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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10
WILL BE GREATER STILL.

The Wool and Cotton Register,
IN its review Of mill construction
throughout the country the past
year, credits New York with having
had 80 new textile mills constructed
during that period. 1t also credits
Pennsylvania with SO, North Caro-.
lima 20, South Carolina %, Georgia
IS, Massachusetts Is. Maine IL, yir.
ginia 8, aRhode Island 8, Texas 7
and Connecticut 7.
The Charleston News and Courier
In referring to the review, expresses
its qualification at the exhibit of the
two CarolinGs, and it has a right To.
1t says that with about u, 600 600
white population New York and
Pennsylvania together built seventy.
tonr new mills. With about 2, O0O. 600
white population the Carolinas buil.
forty-nine new mills. That is 20
say, IN proportion to white popula.
ton the two Southern States built
four mills to the two GREATEST
Northern States one. South Caro-.
lima, with about 400, 900 white popu
lation, built 80 per cent. more mills
than Massachusetts with six times AZ
large white population; twice ss
many as Maine with so per cent
larger white population, and three
times as many ss Connecticut with
nearly double its white population
and this 10 where the qualification
comes in.
1t should be noted that lhis az.
hibit covers all textile" mills. not
cotton mills alone. If the compari.
son were confined TO cotton mills
South Carolina, says our oonsem.
porary, we believe, would show
nearly az many new mills for the
year as all the Northern States mt
together. Il believes that the
comparison will be still moye
favorable at the end of 1895, and
there can be no doubt Of it.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10

The Savannah News in speaking
OF bill that has been introduced in
the Legislature of Pennsylvania to
make the purchase by proxy of poll
tax receipts misdemeanor, punish
able with fine and imprisonment,
says that there are other States than
Fennsy lvania that ought to have q
law of the kind. The payment Of
poll taxes as means of petty brib-
cry Is probably INDUCED in wher-
ever tax receipt is necessary to the
voters exercising the function OF
elector.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10
WHAT ARE ThsE POLICE REG.
IAii0SSl

Capt. King, of the Norfolk police
force, IN his testimony before the
Board Of Police Commiss ioners of
PORTSMOUTH, presented an exhibit
OF police discipline III this city that
j. very much q. variance with gen.
eral opinion IS created by the state.
ments of the Board of Police Com
missioners OF Norfolk concerning
their rules of government. In the
course OF the examination Capt.
King was asked by the counsel of
Oheer Warren:
II he did not know that Chief Ire
dc WAS removed from Office Tor the
same thing that he had done IN the
case oil Officer Warren" This he
dec lned to answer.
he was then asked "if the police
regulations did not require that the
name OF every person brought to
the station house should be entered
Oh the slate" y
his reply was, "that the regula.
Mons were not made for Portsmouth.
Dn' Tor the government of the police
force OF Norfolk" ''''
de was then asked GLOW were
men released who were brought
there by officers without their names
appearing on the slate"
lie answered "that he and tho
ohcer usually consulted together,
Ind where the case was a friyolons
ne they would release him."
Ii what Capt. King testifies is cor.
reo'' then the rules have been
changed or pushed aside s1nes Ire
dell and Murray were beheaded, II
will be we'll If the Commissioner
look into the matter. There must
be considerable looseness in tbs dis.
cipline, If Officer Boss is to be credi
ted. BY his statement Police officers
have remarkable sway. He did not
hesitate to tell MIR. Goodrich Hat
toD' tho counsel sof Officer Warren.
that IL be would come to Norfolk
and do as Officer Warren had done.
9 would arrest him, although he
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10
NORFOLkrS GREAT FUTURE
The Press still Pouring Forth Words
Of Cheer.
PAST HU EARNEST OF HIGHER RESULTS
Growth of More Than 100 Per Cent.
Wonderful Advancement. Com
mendable Enterprise. Credit
to Norfolk. Should APP
preciate the Effort.
Abingdon Times.

HE NORFOLK NIRGINIAN, one of
our most esteemed exchanges, has
exhibited very commepdable en-
terprise in newspaper work in its
issue of January LIST. THE VIRGIN
IAN is q staid and reliable journal.
that holds fast to the faith without
wandering after strange gods. If
the issue of the LIST is an earnest of
what MIR. Gleunan proposes to give
lis for the ensuing year in the way
OF newspaper, its readers will be
moro than pleased.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10
q Credit to Norfolk.
Southampton Democrat.

