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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-04-17
DELAWARE SVlNDAY-SCHOOLS
The Annual State Conventions
to be Held in This City
FROM APRIL 10Th TO MAY 1ST
Committee Makes Interesting
Announcements.

Arrangements Have Been Completed for
Entertaining the Duly Accredited Dele
gate sand Alternates From All Portions of
the. state of Delaware.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-04-17

These pensions have been granted
Increase, restoration, reissue, &c.
William Mills, Wilmington, So; Samuel
s. Radcliff, Sl2.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-04-17

NOTICE., ALEXANDER X GILES.
IN ir. the owiier and occupant Of the house situ-
led NJ the +. L. corner Taylor ard !luct streets
IL rlI" Eighth ward Of the cit, ni Wl!minrtn,
county of New Castle aud state of De'awar,
in compliance with the requirements, %: The act4
of the General Assembly. In sUch raso made aud
provided. do hereby give notice that ] Shall aTrly
in writing to the Gotl1 Of Genera Sessions OF iii
Stale OF Delaware, in and for New gGs,lv county
on MONDAY. the 10th day ui aiay, A b
NO., nipr the next term oi sad court for
license for said house, ~ IN inn or tavern for Tho
sale therein oflntoXicnung liquors In less quaint
ties than one ululrt, u he drunk ON INC prense,
and the following respectable citizens Of sii
ward al lei.st twelve 81 whom ATE substantial
irerholdcfs Of said ward, reco,nngnd the said
application. VIZ.
Charles i q Neil, Thomas TAYLOR
Dennis Kane, William 4. sparks,
Dennis unrran, Clarence Williamson,
Bernard Mccullough, J. II. Rollins.
s. ]. Sturt7. James hcusr,
Patrick Riley, J1hE itluer,
John Brennan fiwsti Bowen,
Michael Mccormick, SaIGGe. Forrest
John McKenna. W 4. Icasel,
William II. Green, Andrew J. Rock,
II. Il. Dunn, RaWwny J. Clark,
Edward Barrett, John Traynpr
JOhr q. S;tatI-S. Frank sullivan,
Thomas !, S'geiS
apnU,17,2l ALEXANDER X. GILLESPIE
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eaten away by the acid 1smes OF Lon.
don's smoke; so that cs',not be charged
to the Americans.
But though Mr.. i erkes' "tuppennv
tube has threatened the monument
and perhaps other sacred landmarks
here, the Londoners themselves. as I
have stated are doing vastly more in
the way OF real destruction than all tho
Americans combined. Now, those pro-
Jected improvements along the Strand
VIII obliterste features OF the city that
nave been cherished for years by read
ers OF Dickens, Johnson and other writ
ers or classic English literature. No
one need be told that famous DIR. John
son used TO walk down Fleet street and
the Strand that he used 10 hold high
reVel In the quaint old inns that are
now doomed, and the destruction OF
which VIII be lamented as much per-
haps as that OF the old curiosity shop.
the Black Bull Coaching inn and the
BARRIERS shop where immortal PecksniR
met Mrs. Camp. Other characters onco
alive and in the flesh associated with
this locality are Jack Sheppard. the
highwayman. and sweet Nell Gwynn
OF Drury Lane. Even Newgate, the pris-
on which could not hold the indomit-
able Jack. is in the hands OF workmen
and undergoing demolition. The whole
neighborhood which is being renovat-
ed by tearing down and building UP in
consequence OF the Strand Holborn inn
provement is one which played con-
spicuous part in the historical drama
OF England. Lincoln Inn Fields. Drury
lane, Holywell street or Booksellers
row. Clare market and other regions
made familiar by Dickens, Thaekeray
and ether novelists are being invaded.
in fact, remorseless desecration Of
classic ground is inevitable for the car
rying out of London's vast scheme OF
Improvement projected to extend
through many years 10 come.
EDWARD NJ. ANSTATT. y
London Aug ..
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county council was applied 10 for a
lease of the land for period of 999
years. This American enterprise Is
mentioned i'm connection with another
Mr.. Yerkes' famous "tuppenny tube"
underground electric road, which is six
miles In length and reaching out for
more territory. 1t cost something like
$4,000 600 a mile 20 build. and the cars
running through the tube" carried last
year more than 35000.000 passengers.
