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CLEAN PAPER FOR THE HOME CITY EDITI01 VOL. 1.—No. 47. THE WEATHER—Fair and Continued Warp. RICHMOND, VA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1910. 10 PAGES CHy BWtoi.1 State tsdltlaa... .S By Mall, Oae TTear. DEW DEMANDS ARE TOD DRASTIC Railroad Objects to Terms In sisted on by Telegraph Operators O SYSTEMS INVOLVED IN DEEP CONTROVERSY General Manager of Southern Is sues Statement Regarding Dif ferences at Recent Meeting , in Washington. Representatives of various tele* 1 graphers’ unions, organised on the Southern and Norfolk and Western railroads, are now In conference with ofilolala in Washington and Roenoke relative to an increase in wattes and other demands. These conferences, which have been in progress for several days, are ■aid to he anything but harmonious, the railroads claiming the demands are entirely too drastic. The bone of contention is not a question of wages. Instead, It Involve* the question of including independent and exclusive agencies which would bring all stations on the two systems under the rules and regulations gov erning agent-operators and operators It la the contention of the §ii IPs ilroads that the adoption of such rulPs would work materially to their disadvan tage. as many men, excellently equip ped to till the position of agencies In large cities where uo telegraph work Is required of agents, as is the case at smaller places. The Railroad Side. A railroad man sixes up the situa tlon 'from hit standpoint a* follows: "There are some men who have been with the ieroptny twenty 01 twenty-live years, located at little sta tion* along the tine, where their work has been of such a character thoi they < ould not possibly fit themselves for such positions as that of agent at Richmond, Danville, 7-yn< hburg. Roa noke, Norfolk, Portsmouth, or any or the large cities. Yet, the union would force the railroads to fill these places with incompetent men.” Circular letters signed by General Manager Copeland, of the Southern, and dated March Ik, have been mailed to all agent-operators and operators • long the Southern, setting forth the railroad’s side of the conference re cently held In Washington between the Southern's officials and represen tative's of the telegrapher*. Tight on llixmi Meeting. The circular la worded as follows: "Since March 12 I have been deal ing with a c ommittee of telegraphers, consisting of a representative from each operating division, a total of men. ~ Teatertlay I Offered this full committees the Queen A Crescent rule* with the same percentage of Increased rates that the Q. A C. operators and agent-operators accepted two weeks ago. Thts morning, upon meeting the committee, I find that the general chairman had. without my knowledge, sent all of the committee home ex cept the general chairman and re presentatives of five divisions select ed from a very small area of the sys tem. Notwithstanding the reduction of committee, I again this morning made them the same proposition that I did yesterday, and. in addition to that proposition, made them one a* follows: An increase of 5 per cent, in wages of ail agent-operators and op erators with the seniority rule, which was acceptable to the committee yes terday. with the understanding that the balance of our present rules would be brought up to date, which revision is necesrary because of the enactment of the Federal service law. The committee refused to consider the proposition, for the reason that the preamble did not include inde pendent and exclusive age tits, which would bring every- station on the Southern system under the rules and regulations governing agent-operators and operators. You also understand this would include such agencies a: Atlanta. Birmingham. Chattanooga. Greensboro, 1-ouisvtlle and other sta tions of equal importance. The com mittee withdrew.” Qnration Put to Operators. Blank forms have also been mailed recently to every operator along the line of the Southern, making inquiry If the special committee of five, which Insisted on handling the propo sition alone with the Southern offi cials. was authorised by the teleg raphers to assume such authority. The forma contain a number of other questions bearing on the points at Some of the forms have been de livered to the operators In peraon, and, according to Richmond officials of the system, the delivery of the forms by this method wan doubtless responsible for the report that agents apd operators wrere being personally solicited to agree to a 5 per cent, increase In wages, regardless of other questions In dispute. - Superintendent Pierce, of the Rich mond division of the Southern, with headquarters here, stated Wednesday that he had rather leave it to the head officials In Washington to dis cuss the controversy. ' Superintendent Hutchens Here. Superintendent Pierce returned to Richmond