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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-03-09

sheriff Mcdaniel this morning
sold Maria J. Robinson $ interest
10 the property situated at the n. E.
>urntr uI Fourth and Market streets
70 Herbert ii, Ward for SIU, IS,
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-03-09

Latest Vocal and instrumental al
Music, l8c. per copy, at Robelcn' 3
10 Market street.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-03-09
PUBLIC SAL Il.

Tie undersigned .Ojnc to quit I he tarmtn3
business viii SEA ri pub ic sale "a Brandywint
ma. New Cess g .uunty, Delaware, on the
ta.m l!uown Is Ia" Jac son ri rec farm on
Concord lltC near thu Sharp'"y school houS"
about "' . Ii.iici from Wilmington on
WEI NESpAY, MarCIl l2tn, 1901,
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-03-09

Mach 1T / 20. ltn,nLer the dates.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-03-09

Spring ov e +
coats are first
called for; we
have them in
all grades s. to
S25. Lii h t
CoXertS Oxford
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-03-09
Spring
OyerCOat
Season

and Black (heviots. Covcrts
at S, S., IS, $40 end up to
SIS and $50. Oxford Chevi-
OTIS at So. IS. $40 and up to
Sis. The $40 coats are silk
lined and with silk lined
sleeves. The SIS coats are
silk lined to edge. regular
merchant tailored styles.
Black Cheviots and Thibets
from S., $40. sI2 and up to
$40, Silk lined at IS. $40
and SI2. Finest silk lined to
edge Black Thibets at SIS,
and SEQ. Full line all regular
and stout sizes. spring coats
tor boys and little boys 50 to
$40.
Closed evenings at 6 except
Saturdays.
JAS. 7. MULLIN & SONS
Clothing, Sixth and
Hats. Market
Shoes. Wilmington.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-03-09
PUBLIC SALE.

Household good, such az Pnrlor Furniture
chamber IuItts; /! fCnth bsdI, bedding
tab ~, chars: rockers carpets; stoves,
shear, also nns fat walnut HHrdrobu: dishes
. ,o,,i,s utensils and a great many othrI
Ii u4.hoId ait ciea ELllA NHITE
W. A nutilI. Auc NIB 80
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-03-09

Are oftwo kinds, the ball that is
used in playing the game and the
dancing party. which is often given
at the end OF the tournament. some
people contend that you cannot
make cup Of good tea without
tea ball, but we know that you can
make good tea by any Of the ap.
proved methods il you use, Hans.
CONS Formosa Blend, 50 c the lb.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-20

been absolutely helpless. Those worthy
men had organized culture clubs" dis
tributed some soup tickets with liberal
ity, and done what parish visiting they
dared, but they never got nearer to the
people OF the district than was necessary
10 be most humiliatingly vicumized by
them. 1t was a tough place. The last
policeman who had entered IT alone, while
in pursuit OF a sneakthief. had had his
skull crushed in by an iron grating deity
dropped from a second-story window.
The first thing that Dr. Jay did when
he took over" his new parish was 10
show It's inhabitants that he wasn't afraid
of them-that he could, on occasion. be n
militant Christian. Then he set to work
to find out what sport they liked best
of any and discovered that It was box
ing. So he opened a large room. with
every facility for the practice of the'man-
ly art, including gloves, and invited tho
men to come there and spar. They focked
TO IT, an honor which they had never
paid to the old "cub rooms where
dominos, checkers and chess constituted
the attractions. II was no drawing-room
boxing that subsequently reigned I'm that
room; a bloody nose was among the pre-
liminariesi no one regarded the loss Of
a tooth or two. ana the bouts almost g.
ways went tn The knockout car
Even the parsons strict rule Of no swear
ing or bad language scarcely affected the
popularity Of the place. He was always
there, and as time went on, even the
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about 10000 people. A further programme
that means an expenditure of probably
another ten millions is now being dis
cussed,. and after these projects are we'll
under way new schemes will be planned
to the same end, and more millions spent
until the necessity for spending money
In this way in London shall have dsap-
peared. and the city have become land
lord on an unprecedented scale. That will.
of course, be at the time when the last
of LondonS world-famous slums has been
wiped out and rebuilt. When that day will
dawn no one is prepared to say.
Problem of Housing the Poor.
To-day the housing problem is the
worst THAI London has to face but her
powerful county council, which has done
several rather remarkable things already,
and which has practically unlimited
wealth to draw upon, has determined that
overcI DIVIDED, unsanitary and Stun areas
must go. The Council has already attack
ed, RACED and rebuilt one of the worst
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slums In London: several other notorious
ones are now being torn down. and still
others are doomed. Medical inspectors III
the County Councils emp. oy are penetrat-
ing into the clty's ilthlest corners and
condemning them. The wretched creatures
who swarm in them are paid a small
sum OF money and turned out, after which
the slum comes down.
The "bef,re taxi, g. Phase of the coun-
cigs heroic remedy is a mass Of o3e.y
packed hove,s. squal.d, uclig lIel and IN
VENT ated, rtacl tho gh imy. wind
ing alleys, In which the police dare to
20 on.y ia force. The "af,er t0k ng Is
blocks OF trim cot ages or apartm mt
buildings, each separated r. m the o her,
equipped with lite ally every m dern
convenience includi a perfe { sy tenn
OF drainage a. d eve ess ent al Tor COOK
ing. The a"aTtme are wei lighted by
d0y u1'h large Window; at night cit er
by gas or e.e tiicity, on The So system,
where a penny dropped in produces gas
for six hours Mar at rard IL a park
or play or uni for recreat on and baths
and wash h3u es for dean mess. These
model DWELL 3 - moreover, are to rent
al prize wi len even very 1907 people
can AFFORD 10 pay. AS SON as the Co Mt
Coun :. throws open q new lot Of its
dwellings They arc immedi ltely tenant
cd TO their fun extent
So far on wof kingmtn's homes q this
r1tteIn q at occupy tFe place OF former
- 90 districts. The LondOn County Coun-
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FIGHTING LONDoN'S SLUMS.
GREATEST MUNICIPAL RATTLE
AGAINST FILTH AND CRIME
EVER wAGED.

