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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-06
MISCELLANEOUS BUILDINGS.

The plans for the hospital building
are being prepared with the Wow of
erecting o $50, 600 building.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company is contemplating extensive
improvements in the way of additions to
the general offices building, and the
erection of the handsomest depot build
ing on its line. These improvements
will probably be commenced this wear.
if not completed.
Negotiations are pending for the
establishment of an immense wholesale
dry goods house in which Wanamaker
Il Co. are interested. If this matter is
consumated it a the erection OF q
$4,000 building to be occupied by the
company 1T is proposed to organize. "A
large insurance company is contemplate
ing IN erection of q branch building in
Roanoke.
A $4,000 p~ostoffice building is ono of
the important buildings booked for Roam
oke this year.
There was q large number OF build.
ings contemplated and that will be built
about which no definite information
can be given now.
All the builders and contractors are
looking forward to the most extensive
pulluliig operations that Roanoke has
ever seen.
Some idea OF the Importance OF the
building interests to the city may be
gained from the pay-rolls of some of the
larger contractors Fol instance, Mr..
Amweg's representative informed a
TIMES man that his payroll for January
alone (Which is tho duilest month in the
building year, was nearly 5000, and
that commencing with the list of March
it will not fall below $1,000 per month.
Nearly all Of this money is distributed
among the Roanoke shopkeepers.
The general boom in building is felt
and anticipated by material men OF all
classes, particularly by the brick max
ers, and nearly all the yards arc in
creasing their capacity. Adams Bros. &
Payne have made extensive improve
ments. The West End Brick Company
a practically doubled its capacity and
tho plan OF the yards of tho Roanoke
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-06

WAsHiNGToN, March 5.-TSpeciall-
Roanoke fares very we'll at the hands OF
Congress this year. The Roanoke pub
lie building bill came through in fine
shape, and Senator Daniel then tackled
$4,000 skillfully on the sundry civil
bill, which was also engineered into a
safe harbor.
Last and best the Norfolk and West
ern till will be piloted through. Sena-
tor German had tackled on the Washing
ton and Cumberland bill as a rider in
the Senate. but the House cut it out.
The decision of the Maryland court of
appeals throwing the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal into the hands of the 1874
bondholders practically killed tho
washington IL Cumberland railroad
scheme, and Senator German had there
fore no more desire to save the rider.
The business men of Washington arc
highly pleased with the prospects of
having such an important southern out
let as the Norfolk and Western will give,
taem. 1t is generally regarded rs prob
able That good traffic arrangements will
be secured with both the Baltimore and
Ohio and Pennsylvania systems.
The skill with which the managers OF
the Norfolk and Western conducted it's
campaign before Congress and managed
It's interests has excited favorable COM
ment on all sides. 1t was a fair, square
straightout fight on tho merits of tho
case and reflects credit on the wiscst and
most liberal railroad corporation in the
South.
The following table shows the appro-
priations made during the Fiftieth and
Fifty-first Congresses:
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-06
MANY FINE RESIDENCES.
a Unusually Large Number of Good
Houses to be Built.

