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THAT LIST OF BASSETT'S
BY MIRIAM MICHELSON
It all came about through Senator
constitutional incapacity to
Newberry, the other can
Thorp's
take program,
didate for the Senatorship, looked at
United Power's table of facts and figures
and promptly threw up the sponge. There
fighting Boss Bassett and the
mighty corporation that controlled poli
tics throughout the State—be knew that.
Thorp knew it, too, but admitting a fact
and being reconciled to it were two w idely
separated processes to Thorp.
"You're in the fight to stay, Senator?"
Bassett had asked by way of preliminary.
"You really expect to be re-elected?"
The two men were closeted at the Sen
ator's headquarters in the one hotel at
at the
was no use
Everybody stays
Sacramento.
place at the Capital during sessions
_even reporters ; there is no other place.
"You bet I'm in it ! Bill Thorp's no
quitter !" answered the Senator.
Bassett passed a fat, white hand over
close-shaven chin,
your men, I suppose ?
"That's wliat I can," declared Thorp
same
a
"You can count on
Or-"
positively.
_Or you think you can, amended
Bassett softly.
Whereupon Thorp swore roundly ; fuss
ed and fumed ; announced his a's »lute
conviction of the loyalty of his supporters
in a loud, uncertain voice, and then fell
silent and uncomfortable, biting his short
nails and casting scrutinizing glances at
Bassett.
But you might scrutinize U. l"s Boss'
face till doomsday without finding out
anything but what lie wanted \ou to
I've interviewed Bassett a mini
know.
her of times on the most delicate matters
concerning the Boss' boss United I ower.
And he has sent me away empty-handed
regularly, and yet with a pleased little
of having been permitted to infer
something special ; a vague something of
intimate and confidential nature w hieb
the Boss intimated would he caviare to
the mere multitude of reporters.
The old fox—with his small, twinkling,
cold eye, his stiff, short hair, his shrewd,
sharp nose—oil, I can fancy just how lie
looked at Thorp !
"Why, look here, Bassett"—the Sena
tor. liegan to bluster; the Boss'smiling
confidence disconcerted him—"these men
pledged to me ; pledged in black and
an
are
white."
"Will you-" began Bassett, but
Thorp stormed past the interruption.
"And not only with pen and paper, but
I'm no chicken in
man's
tliey'r« hound to me.
polities, but when you secure a
election, as 1 did Allen's ; when you ye
^ got a deputy collestorship of the port for
a near relative, as I did for Brigham s
brother ; when you've shelled out money
to pay a mortgage pressinglv due, which
is what I did for Kinafy ; when you've
spent your own money in their counties,
as I have for Grimmin, Glass, Hires,
Irton, Johnson, Jamieson and the lot of
them—why, you ought to count pretty
hard on 'èm."
"You certaiulv ought," agreed Bassett
with the openness to conviction that
makes intellectual contact with him re
freshing.
Senator Thorp got to his feet, puffed
out his chest, dug his hand down into his
pocket and complacently jingled his
money and his keys.
"Well, that's where I stand," he de
clared with pompous self-satisfaction.
And Bassett looked at him.
"Yep—that's where I stand," repeated
Thorp, a bit of irritation at the other's
smiling silence betraying itself in his
"Well?" he de
voice and manner,
manded presently.
"Well—I wouldn't stand too hard, Sen
ator."
And Thorp began to bluster, drowning
the very words he really wanted to hear,
in his effort to keep up his ow n courage.
Bassett scratched his stiff, bristling hair
gently, atid waited.
"Do you mind, Senator," he asked
pleasantly, after Thorp had subsided,
"showing me yottr list ? Only the true
and tried, if you please, those you're ab
solutely sure of. You can have my word
that I'll take no advantage of your con
fidence, but I may—be able to—assist—
to spare you some trouble and—possible
disappointment," he concluded w ith del
icate hesitation.
Of course, Boss Bassett is a man of
honor, with certain well-defined limita
tions—everybody knows that. And Thorp
knew it as well as anybody. A man isn't
in politics in a corporation-ridden State
for fifteen years without learning the kind
of boss he has to deal with.
