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HAMP
GRADUATED SCALE OF
WAGES FOR EMPLOYES
Local Street Railway Conductors
8i)l Motormen to Receive Sub?
stantial Increase In Pay.
CHANGE EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 1
-
After Five Years' Service the Men
Will Receive 20 Cents an Hour?
Beginners For First Six Months
Will Get 16 Cents an Hour?For thi?
Second Six Months, 17 Cents. . '
According to announcement, nindu
by General Manager W. \V. S. But?
ler, the conductors and motormen
or the Newport News and Old Point
Railway and Electric Company and
Us subsidiary lines, are to he put
on a graduated scale and will re?
ceive good increases in their pay in
the future.
The notice, which brought" much
elation to the ranks of the several
hundred motormen and conductors,
was- posted in the car barns early
yesterday morning. It was as fol?
lows:
"Hampton, Va., Oct. 18. 1!)00.
"It affords me great pleasure to
announce that on and after Novem?
ber 1, 1906, which Is the beginning
of our new year, the following scale
of wages will go into effect:
"First six months?Sixteen cents
per hour. ?
"Second- six ' months?Seventeen
cents per hour.
"Second twelve months?Eighteen
cents per hour.
"Third and fourth twelve months?
Nineteen cents per hour.
"Fifth twelve months?Twenty
cents per hour.
"NEfWPORT NEWS AND OLD
POINT RAILWAY-AND ELECTRIC
COMPANY,
"CITIZEN'S RAILWAY AND ELEC?
TRIC COMPANY,
(Signed) W. W. S. BUTLER.
_ "General Manager."
The posting of the order increas?
ing the wages of the men soon be
carao the topic of general conversa?
tion among the men and it is safe
to say. that < no order Issued In sev?
eral years' has caused so much ela?
tion and joy to the motormen nnd
condncotrs.. The feature that appeal?
ed to them was tho idea of getting
better wages each year they remain
with the company.
This was regarded as showing the
good feeUng the officers of the com?
pany ha\% for the employes and will
no doubt result in making the con?
ductors and motormen even more
careful of the company's Interest.
Under the system of working
twelve hours each day the beginner
will.'receive $1.92 and when he has
served his. fifth year ho will receive
'in Uhe neighborhood of $2.75 a day.
Each intervening year his salary will
be increased.- ?
; It is figured out that the new
scale of wages - will mean i ap addi?
tional .output of about $31 a day by
the company, but by paying better
wages the company will be . enabled
LOST AND FOUND.
LOST?BOY'S BLACK RAIN COAT,
with -mame? Pest-&. Co., under the
collar. ? -Liberal- reward if returned
to' MRSl^E. E. MONTAGUE. 48
Churcfifane, Hampton. 10-18-4t.
I
Men's Rain Coals
$1000 to $25.00
The majority of men still be?
lieve that because tho function
of a rain coat is primarily to
shed water it must necessarily
lack the elements of Style,
character, and individuality.
' This Impression will be in?
stantly dispelled by a look
through our stock of Men's
Rain! Coats. Pick up any gar?
ment, no matter what its price;
try it ou, note its fit, Its grace,
its.distlnctiveness. It will be a
hard matter for you to believe
that its firet duty is to keep you
dry, so custom-tailor-llko is it
..In-.every detail..
At every price from $10.00 to
$25.00. we show a broad variety
fh'-grays, tans, "blacks, blue and
mixtures.
FRANKEL &
til SEN MAN,
Complete Outfitters.
36 WE8T QUEEN STREET.
It's Good Business
To give a check for payments of bills, and our
bank is the proper place for keeping that check?
ing account.
BOYENTON & CO,
BANKERS
Next Masonic Temple. 'Phone 553. Hampton, Va.
I? keep tho very best men as con-'
ihictors ami motormon.
Qenenrl Manager Butler ami Super
Inteudenj MegglnBon arc receiving
(ho congratulations of the men over
the success of their efforts to got
better wages for them.
SCHOOL TRUSTEES CHOSEN.
Mr. M. A. Booker Succeeds Capt.
Richter in Chesapeake District.