Tuesday afternoon from Danville, where he joined General Superintendent Hutchens, of the Northern district of the Southern, who Is making his first trip of In spection over the lines In this dta Met Mr. Hutchens, who was re cently transferred from the Southern district, with headquarters at Bir mingham, accompanied Mr. Pierce to Richmond and made a trip over the Bm to Wont Point Va.. after his ar > rival here Tuesday afternoon. He returned to Richmond Wednesday ' morning, expressing himself well pMtasedwIth the situation In this sec ; Mr. Hutchens has a number of per sonal friends in Richmond, among being General Freight Agent Drake, of the Northern lines of the Southern. He leaves for KeysvUie afternoon for an Ins pec Keysvtlle-Durham dlvl Thursdar. GEN. THOMAS ROSSER IS SINKING FUST Aged Confederate Cavalry Leader Reported to be Near Death. CHARLOTTESVILLE. VA., March 23.—There wag a decided change for the worse at noon to-day in the con dition of General Thomas L. Rosser, who has been III at his home. “Rugby.” near university for past five days. His temperature is Hi and pulse 125. His condition ts regarded as critical and death Is anticipate^ at any hour. General Rosser is one of two or three surviving Confederate major generals. There was no more Intrepid and dashing officer In cavalry service of Confederacy. CUDAHY DISCHARGED FROM POLICE COURT Case Against Western Millionaire Dismissed for Want of ~ ProScOdtloUT KANSAS CITY. MO.. March 23 — The last of the legal phases incident to the Cudahy-Ltllis affair growing out of the attack made on Jere F. Lillis by John I*. Cudahy came yes terday. when the case against Cudahy, charging him with disturbing the peace, was called in municipal court and dismissed for want of prosecu tion. LENGTHY REPLY Answer to Charges (Jo Into Detail and Cover Seventy-Six Type written Pages. MEMBERS GATHERING Several Members Reach Black burg Par in Advance of Time for Hearing. Although the investigation into the litne** of Dr. Paul B. Barringer to pre side over the destinies of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, brought about by charges filed with the board of i visitors of the institution by President : Priddy of the Alumni Association, doe* not begin until Friday afternoon, sev eral members of the inquisttory board vfill be In Blacksburg Thursday morn ing to complete the details of the hear ing. State Superintendent of Public In ! struct km J. U. Eggleston will arrive in Blacksburg Thursday morning At torney flarrj M. Smith, another mem ber of the ittjsrd. reached the V. P. 1. Wednesday afternoon. It la expected that ail the members of tha board— and they »111 Journey from practically every section of the State—will be In Blacksburg by noon Thursday. Barringer's Lengthy Reply. Dr Barringer haa tiled his reply to the allegations made against him. His answer covers seventy-six pages of typewriting With his statements of denial he filed several letters. Among the missives are two from Captain Jamerson. V. H. A., in charge of the cadet corps, in which the latter as sumes responsibility for the parading of the cadets thtrough the town of Blacksburg on Sunday to welcome home the victorious football team, and for holding a dsess |«trade on Sunday. Although President Barringer was blamed for this. Captain Jamerson de ! dares in ilia letter that It required great persuasion on hts part to get the , president to consent to this. The dress parade, says Captain Jamerson, was necessary to discipline the cadets. It was only after this was made plait) to Dr. Barringer that he reluctantly gave his approval of the parade on the Sab bath. Throughout the reply Dr. Barringer defends his official actions and Justifies them to his own satisfaction. A copy of his reply has been given the members of the welfare committee of the Alumni Association, and It is expected that efforts to rebut certain 1 of his statements will be made. Dr. Barringer sfill. In turn, be given the ■ privilege of surrebuttal. Until the board meets in Blacksburg arid completes the details of the hear ing it cannot be said whether or not the proceedings will.be held In execu tive session. It is understftod some of the member* of the board are In favor of having the. hearing public In view of the fact that the V. P. I. is partly supported by tax money, while others are against a public hearing. FUMES DESTROY MIMS! PUNT Match Thrown in Machinery of Raleigh Factory Causes $20, 000 Conflagration. (Special to The Richmond Virginian.) RALEIGH, N. C., March Fire at Rocky Mount destroyed the plant of the Store Mattreaa Manufacturing Company and two Atlantic Coast Line box cars, containing conalgnmenta of machinery. The lire was caused by a match thrown in the machinery. There is little Insurance, and the loss will exceed *20,000. , • ~ Has Hard Head. Rosa Richardson, a negro woman, who is more than thirty years of age. was hit on the head with a brick thrown or pushed by another negro woman. The brick will never again be Used. Rosa went to see Or. Womack, of the ambulance and got some liniment to reduce the swelling. Mi*. *}m> looked for a magistrate and the probabilities are that the case writt bp-heard before Justice Crutchfield Thursday mormtag. & VICTORY OF FOSS STARTLES HOUSE Democrats Elated Over De feat of Republican Strong hold in Massachusetts SAY IT AUGURS WELL FOR NEXT NOVEMBER Champ Clark Declares That at Present Rate There Will Hardly Be Republican in Congress. WASHINGTON, March 23.