The Present Undertaking Is to Turn
the Grimy novcls in which 10000
People 1--we Into Model Apart
ments-How the work Is Done.
Extraordinary Methods of Young
Minister in HumnnizinE the 'BOun-
dairy Street Aren"-ThIs District
Formerly n Sanctuary for Thieves
and Murdcrers, and PeOpied En-
tireIy by Criminals-FearfuI Con-
dItiOnS of life in the Most Com
gested Districts - The Councils
Plan for Cheap, Suburban Model
Dwellings.
London. Jan. livery American city
big enough to have one of those munich
pal sores called a stun will doubtless be
interested in the huge experiment slow
old London is undertaking. And paren-
thetically II may be observed chat a city
that is spending to-day more millions on
municipal Improvements. building more
miles Of up to date underground electric
roads and going in Cor probably more
municipal trading ventures than any 9TH
er city on earth, is not slow as she is US
ually painted.
The slum experiment now on is nothing
less than the expenditure OF 100000 in
wiping out and rebuilding the homes of
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operations shall be so conducted that at
the end of sixty years every house built
shall have paid for itself.
The housing of the needy classes is not
an especially new part of the London
County Councils work, but its great i'm
portance to-day lies in the dimen-
sions to which it has grown and
its greater promises for the future. the
Council began to rehouse on a modest
scale in 1883, but realized what 1t could
do only after 1t had undertaken and sue
cessfully accomplished the feat of tear
ing down the "O,d Nichol,'' in Shoreditch.
one of the worst slums in London. and in
stating a model village, with a park and
a recreation ground in its place.
DIR. Jays Work in the Worst of the
Slums.
This district was known as the "Boun-
dairy Street Area" and 1t came to be puri-
fed largely through the efforts of a single
remarkable clergyman of the Church of
England, named A. Osborne Jay. Almost
fresh from oxford, he took this living, in
which every one Of his predecessors had
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it. I'm glad they went" thought Nick,
as he muhched his novel breakfast.
Something ratified inside the sack as
Nick neared It's consumption, sound like
the TOP of a cap-box coming off followed,
and before the mucker's cry of Come Que
OF there, you bad blarsted roober," fell
upon his big ears. the golden grains OF
the last days cleanup had passed with
the -four sack ioto N.ckocem s stomach
and the cap-box and top rolled out upon
the cabin floor.
Fellows he's ct up the cleanup,
cried the mucker In dismay as the rest
of the camp came up with deer swing
ing from a pole across their shoulders.
81 put that dust in cap-boX In that
sack, when we started out hunting this
morning, SOS nobody d ever suspect Its
being there and here this bloomln' oeast
broke in and swollered the whole business;
what the dickens we're goin' t do about
it?"
"Cut him open and pan his stomach.
I guess, is the only way to get it back
replied one of the camp, as ne lowered
his end OF the pole and let the deer Kan
to the ground.
Not on your life" replied the junior
partner "Cut up forty-dollar ourrow
and that burrow Nickodemus, TO pan OUT
a measley fifty-dolar worth OF dust!
w ELL i guess ANN'
thinking about?"
well how the Sam Hill you goih 70
get il them" rejoined the mucker
'0That's what I'd like to know too,
said the senior member as he eyed ms
partner inquiringly.
'Why. that's dead easy; make him coush
it up and you and Jim stand there with
bucket and catch it while l do the doc
torng."
Great head you've got, burt what you
goin to give him to make him cough II
up?"
That's all right, I'm the Doctor in TINS
business, you and Jim just tie NICK up
so he can't toss his head too much ana
then you two get on your base with your
bucket and catch that gold dust when II
comes your way"
"An right, old boy, you're the Doctor,
We'll do the rest" and without more ado
Nick was tied hard and fast to sto IL
young pine while the mucker rustled up
an old five gallon oil can with the top cut
out.
Meantime the junior partners brain was
busy; What the deuce makes things
throw up" said he. TN be blamed if
know except ipecac, and there amt any
of that in these diggings What stupid
am, cas- or oil, Of course. I've got bottle
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NICKODEMUS.
The Way Fifty Dollars Worth of
Gold Dust Was Planned Out of the
stomach of the Miners Best
Friend.
p. z. BIZ and.

