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THURSDAY MORNING. THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES. SEPTEMBER 9, 1897. Gimbel Brothers PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, September 9, 1857. Bicycles.

A forged crown is a mark of a wheel; SO is a good tire cheap tires have so little rubber in them that they cannot be plugged or repaired--they're dear at any price. Here are two of the many reasons for buying a Banner wheel have a forged arch crown, and the guaranteed tires of the Indiana Rubber it used to take $75 to cover the good points of the we sell them at $24.50 each. For children, here are "Lafay" ette bicycles, (24-in. wheels, 18-in. frames), some a little shopworn; regularly $25; we sell them now at $15 -an excellent value.

Third floor. Black Broadcloths. Rich broadcloths make exceedingly handsome and stylish tailormade suits; we have: a beautiful line of some fourteen grades, at prices from 75c. to $3 a yard. We call your attention particularly to our all -wool black lady's cloth, 48 inches wide, at 50c.

a yard. No charge for sponging these goods, if so Mourning Veils. It is not often that standard goods like these silk-warp mourning veils are sold at these prices--just by 54 inches, $2.50 each. 42 54 inches, $3 each. 42 by 60 inches, $3.50 and $4 each.

42 by 72 inches, $4 each. 42 by 90 inches, $4.50 each. Look for these in the black dress goods department. First floor, east store, back. Chemises and Corsets.

We will to-day close out an odd lot of extra length chemises, including white and colored lawns, trimmed skirts, that have sold at $1.50 and $1, at 50c. each. Do you know what puts corsets in the "seconds" grade? Come and see (if you can) what a small imperfection has done towards giving you $1.25 and $1 corsets with cork steel protectors, in drab, white, and black, at 65c. each. On sale at ten o'clock.

Third floor. Gimbel Brothers Market and Ninth. JERSEY FIREMEN MEET AT TRENTON Twentieth Annual Convention of the State Association. TRENTON, N. September 400 firemen from different parts of the State were present at Masonic was Hall this morning when General Bird Spencer, president, called to order the twentieth annual convention of the New State Firemen's 4 A8- sociation.

President Spencer made a short address and then Mayor Sickel delivered the address of welcome. The entire morning session was taken up with the receiving of the re reports of the legislative and executive committees. The report of the legislative committee gave a review of its efforts for and against legislation at the last session of the Legislature. It told particularly how the committee had defeated the attempt to do away with the $500 tax exemption allowed to firemen, by taking the position that they would consent to such a bill provided the Legislature should also abolish the exemption allowed to militiamen, charitable institutions, etc. They also told of the securing of the passage of a bill providing for the pensioning of firemen Injured in the discharge of their duty.

At the afternoon session all of the recommendations of the executive committee were adopted. President Spencer was authorized to appoint ten others besides himself as a committee to have charge of the erection of a home for indigent firemen. The salary of the counsel of the association was increased from $500 to $1,000 a year, and that of the recording secretary from $250 to $350. Atlantic City was chosen as the next place for holding the annual convention. The following officers were elected: President, General Baird Spencer, of Passale; vice presidents, N.

M. Went, Blackwood: F. D. Hilliard. Vincentown: R.

B. Storms, Long Branch; H. B. Green, Flemington; W. S.

Colgrove, Passaic: E. I. Cordict. East Orange, and W. A.

Ryder, New Durham. Personally-Conducted Tour to Cresson. Cresson, on the top of the Alleghenies, the most delightful resort in Western Pennsylvania. On Friday, September 10, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has arranged to run another of its personally conducted tours to this point. The special train will leave Broad Street Station at 10.25 M.

The round-trip rate, including one day's board at the famous Mountain House. will be but $8. A special reduction in hotel rates will be accorded parties staying longer than one day. Tickets will be good to return until September 15. Apply to the ticket agents for tickets and information.

Death of John Williams. Special Telegram to THE TIMES. SPRING CITY, September Willtams, one of the best-known citizens of this place, died here this morning after a lingering illness, in his 63d year. He was a retired member of the Grander Stone Company of Royersford, a veteran of the late war and prominent in Grand Army circles, being a member of Richards Post. G.

A. of Pottstown. A widow, three sons and three three daughters survive him. The Special Train for Baltimore via Pennsyivania Railroad will leave Broad Street Station at 8.15 A. M.