—Seldom has a political event created such commotion In Washington as the dem ocratic landslide of yesterday in the G'd Colony section of Massachusetts, whereby Eugene N. Pose was elected to Congress by a plurality of nearly 6,000 votes, as against a republican plurality of 14,000 for hla predeces sor, the late William C. Lovering. Kor the moment. It has obscured the rules fight in the House of Repre sentatives. Democratic Congressmen are Jubilating and freely predicting that Foea’ victory means the election of a democratic House for the next session. The republicans are plainly disturbed, although they are extract ing comfort out of the fact that there were local conditions and Issues, com bined with the alleged unpopularity of Huchanan, the republican candi date, that affected the result. "It's the best news t have heard since 16*2," said Representative Champ Clark, of Missouri, the minori ty leader. 'If that proportion keeps up, there will hardly be a republican in the next House. Taken In connec tion with the recent Missouri district election. It shows that the same causes ' are operating all over the country agalnst the republicans. It is almost too good to be true.” "The election In the fourteenth Massachusetts district Is only what we may expect In November, said Chair man Lloyd, of the democratic congres sional committee. "There will be a complete democratic victory." Discredits Signifiesn<-e. "It would be a great mistake to assume that Foss' election represents a rise in the Democratic tide, pure and simple," said Robert L. O’Brien, editor of the Boston Transcript, now stopping In Washington. "Buchanan's nomination, when made, found no fa vor. No newspaper In Boston sup ported Him. It was deemed a good 1 time for a local Howe“cleaning This accounts more than anything else for the extraordinary overturn of the nominal republican vote." Among those most Interested, aa well as moat surprised, over the re sult Is Representative George Ed mond Foss, of Illinois, who has been In Congress for fifteen years, and who la a brother of the recently elected Massachusetts representative. Ha considers Eugene's success "nothing let than a miracle " Representative Otto G. Foelker (re publican of Brooklyn) takes a lugu brious view of the Massachusetts re sults:-"There Is no use trying to argue that It Is not an Indication of the next cv-ngresfjona! election," he said. "It proves Very conclusively, to my mind, that the democrats will carry the next House." Members of CongTess are now turn ing their attention to the Thirty-sec ond New York dlstriri. where an elec tion Is to be held shortly to. _ftU _ l!l‘ vacancy made by the death of the late James Breck Perklna. The Demo cratic congressional committee is pre paring literature to send to the Ro chester district to be used by the Democratic candidate for the vacancy. Cannon Henchman Tabooed. The Republican congressional com mittee has issued orders for the sup porters of Cannon to stay out of the New York fight. It Is desired that the House organliatlon do nothing to ac centuate the Issue of “CannonIsm, ' so that the Democrat* may not be ahle to say that Uncle Joe was repudiated by the voters of the district. In the event of the election of a Democrat. It was learned to-day that a similar order was Issued by the Republican committee In the Massachusetts elec tion. “I have nothing to aay." remarked Sereno E. Payne, of New York, the Re publican floor leader of the House, when asked for his opinion. "I do not know anything about conditions In Massachusetts. The people of Massa chusetts know more about the causes leading up to the result than I do; ask them." FIGHT NOW SHIFTS • TO SEXAT0R8HIP BOSTON. MASS.. March £3.