Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-04-17

house, where he will answer at the May
term of court to the charge Of carrying
concealed a deadly weapon. The fisher
men would not prefer charges because
that would mean their attendance at
court, which would interfere seriously
with their fishing for shad.
At the meeting of the vestry Of I'm
manuel p. Il. Church last evening the
following were elected: Lausatt Rogers,
senior warden, to succeed John McFarlin,
deceased; Thomas Holcomb junior war
den; John H. Rodney, Thomas Holcomb,
Lausatt Rogers, Charles Willis, Lewis f..
Eliason, William A. Matthias, William J.
Etchell, A. v Lesley George and Richard
Rodney, vestrymen, the latter to fill the
vacancy caused by the death OF Mr.. Nc
Farlin.
General Manager Newell, who has been
placed in charge of the plant of the New
Castle Gas Light Co., is installing mains
in Third street at Chestnut and on the
latter street to Second, in order to permit
the occupants Of the Lunt houses to have
heat and light from the gas.
The new ferry between this city, Penns-
vile and Peun's Grove, will be inaugii-
rated on Saturday. when the Robertson
Bellevou yacht will be placed in service.
The boat is 40 feet in length and was
recently reconstructed and heightened at
the Beebe boat yards and has been placed
in commission after having satisfactorily
stood the rigid tests OF the government
inspectors.
In Emmanuel p. e. Church on Sunday
the collection amounted to about $3.50
Preparations are being made 10 clear the
Indebtedness OF the church and it is ex-
pected that the full amount will be raised
within a few weeks.
Shad were so scarce on Saturday that
the Delaware Bay fishermen could not
secure enough to take pair to each of
their families. Never has such p scar
city been known at this time of the wear.
One shnd boat. known as q bay boat had
80 men ON board and the boat was seen
10 work IN and out among the men en-
gagod in fishing. The boat secured n
lew fish and finally reaching Delaware
shad fisherman, the men said "Hev
fellows, how are your catches ? Please
sell us what you have, we want to 90
home to our families and they want and
will look for pair from each" The
Delaware fisherman had but three fish
and were unable to accommodate the
men.
The catch yesterday was somewhat
better. al Davis caught SO fish and
Walter Mipf 56. The latter lost some Of
his net.
The Jim Shoe, 81, ,5O-Shaws.*
The Quicksteps baseball team defeated
the Columbia team by the score 10 to Is
yesterday afternoon The PLAYERS.
Quicksteps--Joh Elkinton. c.; William
Davis, p; Hugh McCaughan. Jr.. r.:
George Madden. 2b; Andrew NJ. Gal,
lagher, Jr., SIS; Percy Peech. cf.: William
rick. 81.
Columbia James Gallagher S.;
Denney Lavender, 2b.; William Mar
shall, cf,; Francis Atkinson. H.; William
Campbell, c.; Joseph Carlin. d.; John
Gallagher, ri.; Ralph Geers, h.; William
White. 3b
Miss Maggie Hendrix. daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. John Hendrix of Delaware street
near tlith, who was bitten on the leg bv
dog supposed TO be owned by Bert
lank, Is now able to place her foot upon
the ground and will shortly be able to be
about. The dog has been sent to the
country
Miss Lillian NJ. Montgomery. Miss
Beulah Hurd and Miss Olivia Lank
attended reception of the Y at Madeley
NJ. +. Church, South Wilmington. last
evening, where a pleasing social time was
bad
A tiue at Booth-hurst, yesterday morn
ing set hre 70 the Rogers mansion. A
telephone call was sent to Challenger's
drug store for fire apparatus. but later
another message was sent stating that fire
was under control and the engine would