It costs but $1 for the round trip. Sunday next. MEN CURED FREE The Private Formula of a Noted Physician Made Public. WEAKENED MANKIND MAY NOW GRASP A WONDERFUL OP. PORTUNITY.

A resident of Kalamazoo, desiree to send free to mankind a preecription which will cure them of any of form of nervous debility; relieves them all the doubt and uncer. tainty which such men are peculiarly liable to and restores the organs to natural size and vigor. As It costs nothing to try the expert. ment it would seem that any man suffering from any form of nervous debility ought to be deeply interested in a remedy which will restore them to health, strength and vigor, without which they continue to live an ex istence of untold misery. As the remedy In question was the result of many years' research 88 to what combination would be most effective in restoring, t6 men the strength they need, seem that all men ought to write for such a remedy at once.

A request to H. C. Olds, Box 1904, Kalamazoo, will be answered promptly and without evidence 88 to where the information came from. Write to-duy. TO STAMP OUT YELLOW JACK Chances for the Fever's Spreading Reduced by Active Measures.

CONFINED TO BUT TWO TOWNS New Orleans Relaxes Its Quarantine and Hundreds Flock to the City. DR. GUITERAS ON THE SCENE Surgeon General Wyman Anxious for His Report -Experts Are Sent to Ocean Springs and Biloxi. WASHINGTON, September 8. Surgeon General Wyman says the yellow fever situation looks more hopeful No new cases have been officially reported to him, although newspaper reports of three new at Biloxi.

He has theres wired Dr. J. J. Lemon at Biloxi, concerning this report. Dr.

Guiteras, the yellow fever expert from the University of Pennsylvania, arrived at Ocean Springs to-day. The surgeon general has tendered the aid of the Marine Hospital Service to the authorities of Louisiana and Mississippi, and Dr. George Haines this morning telegraphed from Cross, WINS that the detention camp outfit at that place had been shipped, in accordance with the surgeon general's instructions, to a point about twenty miles east of Ocean Springs, where the camp will be established. Aided by Federal Authorities. The outfit will reach Ocean Springs in twenty-four hours.

Steward Richardson, who had charge of the camp at Waynesville, will assume direction of the camp as soon as it arrives. The procedure of the Federal authorities under the law and regulations is plain. The regulations just such an Treasury, emergency. The province of the Federal authorities to prevent the spread of the contagion to other States. Under the law the State and municipal authorities are required to enforce the regulations, and the national authorities are to see them enforced.

But if the States fail or refuse, the national authority is to be exercised. Reassuring News. This afternoon Surgeon General Wyman received the following reassuring telegram from Dr. Lemon, president of the Board of Health at Biloxi: "I have best reason to believe from a reliable party that it is simple malaria." Past Surgeon J. H.

White, who for several months has had charge of the Medical Department of the Immigration service at New York, received orders to-day to repair immediately to Washington. Dr. White was for four years at the Quanantine Station off the coast of Georgia, and it is understood that the Marine Hospital Bureau has decided to send him to the yellow fever district. a Further Precautions. Dr.

Oliphant, of the Louisiana Board of Health, has been requested to telegraph daily the fever situation in New Orleans. He telegraphed this morning the facts of the death at New Orleans yesterday and added that there had been no new case since. He also thanked the Surgeon General for his proffer of assistance. Stewart Richardson, of the United States Marine Hospital, in Cleveland, Ohio, has been ordered to Ocean Springs, by the Treasury Department to-day. SITUATION IN NEW ORLEANS Board of Health Takes a Hopeful View.

Dr. Guiteras Arrives at Ocean Springs. NEW ORLEANS, September Guiteras, the United States Government expert, arrived in Ocean Springs this morning. Dr. Sheedy, who attended the Tillman case in Ocean Springs, is reported sick with fever at Perkinston.

A dispatch from Biloxi says that the three cases reported last night are the only ones that have 60 far developed at or around Biloxi. The people there are quiet and the outlook is for no excitement. The Board of Health is to-day in full control of the situation. Perfect arrangements have been made for the prompt report of either yellow fever or suspicious cases, and no more sickness of virulent type will be imported. Scare in the Outlying Towns.

Towns in Louisiana and Mississippi continue to declare quarantine. There la infinitely more scare away from here than there is in this city. It is confidently believed that immunity from yellow jack for eight or ten days will bring Mobile and the Mississippi and Louisiana towns to their senses, and move them to tear down their barriers. There was a busy scene at the Louisville and Nashville Depot this morning when the early trains arrived. The raising of the quarantine against Bay St.

