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Evening journal., 1901-08-20
DIED.

August Il, 1901, William r.
Clark, I'm his 9th year.
Relatives and friends, also members
of First Delaware Infantry, n. G. d., are
equested to attend the funeral, from his
late residence, No. 1907 East Fourteenth
street, on Tuesday afternoon, August 70
At $3.50 o'clock.
Why should our tears I'm sorrow flow,
When God recalls His own,
And bids them leave a world of woe,
For an immortal crown.
j. not cen death a gain to those
Whose lives to God were given,
Gladly To earth their eyes they close
TO open them in heaven.
Written by his wife.
Evening journal., 1901-08-20
II. SCOTT,
Sl4 Market St.
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Persons living in Linden Court
Complain to Tn e Board of Health that
water in the cellar OF the dwelling
houses causes sickness in that neigh
borhood.
In Elsmere near the wilmington
and Northern railroad bridge. a thick
hedge which has INSTRUCTED the view
from the trolley cars has been cut
down.
Building Inspector John j. Cassidy
has decided that he will attend the
West Indian Exposition in Charleston,
South Caro- lima. next Winter, instead
of going to- the Pan American EXPOSE
ton
john Do wber. giving his residence
as No. S19 Spruce street, fell in a fit
at Front an King streets yesterday.
John VLncent Mcfarland. secre-
tary of the Phoenix Fire Company, is
spending ten days in Atlantic City.
BY official orders from the Wan
Department. in Washington, ID. C..
Lieut. Colonel Jared A. Smith, Of San
fraI icisco. is TO succeed Major Charles
w. Raymond as United States engineer
in charge of government work in the
T ort of Philadelphia and Wilmington
AT Bridgeville yesterday peaches
sold as high as SLIP basket, and
none brought less than 35 cents a bas-
ket.
Owing to the absence of the Rev
w. L. S. Murray and his family. who
are in RehobOth, the Rev. A. w. Davis
will nj St. Paurs pulpit on Sunday.
During the meeting OF Delawar,
Lodge, No. 2. Shield of Honor. held
last evening. Past Supreme Master
tCharles 4. Martin was presented witt
gold watch and chain.
Prospects for a good reed and raj
bird season this year are bright.
Trout are plentiful in the waters
about kits Hammock, and yesterda,
one party hooked 100 OF the species.
Al the State Department in Dover
yesterday. the SciOto Company, of Co
lumbus, o.. was Incorporated with
1capioal stock of S15OOOO.
AT a hearing yesterday. Charlie
N Connolly. colored. charged with beini
} implicated in robbing the home Of tn
n Misses Churchman, was held in 500
II bail for upper court
Il In Norwich. Conn, the annua
81 Rogue Association convened to-day
:. with a number of Wilmington dele
gates in attendance.
With a cargo OF rock plaste
aboard, consigned to the Leibig Manu-
, featuring Company, the schooner Lul
L. Pollard entered this port yesterda
Former Clerk of the Peace Jeffer
son B. Foard has disposed of his grail
business in Middletown TO Frank II
Poole
= William Mckenzie has the contrac
for cleaning forty suits for the "Uncl
Is Toms Cabin company. which is sal
= to be one Of the largest contracts 70
many years.
y While at work for the Pusey an
= Jones Company. Patrick Brogan ha
e. his arm injured yesterday.
Police investigated a bad odor pre-
ceeding from Charles Horns carriag
bazaar, Walnut, above Front stree
yesterday Afternoon, but found n
cause for the smell
n Presiding Elder A. c. Tindley wi
preach at an open-air meeting at Thil
ty-first and Wooddale avenue. Eas'
lake, this evening.
Evening journal., 1901-08-20
$40 Excursion TO PAn-American Expo
iitIon, Blitt more and Ohio Railroad

August 20 and 20, September 4,
10. 10 and %. Train leaves Whining
ton. Delaware avenue, 9.39 a. m, af-
fordlng a delightful daylight ride
through the famous Wyoming Valley.
Through parlor cars. Tickets good re-
turning seven days. including date of
sale. on all trains except "Black Dia-
mond Express" and Royal Limited"
Evening journal., 1901-08-20
CROSBY
\ HILL.
Cos, COZ and 600 Market ST.
SILK SALE

300 yards plain and figured
silks, pure oil boiled black
dye, won't spot; for Wednes-
day, 33c yard.
500 yards colored Austrian
silks at 121sc yard.
Short lengths colored fig
ured India silks:
SOC silks reduced to 25c.
75c " " " 38c.
$1.00 " " 4" SOC.
Evening journal., 1901-08-20
Reeder opens Republican Headquarters