The immense number of residences
that are to be erected during the pres
ent year is ono Of the best indications
of the substantial and permanent
growth of the city.
The Roanoke Construction Company
will begin to erect fifty residences in
different parts Of tho city as soon as
the weather becomes favorable. They
will range in cost from 81, 200 to SIS, 600.
Messrs. Jas. S. Simmons and w. II.
Horton will erect during the spring
twenty-five cottages in the eastern part
of the city.
B. f. Hassell, of N. c., has just be-
gun the building of three $1,000 resi-
dences on Eighth emu s. W., Milstead
and Welborn are the contractors.
w. j. & L. Blair have several fine
residences under contemplation, rang
ing in price from 81, 500 to Sic, 900. Some
of them will be frame but the greater
number will be of brick and located in
the central part of the city.
S. II. Kefauver has let tie contract
for the erection of five two-story Franc
residences of five rooms each on tho
north side near Allegheny Institute.
1uoy Will COSC Sl,UUU CaCn.
Il. w. Spindle has let the contract for
five $1,000 two-story residences in the
Belmont Addition. Work will begin in
a short time.
S. A. tomfret is placing lumber on the
ground for two 81, 200 residences on
Second avenue n. w. w. II. Strickler
is contractor, and will begin work i'm
mediately.
&. c. Payne will begin the erection Of
three two-story frame residences in the
next sixty days. They will be located
on Seventh venue n. Q.
j.. e. Moore has had plans completed
for the erection Of a handsome frame
residence on West Salem avenue to cost
$4,000. Bids are now being received
and work will begin in a short time.
ST. Douglas will build, as soon as the
plans and Specifications are completed, o
handsome frame residence in tho West
End to cost 81, 600.
McClelland, Woods & Shelor have un-
der contemplation tho erection of fifty
three-reom cottages in the North Side
Addition, near Allegheny Institute.
Work will begin as soon as the weather
opens.
j. +. Barbour has let the contract for
the erection Of o residence of Center
street to cost 81, 900. Work will begin
in a short time.
Frank WEIGH has just began tho cree
ton OF three six-room two-story resi-
donces on Center street, to cost 81, 600
each. G. l.. Holt is the contractor.
Odell Brothers, of the city market.
Will build two three-room cottages IN
the North Side Addition in q few weeks.
V. II. Payne has just let the contract
for building two $1,000 residence build
lngs on Ninth emu g. W. They will
be OF frame and two stories high. Ma
terial is being placed on tho grounds.
MIR. j. +. Wingfeld will erect q stone
residence to cost SIS, 900.
Wilbur S. Pole will erect a stone resi-
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-06
The Norfolk and western In Norfolk.

NORFOLK, March 5.-[Speciall-Tho
Norfolk and Western Railroad pro-
poses to erect in this city the following
important buildings: a union passenger
depot, to be located neal the extension
of Cove street, by filling in part Of Ma
homes lake; a train shed, $50 feet long,
with four tracks; u freight station near
tho present building. which latter
structure is to be turned into an Office
building, and car shops at Lambert's
Point. The company will spend in all
about 5000, 600, and the entire list of
improvements will be carried out in
handsome shape.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-06
Facts and Figures to
Make 81 a Wonder
IN The HISTORY OF ROANOKE
Indications That 100000
Will be Put in Buildings.

business Blocks VIII Fill the Vacant
Places on the Main Thoroughfarcs-
Large Buildings to be Erected for Ex-
tensiye Enthusiastically 800, 600
Worth of Residences Already Con-
tracted forever $500, 600 In Churches
Tho Most Extensive Building Oper-
ations in the History of Roanoke.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-06
ITO RETIRE FROM BUSINESS.

Ono Of the most desirable stores, with
lease and small stock of goods, for sale
at a great bargain. Rent of storeroom
worth S125 per month. BY buying
stock, all new, the lease, good for 20
months, can be obtained for 500 per
month. Address NEW ENGLAND SHOE
AND CLOTHING CO., liz Commerce
street.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-06
SPECIAL NOTICES.
TOR A

Four desirable lots fronting On upper
boulevard, in the West End, for "a, 800;
100 feet on northeast corner of Roanoke
and Walnut, 10 feet deep to a 2O-foot
alley, for SIS, 700; one lot on Railroad
avenue, east of Henry street, for 81, 500;
100 feet on west side of Commerce
street. south of Mountain, for 81, $50;
lot No. 3, section 4, Exchange Addition,
for So, 600; lot 3, section II, West End,
fronting on main boulevard, So, $50.
Give us q list of your property, or for a
bargain call on
WILBUR S. POLE s. CO.,
Rooms 3 and 4 Exchange Building.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-06
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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-06
Several Thousand Stolen.

F~REEroRr, Pa, March 5.-GSpecia1l--
The savings bank at this place was
broken into last night and several thou
sand dollars worth OF negotiable paper.
besides other valuable papers andi
money taken. Loss not known.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-06
ROANOKE JARED VERY WELL.
lnthe Matter of Congressional
Legislation.

