Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-09-14
DELAWARE CITY
AND VICINITY
Ancient Drawbrldgs Over Moat
at Fort Delaware Being
Repaired.
Special Correspondence Every Evening.

Special Correspondence Every Evening. |
Delawnrc City. Sept. f4-Benjamin |
vinton left today for Atlantic City |
where he will remain over the week.
end.
Miss Lillian Shook and Mrs. .'Addle |
Armstrong attended the wedding OF
their cousin. Miss Frances Reuter-,
to Samuel q. Camperson, yesterday
evening In the First-Central Presby-
terinn Church. Wilmington.
Old Glory Council, No. ~, Jr. o. y.
AM. will meet In business session to-
night.
At the locnl Child Health Centre
yesterday, Miss Alice Vail, nurse In
charged. examined, weighed and
| measured twenty children and in
structed two mothers In tho health,
care and hygiene OF Infants.
Samuel Fitzwater has resigned his
position on the dredge, working on
| the construction Of the new jetty at
Cape May and has taken position
with the Pennsylvania Railroad Co,
In Wilmington.
| A bicycle owned by william Cox
/
Clinton street yesterday. Cox enter
ed the store to make n purchase and
when he came out the wheel was gone.
The stranger that took the wheel took
1t up to the colored section OF town
and offered II for sale. Josh Tingle
recognized 1t as the property Of Cox
and gave the stranger four dollars
for the wheel. intending to return the
wheel to Cox and also get his money
back. The stranger disappeared, how
ever, before he could be approached.
Four hundred feet of the new con-
crete road in st. Georges wns laid
yesterday. extending FROM Gray's store
to the top of cemetery hill.
The County League Stars. com
posed In the main of Delaware
City. New Castle and First Engineers
players are In Dover today playing
the Dover team one of series OF
games. The lineup Of the All-Stars
includes Mcdaniel. New Castle, catch.
er; Tripp. First Engineers. pitcher
George Holiday. Delaware City. frs
base; Nickens. First Engineers, sec
ond base; Kerns. New Castle, thirt
base; Howard Holiday, Krebs, short
, stop: j. Gallagher and Andy Gallagb
er, OF New Castle; Frances Rhain
, Norbit Cook and Frank NefY, Della
ware City. outfielders. The trip dowl
d, was made by automobile.
, N. w. Wilkinson, engineer in chnrg
, of fortiication work in this district
. VIII leave here next Tuesday with
u tn 1T.
. where they will do some work il
fitting up the post there for the win
ter weather. The chief job TO b
a done VIII be the cutting OF small. one
q man doors in the largo swinging door
. which are the entrance to the gu
|, protection buildings. The stron
:. winds In the winter weather make
, Impossible TO handle the big doors.
!, The bridge between the saIIypor
;, and the moat which was the only en-
; trance to the old prison at Fort Della
ware is being torn down and a ne-
bridge VIII replace It. This brids
a was built at the time the fort wa
buiit in 1852 and served as bride
=, In daytime and gate at night.
- could be raised by windlass. Or
end was loaded with lead and at nIpl
the bridge was always raised to kes
II the prisoners from escaping. Whe
:, this bridge was raised there was =
- means OF escape as a deep meat ra
~ all around the prison. The planks
e. this old bridge. and some OF the
are still In coed state Of preserv,
y ton. were three feet thick n,
" twelve feet long and bolted a,
{. riveted down to the joists.
:. Irving Rose who has been worl,,,
! In Chester, Pa, for some time has r
turned home.
The raif bird shooting yesterday w
very poor. The strong northwe
winds kept back the tide making
impossible TO boat over MANY of +,
marshes. Frank Holiday got I,
N birds and DR.. Ellis eighteen. IT
IL cold spell Tuesday night also is :
ported to have driven many Of +
at reed birds further south.
EnDT mr. nnNn