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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-01

which is equal TO, if not superior. to
any other market in the world. The
market for vegetables. game. poul.
try and fish is always excellent.
The oyster interest of Chesapeake
Bay. though much deteriorated in
later years, owing to injudioious
dredging and insufficient protection,
is now being better guarded through
stringent laws enacted by those
States whose interests have been 60
jeopardized. and oyster planting is
now being largely resorted to in or.
der to replace the devastation of the
natural beds. Oyster culture is more
profitable, acre for acre, than the
raising of any other article of food.
Norfolk is the natural centre for
this trade. 80 far as the waters of
the Chesapeake Bay and its tributa.
ries are concerned, and has for her
only rival the city OF Baltimore, a
place far more difficult OF access to
the oysterman.
Already Lambert's Point and
Newport News have become the
greatest coaling stations on the At
lantic coast, while the grade of coal
here handled, "Pocahontas" pro
duces the finest steaming results, and
is preferred by the ocean grey.
hounds in making their great trans.
atlantic races.
The United States Navy yard,
with its dry docks and modern steel
working machinery, and the recent
ly established ship building plant at
Newport News, with a dry dock of
greater capacity than any other in
America, give an assurance of having
at all times, in this vicinity plenty
OF skilled workmen and the proper
facilities for docking and repairing
the largest ocean steamships.
Norfolk stands where each OF the
several lines OF railroad, leading
from the South and West, finds it's
earliest and most reliable sesboard
terminus.
Although large cities are some .
times found located INLAND, as Lon
don. Paris, etc., vet history shows it
TO be the lnvarIable rale that at
those points where there are good
harbors or where largo water
courses meet the ocean, great and
populous cities will be established,
Norfolk possesses both Of these adj
vantages, and her fine harbor with
Its tributary water communication
assures to her the fact thst she will
In the future become the largest
city of the South.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-01
THE TRADE OF NORFOLK
Concluded from Mird page.

machinery, aud capable of doing
any manufacturing necessary TO
steam navigation or railroad loco
motion, The business will amount
to about $500. 600 this year, against
c0OO O10 in 1854.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-01
THE ARCHITECTURE
WHAT NORFOLK CAN SHOW IN HANDSOME BUILDINGS
shefe Ems Esccn n Great Improve
mcnt in his Respect nnu the
buildings Are Numerous und
Attracttve in Architcc-
tural Appearance.

There are many buildings in Nor
folk, both IN the way of q public
and private nature, that are impos.
Ing and attractive, and which indi
cate the activity of the city and it's
progressive development. The CITY
Hall has very shspely dome, and
the Federal Building, which con.
tains the Postofiice, Custom House.
and United States Courts, is O solid
construction with granite front and
of beautiful architecture. An m.
preparation of $3.50, 600 has been
made by the Government for the
erection OF a new postotfice build
Ing. The Cotton Exchange has a
marble front. The Norfolk Acad
envy was modelled by Walter, one of
the architects OF the National Can.
itol, latter the Temple of Theseus
at Athens" The United States Ma
val Hospital is massive building.
also with classic front. 1t cost 5000
900. The New Atlantic: has a
block frontage and cost about $3.50.
600. The most expensive church is ST.
Msry's Catholic which cost $50, 600.
and next 81. Luke's Episcopal, W hich
cost $50, 600. The new Methodist
Church in course OF erection will
cost 100000. The new Msr.
ket House and Armory cost
100000. It is one of the lar.
gest buildings OF the kind in the
South, and the Armory Hall is said
will hold an audience of 5000 per
sons. A number of the churebes
are OF splendid architecture. notably
st. Mary's Catholic. st. Luke's
Episcopal, and the new Methodist
church, which will be one of the
handsomest church buildings 10
the South. Besides there is the
Young Mons Christian Association
building, q spacious and imposing
structure. ST. Vincent's Hospital
is magnificent building. superior
to any in the South. VanWyck's
Academy OF Music, the Lowenbere
Block, the Bs!entine Building on
Main street, the Columbia & Had.
dingdon Office Buildings, the Balen.
tine Arcade on Church and Queen
streets, aud the Women's Home in
Brambleton, the new Public School
Buildings in Brambletou and Allan.
TIC CITY wards are large and excel.
lent buildings. A number of very
large buildings are now being plan
ned and contracted for, and when
erected will still further add to Nor.
folks field in this respect, especially
so the Hecht & Hirchler AIammotI,
Dry Goods Building, and the pro.
posed new building for the Cttizeus'
Bank.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-01

