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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-07
Joseph G. Darlington & Co.
Storage Of Furs, Curtains and Draperies

Storage Of Furs, Curtains and Draperies
Ne haze specially arranged rooms 0r the care and storage
of TLLRS FUR-LLNED GARMENTS, CURTAINS and
DRAPERZES for uick issue 0y receipt iTSavIng them
against loss o., damage BY FIRE, MOTH and ROBBERY
and guarantee tie most careful care and 0OabSess during
tie be,1od they are possession Tie ca'S most reason
abe and is based nbOn tie Os0yea's 0alsstiOn.
Alterations and Repairs
made ,lug tie Spring and Summer at much less than regular
rates.
Estimates su51itsd and articles called for on rsqss
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-07

Use Silver Suds for cleaning silver
Sold by druggists and grocors.%
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-07
A Friend in Need

HTNHAT thin, little, io-oent BOX Of
Cascareis.
When carried constantly In
IL your Vest Pocket, or in my
Lady's" Purse II win ward off ninety per
cent Of Lies ordinary lis.
Eat one Of the six candy tablets con-
tanned IN that west Pocket BOX" whenever
you suspect you need one.
Il can't hurt you, and is sure Insurance
against serious sickness.
, 1906-03-15

A professional man has a Chinese
cook and he recently instructed John
to make a large handsome cake for
a birthday occasion. When the cake
appeared on the table it was a tri,
umph OF art. frosted n decorated
with great skill. but to the surprise
If everyone preseHt it bore the in
itials y. c.. which We're not those of
any member OF the family.
Reluctantly. but certainly. the host
was forced to the conclusion that
Johns religious enthusiasm had be-
come perverted. The more %conserva-
tive of the guests were shocked. and
after the feast was over the host went
to explain to john why those initials
must not be used for such purposes
in future. As the explanation pro.
eeeded John became much excited.
"Oh hellee, dam no." he exclaimed
Him Jelly Cake,"-New York Sun,
, 1906-03-15
Tyler Cobb Tcld Him a WAY.

Some years ago. when Tyler Cobb
ran Il general store at the corner OF
Main II High streets. in Brockton.
Mass, in what is now the Metropoli-
tan hotel. his store was the gathering
place for the wits and story tellers OF
the vicinity Some OF them are now
wea. iy merchants OF Brocktop. and
m OF them tells this story;
THE stories told of Tyler's queer
sayings are legion The one illustrates
his ~shrewdress as well as his wit. He
had a man working for him whom he
several times caught taking home meal
which he kept for his horses. The
hired man. who was that he
had been detected, 1ne day asked
Tyler for a raise in pay. Upon being
asked why he should receive more, he
answered that he could not support
his family and buy food for them with
what he got.
Lord Almighty. man" said Tyler,
take more meal, take more meal"
, 1906-03-15
More Painful in Solitude.

The most interesting literary nan
have met is Mark Twain. | was shown
up to his bedroom and he received me
n dressing gown n slippers. His
old friend, rheumatism | think it was,
was with him While | was there, a
committee was shown in and asked
him to speak at a dinner. which he
consented to do. provided they would
arrange thai he should be permittef
to speak as Don as he arrived. He ex
planned Thai ii was intolerable for hin
to sit and wait for his turn to come.
This point was conceded. Presently
the head of the committee. noticing
that the humorist was suffering. said:
Il suppose. Mr.. Clemens. that its very
painful for you when you have rheu-
matism to stand on your feet and make
a speech
Nothing like so painful as when I'm
in bed alone and the rheumatism gets
all the attention" was the instant
retort.-Henry Irving Dodge in Sue.
cess Magazine.
, 1906-03-15
WENT THROUGH TO OTHER SIDE
ct Demonstration That Irish
Lake Was 5ottomIess.


Among the hills OF Sligo there is
a small lake renowned in that region
for lis fabulous depth. A well known
professor. who was in that part of
Ireland this summer. started one day
for a mountain, accompanied by a ma
tive guide. AS they climbed Pat asa
ed him II he would like to see the
lake, for it's no bottom at all. SOFT"
How do you know that, Pat?" ask
ed the professor.
We'll, sorr. I'll tell We. Me own
cousin was shown the pond to a gen
tleman one day. sorr, and he locked
ircredulous like. just as you do. and
me cousin couldn't stand it for him
to doubt his word. sorr. aud so he
said: III prove the truth of me
words he said, and off went his
clothes and into the water he
jumped"
The professors face wore an mus.
ed and q%uizzical expression. Yes.
sorr, in he jumped, and didn't come
up again. at all. at ALL"
But" said the professor. Il don't
see that he proved the point by drown
ing himself"
rs 1t drow aed? Divil a bit drownd-
ed at all he was. Sure. didn't a cable
come from him the mex day in Ameri-
ca, askin' for his clothes to be sent
oni"-Liverpool (Eng.) Post.
, 1906-03-15
Confusion Abou, the Churches.

Four miles beyond the village of
Bethel. VT. is an old Episcopal
church. the earliest in that part of the
state. A clergyman who was a stran.
ger IN town recently undertook a walk
to the church. Losing his way. he
stopped at a house by the roadside
TO ask for direction.
Unaware that the family who lived
in the house was named Church. he
said to the woman. who came 10 the
door; Madam. a you tell me where
to find the old church,"
To his great surprise and embar.
rassment. she replied: oh, sir. my
father died a year agoi"
, 1906-03-15
R~eassurinq.

DR.. Norman Macleod was once
about to set OF on a long journey
through Scotland. Just as the train
was pulling out the clergyman's serv.
ant put his head in through the win.
dow and said:
Haze ye ta'en an insurance tick.
et?"
IL have" said the doctor.
Then" said the servant, write
yer name on il. and gle it to me
They haze an awful bad habit o
70. bin the corpscs on this line
The sun., 1906-12-27
1.ooo ARMED MEN IN rAx RIor.
Compel Collector to Restore Goods Taken
70 Pay Taxes Tor Bonds Issued 90 Years Ago.


Compel Collector to Restore Goods Taken
70 Pay Taxes Tor Bonds Issued 90 Years Ago.
OLIVE HILL, KY, Dec. n. .--Armed and
marching with tho precision Of soldiers
q mob Of / 900 men took possession Of Give
Hfll early to-day and forced Levi White,
the Tax Collector, TO surrender Levi Open
heimer's stock Of merchandise on which
he had levied for taxes.
The stock was removed from the collcc-
tors home and returned to oppenheimer's 9
store.
The mob then paraded through the
streets firing volley after volley In oele-
bration Of their work. John Armstrong,
deputy sheriff. was shot in the foot, and
another man was slightly wounded by two
bullets. Both were hit accidentally.
Carter, Elliott and Boyd counties 70 pay
for building the Lexington and Big Sandy
Railroad. This road was never built. The
bonds passed into the hands OF innocent
purchasers and suit was brought to enforce
special tax levies to pay the bonds and in
terest.
The generation which voted the bonds
is dead, as are the original purchasers.
The second generation now attempts TO
collect the money from the second genera
ton of those who voted the bonds. IL Ia
the opinion Of the citizens here that the
bonds were q mere speculation, even when
originally bought, being sold at Q low price.
The people OF the counties affected feel
that they owe nothing, and the invasion OF
Olive Hill early to-day was the result.
The sun., 1906-12-27
SUGARS CHEAP WATER.
Trust Wants 10 Settle City's B5OO 900 Main
Tapping Claim