"All right, I'll show it to you. Not
for the reasons you give, hut to prove
to you what good grounds I have for
feeling confident of re-election,
pulled a slip of paper out of his wallet
and, tapping it knowingly with his fore
finger, said : "You're not the first man
who has seen it. Newberry, who's got
twenty votes-"
"Newberry did have twenty votes,"
put in Bassett quietly.
Thorp looked at him a moment, irri
tated, incredulous inquiry in his lace.
Then he hurried on :
"Newherry thought some of these fel
lows might have been repeating on us ; so
yesterday we got together, lie and 1, and
just quietly compared notes. By Heaven,
there wasn't a single man on his list that
was on mine ! The men pledged to him
were true to him. The men pledged to
• me were true to me."
"You mean true, in your case, so far as
Newherry is concerned ; and in his, so
far as you are concerned," leiuarked Bas
sett imperturbably.
"I mean—what's thaï ? 1 don't under
stand you. lhorp was agitate J.
* There's a third candidate—Trew hiu."
"Bah ! If 1 haie twenty-eight and
Newberry twenty, his votes are bound to
come to me after a few ballots."
"Of course, of course, it you Auie
twenty-eight and lie has twenty."
"Wliat the devil do you mean?''
Bassett held out his hand for Thorp's
list ; then pulled two papers from an in
side pocKet and laid the three sheets side
by side on the table.
"Conte look, tie said, nodding to
ward I lie evidence .so openly displayed.
And Tl orp looked. There wa-t New
berry's list with more than half of the
names significantly checked off, and he
side it on Bassett's list, boldly standing
out and para'leling Thorp's own, name
lie
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lor name, was the record of bis men gone
to the enemy—pledged to Trewhitt.
It ran something like this :
"Allen—$2000.
"Brigham—Harry Brigham (son) in the
over
Mint.
"Ewing—post in U. S. office, S. F.
"G ri mm i n—$3000.
"Glass—can't be bought.
"Hires—$2500.
"Irton—$2500.
"Johnson—can't be got.
"Jamieson—doubtful.
"Kinafy—$1500.
"Klein—$2000."
And so on down the list. No wonder
Thorp looked shocked ; be bad been out
bid, without even a notification that be
must bid higher.
How did I get it all ? Through Thorp,
of course. State Senator Newberry bad
taken bis defeat like a philosopher ("a
base, truckling coward," Thorp now
called him), and was working busily in
the Trewhitt camp, with an eye out for
future contingencies. But Thorp—oil,
Thorp was just dancing with rage, just
piping-hot, brimming over and a-tiptoe
to pour bis tale of woe into a sympathetic
ear !
And instead of one he found two—or
rather four : mine and Ted Thompson's.
Aiken was there, too, to sketcli the ram
pant Thorp in action, while we listened
and questioned—but artists don't count,
and Aiken anyway never hears a word
that's going on.
But really Ted and I hadn't much
questioning to do, Thorp was so ready.
If we had caught him ten minutes later,
he'd have had time to bethink himself
that a corporation outlives individuals,
scandals, charges, proofs and popular in
dignation ; that United Power has a long
memory ; and that a certificate of politi
cal death from Bassett is all that's neces
sary before burial promptly takes place.
But when Ted and I overheard Newberry
on the Capitol steps inveighing against
Thorp for cutting him dead in tlie Senate
chamber that morning, with one accord
we turned and made for the hotel.
While Ted scurried through the bar,
the billiard-room and up to the Senator's
headquarters at last, I 'phoned for the
artist—and when we got to Thorp's plush
parlor, Teddy had him neatly corralled
and not another reporter on the horizon.
"You can have it all to yourself, you
lucky girl," Ted said when Tlioip had
been turned inside out and left for re
morse to seize upon him. "The Times
Record's committed, you know, to the
belief that U. P. is of the noblest and
most generous of public benefactors. I'll
give the office the facte, of course, but
they'll only print an obscure paragraph,
vaguely alluding to rumors, etc., so you've
got a bully thiug for your own. I won't
give it away ; we'll keep it in the family."