Reeder Opens Republican Headquarters
Harrisburg, Aug. 2O.-With the Re
publican state convention only day
off not single delegate has reached
Harrisburg, and the indications are
that the attendance will be unusually
small State Chairman Reeder opened
headquarters yesterday at the Lochiel
hotel and is arranging the prelimin-
aries Of the gathering. with the assist
ance Of Secretaries Voorhees, and An
drews.
Evening journal., 1901-08-20

Croker Hears Of Political Situation.
London, Aug. 2O.-Richard Croker,
John Fox, OF the New York Democrat
ic Club. and Andrew Freedman. all
OF whom are now in London, were in
conference yesterday regarding the po-
litical situation in New York city Mr.,
Croker is scheduled to arrive in New
York September 5.
Evening journal., 1901-08-20
onarrr Helm ia Scarce

Hamilton Stewart superintendent
OF the Brandywlne Granite Company'sI
quarries says that good quarry help isl
very scarce and he is advertising for
drillers. sledgers and laborers. The
company has big orders ahead for
building and cut stone, broken stone
and Belgian block
Evening journal., 1901-08-20
MATCH lNY tRFRRED WITH
Heavy Rains Of Sunday and Yesterday
Caused Delay

Owing to the storm and wet, the
walking match at Brandywine Springs
was in progress only for about three
hours last night AS Tire delay has
been prolonged by the bad weather
the race viii be continued another day
so there viii be actually seventy hours
walking time. Dr. Ball last night e5
aminqd Richards. Dean. Roach. Fanes 4
and Maxwell. and prescribed for the N
They are afflicted with a stiffness o.
the muscles
The score when racing stopped las
Evening journal., 1901-08-20
Foundrv EmpIoye Crushed

While working in the foundry of the
Pusey and Jones Company yesterday,
John Boran had one foot and one arm
crushed by a falling casting. He was
taken to the Homeopathic Hospital in
he Phoenix ambulance.
Evening journal., 1901-08-20

state OF Ohio. NY OF Toledo. Lucas
County, s.
frank ]. Che icy males oath that he is
aenior partne Of the firm Of +. }.
- roiedo. r,,ntv and state 7fore- aid.
and that g 40 firm will pay the sum OF
ONE INSPIRED DOLLARS for eslch
and every 1ase OF Catarrh that cannot be
cured By The use Of Hairs GO tarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and Subscribed in
my presence, this 9th day Of December. A.
ID 1856 A. w. GLEASON.
(sEAL) Notary Public
Halls Cafarfh Cure IS taken internally,
and acts directly on the blood and mu-
cous surfaces OF the syst I'm. Send for
testimonials. free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo. o.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Balfs Family Pills are the best.
Evening journal., 1901-08-20
cresson Telephone suys Cambria Lines

NTessOH ItItPHoHs BUYS OdWpTIa LInea
Altoona, Pa. Aug. 20-The Cresson
Telephone company has purchased the
stock and franchises OF the Northern
Cambria Telephone company, operat-
ing lines in Cambria county. The
Cresson company has connections with
Johnstown on the west and Altoona on
the east
Evening journal., 1901-08-20

Plenty to wear a summe
suit yet, many
Oh them are mediui
m. weight. h e av
lime enough to wear /
the tall and if 70
buy now you get the big dis
counts and reductions. 3
per cent. or off all men
mixed suits and trousers. i
per cent. off mems serge an
black cheviot and thibe
suits. IS per cent. or a o
Boys Clothing, suits an
trousers, long trousers AMI
knee pants. All sizes to II
everybody and an immenl|
stock. This is why we al
making such big reductions
We must reduce stock. Bal
gains in every size and a
all prices. so that you wi
get one no matter how littl
or how much you have I
spend. BaI gains in tailoi
ing, summer furnishings
all kind, summer shoes an
straw hats. Come in an
look through, a little tim
will save you money.
Open Saturday night
only.
JAS. 7. MULLIN & SON
9th & Market, Wilmingto
Evening journal., 1901-08-20
WAISTS

$1.OO Percale Waists, 39c
12c fancy lawns, Sc yard.
500 mems, ladies' and
misses collars reduced from
.121ac to Sc.
Evening journal., 1901-08-20
SCHOOL lime

200 or 800 short lengths
wool dress goods, plaids, fancy
and plain weaves, right color
ings and lengths for children's
dresses at one-half regular
price.
400 remnants of lawns,
ginghams, percales, Saline, all
marked about half price.
so remnants of Innings, all
the different kinds carried in
stock at half price.
Evening journal., 1901-08-20
Silk Waists
Wrappers

Made of Navy Percales with
stripes, dots and figures.
Special price for Wednesday,
75c.
Evening journal., 1901-08-20
Skirts

Special Sale Wednesday of
ladies' colored Underskiris, all
prices less than half the origi-
nal cost. Price SOC TO $3.50.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-08
4 National Theatre.

