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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05
FRIENDS OF OLD DRAWERS.
A Brief Sketch of the Organization b
Daniel W. Corbit.

A Brief Sketch of the Organization by
Daniel W. Corbit.
Daniel W. Corbit, vice president Of
the Friends of Old Drawyers, gave a
brief sketch of the organization. The
edifice, he said, is owned by the First
Presbyterian Church of ST. Georges
hundred, which is Incorporated.
The society of Friends of Old Draw
yer's was organized in 1885, largely
through the efforts of the late District
Attorney Lewis G. Vandegrift, native
of the soil, and others During the
period of the society's existence it has
expended about 81, 300 in improvements,
repairs and maintenance, making a
wonderful change. The society has
about 500 in the treasury and there
is a cemetery fund of $500.
Mr.. Corhit announced the intention
of the society to provide a permanent
| fund for the maintenance of the
property, and called attention to the
| fact that extensive repairs will be
needed in the near future. He invited
| contributions from any who were dis
posed to assist in the work of pre-
| seryation of the historic old building.
/ He announced that George Janvier has
for sale history Of the church in book
| form.
Supplementary remarks on the same
| line were made by John V. Craven of
West Chester, Pa, a member of the
society. Mr.. Craven spoke of the
| interest which the forefathers of the
present generation took in the church,
making many personal sacrifices for it.
These remarks impressed the con
eregation with the Importance OF
making material prov ision for the
future of the old church, which will
no doubt, he productive of good results.
IT is the aim Of the society to keeI
| the building in its original shape, SC
far as is possible, but it must be
strengthened and otherwise improvee
from time to time, and the churchyarc
and grounds must be kept up.
The quaint old building reminds ont
Of colonial times. The exterior is plain
, but neat, and the interior is in keep
! ing with the general appearance from
the outside. Tho pulpit occupies {
. position at the rear of the church. |
is about four feet from the floor and j,
surrounded by railing and reached
nv stems on either side. The pews arr
enclosed and have exceptionally higl
oates. as was the custom in the Older
days. The gallery is similarly arranged
and is reached by u ,staircases ol
| either side of the front door 1t i
hoped to preserve this general arrange
p. ment. An effort will be made to secur
a good fund for the purpose
The reunion closed with the hene
4 diction by the Rev. f. H. Moore o
Middletown, after which there was
, general handshaking and renewing G
I old acduaintanceS.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05
DEATH OF JOHN B. PENNINGTON.
Former Congressman Died at Dover sur

Former Congressman Died at Dover sun
day Night, After Long Illness.
specal Correspondence OF Gazette and Journal.
Dover, June 2.-The Hon. John b.
Pennington, a former Representative in
Congress, died at the Capitol Hotel
last night. after long illness. Mr..
Pennington suffered severe blow in
the death of his daughters, Mrs. Joshua
d. Deane and Mrs. John Z. Dunnlng,
who died from the effects of eating
poisoned candy which was sent to Mrs.
Dunning from San Francisco by Mrs.
Cordelia Botkin: and his health had
declined rapidly since the death OF his
wife, which occurred year ago.
John h. Pennington was born in
New Castle hundred December 10th,
| 1925, and was the son of Thomas Nc.
Bonough Pennington. He graduated
from jefferson College, at Cannons-
burg, Pa, in 1s4s. Going west, he
began the study of law in Indiana.
Having there an attack of hemorrhages,
he sought to regain his health by out
| door life, and superintended the con.
struction of the Wabash Canal. He
returned home in 1851, and engaged II
farming till 1854, after which he studiet
law in the office of the Hon. MartIr
W. Bates, and was admitted to the bai
in 1857 and Immediately settled II
Dover for the practice of his profession
He was a member of the Delaware
House of Representatives in 1857, ant
was clerk Of that body in 1859, 1856
and 1871. He was delegate to tn
Democratic National Conventions hell
at Baltimore and Charleston. gnde
President johnson he was unite'
States district attorney for Delawar
for l3 months, and he was attorney
general from 1874 to 1879. He wa
elected Congressman in 1886, and serve
two terms, after which he resumed tn
practice of law at Dover. He was
member of the Presbyterian Church
Several grandchildren survive him.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05

