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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-01
THE TIMES KODAK.
One Days Photographing of SaIemites
and Visitors.

Ono Days Photographing of SaIemites
and Visitors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tinsley have returned
from Richmond.
Miss Sherman, OF Luray, is visiting
her sister, Rev. Mrs. Miller.
Judge and Mrs. Blair, and daughter,
Miss Ellen, who have beer spending
some time in Richmond, returned homo
yesterday.
Rev. Mr.. Bushnell. of Roanoke, was
in the city yesterday.
Prof. Cooke, OF Hollins' Institute, was
here yesterday.
Commemorative Attorney Roy d.
Smith, Of Roanoke, was in Salem yes
terday.
MI. Shipman who was a delegate at
the Young Mems Christian Association
convention at L%ynchburg from this
place, has a large photograph of the
delegates in his store window. Dele
gates Shaver, Thomas, Towson and
Shipman show up we'll in the picture.
G. b. Strouse's magnificent horse
"Fire-Brand" attracted a great deal OF
attention on the streets YESTERDAY.
The directors of tho Flynn Wagon
Manufacturing Company, of Salem, met
yesterday and transacted business per.
tanning to the works. President Bowles
and General Manager Flynn were
authorized to take an inventory of the
stock company.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-01
WANTED Two boys to deliver
w TIE TIMES in Salem. Apply at
The TIMES Bureau, Hotel Lucerne.
TO STOCKHOLDERS.

At a meeting of the board of directors
of the Salem improvement Company,
held at the company's Office December
both, 1891, the following order was pass
ed:
Resolved, That the president and
treasurer be authorized to receive stock
of the Salem improvement Company at
$50 per share in full payment for all
lots as specified by number on price list
of December 18th and 18th, 1890, and at
the prices named in said price list, re-
naming unsold, in any section east of
Delaware street and south of the line of
the Roanoke Street Railway Company,
provided that the right to purchase
under the above named terms Shall be
availed of between the 18th of February
and he first of April, 1891, and that a
copy of this resolution shall be mailed
to each stakeholder of record. S. ID.
UNCOMMON, Secretary. feb1-eod
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-01
HORRIBLE BURNING
OfTwo Little Children Of Lloyd
Hintchey.
The ROANOKE TIMES BUREAU,
HOTEL LUCERNE, SALEM, VA.

AAO1ESb LII n
A horrible story of the burning to
death of two little children reached
Salem yesterday.
Thursday night Lloyd Hintchey and
his wife, who live at Hanging Rock, on
the Newcastle road, put their two child
rem to bed and left them alone in the
house while they themselves went to
stay awhile at Mr.. Hintohey's fathers
house, which was several hundred yards
distant. The children were very small,
one being a baby and the other not
large enough to take care of itself.
The reports are very unsatisfactory,
and the complete particulars could not
be ascertained, but it seems that in
some way the children caught on fire,
and, before the parents found it out, the
babies were burned beyond recognition.
One child died q few minutes after its
agonized parents returned to their desc
lated home, and the other is reported to
bo past recovery.
The reports say that one Of the little
innocents was found, when help at last
came, with it's head under the bureau,
where it had tried to crawl to escape
from the fro.
The fire was discovered III time to
saw the house. 1t is thought that the
children IN some way escaped from
their trundle bed and had their night
clothes ignited while playing near the
fireplace.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-01
Southwest Virginia Mineral,
Timber, Farm and City Property
Agency.
Principal Office, Roanoke, Virginia.

The undersigned have opened an Of
fec for tho sale of mineral, timber and
farm land, and city property on commits
sion. They will develop mineral lands,
analyzo ores, give instructions for de-
veloping on a reasonable charge, sell
farm and timber lands. All mineral
farm and timber lands listed with them
for sale will be extensively advertised
through agencies in tho Northern States
and Europe. A record of all ores, their
analyses and location will be kept in
our office for inspection of buyers.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-01

Salem Avenue, between Jefferson and
Horny Streets.
il LEVY, President, lac ca,hier
Commercial Bank Roanoke, Va
u N. DICKINsoE,
Cashier.
Accounts of banks, bankers, corpor
atoms, merchants and individuals
solicited. Dur facilities for doing a
general banking business are equal to
any banking house in Virginia. Col
l%ections a specially and prompt remit.
tances made. Interest allowed on time
deposit
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-01
Married mt Last.

