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Evening journal., 1902-01-28
SOMETHING ROTTEN HERE

II thea Welsbach Company has a
valid contract for lighting our streets,
fact which we are inclined to ques-
tion. it has obtained its concession in
a manner which is subject TO question.
There has never been such iugglery to
our knowledge in awarding a contract
in this city. and the various bits Of
manipulation compel us to question the
conduct of those concerned in award
ing the contract, and who held their
offices as guardians Of the city's inter-
ests.
AT no stage have the people been
able to ascertain the truth till now It
is regarded as settled and final. and
now we are vouchsafed certain infor-
nation. We are told that the contract
was executed on June 20, last, and that
one OF the directors went with repre-
sentative of the company TO the office
OF Mr. Fahey. who was then serving
the last day OF his term as Mayor. And
yet on December 81, six months after
wards. the Street and Sewer Commits
sion went through the form of consid-
ering the contract de novo, and as
though none had been made, and pass
ed a resolution giving the company
the same privileges of the alleged con-
tract previously entered into.
Why was the matter reopened?
There is only one way to explain It;
some one must have thought that the
prior contract would not hold, or that
il had some weakness that should be
remedied. If this contract holds we
shall be Obliged TO pay the Welsbach
Company $26.75 year for lighting, or
S267 500 in ten years. II looks to us as
though this thing is rotten to the bot
tom. and we think the matter needs in
vestigation. and perhaps the conduct
OF certain of the parties to the proceed
ings needs to be inquired into.
Evening journal., 1902-01-28
THE EPIsCoPATE

For long time there has been con-
siderable agitation in the Anglican
Church. and in It's sister Church
in the United States, over
certain ideas in the forms
OF worship and OF government Many
conflicts have taken place, and while
in these a certain dignity has been pre-
served yet congregations have been
rent asunder over. what in any other
relation in life, we should regard as
trihes The differences in opinion in
the English church have been reflect
ed here: in fact. the two organizations
are so alike. even in their disputes
that their only cause of separation Il
the fact of national differences.
In all these questions II is curious
TO notice that no essential doctrine is
involved. and, leaving aside certain
ceremonial observances. the doctrines
preached by high churchmen could no
be detected from those OF low church
men. There has been an effort in re
cent years TO change the name OF tn
American church to the 'Anglo-Catho
lie" and another faction has success
fully fought to retain the name o
Episcopal: but we have yet to lear
that in this contest over which s
many words have been wasted and s
much ink spilled, that any doctrine es
senual to Christianity has been in
volved.
In England a certain faction I
the High Church party hl
been looking forward to
reunion with Rome. or at lea
for recognition from that quartz
This has not been vouchsafed. an
there is little likelihood that il ev
will be until the church renounc
what Rome regards as its heresi,
These efforts have been discount
nanced by the more conservative.or d
low church party. and its partisa
ask no favors from the Roman ChurC
and would receive none at its hands,
Thus there are two tendencies in Z
Anglican Church; one towards Rol
and an extended ritualism. and {
other reaching out its hands towar
the other Protestant bodies, seeki
Evening journal., 1902-01-28

Nixon, the Tammany stool pigeon,
is a decent fellow personally. He is
not really fond of low company. In his
own line OF business he is of surpass-
ing capacity; at the Naval Academy he
was No. ] in his class. lie was sent
by the United States Government to
Greenwich, where his work in Eng
lands higher naval school took away
the breath OF the Britishers-and all
their choice prizes. He left the navy
to be the construction engineer OF the
Cramps, but from there he went to his
Elizabeth shipyards to compete
against the Cramps. Many men think.
outside Of his professional ability. he
is fake His political ambitions are
not his own. They are mis- wife's To
crafty her political aims he was will
ing 10 be the stool pigeon on Crokers
Vice Committee. and now the stool pig
con of Tammany's Finance Committee.
New York Press.
Evening journal., 1902-01-28
Tried and Found Wanting

From Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
There is no good reason why the
Union party in Philadelphia should
not terminate its existence. The one
chance which the Union lead
ers had Of commencing the
movement to the people lay in
the absolutely unselfsh fidelity
of the party to the cause of honest
government. They could do this only
by keeping their own course of con-
duct free of the suspicion Of elf-seeking
and by forcing the mere camp follow
ers to put themselves on their good
behavior. But the cheap and paltry
eagerness to nominate two candidates
for police magistrates and the ease
with which the nominations were given
to subordinate leaders of the organi-
zation betrayed a spirit entirely incom-
patible with broad public aims, and
forfeited the respect of the members
OF the rank and file.
lt is a pitiful exhibition of littleness
and feebleness in leadership. together
with main chance politics, THAT has de-
mOralized the Union movement In
political brains the Stalwarts have out
outwitted and outmaster-
ed its managers at every point, and
the public is now disposed to believe
that in the matter of political morals
some of the Unionist leaders are quite
on a par with the most practical Stall
warts, except that they lack the usual
Stalwart frankness.
Evening journal., 1902-01-28
LIVERYMEN OF THE CITY SIGH
FOR AN OLD TIME WINTER

What's become OF the o,d-fashiOned
winters" asked the livery stable keep
or moodily. / remember when we had
snow, and plenty Of it, in the early
part Of December and from then clear
on to the time when the crocuses came
was kept busy hiring slelghs. But
no such luck nowadays. | might as
well make kindling wood of my sleighs
for all the money they bring me-
He looked out from his window and
blinked at the sun. Then he said:
isn't weather like this enough to give
you the blues? Instead of hearing the
sleigh bells jingle and watching the
boys SNOWFALL each other. what do
we see in mid-January? Why, you
see the dirt Of the streets so soft that
the wagon tires leave ruts in their
tracks. and kids in their shirt sleeves
are playing at mud pies.
Il was looking over my books yes
terday and / found that until five years
ago | did a pretty good business in
renting sleighs. But for the past FIVE
years March has been the month in
which the sleighing-if there was any
was done-and March is a spring
month and not a winter one.
Why, | remember beginning to get
chilly on the first of December, being
half frozen by Christmastime. and not
being able to thaw out before the first
Of March. But that was in the old
days Something's happened to the
old-fashioned mnters-and we have
to wait until spring to get real lively
snowstorm."
Said another livery stable keeper:
Seems to me the calendar is all twist
ed up. You see girls in shirtwaists
walking down the streets in January
and run across snowdrifts
in March. In the old days the reverse
was the case. Blue noses came in
Evening journal., 1902-01-28

January and blue bells in March.
Sleighing? Why, there isn't any such
thing nowadays. In a couple of years
a sleigh will be as much of a curiosity
as an old stage coach"
The man in the Weather Bureau
laughed when the subject of old-fash-
toned winters was broached.
Winters are much the same now as
they ever We're he said. Some years
we have open winters-some years we
have severe ones. Year in, year out,
they average about the same.
Now the bemoaning the fact that
There does not seem to be as much
sleighing nowadays as formerly ISM
so mucn the fault Of the weather as Il,
is the fault of the march of civiliza-
ton. III explain:
I'm the old days a slight fall of snow
was enough to make the sleighing
good. Persons could get to the coun-
try roads without any trouble. But
such is not the case today. AS fast as
The snow falls on the car tracks the
sweeper is out clearing away the flakes
Under these circumstances it is no easy
matter to find enough snow to make
sleighing good in the city. Along the
country lanes, where traffic is not so
great as in town. and where the snow
is allowed to remain-well, the winter
is lust as old-fashioned as it ever was
The winters nowadays are just as
old-fashioned as they ever were. but
persons do not seem to have as good
memories. We've had winter when
the sight of ice in the streets was a
rare thing-had winters when you
could seldom see the streets, because
the snow covered them continually.
But in the long run. the winters are
much the same. And they're old-fash-
ioned or new-fangled just as you choose
to call them"
Evening journal., 1902-01-28

The line must be drawn somewhere,
and. though German diplomacy may
see nothing wrong in a program for
Prince Henrys visit that would require
President Roosevelt to go to New York
to meet the Prince. American dignity
will permit nothing of the kind. Our
President. temporary official though he
is, is superior in rank to anybody be-
low the rank of sovereign. If Emperor
William in person were to come TO the
United States. It would be both proper
and courteous for our President TO
meet and bid him welcome on his land
ing in this country; but to extend the
same courtesy to even the most eX-
allied Of the Emperor's subjects would
lower the Presidents dignity in Ger
man eyes even more than in American.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Evening journal., 1902-01-28
Ancient Shlnplng in Delaware

1t hasn't been anything like a hun
dred years ago since merchandise prin-
cipally was shipped from other points
in the country to the towns in lower
Delaware by boat, and many of these
craft were sloOps. especially those
trading between Philadelphia and
Delaware towns. The Wayfarer re-
Gently came into the possession of the
original manifest of the thirty-nine
ton sloOp Superior, Captain Aaron
Morris. The manifest was made out
in Philadelphia. when the little vessel
cleared that port on April 9, 1914 It
is signed by Captain Morris, Naval
Officer Noble Heyrhant, and Collector
Thomas Scout. The cargo was shipped
by David Cummins. in Philadelphia,
TO John Cummins in Smyrna, and was
as follows:
Twenty-three pieces of linen, 8
trunks, boxes, 2 kegs. band boxes,
2 dozen spades. / dozen pans, tierces,
barrel Z chairs. 100 bushels of salt,
making eleven articles of entry.
Smyrna at that time had custom
house as the following manifest Of the
cargo on board the sloop Three
lAtiiAns vi MAAlonOlbs VI llt DulNtu Ol
81 1886 tons will show. Isaac Rich
ards was captain. and sailed from
Smvrna for Lewistown on April g.
l1S14. The oath on the manifest is as
follows:
Il. Isaac Richards. do swear the
ship is laden with stores, and that the
above is true manifest OF the whole
cargo OF said sloOp, and that such
goods. wares or merchandise of foreign
manufacture. as herein specified, were
legally imported and the duties there
on have been paid or secured accord
inc to law.
Custom House. Smyrna, April 3
1914. (Signed)
Isaac Richards.
! II certify that the above oath was
taken and subscribed before me.
Joseph Parsons,
Inspector"
Evening journal., 1902-01-28
MISS STONE soon
WILL have FREEDOM

Djumala, Roumania, Jan. 2S.-The
release of Miss Ellen NJ. Stone and
Madame Tsilka is now expected at
any hour. At the request of the
American negotiators the government
has granted the former entire freedom
to cross and recross the frontier so
as to facilitate the liberation of the
captives. A. A. Gargiulo first dragO-
man of the United States legation at
Constantinople; DR.. House and W. W.
Peet, treasurer of the American mis-
sion at Constantinople, have under
taken to hand over the ransom and
receive the captives They have ac.
ceptsd all risks and, by special re-
quest, are no longer accompanied by
an escort of soldiers.
Evening journal., 1902-01-28
TO COMBINE THE
PHILADELPHIA TROLLEYS
New Company With Thirty Million
Capital Being Organized for
That Purpose