Richard Mansfield advocated in a re-
cent speech made before the students
of dramatic school. the establishment
of national theatre. He claims that
this would raise the standard of both
acting and play writing. and would tend
toward general excellence in the pro-
duction of plays.
The idea is not bad one. though it
is impossible to predict that it will soon
be carried out. For one thing, there is
probably enough Puritan prejudice left
in the country to create a consider
able cutlery against any appropriation
for such a purpose. 1t is not very long
since. perhaps. two-thirds of the peo-
pie Of the United States regarded the
atros as places which were. If not i'm
proper. at least not exactly consistent
with Christianity. This was not I'M
natural In a provincial society. the
theatres which first establish them
selves are the variety show houses. ana
the so-called plays which first become
familiar 10 the public are such as no
respectable woman could see. Hence
the general attitude of society In coun-
try towns is anti-theatrical This
strictness has, within the last genera
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-08
A Remarkable Tree.

Lovers of ancient landmarks and
relics of the past generally have been
puzzling their brains for some time to
discover a way of rescuing and pre-
serving these things from the rapacity
of the modern commercial spirit. An
incident reported from Athens, Georgia,
suggests a possible scheme by which
this might be accomplished.
There is in that town a magnificent
oak tree, situated in place where it
would naturally be in some danger of
the tree and the land about it were
owned by a man who felt as If the old
oak were his personal friend. He had
watched it grow from his childhood up,
had climbed il, sat under its shade. and
come to feel real affection for it. He
became afraid that after his death it
would be cut down, and suffer the usual
fate of magnificent trees which belong
TO nobody in particular. Instead Of
going through any orations of the
Woodman- spare -that-tree, touch-n not
Straightforward" description, he set
about deVising some way by which the
tree could be effectually protected, and
finally he had a deed made out in due
form at the county courthouse, con-
veyinG ito the said oak tree entire pos
session OF itself and all land within
eight feet of 1t on all Sides
This is probably the only tree in the
world which owns itself, and if the deed
holds. it is likely to stay there In peace
and quiet until it falls into decay in
the course Of nature. The incident sug-
sests that a similar course might be
pursued in the case of the sequoias of
California and other historic relics of
the past. 1t might also be means of
saving the Palisades of the Hudson. If
a fund could be raised for the purchase
Of these natural monuments. and the
deed made out in the name of the tree
or the rock, or whatever the object of
interest might be, it might keep the
vandals OFF until a saner age OF the
world sets in.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-08

pay of a policeman is not so large as
this high minded indifference to filthy
lucre might indicate: the inference
which one might naturally draw, there
fore, is, that when the detective was in
commission he was accustomed to
pull off the ready" in such sums and
with such safety that eighty dollars
would have been too small an induce
ment for him to notice.
The ex-deteetive appears not to have
read the article very carefully. for his
quotations are not at all correct. He
was right about the main point. how
ever, and the rest does not matter. If
a few other eX-detectives and expo
licemen will only come out in inter
views explaining the mistakes that Mr.
Flynt has made in his arraignment of
their behavior, there will be no need
for that gentleman to trouble himself
to write any more articles. He can sit
still and rest, and let his enemies work
hin,
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-08
THREE OF A CREW LOST.
The Schooner WedelI Burpee
Wrecked OF Cape Elizabeth, Me.

PORTLAND, Me-, April THE schooner
Wedell Burpee. 100 tons, owned in St.
John. n. B., and bound for that port from
New York. with cargo of coal, was
wrecked on the Cape Elizabeth shore this
noon. She left Hyannis yesterday, and,
being caught in the gale, tried to make
Portland Harbor. Finding that they Were
dangerously near the shore the captain
anchored, but both chains parted.
Then the captain and his three men
abandoned the schooner. but their small
boat was swamped and all except the
mate Were drowned. Had they remained
on board their lives would have been
saved, as the schooner cleared the shoals
toward which she was headed and was
driven high on the beach.
The three men lost We're Captain Mars
burg. forty-two years old, who has wife
in st. John. whom he married month
ago: Steward George Foster, twenty-five
years old, who has a wife and two chill
dren in st. John. and seaman, aged
thirty, who belonged in Liverpool, and
whose name is not known.
The sole survivor is Mate John Swan
son, of st. John, who chung to the over
turned boat till the surf was reached,
and then swan.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-08
EnEIand's Heavy Handicap.

