Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-06-05
The New Towns.
ShaNdIIn.

Shendun.
The News Of last Saturday furnishes the
following:
It's first arhistle.-The whistle at the
Valley Pipe and Pressed Brick Works was
sounded for the first time on Tuesday even
ing. The works will go into active opera
tions next week.
Personal.-Mr. and Mrs. George Bow
ers, accompanied by Misses Saliie, Lizzie,
Eddie and Helen Hanger, drove from
Staunton last Thursday to inspect Shen-
dun and The Grottoes.
Prof. f. w. Hamer Of Staunton. was a
caller at The News Office yesterday. Prof.
Hamer is one of the leading spirits in a
party OF excursionists who will sail from
New York next week on an extended Euro
pean tour.
Church Festival ladies of the
Episcopal church cleared $43 on their ice
cream festival, held on Tuesday and We'd
nesday Of this week. The festival was in
charge of Miss Addie Kemper, assisted by
Misses Airline Davis and May Kemper and
Mesdames J. NJ. Pirkey, J. r. Mohler and
Font. Kemper.
GordonsviIIe.
The Gordonsville Sun Herald of FRIDAY
has these items:
Persondl-MessrS. A. G. Braxton, Hugh
G. BraXton, Maurice c.. de Mauny and J.
M. Banner of Staunton, and John Bear OF
Churchville, were in GOrdonsville last
week. MI. de Mauny and his associates
10 1o1.r lJ1o,i &C
structure here.
Bu6dings.-A contract was closed this
week with the Staunton Building Compa-
ny for the erection Of $4,000 worth of
new brick buildings at Gordonsville-one
to be an exceedingly handsome business
structure to cost cool $4,000. The re-
mainder of the sum will be put into fifteen
commodious business houses to cost 81 900
each.
A lady of Staunton who is interested
here. has this week let to contract a large
and very pretty eight-room residence, which
is to be erected Oh the property of the West
Gordonsville Land Company, just opposite
the CadmuS mansion.
Waynesboro.
The Times Of Saturday has this:
Personal-Mrs. T. L. Karnes OF Staun-
ton, Mrs. VIM. Dixon of Weyer's Cave,
and Miss Lula A. Tinsley of ow-Moor,
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. 7. A. Lobban.
Church buildang.-The stone and brick
are being hauled for the $4,000 brick Bap-
list church to be erected COZ. LIST street and
Chestnut Ave.
Clifton Forge.
The Review has these notes
Persomaz.-Mrs. E. Butler Burke and
daughter, of Augusta county, are visiting
Dr.. G. T. Lewis, their relative.
Mr.. Cyrus Hunter Of Mt. Sidney, Au-
gusta county, is on visit to the city.
Railroad Matters.
The seventy-foot high trestle ON the
Shenandoah Valley Ry., seven miles North
of Luray. is being replaced by an iron
bridge and engineers have orders to run
slowly over it. Sunday morning about
dawn, while one freight train was crawl
ing slowly across, another whose engineer
SAYS his brakes wouldn't work, dashed into
it's rear at the rate of 25 miles an hour. The
trestle gave way and the caboose and two
cars Of theforward train and the whole of
the rear train went 10 feet into the ravine
below. James F. Stricken of Madison
county. who was in the caboose of the for
ward train was killed, and John Reese, q
brakeman, seriously injured.
MI E. G. Vincent, conducting the re-
,connoissance of the railroad route between
here and the terminus of the Davis road in
West Virginia, under the auspices Of the
Staunton Chamber of Commerce, writes
MI. A. G. Gordon from the summit of
Shenandoah mountain last Saturday, that
to that point the grade in no instance eX-
ceeded so feet to the mile, and in his opin-
ion the grading for many miles would not
in cost exceed 1900 Il mile.
After an interview with President In
gals at Cincinnati Friday, General Mama
ager, ". VI. Greene of the Big -Four, re
signed to take effect July list. JOS Ram
sey, now assistant to President ingalls,,
will take Mr.. Greene7s place. The posi-
tions of Freight Traffic Manager, General
Freight Agent, and Assistant General Man
ager will be abolished Oh the Big -Four and
the duties Of Division Superintendent in
creased.
The East bound Vestlbule train which
left Staunton Saturday morning, ran
through al open switch at Basic City into
freight train on siding, smashing the
headlight Of the engine and breaking up
four freight cars, two of them loaded with
lumber. Nobody on either train WAS hurt. |
Senator Carlisle of Ky, and family were
on the vestibule going to New y DIRK.
The statistics of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway Company for the month of April
show: Gross, $670, 407; operating expen-
ses, $500, 267; net, $3.50, 139; increase, $41,
104. The earnings of the road for the third
week of May show an increase of $50, $780,,
50 over those for the corresponding week
of last year.
The Office of the chief engineer Of the Ches
apeake & Ohio has been removed from Gin
cinnati to Covington, Va, on account of
the construction of the Warm Springs line,
the cars on which are expected to be run
ming by July 1st.
VIM. NJ. Clements, formerly General
Manager of the B. & O. Railroad, has been
elected President of the Board Of Educa-
ton for Kabletown district, Jefferson coun-
ty, w. Va.
Lewis A. Zirkle has resigned the position
of Valley Ry. depot agent at New Market
station, and G. f. Spengler of Strasburg,
will take his place
Robert Snapp has been appointed night
telegraph operator on the Norfolk & Wes-
tern at Shendun.