Louis and the Pass had the effect of driving hundreds into the city, not because they feared fever, but because they did not care to be held in those places Indefinitely If sporadic cases of fever should appear. Owing to the fact that the operators at coast cities have been almost smothered with private messages, general news from these points trickles in slowly. In the immediate vicinity of Point Cadet It is not unlikely that there will be others stricken besides those who are already on their backs. An Increase of the Scourge Looked For. In the section mentioned the conditions are such as to invite an increase in the number of cases.

In the meantime stringent measures are being taken to confine the disease there. Thus far there have been no pressing appeals from Mississippi for physiciane to aid the doctors who are there, and unless there is a wide spread of the disease, the present force of physicians at Biloxi and Ocean Springs will be able to handle all exleting cases. Both towns, however, are In need of supplies, and are appealing to the railroad company to promptly arrange for the sending of them. There are still some seventy-five people at Ocean Springs from other points, among them several prominent citizens of New Orleans. They were caught by the quarantine and were unable to get out, and the barriers put up by the Board of Health there is so strong that even high Influence is unable to get over them.

DANGER FROM INFECTION Dimeultles Encountered by Our Sanitary Inspector at Havana. WASHINGTON, September his report to the surgeon general of the Marine Hospltal Service, Sanitary Inspector Brunner at Havana complains of the number of persons who apply for certificates to go to the United States, but who are not admissible under the regulations. Dr. Brunner says that, yellow fever has Increased slightly over the week previous. Of the thirty-one deaths recorded but one occurred among the civilians, the others being among the Spanish soldiers.

The deaths from enteric and pernicious fevers have steadily Increased eacn week. The Inspector at Santiago de Cuba says he has been informed of the extstence of beri beri at Guantanamo and will investigate. IN NEED OF SUPPLIES Biloxi People Anxious to Have Dr. Galteras There and the Quarantine Raised. BILOXI, September Harry Howard has issued A proclamation to the people of Biloxi, announcing three cases of yellow fever and three suspecte.

He says they are all isolated and that no facts will be withheld. Residents of North Back Bay. have appealed to the Biloxi Council, asking that the quarantine be raised so that they may secure supplies. They say they are suffering. Biloxi people are impatient to have Dr.

Guiteras and other experts visit them, to determine if the fever in Biloxi is really yellow jack. MORE AID NEEDED Surgeon General Wyman Applies for an Addition to the Marine Hospital Service. WASHINGTON, General Wyman has application to the September, Civil Service Commission for authority to appoint a number of persons in addition to the regular force of the Marine Hospital service for duty in connection with the reported outbreak of yellow fever on the Gulf coast, and the request has been granted under the provision of paragraph 12, of rule VIII. of the civil service regulations. This rule provides for temporary appolntments for a period not exceeding thirty days in case of emergency, and the Surgeon General has been informed that under this lation his appointive powers are not circumseribed.

QUARANTINE IN ILLINOIS All North- Bound Trains and Steamers to be Thoroughly Inspected at Cairo. SPRINGFIELD, September Egan, of the State Board of Health, has secured the services of John R. Nealy, of Chicago, and Dr. Edward Bartnett, of this city, to proceed to Cairo, to thoroughly inspect all north-bound trains and steamers and quarantine all suspected yellow fever cases WARM WEATHER AT THE SIDE OF THE SEA A Typical Summer Day Enjoyed by the Visitors at Atlantic City. Special Telegram to THE TIMES.

ATLANTIC CITY, September 8. Sunshine, balmy air and gentle zephyrs made this a typical summer day at the shore. And this in the eyes of those who have extended their visit without having yet contributed a few autumn numbers to' their wardrobe was deemed an ideal state of affairs. They simply put on the pick of their warm-weather gowns, knotted the ribbons in the back, instead of on the side, as formerly, or vice versa; shifted their hats from right angles to leeward, and started out to do the board walk. And perhaps she did not succeed! The summer girl isn't as numerous as she was, and so it goes without saying that those left over are in demand by the summer man, of course.

These are still to be seen here and there, and they hold down the strand undisturbed for hours and hours. What a simple role, and yet so popular that if it were not for these little byplays seashore life would, for a number of people, hold no charms. Nothing enjoys being amused more than the public, SO the folly troup, or troups of folly, may tarry as long as they like, and yet feel sure while in this city of always having an audience. Bathing was particularly fine to-day. Instead of being choppy, as usual, the ocean was almost calm, coming in at regular intervals in great round, rolling swells that never broke until they reached the shore.