Peter Settle and Julie Patesell, who
tried to get 4 marriage license last week
and failed because the young lady could
not prove that she was of the requisite
age, as was related in TIE TINES,
have finally succeeded in having all the
kinks combed out of their heretofore
disappointment. The father of the
bride combed them out with a writ
of endorsement, which Peter presented
to Clerk McCaulcy yesterday, and thus
got the laws consent to experiment
with the conundrum: ''Is a marriage a
failure?'
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-01
Train Kills n Horse.

Passenger train No. 1 ON the Norfolk
and Western Road yesterday morning
killed a horse at Ball siding, near Ellis
ton. The animal was attached to a
dump cart, and becoming un~manageable
as the train passed by it, ran in front of
the engine. The cart was demolished
also
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-01
Yatcman's Store Burned.

The country store of James Waterman,
at Singer, six miles from Salem, at the
bend of the river, caught fire Thursday
night and was burned down. The origin
of tho fire is unknown, but it is supposed
to have been in%cendiary. The loss is
said to be several thousand dollars,
with only a small insurance. Nothing
was saved
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-01
The Irving Lyceunn.

Tho Irving Lyceum met last night at
tho Misses Moons on Main street.
Twenty new members were elected.
The next meeting will be at the home of
Misses Lille Strousc.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-01

j. A. DALBY, SONS & co.
| nv11-6m3taw
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-01
MINERALS A SPECIALITY

All persons having mineral, farm or
timber lands arc requested to list them
with us for sale. The long experience
OF our senior, Mr.. j. a. Daily, in mining
and sale OF real estate warrant us in as
surfing our patrons that their interests
vii! BIO properly guarded in the sale of
their property, and all money coming
into thei hands will be promptly paid
over. Owners may, If preferred, employ
their special agent or a ~ttorneys.
Persons, in sending descriptive list Of
property, are specially cautioned against
giving overdrawn descriptions, as it
lessons chances OF sale. We also advise
against giving options on mineral
properties, they often interfere with
sales and lead to litigation.
We shall do a legitimate commission
business.
Active, reliable agents wanted in
every county in Southwest Virginia.
All city property listed with us will
have prompt attention, and sold to best
advantage.
We have booked for sale a list of i'm
proved and unimproved property, bust
ness and dwelling houses in different
sections of the city.
Persons wishing to buy or sell are
respectfully invited to call on lis.
Office, Room 8, Moomaw Building.
Jefferson street.
Refer to First National Bank of Roa
noko, Virginia.
j. A. DALBY, SONS 6 co.
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The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-29

mense areas of corn averaging twelve barrels
per acre and OF wheat twenty to twenty-five
bushels. While the war, the loss of slaves,
the exceeding hospitality and liberality of the
people, and their physical inability to cope
with the new order has broken up, to some
extent, this happy state of men and things,
the soil to-day seems to retain its pristine vgor
and responsive kindness under intelligent
cultivation. Hundreds of acres are for sale at
prices ranging from SIS to $25 per acre that a
few years ago could not I've bought at 500.
Most Of this territory is within hauling dis
tance of Washington, and no part of 1t more
than five miles from the Pope's Creek Rail
road, making easy access to the Baltimore
markets. not thirty miles distant Transpor-
tation is cheap and convenient.
81 have seen and examined the lands in
many of the States of the Union. and have
seen none capable OF higher plane of ex-
cellence from an agricultural standpoint than
those of the Prince Georges Forest and,
added to its advantages of soil, there are no
malaria a-breathing swamps, or pestiferous
winds; there is no healthier spot in the world.
Already healthy tide of thrifty agricultural
lists is setting to this locality from the bleak
Western plains and elsewhere, and believe,
ere long, under a new order, 1t will bloom
again as of old,n
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-29
THE GAs-FIXTURE TRADE.
1t Is Lively just Now-Soma OF the
Shultz Company's Contracts.