Nlckodemus was a miners best friend"
which, as every one knows. means a bur-
row. Like his tail, his name had been
abbreviated, and as Nick he was familiar
ly known by the entire camp.
The camp consisted of two miners and
a mucker They and Nick were work ng
the "Manzanita," a promising prospect
hole upon the mountain side a few hun
bred feet above Chimisal gulch., Three
hundred pounds of ore at trip, and six
trips day made a shift for Nick. Alter
nate days he was relieved of his ore-pan-
nlers and hitched to the arastrar beam
where he did his stunt dragging a big
rock round and round on top of tie ore
in the arastrar pit. Then his ba K dat
ache at night or his BIS feel sore as
when he carried those heavy, wearisome
old ore panniers for ten hours on end.
On ore packing days when night had
,ome he would stand long me with his
big ears oop, dejeot edly flrward. Look
ing the picture of desolation. for he was
TOO tired to move.
On cleanup days when the sun had
dropped down near the tops of the big
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slipped between the two posts that mark
ed the entrance to what Arthur Norris
on called the "Jaeo" tie p Ice gave up
the FUR nit. In tie slEm there was what
was known as Royal Family" who
ki"ged ii over tie d!s.Iict, but there was
also a Pretender and his gang, ana when
the two cl.ques met in battle, which they
OF did the district literally ran with
blood.
The average rate of population per acre
in London is about fifty-seven-in some
of these slum districts it reaches three
hundred and sixteen. In one of them there
are fifty-four dwellings,, in which $500
people live or die. In the rooms of such
novels the principal article of furniture
is generally the bed. which nearly fills
the apartment. and which serves for the
whole family, no mattr how numerous it
may be. AS many as can, generally the
father, mother, and any guest" who may
be enjoying their hospitality, with, say.
three of the older children, occupy the
top of the bed The rest of the family
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bull pines, Nick knew it was about time
for the harness and collar to come off and
with his neck gear looseued he made
bee line for his deer-brush which grew
thick on the mountains, for deer-brush
was the hot bird and cold bottle of Nick's
bill of fare.
An idle burrows brain is the Devils
work shop. no less than an idle miners,
mucker's or any ones else for the matter
of that. and when Nick walked up that
fateful day he dropped his long ears for
ward and listened intently for the accus-
toned sounds that came from the little
cabin down on the creek. He threw one
ear back and kept the other at attention
but still no sounds; he threw both back,
both forward then each back and for
ward acknowledgment still no sounds.
No Spire of blue smoke arose from the
rude rock chimney where the mucker al
ways kindled his fire of mornings. Some
thing was wrong-radicaliy wrong. Such
proceedings were totally out of line with
the routine of the camp during the entire
six months that Nick and they had struck
nav ore upon the mouutain-side. 1t puz-
zled him. Throwing his err back at a vi
cious angle Nick opened his brazen lungs
and threw a few stacatto notes upon the
morning air. After fiouncing from side
TO side of the canyon his voice died co
stiffness leaving him to solitude and
amazement-''This is funny" thought
Nickodemus, I'm go down and see what's
up"
The door was closed and no sound came
from the little cabin This is dsrned
funny" thought Nickodemus to himself
Something is out of gear sure" Go.-g
back to the cabin he nudged against the
door with all the might of his big rough
hips. The door moved on its hinges and
left him staring into the deserted room.
Just to the right. as Nick looked in
there lay a -four sack upon the floor. He
nibbled for this and drew It to him. How
nice 1t tasted; that delicate soft paste
made by his moist mouth and the -four
that had sifted through to the outside.
The more he chewed the better he liked
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don County Council is now practically
unanimous in endeavoring to get rid of.
The p.incipAl critic SIN that has been
made OF the council mems system Is that
when they pull down one of these slums
and build model DWELL gs on the site. the
people who come into the new are not
those who were driven out of the old. I
asked a prominent official of the Council