Surf sporters breasted them all without the least difficulty and floated with them in ecstasy. There were many thin silk and white duck bathing suits in evidence, and although these were actually wet and clinging for all they were worth, there was not a shiver noticeable. Of course a good number had been there before and did not mind it, and the temperature was a safeguard against shivers. Altogether the day was a perfect one and hugely enjoyed by all. The two men who were arrested on suspiclon of knowing something about the assault upon George E.

Payne were given a hearing yesterday. On account of insufficient evidence they were given their freedom. They had been in jail here for several days. John Walker, of 31 Federal street, Philadelphia, and John Cameron, Cedar avenue, Conshohocken, were the names and addresses they gave the Recorder. Company First Boye' Brigade, received their new uniforms yesterday.

With the glee of a girl with a new gown they donned their natty suits and gave a street parade. They were given a banquet at Schaufer's Hotel. On September 20 the company will go Into camp for one week at Vineland. An altar and shrine combined, 11 by 15 feet, has just been completed for St. Nicholas' Church, this city.

The design is very pretty and it is richly carved. This is said to be the finest bit of art In Atlantic City. and is the work of one of the local artists. The statues are to be selected by Father Fedigan and are to be gifts of Mrs. Robert O'Nelll and Mrs.

McMahon, of Philadelphia. To show how much love people in this city have for salt water taffy, thleves broke in a candy store on the board-walk yesterday and helped themeelves to about ten dollars' worth. Another skipper was reported last evening. This was the Streets of Cairo. The Constable caught on--to the camels and a donkey.

Later the owners furnished bonds for the payment of the bill. Nevertheless the donkey was retained as security. This animal is a trick He paws the air, stands on his head and kicks like mad every time the constable comes within twenty feet of him. This officer has come to the conclusion that the donkey is more of an insecurity than anything else, and he don't know just what to do with him. In the meantime the donkey has all the sport he wants at the other's expense and brays to his heart's content.

It is plain to be seen who has the laugh on the other. A salling party was given this morning by Miss Louise Wolsteffer, of Philadelphia, in honor of her guests, Miss Mary Drenning and Miss Hattie Blithwood. Among the soclal leaders of the Quaker City who were guests were Miss Anita Hillbert, Miss Bessie Hillbert, Miss Margaret Nevins, Miss May Baremore, Miss Nellie Smith, Miss Ray Hill, Miss Jessie Hill, Miss Carrie Newton, J. R. R.

B. Drenning, Benjamin Simmermon, William P. McKean, John J. Garrison, Frank Wilkins, J. T.

Price and Percy Steelman. Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld and Mrs. Altgeld arrived here yesterday from Philadelphia. They will remain by the sea a few days and then return to their home in Chicago.

The Mansion Hotel closed to-day for the season of 1897. The management say they are well pleased with the result of their efforte. Councilman Ballinger and family after enjoying a summer of cottage life here have just returned to their Philadelphia home, Mrs. M. Stanley, of Nineteenth and Arch streets, has just arrived and taken apartments for a prolonged visit by the sea.

Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Stockley have returned to Philadelphia after an extended stay here.

Mr. Stockley Is a prominent member of the Quaker City bar. Miss E. Powers, of Philadelphia, who has been one of the attractions throughout the summer at the St. Charles, will leave here in a few days for home.

The New Orleans Jubilee Singers were the musical treat at St. Paul'a Church this evening. Another Sunday newspaper 18 soon to make its debut in this -80 it is sald. Mrs. J.

Penrose, W. Penrose, Miss L. Penrose, J. James, Mr. and D.

T. Spalding, Mr. and Mra. N. P.

Butler, Miss Butler, Charles P. Freeman, Mrs, and Miss Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. F. G.

Winters, Catherine Winters are among the Philadelphians who have just come down to this shore for a brief sojourn. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Houston, who were recently married in Philadelphia, are here for September.

Colonel H. T. Carleton, of Michigan, arrived here last evening and took ments for himself and family for a four weeks' stay by the sea. Among the well-known Philadelphians who arrived at the Central Hotel last evening were M. Corr, M.