THE NORFOLK ViRGINlAy issued 81
trade Issue" Tuesday that reflect,
great credit on Its publisher and tbo
city OF Norfolk. The Issue contains
much valuable Information in regard
TO Norfolk and it's section. 1t sbonld
be circulated extensively tbronah'
OUT me country. by which means
Norfolk would no doubt reap untold
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10
Norfolk's Wonderful Advance.
Eastern Shore Heral

The issue of The NORFOLK VIR-
GILMAN for January LIST contained
twenty-four pages. 1t was SPLEEN
didly gotten up and was credit to
the enterprisng city in which it
lives and whose interests it SO ably
advocates. 1t gives trade review
OF the past year, which shows won
deriul advances. 1t also shows the
great commercial advantages Nor
folk possesses. The VIRGINIAN
warmly favors the consolidation of
the several outlying towns with Nor
folk, making thereby O CITY OF 10O.-
600 inhabitants. We congratulate
THR VIRGINIAS for its enterprise
and wish 1t great success.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10

TIE CIRCULATION OF THE VIRGIN
IAN IL Largely IN EXCESS OF any
other paper published in Eastern Viz
Its circulation III Norfolk ami Ports
mouth is greater than that OF any paper
published or circulated in the two cities.
1t is delivered in the cities OF Norfolk
and Portsmouth and suburbs for l0cents
aweek. Neutrality-suspicious., postage paid.
Five Dollar, per year; Three Dollars for
six NJ onths: One Dollar and Fifty Cents
for three M ontbs AMI Fifty Cents for one
month. :.
Advertisements inserted at the rate OF
rs CENTS 4 kQuARE IBsT INSERTION; each
subsequent insersion 97s CENTS, or Oh
CENTS wHKS ISsEETrD EVERY oTnEB DAY.
Contractors are not allowed TO exceed
their space or advertise other than their
legitimate business. except by paying
sppcially for tie same.
THFWrERIY vIRoINIAH AND CARoLISIAS,
eight pages. is delivered, postage paid,
three mentbs. Pc: six months, &c.,;
Swelve months. 81.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10
a Great Effort to Advance Norfolk
BlackMater Courier.

The VIRaINIAN's New Year issue
is dedicated to consolidation Of
Portsmouth, Berkeley aud other
towns surrounding 1t. 1t must be
very gratifying to Mr.. Glennan, the
owner, In placing his pet scheme in
30 strong q light before the readers
OF his hustling paper. No paper in
Virginia has had 30 much to do with
building up Norfolk from its infancy
up to a great Norfolk. The birds
eye view of Norfolk and surround.
ing towns "a seen on its first page Is
the best ever seen by us III print by
Virginia paper. And it's reading
matter is produced from cold facts,
and tells us that Norfolkoniaus are
progressive people. Wishing
much prosperity to the VIRG1NiAN,
lite editor aud greater Norfolk for
the year 1895.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10
A Great Pannr

Elizabeth c!ty On. C.) Carolinian.
ThE NORFOLK VIRGINIAy of Ian
nafy Isl was great paper. consist
Ing OF twenty four pages, and IL wos
hiied, In addition to the mani
amount OF tue general news. witt,
Interesting matter eoueern,no ~" t,n
city Of Norfolk, VIZ
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10
Norfolk Should Appreciate the Ef.
fort.
Cape Charles Pioneer,

The NoRFoLK VIRGINIAN issued q
magnificent trade issue on the 1st of
January, showing the wonderful
growth and progress of Norfolk the
past year. The business mon OF that
city should appreciate such paper
as lHE FIKGINIAN and such an able
editor ns MIR. Glennan, who is ever
awake to the interests of her people.
This issue shows great enterprise
and ability on the part Of the editor
Of The VIRGINIAS.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10

HE VIRGINIAN is making an eff
fort to ease the cares of the house
keeper by the publication daily of a
bill OF fare for three meals each day
during the year. 1t will be a prac
teal common sense bill of fare, and
1t is sure 1t will be appreciated by
its readers.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10

LII Kun vi, who succeeded LII
Hung Chang as commander-in chief
OF the Chinese army, ia worthy
successor of that individual. In re-
spouse to the Empetor's requests
that he should put himself at the
head OF the army he has begged to
lie sent instead with the peace ad.
visers to Japan.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10

II the Republican party goes out
side OF Louisville for ite Presiden.
tial nominee in 1896, it is the
Courier-Journal's opinion that it
could make no better choice than
Senator Allison.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10

Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island,
must be painfully short of political
capital when he seeks to manufac-
ture it out OF the obsolete Hawaiian
business.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10

: Last year Louisville, Ky, sold
161, $40 hogsbeads Of leaf tobacco,
and received for the Same $40, OOO.-
600. Louisville just as lenf have the
same thing repeated this year, says
an exchange.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10
Norfolk's Wonderful Development.
Greenvile IN. o. Reflector.

