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a co-operative beneficial society designed
to aid members whose income is cut off
on account of sickness, will be formed.

Every employe who has been in the
company's service 30 days is eligible to
membership in the association. Members
pay 25 cents per month dues. In case of
illness the association will pay members
$1 per day for 100 days. There will be
a death benent of $150. The company
declares that the cost of maintenance
and carrying on the business will not be
placed on the employes, but will be borne
by the company itself.
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PLANS FOR NEW SCHOOL
The Goucester City Board of Educa-
tion yesterday at a meeting held in the

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DELAWARE
Levy Court Decides Route for
Proposed Improvements on
State Roads.
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PLANS CONTINUOUS HIGHWAY
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[SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]

WILMINGTON, Del., April 18.—Within
a few months it is expected that there
will be a continuous good road from this
city to the Kent County line, as the New
Castle County Levy Court at its meeting
today decided to take what is known as
the western route for the improvement.

As soon as the surveys are made the ac-
tual work of the road building will be-
gin following the programme mapped out
by County Engineer James Wilson. The
project will be carried out under a bond
issue of $200,000 for the construction of
improved roads in this county, the stipu-
lation being that $100,000 of this amount
should be used on the bad stretches of
road between this city and the Kent
County line so that there wilt be a con-
tinuous highway. The route selected is
by the way of Glasgow, Summit Bridge
Pencader and Mount Pleasant into Mid-
dletown, and from there to Blackbird and
on to Dutch Creek, where it will strike
the Kent line.

In the extreme northern part of the
county above Wilmingion there are three
short stretches of road to be built in or-
der to connect the good roads of this
county with three new ones in Pennsyl-
vania.

It is expected that the Delaware road
will be connected with roads in Pennsyl-
vania under the Sproul bill. The Levy
Court is also seriously considering the
best method of maintaining the roads
of the county, and it is probable that
the patrol system will be adopted; that
is, a force of men will be kept constant-
ly at work on the roads in different parts
of the county.
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At a meeting of the members of the
Initative and Referendum League there
was a lively discussion over the refusal
of the street and sewer directors to grant
a franchise to the People's Company to
operate an electric lighting plant in this
city in competition with the Wilmington
and Philadelphia Traction Company.
Some of the speakers declared that with
the initiative and referendum in force
the people would be able to decide the
matter, and the Wilmington and Phila-
delphia Traction Company would not
have a monopoly. Other speakers did not
think much of the competition idea in
public utilities, but said that the city
should own its electric lighting system.
The league is planning a campaion of
education for the initiative and referen-
dum, and a fund will be raised for the
purpose.
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The completed hull of the steamship A.
Brooke Taylor slipped from the ways in
the yards of the American Car and
Foundry Company this morning, just as
Miss Georgianna Coxe broke a bottle of
wine on the bow and gave the craft its
name. She is the daughter of William
G. Coxe, president of the Harlan & Hol-
ingsworth Corporation, at the plant of
which the new craft will have the ma-
chinery installed. The stearmship, when
completed, will be used in the menhaden
fisheries business.
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Complying with a summons received by
them several days ago, the members of
the commission that will have charge of
the construction of the joint city hall
and county court house, today had a con-
erence with the Judges of the State
[urts?] in their parlors in the court house.
The commission was appointed by the
[dges?]. They took the opportunty to
explain to the commissioners the law
relative to the act authorising their ap-
pointment and the construction of the
new buildings and they admonished them
not to exceed their appropriation. After
the brief conference the commissioners
met in the offices of Harlan G. Scott for
organization. Mr. Scott was elected
chairman and L. Scott Townsend, treas-
urer.
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In a paper he read before the members
of the New Castle County Medical So-
ciety, Edgar M. Hoopes, Jr., chief engi-
neer of the Water Department, proved
to the satisfaction of the physicians that
the danger of typhoid fever in this city
has been elminated. This is due, he
asserted, to the present system of filtra-
tion.
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CHARTERED FOR $95,000.000
Chile Copper Company Incorporated
Under Delaware Laws.