MeGlynn, F. Want, Dr. W. Bayley, F. Dickenson, Mr.

and Mrs. J. D. Vood. Mr.

and Mrs. James T. Judson, Miss Judson and Miss M. C. MeMahon.

Mrs. Patterson and family, from San Francisco, are nicely located for five weeks' sojourn at this popular house. H. Knight and O. Chapman are at the Traymore.

PUPILS AND THEIR TEACHERS MEET DOORS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN FOR ANOTHER TERM. THOUSANDS APPLY FOR ADMISSION Several Changes Made in the Corps of Teachers and Many New Departments Added- -The Overcrowded Condition of Many of the Schools Still a Problem That Confronts the Board of Education. The public schools opened yesterday. Armed with slate and pencil, text-book and all the other paraphernalia of scholastic life, over 135,000 children wended their way towards the different schools of the city. The streets were thronged with boys and girls, and it was not difficult to point out those who had enjoyed a vacation at the seaside resort or mountain retreat.

The bright eyes and tanned cheeks told the tales, and many of the young ones looked the embodiment of rugged health and youthful vigor. Not 60, however, with thousands of other children who were not so fortunate as to get away from the city during vacation. Theirs was the pallid cheek, but even two months' holidays on the city streets could not dim the flash of the bright eyes or stem the restless activity of young life that sent them chasing each other on the way to school. There were some who went lingeringly and with beclouded faces, as if they feared or disliked the ordeal before them, but the gayer spirits of their companions dispelled the gloom and few there were who did not have a smile for the teacher when the doors were opened. Normal School.

The Normal School opened with six hundred and eighty-two pupils, divided into three hundred and eleven in' the senior class and three hundred and seventy-one in the class. Beyond the arranging of the classes in sections, the distribution of rosters and the explantion of the term's work, nothing in the way of regular school work was done. The school will start to-day upon its usual term's work. The Normal School building has been painted outside and the interior has been improved to the extent of painting the large central staircase from top to bottom. New laboratory tables have been added to the department of psychology, and the work in this department will be improved and extended to a marked extent during the year.

The following new teachers have been added to the faculty of the school and were present yesterday: Miss Mary Adair, assistant in the kindergarten department; Miss Kate W. Stevens, in charge of the new twelfth grade of the School of Practice; Miss Mary C. Peacock, Miss Anne L. Turner, Miss Adelaide H. Dovey and Miss May R.

Timanus, who have been promoted in the department of physics and chemistry, because of the resignation of one of the staff in June. At the School of Practice and Observation connected with the Normal School, Miss Anna M. Hall, the principal, was engaged throughout yesterday in registering the applicants for admission to this department. There will be about 500 children in the school this term, and for the first time since its formation all the grades will be represented, so that a child may pass from the kindergarten through all the subsequent classes to the Girls' High School. Central High School.

The Central High School for Boys has an enrollment of 1,325 students, who will occupy the old bullding at Broad and Green streets until the new structure is completed. Three new Instructors have been installed in the school, H. B. MacIntyre, G. L.

Plitt and P. L. Neel. The School of Pedagogy will have elghteen students, under the direction of Dr. Francis Burke Brandt.

The same number of students registered in this department last year, and it is therefore evident that the extended course of two years has not deterred boys from undertaking the prescribed curriculum. Of the eighteen registered yesterday in this department five are graduates of the Central High School of two or more years' standing. Several students of the Manual Training Schools have applied for admission into the senior class of the Central High School, with a view of entering the School of Pedagogy at the end of the year. This term the School of Pedagogy will have second year students for the first time. The course of study has been enlarged in two very important directions.

More time is to be devoted next year to the work in science, a greatly extended course having been arranged under the direction of Dr. Dolley. The course in English will also be strengthened, and particular emphasis will be laid on this part of the work in view of the Increased consideration which the subJect is recelving from teachers in the elementary schools. To accommodate the School of Pedagogy two class rooms are being prepared at 1204 Spring Garden street. The Herbart Club, formed in connection with the school, will resume its meetings this fall.

Girls' High School. The Girls' High School opened yesterday under the direction of the newly -elected principal, William D. Rorer, to whom is entrusted the responsibility of supervising the studies no less than 2,836 girls. About two-thirds of this number will pursue their studies in the building at Seventeenth and Spring Garden streets, while the remainder will be located in the annex at Broad and Spring Garden streets under the care of Miss Emily L. Graham.

