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Evening journal., 1911-01-03
NEW CORONER
ON JOB EARLY

James T. Chandler, who to-day took
up his duties as New Castle county
coroner, was not in Office long before
his first case was reported. Patrolman
Devinish telephoned him that a man
had died suddenly at No. S33 Walnut
street, and on investigation the new
coroner learned that the dead man
was James Butler, colored, aged 60
years. The man was found dead in
the kitchen of the house which is ten
anted by Alberta Murray, and where
Butler had boarded for the past two
years.
Butler, IL is said, suffered Of asthma
and IL is thought that he smothered
to death while suffering an attack of
this complaint The body is at the
morgue.
The man has two daughters, one
living in Philadelphia and the other
in Chestertown, Md. and the coroner
notified both to-day of their fathers
death
Evening journal., 1911-01-03

GOING UP SOON
Building Committee Accepts
Plans and ArrangeS to Start
Work at Early Date

Meeting for the purpose of taking
some action concerning the adoption
Of the plans for the new St. Paul's
NJ. K. Church, the building committee
of the church last evening adopted the
plans submitted at their last meeting
by Leon Wilde Crawford, subject to a
few minor changes, and a committee
was appointed TO make copies of the
plans and specifications for different
contractors who might wish to bid for
the work.
Mr.. Crawford attended the meeting
last evening and explained the plans
with the building committee, giving
them light on a few matters which
were not entirely understood by them
and detailing what changes they
wished made.
The plans and specifications will be
made as soon as possible and the con-
tracts awarded at an early date so
that there will be no delay in the
Evening journal., 1911-01-03
STOCK PLAYERS
GIVE THE LIARS"
Successful Production Of the
Famous Jones' Comedy at
the Avenue Theatre

There is no better comedy, along re-
fined lines, than The Liars" The pre-
sentation Of this well-known play al
the Avenue Theatre yesterday after
noon and last night was a genuine
success. Charles +. Miller's Sir
Christopher Deering, is we'll remem-
bered in Wilmington. He opened at
the Avenue Theatre in the season OF
ls09-i0 In The Liars" and his inter-
pretion OF Jones peace maker last
night was refreshing. Sir Christie
pher Deering is one Of Mr.Miller's best
parts. Miss Aileen May appeared as
Lady Jessica and proved her worth
Ia the part.
The basis Of the play is what the
name indicates, lies and plenty OF
them Gilbert Nepean, so we'll played
by Lynn B. Hammond, is Indifferent
toward his wife; they care nothing
for one another as is often the case IN
real life. "Milady" therefore accepts
the attention of an affinity In the per-
son Of Edward Fallmer. (W j. Towns
hendl They dine in secret and are
surprised by George Nepean, (Arthur
LaRuel. her brother-in-law, and Sir
4
Is up to Lady Jessica 10 lie for fear
her husband shall learn Of the clan
destine dinner. She refuses the adj
vice Of Sir Christopher to make a
clean breast Of the whole affair.
The plot thickens in the third act
when, in the drawing room OF Lady
Rosamund Tatton, ethel Strickland
sister OF Lady Jessica, the friends OF
he latter endeavor to patch up n story
10 tell her husband The manner in
which the "conspirators" accept the
parts assigned them in the lying con-
Test is amusing IN the extreme. In the
midst Of ii all, the injured husband
himself appears. Then there is consid-
erable doing, the effort to make the
stories coincide being extremely hui
morous. When everything is muddled
completely, Faulkner comes forward
and tells the truth as Lady Jessica. In
desperation, asks him to do.
subsequently,, Sir Christopher.
good man that he is, prevents the
elopement Of Lady Jessica and Faulk-
ner. He also advises George Nepean
10 treat his wife as a husband should.
The advice is accepted and the play
concludes with Lady Jessica and her
husband. leaving for supper at the
Savoy. Having adjusted the affairs
Of his friends, Sir Christopher him
self wins a bride.
Charles Dow Clark made a hit as
Freddie Tatton, husband Of Lady
Rosemund. Miss Mabel Strickland as
Dolly Coke. cousin of Lady Jessica
and Lady Rosamund, was clever as she
always is. W Chatterton was
Archibald Coke. husband Of Dolly. He
was also good. The remainder of the
roles vefe taken by Misses Ethel
Blande. Florence Short and Henrietta
Vigar, and Messrs. Harry T. Fischer,
Arthur J. Wood. Alexander Leftwich
and George Bylett.
Matlnees will be given tomorrow
Friday and Saturday.
Evening journal., 1911-01-03
Cake Batter Din Roufs
Anvil Chorus at High School