"Whose?" I asked, thanking him with
a look.
of
or
I
it,
of
is
a
in
"Why—ours, yours and mine," lie
chuckled. "Oh, you know it'll come to
that one of these days, Miss Massey !" he
added. The bold-faced conceit of him !
"I don't know anything of the sort.
I'm wedded to my art, Mr. Theodore
Thompson," I said haughtily.
"Tell that to McCabe," he jeered.
"Mr. McCabe would be interested," 1
remarked demurely.
"Rlioda !"
It was half appeal, half
affected dismay. "You haven't been
and gone and taken a base advantage of
my being busy to go and get old McCabe
to fall in love with you ! How do you
know that I won't get a little leisure one
of these days-" ,
"I do know," I interrupted, "that we
are both a hit intoxicated over getting
this lovely grind on the whole Senatorial
situation. And I know, too, that I'll
never be able to hold you in a breacli-of
promise suit, Ted, for you could always
claim that the offer had been made—or
Now, a Secret Investigation is a direct
challenge to tlie Press. It's an insulting
wa y of telling newspapers to go about
their business, which, of course, is to find
out by surreptitious means tlie very thing
w hich is surreptitiously being kept from
thetu—or, rather, which the politicians
are attempting to keep from them. For
I never yet knew of a star-chamber ses
siott, from a Grand Juty meeting to the
solemn silences in the U. S. Senate, that
kept secret secret things ; they're the one
thing sure to leak,
So at first we were hopeful up at Sacra
mento when the Legislature appointed a
committee "to investigate charges made
by a certain newspaper in the city and !
county of San Francisco, besmirching the !
fair name and fame of California; stab
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scantily implied, rather—under intense
excitemeut induced by tlie prettiest scan
dal that ever scandalized scandalous Sac
ramento ! I'm off to work—I want a
denial from Bassett. Of course, he'll
deny till he's black in the face. But
there'll be Senatorial investigations,won't
there, and deputations from the city, and
mounting in hot haste all over the polit
ical battlefield? Oh, dear !"
"Yes, darling," he said attentively.
"Ted Thompson," I flared at him,"take
care ! I see signs of paresis and-"
"No, you're too modest, Rhoda. It
isn't invariably a symptom of alcoholism
approaching imbecility to care for
or
you
"Shoo !—Oh, there conte» Thorp !" I
cried.
"He'll want to retract—scoot, Rhoda !"
Ted whispered, "and I'll cover the re
ttest. The T-R. will print all the re
tractions he wants, but you don't have
to, you lucky little thing !"
I hurried up the stairs, but before I got
to my room I heard Ted say sweetly :
"Not the slightest use in the world,
Senator. Of course, so far as the T-R. is
concerned, I'll fix it all right, but I just
left Miss M aase y at the telegraph office ;
the whole thing's on the wire by now
and the News'll have it sure. The only
way you can stop it is by reaching Mc
Cabe himself. Suppose you get the next
train and go down aud see him ?"
Suppose he did ! I grinned. It would
keep him out of the way of the other
reporters. As for reaching McCabe, that
duck of a Ted Thompson kuew as well as
I that McCabe simply can't he readied,
and that the News' whole policy as a
rabid anti-U. P. paper made this bit of
news so valuable that all the Senator's
horses and all his men and barrels of
money couldn't buy it back again.
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biiiR to the very vitals the reputation of '
legislators of this great State, legislators
who—if the said grave charges shall be
substantiated—must be driven with scorn
and loathing forever from the honored
seats of public office ; driven to the fes
tering haunts of obscurity and left to rot
there in their own infamy !"
I quote from the resolution introduced
by the Honorable Horace Kinafy, of
Grafton. It was a beautiful speech, quite
Kinafy. A grandstand play, Ted said ;
but McCabe believed it to be indignation
due to the Honorable Horace's discover
ing that he had been sold—too cheap.
McCabe came up, you know, when I
wired him that I was summoned to ap
pear as a witness at the Investigation.
Ted wasn't in it to any extent, for the
T-R. had carefully belittled the whole
thiug. But my, I was glad to see Me-.