The examinations held last June resulted in the promotion of 1,300 girls from the lower schools, and of these freshmen 739 will take the general course, 109 the classical courses, and 525 the commercial course. The last named department is in growing favor with the girls and it will have this year at least 900 students on its rolls. The new teachers In the commercial course include Mies Beck, head of the stenographic department; Miss Friedberger, commercial arithmetic and German; Miss Breadin, stenography, typewriting and business forms, and Miss B. A. Fennimore, English.

A Commercial High School. The recommendations of Dr. Brooks for the establiehment of a Commercial High School were acted upon favorably by the Board of Education, and a committee has been appointed to take charge of this important matter. The hoard has also asked from Councils an appropriation of $30,000 to be applied to the organization of the proposed school and as soon 26 the funds are available steps will be taken to establish a Commercial High School. The main object of this institution, as its name Implies, will be the preparation of young men for commercial pur.

sults. The project has been heartily approved by leading business men of the city, and is in line with the beneficial work accomplished by the Commercial Museums of adelphia. The proposed work will be greatly aided by the efforts of Dr. Brooks to establish school libraries and to bring the pupils of public schools more in touch with the differ. ent centres of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

The Central Manual Training School started yesterday with 480 pupils, while the attendance at the Northeast Manual TrainIng School was unusually large. Mr. Sayre and Mr. Willard delivered addresses In their respective schools. Elementary Schools.

The attendance at the elementary schools is expected to be several thousand over that of last year, but the exact will not be known for some time. Each pupil regiatered yesterday had to present a vaccination certificate. There will be only one session each day until September 16, when the customary two seselona will be resumed. The advisability of regrading in the elementary schools is being considered by the board, and it le likely that the primary and secondary grades will be consolidated the head of primary and that the number of grades will be reduced from twelve 1 to eight. The schedule of lessons in the new music department for the first year has been arranged and aseistant music teachers -have city.

A new syllabus in physiology will be been assigned to the different schools of the issued in a few days and a new course in drawing will be in the hands of the teachers shortly. a schools One me marked will be improvement noticeable in in the the teaching elementary of language. The lectures of the Superintendent and his pamphlet of instructions published three years ago have given increased vitality and efficiency to the work in this department. High School Examinations. About seventy applicants for admission to the High and Manual Training Schools will present themselves for examination to-day at the Roberts Vaux School, Wood street, below Twelfth.

The examinations will be continued to-morrow and Saturday and are open only to these who were prevented by illness or absence from presenting themselves at the regular examinations last June. During the past year the Board of Education expended about $250,000 on permanent works and new buildings and $125,000 on alterations and repairs of existing structures. The question of enforcing the compulsory education law is in charge of a special committee, which is at present engaged in taking the registration lists furnished by the Assessors, and when this preliminary work is completed further action will be taken. The attendance of pupils at the city schools last year comprised 138,535 boys and girls at the elementary, 4,774 at high and manual training schools and 6,225 children at the kindergartens. to THE TIMES.

WILMINGTON, September 8. A firm of Wilmington brokers received an inquiry from their correspondent in Boston this morning regarding the Bay State Gas Company. The correspondent desired to know whether there a was any truth in the report that a bill had been snaked through the Delaware Legislature authorizing an assessment of $10 per share on Bay State Gas stock and that $7.50 of this was to called September 15. The Wilmington firm was unable to answer the inquiry. It is not believed that any such law was passed by the General Assembly, however, the general im pression being that the report was started for stock jobbing purposes.

George W. Roberts, secretary of the Bay State Gas Com pany, this morning denied that any assessment had been called. The heavy rains which prevailed several weeks ago played havoc with the tomato crop of the Delaware and Maryland Peninsula. The growers claim that only about one-third of the crop remains and commission merchants are hot after the remnants the damaged vegetables. The result is, tomatoes that formerly sold for $5 and $8 per ton, now bring from $20 to $30 per ton.

Below the Delaware and Chesapeake canal, the cannerles are running at full blast, and they have considerable difficulty in getting supply to keep the plants in operation. Tomatoes are selling in Dover at forty cents basket. Senator George Gray, Mrs. Gray and Miss Emily Gray returned to Wilmington last evening after a two months' tour of Europe. The party sailed for Southampton in July, thence journeying to Havre and Paris.