This was reopenlng day In the city
schools. and it was greeted with va
ried emotions by the children. Most
Of them were rather pleased to get
back and show teachers and friends
their Christmas presents and to talk
over all the fun they had had in vaca-
ton Maybe some OF them were rath-
er pleased to do stunts in geography
and history once more.
The reopening Of the schools is at
tended by two changes. There will no
longer be the anvil chorus at tae
High School, as the forge has been
delegated to the junk shop. but in
place Of the ringing blows Of metal
upon metal. there will be the de-
licious sounds Of the beating or eggs
and the stirring OF batter, for the
High School girls will learn how to
do scientific cookery.
Evening journal., 1911-01-03
.S3O6,l7O In NEW
COUNTY ROADS
State Highway Commissioners
Report on Work to Gov
ernOr PeHneWilI

Contained in the biennial report
which Highway Commissioner Francis
A. Price, of New Castle county, has
submitted to Governor Pennewill is a
statement Of expenditures made for
New Castle county road during the
years 1909 and 1910, and a report Of
the monies received from the staeS
and from the county.
Received from State--To Steward g.
Donohue. River and Hamburg Road,
$4,000: to 3. r. Wickershain. New
London Road, $5,10441; 10 TheobaId
Harsch, road from ST. Anne's towards
Blackbird. S2.500; to John A. Clark,
Baltimore turnpike IN White. Clay
Greek hundred. $2,04O: to the Com
monwealth Construction Company,
Naaman's Creek Road, S3,517.6S; 70
the Horrigan Contracting Company,
Telegraph Road, S1,649.20; to the Cor
coran Construction Company. Hillside
Mills Road S1,53t.09; Horrlgan Con-
tracing Company, Lore avenue,
SS6162: TO the Highway Commissions
or. salary for two years (1909 and
1870 $4,000. These different expendi-
lures make an aggregate of $4,000
AIIIVIAidltQ ny AAt 0AdAt lot NtW
Castle roads in the years 1909 and
1910.
Received from the county-Bond Is
sue No. /. S14.333.0S; bond issue No
2, $204.97753; for maintenance of the
roads, purchase Of new steam roller
and miscellaneous expenditures, $780, -
02S.4S. This makes total Of S2S4,-
1903 expended on the roads of tho
county from the monies received from
the county. The total expenditures
for the years 1909 and 1910, both
State and county appropriations,
amounts to s306,17O99.
In the two years the following roads
have been built. River and Hambur z
Road, road f-ont st. AIMS Church to
Blackbird, No. 1 road from st. AIMS
Church toward Blackblrd, No. q;
Rockland to Adams Cross Dads, Rock
land creek, Grubb's Landing, Mill
town, Hillside Mills, Baltimore turn
pike white Clay Creek hund. ed 4.
Baltimore turnpike (Pencader hun
dre0, Depot Road third section)
New London Road. Mt. Pleasant 70
Maryland Line Road. Boyd's Corner
toward Port Penn. Naaman's creek,
State, Telegraph and Lore avenue.
Evening journal., 1911-01-03
COUNTY FINANCFS

County Treasurer Robert NJ. Burns
presented the following report Of
balances at the meeting of the Levy
Court today:
Credit Of the Levy Court, S151 .659.1O;
special bonds, S15.022.47; miscellan-
eous. roads. S439.07; Christiana, ST.
3S5.34; Mill Greek, $1,SO1.94; White
Clay, $S46.32; Pencader, S12269; New
Castle, s2.659.45; Red Lion, S1,16S.40;
st. Georges, S5,633.23; Appoquinimink
s1.4Sl.60; Blackbird. S1,2O1.66; Bran.
dywine, S4254 AZ
Evening journal., 1911-01-03
FLORISTS
DEATHS


Henry Bredin.
Bridget Mcmahon.
Mary Ellen Toy.
AdOlphus Hines
Mary E. Tucker.
Henry +. McCloskey.
McCLOSKEY-In this city, on January 3.
1910, Henry F. son Of Margaret and the
late Michael McCloskey.
Relatives and friends and members Of the
Fraternal Order Of Eagles No. "a, are in.
vited to attend the funeral from the resi-
dence OF his mother No $50 King street, on
Saturday morning at o'clock. Requiem
mass at the Cathedral. lnterment at the
Cathedral cemetery.
TUCKER-In this city, on January ?, 1911,
Mary E., widow of the late Mark Tucker.
Relatives and friends are invited TO at
tend tne funeral from her late residence No.
GIL West street, on Thursday morning al
, O'Clock. Requiem mass at the Cathedral
lntermept az Cathedral cemetery.
HINES-In this city, on January 1, 1911.
Adolphus Hines aged 4s years.
Near relatives are invited to attend the
funeral service at the residence Of his sister.
Mrs. W. II. Colt, 171T Pennsylvania ave.
nue., on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
lnterment at Riverview cemetery. Funeral
private.
ToY-In Philadelphia, Pa, on January 7.
1911, Mary Ellen, wife Of William Toy.
Relatives and friends are invited TO attend
the funeral from the residence Of her hus.
band, PA n. Adams st.. on Thursday morn.
Paul's Church. Interment in Cathedral ceme.
terry.
MeIAHoN--In this city. on December 31st
1910, Bridget McMahon.
Relatives and friends are invited 10 attend
the funeral from the residence Of her sister
Ais. Margaret Doherty, No qO6 West 4th
sIeet on Wednesday morning, January 4th
az s. O'Clock. Requiem mass az ST. Paul
Cnieh lnterment at Cathedral cemetsfy
hlltdelphia, Pa.
bREDlN-ln this city, on January 2nd, 1911
Henry Bredin, aged a. years.
Relatives and friends are invited 10 at
tend the funeral services az his late resi-
dence No. 1890 W. 18th st. on Thursday
afternoon, January 5th, at 2.30 o'clock. In
terment at Mt. Salem cemetery.
ADAMS--Near Stanton Del, on December
81st, 1910, Benjamin Adams, aged 81
years, 1 month and 25 days.
Relatives and friends are invited 20 at
tend the funeral on Wednesday afternoon
January 4th, 1911. Services at his late
residence at 1 o'clock. Interment Whining
ton and Bfandywine cemetery, Wilmington.
Del, withsot further notice.
Evening journal., 1911-01-03
MRS. McCARTRR nRAn.

The funeral Of Mrs James McCar-
ter, sister of the late Robert McFarlin.
OF near New Castle, who died at her
home two miles from Colts, took place
yesterday afternoon. Services were
conducted at the house by the Rev. f.
c. McSorley, of Townsend. NJ. +.
Church, and interment made in
Smyrna.
Mrs. McCarter was one of the Oldest
residents in the vicinity of Colts hav-
ing reached the age of so years. She
Is survived by her husband and a son
and daughter who lives on the home
place.
Evening journal., 1911-01-03
Mr.. KERR ENTERTAINS

