Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-17
NEWS HAPPENINGS
ABOUT NEW Castle
High School Seniors and
Juniors Off on Wash
ington Trip
POLICE HAVING
BUSY TIMES

SpSSldl 10 HE EVENING JOURNAL
NEW CASTLE, May 1.-THE long
looked for and much talked OF three
day trip to Washington Of the seniors
ana Juniors Of the New Castle High
school became a reality today, when
a party of twenty pupils, chaperOned
by four teachers and Miss Mildred
Stops, left Wilmington at sos
o'clock over the Pennsylvania Rail-
road for the capital of the nation.
They will spend the time in sight
seeing and study until Saturday af
ternoon, when the return trip will be
begun, the schedule bringing them
back to Wilmington shortly after G
o'clock.
The party was composed OF Miss
Elmria Newell, Miss Reeda Stops,
Miss Anna Plat and Miss Irene Wise,
teachers, and Blanche Quigley, Irene
Quigley, Esther Vinng, Miriam Boys,
Bertha McAllster, Ethel McAllister,
Joseph Rothrock Warren Conner.
Vance Mitchell, Oscar Devinish. Eliz-
abeth Madden, Anna Davidson. Alice
Wise. Matilda Wolfe, Mary Moody,
Henrietta Dorne. Mary Gilman, Elsie
Eskridge Margaret Wall and Edward
Hushebeck. pupils.
At the station this morning o. Penn
sylvania Railroad man met them to
conduct them to Washington, where
their itinerary will be as follows:
Arriving in Washington at 1850
o'clock, a sightseeing automobile met
the party for an hours tour around
the city ending at the Metropolitan
Hotel. where luncheon was served at
1890 O'Clock. At 100 o'clock the
party will leave the hotel for the
Corcoran Art Gallery and the Wash
ington Monument. Dinner will be
served at the hotel at $50
o'clock. The evening will be
spent in the library of Congress, the
party meeting on the steps OF the
library at 10 o'clock for their return
TO the hotel
follows: Leave the hotel at S.30mfwy
Tomorrow's itinerary will be as
follows: Leave the hotel at $50
o'clock for the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing and the two National
Museums, the old and the new.
Luncheon at - o'clock. after which
leave the hotel at 1916 o'clock for
Arlington and Mount Vernon by cleo
trio car, returning by steamer, leav-
ing at . o'clock and reaching WASH
ington at 6.15 o'clock. Dinner will
be served az 6.45 o'clock. The even
ing may be devoted by the members
Of the party to any pleasure they
wish to enjoy.
Saturdays program will commence
with a walk through the Botanical
Gardens at o'clock and include a
a visit to the Capitol and tour of
the building with guides. visit at
the White House has been arranged
Luncheon will be served at the hotel
at / o'clock, the balance of the after
noon being at the disposal OF the
members of the party for any pur-
pose they wish. At $3.50 o'clock the
start for home will be mades Sight
seeing automobiles will be on hand
to convey the party to the Union
station. where they will take the train
at 4 o'clock, arriving in Wilmington
at Cpl.
Money for the expenses of this trip
was raised through the efforts Of the
seniors and juniors, who have held
bakes, box sociables, parties, etc,
since early in the year There have
been few contributions to the fund
by interested persons, but, in the
main. the young people are spending
money really earned by themselves.
It was planned at first 10 make this
trip a senior affair altogether and to
repeat it year by year. but later the
plans were changed TO include the
juniors, and Il was decided to do this
every two years The next Washing
ton trip will therefore be made in
1919. BY going I'm a large party bet
Ter railroad and hotel rates were OBJ
lainable. Miss Reeda Stops aided the
pupils materially in their money rails
ing campaign. Permission to be alb
sent from school the two school days
today and tOmorrow-was granted
by the Board OF Education some time
ago.
Charged with breaking and enter
ing a cabin car or caboose Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company while
il stood on the siding at the Baldt
plant Tuesday afternoon. Frank john
son, John Maloney and James Null
bern, who gave their home addresses
as Wilmington. and James Turner OF
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. were arrested yes
terday and given a hearing before
Mayor Lavender. Turner was dis
missed, but the other three were each
held in $500 bail for the Court OF
General Sessions. in default OF which
they were committed to the New Cas-
tie County Workhouse. The men are
alleged to have forced an entrance
into the car and to have stolen a
pair OF eyeglasses, a sweater and
other small articles. Mulhern was ar
rested i'm New Castle by officer Nick
erson. but the other three had jumped
A freight train and gotten as far as
Middletown when Railroad Officer
Fitzgerald captured them.
Complaining to the authorities that
four young men had knocked him
from his bicycle near the high trolley
bridge by the power house Tuesday
night and ,aken his wheel away from
him, a small boy named Ayres re-
lated a story OF highway robbery
which Chief of Police Matthew Tobin
Immediately investigated. The boy
said the men had jumped out at him
from a huckster wagon and was able
u give a good description OF them
Taking officer NickersOn, Chief Tobin
set out after the men in an automobile
and Overhauled them near Whining
ton. The boy identified them. and
Yesterday Mayor Lavender committed
Them to the workhouse in default OF
$500 bail each for trial at the Court
Of General Sessions on a charge OF
highway robbery. They gave theiI
names as Frank Wagner. Joseph Will
son, Alexander Gaska and Benjamin
Biddle, and ranged in age from IL
o "a years.
Determined TO rid the town OF
drunken and disorderly persons, il the