Evening journal., 1902-04-09
DOVER WANTS SEWER SYSTEM
Wilmington Engineer to Make Suggestions
for It..Okher News Of State capital
Special to tho Evening Journal.

Dover. April 9.-COuncil has decided
to hold citizens meeting in the
Court House on April 2S, to hear what
r. Chalkley Hatton, civil engineer of
Wilmington, has to say in regard to
the sewerage system for Dover. He
has been to Dover with two assistants
making a survey and furnishing an es-
innate for Council.
Council has named the following
members Of the Board of Health: Dr.
II. A. II. Bishop, Eldad L. Clark,
Frisby Clark. Stephen Slaughter, Ben
jamin Donoho Robert II. VanDyke,
and James KERN.
Although a spirited contest was ex-
pected for the position of tax collector.
which for many years has been held
BY Heusten A. Culbreth, only one ap-
plication was filed. 1t was that of
Samuel Maxwell Harrington, who was
unanimously chosen. He is a Republ-
can and this is the first public office
he has ever held.
Council passed a resolution agreeing
that the town Of Dover would not i'm
pose any taxes upon trOupes playing in
Dover until the debt OF the Opera
House to be built is cancelled. 1t will
also furnish free Of cost all light and
water to help the project. The report
Of Assessor Henry G.. Collision was ac-
cepted. and an allowance of SIS was al.
lowed for his work
One of the most pleasing programs
ever presented at the State cap
ital will be heard tomorrow evening
at the complimentary concert of thi
Heptasophs. Besides the musical tai
ent. Former Sheriff John b. Wharton
who Is in charge of the affair, has Sc
cured little Miss Leona Carson, o
Wilmington, to recite.
The work of demOlishing the oil
cannery which stands at the corner o
Railroad avenue and Loockermal
street. is rapidly approaching an end
All the machinery inside of the build
ing has been torn down and shipped Il
large dealers Of old iron in Philadel
phia The building itself is beinl
razed. except the main part. whicl
will be moved to North and Kirkwoo,
streets and converted into severa
dwellings houses.
The First Presbyterian Church ha
elected the following officers: Rulinl
elders. John A. Nicholson. Richard NJ
Jones. A. w. Slaymaker. John Heit
shu. Trustees. John A. Nicholson. Dr
Presley L. Downs, John Heitshu, Rob
ert II. VanDyke, Caleb S. Pennewill
Alden r. Benson. Walter Morris
George Massey Jones and Richard N
Jones. President. John A. Nicholson
and collector. George Massey Jones.
Wallace Handy has been electeI
manager of the '03 football team, t.
succeed Professor William NJ Wooster
who has resigned. Mr.. Handy is har,
at work filing out the schedule TO
next year, and hopes to have game
with the Wilmington Military Acad
emy and Wilmington High School.
The "dogwood storm" swept dow
upon lower Delaware with unusual fe
rocity yesterday. and developed int
one of the worst storms of the yeai
It put stop to all agricultural opera
tions. which has been planned on
large scale for this week, and espC
,. cially potato planting. which has bee
retarded for more than a week. NJ
merous washOuts and foodings weT
reported, but upon the bay the stor1
= was especially severe. At Mahoni
shad fishing was completely abandon
ed. while the big feet of oyster boat
Dut into harbor so rapidly that ther
3 was danger of one being battered /
I pieces against the other. The win
developed into a gale. The schoonC
' Kirkwood. Captain Gus Langrill, is T,
! ported to have been lost in the Nant
: coke river after having been drive
= along for several miles. dragging h'
: anchor. The rural mail deliveri'
u were seriously interfered with, but tn
l. carriers went on pluckily with the
y work.
: When the sturgeon fishing industr
a opens next Sunday week, but five boa
will start out at Mahon's, which h'
heretofore been considered the cent
of this important industry. A markC
decrease in the number of these man
moth fish has been noticed of recei
years until the industry has becon
one of small Importance in this lOca
itv. One of the causes of the decreai
is the fact that large numbers
young sturgeon. found in the nets
shad fishermen. were killed by Il
l. fishermen. because the big fish tore Il
shad nets. The effort to obtain legi
lation in favor of the protection
:, the fish. did not get through the lie
- lslature Hundreds of men and boa
I. were formerly employed in catchil
Il the fish. and extracting the roe,
g caviare. for shipment to city ma
'e kets.