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
NEWARK, Jan. 3.-George c. Kerr,
trustee of the New Castle County
Workhouse, entertained at dinner last
evening DR.. George A. Harter, presi-
dent of Delaware College; Prof.
Henry Hayward, Charles B. Evans,
Andrew Park, of Downingtown, Pa,
and Levy Court Commissioner Daniel
Thompson.
James L. Crossan, who has been
confined to his home for three months,
is able to attend to business again. On
October 13 a heavy cart passed over
him and he was severely injured.
Evening journal., 1911-01-03
RUSH ON TO
PAY WATER RENT

Owners Of property made a good
start to-day toward paying their water
rents. The number who paid this tax
at the Water Department offices, Sixth
and King streets, was encouraging and
the clerks are hoping that property
owners will avail themselves of the
early part of the month when there
is no rush on, in which to pay water
rents.
Discounts Of five per cent on meter
rates and ten per cent. on non-meter
rates will be allowed this month After
February l and until March /. the full
face Of the bill will be collected. After
March l the water will be shut of for
non-payment of rents.
Evening journal., 1911-01-03
DEATH OF SAMUEL PEACHY.

Samuel Peachy, a prominent farmer
of Appoquinimink hundred, died at his
home in Townsend on Sunday, aged
SO years. His funeral will take place
tomorrow and interment will be made
In Odessa.
Mr.. Peachy is survived by his widow
and two daughters, Mrs Joseph Arm
strong, Of Townsend. and Mrs. Emma
Cats, of near Middletown,- and a son,
George Peachy.
Evening journal., 1911-01-03
MIR. LEA TURNPIKE
COMPANY PRESIDENT

Officers and managers OF the Will
rnington and Philadelphia Turnpike
Company were elected at their annual
meeting this morning In Union Ma
tional Bank. The officers are: Presi-
dent, Preston Lea; vice-president,
Thomas W. Crockett, Jr.; secretary
and treasurer, William Poole; assist
ant secretary and treasurer. Thomas
w Crockett; board Of managers, E.
Bringhurst. Jr.. John II. Dandy, Pres
ton Lea, George A. Elliott. Isaac c.
Elliott, John A. Rigg. Walter A. Rig6.
John W. Goodwin, Thomas w. Crook
EFT, Jr., and William Poole.
A meeting OF the Wilmington and
Great Valley Turnpike Company will
be held next Monday morning at 1890
o'clock in Union National Bank.
Evening journal., 1911-01-03

work Of building the church. The
new building will cost about $4,000
and will be constructed partly OF
granite and partly Of limestone.
The committee to prepare plans and
specification copies for the contrac-
tors comprises: q. Q. Hardesty, Z.
E. Hanna, William B. Smith, H. ].
Guthrie and A. L. Johnson.
Evening journal., 1911-01-03
Recording 500. GOO. .O0O "a. Charter

The charter of the United Prop
critics Company of California, a $780,
100000 concern, Incorporated at Dover
a few days ago, is being recorded by
the employees Of the Recorder of Deeds
office.
Evening journal., 1911-01-03
Gas Study Clnh MeetInr

The first 1911 meeting Of the Gas
Study Club will be held this evening
and the discussions promise to be OF
unusual interest
Evening journal., 1911-01-03

The military profession the world
over has the greatest percentage Of
suicides.
Evening journal., 1911-01-03

A new form of epistolary politeness
has been devised by a business firm
which wrote to a delinquent: "Oblige
US by remitting the amount of our
bill or we will oblige you"
Evening journal., 1911-01-03
LAWN CROFT CEMETERY

LAWN CROFT CEMETERY
The selection of a burial lot here
means a safe investment, security
from distress in time of need. 5.grave
lots $4,000 upwards, years to pay.
Lawn plan, perpetual care. Call and
let us explain our proposition, or tele-
phone 5522 A, d. and A., for booklet.
Open evenings.
City Office, No. 923 Market Street.
Evening journal., 1911-01-03
cHENDI Ed Undertakes
CnAINDLEK G Embalmer

No PA w. Ninth Street.
Careful attention day or night.
Bodies in Boarding Houses, Hotels
and Hospitals removed and cared for
until claimed. Carriages furnished
Appointments first-class. Both Phonea
Evening journal., 1911-01-03
Kennard&Co.

