Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-26
TWO DELEGATIONS IN WASHING
TON FROM THE OLD DOMINION.
YINDICATION OF HAMPTON ROADS.
Original order for Naval Render
vous There VIII De Carried Out
Military Encampment-Pers

first to call was joint committee OF the
City Council and the Business Mems AS
ISOLATION OF Fredericksburg Of which the
Hon. Terrence McCracken was the chair
man. and the following were members
Colonel e. d. Cole, OF Governor Tyler's
staff; ex-Postmaster II. II. Wallace
Postmaster John NJ. Griffin, Hon. A. r.
Embrey, and Messrs. G. w. Wroten, T.
NJ. Brent. John 7. knight, and Isaac
Hirsh. The committee was accompanied
by Representative w. A. Jones. of the
First District; National-Republican Com
mitteeman George Il. