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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-08-30
A Great Convenience.

Staunton has brick-paved streets, cleo
trio fire alarm, street cars, telephone, paid
fire department, industrial education in
her public schools, and now she is to have
another of the modern conveniences of big
citics-a City Messenger.
Mr.. Alfred Lauriot, who is well known to
our people, will begin business to-day at the
Haines corner on Main street as a City
Messenger. He will carry small packages,
deliver messages and run on any errand for
the small cost Of a nickel. 1t will be a
great convenience to our people, and Mr..
Lauriot has the following advantages in
undertaking it-he is quick, intelligent
man, as honest as the day is long, consc1-
entious about doing what he undertakes to
do. We can say all this of him from ex-
perience, for he was for many years a
trusted and valued employee of the VIM
DICTATOR Office.
Let our people patronize him literally
and thus make the City Messenger a per-
manency.
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Homicide at Doom's Station.

Yesterday morning about II o'clock an
affray occurred near Doom S Station in this
county. near Waynesboro, in which a yourg
man named Sam Doom, a farm worker, was
stabbed and killed by Samuel D. Dollhouse
1t seems that u former difficulty existed be
tween the two over some matter connected
with harvest work, and yesterday morning
WAS the first time they had met. Dollhouse
who claimed that the staLbing was done in
self defense at once gave himself up and
telephoned to Staunton to his brother-i il
law, Sheriff Watts. Doom had inflicted g
blow with a rock on Dollhouse which broke
his rib before the stabbing occurred.
Sheriff Watts, Commonwealth s Attor
ney NJ. F. White and Messrs. Patrick 4
Gordon went down on the afternoon train
and returned by private conveyance will
Dollhouse who was committed to Jail. He
is son of the late J Ohm Dollhouse.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TO-DAY.

City Treasurer Hoge notifies tax payers
that payment of the first half must be made
on OF before Tuesday, September 10th, OF
the whole will be collected and per cent.
will be added.
A farm Of 125 acres on the Middlebrook
road, six miles from Staunton, is offered
for SALE 1t is desirable in every way. and
has site for grist and saw mill with the
water to run it. It also has a desirable
home on it.
J. c. Bishop announces that on .Septem-
ber I'd next Monday he will open a store
something after the John Wanamaker
style, where everything goods, furni-
ture, drugs, boots and shoes, cigars, stoves,
tinware-in short anything can be bought,
for cash. The new house will he Nos. llp
and 112 West Main street.
On Monday, Sept. 2Sd, court day. Meade
F. White, Trustee, will sell in front of the
court house, So acres of land near Fishers,
vile. adjoining G. ]. Coiner,
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County Court.

Last Monday was regular sold time
court day, and the people from the county
were here in greater numbers than have been
seen here for year. One restaurant dined
over two hundred people in three hours.
The following business was transacted by
the court, Judge Chalkley presiding:
Probate. -Administratio granted Sam
uel Fount on the estate of the late Samuel
Fount, ST.; to J. A. Runkle ON estate of
John Runkle; to David Dull on estate OF
George Vaughn, colored; to John M. Bay
lor on estate of Sarah E. Miller; to S. Z.
Mcclure on estate of Mrs. Kate Kester.
son; to j. S. Early on estate of Mrs. Susan
Reed.
Will of Elizabeth H. McKemy partly
proven and continued for further proof
will of VIM. Fisher admitted to probate:
will of Sallie F. CARRIER admitted with
Jacob H. Gouchenour ex'r; will Of Susan
Conner admitted, and estate committed to
the Sheriff will of Ann Myers admitted.
with Michael Hollar adm L C. t. a.; will of
Louis Dinkle admitted; will of Alex. B
Harris admitted with David B. Weaver
eX'r.
PERSONAL---VERY.. E. D. Kindig of the
German Baptist church was authorized to
celebrate rites of matrlmony.
Jos. 7. Carr was appointed Overseer of
the Poor for Middle River District.
Preliminary certificate issued to Bassett
E. Carter, colored, to apply for license to
practice law.
Bar Licemse-Application forlicense for
liquor saloon at the Exchange Hotel, Basic
City. docketed and continued till next
term.
Indactments-The Grand Jury found in
dictments against. e. Potteiger, malic-
ious cutting; Chas. Eppes, practlcing med
icine without license; Peter Humphreys
burglary; Chas. c. Dixon. misdemeanor.
Jury Triols.-Bettie Perkins. colored,
robbery, acquitted; Arthur Bowers, dis
turbing worship at Calvary Chapel, &C.
quilted; Andrew Stephens and Georgiana
Rhodes, colored, Illicit cohabitation, $50
fine each.
The court adjourned till to-day, when
the Potteiger case, assaulting his wife.
will be taken up.
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Ancient Relics,