The Friends of Old Drawyor's Pres
byterian Church held their seventh an
nnal reunion ut the old church, near
Odessa, Sunday. A special sermon
was preached in tho morning by the
Rev. N. f. Stahl, pastor of the Pres
byterian Church at Delaware City, as
sisted by the Rev. K. L. Hallett, pastor
of the church; the Rev. F. II. Moore,
d. D., pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Middletown, and the Rev.
John M, Arters. pastor of the Metho-
dist Church at Odessa. The reunion
exercises took place in the afternoon.
Fully 500 people were at the church
during the day, coming from all parts
of New Castle county, also from Kent
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05
THE REUNION EXERCISES.

rncidents of Long Ago Recalled in an
original Poem by George Alfred Town
send.
The reunion exercises at Old Draw
yer,s took place in the afternoon, be-
ginning at o'clock. Tho churon was was
beino required to stand. Daniel W..
Corbit of Odessa, vice president Of the
Friends of Old Drawyer's, presided.
The rastor, the Rev. r. L. Hallett,
made the opening prayer; which , was
followed by pleasing solo by Mrs.
Warden Humphrey. ),
George Alfred Townsend, the we'll
known writer Of Washington, was
The chief orator of the occasion. Mr..
Townsend is a native of Georgetown,
! but spent his boyhood days in the
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05
SUPREME LODGE OF WORKMEN.
A. B. Jones Appointed One of the Repre-
sentatives to the Portland Meeting.

A. B. Jones Appointed One of the Repre-
seatatives to the Portland Meeting.
j. l.. Ellis of Delmar, who was
elected one. of the representatives to
the meeting of the Supreme Lodge of
the Ancient Order of United Workmen,
will be unable to attend. In his place,
Grand Master Workmen B. A. Groves
has appointed A. B. Jones. The other
representatives from the jurisdiction
of Delaware are Grand Recorder Charles
L. Woods and G. B. Prettyman. They
started for Portland, Oregon, where
the Supreme Lodge will meet, last
Tuesday. The trip will occupy five
weeks. One of the subjects which the
Delaware Grand Lodge is interested in
is the Supreme Lodges consideration
of the beneficiary and guaranty sund
| laws of this jurisdiction.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05
OLD DRAWERS CHURCH.

historical sketch of the Old Building
From tho Pen of the Rev. j. l., Fallan-
digham, ID. ID.
some years ago the Rev. ]. l..
Vallandigham, ID. D., prepared an
interesting sketch of Old Drawers
Church, which gives the facts CON
nected with its history, so far as can
be authenticated
The precise time at which the church
was organized, according to DR.. Val
landigham's sketch, is unknown.
There is documentary evidence that
it existed in l7os, and was supplied by
the Rev. John Wilson, who was pastor
Of the church in New Castle. 1t was
then known as the Church al Ap.
noQuinimy. 1t was afterward callec
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05
FROST AFFECTED THE CORN.

A farmer from the lower part of New
Castle county said Saturday that
the frost which fell last Thursday
morning had damaged corn in different
places throughout the county and pro
badly lower down in the State. The
evidence Of damage was not very appar-
ent until Saturday, when it was
noticed that some of the corn has be-
come slightly yellow, and it is likely
that its growth will be stunted
A general examination of fruit trees,
bushes and vines has been made and
reports received from several sections
indicate that fruit has not suffered
much. Tomatoes, it is believed, suf
cred more than any other k nd OF vege
tation.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05
ONLY A COMMA.
Yet 1t seems to Alter the sense of a Section
of the Divorce Iaw.-The Comma Is in
The Original, and Not in the Printed Act

Yet 1t Seems to Alter the sense OF q sectloh
of the Divorce Iaw-The Comma is in
The Original, and Not in the Printed Act
just one little comma, yet its absence
from an act rs printed IN the Revised
Code, might have caused an entirely
different decision by The General Ses-
sions Court, than that which will be
given, had not an investigation estab-
lished the fact that il belonged III u
certain place in the act
The act under consideration is part
of the divorce lbw, and II portion OF the
section in question is Tins printed IN
the Revised Code, rag 396:
IA divorce from the bonds OF matrl-
mony, or from bed and board, at the
discretion of the court, shall be decreed
for procurement OF tne marriage by
fraud for want of age, tho husband Being
under the age of Is years or the VIE
being under the age of l6 years at the
time of the marriage, and such marriage
not being after those ages voluntarily
ratified; or for wilful neglect on the
| Eart of the husband for three years tt
provide for his wife the necessaries O
| life suitable to her condition.
The particular part of this section t'
which the court directed its attention
was that which says "b, fraud TO
want of age. - An attorney interest!et
| in similar question to that before tn
court, took the trouble to go to Dove
and inspect the original act, as signe'
by the speakers of the two houses. ii
found that in the original, there is
comma after the word fraud, so that !
would read "by fraud, for want of age.
The comma makes a new reading Q
the section plausible, in that fraud
now held to be distinct cause, an
not associated with or limited by tn
phrase 'for want of age. p"
The effect of the discovery, emphasi2
ing that fraud is a bar to legal maj
riage, will probably be to move tn
court to require the husband, in th
case before it, to support his wife unit
he shall have taken divorce. proceed
ings under the authority of the act
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05

Work is going on slowly and quietly
upon the Vandegrift trolley line from
Brandywine Springs to Kenneth Square,
considerable work, it is said, having
been done at Clifton Mills, Kennett
township, both at grading and build
ing ahutments for bridges. A survey
has been made to Avondale by Sur
yeyor Ashbridge, who has charge Of
the line. More Italians are to be put
on shortly.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05

Mrs. Edward O'Donnell Of SIS Spruce
street broke her right arm at the
shoulder in a fall about 10 days ago.
Sunday her shoulder gave her in
tense pain and then it was learned it
had been fractured. Drs. G. W. X.
Forrest and II. q. Buckmaster set the
fracture. 1t was necessary to use anas-
thetics, so painful was the injury.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05
SCHOONER AMELIA HEARN
BECOMES A TOTAL LOSS

Nassau, New Providence, May 81
The American schooner Amelia Hearn,
Capt. Griffith, from Baltimore May
nth for Tarpub Bay, was wrecked
May 24th on Ahaco Reef, Bahamas,
and became total loss. The crew
were saved.
The schooner Amelia Hearn was
owned by William F. Moore, and hailed
from Baltimore, Md, She was built
at Laurel, DEL, in 1878, registered
los tons, was "a feet, 2 inches long,
had % feet, 8 inches beam, and was 6
feet, one inch deep.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05

According to the report of Secretary
Wigglesworth of the Board of Health,
there we're 26 deaths, 30 births, mar
riages reported for the week ended at
noon Saturday, rs against y deaths, ~
births, 16 marriages for the same period
last year,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05
INTERNATIONAL POLO MATCH
WAS WON BY THE AMERICANS

London, Eng, May 81, 4.55 p. m. =
The polo score in the International
match, at the end of the third period,
was America, 3; England, 0.
5.36 p m. The Americans won by
two goals to one.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05
GREAT DAY At
OLD DRAWERS
Friends of the Historic Church
Hold Their Annual
Reunion. %..-.....
FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE
WERE IN ATTENDANCE
An Appropriate Original Poem
Read by George Alfred
Townsend. .......

The old Building Looked Its Best and Was
TastefnIly Ornamented With Flowers,
Vines, Palms, &c.--Visitors From Four
States - Old Memories Revived and
Former Acquaintanceship Renewed
Friends of the Church to Raise Perma-
nent Fund for Maintenance.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05

Baltimore, Nd, June 2.-Victor
Gritfen, for two years an inmate of
the Bay View Insane Asylum, escaped
from that institution this morning,
and in about two hours his mangled
body was found on the track of the
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore
railroad.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05

Pensions have been granted Della
wareans as follows: Original, Enoch
Jefferson. Wilmington, So. Original
widows, &C., special ACCRUED, May 18th,
Jennie Jones, Wilmington, s.: Maggie
E. Hickman, Bayard, s12; Sallie a.
Workman, Laurel, So
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05

Julia Boyle Of No. 9l9 Eoed street,
aged AZ years, fell down the stairs Of
her home Monday with IL lighted
lamp in her hands, and after extinguish-
ing the blaze collapsed from fright
and died. Coroner Frick has beon
notified and will look into the case.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05

,rs Saw the Unfortunate Men Jumped
Ipyerbnard and Others Say They Fell or
Fysre Knoeked Into the water-yerdict
hi the Jury.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05

Resolved, That Samuel and Henry Rod
IN came to their death by drowning of
e% Castle, during a collision between their
HI and the steam yacht Marietta, on
In lSth, 1902. w Verdict of the coroner's
In MAY 3lst. 1902.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-05
OLD DRAWERS CHURCH.

vicinity of Odessa and Delaware City.
Chairman Corbit called upon Mr..
Townsend, after making few brief
remarks. Mr.. Townsend cad an
original poem, which was listened
to with undivided attention:
The Bourbon news., 1902-08-26
HUMOROUS.

