Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-15
NEWS Of THE DAY
AT NEW CASTLE
Water Company Affairs Take Up
Large Portion of Council
Meeting.
stan Correspondence of Every Evening

stan Correspondence OF Every Evening
New Castle. Aug. l5-Tuesday nights
special session of Council was largely
given over to water and water company
matters.
The companys receiver, }. \. Glass-
maver, told the meeting that nc had been
instructed by the Chancellor to advise
Council that in the future the city OF
New Castle must make application to the
Chancellor for any allowance on bills due
tho receivers of the Delaware Water Inn
provcment Go. or must pay the bills as
rendered and make application Tor re-
ductions. The matter WAS referred To
CITY Solicitor Alexander B. Cooper Tor
his opinion.
\ communication was received from the
water company requesting that the sum
of 81 200. the amount the company agreed
10 settle with the city for light and water
furnished, be paid 10 the keystone
National Bank The matter was ordered
referred TO City Solicitor Cooper Tor ms
opinion.
Members of Council complained that
the garbage cans recently placed IN various
places in the citv were not being used, and
in number OF eases people seem to use
the cutters as a garbage dcposltary m
been notified that this nuisance must he
abated or the matter Will hc placed IN
the hands of the mayor tor adjustment,
which Is another word for punishment
Last week several bales OF gun-cotton
were lost from boat outbound and the
bales driftcd ashore, one landing on the
beach near Battery Park. The MAYOR
engaged watchman to guard the ma
tcrial To keep ii we'll Wet With water IN
order that 1t might not create trouh'c
In the mcantlnc the mayor got into COM
lnunicat ION with the proper authorities IN
order TO learn what 10 40 with the stun
The guard was employed Tor tive days IT
s. per dav. making a total OF $40 tho city
owed him. Council nj first objected 10
this hill. stating that II did not think It
advisable a guard should be employed 10
look after such a matter when there We're
policemen who could give their attention
10 the case Finally Council deemed i
advisable to allow the hlll.
Perry Rose, who resides in Odessa and
j. employ ed III tins city : Also ON the city
assessment for 1916 and 1917 He pro-
duccd receipts to show that he was a resi-
dent of Odessa and had paid taxes there
therefore. his 1915 and 1917 taxes col
lected by the tax collector were refunded
Thomas G Walls, who was assessed
for dog which he did not own and
having paid taxes for the animal. was re-
funded the amount paid
The finance committee was instructed
TO procure an American flag 10 by Is
feet. in size to take the place Of the old
one The contract was awarded to +. :.
r. Butler & Son for S2l 80
Clerk Smith was instructed To procure
bids for the painting Of the flag pole
opposite the mayors office.
The following bills were approved and
turned over to the finance committee.
William Deakyne So SO: William kel-
lev, Sic. 50; Solomon b Hurd. $3.50:
c. ". X. Bradford s160; John II
Stoops, $I1.75; Parker 4. Moore, 81;
George l. Unger. 20 cents: Willard T..
Murray. So. so; James T. & L. f. Elason,
Inc, sl7 As; George Allen Smith, 1872:
Kaiser Manufacturing Co. SIS %: Joseph
Hood, $40; Diamond State Telephone
Co. SSH; Platt Burris. s25-65: George
A Morrison, Sc; George L. Hing Press,
$40
Fines received by Mayor Cavcnder and
turned over TO the city for the month ~
July amounted TO S2l.
Mrs. Mae Spence and Mrs Fannie
Gordon. daughters OF Mir and Mrs. james
L. Miller Of the Baldton. are spending
q week with their aunt Mrs. Samuel
Elliott Of Atlantic City.
Seven loaded cars Of the Pennsylvania
railroad Company. broke away from Q
shifter about > clock yesterday after
noon, and ran down grade into the yards
of the Baldt Plant Of the Penn Seaboard
steel Corporation and struck he Baldts
shlfter Wrecking the engine and tearing
the cab completely off Several weeks
will be equiIed to make necessary repairs
to the engine The accident happened
opposite the plant Of the Chemical Con-
stTuction Company The Baldts crew
were making shifts Of cars about
the ward. when the brakeman
gave the engineer signal to come ahead
with full speed IN order to make the
switch, d distance of several hundred
yeards in order to avoid d collision.
But it was too short q notice % allow the
engine to clear itself, and II was hit
side blow Frank Stevenson the engineer
warned his fireman Tom D Mario, to
Jump, which he did and Stevenson stuck
10 his throttle and did all in hls power 70