Mrs. DR.. Robert McChesney of Lewis
brrg, w. Va, and her brother, MI. Geo.
II. Moffett, possess, the one a clock and the
other mirror, of which the Independent
says:
'These two articles of furniture, the clock
and the mirror, were once the property of
John Murray, the Earl Of Dunmore, who
was Colonial Govern OF of Virginia at the
outbreak of the Revolutionary war, and
were brought by him to this country in
1853 when he first came over to become
Governor Of the colony Of New Y Ork. At
The outbreak of the Revolution, Lord Dun
more took refuge on board of a British ship
in York river and sailed for England. His
personal effects were seized and eonfiscated
by the revolutionists, and at government
sale of his property at Williamsburg tn e
clock and mirror were purchased by Henry
Miller who built the first iron furnace in
Virginia, at Messy Greek in Augusta cOun-
ty, and who paid for them in iron, to tn e
value of $500, out of which the American
revolutionists made cannon. Mr.. Mil lei
was the ancestor of Mrs. McChesney and
Mr.. Moffett, and these colonial relics have
descended as heirlooms in the family for
120 years, OF since 1775."
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Debate in ChurchviI!e and Staunten.

There will be joint debate at Church
vile on the evening of September 9th, on
this: Resolved, That the true policy of
the United States is the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver and gold at the ratio of
16 to 1.'' In the affirmative will be Messrs
Lockhart Gray and r. B. Atkinson of
Staunton, and in the negative, Messrs
John Diamond and Harry Craver Of
Churchville.
On Sept. 10, in the Y. M. C. A., there
will be debated-Resolved, That Ignorance
and Superstition have proven themselves
more dangerous elements to the welfare Of
nations than Wealth and Ambition-Atfir-
mative-W. A. Pratt, Lawrence Peyton,
Lockhart Gray and Steven Timberlake of
Stanton; egative-John Diamond, Har-
ny Craver, DR.. Blair and another speaker
of Churchville.
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MEETING of Veteran CayaIrymen.

A number of the survivors of the 14th
Va. cavalry G. S. A., commanded by the
late Col. James Cochran of Augusta, met
at the Stonewall Camp room on Monday.
1t. Col. Gibson presided and Capt. ]. P.
Tribbett Of Lexington, acted as Secretary.
The following gentlemen were elected
Honorary members-Col. H. J. Williams
and John Spencer Of Augusta, and W. T.
Shields of Rockbridge.
The following gentlemen were appointed
to prepare company rolls-Co. III, w. n.
Wilson and NJ. M. Sterrett; co. E, Perry
Anderson and I. S. Lackey; Co. l, Jacob
V. Hanger and Capt. Henry Hanger; Co,
D, Samuel A. Dunlap.
1t was resolved to meet next year in
Staunton on the second day of the first fair
held here.
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From ChurchviIIe.