This number is increasing proportion
ally every month, and as a syndicate
headed by j. l.. Morgan is seeking 20
parallel the Yerkes system Londoners
are looking forward TO the time when
the Americans may control all their
means for rapid transit not only un-
derground. but on top Of the earth as
well.
The American colony I'm London is
I said TO contain at times about 100. 0OC
people, or enough TO populate a good
sized city. and even though London has
gained more than 3.50O.0OO population in
the last hundred years, there are resi-
denters here who are viewing the i'm
crease in the American colony with
alarm. They predict utter ruin to
English enterprises through the Amer
icanizatien' of London. the other word
for which Is progress. Perhaps the
Londoners have had their movements
accelerated by the Americans. but any.
way they are how going ahead at a
rapid rate. Americans have helped
them solve their serious problems of
traffic and travel and have offered 10
build magnificent department stores
that will help out their shoppers: but
the Londoners are not grateful at all.
Some of them even say that st. Pauls
cathedral and the steeples OF st. Mary
le Bow and 81. Brides churches. both
historic structures. as we'll as the Mel
son monument. have been endangered
by the running OF the "undergrounds. 1"
Az for Westminster abbey. the soft
stone OF which IL is composed is being
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erary hospital" but when a certain as-
pirant declared that his constant rejec-
tion had made him i'll he was met with
the apt reply that this institution was
not founded for the incurabe." which
was pretty neat for an Immortal"
But while | have mentioned the acad-
cmy as the longed for retreat for all
the literary ncurables OF France II
does not follow by any means that they
all attain TO their aspirations. OF the
half dozen French litterateurs who by
almost common consent are among the
most prominent now I'm the literary
world only four of them belong to the
academy. II may perhaps seem quite
arbitrary TO name the half dozen men
most conspicuous now. and / beg to
state that this is not my dictum. but
the pubic's. Neither have 1 the te-
merity to call them greatest. but only
10 make mention that they have been
influential i'm affecting the modern lit
erary life of Paris and France.
] asked a member OF the academy to
name them for me. and without hesita-
ton ne said. Francois Coppee, poet.
novelist and playwright: Jules Lemai-
tre. poet critic aud playwright: Ana
tole France. the pseudonym for NJ. Thu
bault called the best French stylst'
now living. and the redoubtable Pierre
Lott. already mentioned. All these are
academicians. and TO them we will add
j. X Huysmans, Partisan OF Dutch
descent who, beginning with erotic and
realistic" novels. has ended with reli-
gious romances on the style of the
"neo-Cat tholics" In fact he has. IL is
reported abjured the world, the flesh
and the devil altogether and Joined the
Trappist monks
one more name Is that OF Jean Richie
pin. a poet according TO some. critic
and "A playwright. author OF several
books and as great a ''poseur" as Pierre
Lott himself. Both delight TO pose for
the public. both have ornate boudoirs
which they call their studies" and
both are constantly playing 10 the
galleries"
ALFRED q. EDwARDEs
Paris. Aus. 2
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new member then becomes the sue
cessor" OF the former incumbents i'm di-
rect line, whom he looks upon with all
the reverence due his ancestors. Thus.
when Pierre Lott was elected i'm 1891 he
became the successor Of octave Feuil-
let. whose life and works he eulogized
immoderately i'm his inaugural speech,
though. as he frankly declared at the
time. he had read but two OF Feuillet's
books, and that. too. when he was so
young that he then remembered moth
ing of what they contained. And Lott.