Cabe's big coated figure stalking into the
Saddle Rock where Ted and I were at
breakfast ! It gave me the snuggest feel
ing of being personally conducted.
"Hey, Rhoda, has the sun just come
out?" Ted demanded, as I jumped up to
meet McCabe's outstretched hand.
"No, Mr. Thompson, the father's just
come up—the journalistic daddy of Rhoda
Massey, who feels just as safe when the
News' News Editor's on deck as-"
"But suppose the Managing Editor
had come up instead?" McCabe asked,
still holding my hand.
I made a wry face. Old Broughton has
always been a figurehead on the News.
I knew that McCabe was really running
things the very first day he took me into
the office in spite of Bowman's prejudice
against woraen-reportars.
McCabe laughed and, sittiug down at
the table, called for a cup of coffee.
"So you don't approve of your Mana
ger?" he asked, smiling—he was po i
tively shining with good nature this
morning. " 'Miss Massey, rebel,' is the
way ttiey put it down at the office."
"I don't approve of Broughton," I in
sisted. "Nobody does."
"I said your Managing Editor," he re
peated significantly.
"Not-" 1 looked at him. Of course
it was, it was gratified ambition that
beamed from his face ; you couldn't mis
take it ! "Oh, Mr. McCabe," I squealed,
"congratulations !"
And we shook hands all round the
table.
"But it makes a fellow feel a bit as
though lie were hutting in oil a Thanks
giving breakfast, or some family function
of that sort," growled Ted. "She's un
grateful anyway, Mr. McCabe. Here
have I been coddling and comforting my
hated rival ever since she jumped with
both feet into politics. Sue's the most
looked-at woman in Sacramento. Raw
young assemblymen yearn to meet her.
Shy old State Senators are afraid of lier.
And all this time, instead of throwing
bombs at her for holding the centre of
tlie stage so cheekily, I've been playing
guardian and masculine prop and shelter.
Yet the minute you appear she flies to
your bosom like a poor little dove who's
been all alone among hawks.
Rhoda !"
With a nod he was-about to leave us to
talk things over when McCabe put out a
hand to detain him.
"I say, Thompson," he said slowly,
"why not really butt into the News fam
ily? There's a news editorship vacai t
since Saturday. Bowman's too limited
or he'd have it. What do you think?"
"Oh—jolly !" I exclaimed.
Ted hesitated. "Thanks—I'm awfully
obliged, Mr. McCabe, and appreciative,
too. Will you let me think it over? A
desk position does't tempt me. I would
uot have the City Editorship ou the T-R.,
you know, because I've always had a
sneaking feeling that perhaps I could
write some day—something other than
newspaper stuff. But, thank you, I'd
like to work for you—and can it stay
open just for a day or so?"
McCabe nodded. Ted went off and we
got down to business.
"It's all straight, eh, this Thorp-Bas
sett stuff?" was McCabe's first question.
"Confess now. If this tiling's on the
level the News'll back you till the last
shot is fired. But if it's a fake, Rhoda,
I want to know now before we go into
action and—and the News'll hack you
just the same, of course. But 'poll honor,
now ?"
"Don't be so heroic, Mr. McCabe," 1
grinned. "Of course it's all true, every
word of it. Thompson could corroborate
it, only it wouldn't he fair to put him in
such a position with the T-R. But what
makes you think it isn't straight ?"
"Thorp denies it-"
"I'liew !"
"Ill his testimony before the Investi
gating Committee he disavowed the tiling
altogether—the main thing, that is, the
charge that Bassett bought his men and
sliowed him a list with the market price
of legislators attached."
"Höw do you know wliat he said in
committee? Even Thompson can't get a
line from the inside, yon know."
"Neither can I—for publication. But
we got this as a private tip on condition
the News shouldn't make use of it. The
thing, the one thing on earth that we
want now, is a copy of that list of Bas
sett's-"
"Well, you're modest !" I cried.
"It'll he produced before the Investi
gating Committee."
"No !"
