H.. Kemp VS.. Mary Kemp.
The bench at the coming term will
comprise Chief Justice Lore and Asso-
ciate Judges Gruhb and Pennewill.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-05-10
April Lunches.

Harller'S BaZar.
Before pouring the bouiIlon OF clear
chicken broth into The cups, put a
spoonful of whipped cream in each.
Serve hot crackers or strips of toast
with this course. Cut off pointed ends
of the green peppers. and carefully re-
move sesds with small knife. Fill
peppers with creamed salmon, stand in
pan, and put in the oven for few
moments. The easily prepared chicken
In rice Is q delicious dish too seldom
seen. Stew chicken till tender, remov-
ing all bones, and cutting in pieces
about three inches by two. As little
dark meat as possible should be used,
and 8 Il skin and brokan bits laid aside.
Fill ring mould with well-seasoned
boiled rice to which little chopped
parsley has been added, and turn out
on round platter. Pile the pieces OF
chicken within the border in the form
OF pyramid, aud pour over them Il
sauce made of chicken stock, seasoned,
and thicISened with the beaten yolks OF
two eggs. Add little sherry just be
fore taking from the fire, to give char
aoter to the dish.
The simple salad is hard bciled eggs
cut in quarters, and served on lettuce
with mayonnaise, Dress the lettuce first
with French dressing. using the
nayonnaise on the eggs alone. Serve
the ices in egg form, mot too large,
having part of cream and part of orange
ice. Buy a nest of spun sugar, place
on round platter. and lay the eggs
within;o or haveia small.individual nest
Alled with tipy eggs Tor eacn person.