Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-23
ROkNoKE's eiRe-ALARM SYSTEM.
A site for Public Hosp.tal-Politicnl
Views Of Delegate Woods.

Correspondence Of the Richmond Dlspa.chl
Roisoxr. VA. August N.-Chief-E ngi
ncer !. G.. kuIpp has distr. buted tho key
TO the fre-alarm boxes throughout the
! CITY 10 policemen 9ni to citizens residing
! in tho vicinity of the boxes. There are
thirty bo1os in al and FIVE kovs 10 eact
! box. Recent tests have demonstrated tn
/ fact that the electric frealarm svstem Of
the city is IL thorough working order.
CuABTrR GRANTED.
Judge Robertson has granted charter
20 the Exchange Building Company OF
this CITY. Tho capita. stock o. the com
pany Is $4,000 aud the purposes OF tht
CORPORATION are e build houtes AM I'M
prove and exchange property. The officers
are: I. Il. tlsbburne. president; ). W.
Coon. yiCe-presidcut, and D. i. EngicDy
secretary AMI treasurer.
biajor ~. G.. Evans has returned home
after an absence OF TWO weeks az Mountain
Lake and other summer resorts N South
west Virginia.
HOSPITAL BCTLDr-Gs.
The Real Estate and Building Committee
Of tho Roanoke Hospital have purchased
three acres Of lind from the Roanoke Ga'
ard Water Company iu't across tho river
ut the foot OF Mil mountain, and arrange.
morts for tho erection % the hospital
buildings viii b. commenced 1T once.
Over $4,000 have been subscr. bed by
phllanthropic people il this city and e Sc
where towards building and maintaining
the hospital
POLITICAL POINTS.
Your corrcspondcut had talk on 20.
ltical matters this morning with Mr.. John
W. Woods, momber OF the House Of Dele.
gates from this district. re ays he Will
not allow his name TO 20 before tAo Demo
cratic convention, which meets at Salem
on the 18th Of Septcm Der, for reuOmiua-
tion, rs lIs business interests will not allow
him - engage in politics at this tlme.
He says the farmers had great iniu-
ence in the last Legislature, and that
the Alliance viii WELD . tremendous
power IN tia next IN originating and
shaping legislation. He thinks eomothng
should he done to settle tho State debt
question. and that tho oyster-tax saould oe
50 regulated "a 70 DO q source OF revenue
TO tho State instead Of making the pro.
lection If our oyster interests a burden
and a financial lQsl, rs has been the casa
for some years. 70 believes by proper
legislation tho revenues Of the State con
bo largely increased from This source.
wEBD-GR1ESvo
MIR. Martin Y. Webb. Of this city, and
Miss Margaret Greenwood were married. III
the methodist cDurcl AT tdYa rprlnS, SIX
miles southwest OF here, last night by Rey.
Or. Campbell, pastor OF the First Presby-
terrain church of Roanoke.
CITY BONDS.
Al tho meeting Of the City Council last
night the Finance Committee reported in
favor OF renewing the option OF Wilson,
Colson q Co.. OF Baltimore, on city bonds
at par with accrued interest til November
18th. the city reserying tho right to sell
$4,000 Of the bonds and dispose Of those
to too issued to the Roanoke and Southern
forrsd TO the Finance Committee for fur
Their consideration. This transaction in
volyed the disposal Of about SZ2O, 900 worth
Of city bonds.
Governor Mckinney paid short visit to
the city to-day from Blue Ridge Springs.
While mere 10 was the guest o. Hon. ".
z. Dupuy.