1t Is Lively just Now-Soma of the
Shultz Company's Contracts.
Said Mr.. H. c. Ward the genial manager of
the Shultz Gas Fixture and Art Metal Com
pany of T street: ''We are full of business at
present and haven't had time to stop and
consider whether it was dull season or not.
With us it seldom is. Lately we have received
contracts for the fitting up of fixtures in the
court-houses and post offices at Charlotte and
Wilmington, n. G. They are to be furnished
with fine polished brass combination gas and
electric fixtures of an elegant and imposing
kind. We have also been awarded the contract
to furnish combination gas and electric fixtures
for the Anheuser Busch Brewery's Building,
on street near Eighth, which is to be occu-
pied by the Post Office Department. One of
the handsomest jobs we are engaged on just
now is that in the Secretary's loom in the
Treasury. 1t is a magnificent chandelier of
ten gas and ten electric lights, and is beauti-
fully finished in polished brass, silver, and
copper You've seen those massive bronze
urns surmounting the balcony balustrade of
the Capitol? Well, those are from our factory
in Baltimore, and we are still engaged in turn
ing them out. So are the lamps that alter
mated with the urns. We consider the work
Oh qualUy naru 10 excel, anu 81 uo lhahJ
others.
speaking of our factory" said Mr.. Ward,
shave you ever seen it !? No Well, you
should, forit is big concern and full ofinterest
for the observer. Our store on street here is
only branch, our main sales-rooms being at
324 North Charles street. Baltimore, while our
factory spreads itself over a good deal of
ground at 1913, 1918, 1017, and 1919 Fayette
street Here five hundred men are employed.
Our central Office is at 1016 East Baltimore
street"
s'You have lots of private houses to fit up ?"
said the reporter
eyes replied Mr.. Ward, 'we have great
many this spring, and are constantly getting
contracts for others. We are putting up the
fixtures in four houses in the northeast, in four
houses of DR.. j. E. Carpenter, the complete fix
lures in st. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church,
also in the National Capital Bank and in Mrs
Hawkins's house, on Ninteenth street. Besides,
we are furnishing two houses on Connecticut
avenue with our work for Mrs. Okie, and one
for Dr. g. d. Webb, on Sixteenth street.
''The work on the Government courthouse
and post Office at Augusta, Ga, the contract
for which wereceived, is now completed, and
we are in receipt of many complimentary
letters from those Of that city interested in the
work, The bid on which we were awarded the
contract' concluded Mr. Ward, ''was 81 600"
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-29
BUILDING PERMITS.

Building permits to the following were is
sued during the past week:
G. s. Cooper, four brick dwellings on lots
1856 to 1873, square 681, 600 to 615 Acker street,
to cost $1,000.
Francis H. Melick, five brick dwellings on
lots SO to 73, square $780, to cost $4,000.
Arelia Brown, one brick dwelling on lots
161 and 1862, square $50, 1704 N street north
west, to cost 81, 500.
Robert Waldren, ten brick dwellings on lots
on lots 107 to 49, square 1851, 622 to GAO Fif-
teenth street northwest, to cost S25,00
l.. Davis, chairman, for Epiphany Mission,
one brick mission-house on lots 2 and 3,
square 1876, Twelfth street near G northwest, to
cost 81, 700.
j. d. Croissant, president of the Peoples
Carette Co., one brick stable on lots 66 to n,
square 1851, between and G and Fourteenth
and Fifteenth streets northeast, to cost 50. 500.
w. sNordlinger, brick dwelling, 3032 n
street northwest, to cost $25, 900.
Washington Danenhower, seventeen brick
dwellings on lots 10 to 81 and 90 to 36,
square 754 202 to 20S E street northeast, to
cost 1000,
Washington Danenhower, brick dwelling
with store, on lot 2S, square 754, sol Second
street northeast, to cost 81, ,000
John F. O'Neill, brick stable in rear of SIG
Eleventh street southeast, to cost $400.
James J. Farrell, four brick dwellings on
lots SS, SO, and 81, square 72O, Nos. 622 to 62S
Second street northwest, to cost $4,000.
j. F. Chamberlain, brick store, 1434 Thirty
second street, Georgetown, to cost 5000.
A. j. Fisher, two brick dwellings on lot 12,
square 435, Nos. 426 and 428 Eighth street
southwest, to cost $3.50.
j. F. Schneider, tw nty brick dwellings on
lots 230 to 249, square 1856, Nos. ITO to 1749
Q street northwest, to cost $135,000.
Elizabeth Schuoff, brick dwelling on lot IL,
square $50, to cost So, 900.
A. s. johnson, brick dwelling on lot 12,
square 367, 929 N street northwest, to cost
$lS,00O
j. w. Boolle 81 Bro, frame dwelling on lots
and 2, block 30, Brookline, to cost $500.
William NJ Leay, brick dwelling on lot IS,
square Ill, 1887 Twentieth street northwest,
to cost S14,500.
w. G.. O'Mera, brick dwelling with store on
lot 2, square 399, to cost $500.
Patrick Finley, frame dwelling on Foxwell
road, to cost 5000.
j. F. Staub, brick dwelling ON lot 10, square
101, 1880 Valley street northwest, to cost
5000.
A. B. Hines, ten frame dwellings on lots 1G
to Is, block %, corner of Nineteenth street
and Benning's road, to cost So, 900.
H. Bohuke, three frame dwellings ON lots
10 and 90, Kings subdivision, Bladensbure
road, to cost 81 900.
Mrs. Bridget Myers, two frame dwellings
on lots SO to 80, Seventh street extended, te
cost 900.
j. A. Dempsey, frame dwelling on lot 13
block 3, Galvasten street, South Brookline, tc
cost 5000.
H. sharpless, twelve frame dwellings or
lots IA to 16 Is and 49, block 23, Harvard
street, Columbia Heights, to cost $1S,000
| George W. Pearson, president of the Me
| tropolitan Railroad Company, brick power
house on street, Georgetown, to cos
| $4,000.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-29