There is more than a suspicion abroad
| that President Kruger was right in de-
claring that England willfully exagger-
ates the forces and resources of the
| Beers in order to save her face from
| the shame of admitting that it keeps
two hundred thousand troops constant
| ly busy to hold the South African
! States and Cape Colony against the
burghers in the field, and against the
ever-present menace of rebellion
among the Cape Dutch.
Every effort is being made in London
| to gloss over the ugly character of the
situation. but no amount Of explanation
! or evasion could alter the notifying
| fact that a few small and scattered
bands of Beers are able to pin the whole
| available force of the British army to
! the Transvaal and Orange River veldts,
| and thus deprive the Government of a
| military leg to stand on in the Far
| East
| 1t is no wonder that Continental Eu-
| rope has looked complacently on while
| England has been pushing her foot into
the South African trap. Other things
| might not have done it, but the Cham
berlain and Rhodes adventure has
wrecked British infiuence.-for the time
being at least. and beyond all doubt
damaged the prestige of British arms
to a much greater extent than is at all
good for King Edwards Empire. Not
withstanding the most vigorous and
comprehensive measures resorted to by
Lord Kitchener to bring the struggle
to q close, it drags on and on, and may
continue so to do for months. 1t is a
strange spectacle! A few thousand
farmers without money or supplies or
transport are holding up England and
forbidding her to defend her interests
against the steady advance of her
dreaded rival. Russia.
What would happen to her If an In
dian instruction of serious proportions
were TO break out at such a time? The
garrison of India is not any too strong
as it is, and we do not imagine that
there are any white troops who could
be spared from frontier defence to put
down an uprising. In short, British
statesmen and generals see clearly
enough that Russia has their country
in tight place. and that it would be
unlike Russia not to reap the fullest
possible advantage from the situation.
1t is conviction on this point that leads
TO absolute disbelief in England of any
thing Russia may say or promise. Great
Britain was never noted for self sacri-
fee in treating with rival or enemy
who happened 10 be in difficulties. and
Russia has only to remember how she
was bottled and corked in the Black
Sea after the Crimean war, to fully JUS
tify herself in now taking her turn at
the same old game
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-08
AMERICAN CAPITAL IN CUBA.
A Sugar Company to spend $1,000.
900 EstabIishiug Its Plant.

NEW YORK, April 7-American invest
ors continue to place money in Cuba, and
scarcely week passes but some new
commercial enterprise, foste-ed in the
United States. for the development of the
islands resources. comes to light.
The latest of these is the Francisco
Sugar Company, whose New York offices
are at liz Wall Street. and which has
placed contracts aggregating $500. 600 for
the initial equipment of factories This
company. in which Czarnihow. MacDoug-
al & Co, Limited. sugar brokers, of this
city. are largely interested, has acquired
1900 acres of fertile land near Guayabal
on the southern shore of Cuba, and has
obtained an option for the purchase of
an additional 5000 acres of cane land
near by. Already the company has under
cultivation $500 acres of cane land.
Grinding operations will begin next De-
cember, by which time the mills having
the capacity for crushing 1000 tons of
cane day Will be erected. Power to
drive the plant will be- derived from a
steam equipment of 800 horsepower
railroad fifteen miles in length is now
under construction on the property.
The Pennsylvania Steel Company will
manufacture 1.500 tons of 60-pound steel
rails the Baldwin Locomotive Works are
Co, of Philadelphia, have obtained an
order for sixty cars. which will be util-
lied by the company in the transportation
of the cane and its products.
Alilliken Bros. of this city, have con-
tracted to furnish the structural materi-
al required for the factory buildings.
Nearly LOO tons of structural steel will
be required.
The Whitney Iron Works. of New Or
leans, have received the contract for
building three roller mills. and the same
concern will furnish the engines to drive
this machinery. T.. w. Deming of New
Orleans. will manufacture the filtering
apparatus.
All of which shows how manufacturers
in the United States are striving to OBJ
tain permanent foothold in Cuba.
The Francisco Company will eXpend
considerably more than 81 900 900 on its
proposed plant. and expects to extend its
Gnerati0uS rs RAPIDLY as practica BILE
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-08
AN ENORMOUS SURPLUS.
The Unnecessary Accumulation of
Funds in New York.