Philadelphia. Jan. 2S.-The direc-
tors of the Union Traction company.
which controls all the street car lines
in this city. at a special meeting held
in the offices of p. A. b. Widener, yes
terday afternoon, granted the request
of John NJ Mack for a conference be-
tween the UniOn Traction company
and the Mack-FOerderer company,
which owns all the street car fran
chises granted last summer by city
councils. Immediately after the meet
ing Mr. Mack left for New York.
It is proposed to form a new com.
pany to be called the Consolidated
Traction company which will be capt
talized at S30.OO0.000 The promoters
Of this company made a proposal to
the Union Traction company to lease
all its lines on a sliding scale rental,
in which the dividends increase each
year until the fifth year, when a
per cent. basis is reached After that
period the Consolidated Traction
company guarantees a fixed rental of
6 per cent to the Union Traction
stockholders. To the Mack-Foerder-
Wolf syndicate the proposal is made
TO take over all their franchises which
were recently granted and which cover
in perpetuity all the important street
railway concessions. The new COM
pany will therefore have a monopoly
of all the local transportation, sur
face. underground and elevated,
which Philadelphia has and will ever
require The deal involves financial
interests worth fully Sl5O,OOO,OOO.
Evening journal., 1902-01-28
NEW WSPAPER OPINION
General Bells Success
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Brigadier-General j. Franklin Bell.
who was a first lieutenant when war
was declared against Spain, is Justify
ing his rapid promotion by the vigor
with which he Is pushing the cam
paign against Aguinaldos successor,
General Malvar, Batangas province.
The latter's lieutenant, Colonel
Marisigan, has just surrendered uncon-
ditionally with 240 men, all but
twenty-one of whom were armed with
rifles. General Bell is one of those
restless spirits who are not satisfied
with half measures or partial success.
He Is the personifcation of indomit-
able energy. and will never be satisfied
until he has surrounded Malyar and
captured him. The enterprise is not
an easy one. for Malvar is a natural
soldier and born leader. as well as an
adrOit adventurer.
General Bell has been charged with
waging war with undue severity, but
evidently the charge has no founda-
tion. for he has released Colonel Maris-
igan's prisoners. who are not crimi
nails Strenuous and hard-hitting the
general is. on the principle once enun-
ciated by General n. b. Forrest. that
war means fighting. and fighting
means killing. After the fighting Cen
eral Bell can be mild enough to suit
the president of a peace society. Will
liam Mckinley made no mistake in
putting the stars on the collar of the
stalwart Kentuckian.
Evening journal., 1902-01-28
WAYFARER'S NOTEBOOK
Pass Il Along

Pass II Along
The Wayfarer has received the fol-
lowing:
asked her what paper she preferred,
And warmly kissed her cheek,
Then pressed her for her hearts reply:
Say darling, can't you speak?"
She moved a little nearer then,
And answered: Lovely Sir.
The one of all that suits me most
Is the Wayland Regis-terl"
-Wayland Register.
Just kiss her on the other cheek.
See what she thinks of that,
Then press her for her answer.
And she'll say, the Democrat
Livingston Democrat.
First papers read, like stories told.
Are good till comes a better;
Just kiss that girl upon the lips,
And she will say Newsletter.
New York Newsletter.
Then give that girl another kiss.
And as she basks in bliss sttpernal.
She'll tell you with a radiant smile
81 dearly love the Evening Journal.
j. N. c.. Delaware City.
Evening journal., 1902-01-28
THE ESQUIMO

The Esquimo eats blubber.
The j. mbermen eat pork.
These people are constantly
exposed to cold and physical
strain. Experience has taught
them that fatty foods give
warmth and nourishment.
For those who have cold
and thin bodies, or are threat
ened with consumption or any
wasting disease, there is no fat
in so digestible and palatablc a
form as SCOTS Emulsion
Physicians prescribe it.
Wen send YOU a litile 20 try. .i you lhe
SCOTT 3 BOVINE, 80 Pearl street, Sew York
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7
tion OF this church. standing as It does
midway between the extrame
OF the Roman Church on
the one hand and the ex-
treme of certain Protestant organiza-
tions on the other. the division Of its
members on questions of worship. Is
Inevitable. And in the matter Of indi-
vidual opinion. much is undoubtedly
due to temperament
During the last few years in America
there has been a desire on the part Of
large number Of the
laity and OF small num-
Der Of the clergy to form a closer
bond of friendship with other evan
gelical denominations. This has not
been deemed possible for the reason
that the Episcopacy has been regard
ed as a barrier. In certain instances
there have been limitations that other
religious bodies might be recognized
III they would submit to the government
Of the Episcopate of the church. This
feature seems to have been regarded
as essential by several churches. and
the Methodists hold in no light esteem
the fact that its bishops and priests
are ordained by proper authority that
has descended to them in an unbroken
line.
It may appear as revolutionary, then,
when certain distinguished members
OF the Anglican clergy come forth with
the claim that the Episcopacy is sim
ply a matter OF church government,
and is not an essential This comes
with peculiar force from learned di-
vines who are themselves part of
that great body No less a parsonage
than Canon Henson. of Westminster
Abbey, a clergyman noted for his
learning and piety is now a champion
of this idea. He declares that "the
doctrine of the Apostolic succession
is a comparatively modern theory"
The necessity of Episcopal ordination
was not recognized as necessary for
those preaching in the church or hold
ing benifces till late in the sixteenth
century.
Canon Henson thinks that the less
rigid custom in mission fields, and the
great work Of evangelizatlon by other
Protestant denominations is an argu-
ment in favor of relaxing the rigid
rule of the Episcopacy. Speaking Of
the latter he asks:
"By what right can we continue TO
exclude them from our frank and af-
fectionate fellowship? BY what right
do we ignore them In our parishes, re-
fuse them all access to our pulpits,
urge their clergy to repudiate their
orders and facilitate their restoration?
We treat them as the Roman Catholics
treat us. but with even less excuse"
It is rather remarkable fact that
these utterances have not called down
upon the Canon's head a universal
storm of dissent Many. it Is true,
differ radically with him, but, on the
other hand the Bishop of Durham de-
clares "This Is what / have long
thought and have long tried to say,
only it is now said much better" Dean
Fremantle. Of Ripon. says he has held
these views for fifty years, and Dean
stubbs. of Ely. is almost lin entire
sympathy with Canon Henson in this
matter"
The question is interesting to both
clergy and laity. and to the members
of all religious bodies. II is a part of
the general tendency of the age to re
iect the superfluous and to retain the
vital. TO hold brotherly communion
above forms and ceremonies, that are
not essential Whether they are es-
sential is an ecclesiastical question.
Evening journal., 1902-01-28