—Stun ned over the realisation of the com plete defeat of their candidate. Re publican leaders are trying to-day to figure out just what the result In the Fourteenth congressional district means. The election of Ej. N. Foss. Republican, running as a Democrat, and the overturning of the atrongest Republican district in Massachusetts, la a direct reflection of the feeling of the people towards the insurgents, ac cording to Democrats and Republicans alike. “The people are swarming to De mocracy-as the only hope for a change In present conditions," say the Demo cratic chiefs. The late W. C. Lovering was elect ed less than two years ago on the Republican ticket by a plurality of 14.000. Foss, aa a Democrat, carried the district by S.460. and the Inevitable result la to be a fight to the flnlsh for the toga of Senator Lodge. Mr. Lodge will be a candidate for re election when the next Legislature assembles To ensure his election the organisation must dominate reaction ary candidates for the Legislature, as Mr. Lodge is opposed to the progres sive wing. The Democrats and the progressives are likely to combine in many districts, and to-day there is a disposition to lodge a boom for Mr. Foss aa Senator Lodge'e successor. . Mian Mattie Brooks. Miss Moilie Brooks died on Tues day at. the residence of her brother. "William Brooks, in Chestarfleld coun ty. The funeral takes place from the home on Tharsday at t o'clock. GENERAL STRIKE HKS CULLirSED Men Who Joined Sympathetic Walkout ip Philadelphia Re turning to Work STREET CAR MEN THINK SETTLEMENT PENDING Representatives of Warring Fac tions Hold Strong Hopes for Satisfactory Compact, Af ter Long Conference. *'lt shows what going after a thing will accomplish," said Business Man ager W. T. Dabney, of the Chamber of Commerce, Wednesday, speaking of the amendment to the xlvcrv and harbor bill appropriating $250,000 tor Improvements of the James river be low Richmond, which Senator Martin has succeeded in having adopted by the Senate committee on commerce. "Some people thought we could get what we wanted by writing to Wash ington.” continued Mr. Dabney, “but that suggestion waa dropped in a hur ry. We went up there with a special delegation, and through the influence of Senator Martin we succeeded In making clear out wants lo the Sena tors in person. Too much praise can not be given Senator Martin for the way in which he handled the propo sition for us, and especially for get ting I5U.000 more tacked on to the. bill than we asked for at this time. Senator Martin la a member of the conference committee that will finally pass on the appropriation b‘11, and 1 feel sure we will get our allotted share when the Mil becomes law. “As is generally known," Mr. Dab ney went on. "we hope to eventually get two million more from Congress in order to procure a depth of 22 feet at low tide from Richmond to the sea. We wgpt to bring ocean going steamefis up to Richmond with raw material for our manufacturers, who will be able to ahtp the finished product out by the same route At present we have hardly 18 feet of water, rendering It necessary Tor many of our manufacturers to have their raw material shipped by rail from Newport News, after reaching that point by ship.” Mr. Dabney expr**wrd the hope that the government wfould lose no time In the dredging wo** after the money becomes available.s The city, he polftftdouL has already voted $20.ft»0 to build wharves in preparation for deeper water. "When we gat through with this Philadelphia strike, we will Imme diately proceed to organic « politi cal party constructed solely along la bor lines, and will elect a Governor, Lieutenant Governor. State Treasur er, State Senators and Representa tives," declared President Greena walt here this afternoon when asked about the new political uprising In Philadelphia. "The new labor party will not af filiate itself with any reformers, neither will It endorse any candi date nor set of candidates of another party. Every candidate must have proved to the laboring class he is not Inimical to their Interests. Other par ties may endorse our candidates, but we will refuse to concur with the choice of any poll leal clique or re formers." STATE WIDE STRIKE HELD IMPROBABLE WILKESHARRK. PA„ March 23.— The session of the executive board of the State Federation of Labor, to de cldewehther to call a State-wide strike to aid the Philadelphia Traction strikes, was postponed until afternoon because of the absence of two mem bers who were called to Philadelphia for a conference there, it la stated on authority that a majority of the committee opposes the State-wide strike. DEATH SENTENCE PASSED 01 TWO BljCKJNOHAM e. H.. VA„ March 23.—When the jury In the case against Diehard Verkins brought in a verdict of murder in The tlrst degree here to-day. Judge Hall moved to set aside the verdict, but his motion was over ruled by Judge Hundley. W. Dallas Wright, convicted last week, was then brought into court, and he and Hlchard Perkins wete both sentenced to be executed on the id day of June. The court granted a postponement of execution for ninety day* from the adjournment of this court to allow the defendants to ap ply for a writ of error, and sixty days In which to file a bill of excep tions. Before sentence was passed upon Wright he was asjted If he had un\ thlng to say. and he told the Jure he was as Innocent of the charge against him as the judge himself. After sentence was pronounced. Wright