A'e Roanoke Public Building BIll ana
Its $4,000 Appropriation Became
Laws-The Norfolk and Western Bill
Come Through all Right-A Skillfullv
Managed Campaign-A comparison of
appropriations In Two Congresses.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-06
Fiftieth. %Fifty-tirst.

Included in appropriations for the
t1fty-tirst Congress are SIS, 727, 900 for
refund of tho direct tax, and $40, 900, 900
Tor sugar bounties, this latter being in
Guided among permanent annual appro-
priations.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-06
The Wenthnr.

Forecast: For Virginia, fai-, friday;
warmer by Saturday. variable lands
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-06

Hotel Ponce do Leon, and will imme-
diately erect on it a S12, 900 business
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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-07-17
DAYS WHEN STEAMERS SAIL.


Why Ocean Steamships Usually Leave on
Wednesdays and Saturdays.
A correspondent wri ting to the New
York Tribune asks the following ques-
ton:
Can you tell me why it is that with
at least ten steamers per week leaving
this port for England the only days, so
far as | have been able to learn, when
mail is taken on are Wednesdays and
Saturdays. In other words, why it is
that all the lines send their vessels on
these days, so that there are sometimes
five or six steamships leaving the same
day, and no more till the following
Wednesday or Saturday. 1t would
certainly be a great convenience and
it seems very strange that it is not so
arranged, to have steamers for Europe
leave every day in the week, or at
least on Mondays and Thursdays as
well as on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Il hope you can give me some ex-
PLANTATION of the present strange ar
rangement of sailings."
The explanation is briefly as follows:
1t is the transportation of cargoes
which has to be most considered in tn e
arrangement of "a steamship schedule.
Experience has proved that Wednes-
days and Saturdays are the most ad-
vantageous days for sailings, a day in
the middle of the week and the last
day. All large lines now run on a
four-week's schedule. A ship leaving
New York on Monday would not be
able to receive and store cargo the day
before sailing. Tuesday would give
her only one day before sailing for the
reception of cargo. In short, the OBJ
ject is to get the day of sailing on both
ends of the line as far away from the
previous Sunday as possible and
Wednesdays and Saturdays have been
found the best days for sailings. In
summer, when the rush of the trans
atlantic trade is at its height, it has
been found necessary to have ships
sailing on other days in order to ac-
comnodate the increased traffic.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-07-17
The Pennsylvania Law.

Mr.. II. C. Lea, a prominent merchant
of Philadelphia, has written a letter to
the Pennsylvania Legislature vigorously
protesting against the passage of a bill
to list and tax personal property. Mr..
Lea is large owner of real estate and
a very small owner of personal proper
ty, which makes his letter all the
stronger. He says:
AS heavy taxpayer l have naturally
given the subject of taxation some
thought for many years past, and my
conviction is settled that real property
is the surest and fairest basis on which
to levy the public revenue. 1t can not
elude the assessor as the great bulk of
personal property can; its value can be
estimated with reasonable accuracy,
and is not subject to violent or sudden
fluctuations. The difference between
land at S25 an acre and SIS square
foot is simply that the latter is sur
rounded by capital and business, while
the former is remote from these sources
of value. OF all classes in the com
munity, the landowner is the one most
interested in having capital and kusi-
ness untrammeled to earn the largest
profits. He gets, sooner or later his
share in those profits, and it is suicidal
for him to drive away that which alone
gives his land its especial value over
government lands in the territories
The bill provides for a complete in
ventory of the personal effects of every
person, firm and corporation, including
household furniture and tools, and then
lac hot H.
printed and distributed to all the tax
payers, so that each one may play the
spy on his neighbor and see whether he
has made a true return or not. As there
are 225, 900 taxable persons in Philadel-
phia, tho lists would fill several vol
umes, so that each person would have a
small library presented TO him every
year at the public expense, consisting
of detailed statement of every body S
assets and liabilities.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-07-17

