The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-06
MINE OPERATORS HERE.
Many Owners Of The Flat Top Mining
Fields In Norfolk Yesterday.
INSPECT LAnBERT's POINT COAL PIERS.
Mcssrs. Castner and Curran Gen.
eral Agents for Pocahontas Coal
Tender the Second Annual Excur.
sion TO Their Clients, tho Mine
Owners-Old Point Visited.

The operators of thirty eight big coal
mines in the great Pocahontas Flat Top
| district paid Norfolk visit yesterday
and inspected the terminal facilities for
handling their product at Lamberts
Point. They also made a tour of the
harbor. going to Old Point before they
returned to the city.
The excursion was q complimentary
one. which for the past two years 1t
has been the annual custom of Messrs.
Cashier Il Curran, the general agents
for Pocahontas coal, to tender their
clients. the mine owners.
The excursionists left Vivian, w. Va,
AT the head OF the Flat Top mining re-
gton. Sunday afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock
All along the route as for eastward as
LynchbGrs. members OF the party were
picked up. AT Bluef1eld. West Virginia,
they dined at the famous Bluefield Inn
They arrived In this city at 1880 o'clock
Yesterday morning. and registered at
the Atlantic.
After breakfast the party loitered
about the city, and paid their respects
to Colonel William Lamb, the agent
of MesSrs Cashier Ss Curran.
At 1880 o'clock they all boarded the
trim tug Katie. the scene OF so many
occasions of conviviallty, and from
whose decks SO many parties Of promi-
neut men have formed such favora BILE
opinions of our harbor and Its possibill-
ties that their capital was readily in
vested here.
Proceeding TO Lamberts Point, the
party G.sembarked, and examined the
big iron piers from which millions of
tons OF PocahoE.as coal are annually
shipped. al the point the party was
Joined by Captain John Twohy, the
genial. They were grouped on the pier
and photographed by Mr.. Faber of
Norfolk
Re-embarking, after n pleasant run
! across the Roads. Old Point was reached
| at 1920 O'Clock. Here half an hour was
spent AZ; the magnificent Hotel Cham
berlin. when they again boarded their
tug for No:folk.
The return trip to the city was made
all the more enjoyable by songs and
those things less poetic but more salts
lying 10 the inner man. Many a good
story was told beneath the awning that
shielded the quarter deck from the sun
| light.
The battleship Massachusetts,. riding
ma1es.ically a.. anchor off Old Point.
| excited unusual interest. due to the IA Of
| mat on her record breaking trial trip
| Pocahontas coal was used in her fur
haces' she was chcered as the Katie
| swept by her.
| Arriving in Norfolk the party lunched
| az the Atlantic, and then re-embark-
! ing on the Katie. and visited the navy
yard and made tour of the steamship
piers. from which they had good view
1 Oh me shipping. after which they board
| ed their steamer for Boston
| At o'clock the Merchants and Min
ers steamship Gloucester, with the par
| ~ aboard. cleared for Bosom. where
they Will arrive Wednesday at 10 a m,
AT the dock in that city they will be
met by Messrs. Curran and Burton, the
New England representatives OF cast.
/
Hub un.il Friday, when they leave
| Tor providence, where they will take
the Fall River line for New York. where
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel they viii
remain until Saturday. a trip up the
| Hudson under the chaperonage al
Messrs. Ca-tner & Curran. aboard =
beautiful private yacht. will be one OF
| The attractions during their stay I'm tn,
| metropolis.
a banquet Will be Served at the Fiftf
Avenue on the same night. The part,
| VIII leave New York Sunday q fternooI
at o'clock. reaching their homes tn,
Following morning, after having visitet
All The principal American markets 70
! their product, and the great piers n.
LImoerts Point, from whose scupper
hundreds of tons of ocahontas coal an
nually finds its way 10 European mar
keis.
Colonel William Lamb, of William
Lamb x Co. the Norfolk representa-
tives of Cashier & Curran. entertainet
tho visitors right royalty during thei
| Gay in the city The Colonel IS a.
popular among his confreres in the Goa
business as he is with his politica
| friends.
Count Hugo Arnal. the versatile, en-
tertained the party with an assortmen
of speeches in every known tongue
save SanScrit.
Mr.. j. J. Tierney, president of tn,
| Pocahontas Coal Company, was an ex
the boys
Kate Claxton, better known in bust
ness circles as IN. H." created enough
merriment to go around.
Uncle Jonathan Bowen was the jollies
man aboard, except Mr.. William II
Thomas, general mana ger OF the Al
Gonah Coal Company, while the mos
digniied man aboard was Mr.. L. c
llansbrough president of the same con
Germ. Colonel William II. McQuail wa
very much in evidence. and Mr. G.. +
Lucado. of Shawville, added much b,
his presence to the trip.
Mr.. D. III. Watson, general manager O
Cashier & Currans Roanoke office, wa
central figure, while the company o
that always oonvivial gentleman Com
modore John Twohy, was greatly en-
joyed.
Mr.. Frank II. Wadlegh, who Is pion
Ger in the use of Pocahontas smokeles
| coal, was centre of Eayety.
The gentlemen who operate coal mine
| Were as follows: Hon. John Cooper. VIII
his friends say will be the Republica
candidate for Governor of West Virg,
MIA in 1900; Jenkin Jones. w. G.. Free
man, Jonathan Bowen, j. ID. Hewitt