! THE DRY WEATHER AND THE FARMERS
| THE BIG COURT DAY-SICKNEsS-
PERSONAL NOTES LAWN PARTY
CIDER MAKING, sc.
| Reported for the Staunton VINDIcAToR.l
| CHURCHVILLE. Aug. 27.-FarmefS have
+ been obliged to stop blowing for several
days past, owing to the dryness and hard
ness OF the ground. 1t has the appearance
of rain just now, and is sprinkling some;
we hope it will continue until the ground
is sufficiently wet, for the farmers to COM
| plete their preparations fer their fall crop,
| The meadows have rot made much growth,
since the hay has been cut. The corn crop
! will lie q pretty good one, especially on low
lands along the creek.
The gathering On court day must have
been pretty good, from the number OF PEG,
pie we saw pass through here. If they
turned out from other parts of the county.
as we'll as from this section, Staunton
must have been crowded.
There is some sickness in our town at
present. Miss Lulie Winflee is quite i'll
with typhoid fever. and has been for some
two weeks OIL more. Rev. Mr.. Winfrees
youngest child has also been unwell for
some time past. DR.. Bair's youngest
child had a severe attack of cholera ilfan-
tum a few days ago, but is some better
now, as is Mr.. WiEfree S child. Mrs. Alex.
Dudley and Miss Ida Smith who have beell
sick for some months are both apparently
on the mend, and we hope it may proveper
manent, Aside from the above mentioned
cases, the health of our neighborhOod is
pretty fair as far as we have been able to
learn.
Miss Katie Erwin has been on visit of
some weeks to Rockingham and Union
springs. and is not expected home for some
time yet.
Mss Lizzie Sieg and Mrs. HederiGk lie
turned from a week S visit to Mrs. Shreck-
hise, who is sister of Miss LIZZIE aid Sis
teri law of Mrs. Hederick.
Prof. Lindsay of Charlottesville, is visit
ing Mrs. Hederick and Mr.. d. A. Sieg of
ourtown. Prof Lindsay taught school here
some years ago.
Miss Maud Sieg youngest daughter of
H. B. Sieg returned from Highland a few
days ago, where she had been on a visit OF
some three weeks to friends and relatives.
A cattle buyer from Pennsylvania was
in our town a day or two ago. A MI.
Schnaider 1 belive his name was.
There is a Lawn party to be held
in Jennings Gap on next Friday evening.
The proceeds for the benefit of church
being built in the Gap.
Mrs. Frank Butcher left last week accom-.
panied by her mother Mrs. Graf. Gilkerson
for Staunton. Mrs. Butcher left Staunton,
the earlier part of the small pox scare
there, and has been out here ever
since until Il few days ago.
DR.. John Winfree of Richmond is here,
called here by the illness of his sister.
Mrs. Bell and daughter Miss Mary. left
several days ago for their home. Mrs.
Hartman of your town, who has been visit
ing friends and relatives here, left at the
same time, with Mrs, Bell and daughter.
Cider making has commenced again at
MI. Eph Bears mill. Two years ago he
made near one thousand barrels of cider.
Hope there will not be so much hard cider
drank this fall as two years ago.
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noke, who have been visiting relatives in
this city. returned home ON Wednesday,.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. s. Peterson of Staunton,
were in Dayton, Rockingham. last week,
visiting the parents of Mrs. Peterson.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. e. Bell of Lewisburg,
w. Va, are visiting relatives in Augusta
county.
Miss Minnie Bradshaw and MI. Squire
Wilson of Staunton, were visiting friends
in Williamsville, Bath county, last week.
Mr.. A. Floyd Heck. formerly of Staun-
ton. has taken position with the g. & o.
Ry. at Newport News.
MI. G. w. Caffray of the State Dye
Works has returned with his wife from a
two weeks summer trip to West Virginia.
Mr.. Samuel T. PiIson and family re-
turned last week from visiting relatives at
Western, n. G.
Mr.. VIM Patrick is attending Allegheny
Circuit Court, which convened Oh the Goth,
Judge Mclaughlin presiding.
Mrs. E. M. Gushing left on the G. & O.
train Wednesday morning for Culpeper,
to visit her brother, Carson Mccoy.
Mrs. Robt. Goodwin of Fishersville, and
son, Master Claiborne, returned home last
Tuesday from Virginia Beach.
Mrs. G. S. Watson of Mt. Sidney, is Wis
iting her sister, Mrs. James D. Via at
Charlottesville.
Miss Byrd G. Roller of Staunton, is visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. J. F. Elliott near Char
lottesville.
DR.. Bushong and family of Augusta, ILL.,,
are visiting MI. and Mrs. w. G. Hedrick.
DR.. Bolivar McCutchan of Rockbridge,
has located at Middlebrook.
MI. and Mrs. Geo. G. Maslin are at the
Cold Sulphur Springs.
Miss L. Winfree is i'll of fever at her
home in Churchyille.
Mrs. s. s. Cox Of Staunton, is visiting
the Misses Taylor at Charlottesville.
Col. r. s. Turk has returned from trip
to West Virginia on professional business
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-08-30
Death of a Prominent Mason.