two things-either itsssf shoulder the
increase, or charge it over to occupants
l. G., consumers of houses. II capital
accepts the former alternative il must
content itself with smaller returns. But
1t was receiving, presumably, no more
than the average return before, and
rather than receive less it will look for
Investment in some other direction.
But. If the increased taxation is to be
charged over to the consumer of houses
practically the consumption of houses
Will decrease, e., people will try to
content themselves with less expensive
or narrower quarters.
The first effect of the increased taxa
ton might be, consequently, rise in
the rental value of inferior houses, and
decline in the rental value of super
Tor houses; but upon the whole, there
is decreased demand for houses, and,
consequently, capital lacks encourage
ment to invest in that sort of produc-
ton. After awhile, the increase of pop
ulation will have so far outstripped the
production of houses, or existing houses
will have so far worn out, that house
rents will rise, and the owners of houses
will begin to collect the increase OF
taxation from tenants in the shape of
increased house rents. Capital will
then begin to be invested more freely
in the production of houses, because it
can now count upon receiving the aver
age return. This same explanation will
apply to all other products of labor be-
sides houses. Taxation of labor pro-
ducts discourages production, and de-
crease in production ultimately causes
rise in prices.
Taxation upon land values can not
discourage the production of land. On
the contrary, it, SO to speak, increases
such production. 1t causes some land
at least, which was being held for an
advance, to be offered at lower price,
and if the tax were so adjusted as to
amount to all, or nearly all. of the an
nual rental value of bare land, all land
now held for rise would either be i'm
proved by present owners or offered for
sale.
am aware that this has been stated
before, at least the substance of the
proceeding paragraph; but | do not
recollect having seen in The Standard
any very elaborate attempt to explain
just how increased taxation upon labor
products in the course of manufacture
| finally tends to rest upon the shoulders
&C the consumer in the form of increased
prices il. j. Chase.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-07-17
English Inklings of Single Tax Prin-
ciples.

The select committee on town hold
ings of the house of commons, which
has to consider the value and taxation
of land, on the motion made by VIM.
Saunders in 1886, is now sitting in Lon
don. Mr.. Moulton, Q. c., testified be-
fore it on April 10, his testimony being
thus summarized in the Chronicle:
The incidence of the rates was at
present unfair and injurious. The
landed property in town ought to bear
the major portion of the expenditure.
The value of the land in town depend
ed upon the communal prosperity, and
therefore, a large part of the com
munal expenditure ought to come out
of the property held in the town. In his
opinion ground values should contrib
ute to the poor-rate just as well as
railways, or anything else that was
profitable in town Ground rents, he
thought, should bear their fair share
of civic burdens, because they especial
ly protited by civic expenditure. Houses
and buildings were property of a kind
which should bear a smaller impost
proportionately for these reasons: First,
that the property came from an outlay
of private capital; secondly, that it was
wasting property-in the sense of grad
ual decay; and, thirdly, that it
did not not follow that communal en-
penditure, which improved the value of
land, would improve the value of the
houses upon it. AS an ILLUSTRATION. the
witness instanced the case of Rosebery
avenue, where large communal cx-
penditure had greatly increased the
value of adjoining land, and at the
same time had reduced the value of
many houses almost to zero, because
they were not suitable to land so valu-
able, and consequently had to be pulled
down. Another reason why the annual
value derived from the house should
not be taxed at the same rate as the
value derived from land was that the
annual return from houses did not rep
resent the same sum as an annual
return from land. An annual return of
f100 from ground rents represented
double the same annual return receiv-
ed from house rents.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-07-17