his opinion in the matter.
He said: 1T is true, we don't get back
the people we turn out. but our theory
is that as we are gradually wiping out the
worst slums the refugees from each will
have to locate in a district ttat is a
little better than that from which they
are evicted. and so, as we work along. re-
building district by district, we expect
that even the lowest Of them will be
raised gradually. little by little, to clean
illness, and order. and decert living"
Marshall Lord.
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of that in there for greasin' that old buck
board of ours. I'll just pour that bottle
down Nick's threat, AID l reckon Jim and
Steve II have their hands tul attend ng
10 catchin' that gold dust that Nick Ii
heave al EN-. Great head I've go; nix
I'll apply for diploma as veterinary
when 1 go to Frisco next time"
For the Lords sake what you tryin'
to give that burroww yell, the mucker
as the new-fedged horse doctor tried to
force the neck of the oil bottle between
Nick's firmly SET tee h. Cough drops, ="
calmly replied the scientist, as he chung to
Nick's bobbing nose with one hand d
jemmed the bottle against his teeth with
the other.
why you blooming Balemite. don't you
know castor oil don't make EN- cough
up?"
Don't it?''
"Wen, l reckon not Get out, you don't
know enough about medicine to physic a
burrow.
You help Steve hold this here can and
I'll fix some dope thatll work Nck's dia-
phram till he'll think he's worth about
slx-bit rock
AS if aware of the designs against his
digestive organs Nick opened his capa-
cious mouth and beloved as If implor-
ing help from some sympathetic friend.
His mournful cries were wasted on tbs
mountain air. and the ears of his only
listeners.
Il reckon you'll cough up that dust
now, old boy" cried the mucker as he
came out of the cabin carrying a stick
of dynamite in his hand.
you amt goin' to lamp him with dyna-
mite are you?" asked Steve. Maybe we'd
better try hot water and mustard first.
l remember mother used 1t to get a penny
out of me that I'd swolered one day when
I was a kid. 1t didn't take long either.
Maybe that d be better nh dynamite
for Nick. dynamite might kin him and
we can't afford to lose old Nick at this
stage of the, game"
II amt go'n' to lamp him with it you
crazy, I'm Just goin' to crumble some and
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burn it under his nose Your Sc. ~.
dust fly when he's smeled II a sneu
reckon you and Joe know by experis,.44
that dynamite smoke II make a NO.
sick up and / reckon Nick's insides u -.
action on 'em too when this smoke strii5St
EN-. Get on your base with that can IS
fellows and pla y banr Crumblin.
quarter OF stick in an old fire shovel ~
mucker touched a match to it.
Tied as he was hard and fast to ~.
stout pine sapMng. Nick couldn't ee, ht9
head away from the fire shovel ana 81.
villainous smell. Up rose the sickeriro
fumes into his palpitating nostri;s ans
passed on down 20 his lungs Oh. no..
vile it was! How cruel to treat poor. fair
full, hard-working Nickodemus So .rUba,
had he done to deserve 1t: would the.
ever take that Internal shovel awav an5
let him smell the sweet mountain 80
again! oh, for one more day among ~
delicious deer brush before he died, Fvas
years more with the ore panniers and t5a
six trips every day and the tired hal
and CALLED withers would be better tbsn
this Slow and inhuman torture. Woud 4,
ever cease!'
And then a dizzy sickness came ov..
Nickodemus and as through a mist ~
saw two men who TANNED something 60
his mouth and tied it there a long, lon.
time while commissions seized his intaro
nails and as the sea when it gives IN Ne
dead so he felt as he retched up ths+
$50 worth of gold dust and the remains
of a for weight pound -four sack For
half-hour afterward the camp were busv
at the creek bank panning the contents
of the five gallon oil can while Nick la,,
exhausted and grunting under the nina
tree where he had lately been tied. Tho
arastrar didn't run for two whole dave
and there was nc ore brought down tbe
steep little trail during that time. hn+
Nick was in his deer-brus on the even
ing of the third day. for though a power
full emetic. dynamite sickness fortunate.
ly isn't often fatal
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most hardened men in the district recog-
nized the fact that their preacher was
no "softy." as they put 1t. And so he
got his first hold on them. The story of