In the district for which Norfolk
10 trade center and market place,
20, 600 truckers hands according to
the National census, are employed.
1t must now reach nearly 10000:
besides there are about 1000 fisher
men and oystermen for nine months
In the year; $500 railroad men;
1000 factory hands, l,5OO to 1000
employed at the maynard; ships
crews paid off here, etc. 1t is safe
to estimate that the weeks wages of
~, QUO of the wage earners OF this
district of country are in circulation
here about nil the time. not to men
ton the other classes at all.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-01
THE PUBLIC HEALTH
NORFOLK is one OF THE BEAlIHIESI OF CITIES
ne precautionary NIensures and
Sow administered - sho CHI
maHc CODditiOns-Temp
ture-NO Special Diseases
Prevalent.

The conditions affecting the public
health of Norfolk have steadily i'm
proved with the retension of a
Warlng Sewer System. begun ten
years ago, aud are under the SAM
airy ADMINISTRATION of the city's Board
OF Health and Health Officer, with
police assistance. The newly an.
ne1ed territory is not yet thoroughly
severed, but the work is progressing
fast,
Warned by the frightful exam Pile
OF Memphis. during that city's ter
ribie yellow fever plague OF 1878.
Norfolk commissioned tho great
civil Engineer Waring to plan
Its sewers for it, aud with some
moalhcntIons his propositions have
been gwen effect. 10 be plain,
there is little natural drainage;
the city Is on dead flat, some
twelve feet above sea level, SO that
Well-defined sewer system was. to
Norfolk, an absolute necessity,
The system which has been pro.
vided Is of iron, stone and terra
Gotta pipe, aud twenty eight miles
IN length-i. e., covering the whole
city within the limits, excepting
three or four miles length Of
streets.
The promoters of the new subur
pan additions have oil been enter.
prlslng IN this same direction, 30
mat whatever else 1t lacks, Norfolk
Is we'll severed aud drained through
out.
There is stringent Quarantine
at Norfolk, and regular sanitary in
spection. SO that imported epidemic
Is little to be- feared.
Ihe police make quarterly inspec
tlons OF the entire corporation, and
Tue special sanitary inspector of the
Board OF Health Is engaged steadily
IN the Investigation OF complaints,
lie climate, modified both sum
mer aud winter by proximity to the
sea- and especially meilowed by the
nelghburing Gulf Stream, is mild.
equabie and agresabl ut all seasons.
1t Is much milder than on the same
parallel inland ON this account.
Inc mean temperature 10 about
~ degrees In summer and 40 in
winter. The average annual rainfall
ls % inches.
The presence of the numerous
seaside resorts in the environment
OF the city, which are patronized
Doth In summer aud winter, are
evidence enough of the climatic
moderation of this district without
further remark.
There are no diseases especially
prevalent at Norfolk or in its vicini.
~. Malaria 10 practically unknown.
Inc Chesapeake and Virginia sea
coats are sDgularly free from fcgs,
ana with sach excellent sewerage.
Norfolk lie, for the white person,
housed comfortably, living clearly
and well nourished, one OF the most
henlthiul cities OF the world,
The death rate for the whites is
ABOUT seventeen IN the thousand of
populations; rate, too, i; should be
noted, naturally much augmented
by Its floating population OF health.
seekers ana Jack lars.
The rate for the negro population
is nearly and sometimes more than
double that of the whites. But this
Is the case wherever they are.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-01
Directors 3

James E. Barry, B. T,
Bockover, K. B. Elliott.
P. H. Savage, F. NJ. White
hurst, ]. w. Hunter, B. G.
Pollard, r. P. Weight, r.
w. Santos. N. Beaman.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-01
MISCELlaN EOuS.
RATES OF WAGES.