She-"They say her father has spent
$4,000 en- her voice" He-"It needed
every cent of it."=lndis napolis News.
Mrs. Harlemite- -"Twenty-five cents
for that bit of icel Isn't that awfully
dear?" Iceman-''NO, mum, the water
in the lake was very high when that ice
was cut."-St. Louis GlobeDemocrat.
"You don't even know how to make
a lemon TART" remarked the cooking
school girl with fine scorn. ''It isn't
necessary to make lemon tart, re-
piled the other. "All the lemons I've
ever seen we're pretty tart already"
Philadelphia Record.
Queer.-"Yes, I still have the first
dollar I ever made" said the gray
haired passenger. 'The ideal" ex-
claimed the travelling acquaintance,
sand how did you keep it so long,"
''It was very imperfect, being my first,
and I'd have had trouble in passing it. +"
Philadelphia Press.
81 suppose" said Mr.. Olds, ''if 1 were
were to start smoking again it would
set the children a bad example" 1T
would, indeed" replied his wife. "It's
very thoughtful and unselfish in you to
consider that" eyes, so I've decided
to send the children right off to board
ing school where they won't see me" +"
Philadelphia Press.
''I think Miss Sharp is particularly
happy in the use of terms in her refer
ences to literature" "What does she
say?" "She says she has dipped into
this, pored over that and dabbled in
the other, until she is fairly sat
urated with the literature of to-day"
"What has she been reading?" mod
ern wishy-washy novels. els."-Indianap-
oils News.
The Proper Term.-Martha, the col
ored washerwoman, was complaining
of her husbands health to one of her
patrons. "He's ve'y poly ma'am; ve'y
poly. He's got dat explanatory
rheumatism" "You mean infamma-
tory, Martha. Explanatory is from
exclaim, which means to cry out. 3"
eyes, miss" answered Martha, with
conviction, "dat's what it is. He hOl-
lers all de time."- Christian Register
The Bourbon news., 1902-08-26
A KndVe Of
OnSCienCe
BY FRANCIS LYNDE.
Copyright 1900, by Francis Lynde.l
CHAPTER V.-CONTINUED.

''By JOve! but she is a magnificent
ly strong type" he unused, lying fat
on his back and staring absently at
the fittering shadows among the
deck beams overhead. "Her face is
as readable as only the face of
woman instinctively good and pure
in heart can be. Any man who can
put her between the covers of
book may put anything else he
pleases in it and snap his fingers at
the world. If 1 am going to live
in the same town with her I ought
to jOt her down in words before [
lose the keen edge of the first i'm
preston"
He considered it for a moment,
and then got up and went in quest of
a pencil and a scrap of paper. The
doing night clerk gave him both,
with a sleepy maledictiOn thrown in;
and he went back to his engine-room
and scribbled his word-picture by
the light of the swinging lantern,
thus:
"Character-study Young woman
of the type Western-Creole-no the
daughter of aliens, but born in the
West of parents who have migrated
from one of the older States. (TH
hazard that much as a guess.) De-
tails: Titan blonde, with hair like
spun bronze; the complexion that
neither frecllles nor tans; cool, gray
eyes with an under-depth in them
that no man but her lover may ever
quite fathOm; a figure which would
be statuesque if it were not alto
gether human and womanly; fea-
lures cast in the Puritan mold, with
the lines of character we'll empha-
sized; lips that would be passionate
but fOr-nO, lips that will be pas
siOnate when the hour and the man
arrive. A soul strong in the strength
of purity, which would send her to
the stake for a principle, or to the
Isle of Lepers with her lover A
typical heroine for a story in which
the hero is a man who might need to
borrow a conscience"
He read it over thoughtfully when
1t was finished, changing a word here
and a phrase there with a crafts
mans fidelity to the exactnesses.
Then he shook his head regretfully
and tore the scrap of paper into tiny
squares, scattering them upon the
brown food surging past the engine
room gangway.
''It won't do" he confessed, reluc-
family, as one who sacrifices good
lifara1.v material 4O On Ovarvaar;,r.
sense of the fitness of things. Its
nothing less than cOld-blooded sacA
rilege. can't make copy out of her
if I write no more while the world
stands"
The Bourbon news., 1902-08-26
BUCKINGHAM PALACE.
Once Called GOring House and Only
by Chance Came to Be the Res
fdence of Royalty.