Gresnville IN. o. Reflector.
The New Year Issue of IHE Non
FOLK NiRGlNiAS was mammoth,
edition of twenty four pages AND
contained @ review OF the business
of Norfolk for the year 1894 and a
comparison With the trade of 1894
The showing Is wonderful exhibit
OF growth and dsvelopm ent. In 1884
the trade Of Norfolk WAS estimate
at SAS, OO7, 800; the business for la.,
year reached S9l, l9S, 348, near,
double. Norfolk's population i.
now 5J, 900. The number of build -.
ipgs erec.ed in eight years was 2
253, at value of nearly SIS. 600 600
The combiRed population of Nor
folk, with that OF Portsmouth,
Berkley and other towns, amounts
to 100, 600. Milne VlKGINlAN pro.
poses consolidation, aud this issue
Is dedicated to the promotion OF
THIS result, 1t reAects much credit
on IHE NIRdINIAH and will be OF
vast benefit TO Norfolk.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10
A Growth of More Than 100 per
Cent.
Wilson, II. c., Adyanc

tuesdays issue of The NORFOLK
NlRGINIAN was mammoth affair
1t contains sixteen pages devoted
exclusively to Norfolk and its bust
ness. A comparison between the
Norfolk of 1854 and the Norfolk OF
1894 Is made. 1t is shown that the
population has grown 100 per cent,
the business has increased nearly
the same. Mr.. Glennen, the editor,
is urging the consolidation OF Nor
folk, Portsmouth, Berkeley and other
towns. SO as to make great city of
100, QUO Inhabitants. Mr.. Glennan
deserves great credit for his excel
lent paper.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10
H ARDW ARE,

We desire to inform the public ami
especially the farmers that we have adj.
ded to our Dusine fine line OF FAiM.
lag I'M lIEMENTS-th Onyer Pattern
hillst Flow. They have been DO orc
the public so long. and their merits ara
10 we'll established, that II Is unnecessary
for us To say a word as TO their super or
performance in the field. Also the ,liu.
por aud Atlas ows. Mold Boards. Stand.
ards and Land Sides. tho Combined mar
row ana Cuttivator, smiths Patent straw
Cutters. tue improved Corn Sheller.
These. along With our ali eady full line
o. HarnwRr Pa nus. Oils an Glass wa
are offering at remarkabl low prices
Give usa cali and we will ssve you money!
352 Church sire t. OWENS & EUSTIS.
Sign OF the Anvil
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-10

Entered rs ,econd-class mail matter
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-10
SUIT OVER A LOVE TOKEN,
Bitter Contest Between GuStaVe
Braman and Constance
Roy.
Charged by the Police With All Sorts
of Crimes, Yet He Has Never
Been Convicted.