Our annual sale of high grade Linens is
event looked for by prudent housekeepers. The
values to be had are most unusual; the qualities
of that high standard require of every
article we sell. You can repIenish your linen
closet from this sale for very small outlay.
Among the notable offerings the following
which are most advantageously priced
Japanese Hemstitched Covers and Squares,
averaging one-third off regular prices.
Hemstitched and Scalloped Luncheon DoyIies..
Many styles of extra size and quality ALL
LINEN Huck Towels at soc each from 50c
Lot of All Linen Huck Towels, guest size,
at reduced prices.
Two very special offerings in full width,
full bleached Damask, at 81 l-2c from $io0 and
Si.15 from $l.50. All very choice patterns.
Many Damask Cloths and Napkins great
ly reduce ices.
Evening journal., 1911-01-03
TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION.

IKT ANTED--OCCUPANT FOR WELL
w furnished, heated and lighted room, bath ;
use Of D. & A. phone. Private family. Ad
dress p. Journal Office.
ATANTED-WOMAN FOR GENERAL
w Housework. $40 n. Franklin. i3-2t
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07
THE POT AND THE KETTLE
Young Woman's Suspicion Of Stranger
n Train Results In Much EN-
barrassment.

She was not accustomed to travelling
alone. and when strange man took
the seat beside her in the day coach
she was annoyed. especially as there
were other vacant seats which he
might have chosen. To make the
matter more unpleasant the train sud
denly shot into tunnel. Hastily the
young woman remembered that in the
big, square pocket of her coat. on the
side next the stranger was her purse.
Agitatedly she thrust her hand down
into the pocket to make sure her
purse was still there. Not a moment
too soon. To her horror she felt the
strangers hand slip softly down into
her pocket, and In an instant his hand
had closed over hers. She suppressed
a terrified desire TO leap up and
scream. What was the use of making
a disturbance in a tunnel? People
would only grin, and imagine all sorts
OF things. or course he was only a
common thief, and so soon as the light
of day was again turned on him he
would withdraw his hand. She then
could take another seat. and not draw
TO herself the attention Of the other
passengers. AS the thoughts and
plans were flashing through her mind
the train emerged from the tunnel.
and the stranger turned on her slow,
significant smile. Her hand was deep
down in the pocket of his overcoat.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07
NOT SAME OLD WORD
SCIENTISTS CHANGE THINGS IN
LAST HALF CENTURY.
scarcely a Day Passes but What Sci.
enee Takes a Pot Shot at Some
Picturesque Phase Of Our
Earlier Lives.