Ovettures have been made recently to
the Water Department and the Corporation
Counsel's Office for a settlement Of the
claims OF the city against the American
Sugar Refining Company for the city's
claims against it for tapping water mains.
The tapping was discovered in Brooklyn
in 1903. The city's claim is for s625 900,
which with interest amounts now to more
than 100000. Business reasons are as
signed as a cause for the move, the claim
of the city being regarded as form Of lien.
Deputy Water Commissioner Van Ider-
stine, in the Low administration, made
the investigation Of the use of the city's
water by the sugar company. He said
the company had been using 800 900 gal
Ions of city water unmetered daily for
something like six years Charles c. r.
Heike, the secretary of the company, de-
MED it. and he explained that the larger
amount OF water, when the taps from vari-
GUS water pipes were shut OF and meters
put in, was due to the use Of new machinery
and increased business.
The matter has been in dispute ever
since and Water Register MCGUIRE has
asked the Corporation Counsels office to
pass upon the request that some sort OF
settlement be reached.
The sun., 1906-12-27
BATLEY,S SENATORSRIP FIGHT.
Texas Struggle Growing Desperate The
Result StiIl Doubtful.

Result StiIl Doubtful.
DALLAS, Tex, Dec. 23.-The Bailey sem
atorial controversy is growing desperate,
the interest being centred in the special
primary in Comsnche county next Satur-
day.
Senator Bailey canvasssd the county last
week and then made dates for other coun-
ties. Among them was a mass meeting at
Dallas for tomorrow night. This meeting
has been cancelled, and Bailey to-day re-
turned TO Comanche county on the urgent
appeal of his friends there to make a second
canvass of the county.
The member of the Legislature from
Comanche, an apti-Bailey man, was in
structed last July to vote for Bailey. Re-
Gently he declared against Bailey and a
new primary was ordered. II Bailey wins
next Saturday the anti-Bailey member
must vote for him. II Bailey loses, the
member Is released from his obligation OF
last July.
Three other special elections are pending.
and the vote in these elections Is likely TO
be influenced by the result in Comanche.
Former Attorney General M. II. Crane,
Cullen Thomas and other anti-Bailey
leaders are canvassing against the Senator.
II all these special elections go in Bailey 3
favor it will be likely TO make his reelection
unanimous. II he should lose them all
the opposition would demand that legis-
lators disregard their instructions.
The sun., 1906-12-27
EMIGRANTS BY CATTLESHIP.
District Attorney Lool<lng Into Some Em-
pioymcnt once Doings.


The District Attorneys Office has begun
an Investigation Of the methods OF certain
employment agencies which send back to
Europe immigrants who get tired OF con-
ditions here. The Investigation was prompt
ed by information which the Women's
Municipal League gave to the District
Attorney. Assistant District Attorney
Whiteside after going over the evidence
obtained yesterday from Magistrate Crane
in the Tombs police court summonses
for men who run these agencies.
IL seems that the Women's Municipal
League has had some dispute with the
Commissioner Of Licenses, Mr.. Bogart, as
10 how the law relating to the management
of einployment agencies should be enforced.
From what the District Attorney has learned
some of the agencies undertake for ten,
fifteen or twenty dollars to send man
on a oattleboat from this city to Boston
and thence TO Liverpool and TO his destina-
ton, Complaints have been made that
when the passenger got to Liverpool he
was stranded and in addition that he had
10 work long hours on the cattleboat going
over. There was some scheme by which
an agency was supposed to look after the
traveller at Liverpool, but when he got
there the agency disowned the contract.
Summonses were issued for l. Abrahmson.
at "a Canal street; Max Hornung, manager
Of the New Star Shipping office, at Is Suffolk
street; Miller a Frank in Second st rect
and others.
The sun., 1906-12-27
WIRELESS WIRETAPPING.
Martin winter Says He Made q Bet So as
to Bring on Police Raid.