IT Is only during recent yeani th,t
scienuhc farming has taken n place Of
Importance, as is shown by the devel-
opment OF places for its study. The
agricultural experiments of Mr.. J. b.
Lawes were begun in 1884 and in lS43
he associated with himself DR.. j. II.
hilbert In the establishment OF the now
world-famous Rothamstead experiment
station. The first government exper
lment station, however. was esiab-
lished at Mockern, Saxony. in 1851.
A second followed Mt Chemnitz in 1858.
In 1900 there were five, in 1856 there
were thirty, in 1873 there were sixty
three, while there are now ITO in
France and Germany alone. The first
experiment station in America was
opened ut Middletown. Conn, on Oc-
tober, 1875, scarcely sixteen years
ago. There were seventeen stations in
fourteen states when. in March, 1887,
the Hatch act passed congress giving
each state Sl5, 900 annually for the
support OF agricultural experiment sta
tons. This led to Il rapid increase OF
stations. so that there are now fifty
three in the United States. or sixty
nine II branch stations are counted.
The Az persons employed at these
stations include chemists, horticulture
lists, botanists entomologists. veteri-
narians, meteorologists, biologists,
microscopists, physicists. mycologists,
vltlculturists, biologists, etc.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-07-17
POPPING THE QUESTION.
a Systematic Method OF Arriving Mt .
Desired Point

Desired Point.
Don't be too sudden about il. MANY
a girl has said no" when she meant
Eyes" simply because the lover didn't
choose the right time and pop the
question gently.
Take dark night for it. Have the
blinds closed. the curtains down and
the lamp turned most out. Sit near
enough to her so you can hook your
little fingers into hers.
Wait until the conversation begins
to flag and then quietly remark:
Susie. | want to ask you something"
She will fidget about little and
probably reply;
"YesPn
After pause you can add:
Susie, my actions must have
shown-that is, you must have seem
l mean you must have been aware
that
Pause here for awhile, out keep
your little finger firmly locked. She
may cough and try to turn the subject
by asking you how you liked the SER
mon, but she only does it to encourage
you. After pause you can continues.
i was thinking as | was coming up
the street tonight that before | went
away l would ask you-that is !,
would breach the subject nearest my
I mean l would know my"
Stop again and give her hand "a
gentle squeeze. She may make "A
move to get away or she may not. In
either case it augers well for you.
Wait five minutes and then go on.
'The past year has been very
happy one to me, but hope that fu-
ture years will be still happier. How
ever, that depends entirely on you.
| am here tonight to know-that is,
to ask you'll am here tonight to
hear from your own lips the one
sweet
Wait again. 1t isn't best to be too
rash about such things. Give her
plenty of time to recover her compos-
ure' and then put your hand on your
heart and continue:
YES, | thought as | was coming
here tonight how happy I'd been. and
l said to myself that if | only knew
you would consent to be my-that is,
| said If only knew-if | was only
certain that my heart had not deceived
me, and you were ready to share"
Hold on-there's no hurry about 1t.
Give the wind chance to sob and
moan outside among the trees. This
will make her lonesome, and call up
all the love in her heart When she
begins to cough and grow restless you
can go on.
Before met you this world was a
desert to me. ! didn't take any pleas
ure in life and it didn't matter
whether the sun shone or not. But
what change in one short year. 1t
is for you to say whether my future
shall be a prairie of happiness or one
long and never-ending pathway of
thistles. Speak. dearest Susie, and
say-and say that"
Give her five minutes more by the
clock and then add:
That you-you will be-that is,
that you will-be miner'
She will heave sigh, look up at
the clock and round the room, and
then as she slides her head over your
vest pocket she will whisper:
''Hcnry-I will"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-07-17
Rare Confederate silver Coins.

Messrs. Roberts and Collins of Car
tersvile, Ga, have, if they have not
recently disposed of it, a coin in their
possession which is only thirty years
old, but is worth more than thousand
times its face value. 1t bears the date
of 1861, and is one of four pieces
struck at the Confederate Mint at New
Orleans before that institution was
closed. The coin is half-dollar and
has the Goddess of Liberty on one side
and stalk of cane. a stalk of cotton,
and the Stars and Bars of the Confed-
eracy in a coat of arms, with a liberty
pole through it and liberty cap on
top on the other side. OF the four
known specimens of this coin, one is in
Meriwether county, Georgia; one in
Louisiana. the Roberts Collins piece,
above described, and one which sold
for $500 in New York City in 1888.