whose real name, by the way, lis Louis
Marie Julien Viaud. also frankly but
brutally declared that II there was any
one class of literature he despised and
which was unworthy the attention OF
any sane man IL was the kind produced
by Emile Zola and his school. lie did
not mention Zola's name right out In
meeting" but everybody knew he
meant Zola, and. what was worse. he
was there to hear this tr -tless denun-
ciation OF himself. which was all the
more brutal from the fact that he had
been Lofts chief contestant for that
very position. That position. which has
been so long sought by Zola and so
often denied MIN. Is still for him to
gain IL he can. There Is no doubt he
Is entitled TO Il. and far better qualified
in fact than the vainglorious Lott. the
dapper naval lieutenant who was un
sparing I'm his denunclation OF the
United States at the outbreak of the
war with Spain. lie was In Madrid at
the time and had Just been very well
received by the queen regent. so some
thing may be excused ON the score OF
the great head" with which he H. in
ordinately afflicted. by the way Lott
represents well enough The romantic
school, of frnnce. which at present Is
quite the vogue. and opposed-at least
In tbeory-to the realistic school
Now. who is going to stop and try 10
classify himgelf in the midst of an ex-
citing career ] fancy That any man
with talent or genius In himself pays
little attention TO whether he is
'classicist" or n naturalist" bat v'ii
go on and write what Is In him. leaving
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From Indiana" and Monsieur Beau
Caire" says word I'm defense of his
political leanings which may answer
for all writers i'm the same circum-
stances. Because ! have written a
story or two" he declares, lis no rea-
son why i should not be ambitious
along other lines" AS Harrington is a
comparatively young man-only thirty
three-his seat in the legislature may
prove stepping stone to something
higher.
In the remote past James Russell
Lowell represented his country at the
court of st. James and afterward took
an active part in politics as an inde-
pendent. Washington Irving was hon.
ored for his writings on Spain by the
appointment as minister TO that coun-
try i'm 1912. a post he filled four years.
Another eminent American author his
torian, John Lothrop Motley, was Sec
retary of legation at st. Petersburg and
afterward minister to Austria. 1861 DC.
and to England, 1s69-70
Looking abroad, we find that IL is
quite the fashion for the author to en-
bark i'm politics, and I'm this connection
arise many names that have become IA
nous. Harking back many years. we
find the brilliant Disraeli. who. in fact.
was preferred by many as an author
rather than as a statesman. He did
not have so hard n time i'm securing a
hearing for his first novel as he did for
his maiden speech I'm parliament
Gladstone, his great opponent. much
preferred the delights OF authorship
To the honors he won as England's fore
most statesman. His real delight, 1t
has been stated. was in his study
translating from the Greek or compos-
ing original articles.
John Morley is another author
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statesman who has more than merely
national reputation; Justin Mccarthy
still continues to write, though at an
advanced age and busy with the cares
of office.
Lesser lights than these are still shin
ing In England. such as Hall Caine.
who has a seat i'm the quaint Manx par
lament, seeming hardly content with
the laurels he won as author of The
Christian" The Eternal City" etc.
Sir Gilbert Parker and Sir Henry Nor
man. both M. P.'s, are we'll known as
writer's. but very ambitious to go down
TO posterity as legislators, an ambition
shared by other authors on both sides
the Atlantic.
JAMES l.. AFFLING
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his love for la belle France and her
capital one should live here awhile
yes. longer than a few weeks or months
land study history and character.
was disposed at first TO scoff' the
Frenchman's claim TO a large share in
the honor Of having moved the world
along. but a conscientious study OF
French literature together with ex-
h. tended observations anent modern lit
terateurs, show me that there is some
thing I'm the Gallo boast after ALL
Where else I'm the world. for instance,
will YOU find an equivalent OF the
French academy. with its forty "im-
mortals," an Institution designed 10
conserve the French language in its
purity and To perpetuate the best I'm its
literature2 Founded in 1885 and during
its long existence gathering place for
the best known men OF letters. n nu-
cleus about6Shich has been collected
more brilliant names probably than any
other country can show I'm a single
galaxy. IL has been most benefcent
Institution. II has been derided surely
that must be admittcd-and men like
voltalre and Daudet have launched
their shaftf against ~: but. after oil
no Frenchman OF letters. especially in
modern times. but has experienced dc.
sire 20 become n member of the great
academy. election TO which is the seal OF
approval IN a literary way. Some have
Affected 90 believe that IL Is a greater
honor to dll the "forty-first seat'-that
r.. 10 be allowed 90 remain outside the
barrier-than 10 be one OF the 'imnor-
tal' forty. The original number OF
twoscorc members has been maintained
throughout It's existence and when ono
dies his place is promptly filled The
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the sea Of politics and has resolved to
sink his literary aspirations-at least
for the present-in his political ambi-
tions. even going the length of resid-
ing in New Hampshire In the winter
season.
