Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-06-29
DELAWARE CITY
AND VICINITY
Fertilization Work is Stopped
Pending Receipt Of Addi-
tional Funds.

special correspondence Every lfNenlnE.
DELAY ware City, June 29.--Tho Della |
ware City Ice plant made It's frst freeze |
today and will make the first delivery
OF ice on Friday. Representatives of
the company solicited new business
yesterday in the town and at Fort du
Pont. The new plant expects to turn
out IL tons daily and in connection
with the plant. the company has
erected storage house to care for
any surplus over the consumption. The
officers of the new company are: VIII
liam Cakes president and manager.
John Frazer. secretary and engineer;
Fred Hidebrand. treasurer. all local
men. The plant has been under con-
struction since last fall and was built
by local labor under the direction of
William Cakes.
The contract TO furnish ice at Fort
du Pont was put out on bids which
were opened yesterday and tho con
tract awarded 10 j. f. Sadler & Co. and
to the Delaware City Ice Co.
Eighty men OF the First Engineers
have been sent TO Long Island City.
n. Y. to assist IN the reclamation and
repairs TO the bridge over the Hudson
river which was run into and demol-
ished by an outbound ocean liner this
week.
The American Dredging co. have
| sub-contracted with the Arundel Cor
poration. of Baltimore. to do tho dredg
! Ing work in the Delaware river below
Port Penn. The dredgc. Kennedy
began work yesterday under the
supervision OF Captain Norton. The
Barges Sarah" and Sam Weller" are
being used TO haul away the dredglngs.
George r. Snedeker Of 81. Georges
was appointed yesterday az tax collec-
tor for Red Lion Hundred by the Levy
Court Mr.. Snedeker will I'LL out the
Iunexplred term of the late George l..
Batten.
y. w. Wilkinson, in charge Of en-
gineering fertilization work in this
district, is planning 10 temporarily
stop work on several jobs in the pro
cess OF completion on account or tn"
government fiscal year ending June
80 which makes it necessary to await
further departmental appropriations in
order to complete the work. The jobs
temporarily effected are the water
pairs TO the river bank in this vicinity
and the installation OF the new search
light tower at Fort Delaware. This
tower will he s. feet high. with &C
inch light and will be a disappearing
balance tower Of the latest model
There will not he a County League
baseball game here this Saturday or
account of the first-half of the league
schedule winding up last Saturday
The second-half schedule will start OF
Saturday July S. when the locals vii
: open up with New Castle at New
Castle.
= Misc Margaret Scott of Wilmington
Z is a visitor with Mr.. snd Mrs. Stewar
= l. Beck.
: Old Glory Council No. u. Jr. Q. I
). A. NJ, will meet tonight in regula
: business session during which the AT
3 nual election OF officers for next yea
= will take place.
= Miss Ann BONNIE, the grand-daugf
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas J. White
4 man. who recently underwent two or
a ers.tions for mastoids at the Johr
- Hopkins Hospital Baltimore. is in
u proving rapidly.
Oscar Brouker. of Chicago, is ne
visiting his sister. Mrs. Harry c. Clar
The Chlldren's Day exercises
Glasgow which were scheduled T
next Sunday evening have been I
definitely postponed on account Of I