The school electoral hoard of Elisa?
beth City county met yesterday and
elected several school trustees. The
hoard is composed of Commonwealth's
Attorney B. A. Lewis, County Super?
intendent Jokn M. Willis and Colonel
Nelson S. Groome.
?Mr. Marshall A. Booker was elect?
ed a member of the Chesapeake
hoard in place of Capt. George M.
Rictiter; Mr. V. P. Holt was again
chosen on the Wythe board and Mr.
John W. Richardson was re-elected
to the Hampton board.
HOUSEBREAKING THE CHARGE, j
Mitchell Wood, Arrested by Officer
John Tignor. |
Mitchell Wood, colored, was nr
rested yesterday morning by Ofllcer
John Tignor and committed to jail
on the charge of housebreaking.
Wood is charged with breaking in?
to the saloon of Mr. Patrick, at the
Cross Roads and stealing whisky.
When arrested be was drunk.
The saloon was broken Into early
yesterdav morning. Wood denies Ols
guilt. j
Dent 11 of an Infant.
Edward Anson Clarke, the infant '
son of Councilman and Mrs. R. O. \
Clarke, died In their residence inj
Phoebus yesterday morning. The
funeral took place yesterday after?
noon, and the interment was made in
Oakland cemetery.
PHOEBUS COUNCIL MEETS.
Committee Not Ready to Report on
Bond Issue Question.
Phoebus council bold a abort ses?
sion last night to consider the paving,
question and the matter of issuing ?
bonds to cover the cost of the wora
but an adjournment was taken as tho
committee was not ready to report.
The next meeting will be held Thurs?
day night.
VICTIMS OF FLIM-FLAM GAME.
Tangier Islanders Say Norfolk Man.
Fleeced Them Out of $400.
Mr. G. F. Evans, of Tangier Is?
lands, and several other men of that
section, were the victims of what they
believed a flim-flam game In Norfolk
a few days ago. The men were in
Norfolk looking for men to work on
their dredges.
A man, representing himself as a
labor bureau agent, offered to secure
the necessary help for the Islanders
from New York. Mr. Evans says his,
people turned about $400 over to the
agent of the bureau, who was to get
men. A wire from the man after lie
got in New York told the IslandoVs
that men refused to come there for
less than $10 a day and since that
time the guileless islanders have
heard nothing of their supposed agent
or their $400.
PERSONAL NOTES.
The Coming and Going of the People
You Know.
Mr. I^ewis Bird, of Bath county,
reached Hampton last evening and
will make his home here with bis
aunt, Mrs. Carroll Garnett, in New?
port News avenue.
Mr. Edw-ird B. Cli'ies will leave to?
day for Richmond, where he will at?
tend a birthday anniversary of one of
his close friends.
Mr. George E. Foster has returned
to his home in Locust street, after a
visit in the New England states.
? "
Miss May Dueberry, of Petersburg,
is the guest of the Misses Meats, in
West Queen street.
Mrs. George N. Woodward, of Mil
ford, N. H., is visiting her brother,
Mr. Georgo E. Foster, in Locust
street.
Mrs. Sallle Fletcher, of Pocomoke
City, Md., is expected to arrive in
Hampton today to visit Mr. and Mrs.
George O. Mears, in West Queen
street.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ellis aro in
Baltimore, where their little son will
be operated upon.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Russell Wlnfreo,'
who have been the guests of Rev.
Reverdy Estlll, D, D., at the Episco?
pal rectory, returned yesterday to
their home in Lynchburg.
Mr. William C. Ritter, the foreman
of the Hampton Monitor, who has
been ill in the Newport News General
Hospital, was sufficiently recovered
yesterdny to return to tho home of
Mr. Sclater, in Creek street.
PHOES?S GRA?EO SCHOOLS
ROLL OF HONOR FOR MONTH
Principal J. Howard Bonnevillc An?
nounces the Names of Suc?
cessful Pupils.
Principal .1. Howard Bonnovllle yes?
terday announced the list of honor
pupils In Ma- Phoebus Graded Schools
for the first month, ending October
17. ns follows:
First grade?iJohn Kaiser, Marion
Feldekc, Topping Webber, James
Kaiser and Ester Clarke.
Second Grade?Virginia Farrell.