Buckingham palace is to-day one of
London's most comfortable mansions.
Extensive alterations were carried out
at the beginning of the year, and the
private apartments were completely
modernized. His majesty's suite of
rooms is situated in the right wing,
looking on to the gardens, which, as
everyone knows, run up Constitution
Hill, says the London Express. They
are 40 acres in extent; a particular
feature of them is the lake, covering
no less than five acres. There are
boats on it, and at royal garden par
ties they are manned by the royal wa
termen in their state liveries for the
pleasure of any of the guests who
may care for row.
The gardens are beautifully laid
out, and are we'll wooded. The pros
pect from the kings apartments does
not in the slightest suggest that the
palace lies in the very heart of the
metropolis, girt by a belt of brick and
mortar from half a dozen to dozen
miles in breadth. 1t was only by
chance that Buckingham palace ever
became a royal residence. 1t occupies
the site of the mulberry gardens laid
out by James 1. in his unsuccessful at
tempt to start a silk industry in Lon
don. Subsequently these gardens be-
came public pleasure ground - "a
silly place with a wilderness some
what pretty" according to Pepys-
where the fashionable thing to do was
to go and eat mulberry tarts.
The house was originally called Cor
ing house; the name was next changed
to Arlington house, and when, in 1903,
John Sheffield, duke of Buckingham,
bought it, it became Buckingham
house. The duke of Buckingham de-
molished the old structure, and built
in its place a mansion of red brick
When George III. was looking out for
more cOmmOdious house than ST.
James palace, Buckingham house hap
pened to be in the market, and he
bought it for only 921,OOO. With the
exception of George ", all the chill
dren of George III. were born under
its roof.
In 1775 the property was settled
by act of parliament on Queen Char
lOtte, in exchange for Somerset house,
and then became known as Queens
house. The old name of Buckingham
house was revived when in 1925 the
present building was begun by George
", according to the designs of John
Nash. William ". never cared for it,
and so did not live there. 1t was only
in the last reign, when Queen Victoria
took up her residence, that the man.
sion at last came to be styled Bucking-
ham palace. Here in 1910 their first
child, the princess royal - Empress
Frederick-was born to Queen Vic
toria and the prince consort, and here
also, in the following year, on Novem-
Der 9, was born their second child
King Edward VII.
The Bourbon news., 1902-08-26

ment, and reasoned that the officers
of the "Belle Julie" would not yet
have had time to indiVidualize the
members of the crew.
But, apart from this, he was not
unwilling to add another chapter to
his experience among the toilers; and
as to this, he Immediately found him
self in a fair way to acquire the Gov
eted need of it. From the hour of
his enlistment. it was heaped upon
him unstintingly. Without having
specialized himself in any way to the
bullying chief mate, he fancied he
was made to bear the brunt Of the
mans wrath. Curses. tongue-lash-
ings without mercy; contumely and
abuse, with now and then at the
night landings, when no passengers
were looking on. blows.
All these buffetings, or at least
his share of them. Griswold endured
as became a man who had volun-
tarily put himself in the way of such
things. And, fortunately he was not
hopelessly unequal to the physical
the material in him was of the fine
grained sort in which quality counts
for more than quantity. None the
less, the first night with its uncount-
ed plantation landings, tried him
sorely, and he was thankful when
the second day brought fewer stop
ping-places and more time for rest.
1t was in one of the restful inter-
vals that he had been sent aft to
-eadjust the tackle of the suspended
.Jawl. He had come upon Miss Farm.
ham and her aunt unexpectedly, and
so was off his guard; and he made
sure the young woman had recog-
nized him. If so. what would she
do? He recalled his written sum-
mary of her character, and decided
that she would be sexless and just
before she would be womanly and
merciful. At least he hoped she