Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-01-22
FIELD OF ICE AT SEA.
DAMAGE TO SAILING-VES-
Sells AND STEAMERS.
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Correspondence the Richmond pbpstcn.l
OLD POINT COMFORT, Va, January
2l.-There il no doubt in the minds OF
the residents here that this is an old
fashioned winter, and even the oldest
iphabitant is inclined to think that II ii
keeps on in the present course 1t will
rival the memorable weather OF 1851
The sleighing here is as fine as any one
could wish, while the ice in the bay
stretches away as far as the eye car
reach. Incoming vessels report heavy
drift ice far ont at sea. The schooner w.
Church, from Providence, Il. J., reports
that when twenty-five miles east OF
Cape Henlopen, going along about
nine knots an hour, she struck 9
field Of ice which brought her to stand
still and carried away considerable OF her
copper. The steamer New York, OF the
Cape Charles route, started across the
bay at 9 A. NJ yesterday and did not
reach Cape Charles until & o'clock the
following morning. She arrived here al
3P. NJ. on her way TO Norfolk, but wai
stopped by the ice at Sewall's Point. In
the mean time the Chesapeake and Ohio
railway had "cinch on passenger
traffic, being the only reliable outlet tc
and from the Point. and is making I'll
usual connection on time.
NOT so COLD HERE.
There are q good many visitors arriv-
ing from the North who are rather sur
prised to find so much winter here; but
as they usually leave the thermometer
20 degrees belo1 zero behind them they
don't find 20 above so cold as the resi-
dents have from it.
The Norfolk and Newport News Tele'
phone Company will have a picnic re-
pairing their cable across the Roads
when the ice disappears. There has
been several vessels dragged across 1t IN
the ice, and a large section OF 1t will
probably have to be renewed.
A score or more of students from the
Hampton Institute have gone North tc
appear in concert for the benefit OF the
school, which is not provided with suili'
cient funds to meet current expenses.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
CAPTAIN and Mrs. Adrian s. Polhe-
mus. who have been the guests OF Colo
mel and Mrs. Weeks, of Washington for
the past month, returned to the post
Monday.
Mr.. Arthur O'Neill and bride, Of Nor
folk, have returned from their wedding
tour and are spending a few days with
the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ware.
Miss Lizzie Taylor, of Norfolk, who
camo down to the german last week, Is
the guest of Lieutenant and Mrs. Wake
Lieutenant and Mrs. Newcomb, OF the
garrison, entertained their young friends
at a card party Thursday evening.
Lieutenant Powell Ninth Cavalry
and bride arrived at the Hygeia yester'
day.
Mrs Lieutenant Duvall and daughter,
Miss Lee Duvall, are visiting friends IN
Philadelphia. -,
Lieutenant VI. T. Davis, Fourth
Cavalry, now East on leave from San
Francisco. is visiting his claSs-mate,
Lieutenant Montgomery,
Miss Chamberlain, Of Norfolk. IS the
guest of Lieutenant and Mrs. irwin.
Mr.. b. G. Bristow, Of Richmond, was
here yesterday, and put a force at work
on Carroll Hall to convert it into two
company barracks.
Captain John W. Pullman, post quar-
termaster, who is now on visit with hls
family to Washington, has had his leave
extended until February lst.
TO BUILD A HALL.
The Secretary of War has granted
permission to the Masons and Odd-Fel-
lows to build hall on the Point for
their Joint use, the site to be selected by
the cOmmandant.
Thirty-four recruits, mostly from
North Carolina, have been added to the
garrison since Christmas, which would
indicate that they are also having cold
weather down that way.