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\Vwark, on June 15. A new recitation hull 



.MI added to the college buildings. The 



in. .-I iin|>i'rl;int inuttiT to COMIC up at the annual 



Ml. .tm,; of tin- board of trustees \\ as tin- qucs- 



tionof discipline in the military department, and 

 tli.' following resolutions were adopted: 



I'll itt, inst ruction in militiiry science and 



. under the direction <>t' a competent officer of 



- army, is recognized us a valuable 



oiliest- work, ana the president in requested 



miMt-nd thi.s course to all students on entering 



college, but its adoption shall be optional with the 



student, or his part-lit <>r guardian. 



>lvd, That students who have elected to take 

 military instruction be requested to appear at drill in 

 the prescribed uniform ot cadets, anu be also at such 

 times subject in the rules adopted by the faculty for 

 discipline under the officer m charge of the 

 department. 



Tin' existing law in respect to entering the 

 military department was stronger than this, and 

 compelled students who were physically able and 

 qualified, and who were not conscientiously op- 

 posed to military duty, to enter the cadet corps 

 unless excused by the faculty. 



The annual report showed a total enrollment 

 <>f !i? students during the year, divided as fol- 

 lows: 9 seniors, 23 juniors, 21 sophomores, 41 

 freshmen, and 2 post-graduates. 



Railroads. following is a synopsis of the 

 fifteenth annual report of the directors of the 

 Wilmington and Northern: Gross earnings, $444,- 

 <>-7.!0; operating expenses, $375,495.12; taxes, 

 $3,798.72. Receipts, less operating expenses, 

 taxes, and interest on bonds, $40,287.73. Com- 

 paiv.l with the previous year, there was an in- 

 crease in gross earnings of $5,436.75, or 1'24 per 

 cent., and an increase in operating expenses of 

 $17.108.38, or 4- 79 per cent. The bonded in- 

 debtedness has been increased by the sale of 

 $10,000 first mortgage bonds at 101 and accrued 

 interest. The whole funded indebtedness now 

 consists of first-mortgage 5-per-cent.bonds,$516,- 

 000. The total mileage of the road is as fol- 

 lows: First track, 92*30; sidings, 25-27. The 

 number of passengers carried was 438,820. The 

 number the preceding year was 410,344. 



At a meeting of stockholders, July 21, 1892, 

 resolutions were adopted "for the purpose of 

 (fleeting the cancellation of all bonds of the 

 Company that remain unissued, and for the pnr- 

 f providing for the discharge of all of its 

 existing liabilities, and for other obligations in 

 tin- judgment of the directors to promote the 

 interest of the company, an issuance of bonds 

 of this company to the amount of $1.000,000 was 

 authorized, the aforesaid bonds to be in sums of 



years of age, 112 were females above fifteen 



y.-ais, and :','.i w.-re children. In 1WO there were 

 employed ^(il persons, of whom 171 were moles 

 above sixteen year.-, of age. ."in were females above 

 fifteen years, and :!1 wen- children. In 1890, 

 $103,396 was paid in wages. $295,00") for the cost 

 of materials used, and )f4H2.022 wa> the value of 

 products. In 1880, $108,504 was paid in wages, 

 $448,285 for the cost of materials used, and 

 $065,253 was the value of products. In 1890 

 the Delaware mills had 15 sets of c mis, and in 

 1880 they had 13. In 1890 they had ?.:!0<; .spin- 

 dles, and in 1880 they had 4,300. In 1*90 they 

 had 229 looms and in 1880 they had 120. 



The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. It 

 is probable that this canal will very soon be en- 

 larged for use as a ship canal, ft is 13f miles 

 long, and extends from Chesapeake City, on 

 Back creek, an arm of Elk river, in Cecil County, 

 Md., to Delaware City, on Delaware river, it 

 crosses the narrowest point of the Maryland- 

 Delaware peninsula, and for the greater part of 

 its length is a natural water way, a number of 

 long stretches being from 200 to 300 feet wide. 

 The land on both sides of the canal for the greater 

 part of its length is low and swampy, and would 

 afford unusual facilities for dumping matter ex- 

 cavated from the canal. The canal has 3 locks, 

 each 24 feet wide and 224 feet long. It is pro- 

 posed to enlarge the canal to 130 feet at the top, 

 to 50 feet at the bottom, and to give it a mean 

 depth of 27 feet, thus making it one of the largest 

 ship canals in the world, ft is also proposed to 

 make it a tide-level canal at Delaware City, 600 

 feet long, 70 feet wide, and 27 feet deep. 



Surveys and estimates were made in 1879 and 

 1883 with a view to making a ship canal across 

 the peninsula. For such a canal, 100 feet wide 

 at the bottom, the estimated cost varied, accord- 

 ing to the routes surveyed, from something over 

 $4,000,000 to $41,000,000. The canal so im- 

 proved would give a route from Baltimore to 

 Philadelphia 112 miles long, the route around 

 the peninsula now being 422 miles. 



The annual report of the canal company shows 

 that the net revenue was $1 1 *.">-">.">">, which fell 

 short of meeting all fixed charges by the sum of 

 $11,621.95. The preceding year's" net revenue 

 was $120,124.06. 



Harbor Improvement. The work of filling 

 the gap between the ice breaker and the break- 

 water at Lewes has been continued for several 

 seasons, so far as small appropriations would 

 allow, and mattresses of brush were sunk as a 

 foundation for tne stone. The length of line to 

 be filled is 950 feet, with the wall 40 feet wide. 



$1.000, payable in forty years in gold coin of the and rising with sloping superstructure seaward 



1'nited States of the present weight and fineness 

 or its equivalent in value, and bearing interest 

 at the rate of 5 per centum per annum, quarter- 

 ly, in like gold coin or its equivalent in value, 

 without deduction by reason of any tax or as- 

 lessment." 



Wool Manufacture. Delaware in 1890 re- 

 ported 4 woolen manufactories, with land, build- 



20 feet wide at the top and about 20 feet above 

 high-water mark. The depth of water before any 

 stone was placed ranged from 30 feet at the ice- 

 breaker end to about 05 feet at the breakwater. 



The State Boundary. A survey to deter- 

 mine and mark the line between Delaware and 

 Pennsylvania was begun in 1S!U and resumed in 



ifj. 'The marks of the original suivey, made 



ings, and machinery valued at $313,000. five nearly two hundred years ago. are nearly all ob- 



dcenic ii I ti , .1 1 t t i i , , ,- frt <fi 1 O*} 1}"?A on/1 tniosiAllannsMio 1 i t . ifti t ml Afofiv ll I ftli '11 1 1 1|< bjlYI* 1>4IH PIH'Olin- 



assets amounting to $193.974. and miscellaneous 

 expenses amounting to $27,404. In 1880 it re- 

 ported 5 factories, with a total valuation of 

 >r>9. In 1890 there were employed 297 per- 

 sons, of whom 146 were males above sixteen 

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literated. Many difficulties have U>en 

 tered in the course of the work. It was found 

 that the arc of the 12-mile circle with its center 

 at New Castle would make an entirely new 

 boundary, and one much at variance with all 