holders of the companies which exist
not for the purpose of operating the
lines. but to draw dividends. There is
now a deal on foot to merge the Union
Traction Company with the Mack
Froederer syndicate. which holds moth
ing but a franchise stolen from the
people, and thus the passengers on the
Philadelphia lines will be obliged to
support two more corporations, that
will play the part of parasites.
Evening journal., 1902-01-28
soERs' CAMP CAPTURED

General Hamilton Charged 5urghers,
Who Fled In All Directions.
Pretoria, Jan 2S-General Bruce
Hamilton, by a clever night march,
surprised a laager between Ermelo
and Bethel, in the Transvaal Colony.
and charged the Beers, who fed in all
directions and were pursued for many
miles. AS a result of this expedition
50 Beers and a quantity of stores were
captured. The casualties were small.
London. Jan. 2S.-Lord Kitchener,
in a dispatch from Johannesburg. dat
ed Sunday. January 26, announces
that Colonel Plummer captured 36
Beers, Saturday. January 25, in the
neighborhood of Spitzkop.
Evening journal., 1902-01-28

A news dispatch informs us that the
ransom OF Miss Stone. the missionary,
has been paid to the brigands, and that
her release is hourly expected Now il
we were a brigand. under these cir
cumstances. we should hold Miss Stone
for another ransom. True. this would
not be honorable. but to turn brigand
one imagines that honor is not a nee
essary commodity
Evening journal., 1902-01-28
Twelve Injured In street Car Wreck

Chicago, Jan. 2S.-Twelve persons
were injured, one perhaps fatally. by
the collision of a street car with a
limited passenger train on the Mil
waukee and ST. Paul railway last
evening. The accident occurred at the
West Chicago avenue crossing Of the
railway. The street car was on the
track when the passenger train ar
rived. 1t was smashed in, carried 30
feet down the track and broken to
kindling wood.
Evening journal., 1902-01-28
spanish War Veterans to Smoke

Department Commander Chamcey z.
Holcomb will preside at the smoker and
open campfire of the William r. Weir
Camp of Spanish War Veterans this
evening. All members of the G. A. K.
and all Spanish war veterans are in
vited 10 attend.
Evening journal., 1902-01-28
At Half the Former Price
One-haIf the former price

and keep the other half in your pocket Our loss of from
30 40 per cent below all these desirable goods
which regardless of cost is your gain Come
early before your sizes closed out
Evening journal., 1902-01-28

Entered at the Wilmington postofnce as
second-class matter