They made a trip through Holland, visited the Hague, then going to London, where they were met by Former Ambassador Thomas F. Bayard. Colonel Benjamin Nields returned the same steamer with the Grays. The Bay State Gas Company will again pe tition the Board of Street and Sewer Directors for permission to lay pipes in Wilmington. Several years ago this company, act.

ing under A charter procured from the Delaware Legislature, began tearing up the streets, preparatory to laying pipes in order operate the plant of the Oxy-Hydrogen Company. The city procured an injunction from the Chancellor restraining the company from tearing up the streets. In view of the fact that the Chancellor was formerly counsel for the company, he refused to hear the case and a Chancellor ad-litim was appointed. The latter has refused to give a decision the matter and Chancellor Nicholson, in the light of present complicatione, has been asked to reopen the celebrated gas case. Meantime a petition is being prepared by H.

H. Ward, counsel for J. Edward Addicks, to be presented to the Board of Street and Sewer Directors. The Silverbrook Sewer, which is now in course of erection, intercepts the old Lattimer property, on the Newport Pike. The tenant of the property is William H.

Fennimore. He claims that his growing crops bave been seriously damaged by the sewer passing through the property and he threatens to have an injunction issued, restraining the men from further work on the sewer. Rather than suffer the delay which an injunction would necessarily entail Engineer Hatton has called his men off. Judge Spruance has appointed the following commission to condemn the property: Joseph L. Carpenter, John A.

Cranston, Joseph Gould, Reuben Satterthwaite and Henry G. Banning. The commission will Inspect the ground Friday. A special train will leave the Pennsylvania Railroad station, in this city, for Rehoboth, BRIEF DELAWARE NEWS Record of the Happenings of a Day in the Diamond State. Special Telegram FACTS OPPOSED TO SENTIMENT IN ANNIE DORMAN'S CASE THEY POINT STRONGLY TO SUICIDE.

ORIGIN OF THE POETRY TRACED The Girl's Pastor Says It Was Sent to Her at a Church -Her Brother Explains the Burning of Her Clothing and Denies That Clues Were Destroyed tiveness a Part of Her Nature, Which Made Her Very Unhappy. Facts versus sentiment. That is the condition which is causing many of Annie Dorman's friends, who were at first loath to admit that she had met her death in any other way than at the hands of a murderer, to reluctantly accept the theory, if theory it be still, of self-destruction. It has been shown that robbery or assault could not have been the motive leading to the girl's death; it is equally as certain that revenge cannot be seriously considered, for all her acquaintances agree that she had 1 not an enemy in the world. It has been clearly established that there were no signs of a struggle where the body lay; that the dress was open at the bosom, where two shots had left their marks; that the pistol found at the dead girl's side had been taken from its secure hiding place, where two weeks before she had seen it for the first time; that, contrary to her practice, she sent the children away from the house on the day of the tragedy; that she was not physically weak, but strong--strong enough, in all probability, when controlled by a desperation born of sudden despair, to discharge the old frearm and inflict three wounds, the last of which was alone fatal.

And in addition to all this, those who knew her best tell of a life at times filled with gloomy periods and complainings, of remarks which would, lead to the supposition that all was not right with her affairs of the heart, that he who was generally known as her accepted lover had, a short time up to the day of the tragedy, been neglectful. Annie's Sensitive Nature. Yesterday brought out this new fact: That Annie was an extremely sensitive girl; that the slightest reproach or intimation of correction grated harshly on her cheerful nature and that often, for several days at a time, she would seem gloomy over what she had considered as a scolding from some one about the farm. This from those who knew her best. Undoubtedly, in fairness to all concerned, many of these corrections were deserved.

It is equally as certain that many of them Annie magnified on account of her extreme sensitiveness. Which fact, declare many of her friends, is signifcant. Yesterday also brought forth more testimony like that of the day before--to the effect that Annie's life was not all happinese; that often she became gloomy and complained about her hard monotonous life and seemed to have much worriment because West Pendlebury, who had been "keeping steady company" with her for nearly a year, had become cold of late. Those who added their testimony were Mary Thompson, of Annie's most intlmate girl friends; Mrs. Thelimburg, of Sixtythird and Vine streets, where Annie worked for two weeks this summer, and Mrs.

Elizabeth Bartleson, of 421 North Sixty-third street, where Annie was also employed for about a week. Why the Clothes Were Burned. So much has been said by Minshall and some of those who still murder Coroner: about the Dormans destroying what might have been clues that it seems due them to tell what they themselves have to say on this point. "I know what the Coroner says about that," said John Dorman. a "But let me tell a you something, too.