see here on this table. If syndicate would
take hold of this tract-which is zoo acres
and work it, there is no doubt in my mind but
that fortunes could be made.
"You need not look surprised" continued
Mr.. Dyer, "when l say that real estate in
Alexandria is blooming to great degree,
and predict that within three years the now
silent city will far surpass in prosperity its
very best days. There is plenty of money in
Alexandria, but it has been held close by the
older population, who have been shy of dab
bling in real estate, and who seem to be will
ing to die under the crumbling walls of the
ancient city. But now it seems that younger
generation have come to the front and are
determined to push improvements as fast as it
is possible.
"Another outside scheme that | am in
terested in, and which / think will pan out
well, lis the Valley Land and Improvement Com
pany located at Luray,Va. Wehave there 800
acres of town lands, 5000 acres of mineral
lands, besides the famous Luray Caverns and
Inn The capital stock is $4,000, 600, and the
railroad facilities excellent. Call again
and have another chat" Mr.. Dyer said as
THE HERALD man took his leave.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-29
"pRINCE GEORGES FOREST"
a Glowing Description of Some Nearby
Agricultural Lands.

Mr.. Duckett of the firm of Duckett 81 Ford,
real estate dealers, says: ''Since farm produce
has risen within the last year-corn from 55c.
to 75c. per bushel, wheat from soc. to $1.10,
oats from 35c. to 60c., and potatoes, fruits,
ETC., in like ratio-and, influenced perhaps
further by indications of an adjustment of the
tariff upon something like a permanent basis
considerable demand has arisen for purely
agricultural lands. OF all the environment of
Washington | know of no section that offers
superior advantages and is better adapted to
the highest state of agricultural development
than Prince Georges County, Md, and nota-
bly, what is known as the prince Georges
Forest This section or belt of land begins
on the north at point about two miles below
Bowie, and extends south for perhaps twenty
five miles, terminating at a line passing
through or near Nottingham. 1t begins at the
Patuxent River on the east, and ex-
tends westerly an average distance of
perhaps ten miles. The topography is
gently undulating, and well watered by numer-
GUS meandering streams. So generally is this
the case that it may be said that there is
scarcely farm in the whole region whose
fields are not traversed by streams of pure
and limpid water. The soil is a rich, dark
loam, resting upon a substratum of clay, aver
aging, perhaps, six feet in depth. Nowhere
is found stone, gravel, sand, 'black-jack,' or
'scrub-oak, undeniable evidences of natural
poverty of soil. Vast deposits of aquarlan
shell. and fossils of marine animals indicate
clearly that in prehistoric days the belt was
| the bottom of an immense water area, and
that by some upheaval of nature the flood
has been thrown toward the Patuxent and
| Chesapeake on the east and the Potomac on
the west In ante-bellum days this was the
most highly improved agricultural community
| in Southern Maryland, and even now the soil
seems to stand the severe demands made
upon it almost without appreciable de-
terioration; where there is apparent poverty
| it does not seem to extend below the
surface, and a good application of lime or
manure will restore 1t to it's former strength
and cloYergroWing capacity, and good set
of clover once obtained it is there almost for
ever. 1t scarcely seems possible, however, to
work it down. Not only was The Forest
the garden spot in point offertility, but it was
populated by people refined, polished, and
hospitable in the extreme. Wealth and ehiy-
airy were their characteristics Each farm
and they were all large-was lordly manor,
cultivated by intelligent owners by means OF
abundant and inexpensive slave labor. 1t
was an ordinary thing to find broad fields OF
clover higher than the back Of a sheep, i'm
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-29
THE MARKET is HEALTHY.
PURCHASERS WERE MADE TIMID
BY THE FINANCIAL DEPRESSION.
But That Has Passed Away Without
Squeezing Amy one-A Talk with Mr..
wine-what other Dealers Say On
tho General situation.