"Yes, it will. Not by Thorp—lie has
recauted all right ; donned his hair-shirt,
walked barefoot to the U. P. office, and
is now groveling for Pope Bassett's for
giveness. But, you see, this ruciion of
yours has stirred Newberry up. He sees
a chance, with Thorp out of it and
Bassett's mail Trew hitt blasted as effect
ually by snspiciou as Cnuar's w ife might
have been, and his usefulness to United
Power impaired by the fact of his being
labeled a U. P. man. So Newberry (to
whom Bassett showed that same precious
document, of which Newberry promptly
made a copy) is going to produce it ; < r
rather, to get it indirectly before the
committee ; have it found by some one
in some mysterious way that won't con
nect him with it. And then—posing as
tlie great reconciler by instancing his
submission to Bassett as evidence of loy
alty to United Power, and the fact that
he was not Bassett's candidate, as recom
mendation to the Independents—he'll
just naturally gather in the.Senatorship."
"Oh, he ought to give it to us—that
list !" I cried. "He'll owe it to us. He
was out of tlie running before-"
"Yes, lie ought. But lie doesn't dare.
Bas8ett'll watch him like a hawk after
Fie,
this, and connection with an anti-U. P.
! paper right after the Thorp exposure
! would he too violent. No, there's no
thoroughfare there. But—I'd give my
1
' new baton for that paper, Rhoda Mas
£ey."
"The stenographer-" I suggested.
He shook his head. "It's Benson."
" 'Abandon hope, ye who!' " I moaned.
"Benson's like Glass—incorruptible."
He laughed. "Well, come on. It's a
great fight, anyway, and the office is
pleased to be pleased with yon, Miss
Massey, and if the small sum of twenty
more per would be considered any testi
monial of our appreciation, why-"
"Oh, how nice of you !" I cried,
actually be able to pay for the gown I've
ordered for the Inaugural Ball and——"
"Don't. Charge it to the office. And
make it a corker, mind you, and do us
credit."
$
"I'll
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IN FAVOR OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE
At the annual meeting of the National
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AN EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT FOR GRADUATES
YOU WILL BE INTERESTED in reading the new 64-page illustrated
catalogue—it tells how we train our students for "BUSINESS SUCCESS."
Write for this hook to-day—it is free. Address: GOLDEY COMMERCIAL
COLLEGE, 807 Market St., Wilmington, Del.
CHAS. E. JONES
- _ *
OF'
BRICK, STONE AND
FRAME BUILDINGS
PLANS and SPECIFICATIONS Furnished on Application.
Estimates Furnished on Brick, Stone, Cement
work and all lines of the building trade.
IF ABOUT TO BUILD GIVE ME A CALL. JOBBING
PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
Special Attention given to all Brick Work.
CHAS. E. JONES,
MIDDLETOWN, DEL. \
WHEN IN 3IKED
OF ANYTHING IN THE LINE OF
STOVES, HARDWARE, TINWARE,
WOODENWARE, ETC.,
call and see my stock.
I aim to keep a large stock of evert
thing in my line always on hand and would he [»least d
to have you call and examine the same.
W. s.- LETHERBURY,
Middletown, Delaware
Hon. Johh W. causey President.
WM. DENNEY, Sec' y a
n Tkka
Kent County Mutual Insurance Co.,
DOVER, DEL.
-INCORPORATED 1847.
Insures Buildings and Contents Against Loss by Fire and Lightning
• BUSINESS CONDUCTED ON THE MUTUAL PLAN
Insurance in Force $9,553,216.00
W a. Jester, Agent. Delaware City, Dei.
D. B. Maloney, Agent, Townsend, I »» |
AGENTS IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL TOWNS.
H. J. POLLARD,
Èye Sight Specialist,
• OF 709 MARKET ST., WILMINGTON, DEL.,
Who has fitted so many glasses for the people of Middletown and
vicinity, will be at the parlors of the Middletown Hotel, Monday
OCT. 2d, between the hours of 9 and 1.
EXAMINATION FREE
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington R .R.
DELAWARE DIVISION
On and after May 29th 1905, revised trains will leave as follows:
NOS TH Word-read up.
southward-head down.
4L XI
I A i L I KXP.
FASS I PASS, j
85 89 21 91 93 97
82 86 90
92
84
94 96
83
STATIONS.