The only thing we did was to wash up little of the blood before we had received a telephone message from the Coroner not to disturb the body and then we only did when Undertaker Frankenfeld told us there could be no that wrong in doing so. He will bear me out in "What about the burning of the Mr. Dorman was asked. "Well, when the Coroner ordered me to Gents To-Day Councils' committee on municipal government meets in room 590, City Hall, at 2 P. M.

Opening of the sixteenth annual encampment of the Commandery-In-Chief, Sons of Veterans, in Indianapolis. United States Marshal's sale in the office of the Marshal, on the third floor of Post Office, Ninth and Chestnut streets, 11 A. M. Meeting of the Fairmount Park Commission's committee on plans and improvements to consider plans for children's playground in the Park. Musical and literary entertainment under the auspices of the Ladies' Union, in the House of Prayer Baptist Church, 2107-2109 Columbia he avenue, 8 P.

M. The special committee of Councils to investigate the relations of the city to the various electric light companies, meets in room 496, City Hall, at 3 P. M. Fourth annual open lawn tournament for the championship in men's singles of Philadelphia opens on the grounds of the Belmont Cricket Club, Elmwood. Third day of the annual convention of the Millers' State Association.

Delegates take a trip to Atlantic City in a special train, which leaves Chestnut street wharf at 7.30 A. M. Annual meeting and election of officers of the West Philadelphia Branch, Philadelphia Christian Endeavor Union, in the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Preston and Aspen streets. Rev. George B.

Stewart, D. of Harrisburg, will deliver the annual address, 7.80 P. Sal at 7 o'clock to-morrow morning, bearing the members of the Delaware Legislature, clerks and newspaper men. The Legislators propose to have a day of it at the city by the sea and will be joined in the evening by the members of the constitutional convention, who leave Wilmington for Rehoboth at 4.27 to-morrow afternoon. The Legislators will return at 5 o'clock while the convention will remain over until the following day.

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keep them, I gathered them all up and wrapped them in the apron Annie had on at the time of her death. Friday I was not at home, That day a neighbor came over, and, as the blood was smelling very much, asked my wife why the clothes were not burned, and they burned them. not knowing that the Coroner had ordered them to be saved. When I came back I was astonished, but could do nothing." A Letter From Her Pastor. In regard to the poetry found in the pocketof the dead girl, the Rev.

T. M. Griffith, pastor of the Sarah D. Cooper Memorial Church, where the dead girl was 8 regular attendant. professes to have solved Its bearing, or rather, lack of bearing, on Annie's death.

In a letter written yesterday to Mr. Dorman, he saye: "Dear friend--The strange letter which was found on Annie's person was clipped, almost word for word, out of an old valentine, which les before me as I write. It was copled by one of our young people at fair or festival and a sent to Annie through a kind of sham post office, just for a little harmless fun. So the charge contained in that anonymous letter is utterly false and unworthy of attention." A Chance to Visit the Nation's Capital Sunday next, Pennsylvania Rallrond. $2 the round Special train from Broad triple at 3.15, 4.20, 5.40, 6.50 and 10.00 P.

M. same to return on regular trains a from Washington Street Station at 8.15 A. M. Tickets good day. Director of Public Safety Riter yesterday expressed a very great deal of pleasure, after having visited the injured fremen, to learn that no one was seriously injured, though many of the firemen have suffered a great deal pain with their eyes.

He expressed admiration at the way the firemen had conducted themselves at the fire on Delaware avenue. To the South via Penusylvania Railroad, Two very attractive early autumn tours will be run by the Pennsylvania Railrond Company, leaving Philadelphia September 29 and October 12. It 13 hardly necessary to say that these outings are planned with the utmost care, and that all arrangements are adjusted so as to afford the best possible means of visiting each each place to the best advantage. The tours cover a period of eleven days, and include the battletteld of Gettysburg, picturesque Blue Mountain, Luray Caverns. the Natural Bridge, Virginia Hot Springs, the cities of Richmond and Washington and Mt.

Vernon. The round-trip, rate, including all necessary expenses, is 863 from Philadelphia, and proportionate rates from other points. Each tour will be in charge of one of the company's tourist agents. He will be 88- sisted by an experienced Indy as chaperon, whose especial charge will be ladies unnecompanied by male escort. Special trains of parlor cars are provided for the exclusive use of each party, in which the entire round trip is made.

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