The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-12
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

night Tor Charlotte, n. g., to appear in
the United States Circuit Court in that
city as witnesses in the suit of tho Bon
sack Machine Company against Duke
Bros, of Durham. Mr.. A. Ii. Bur-
roughs is already there as one of the
counsel Of the former company. The
suit is to recover about S25, 900 OF royal.
ties earned previous to the organization
of the American Tobacco Company, and
its trial will probably occupy several
days.
The Jefferson Park Hotel and Land
Improvement Company of Charlottes-
vile has sold half interest in its prop
erty TO syndicate CON posed of Messrs
Il. 5. Handy and +. a. WEIGH, OF Phila-
dclphia, and John p. IIarman and l.. w.
Cox, Of Charlottesville.
There was a destructive explosion at
the Pulaski iron furnace. The cause of
the explosion Is supposed to have been
the bursting of a large water pipe
Fortunately there was no ono killed,
but the loss to the Pulaski Iron Com
pany will be heavy. amounting to SIO,-
600. Work at the mines will be sus-
pended month, pechaps, or longer on
account Of this accident.
An official statement of the Harrison
burg Land and Improvement Company
reports the resources at S26S. 427. 81 and
the liabilities SlG5. 05G.43, the excess Of
resources over liabilities being SlO3,-
371.OS.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company are having large stone and
brick structure erected near Randolph
street station, Radford to be used as Il
division Office. The lower story to be
built of stone, the upper story of brick
II 1nin Il T.
and is pushing right along.
Work on the immense hotel building
of Gen. G.. c. Wharton, corner First and
WadswOrth streets, Radford, has begun
1t is said that this will be the most Gle
giant hotel yet erected in Radford, and
will be as attractive and convenient as
abundant means can make it.
The Lynchburg Cotton Mill Company
will put in new boilers this summer and
Proceed to fill up their big plant with
additional machinery, SO as to increase
its productive capacity. This will be
done gradually in order not to tax the
company's resources too heavily and to
enable them to train new operatives to
the work as they need them. Addi-
tional dwellings arc being erected on
the company's land constantly and are
taken as fast as built.
MIR. j. Watkins Lee, who has made
the Rawley Spring a success for several
seasons, was in Staunton Saturday on
his way to open that watering place for
the season lie said the colorcd men
as dining-room walters had given him
so much trouble in the past that Tor the
coming season he had engaged white
girls as walters. At the Hotel Inter-
mont, the new and tirst-class hotel at
Covington, Allegheny county, the pro-
prietor has also employ ed white girl
walters. At the Hotel Elkton, the new
and handsome hotel at Elk ton, Rock
ingham county which has been open
about month, the dining room is also
waited on by white waiter girls, every
one Of whom are from Rockingham
county. Before opening the proprieto
brought on from New York an eXpeft
white girl waiter, who drilled the new
girls in their duties. a Staunton lady
who stopped there last week says their
service is perfect. All the hotel kcepers
in this section are beginning to agree
that the proximity of the great noun
tain watering places OF Virginia which
are all open in tho summer, makes it
very difficult to retain satisfactory
colorcd dining room help in tho towns
or at similar watering places, and there
~ Scici"l icellHS hHlOHB pFOprletOrS
to end tho struggle by employing white
girls. Wherever the change has been
tried-Covington and Elkton-both the
travelling public and the hotel propric-
tors speak highly of the new service
Staunton indicator.
LYNCHTURG, Va, June 9.-The graft
flying news is officially announced this
evening that the electric street cars
will commence running tomorrow all
over the route with the exception of
two squares on Fifth avenue, where new
rails are necessary to be laid and will
be here in few days from Philadel-
phia. Lynchburg has been without
street cars of any kind for some months,
greatly to the annoyance and inconve-
nience of the citizens.
'Rev. II. T.. Shealey, of Staunton,
Va, organized a congregation of Luth-
Grams at Buena Vista Va, few DAYS
since, and the following officers were
elected and duly installed: Elder, p. S.
Wise: Deacons. Jas. l.. Fray and Geo.
w. Walter. Henry Reinhardt, Jas. f..
Fray and j. E. Scleigh were elected as
board Of trustees for this congrega-
ton"