asked to be permitted to ad dress the bystanders, but his request was refused. The verdict came as a great sur prise to Wright, and he seemed to be greatly depressed. In the case of Jones, which was tried at the July term, 1808, Judge D. T. Gordon presiding, Jones was convicted of murdered in the first degree. A motion for a new trial made at that time has been continued until the present without being pass ed upon by Judge Gordon. Buckingham county now having been placed In the fifth circuit, pre sided over by Judge Hundley, and the latter not having heard the evidence In the trial. Governor. Mann will be asked to appoint Judge Gordon to come here the first day of the next term of court and pass upon the mo tion of Jones for a new trial. Judge Gordon her not heard gny evidence ' Judge Hundley expects to adjourn court to-morrow meriting. MRS.SLOCUM DEAD Wife of Army Officer Killed While Gen. Bell Barely Escapes MACHINE WAS STRUCK j BY AN ELECTRIC CAR1 Chauffeur Tries to Pass in Front of Carrier—Victim Terri bly Managied—Machine Demolished. WASHINGTON, March 23.—In itn l j automobile accident In the suburb* north of Washington to-day Mm. If. ‘ | J. Slocum, wife of Major Slocum, | stationed at Governor’s Island, was i kilted-.-and General J. fTBtntTTn TToT! ! chief of stuff ,,r the army, slightly I Injured. t The automobile was struck by an electric lnterurban car near the army post. Mrs. Slocum died within llf I teen minutes after the collision. Gen eral Bell escaped without serious in juries. The machine was completely demolished. General Bell and Mrs. Slocum were seated In the tonneau of the machine ' and received the full Impact of the ; electric oar when It struck Ward, j the chauffeur, was uninjured. Eye witnesses dllter as to the cause j of the accident, but It Is generally supposed that Wart! attempted to ! : cross ahead of the street car and ' 1 misjudged the distance. The auto- j mobile was struck squarely In the ' j rear, with such force as to demolish j | it and throw the occupants out. Mrs. Slocum never recovered con- ] sciotisness. She was rushed to Georgetown hospital, but died before i reaching there Genera! Bell was re i moved t(» his home at Fort Myer. The i exact extent of his Injuries Is not known, but at the hospital It Is stated ! they are not serious, bavoml n deer scalp wound. The motorman and conductor of the street car. together with the i chauffeur of the Ill-fated automobile, 1 were all arrested Major H. J. Slocum, husband of the victim of the accident. Is attach- ; ed to the Seventh t'avalry. He is a I nephew of Mrs. Russell Sage CHINA WILL BECOME i CHEAT FIGHTING POWER ; Will Adopt Compulsory Military Service and Raise Army of 30,000,000, r BERI.I.V, Man'll S3.—That China i *'111 »dr.p« the compulsory ndlltary 1 service now in vogue In Germany and ; become numerically the greatest tight-; . lng jH.wer in the world, as exclusive ly foretold bj Prof. Theodore Schle I niann. Germany's foremost student of Chinese affairs, In 1‘nlted Press ca bles of March 2, was confirmed to day by Yin Tchange. the Chinese minister to Berlin. Yin Is soon to > return to China to become minister I of war. By the new conscription plan ; ■China will have, according to Prof. | Schleman. an army of 30,000.000. Min ister Ytn admits that it will take years to mold the huge Chinese popu lation Into a coherent lighting force, hut he Intends to surround himself with military experts from Germany and other European countries, who will lead In the work. Yin Tchange says recent events have frhown that .China's Integrity can only be maintained by China her self; that It Is Idle to depend longer on the fair dealing of other nations. "We propose to make China able to tight her own battles and to com mand respect, rather than'beg for it,1' 1 he said to-day. DEEDS OK TRANSFER RECORDED IN COCRT, Deed* recorded In the Chan cerv Court Wednesday as follows: Mr. Robert H. Norment to Mr. E Fisher, seven frame dwellings, Nos. 1822. 1821, 1828. 1828 and 1*22 Wal lace street, and Nos 401 and 40,1 Richie street, the consideration being 15.800. The sale was closed through Messrs. John Thompson Brown & Co., real estate agents. Messrs. C. W. and J. I,ee Davis to Mrs. Hettie 11 an te, property front- ; Ing 130 feet In West Main street, near | Davis avenue, no price being named tn the deed. This sale was made by , Messrs. Harrison and Grant. FUMES CONSUME BIS COIL BREAKER Blaze of Unknown Origin Entails Monetary Ixms Exceeding $250,000. WILKBSBARRE, PA., March 2.1,— One of the newest and largest break ers In the anthracite coal region -was destroyed hy Are early this morning, when the Mineral Springs structure, i owned and operated by the Lehigh i Valley Coal Company, was burned to the ground. The Immediate loss la about 1250,000. But the Valley has a big shipment ahead of It and the de struction of the breaker will entail i damages far In excess of this. Over a thousand men and boys are thrown out of work. The origin of the fire la unknown. In the breaker at the time were 500 tons of prepared coal. : and under the chutes were five big railroad cars loaded for market, all of which were destroyed. Several mules , were suffocated at the bottom of the! pit. ' Workmen were repairing the strue- | tore last night and tt is thought they Ignited the oily Umber la sums way. ’i . ■« .Vi-- , ; DANIEL ABLE TO SPEAK AND ALSO UNDERSTAND Has Restful Night and Speaks Several Times Showing Clear Mind. DAYTONA, m., March 23.