Gustaye Braman was called murder
er, "irebug," tblackmailer' and an as
sorted lot OF other names that usually
begin and end in { hes during the two
hours session of justice of the Peace
Groezingers court yesterday, The shower
OF epithets did not disturb his equanimity
in the least.
Braman was suing Mrs. Constance Roy,
the widow of the deceased secretary of the
Hibernia Bank, TO recover $125, the value
of diamond ring which he claimed be-
longed to him. Mrs. Roy, who is many
years older than Braham. claimed that he
gave the ring to her. Some time ago Bra
man had Mrs. Roy arrested for stealing the
ring. he failed to make his charge stick,
and so brought the present suit. Mrs. Roy
declared 1t was simply done to harass her.
Pleced out by the different witnesses
who went on the stand Braman's career
has been remarkable one for a young
man OF his attainments. He has been ar
rested Tor blackmail, arson and murder and
has been warned out of cities, but through
1t all he has escaped any long confinement
IN prison. The juries disagreed in nearly
all the cases brought against him, and he
stoutiy insists on his innocence because he
was never convicted.
Braman was born in Finland in 1866. In
1889 he popped up in San Pedro and the
record OF his troubles with the authorities
of this country began. He was discovered
by sailor who returned home to his wife
unexpectedly, the result being that Bra
man was given a coat of tar and feathers.
The men who handled the tar and feathers
were afterward fined $40 each
Next Braman's house burned down nm
der suspicious circumstances and he was
arrested for arson. The case was after
ward dropped.
Braman disappeared for a time. Later
on he showed up in st. Helena with a
brother, said to be half demented. The
brothers mutually insured their lives for
one another, the policy on Eric's life
calling for 5000 and that on Gustave's for
$4,000. The brothers moved to Santa Cruz.
One night their house burned down and
Eric was never seen alive again. Gustave
claimed the $1,000 insurance. In reply the
company charged that he had burned his
brother to death. He was tried for the
crime, but escaped conviction.
Next Braman turned up as a conductor
on the nIon-street line. The police got
wind that he was in the blackmailing line.
They started after him. but were too late,
for Braman had left for Texas.
On his return he took room at Mrs.
Roy's house and the troubles began which
WHY he courte6 her and not some younger
woman he replied that young women were
too giddy for him.
Right after this courtship the police got
on Bramans trail again, but again he got
wind of what was coming and escaped TO
Sacramento. There he claimed that a
woman named Fannie Young had robbed
him of $4,000 in Guatemalan money. The
police suspected blackmail. Mrs. Roy was
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-10
NO MORE SKYSCRAPERs.
Future Buildings Are Limited
to One Hundred and
Thirty Feet.
GALLANT FIGHT OF WAGNER.
Proposed Ordinance Prohibiting
Lottery. Advertisements Is
Defeated.

Future buildings in San Francisco will
be limited to a height of 130 feet. This
| was definitely settled at meeting of the
Board of Supervisors last night. the vote
standing 6 to on an amendment offered
| by Mr.. Wagner in favor of not restricting
the height of buildings on streets 100 feet
or over in width. 1t takes seven votes to
carry an order.
! In the absence of Mayor Sutro, Super
visor Hughes occupied the chair. He
| stated that the object of the meeting was
| to finally pass upon the ordinance recon-
mended by the Fire Committee regulating
! the height of future buildings. The secre-
tary then read the proposed ordinance,
after which the subject was generally dis
cussed, Supervisor Taylor arguing strongly
in favor of his original recommendation of
a limit of 100 feet, while Messrs. Spreckels
and Wagner were equally enthusiastic
over the no-limit proposition.
| There were amendments and amend
ments and when it came to the final vote it
was anything but an easy matter for the
Supervisor to understand just how they
stood. Mr.. Wagner offered an amendment
to the 130-foot resolution, in which he ad-
vocated taking off all restrictions on the
height of buildings on streets 100 feet or
over. This Immediately brought Super
visor Taylor to his feet.
II am opposed to any buildings over 100
| feet HIGH" he said, because l believe
them to be against the public interest,
viewed financially, physically or other
wise. They are not conducive to good
health, and are detriment to the public
welfare generally.
| 81 shall certainly vote against any
| amendment which authorizes building
| to be constructed higher than 100 feet"
| Supervisors Wagner and Spreckels
argued in favor of unrestricted height, but
when the question was called the vote
stood as follows:
ACCESSIBILITY, Benjamin, Hughes, Nor
ganstern, Spreckels, Wagner-6.
Noes-King, bunker, Diamond, Taylor,
Hobbs-5.
Then came an amendment by Super
visor Dimond limiting the height to 120
| feet, followed by substitute for the whole
by Supervisor Morganstern, placing the
height at 150 feet. Both amendment and
substitute were lost by the same vote OF
to S.
The original ordinance, placing the
height of buildings at 130 feet, was later
passed by the Supervisors almost unani-
mously, Mr.. Taylor holding out for 100
foot limit.
The lottery advertising ordinance came
up for final passage and was defeated. In
the committee of the whole the majority
voted as a unit against the measure, while
Supervisors Dimond, Taylor, SpreckelS
and Hobbs ranged themselves on the other
side. In regular session the minority said
it had no chance of success, and so pei
force voted with the ma iority.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-10
PARIS K|LBURN EXPLAINS,
He Tells Why the Bank Com
missioners Were Arrested
at Merced.
CALLS IT POLITICAL JoBBERY.
The Law Is Quoted and the Action
Of the Entire Board Is Justified
by Him.