P.M.
A M A M.
M.
A.M.
P.M. , P.M .
P.M. P.M.
P.M. PM.
A.M AM.
A.M.
I 7.40 110.1(5 t 20'» J 3 0ü ! 5.59; || I J.05 Philadelphia 5.10
x 5.00 3 <».05 ! 112.01 t 1.10 I 4.U0|i «.50 Washington 7.20 11.32
F 6.35 ; 7.55j I ()<» 2 B0 4.57 j 7.50 Baltimore
t 8.28 1 10 581 1 *00t 3 44 I «.521 111.50
h 8.: 8 . . ' 3.10 ... f 7.021 . .
7 43 8.42 . . . j 3 !•
7.48 h vS 4(5 i 3.20
7.53 f 8 51 3 25
7.58 V 8 5« j 11.20 f 3.30 V 4.12
8.03 9.00 rl 1.2;
8.0« f 9.03 . . .1 3.38 . .
9(B) .
8.15 h 9 11
9 34 10
12.(4) 3.32
1.50 ti.10
Î 12.43 X 5.0T
11.13 2..i0
2.20
10/91 2.16
no 54 f 2.11
I 10 49 2.0«
VJ0.I4 f 2.01
. » 7 42
15 9.14
1-40
5.50
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4 15 S 42 10 05
8.32 p 9.55
. . , 8.27 9.51
X 7 10
I 4 55
4.10
7.28
Wilmington
Farn hur» t
New (Jaatle
State Road
Bear
Porter
Kirkwood
Canal
Ml. Pleasant
Armstrong
7.421 12.3« Middletown 3.29
7.50| . . . Townsend . .
Blackbird
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< 40
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3.57 7.0« . -
f 7.10 .
7 15 .
7.20 . . .
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8.21 9.17 11.371 3.3 4 31
8 32 9 25 . . 4.03 4.40
830 h 9.29 |f 4.07 . . .
8.41 It 9 3) . . if 4.12 .
8.40 9 X8 11 54 4.19 4 51
8.37; 9.28 11.44 4 09 4 44
. . f 4.24 . . .
4.2- . . .
r 4 32 . .
9 57j 12.10 4.40 5 12 8 2» 114 Dover
t« 4 40 5 19 8.30 f 1.22 Wyoming
4 52 h 5 25 f 8 30 . . . WoodHide
r 4 5 ■ It 5 29 f 8.40 . . Viola
10.17j 12.27 5 01 531. 8.45 1.30 Felton
9.39 10 34 12.39; 5 10 5.4#' S 54 1.46 Harrington i 218
8.11
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f 7 58 . . Gr'n Spring
8.04 12 55 Clayton 3.08
à 54 . . . Smyrna Lv. . -
f 8.09 . . Brenford
f 8.14 . . . Clieswold
. . . j Dupont
f 7.29
9 00 10.03
8.37 9 53
1.18
7.25
7.15
9.57
f 1.13
f 7.19
8.54 »1 9.42
8.59 f 9.47
9.02 -
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9.52
7.14
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f 1.04 . . . . .
12/9 3 35 5 16
12 52 3.29 5 09
5 02
• f 4.58
12 38 3 17 4 4
112.29 3 «8 1.45
f 7.09
ifib
Ti 43
7.04
8.36
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6 57
9.1« 10.031
9.22 li 10 09
9.2« IH0.12
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e 8.25
f 9.29
f 9.24
12.4«
12.42
6 50
f 6 45
8.21
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9.31
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8.12
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7.59, 8.52
X 7.1« 8 06
...it 10.38, . . I . . .
. . 11.251 . .
. . 1 12.30.
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Berlin
Ocean City ,
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X 5.50 . .
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7.43 ...I...
I 10.35: ... I .
