The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-27
MAKES A NEW RECORD.
ruE CITY OF NEW YORK WINS
THE LAST OCEAN RACE.
She Makes the Trip In Five Days, twenty
One Hours. and Thirty-Nine Minutes
Inman People JubiIant over Her Sue
cess-MiscelIaneous Mention.
NEW YORK BUREAU
RICHMOND DAILY TfMgs,
III MUND DNII1 IHF>,
August ~. l,G.

RICHMOND DAILY IfMEs,
August %. 1900.
The City Of New York won the ocean race
this time and seems 10 have made "A new
eastern record. She was sighted at Brow
head at 1928 Z. NJ. to-day. She, the CITY
Of New York, passed the sandy Hook light
at 9:46 A. NJ, August 10th. according TO Cap
tain Watkins. With the dye-hour allow
ance this would make her time days II
hours and - minutes. Ii that calculation
is correct the City OF New York has beaten
her own record, even going west In days
- hours and minutes, and has established
4 new record for the eastern passage.
The Inman agents here figure the time OF
the City Of New York at days u hours
and q minutes. The best previous record
| II the steamer was made August u. lS>',
when the distance was completed IN days
hours and Is minutes. She has, there
! fore. beaten her own record by about three
hours, but the record Of ) days = hours
and ~ minutes made by the City OF Paris
| December p. 1883, remains unbroken. lhe
| mman line officials are much elated over
The record made by their steamships. The
reutOnic was beaten 10y two hours.
THE wARsHIP PHILADELPHIA.
The new warship Philadelphia is being
rapidly made ready for sea. and VIII proba-
| bly, have another trial trip, commencing ON
saturday of next week. \ leak IN the
fange of her saltwater main has been DIS
covered. and she is 10 get new saltwater
condensers.
THE CELEBRATED BALL LIBEL SUIT.
At Buffalo today the Rev. DIR. Ball,
plaintitf i'm the celebrated libel suit against
/ "a \ IL. "a.
the Cleveland campaign oflSsi, called on the
sheriff and paid the costs, amounting To
S26l .gS II will be remembered that on the
| trial the Jury rendered "A verdict ot mo
cause for action
THE DESTROYER.
Since the revival Of the memory of Cap
tain Ericsson, in connection with the send
ing OF his body 10 sweden, much interest
has been given 10 the iron torpedo boat
DESTROYER, 10 which Captain Ericsson lie
voted the energies of the last seven years oi
his life, and upon the successful complexion
Of which he hoped To achieve success sec
end only to that Of the Monitor a Jew
weeks prior 10 his death, the old inventor
said in regard 10 his boat: my
lfe-work is To provide means Of
defence for New York barbor."
lie based much hope upon the Destroyer;
thought of nothing else. and worked Tor no
other object with such intense interest.
| And so lOyal was he that when an oner
came 10 him from foreign government 10
purchase the invention he refused TO con.
slder it until his adopted government had
| the preference This boat may be said to
have been the practical beginning of the
idea that to-day governs many oi the 80
called pnuematic guns. several CHANCES
have been made in the mechanism ol Inc
vessel. and a model IL now building when
will govern the one TO be adopted by the
government.
LADIES IL POLITICS.
II is suggested that the ladies OF New
York should organize themselves ln~ AN
association 10 secure the nomination ana
election of honest men to the city govern
ment and the publication OF local politics,
and with il more econC mlcal expenditure
and reduction Of the taxes. 1hey nave
ample precedent The Primrose League oi
England il now an enormous CONSERVATIVE
power. The WOmcn's Liberal nienlst AS
sociatiOn is only second 10 II and the ser
vices of the best women IN that country are
enlisted in politics. There Is no better held
for earnest. practical work thanh thiscity.
Where is the WOman's Press club.
FUNERAL OF 4 PROMINENT HEBREW.
The funeral of Jules A. Menken, who died
At Watch Point, VT, on Friday last, took
| place from his late residence, No. - west
Ninety-first street. this morning. Mr.. Menkeh
was tue founder, and for quarter OF CEN
tury the senior member Of the llrm oi Men
| ken Brothers, Of Memphis, which did the
! largest dry.gOods business IN tennessee.
| He was "A member Ot the Seventh Regiment
| Veterans. the society for Ethical Culture,
the Russian Immigrant society, Young
| Mems Hebrew Association. Nj. -inals
| uospital, B'nai Birth, and the Temple
~haaray Tcrfla. lie had given much III
an unostontalious manner to city institu-
tions. He leaves wife, four daughters,
and two sons.
DEATH or AN EX-cONstL.
The funeral services over the remains OF
the late Henry i. Walker, eX-British Consul
10 this port. who died last sunday at DIS
! residence of chronic cyOtits and old age,
will be held tomorrow. Mr. Walker was
seventy-fiye years Of age and had been
resident Of This city for over thirty years.
| lie was retired i've years ago from active
consular service, in accordance with the
British service rules. His mother was
member Of the celebrated Pinckney family,
heinz Jane Douglas Pinckney. His father
distinguished himself in years gone 10y IN
the British army. His body will be taken
% Charleston, ;. c.. for burial.
pR. MjLYNS.
DIR. McGlynn, after his long visit in CALI
forDia. i, again in town, and preparations
are being made to give him an imposing re-
ceptiOn al the annual festival OF the last
,jde branch Of the Anti-Poyerty Society, ID
be held at the Empire.City Colosseum, on
Fliday night. Dr. SlcGlynn will be accom-
panied 10 the festival by Judge james Nc
/ Guire. of san Francisco, one Of the dele
gates from the Pacific coast 10 the single
Tax Conference. which will be held In this
city on September lst. Judge Mcclure VIII
also be rendered warm reception.
UNNATURALIZED ENGLIsHMEN.
MANY of the census enumeratOrs remark
cd how few Englishmen in New York are
naturaliZed. Their predecessors have told
a similar story, and ii is indeed a very We'll
known fact that comparatively few Lngllsh-
men are voters or take any part IN politics.
one Of the enumeratOrs SAYS that not one III
twenty is naluralzed, although many ct
them have been here twenty or thirty years,
and he attempts 10 explain IL on the suppo-
= sition that most Engishmen expect 10 re-
turn home. Notwithstanding this, be TAILS
} to explain why il is that the thousands oil
+ Englisnmen who have made this country
T their permanent resting place are still not
! naturalized.
e NEW RAILROAD.
Ten per cent. Of the stock of the Washing
ton and Cumberland has been subscribed.
and the company is ready 10 complete the
lease Of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal,
which was voted to it by the last Lesisla-
, , ture. The lease Of the canal viii take ef-
feet at once unless Judge Alvey orders II u
be sold. The new road will give the West
Virginia Central and Pittsburg an outlet
for It's coal and iron either 10 Cherry Kun oi
TO Washington, and give IL communication
= with the Western Maryland or the Pennsyl
yania system.
: RAILROAD EARNINGS.
Memphis and Chagleston-Second week
: of August, 1890. $i2, lOl; 1889, SS3,4i; IN
crease. $3.50. Two weeks Of August, lS)o
S79.90o: 1859, S73,6Jj: increase, s6,25s.
u East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
second week of August, 1890, Sii6,9o0; 1889
5 Sll6. .s.sj: increase. x}0,0ol.