Magistrate Cornell heard the cases yester-
day in the West Side court OF the twelve
men arrested on Saturday at sl2 West Fifty
fifth street on complaint Of Martin Winter
OF i12 West Eighty-fifth street OF attempted
larceny by means OF a scheme to get advance
information on the races. It was charged
that the men were working the wireless wire
tapping game.
Winter told Magistrate Cornell that he
was the private secretary Of Daniel q.
Reid, former president Of the tin plate
trust. Lawyer Dan O'Reilly, who appeared
with Lawyer Rosenb sck for the defendants,
said in the court that he was not Mr.. Reid's
secretary, but his barber Magi gistrate Cor
mel held six OF the prisoners, diScharg,ng
the rest, against whom there was no specific
complaint. The men he held are George
transactions with Winter; Frank Rivers,
apparent manager of the poolroom where
Winter was TO place his bets; Frank Parker
and Richard U'Connor, who handed notes
to Freedman, directing him where the pool
rooms were 70 which Winter was TO be
brought; Horace Nelson, the telegraph
operator and James Hayes, the doorman.
Magistrate Cornell heardWinter's story and
asked for briefs from the counsel for both
sides. reserving dec cision until next Monday:
Under the recent decision Of the Court OF
Appeals in the Tracy case, which the Msgis
trate held was parallel, any person who
knowingly enters into a scheme to defraud
a third party is in no position TO prose-
cute the others in the scheme. even il he him
self has been defrauded. Magistrate Cor
nell therefore examined Winter with special
reference to his intentions.
IF believe that this man was actuated
by good motives and intended TO discover
whether the scheme was a fraud. his COM
plant will be good. II he made a bet with
out this intention and afterward notified
the police the complaint cannot stand"
Winter told how Freedman had met him
on December 10 and had explained that his
brother-in-law got advance information
from the Western Union on the races, how
they had gone to a poolroom together and
Winter had won $2S, returning with the
detectives who made the arrest two days
later, ostensibly to wager $500. Winter said
that he suspected the scheme from the time
he met the brother in law in the hallway
had given back the s2s he had won, which
was to pay the man at the track, in order
to keep up the game and not arouse susPi-
cion.
Winter said at one time that he decided
TO let the matter drop after he had the first
experience in the poolroom, but later said
that it was his intention then to no tify the
police. He said that he told Freedman that
the scheme was a fraud when the latter
pressed him to bet 81 600, but consented
to place $500 the next day and notify the
police in the meantime.
The sun., 1906-12-27
SOME SMOKE UNAVOIDABLE.
Power Plant Must Pun 20 Make Rapid
Transit, Explains an Engineer.


The Mechanical Society of the College
Of the City Of New York held it's fourth
annual d inner last night at Terrace Gar
den, In East Fifty-eiehth street, with some
sixty members present. Charles H. Lucke,
Phi. D., of the class OF '95, delivered an sd-
dress. in the course OF which he spoke OF
the CAUSES OF the smoke nuisance in the
power plants Of the New York rapid transit
lines.
The Board of Health" said the speaker,
lis uncompromisingly against this smoke
nuisance. arm not in sympathy with the
Board OF Health. They do not recognize
that the smoke nuisance is unavoidable
IL you are going to move trains. Sudden
demands on the electric current occur
dozens OF times in the course of the day.
Sometimes this comes from the coincidence
Of several trains along the line starting at
the same moment. Again, the traffic at GER
tain times grows particularly heavy for
a few minutes. There results an overload.
Sometimes this overload 10 100 per cent.
above the previous rate OF production Of
How 10 il to be metz Il comes on with
scarcely a moments warning. There are
extra furnaces and boilers, not in use, but
il takes ten minutes TO start them: You
cannot wait. The instant that the electric
current is exhausted all your steam is used
up 70 replace it. II you do not keep up the
steam the current will give out and the
trains will stop. Only one thing can be
done. That is TO throw on q thin layer OF
fine sized quick burning COAL"
This burns Immediately, the speaker ex-
planned, but not completely. Much Of its
substance is volatilized into gases faster
than air can enter to consume these gases;
these gases in cooling charge and throw on
solid carbon in dustlike PARTICLES, which
form the long trail of smoke familiar to
New Workers. The speaker said that no
device could convert this smoke in the
chimneys between the furnace and the open
air. Power plant smoke was, he thought.
an evil that people ought to make up their
minds to stand, just like noise in the streets,
The sun., 1906-12-27
ASPINALL AND CRANE RESIGN.
Gov. Higgins Expected 70 Appoint the
Successors ef These Judges.

