Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-07-29
COUNCIL ACCEPTS
MADDRA'S BOND
Exception Taken 10 News
paper Article Many at
Riverside Park
80 b hi nrenIne Ianrnal.

New Castle. July 29.-At a special
meeting OF City Council On Saturday
night the bond Of Tax Collector Mad
den was accepted. The following Is the
bond City ana schools. $50 600: roads
and streets. $4,000
Exception is taken TO an article
which appeared In an afternoon paper
about two weeks ago settling forth the
fact that there was nothing TO show
for the money collected.
In conversation with a reporter for
the Evening journal. a member stated
thar he hoped the writer OF the article
would be present at the next regular
meeting and that he would explain to
him what had become of the money.
Two prominent business men OF Della
ware City benme involved IN a quar-
rel on Saturday and coming to blows.
smashed two large pancs of glass ~ The
window OF a drug store.
Great excitement prevailed al Della
ware City on Saturday. when w0rimen
OF the Delaware and Atlantic Telephone
Company. while engaged in digging
holes for telephone poles dug up n
conin and skeleton Many theories
were advanced as TO how they came
there Old inhabitants state that when
the canal was dug workmen who died
We're Inferred In rude collins by their
companions near the spot whore the
skeleton was inferred.
The number OF persons az Riverside
Park yesterday and last night was
large. and cars of the Wilmington and
New Castle Railway Company carried
standing loads. The water al the park
was filled with bathers the afternoon
throughout. and aioop yachts and nap
tina launches did q thriving business
Elliotts Orchestra. of Wilmington, rem
dered sacred concerts during the after
noon and evening
The baseball game between the Mel
rose team. of Philadelphia, and New
Castle at Battery Park on Saturday
was an interesting one In every detail
and demonstrated the fact that, as
players. members OF New Castles
team are the real thing At the end
Of the seventh inning Melrose was five
runs to the good but az this iuncturc
every member of the New Castle team
began 10 do phenomenal playing, the
game ending with a score OF 10 TO 3
with New Castle TO the good.
w Frank Thompson, Of Philadel-
phia. came to the city on a bicycling
trip yesterday 10 visit L. o. Thompson
Mrs Lofiand. OF Philadelphia, is Wis
iting relatives here.
A yachting party of Philadelphia po-
licemen. on their way to the Fishing
Banks. came ashore at New Castle yes
terday, and inspected the points of IN
terest.
According to the records OF the GOV
eminent engineers in charge OF Della
ware river improvement, tho sum OF
s237 .673. 90 has been spent on improve
ments to the harbor at New Castle
since Apru ga 1S02. On other work
in which thu Delaware harbor Is men
toned. the government spent an ad
aitional sum OF $40 .64600 The improve
mente included the deepening OF th'
channel. the building of the Ice pier
OF the city. and the construction or th'
fetfv at Firms Point During the perio'
roecihed Congress provided 1,4a5,
2tf.1i for the Improvement OF the iot
aware river. including the Philadel
mia harbor and the bay Although thI
total appropriation may seem large
philadelphiaus believe they see uls
criminaticn against them When the'
compare the figures with the apropria
tions FOR other and less importanl
rivers and harbors on the Ailahu
coast