The wages paid in Norfolk for
clerical work and to artisans, me
cuanIcs aud !aborers are of fair
character. a table is presented be-
low, which was compiled by the
Committee on Statistics of the Bust
ness Mems Association:
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A KRISE, President,
GA NASH, Vice President,
Nv LEIGH, Cashier
DIRECTORS:
A e Krse Pre- sident
Q A Nash. Vcs-Presiiont; O & Mash g.
SON, bu lding material
John l. topper, dohn l. 10 err Lumber Co.
VIM Wise, capitalist and fucker.
w 70 d. Jr., ID W Todd, DR.. & Co.. To.
bacconists.
John Sher dan, Black, Sheridan & Wilson.
on - orators.
l. Strudwiok, President Old Dominion
tuano Company.
Burruss, Burruss Son Co., bankers
w simmons, W J Simmons X Co.. Hat
Barton llyers, Mye 9 & Co.. Real Estate.
bodson, Manager .lnntic Hotel
Il G Williams. Fl q Williams & Co.
Wholesa Ii uors.
O f.ntiess, q w Fentress d Co..
Wholesale nroceIs.
VIM Dono n. VIM Donovan & Co., Coal
and Woo Dealers
James u fther dye. James E Etheredee
Il Co.. lumber
Floyd itu :hes, Wlitehurst i Hughes.
Attorneys-nt-Law.
b W Lei h. asher
TIE CITY n NT.ON L BANK doom
general barking bu mess. an its officers
an q rectO.s are among tie soli AMI
SUBSTANTIAL business men OF Norfolk.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-01
THE BANK OF COMMERCE.
Capital, 500, 900
Surplus and Profits, $4,000

Receive accounts on
favorable terms, and will
be pleased to meet or cor
respond with those who
contemplate m a k in g
changes OF opening new
accounts.
Interest allowed on say
ings deposits.
N. BEAMAN, President.
*. b. ELLIOTT, Vice-Prest.
/. y. HARE, Cashier.
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rounding counties. There has been
some slight improvement in the
volume OF trade during the last four
years, but no energetic effort has
been made to develop or extend.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE VIRGINIAN has enumerated
the more prominent lines OF trade,
giving the value of the operations
annually, but In every commercial
centre there are feeders to the gen.
eral business too numerous to men
ton and not of sufficient importance
to be singly counted in the detail re-
view, but in the recapitulatien under
the head of miscellaneous count for
mere than many of the larger single
lines of trade. Under this head The
NIRGISlAN reports Il number of
smaller lines. whose aggregate value
is about $4,000, 600 annually.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-07-13
result wa

me stood revealed a natural curiosity
of CHASTITY interest. The line of the
south of the cave, looked at from i'm
mediately in front, presented perfect
outline of Deaths head. The illusion
was completed by mass of the sand
stone that stood out, or rather in,
from the profile just where the eye
socket would be, and an almond-shaped
bowlder that lay at the corner of the
entrance, just below, representing the
cavity under the nasal bone. The In
dams told me that it was known as
Eel Porto del Muerta," the Gate of
Death.
With the rising sun I was back, the
slanting rays affording an excellent
light. At tkat hour but few people
were stirring, and when / stepped
through the gap had made in the
hedge not a soul was in sight. The
kodak was on the point of its third
snap when pistol shot Immediately
behind me attracted my attention.
This was followed by the sound of 5
falling body and a groan. Quickly
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Navigation Impedod by Flowers.