Judges Joseph Aspinall and Fred e.
Crane Of the County Court, Brooklyn, re-
signed yesterday shortly before noon and
few minutes later were sworn In as jus
tioes Of the Supreme Court by Justice Kelly.
They requested County Clerk Hartzheim to
notify Immediately Gov. Higgins OF their
designations and a messenger was at once
sent to Albany, There had been some
doubt all slong in political circles as to
whether Judges Aspinall and Crane would
submit their designations in time for Gov.
Higgins to name their SUCCESSORS and pres
sure was brought upon them from various
quarters to hold back until the close OF the
year so that the appointments might 60 to
Gov. Hughes. Their action in fling the
designations yesterday proved very crafty
ing to the Republican statesmen and It Is
generally understood that Gov, Higgins
will name their SUCCESSORS to-day or to-
morrow.
The new Judges, il is understood, will be
Lewis L. Fawcett. chairman Of the Republi-
can county committee and the leader in the
Seventeenth Assembly district, and Marcus
B. Campbell the Republican leader in the
Sixteenth district, who will have the in
dorsement Of Timothy L. Woodruff, the
county leader.
Judges Aspinall and Crane are Republi-
cans, but Senator p. II. McCarren had some
expectations that he would be able to secure
one Of the places on the County Court bench
should make the appointments. The ap-
pointments will be for one year. Two
judges of the County Court will be elected
fall
The sun., 1906-12-27
GERMAN AMERICANS PROTEST.
Complain or sighting Poem About IN e
Kaiser and Proposed Immigration Law.

CINCINNATI, Dec. 26.-Seventy organizs-
tions Of this county. composing the Ger
man Alliance, have instructed the regular
counsel Of the alliance to draft two resolu-
tions.
One is to be a protest against a poem
printed In a recent issue OF a comic weekly
which the members allege contained re-
Elections against the Emperor Of Germany.
The resolution is to be couched in dignified
terms, and its purpose is to record the de-
sire OF these German Americans that no
reflection be made against the leader OF a
nation which maintains such enduring
friendship as Germany has for the United
States.
The other resolution will touch the pro-
posed immigration bill pending in Con-
Rress, and will say that il is too strict and
will serve to deter many worthy foreigners
from becoming American citizens. The
resolution will recognize the necessity
for a safeguard, but it will srsgest that
remedies other than those which oill appear
in the bill be adopted.
Copies OF these resolutions will be placed
in the hands OF Congressman Herman
Goebel and Nicholas Longworth.
The sun., 1906-12-27
POSED AS A DETECTIVE.
Drug Clerk, Arrested Recently. Tries Fake
sleuthink and Gets Arrested.

Paul Pretzell, a drug clerk, who gave
fictitious address, was arrested last night
and locked up in the East Sixty-seventh
street station by Detective Bonser, after
complaint had been made to Bonser that
the drug clerk had been impersonating him
in an effort to clear up a robbery in the
photograph studio Of Edward w. Green
wald, at 757 Third avenue. Greenwald also
charged Pretzell with extorting money
from him while he was working on the
case.
Bonser recognized Pretzell as a man
he arrested two weeks ago charged with
stealing two watches from druggist named
Mandell, for whom he worked as a clerk
at 1871 Second avenue. Pretzen was dis
charged then for lack Of evidence.
Greenwald said that while he was in a
saloon at Fifty-second street and Second
avenue several days ago he told the saloon
keeper about the robbery in his studio and
bemoaned that the police hadn't recovered
the stolen goods. The saloon keeper then
called Pretzell, who had represented himself
to him as Detective Bonser OF the East
Sixty-seventh street station, and intro
duced him to Greenwald, suggesting that
the supposed Bonser could help him out.
Pretsell said that he would gladly take
the case, although, he said, the robbery
occurred outside his precinct. Greenwald
says that he spent most OF two or threesda
looking through pawnshops with the bogus
Bonser, in the course Of which he gave the
alleged detective a good deal Of money.
Yesterday Greenwald got a clue and went
to the East Sixty-seventh street station
looking for Bonser. They told him there
that the detective was at the Horkville
court. The photographer finally found the
real Bonser, who convinced him that the
other man was fraud.
At Bonser's suggestion Greenwald kept
an appointment he had with pretzell last
nj ght in a saloon at Forty-seventh street and
Third avenue. He carried a IS note with
Bonser's name written on It, on the outside
of big roll Of paper. When Greenwald
greeted Pretzell he handed him the marked
note. Bonser and Detective Mclaughlin
then jumped in and Pretzell seeing the de-
tective, threw the money on the floor.
The police say that IL Pretzell passed him.
self of as a detective in ono saloon he prob
ably did il in many others. Men are inves-
tigating that side Of the case.
The sun., 1906-12-27
CITY LAWYERS GET MORE PAY,
And So DO Some OF the Computers In the
ONCE.