II Is queer, but seemingly science
knocks all the picturesque out of life.
and II science were in a shooting gal
lery and the picturesque were tar
get, the bell would never stop ring.
5ng
TIC old oakcn hackci has given
v'goc 80 the galvanized iron vessel.
TIE R1urd dipper Is now a tin cup
N',.h a handle sOldered On.
TlC moss FrOvn we'll curb is no
tuor. and over the well is a solid
slab Of comcrt while in a bright red
building sizzling, humping gaso-
sine engine Is industriously pumping
ghc oocl water into an elevated metal
1ank on stills.
No more the ploughman plods his
weary way from the field. He rides
back On the plough which now has
wheels. The country doctor now has
an automobile and Dobbin has been
made into sausage
And in the city it's worse. The
scissor grinder used to t-ve con.
traption made of wheels aud wood and
leather and stood up and ground the
things. Now he has an automobile
with a scissor grinder attached. and
the auto power runs the thing.
The shoemaker used to squat on a
polished leather seat In his Uttered
shop and cobble shoes while you set
with your cold feet on a newspaper.
Now you go into n miniature shoe
factory where they can make you a
pair of shoes In the time II took him
to put heel on. and the buzz of ma
chinery is only broken by the rattle
OF the cash register.
Where merchants used to put n gun
or mortar and pestle or something
above their shops to show what they
sold, the merchants now have, reoo-
curing, alternating, hit.or-miss, come
and-go sort Of electric signs that make
you blind to gaze upon.
No more the seller of feather dust
ers and whisk brooms strolls about
the streets with weird cries. You get
these things at the store and twenty
one seconds later n motorcycle youth
delivers them.
No more the vendor Of apples cries
nercely on the streets. Apples are
now sold at nickel apiece at the fruit
stands. and the fruit has to be pol
ished daily to keep II bright.
The hydrant has displaced the town
pump; the barber shop is now place
where they do manicuring and give
baths. no longer lounging place for
gossips.
It's all been changed by science, and
scarcely a day passes that science
doesn't take pot shot at some pic
turesque phase OF our earlier lives
and knocks the feathers out of its
tail. for there's no room on this earth
for both the scientific and the pic
turesque. and something had to go.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07
Perch Feed on Trout Eaas.

DR.. Tarlton b. Bean, New York state
FISH culturist, received package of
yellow perch the other day from the
president of the Fishermen's club at
Penn yam, which forcibly illustrates
the destructive capacities of perch in
the spawning beds of lake trout. Mr..
Goodspeed accompanied the package
with a letter in which he told Doctor
Bean that the state hatchery en-
ployes in taking trout from Keuka
lake for spawn one day captured in
a seine on the trout beds on the east
shore about seven bushels of yellow
perch. Apparently every perch had
been feeding upon the eggs of the lake
trout, which had been laid In album
dance in that section of the lake and
every perch had bellyful OF lake
trout eggs.
Doctor Bean said he thought mis-
i,.ke had been made in the past II
planting perch IN waters inhabited BY
trout and announced that so long al
he had any say in the matter ther'
would be no moro planting of PEREZ
in waters where there were trout.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07
RISE OF MORGAN DYNASTY
Foundation Of Fortune Laid by Anees
tor Who Fought In washinaton's
Army.

Most Of our wealthy men started
In small ways. Carnegie was a mes
senger boy. Rockefeller tramped the
streets to get n petty clerical Job.
II. II. Rogers and Russell Sage were
grocer's clerks. Hartman was a
brokers' office boy. James J. Hill
was section hand, or something like
that But four generations of the
Morgan5 have been born In the pur-
pie, 80 to speak. The Morgan dynasty
runs back to the days of the Ameri-
can revolution. Joseph Morgan. after
lighting In Washingtons army, pro.
ceeded to lay the fortune of the house.
1t did not take him long to rise to the
control of the chief transportation lines
In Connecticut. They were nothing
but stage lines, but they were worth
controlling just the same. Later on
he figured as one of the capitalists
of the Aetna Fire Insurance company
OF Hartford. His grandson is ]. Pier
pont Morgan, ST., and young j. p. is
OF course, his greatgrandson.
or all the multlmillonaires of our
day, Morgan the elder remains the
most inscrutable. All the others,
Rockefeller Hartman, Rogers and the
rest have at one time or another
thawed out in the presence of the
newspaper and magazine men. Nor
gan has never thawed out. His per-
sonality Is a3 far removed from pub
lie scrutiny now as 1t was when he
was the center of the whirlwind con.
test with Jay Gould forty years ago.
Current Literature.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-03-07
Deserved Il.

A friend of mine had lot of hens
and wanted to raise some chickens,
but his hens wouldn't sit on the eggs.
So one night he went into the coop,
grabbed one of them and put 1t on a
nest and held 1t there all night. In
the morning, when the light broke into
the place, he found that he had
grabbed up the rooster by mistake. He
was arrested by the federal authori-
ties for illegal use of the male.