Strange though the prediction for
politics may seem in an author OF es-
tablished reputation. Mr.. Churchill is
not the only one who has manifested IL.
10y any means. One OF the most emf
nent examples-the most eminent at the
present time. in fact-is the executive
OF this republic. Theodore Roosevelt.
He was an author. TO be sure, long be-
fore he became president. for he had
written many books and articles for
the magazines. He had the itch for
writing" in fact. at an early age. as an
examination of his list of books will
show. But with him IL was only nat
ural that he should have been moved 10
give the public narrations OF his won
derful experiences. General Grant be-
came an author long after he had left
the presidency, but no other president
than Roosevelt wrote many works be-
fore the people honored him by a call
TO the executive chair.
Secretary OF state John Hay might
perhaps tell you lin the language he
used I'm a classification of Madrid i'm his
"Castilisn n Days') that while he Became
an author without malice afore-
thought" the authorship being but the
expression of an impulse within him.
he deliberately went into politics from
choice. The same may be said Of Sem
ator Henry Cabot Lodge. who is con-
spicuous example OF the scholar I'm
politics" and has written books that
may live long after his political repu-
tation has passed away. Senator
Lodge comes of n line of thinkers being
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N T seems something in
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rs lSHS credible to say OF
ILW@ London (staid old
H M1 city that has sat
LII vi here by the Thames
J ArA M NlfI for centuries) that II
1~D Is In transition
49, state but really such
seems 10 be the case. do not beheVe
that there is a city In either Europe or
America that is undergoing such
changes. either In it's physical aspect
or the sentiments of It's people. Ana
these changes are 80 radical as 10 re-
suit i'm an entire sweeping away OH an
cient traditions and of landmarks chef-
ished for centuries.
London had been intending TO have a
housecleaning for the past sixty years
owing TO the congested condition OF It's
tenement districts and It's thorough
fares. its need for better and more rap
id transit and the Strengthening out OF
it's streets. But London shrank with
horror from the task of tearing down
the landmarks that had become hal
lowed TO her citizens through most sa-
cred associations, as well she might
have done, and II was not until about
ten years ago that the county council
at last awoke to the actual necessity
for action. A beginning was made by
constructing the Thames embankments
and opening up the congested district
between the river and Charing Cross
This Improvement. which was tried on
the dog" before carried out in its en-
tirety-that is, on the district contain
ing the greatest amount of squalid
structures-was such a manifest. bless
ing that more OF the same sort was
undertaken. ducal mansion-old
Northumberland House-was sacrificed
next though the site cost the council a
pretty penny-not less than s2,5O0000. .
while the entire Improvement cost to-
tai OF 1860 which, however was soon
more than reimbursed by the increased
values ~ adjacent real estate along the
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pie. one member wrote upon a bust OF
Molicre which was I'm the hall of the
academy though It's original had been
rejected. Nothing is lacking TO make
him great: he is lacking 10 make us
So" Noltairo once said Il was place
where even men OF letters were re-
ceived" IL was often styled the lit
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1T WAS sANDrs BUSY DAY.

The Earl of Aberdeen owns about
$4,000 acres OF land i'm Scotland: so nat
urally he is quite unknown to many OF
his tenants He has not lost his pas
sion for solitary rambles and not long
ago while in part OF the district with
which he was not familiar he stopped
beside cottage fence to ask his way
OF an old man at work in the garden
and fingered after receiving the desired
information to ask. lis this good soil ?"
Aye" was the laconic response.
What is your crop to be?" was the
next question.
The worker looked up impatiently.
then said slowly and impressively. III
you were to hire an allotment, mon.
and cultivate IL. ye'd not come speiring
around and wasting other folks time"
The city of London. cnly one square
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nation might be proud Rabelais. Bal
zac Corneille. Racine. Descartos. Pas
cal. La Foptaine. Boileau. Nine de Sc
vigne. Bossuet Massillon. Bochefou-
cauld. Fenelon. Noltaire. j. y Rous-
s.au. "a Harpe Montesquleu Diderot
D'Alembert Helvotius. BuNon Jean
Jacques Rousseau. Bernardin de ST.