An assisted immigrant is making a
lot of trouble in Louisiana. 1t is a
plant, water hyacinth, which man
from New Orleans saw and admired
about three years ago while on a visit
to Colombia. He brought some bulbs
of it home with him and grew them in
tubs in his front yard. In about two
years patches of the flower appeared in
the Bayou ST. John, which connects
New Orleans with Lake Pontchartrain.
In another year the bayou was full of
it, so that navigation was impeded.
Now all the canals near New Orleans
are overrun and covered up with this
invading flower; great masses of it are
floating in the lake; rivers running into
the lake are choked with it, and it has
travelled a hundred miles to the vest
ward of New Orleans.
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gui1tlneSS was assumed as tOregOne
conclusion, my accuser being very cir
cumstantial in every detail of the story
he told the lieutenant. With consider
able difficulty and a liberal bride / Sc
cured messenger to send for lawyer,
and even he at first was against me, for
the murdered man proved to be citi-
zen of Cuzco of no mean standing.
After had tod my story to the law
yer he smiled with great incredulity,
and remarked: ''Of course, then, you
can show those pictures?" Somehow
this idea had not occurred to me! Yet
here was my sufficient defense. On the
pictures hidden in the recesses of that
little black case hung the issue of life
and death for mel
The story is told. The laws delays
did not vex me much. Execration
turned to interest, and commiseration
followed. The Peruvian is not unjust
if little hasty, and the circumstantial
evidence was against me, at first.
Inside of week 1 was released, and
ere leaving Cuzco had the satisfaction
of knowing that the brigand who, with
diabolical cleverness, had SO nearly
sacrificed me in his stead, was to suffer
the penalty of his crime.
T. P PORTER.
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high iron fence, the gates are closed,
and the poor people of the republic can
only gaze through the bars and sniff
the incense of nature. vainly longing
for closer contact with the rare exotic
beauties which the public servants
withhold from their sovereign rulers.
THE great Bartholdi fountain is playing
its crystal streams beneath electric
lights; bat children, women and men
may view it only between the inter-
qetices of the rails, and wonder why the
bars are there But, even under these
circumstances, we can enjoy the beau
Eles and fragrance of tne place which
millions of our countrymen would
gladly view, and who must envy us as
favored and pampered people.
Between these gardens and the white
house grounds, south of Pennsylvania
avenue, for nearly a mile there is ono
continuous verdure which includes the
arsenal, national museum, Smithsonian,
agricultural department and monu-
ment parks, overspread with the
branches of ancient trees in which the
swallows, robins and other aerial in
habitants twittcr, chirp and sing until
3Ulled to slumber by their own music.
These places belong to the people, but
when the shades of night are falling
fast they are usually forsalzen by ladies
and children because the Ishmaelites
congregate there; the men whom Cir
,cumstances and conditions have rem
-dered homeless, friendless and, there
fore, not wholly amia0le. They are
the men whose hands are against every
man, and who feel that the hands of
all mankind are raised against them.
They people the Mall ct night, just as
the birds people the trees. Whence
they come or whittier they go matters
little, for they are small factors in the
-multiples of a great city, end not one
of their integers commands personal
care or attention. 1t is OILY when they
violate law and order that they are
taken into custody; bit il the mean
while they are objects Of suspicion and
dread, so that the timid aud frail for
sake the Mall when the stars and moon
are overhead.
There are long benches in thece con-
&inuous parks which are occupied dur
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3ng tho day by mothers and nurses,
while children gambol on the grass be-
meath the splendid umbrage of the
great green arms of the gigantic trees.
At night they are. occupied by many a
weary wanderer who is harmless, but
homeless. They are not disturbed by
the rude command to ''move on, which
blue-coaled peace guardians in other
cities harshly utter to similar sons of
man. But before they take complete
possession of these places at midnight
TO seek tired natures sweet restorer,
balny sleep" they look like dangerous
marauders, and some of their number
may well be felred. In the Smithson-
Han grounds many an unwary man has
felt the weight of q club in the hands
ssaof Il tramp, to awake from a swoon and
find his watch and purse gone, never to
De recovered.
As I walked through the park near
-dhe Union deEct, between the botanical
and arsenal grounds the other night,
there was a cry of ''police" to the left
near Lineup alley" followed by a
shrill repetition of calls for ''help."
Hastily turning in the direction of the
sound, and fearing stray bullet in the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-07-13
HOW a chinaman orders a wife.