Intelligence was received here last Friday
of the suicide that morning about 9 clock
of Mr.. Frank Avery Reed. Grand King OF
the Royal Arch Chapter of Virginia, Grand
Representative of the Grand Master OF
the United States for North and South
Carolina, Virginia and the District OF Co
lumbia, Past Grand Eminent Commander
of Knights Templar of Virginia, and
Grand Senior Warden of the Grand Lodge
of Masons OF Virginia. He had been a
prominent merchant of Alexandria for
many years. was President of the Board OF
Mt. Vernon Electric Railway. He was born
in Massachusetts siXty-tWo years ago and
went to Alexandria about 1853, and had
been prominent in the Presbyterian church.
Lately he had been subject to gloomy spells,
and Friday morning after eating breakfast
and going to his business house where he
attended to some mattsTs, he went back
home and shot himself through the head
with pistol about o'clock, dying at 2
?. M.
MI. Reed was perhaps the only Mason
who was ever elected to position in the
Grand Lodge without being present at the
election. In 1890, when Past Grand Mas
ter J. Howard Wayt of Staunton. was
Grand Master Of Virginia. the election
came up for Grand Junior Deacon. The
Grand Master, in the exercise of his privi-
lege to nominate candidate, nominated
MI. Reed, and the Grand Lodge nominated
some five OIL six influential Nasons against
him. Mr.. Reed was elected by a handsome
majority. He was at the time in Low
Moor, where he was engaged in the ''boom'
Of that place.
At the meeting of the Grand Lodge last
December, he and MI. Wayt were guests
of VIM. B. Isaacs, the Grand Secretary.
who has also passed away since that SEES
sion.
Mr.. Jacob Bumgardner of Stanton,
who is now Grand Scribe of the Royal Arch
Chapter, becomes, by the death of MI.
Reed, Grand King, and at the next election
will reach the highest Office, Grand High
Priest, to which MI. Reed would have been
elected had he lived.
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Nominations for the House of Delegates.

THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION
CALLED.
The County Committee having decided
that the Democratic primaries shall he held
Saturday, Sept. 18th, and the convention
Tuesday, Sept. 10th. the candidates for the
nomination will soon be in the field.
MI. Geo. W. Koiner. who has SO faith
fully and ably represented the county in
the House, this morning announces him
self q candidate for nomination by the con-
yention.
A call is published this morning on that
popular and enterprising citizen. Mr..
Samuel Forrer, to permit his name to be
used before the convention.
A paper is published this morning calling
on Mr.. s. H. Walker, an excellent gentle
man and Democrat, to submit his name to
the convention.
AS the unwritten agreement is that the
county shall have the two delegates and
the city the Senator, Staunton has no in
terest in the way of candidates except to
vote for the best men the county puts up.
AS the Delegates nominated will not be
in the legislature of 1897 which elects a U.
S. Senator, the question of ''free silver" OF
''sound money" is not in the Augusta
county campaign, nor the question of U.
S. Senator. Purely State questions will be
the only issues.
The following is the official call for the
convention:
To the Democrats of augusta county and the
City Of Stanton:
District meetings in Augusta county and
wari meetings in the city of Staunton are
hereby called for Saturday, September 9TH,
1895, for the purpose of electing delegates to a
convention to be held at 10 o'clock a. m. on
Tuesday, September 10th, 1895, at the court
house in Staunton for the purpose of nominat-
ing candidates for members of the House of
Delegates for said county and city, in the next
General Assembly. The basis OF representa-
ton will be one delegate and one alternate
for every fifty votes and fraction thereof not
less than twenty five cast for the Democ-
ratio candidate in the Presidential election Of
1892; that is to say, for North River 10 dele
gates: Pastures 9 delegates; Beverly Manner
II delegates; South River, II delegates
Riverheads, IA delegates; Middle River II
delegates; Staunton, lst Ward, 10 delegates
End Ward, 8 delegates.
The District and Ward meetings will be
held on said date at the following times and
places
For North River, Mt. Scion. ......,........3 p. m
g Pastures, Buffalo Gap ....... ..,,,,,v.9 p. m
=" Beverly Manor, Courthouse.,-".....3p p. IN
Z" South River, Waynesboro... $50 p. m
=" Riverheads Greenvllle .... $50 p. m
=" Middle River, New Hope ............3 p. m
" StauntOn:
1st Ward, Courthouse. p. nj
I'd Ward, Chamber of Commerce. 8 p. M
twill be in the discretion of said meetings
to take such action as may be deemed neces-
sary with reference to the election of members
Of the County Committee.
By order OF the County Committee.
B. F. HUGHES, RIcHARp S. KER,
Sec. pro tenn, Chairman.
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Love Came Late In Life.

Miss Hannah Arian, aged ffty-dve, of
Fort Defiance, Augusta county, and Mr..
James Mcbride, aged seventy, Of Cumber-
land county, ILL.,. were married near Spring
Creek, on Sunday, August 18th, by Rev.
Jacob Thomas Of the German Baptist
church. They had never met until the
Thursday before they were married, and
it was a case Of love at first sight. They
Monday.
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Death of John L. LOGAN.

Mr.. John l.. Logan for ten years Deputy
Clerk OF Rockingham county court, and
who was well known i'll Augusta, died on
Friday morning last in Harrisonburg, of
typhoid fever. He was son of the late
Joseph L. Logan who was for seventeen
wears clerk of the same court. MI. Logan
was in his thirty third year, and leaves a
widow Ia daughter of Geo. o. Conrad) and
two small children. He was Past Master
of Union Lodge No. q, A. F. and A. NJ. of
Harrisonburg.
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High Compliment to the Western State
HOSDitaI,

The American Journal OF Insanity. pub
lished in Chicago, has the following to say
about our State Hospital: 1.-The capacity
Of the Western State Hospital, Staunton,
Va, has been increased to $50 beds within
the last two years. The erection of the
new laundry, rendered necessary by the in
crease Of population, has seen commenced.
and will he completed by September, it
will be up to date in every respect, and
will cost about SIS 900. A large amount Of
the work is being done by the patients.
The improvements for the comfort and
welfare of the patients in this hospital
within the last four OF five years have been
very great, and at a less per capita cost,
perhaps, than any hospital in the coun.
try,n
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Senator Daniel at the Opera House
T0-niuht.

The most prominent feature of the re-
union of alumni of Dunsmore Business
College, Will be the address by Senator Jno.
W. Daniel, delivered before them tonight
at OF clock at the Opera House. Senator
Daniel will address reunion OF Confeder-
ates at Fishers Hill to-day at noon, and
will come to Staunton by the Valley road
this evening. Those who wish to hear
him tonight would do we'll to go early, for
the house will be crowded.
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Death of a Younq Man.