Colonel Fuller, Paris Kilburn and Judge
Magee, the Bank Commissioners, who
were arrested on the 8th inst. in Merced
on warrants sworn out by Attorney V. G..
Frost, and charged with misdemeanor in
having neglected to report the true condi-
ton of the Merced Bank, arrived in San
Francisco last night, having been released
on their own recognizance.
Mr. Kilburn last night entered into a
discussion of the arrest and what he
deemed the cause of it. Said he: "We
consider the whole thing piece of politi-
cal tomfoolery that amounts to nothing
other than little annoyance at being ar
rested through the instigation of men who
do not seem to understand the provisions
of the act which created the Board of Bank
Commissioners.
"First of all, the bank of Merced went
into liquidation of it's own volition, or sus.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-10

AND THE VATICAN

A LBERT SUTRO, the well-known banker
IA and Oriental scholar (who has charge
of Mayor Sutro's library, will contribute
the result of some of his recent researches
in the Sutro library to next Sundays is
sue of the SAN Francisco CALL. He has
translated from a rare Hebrew volume,
published in 1886, extracts which bear
directly on disputes among theologians as
to the birth of Christ and the martyrdom
of the apostles Paul, Peter and John. His
discovery and researches have so inter-
ested the Vatican that strong efforts have
been made to buy the treasured volume,
but Mayor Adolph Sutro declined to dis
pose of any of the books of the library.
The paper includes a summary of the cor
respondence with the Vatican. Read these
letters in the San Francisco CALL next
Sunday.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-10
PILING UP THE COST.

Report of the New City Hall Commits
sion on the Big Building.
The new City Hall Commission have
just filed their annual report for the last
fiscal year. The total receipts were
$3.50, ,297; the disbursements, $172,5S2.
There is a balance in the treasury OF
$17s.910. Up to July last, $5, ,397. .444. 05
was set aside for the feat of trying to con-
struct the new City Hal. Of this 1921, )
243, II has been successfully spent.
The chief changes in the hall during the
past year have been the work on the dome
and the housing of the Police Courts and
police headquarters removed from the old
City Hall.
Appended to the report is the following
communication from Architect Shea on the
probable cost of completing the structure
The work necessary to be performed is in de-
tail as follows:
permanent hre-proof roof covering the en-
tire building, with the exception of the Hall OF
Records
The carrying up of all main interior walls to
proper height, satisfactory system of ven tia.
! tion introduced, and smoke flues raised above
| the lines of root ridges with oil satisfactory
| Gaping, etc., complete.
| The performance of all work necessary to
| complete in every particular the inner dome
! ana rotunda.
| The general repairing of all injured work In
| rooms and especially of corridors throughout
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-10
BANKERS ARE UNDECIDED,
The Now Tax Levy May Decrease the
Rate of Bank Diyi-


Bankers in this City are still undecided
as 10 the effect of the ordinance adopted by
the Board OF Supervisors of this City and
County fixing the rate of taxation on
moneys in the banks of the county at g.
per cent, but 1t is the general supposition
that the leyying of this excessive rate will
inevitably decrease the rate of the divi-
dends.
Last year the rate of taxation placed
upon the banks was 1.65 per cent. Con-
sidering the rate of interest on loans, 81
per cent, which has lately been adopted by
the banks as the standing rate, there can
only be one result-that is, a decrease in
the income of the banks, which will affect
the moneys on deposit and cause reduc-
dends.
Speaking of the matter yesterday B. A.
Becker, president of the German Savings
and Loan Society. said ION account OF
the dull times the banks throughout the
City were forced some time ago to reduce
the rate of interest on loans from Z per
cent to 612 per cent, which of course mate
rally reduced the profits.
This proved to be only one end of the
proposition, however, as last May the
Supervisors adopted an ordinance increas-
ing the rate of taxation upon the banks,
which, logically speaking, makes double
cut upon the net profits of the banks.
There can be but one result, decrease in
the dividends.
Furthermore, the fact that this ex-
cessive tax was caused to be levied has had
an injurious effect OH the money market.
Capitalists are rather timid with their
money at present, especially Eastern capt.
talists, as this new rate of taxation, which
is almost oppressive in character, has af-
fected business in all its branches"
R. J. Tobin,- president of the. Hibernia
Savings and Loan Society, and +. ]. lie
Breton, president of the French Savings
Bank, were also of the opinion that re-
duction of dividends would be necessary
as result of the increase of the tax rate.
Mr.. Tobin advanced the opinion that it
was the presumption that the rate of divi-
dends this year will not exceed 81 per
cent on ordinary deposits and 4 per cent
on term deposits, against on ordinary
and 4.80 on term deposits, which was last
years rate. Considerable of this will be
taken from the pockets of the laboring
people.