Mr. L. ID. Wine, of the firm of b. IA. War
ner & Co., says the real estate business is
healthy. A great many sales are being made
at prices largely above those paid one year
ago.
"Purchasers,n said he, "have until recently
been lust little tmid, on account of the
financial depression through which we have
inst passed. But as nobody seems to have
been squeezed, las many investors were look
ing for and expecting,) and as the bulldogs
which for time were placed at the entrance
of our banks have all been muzzled or re-
moved capital is again circulating freely and
seeking investment in real estate, which every
body knows to be the safest in the world. l
have strong faith in Washington real estate,
and believe that nothing short of financial
earthquake will materially affect values. The
financial furry through which we have just
passed has not in the slightest degree depre-
ciated values. Owners who have felt this
stringency have preferred to mortgage rather
than sell even at slight reduction in price
There is quite demand for small as well as
large parcels of land lying near the city, es-
pecially on the main stem and Metropolitan
Branch of the B. & o. Railroad. People real
ize that as our city expands these lands lying
near must necessarily become very valuable.
''There is also great demand for houses
worth from four to seven thousand dollars, of
which there are very few in the market.
Washington must be great city. Everybody
is in love with it, and what everybody loves
must be great
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-29
THE BOOM ON G. STREET.
A Heavy Increase in Observation-Disclosures
Heights and lexington.

A Heavy Increase in Observation-Disclosures
Heights and lexington.
&c street in the real-estate Market" said
Mr.. Winner, the real-estate broker of Thir-
teenth street, is no doubt to be the leading
feature this spring, particularly that portion
between Eleventh and Twelfth streets. AT
the northwest corner of Twelfth and 6 streets
the Ohio National Bank will erect substan-
tial business building, plans for which are
now making by Mr.. James G. Hill, under
direction of the building committee. AS an
evidence of the increased valuation on street
and the streets lying between and G from
Eleventh to Thirteenth, values are now about
fifty per cent. in excess of this time last year.
''The handsome tract known as the Phelps
property, lying at the head of Connecticut
avenue, commanding probably the most beau
tiful prospect over the finest part of the north
western section, it is contemplated to put on
the market at an early date. This property is
owned by small syndicate of gentlemen, un-
der whose instructions measures will likely be
taken at once to determine the most attractive
shape in which to develop the property into
villa sites or building lots.
SIN addition to the many beautiful resi-
dences recently built ON Washington Heights
Just above the head of Connecticut avenue
plans are now making for q house on Wyo-
ming avenue that will be as handsome in its
general character as any improvements in this
section. California avenue and Connecticut
avenue extended are now being paved, and
this property seems destined, west of Connecti-
cut avenue, to be the choice of the northwest.
''Eckington since the introduction of the
new Electric Line, is claiming and receiving
its deserved attention, and will, in my opinion,
be the suburban section sought this spring for
homes not quite so elegant or expensive as
those of Washington Heights. The market
generally has better tone, and there is every
Indication that the next sixty days will develop
quite as great activity as that of previous
springs, if not greater.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-29
THE ALEXANDRIA BOOM.
Mr.. Dyer Says 1t rs Genuine-other Fields
for Investment.

LOT inFGSlnlenIs
''Business with me is about as | suppose you
have found it with most of the real estate
firms in town." said Mr.. j. T. Dyer to THE
HERALD real estate man as he asked him to
take a seat in his cozy little Office. SIT is this
rainy weather that does it, he continued,
s'and if the moon does not soon change and
we get some sunshine business in our line will
be at q stand-still. However, | am not as bad
off as a good many of the others, for have a
number of interests that are not confined to
this locality. i have a tract of land for sale
located in Maryland, thirty-fiye miles from
this city, on the Metropolitan branch of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad The property
is valuable, and if intelligently developed will
be profitable investment The natural re-
sources consist of choice timber land of
many acres, containing oak, chestnut, and
poplar in abundance Besides this there is on
the property four elegant stone quarries, two
of marble, one Of gray sandstone, and one
of white sandstone. There are also strong
indications of a rich iron minea The stone
can be delivered here at less c4st than any
stone ia the market. The sandstones are OF
especially fine quality, samples Of which you