Mr.. Frank E. Schmid died of typhoid
fever on Friday afternoon at the residence
of his brother, Mr.. Geo. L. Sohmid on New
street, at the early age of twenty-five, after
a sickness lasting some three months. He
is survived by his widow, daughter of
Capt. J. T. Long. His funeral took place
ON Saturday afternoon from the U. B.
church and was conducted by Rev. J. D.
Donovan, who was with him in his last
moments.
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Off on a Cruise.

The Shenandoah Canoe Club, Commodore
F. r. Webb commanding, took water last
Tuesday in Middle River at Mt. Meridian
for cruise of three weeks, which will ex-
tend to Harper's Ferry. The start was
made as low down as Mt. Meridian on &C
count Of the low water and shallow stream
above that point. The feet this cruise
consists of the ''Frankie," F. r. Webb:
the "Clyde," DR.. E. Lacy Gibson; the
Shenandoah" Geo. n. Beall, and STA
Fontaine." J. Baldwin Ransom.
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togive the people Of Augusta and the city
OF Staunton an exhibition of the industrial
and neutrality-suspicious. of the county and
city, Oh the City Fair Grounds October Is,
10, Ii and Is, and whereas the Virginia
Live Stock and Fair Association have made
every possible effort to amicably settle all
differences between the fair associations
and as an earnest of their purpose have at
great expense and Inconvenience changed
the dates for holding their exhibit, so as to
AVOID conflict with the Baldwin District
Fair Association therefore
Resolved. ist. That we earnestly en-
dorse the course OF the Live Stock Associa-
ton, and pledge them our cooperation and
support in every honorable effort to give a
successful exhibit on the dates above
named
IND. That we condemn as unbusiness-
like and unjust alike to the Live Stock AS
soclatlon and to the people OF the great
county of Augusta the course pursued by
the Baldwin District Fair board, in their
purpose to continue the plan of taking up
the dates of the Live Stock Association,
as leading to a failure to have a fair at all,
and therefore working great injury and
harm to thepeople of Augusta and the bust
ness interests of Stanton
s'3rd. Regarding the holding of sue
cessful fair as OF great interest to the city
and county, should the Baldwin District
Fair Association further interfere with the
dates of the Live Stock Association, as
now fixed, We hereby pledge ourselves to
withhold all support to said Baldwin Dis
trict Fair Association in the future.
''4th. That we will do all in our power
to promote an exhibition by the Baldwin
District Fair Association at such times as
will not obstruct the exhibition of the Live
Stock Association as now fiXed.'
After hearing addresses from Mr.. Z. J.
Crowder, Director in the Baldwin District
Fair Association, and MI. Heber Ker, Sec
rotary of the Live Stock Fair Association,
Oh pretty much the same lines that have
been heretofore gone over in this dispute,
and from Capt. HI. Hoover, the meeting
adopted the preamble and resolutions by
an overwhelming majority.
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From SteeIe's Tavern.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, &C.

Reported for the Staunton VINpIc AToR.l
STEELE S TAVERN, Aug. 2S.-At Mt.
Carmel on the 9th inst, Mr.. VIM. II. Hell
mich was married to Miss Ella E. Miller,
both of Augusta county. Rev. A. II.
Hamilton performed the marriage cere-
mOny.
Mrs. Hidy OF Craigsville. and her niece,
Miss Lora Hidy Of Mansfield, ILL.,, have
been on visit to friends at Raphine.
MI. VIM. S. Giles is representing the
Raphine lodge of Sons of Temperance this
week in the State convention, which meets
at Hillsboro, Albemarle county.
The ground is too dry and hard for
blowing.
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Brief Notes of Local Interest.

There will be a quarterly me citing of
Auxiliary to Y. M. g. A. in parlor of the
building on Monday, Sept. I'd at o'clock.
a lawn party will be given at New Hope
Oh Thursday night, September 5th, for the
benefit of the NJ. E. church. A detach-
ment of the Stonewall Brigade Band will
furnish the music.
The Covington furnace will soon close
down for repairs and be put in frst-class
condition.