how he won the whole district to respect
and almost to love him is too long to be
told here, but now In the spot where
stood the worst part of the "Old Nichor
stands DR.. Jays famous church-with a
boxing room in its basement! DR.. Jay
1t was who egged the London County Coun-
ell on to rebuilding the Stun. The story
of his long fight was told by Arthur Nor
rison in his novel, "A Child of the Jago."
of which DR.. Jay or Father JAY" as he
is now affectionately known in the ia
60" is a prominent figure, and which Is
dedicated to him.
what Typical Stun Is Like.
A picture of this part OF s. ore ditch as
1t was before DR. Jays crusade gives q
fair idea of the other corg sted Lond
districts with which the County Council
is either dealing or getting ready to deal.
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oil has spent little over S3,0000Oo. Fol-
lowing out its programme, 1t is now
but d. ny houses OF the same nd " ich
viii cost over 81 500 90, and 70 clear the
new els riots W ich the Coun ! S lnsp c.
tors have condem ed ard which are to
be rebuilt will cost $500 90 more The
houses a ready bui accommod ale more
than 10 900 pfoDle; ho7e nov Hiding I'd
those ar anged for viii give DIV ings 70
30 .O0i more They viii be finished and oc-
cuIied in five years from now
Expanding Beyond LOndOn's Bounds.
The second scheme which the Council
is laying out takes another way of cur
ing the same disease OF over-crowding.
This Is by acquiring tracts of land in
the country just out of London, building
model dwellings there. and connecting
them with the working centers of the
city by light railways. The details OF
this scheme have not been settled but
members of the Council tell me that per-
fecting II will cost probably 100000.
OF course. these operations, gigantic
as they are in the amount Of money
they cost, are only the beginning Of
the work Of getting rid OF Londons slums,
but everything points to this vast under
taking being carried out TO the end. The
best reason for this belief Is that the
Council is 20 longer divided on this sub
ject Until a comparat lively short time
ago a large number of its members had
little faith in the schemes that the body
was in the act of carrying out but sue
cess has converted these doubters. and
hereafter the Council will work as a unit
in this direction. Natu'a ally. II is not plan
ming to spend the millions of the city OF
London without expecting to get them
back again. The power of money-spenl l.
ing that was granted to the Council by
Parliament is on the condition that their
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The houses were built so that their
ground floors were sometimes more than
a loot below the street level, and in
but ding them cheap sort OF mortar.
known as Billy sweet had be used,
a disif Ishng fca,u Q of this substance
being that il never dr.ed. In the dis
trct there was no street. more than IS
feet yiae. Most Of TIE thoroughfares were
m4re al eys. No house boasttd a froat
d o.. 10 10 - was ever repaired, and
suOh backyards as had o.ce existed hal
been r. ed over 70 make new dive iings.
People slept out on the sidewalks to
avoid one kird Of ,ermin in the houses.
ana b. rned cardle stumps to scare of
another kind Tho d ath rate in lho dis.
irict was 40 per thousand, ard il .s no
ayF ration TO say tfat every man in
the slum was some kind OF a i'm nal
At one time the we're siXiy-four Il ket-
of-leave men there, aud when one q
criminal, either a thief or murderer, had
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sleeps under it. Generally every article Of
bed clothing reeks wi h filth. The windows
of the room, concealed behind grimy cur
tains, are never washed, and the room is
ir practical darkness. Sometimes two
families go snooks" on the same room
and bed, the first using It from seven un-
I'll midnight and then decapping, when
the second retires in the warm bed. Chill
dren Of such districts, sent to school and
falling asleep in their seats. complain
that they had no sleep the night before,
as they had to fight "the bugs" all night
long. Three rooms in such dwelling
were visited. In the first lived man.
woman and six children. who rented
little cupboard OF an annex TO two more
grown persons IN thc second lived a IA
ther mother and three grown up chill
dren. while the third was occupied by the
parents and four children. 10 say nothing
Of an adult ledger"
This Is the sort OF thing that the Lon