Lillian Turrioy, Mlnnlo Terry, Law?
rence Boyhan, Horace Mingeo. Chas.
Felthaber.
Third grade?Mildred Drown, An?
nie Oammon. Katie Bngleberg, Edith
Rothwellcr, Annie Bngleberg, Mar?
garet Wood, John Driseoll and Roy
Sulzbcrger.
Fourth grade?Slantou Bertsrky,
Emmn Edwards, Lillian Carver, Bry?
an Carver. Bessie Dore. Pearl Har?
mon, K?rll Rothwellcr, Esther Tay?
lor, Edna Warren, Annie Hanf, Henry
Erpcnhack, Thomas Bell. Leo Cabell.
Edward Kaiser, George Poole and
John Jones.
Fifth grade?Not reported.
Sixth grade?Mary Hopkins, Ivouls
Hoagland. Nora Pierce, Leo Robin?
son, Annie Dorsoy, Margaret Bert?
scky, Elmer Clarke. Charles Garri?
son and Ward Farrell.
Seventh grade?Ashton Carter. Gol
dte Walton, Annie Clarke. Ella Kelso.
James Farrell, Mary Hopkins and
Leila Jones.
Eighth grade?Motile nerry. Willie
Betts, Oarnett Sergeant. Elizabeth
Ashwell and James Powell.
Party to Visit Gloucester.
Mr. M. O. Lackey will today take a
parly of visitors to Gloucester coun?
ty. In tho party besides Mr. Lackey
will be Mr. and A. B. Bates, of Kan?
sas; Mr. nnd Mrs. J. D. Arms
and Messrs. William Earp and
John Earp, of Pennsylvania. The vis?
itors are- in Virginia looking for
farms.
INSURANCE MEN ORGANIZED.
Mr. James M. Cummlng Elected Pres?
ident for Year.
The Peninsula Local Association of
Underwriters' was organized in Hamp?
ton yesterday afternoon. All the in?
surance firms of the town became
members of the organization.
Mr. A. Hi Harris, of Norfolk, came
over and perfected the organization.
Mr. H. S. Thompson was chosen the
temporary chairman, and the officers
elected for the year were: President
?Mr. James M. Cummlng; secretary
?Mr. Howard W. Saunders.
PICKS UP A BARK.
Tug Admiral Dewey Saves Ship and
Crew After Being Abandoned.
(By Associated Press.)
JACKSONVILLE. FLA., Oct. 18 ?
The tug Admiral Dewey, has arrived
here with tho bark Grace Deering,
found adrift off Mayport, Fla., Wed?
nesday night.
Captain Muirhead, of the Grace
Deering. reports that on October 14,
15 -and 16, he experienced rough
weather while being towed by the
Mexclan steamer El Presldente. Oc?
tober HI, at 6:15 p. m. the hawser
parted. The steamer dropped behind
but never spoko him or attempted
to offer assistance.
The crow had a hard ? t!mo with
heavy seas, which swept over the
decks.
HERO FUND AWARDS MADE.
Heirs of Virginia Woman, Who Died
Saving Child, Get Increased Sum.
'PITTSBURG. PAw Oct. 18.?The
Carnegio Hero Fund Commission met.
here today and made awards of six?
teen medals nnd distributed $13,000.
The most Interesting award was that
of a silver medal and $1,500 to Rufus
K. Combs. Of Midway, Ky. In April,
1900, ho went into a gas-laden vault
near his home and at tho. risk of
his lifo rescuod Richard Godson,
his lifelong enemy and political rival,
from certain death.
? Another featuro of the awards was
the increasing of the award to the
family of Mrs. Sadie L. Crabbe, of
Heathsvllle, Va., from $1,000 to $2,
000. Mrs. Crabbe, a white woman,
lost her life trying to save that of a
colored boy who had gone through
tho ice. Her children were given
$1 000 at a previous .meeting, but it
was doubled today.
SUTTON DEFEATS SLOSSEN.
Victor Claims to Be Champion Bil?
liard Player.
NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 18.?
George Sutton, of Chicago, is now
the world's acknowledged champion
at 18.2 balk line billiards. In a match
name for this title ho defeated
George Blossen of this city at Madi?
son Square Garden concqrt hall to?
night by the score of 500 to 375.