NEW YORK. April deputy Comp
troller Edgar J. Levey, OF this city. says
that the taxpayers are annually paying
S5.500,0c0 into the sinking fund for the re-
demption of city bonds without there be-
ing any use of it. He asserts. further,
that by 1923 there will be "a surplus Of
more than $500. 600, 900 in the sinking fund.
unless the law is changed that governs
the payments into the fund.
BY 1908. said Mr. Levey yesterday. the
sinking fund for the redemption of the
city debt will possess assets of more than
IS. 900. 600 in excess of the entire debt re-
deemable therefrom. II New York's finan-
cial system were made to conform to APP
proved modern methods of municipal
finance. and the enormous revenues of
the redemption fund. more than sl0,@oooo
year were used as factor in deter
mining the amount to be raised annually
by taxation. the administration of the
sources of those revenues would undoubt-
eddy benefit by the closer public scrutiny
which would result
Mr.. Levey who was a member of the
Charter Revision Commission, when asked
yesterday regarding the revised charter,
as passed by the Legislature, said that
he did not know much about it as yet;
he intended, however. to look at the copy
which the mayor has. Mr.. Levey added
that the parts over which the sub-com-
mittee of which he was member had
control were not materially affected. He
continued:
The legislation on the Dock Board
matters, in which single headed com
mission is to be made, | am not on the
whole opposed to. If the Albany des-
patch is correct it will make peculiar
state OF affairs. The provision. as the
dispatches make it, says that all con-
tracts and agreements are to be taken
care of by the Board of Estimate. This
will make the head of the Dock Board a
mere clerk to the Board Of Estimate, with
no power. Again the sinking fund has
had supreme power over the Dock Board
since 1871, and by this provision if cor
rect. there would be a constant conflict
between the sinking fund and the Board
of Estimate as to power. 1t would be
sure to cause strife.
THE increased power of the borough
presidents is a serious matter. 1t is an
experiment, and ! hope will be good
one. 1t practically makes the borough
presidents Commissioners of Public
Works, and a little more. 1t ensures to
the boroughs home rule where their in
terests are regarding personal assess
ments."
Mr. Levey was asked If it was correct
that the President of the Borough of
Manhattan would have the patronage of
$3.50 600 and the President of Brooklyn
of S9.000.0OO. That might be true, he an
swered. He hoped that the increased
power which they would receive would be
beneficial
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-08
Josiah FIyBt and the Police.

When people who have not an in
stinctive sense of right and wrong I'M
dertake to discourse wisely on ethical
questions. they are apt to invalidst e
their own arguments. This is shown in
an interview with an eX-detective
apropos of Josiah Flynts recent ar
ticle on York, a Dishonest City"
This quondam guardian of the city's
property was. as he thought, defending
the police department from what he
wished considered the unjust structures
of Mr.. Flynt: and right in the middle
of his sage harangue he came out with
this:
what struck me most was the talk that some
thing yellow existed between the police and the
magistrates Now this moilbuzzer describes a
detective sergeant Of police headquarters having
arrested for robbing a man Of eighty
dollars When the came to court the wo-
discharged for lack Of evidence That
all appears at great length in the article and
II tells that when the front office man walked
out Of the court he showed either the nOllbuzzer
or friend Of his the eighty dollars, with the re-
marx, DO you where the graft comes inI
Nov. having been copper myself. | am candid
enough to say that II could pull off a little
ready a that | handled with safety e,
myself and position. I would get aboard in a
chance Of getting into a multitude Of trouble
for eighty bucks
This IS what one might call expert
testimony. and It is perhaps the most
beautiful confirmation of the truth Of
Mr.. Flynrs assertions which could be
had. Here is an ex-detective. defend
ing the police department. highly in
dignant at the way in which il has
been slandered. When it comes to nam
ing the points on which the accuser
has been inaccurate. this virtuous In
dividual criticises the incident in ques-
ton, not so much because the detec-
tive Was crooked as because he was
inlprudent- In other words, he disbe-
lieved Mr. Fiynt's story, not because
he himself would have been too good to
do what the front office" man did, but
because the latter was foolish TO risk
the consequences of dishonesty for as
h,tle as eighty bucks" M average