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De Nigny. George sand. Dumas. Taine.
Wen. the list might be extended almost
Indefinitely. but all the names cited
above are well known, even classic the
only fault with tho ust being its cmis-
siouS
Not al these worthless mentioned be-
longed 10 the academy. but the most of
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Pierre, Chateaubriand, Nine. de Stael.
Lamartine. Victor Hugo (the iconoclast
who shattered the ideals of the so
called classical SCHOOL,. Alfred de Mus
set, Gautier. Guizot. Thierry, Michelet.
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them honored II by becoming its mem
bers. The present academy keenly feels
IL has refused to admit. as. for exam
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sected by the new avenue TO Holborn,
and IL is this avenue that some one
here has humorously suggested should
be called American avenue" from the
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Still. despite this fact. II cannot be de-
MED that France has produced great
names in literature. names Ahat will
shine yet for centuries with luster un-
dimmed. Here Is list of which any
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the classifying to posterity. What hurt
Victor Hugo more than-any other thing
at the outset OF his career was the fact
that he had, whether consciously or
not, flown into the face OF the estab>
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contain 5000 Office rooms, with a front
age on the Strand OF $50 feet and TO be
eight stories in height. This is the
limit as to height even for skyscrapers
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new street. Northumberland avenue.
Then the county council went mad. in
the estimation OF the staid old resi-
denters here. and took in hand improve;
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the new street Will be 100 feet wide. the
actual cost net less than s25.000,0Oo at
least $40, 900 OF which the council ex-
poets back In increased rentals OF ad-
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lished school at the time he first wrote.
What he suffered Is known OF all men.
That is the trouble with these French.
men and Parislans thoy pay too much
attention to the form and lose sight. at
least temporarily. 81 the matter The
husk that inCloses the nut In of more
conscquence 10 them than the kernel
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IT would seem that the
M author in politics had
In become a fixture in our
tATA E institutions, or. in 9th
Vss,, Nc@1 er words. had come to
fsssstA stay" There is no
ts-si IN doubt that the average
author is eminently
qualified for political
work. especially If he be a popular au-
thor. as he has had experience of a
character peculiarly fitting him for
pleasing the public. The only thing to
be wondered at is that a popular author
should feel impelied 10 politics as a ca
reer after garnering laurels in higher
field. But the fact remains that he
does on occasions feel so impelled and
has eagerly sought~political preferment.
The latest aspirant for political honor
is MIR. Winston Churchill. who lately
announced himself as a candidate for
the legislature Of New Hampshire. He
has been a resident of the Granite State
a short time only, and the people of
Cornish the town he has honorsd by
his presence, are hardly well enough
acquainted with the author of THE Ce-
lebrity" Richard Carvel" and The
Crisis TO be able to judge of his quail
fications for the high Office OF legis-
lator. But as a novelist he has won a
reputation among the women and with
the assistance of numerous Afternoon
teas" conducted by his wife Mr..
Churchill hopes to win the coveted po-
sition. His English namesake. the
aristocratic Winston Churchill, who has
also written novels and such. has
gained creditable reputation i'm the
house OF commons by refraining from
much speechfying, and the American
Churchill may be envious. At all
evon's ho Noe launched His bark upon
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IL the world and his
wife come TO Paris.
the Frenchmen say.
not only TO be amused,
but also to be in
structed as well. To
understand the COM
placent attitude of
our friend Jean Cra-
raud toward the
,..,..tl Al, -o-o.,l
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predominance OF American interests
along the route. An American sky
scraper was projected as one feature of
the Holborn- STRAND improvements, to
be the largest and handsomest in the
world, to cover l25.000 square feet, to
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in London, but the structure was to be
fitted with thirty lifts" which were 10
be kept running day and night. and it's
great feature was 10 be a central ro-
tunda and dome. The cost was esti-
mated at $40 0OQ. 900, and the London
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The city of London. cnly one square
mile i'm area. has in all seventy .ssvar
churches