Prospector Holds It up Mile Out
on the Desert.
STATE LH GAVE HIM THE RIGHT
Miner Gets Drink For Himself and
Suffering Animals From tho Loco?
motive?Engineer Remembered an
Old Act and Supplies His Needs.
(By Associated Press.)
LOS ANGELES, OAL.. Oct. IS.?
Passengers on tho Los Angeles limit?
ed of the Sale Lake railroad, told of
a prospector, who stopped n train
running forty miles an hour In the
middle or the Mojave desert, by
flagging ii with bis hat. to secure
wuter fur himself and burros.
The train crew served them all
by the bucketful, and, ns quickly as
possible started the limited on Its
way again.
An (dil Nevada law which allows
desert traveler.1; who aro In distress
to stop trains and demand water, and
which compels crews to furnish the
needed refreshments, still holds. The
old prospector knew It and ho did the
engineer.
BURTON MANDATE ORDERED.
Sentence of Imprisonment May Now
Be Carried Out.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.?The man?
date or the Supremo Court. In the case
of ox-Senator Burton, under sentence
for n violation of bin oath as u Sena?
tor, was Issued yesterday by the clerk
of the court.
The document la directed to tho
United StatoB Circuit Court for tho
Eastern District of Missouri, Olid
merely notifies that court of the nf
firmnneo of Its Judgment by the Su?
preme Court.
This is tho usual method of proced?
ure in such eases, and la a notice to
tho trial court that it Is at liberty to
execute its sentence.
EIGHT-HOUR LAW PROSECUTIONS
Two Firms Up In Washington for Vio?
lating Federal Laws.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.?The Pehaj
Bridge Company and tbo Charles Mc
Caul Company were defendants In tbo
police court today on charges of hav?
ing violated the Oght-hour law In con?
struction work for the government.
The McCaul company entered a plea
'of guilty and a fine of $50 was impos?
ed and paid. Three charges against
the Penn Bridge Company were tried
before a Jury, and upon n verdict of
guilty a fine of $500 was imposed in
each cuse. Notico of an appeal was
giver].
AUTO TURNS TURTLE.
One Woman Killed and Another Is
Badly Hurt.
(By Associated Press.)
WAI/TH AM, MASS.. Oct. IS.?By
the overturning of an automobile at
tho foot of a long hill between Wy
land and Sudhury Center today, Mrs.
Fred N. Dillon." of Fltchburg, sus?
tained a fracture of two ribs and
other injuries. George P. Grant, Jr..
who was operating the machine, es?
caped unharmed.
Grant is president of tho Grant
Yarn Company, of Fltchburg. and was
taking his wife and Mrs. Dillon to
Boston to attend a theatre there this
evening.
The road was bad and at the foot
of the hill he lost control of the ma?
chine, through its continued swaying,
and It shot over a four foot embank?
ment, and landed in a meadow upside
down with Its occnpantB beneath it.
Mrs. Dillon was killed instantly.
Work Weakens the Kdntys
Doan's Kidney Pills Have Done Great
Service For People Who Work
in Newport News.
Most Now port News people work
every day In some strained, unnatural
position?bending constantly over a
desk?riding on jolting wagonB or
cars ? doing laborious housework;
lifting, reaching or pulling, or trying
tbo back in a hundred and ono other
(ways. ? All these strains tend to wear,
weaken and injure the kidneys, until
they fall behind in their work of fll
terlng the poisons from the blood.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys,
put new strength in bad backs. New
port News cures prove It.
Mrs. H. E. Horton, wife of H. E.
Horton, painter In the shipyard, resi?
dence 1240 Twenty-fifth street says:
"Like a great many men who follow
Mr. Horton's occupation ho is annoy?
ed every now and then with attacks
of kidney complaint, indicated by dull
aching in the small of bis back and
irregularity of tho kidney secretlon.-t.
Certainly If the ingredients used in
bis occupation are not tho primary
cause of the trouble they aggravato It
when attacks exist. I got Donn'd
Kidney Pills and took them as direct?
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i have heard him on more than ono
occasion recommend them very em?
phatically."
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