A recently returned traveller from
Australia says that when one of the
Cinnamon there wants a wife he writes
to a matrimonial agency in Hong Kong
and requests that a maiden under
twenty, who has never left her fathers
house and never read book, be sent
to him. Her eyelashes must measure
half an inch and her teeth be as white
and sparkling as the pearls of Ceylon,
her breath be as sweet as the odorous
groves of Java and her heart as over
flowing with 2 Election for her unknown
purchaser as Is the greatest river in the
world, the. Yangtse Kang, Of cleaz
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"You needn't tell me that women
have no sense of humor," said Ricketts,
TO Fosdick.
"Well?"
81 overheard a suffering man pro-
pose once. He said: I l-l-love y-y-you
intellectually, Mummy d-d-d-ear b
B-B-Blanche. W-w-w-win y-y-you
m-m-m-marry m-m-me?' And after the
delivery of this declaration on the in
stallment plan the mink had the audar-
ity to say: o, George, this is SO sud
den. '"-Town Topics.
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turning and peering through the cacti,
[ saw tie form Of a man lying face
downward on the road a stream Of
blood gushing from his head and limbs,>
all abroad convulsed in the rigors of
death. Behind him stood another
man holding a smoking revolver, which
he quickly replaced in a hip pocket.
Now am not more calloused to the
great tragedy of life-death- than
most men. But experience brings forti-
tude as well as wisdom and many other
acquired moral and mental and physic-
El qualities, and must own that at the
moment the journalistic instinct pre-
dominated over all sentiment. And in
an instant the kodak had recorded the
scene.
A moment later and the murderer
had flung his revolver into the depths
of the ravine across the road and was
busily rifling the pockets of his victim.
Again the camera snapped, and l be-
came interested to see the end of this
rather startling adventure. It was
highly improbable that the murderer
had caught a glimpse of me through the
cactus hedge, so that 1 quietly looked
On at his operations, taking couple
more snaps at him with the kodak.
Suddenly the man sprang to his feet,
and swinging horn from the back of
his girdle blew a long blast. Some
people were evidently now in sight, for
he waved his wide sombrero excitedly.
Two or three Indians and couple of
Spanish natives soon came along and
the murderer said he had just dis
covered the body. AS he spoke there
was CHATTER of hoofs, and mounted
-policeman-came dashing up.
All in d moment, now, my spcculat-
i've interest in the affair became in
tensely and painfully personal. The
murderer and brigand, as knew him to
be, cried to the officer that he had come
up just in time to see the murder COM
mitted. It was the work Of white
man, and he had to run away into the
cover of the cactus hedge! If they hur-
rieG the ''gringo" would soon be over
taken.
Realizing the situation, I at once
showed myself, and, but for the pro-
lection of the policeman, might have
Jared hardly at the hands of the ma
tives. The policeman, however, showed
me reo further consideration. He SIM
ply declined to listen to my attempted
explanation in imperfect Spanish, and
silenced me with blow from the hGn-
die of his riding whip across the
mouth. Binding my hands behind me
with a lariat, the other end Of which
he fastened to his saddle, he started
downward at a brisk trot, and ! was
obliged to follow as best I could
Scarcely more courtesy was accorded
me at the police station. My blood
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visit to Peru-and which very nearly
ended my career before a firing party.
Making my way to the southern re-
public in all haste, [ found somewhat
to my disgust that the call was practi-
cally fake. Gen. Pierola was indeed
on the war path, and meant business,
out would not be ready to take the field
for several months. This scarcely
suited my card, and as something had
to be done while l was waiting for
Developments, l determined to leave
the war correspondent" packed up in
Lima and travel in the more sober garb
of a kodak fiend" through the fas-
cinating ruins of the Incarial empire.
More sober, did 1 say? Well, pos
sibly; but had not been many days at
it before that kodak led me into sit
uation, compared to which arms on a
battlefield would have proved not at all
dangerous. One soon becomes Injured
to danger, and / am not easily scared;
but that time / came about as near los
ing nerve as one might, and still hold
his grip. It was, in fact, the closest
call that has come to me in my varied
South American adventures.
It happened in this way:
Outside of Cuzco, the old imperial seat
of the Inca dynasty, the country is for
miles on miles strewn with interesting
ruins and relics, for the most part aban-
doned now to nature. These it was my
purpose to carefully investigate and
photograph. While wandering among
the hills one day came across a curl
Gus cave in the side of a towering
precipice that bordered the road
for considerable distance on both
sides. Between the precipice and the
road a thick hedge of cactus grew. It
was practically double hedge; thin
line of the plants sprouted from the
very base of the cliff, and heavy
growth bordered the bank of the road,
leaving sort of natural footpath be-
tween. From the road the top of the
entrance to the cave was just visible.
This presented SO regularly arched and
smooth an appearance that l at once
determined to investigate it.
With the aid of a couple of Indians
whose services | secured / cut away
the cacti from about the entrance,
where the plant, of course, grew
heavily. This took us many hours to
accomplish, and by the time we were
through night was at hand But the
result was worth the labor. Before
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SAVED BY A KODAK.
The Remarkable Experience Of an
American in Peru.
Arrested for the Murder of a Citizen He
Proves His Innocence with the Aio
OF Ills Camera and ConTicts
the Real CuIprit.
Especial Lima Peru) letter.

1t is a notorious fact, being matter
calling for frequent consular and even
diplomatic intervention, that in South
America ''the laws delays" far and
away discount those with which we are
familiar in the United States. This,
however, only applies TO the more civil
lized districts in which the theory and
practice of law prevail. In the in
cerior, on the contrary, where law is
represented by practice half martial
and half lynch, the most summary
methods obtain. This fact lends an
additional thrill of interest to the fol-
lowing narrative Of an experience that
befell me on the occasion of my last