Corporation Counsel Ellison announced
yesterday an increase Of salaries for about
a score Of his subordinates, chiefly In the
Bureau of Street Openings. John p. Dunn,
Assistant Corporation Counsel, in charge OF
the bureau, is to get 81 500 year instead Of
SIS 900. Other increases are from $500 to
81 600. These salaries will obtain In the
future:
T. c. Blake, S5 500; J. F. Quigley, $500;
L. Howell La Motto, $4,000; W. z. Kerr,
So, 600; F. w. Garmann and David Tomlin-
son, IS, $50; j. r. Fitzgerald and j. j. Kear-
ney, s., 100; NJ. W. Conroy, 1900. All are
assistants.
In the computers' department these sal
aries were announced:
o. d. Healy, chief oomputer, 81, 600; L. A.
Ouirk, s., $50; W. B. Wild, 81, ,45O; j. II. Wall,
81 500; F. F. Flynn, 81 500; j. NJ. Boylston,
81 500; E. A. Reilly, $500; P. McDwyer,
81 500; 7. A. Winn, 81, 200; J. A. Brophy,
81 200. All are assistant computers.
George GTote. drsughtsman, is to get
keeper, is to have i,750. N. j. Morrison
is to have 50, 900.
The sun., 1906-12-27
TTME'S MORE COSTLY NOW,
Especially n licked on by Clock Maker
Doost Prices All Round.

Boost Prices All Round.
Persons who intend to buy clocks or
art metal ornaments will fnd that prices
are going up. Catalogues and price lists
now being sent out by the manufacturers
SHOW an advance effective January I. At
the Offices Of the clock companies In the
Maicsn Lane district II was said yesterday
that the advances are general and average
about 10 per cent. Many retail dealers
who have been selling at cut rate margins
are likely 30 mark up the figures to a greater
extent than have the manufacturers.
Increased cost of materials and labor
are said b have made tho increase neces-
sary. Every kind Of metal or wood en-
tertng into the construction Of the works
and cases costs most than It did q few years
ago. when the present prices Of clocks
were hxed. The additional cost Of various
materials ranges from 81 Ia 10 200 per cent.
One OF the largest manufacturers said
thSt when the present prices were estab-
while now 1t ID quoted close to "a oents.
I'm has gone up IN the same time from "a
to % cents. As these are the chief oon-
stieu of brass and bronze 90 extensively
used IN making CLOCKS and ornaments the
efect has been to impose q heavy burden
on the factories. Antimony, which enters
into the gut novelty cases now 90 popular
for olooks, has trebled in price, going up
from OF TO rs cents. As recently as
q. year ago II was only 10 cents: Silver,
niokel. stool, lead and spelter are all higher.
The greatest advance Is IN the fancy and
art cloclu with cases comprising heavy
metal ornamentation, especially silver and
bronze castings and statuary IN new art
styles.
and the YonAYQI advance a a 4