Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-29
SCHOONER ASHORE.
rue CREW sAvsD-sUPERlNTENDENT
MYERS iLL-vEsSeL DISABLED.
70 construct Five Hundred Cars-Matter'
Colaplicated-site for tho Girls
Home-Other Notes.
,correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.l

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NORFOLK, January %. 1890.
The schooner Mary A. Trainer, of Phila-
dainhja. from Georgetown, s. O., to Phila-
deiphia with q cargo of shingles, went
lahore last night off Hatteras life-saving
eaton. The crew Of Ave men were saved
nv fine station crew taking them OF the
schooner. The captain is so Frustrated that
he can give no account of the vessel. The
schooner is apparently lying easy and in
GOOD condition, but the wind is blowing
tb;rty-fiye miles an hour along the coast.
The superintendent of the Seaboard and
Roanoke railroad, L.. Il. Myers is III with
the preSaiiing oiSease III hicnliohu' HIS
home.
The United States revenue steamer Ham,
;lton came into port tonight towing dis.
abled schooner with her bowsprit and all
her headgear gone bound from James
r1ver north with q load of pine wood. she
had evidently been in collision.
The machine-shOps of the SeabOard and
Roanoke railroad will commence next
month the construction of 500 ears for the
Atlanta division of the Seaboard system
the first instalment. Work on this divi-
sion is progressing rapidly, and will soon
be in operation TO Norfolk. The new shops
recently built by the Seaboard and Roa-
noke in Norfolk county, near Portsmouth,
are among the finest in the South for rail-
road purposes. Everything in connection
with the shops has been removed from
Portsmouth, and the old buildings torn
down and the grounds tracked for storage
cars. The activity in railroad matters IN
this section Just now absorbs the attention
of everybody, and great things are OK
pected OF the various enterprises.
There was a considerable spat IN the
,ayy-vard this morning between the SUI
perintending iron-worker on the Texas, an
expert from the Cramp ship-yards, and
the incompetent men the Republican
managers are endeavoring to put to work
on the ship as mechanics. The superin-
tendent demands that competent men
shall be employed. and as the Democratic
party furnishes competent men the sltua-
ton is naturally complicated.
A suitable lot for the Girls Home TO be
established here by an association of be-
neyolent ladies has been secured on Butte
street. and building furnished with all
the accessories and appointments Will be
erected.
The flagship Baltimore will have twenty
nine guns as her battery. eight OF them
eieht-inch guns and twerty-one machine
guns. 1t is now understood that she Will
be kept here two or three months waiting
for her battery.
There was never truck season in which
so much kale and spinach was shipped III
one month as during the present January.
A single New York steamer carried away
from here six thousand barrels OF green
stuff. On account of the mild winter tho
yield has been marvellous.
The Philadelphia baseball club (the
Ponies ~ will practice in Norfolk all
| during the month of March.
| The Merritt Wrecking Company sent out
a wrecking steamer this morning TO the
assistance of the steamer Caroline Miller,
chartered by the Old Dominion Line, re-
ported ashore at Chincoteasue. Their
wrecking steamer at Wachapreague has also
gone to the assistance of the stranded
steamer. The Miller Is bound for Vest
| Point, and went ashore on Monday night.
The big fishermen on the Caroilna
sounds are busy getting ready for their
spring work. Some nets will be. put III
Thursday. but the largest nets will not 90
| in until the middle of February.
High-COnstable L. +. Rogers Is reported
very i'll with pneumonia.
Work on the new opera-house ct Ports
mouth commenced to-day.
SUPERINTENDENT l.. Il. Watts has return
| ed from Chicago.
| Colonel J. NJ. Neale, of Danville, who has
been in the city several days, left to-day
for Boston.
The farmers all along the Seaboard road
| in the crop-faiure section of last year are
making ready for another seasons crop OF
corn. peanuts, aud cotton, and are all
hopeful though badly crippled.