— Tlie following bulletin regarding Senator John W. Daniel, of Vir ginia. who Is suffering from |ia ralysls. teas lssue*l to-day: "Senator Daniel had a restful night, anti spoke several times, asking question and showing that he understood nliat was going on about hint. His pule, tempera ture. respiration anti ability to lake nourishment are satisfac tory." GREAT WORLD’S FAIR WHEN CANAL IS DONE Fund of Five Million to Be Raised for TUg Celebration In San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, March 23—San Francisco people began the collection of a fund of 15.000.000 to-day for the Panama-Pacific worlds fair, to be held here In 1015 to celebrate the opening' of the great Panama canal. The world's fair conference, compris ing representatives from commercial bodies from all the California cities, met yesterday at Santa Barabara and unanimously decided upon San Fran cisco against San Diego. Which claimed the exposition OF OLD CHURCH Mr. Chas. IlcfFoltingtM* Makes In terestin'* Antiquarian Find Near Hampton. CONTINUE EXCAVATIONS Construction of Edifice Believed to Anti Date That ot St. John a. NEWPORT NEWS, VA., March 23. —Antiquarian* are milch interested in | the discovery by Mr. Charles Hetfel flnger, a well-known business man ol Hampton, ot the foundation ot a church building whicn Is believed to autedate old St. John s Episcopal church by many years President l.vnn G Tyler, of Wil liam amt Mary Cottrgc, whose ttnowl-' edge of the history of Vltglnia is proverbial, some tune ago establish ed the fact that there was such an edifice, old record* discovered in the Hampton clerk * otfli e sustaining this conclusion. The old chunii was lo cated on the Tabb farm on the out skirts of the present city of Hamil ton, this farm at one time being glebe lands. The foundation showed a building with a lrontage of titty-two feet. Ex cavations will be made »• that the entire outlines may be followed, and the depth of the old building ascer tained. Mr, Keffelflnger believe* that the church is a century older than St. Johns, pluoing the founding of the j edifice only a few years after the ! settlement at Jamestown. Old records I indicate that the < hurch was culled the Kecoughtan church. Kecoughtan having been the Inr an name for Hampton. DRUNK WHILE ON CAR HE IS HEAVILY FINED: Motorman .Johnson Convicted by Henrico Magistrate, Hut Appeals. Convicted of the charge of being drunk while on duty as a motorman for the Westhampton line of the Pas senger and Power Company. J. W. Johnston was lined *25 by Magis trate Jutnes T. Lewis In Henrico county Wednesday morning. Through his attorney. Mr. L. O. Wendenburg. he at once noted an appeal. The charge against Conductor Pugh was dismissed when the trial first begun. There were many Interesting points In connection with the charge against the motorman. Mr. Bloomhurg rep resented the street car company, and contended that the motorman was drunk at the time specified, and that j he had fallen from the car. Johnson said that In rounding a | curve he took his hand off the con troller for an instant and fell from the car. He was not positive whether or not the current was on when he I fell. At any rate. It was shown that the i car ran for a block and that when It was finally stopped the motorman was found a square or so down the track and seemed to be suffering from Injuries received by the fall. Shipbuilders Busy. (Special to The Richmond Virginian.) NEWPORT NEWS. VA.. March 23. When the oil tank steamer J. A. Chanaier goes Into commission to morrow the Newport News Shipbuild ing and Dry Dock Company will have delivered four ships to their owners this year, or more than a ship a month. The other ships delivered were the battleship Delaware and the freight and paasenger steamers Reaver and I Bear, built for the San Francisco Portland Steamship Company. Twelve : other ships will be completed this 1 yeat. The total value of the yards completed product will be 117.*00. 000. and the sixteen ships Include ntne ocean-going freight and passen ger steamers, one battleship, two big ! freighters, two torpedo boat destroy- | era, (wo Lake submarines. ruary. !