2.09
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X 6 40
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8.5«
. . f 10.41 . . . 5.53|r 9.01 . . . Farmington
. . 10.48 12 52 . . . 6 00 9.08 . . . Greenwood
10 5« 1.00 . . 6 0S! 9.16 2.08 Bridgevilie
fUOl . - f 6.13 k 9.21 . . ^Cannons
. . : . . ... ! . . I . j Koks
11 13 1.11 . . . 6 2 ) 9 29 2.20 Seaford
. . 11.24 1.21 . . . 6.31! 9.39 2.32 Laurel
11.34 1.31 6.411 9 49 2.42 Delmar
Salisbury
. 5.33 C. < harle8
7.35 Old Point
8.45 Norfolk
P.M. P.M. A.M.
I
7.53
2.52
4 24
7.45
1.46
8 41
I
4.16
f 7.39
f 7.31
f 8.35
f4 II
1.38
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8 27
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2.22 3.46
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. . 1.4flf| 3.08
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7.45 . -
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M. A.M. P.M. P M.
7.20
16.15
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"v" Connections to and from Balt imore and
Washington made via Porter.
\ On Saturdays arrives 9.25 p. m
I Daily. Î Dally except Sunday
signal to receive passengers for
Division via Porter or for Wiliuing
"e" Stop
Maryland
ton and beyond.
notice to conductor or ager t
"f" Stops only
.or on signal.
"h" Stops to let off passengers from points
north of Wilmington and from points on
Maryland Division via Porler.
"j" Stops to take on passengers for Cape
Charles and beyond.
"k" Stops to discharge passengers.
"p" Stops to leave passengers from Mid« le- i
town and points south.
*'r" Stops to leave passengers from New
York Division.
BRANCH roads.
Delaware, Maryland A Virginia R. R.
Leave Harrington for Franklin City and way
stations 10.38 a m 5.50 p m week days. Return
ing train leaves Franklin City 6.U0 a. m. and
11.57 p. m. week days.
Leave Franklin City for Chlr.coteague (via
steamer) L36 and 8.45p.m..week days Return
ing leave Chlncoteague 10.43 a. m., and 5.30 p.
m., week-da vs.
Leave Harrington for Georgetown and Lewes
10.38 a. m., ö.'H) p. m., week days Returning,
leave Lewes 6.45 a m and 1.36 p m week-days
Leave Harringion for Rehoboth 10 38 am
and 5-50 p m. Returning, leave Rehoboth 6.33
p m.and I 23 p in week-days.
Leave Harrington for Berlin, 10.38 a. m. and
5/0 p. m. week days. Returning, leave Berlin
6.56 a m and 12,59 p. m. week days.
Leave Porter for Delaware City 8 59 a in 12 27
3 31, 4 34 and 6 24. p m week-days. Returning,
leave Delaware City 7 55, 9 20,and 10 28 a m*'
and 3 15 and 3 56 p ni week-days.
Leave Massey for Chestertown and way slat
tions 9.56 %. m. and 5.10 p. in. week-dava
Returning, leave Chestertown 7.08 a. ni. and
2.32 p. m, week-days.
Queen Anne St Kent R. R —Leave Townsend
for Centrevilie and way stations 9 29 a. m., and
4.13 p. m., week days Returning, leave Centre
ville 7.41 a. m.. and 2.30 p. m., week-days.
Delaware & Chesapeake R. R.—Leave Clay
ton for Oxford aud way stations 9.42 a. m.,and
4 58 p. m., week days Returning, leave Oxford.
! 6.13 a. m., and 1 45 p. m., week-days.
Cambridge k Seaiobd R. K.—Leave Seaford
for Cambridge and Intermediate stations 11.17 a.
m. and 6.24 p. m. week days. Returning, leave
Cambridge 6 59 a.m. and 2.32 p. m. week-days
i
Connection.— At Porter, with Newark aud
Delaware City Railroad. At Townsend, with
Queen Anne's à Kent Railroad. At Massey,
for stations on Baltimore A Delaware Bay
Railroad. At Clay ton, with Delaware A Chesa
peake Railroad. At Harrington, with Delaware,
Maryland A Virginia Railroad. At Seaford, with
Cambridge A Seaford Railroad. At Delmar
with New York. Philadelphia A Norfolk.
W. W. ATTF.RBUKY. General Menait»
J. H. WOOD, Panencer TreŒo Aient.
GKO W- BOYD, Gen, Pas.prjer \genb