()• Rev. Dr. R Request of Officer Dr. Declines GENERAL EPIDEMIC OF Report of 215 Castes Department Since i The report that a prominent Rich* mond m hi later recently refused to close his Sundoy school at the request of Or. E. <Levy, chief health officer, whose request was made o naccount of the twrcatenw efriatfifllc, .Mjfej caused considerable comment In official and other circles. Dr. Levy refused to divulge th* name of the minister, but The Vir ginian learns that It was Kev. T)r. D. M. Kamsay. pastor of Grace-Street Baptist church. L»r. Kamsay was not at home when The Virginian reporter called tnere but it Is understood that while not closing his school he ad vised against the attendance of the smaller children. Since that time, according to the records of the city health office, sev eral cares of measles have been re ported among the children who at tended that school. The request to close the school wa» made Saturday, March IS, when it was learned that the disease had developed' among some of the scholars. The min isters courteously refused, insisting that the session of the Sunday school be held as usual. The general measles epidemic which was forecast some time ago the health department has produced since Feb ruary L* Just 21 j cases of the disease, and Or. Levy and his trained assistants are doing all In their power to limit It by taking every possible precaution. At the request of the department, two Sunday schools have been discon tinued. one private school has been closed, while work has been suspend- . ed In four grades in the city’s public schools. These public schools—West End. Monroe and Moore—were closed l>y the department of public education, which I>r. 1 a>vy declares has rendered \aluable assistance and co-operation. Work of Department. Kft-hmond’s health department, loading all other cities, recently dis covered that the mea»les epidemic re* _ curs In cycles, (.'harts which cover ths course of the disease during the loaf ’ twenty or thirty years Indicate clear ly that the disease practically missed every third year, while it is show* that two mild years are almost In variably followed by a year of heavy mortality. The <harts show that In 1H87. on* of the dangerous years, twenty-four cases died, the mortality rate helnc 31.7 per cent, to the 100,000. In 1890 the number or deaths wa# twenty-five, the rate betng 30.7 per cent. In 1907, the heaviest of recent years, the number of deaths reported was thirty-five, with a rate of 32.* per cent. According to the figures and line* of the ( harts this year will be a /ear ■ of epidemic, and this ract was an nounced by the department before * single case developed in Richmond, such announcement being the first ever made by any health department, and the number of cases subsequently reported verifies In full the prediction of the department. When Dangerous. The disease is al its most danger ous stage between the ninth and fourteenth days. according to Dr. Levy, since during that time th* patient can Infect others. After th* fourteenth day the patient Is usually in bed. and consequently is removed from contact with other people. Whenever a case is reported the de partment follows It up until the erup tion has entirely disappeared. Th* origin of that particu-ar case t* rougrt. and more important. th* habits of the patient are studied In order to discover those to be notified. If the child had been attending school, that school is ordered closed during the period of infection, and by thug taking every precaution the depart ment Is doing all in Hs power to keep dowD the high death rate, to which according t« the charts. Richmond will be subjected this year. ■H H ITAR STRANGLE HOLD OX “RASSLTNG" GAME There nre to he no more wrestling matches In the armory of the First Regiment at Seventh and Marshall streets. This word has Just none forth from Building Inspector Beck in tha fortp of a notification to Major l* T. Price, commanding the regiment. Inspector Beck declares that tha bout held In the armory Monday night was contrary to law, since all build-* lugs in which public exhibition* are given mint have seats fastened to tha ■ floor. The seats In the armory ai merely chairs placed in rows by tha attendants, and since these cannot ba fastened to the floor, thus preventing drills, no public exhibitions can M given in future In that bulldtng. 1 -~=SSa COBB ABBS ANOTHER M RESTAURANT TO CHAIlt' In addition to the restaurant at East Broad street, which he last week. Preston Cob^ has over Kirkwood's restaurant at East Main street, the lease rights 1 ing been purchased from Martin Anderson. Mr. Cobb took possession of wood’s Tuesday... He now has restaurants tn his chain, which eludes his old establishment at East Main street. *1 don't think I'll take over more for the time balng," said Cobb Wednesday.. - Flto h hi sML C. O. Pike, tha young whits’j who was arrested in Alexandria, brought back hare to face of robbery, will be tried « the case against him MriNr lN in police court further tha polica.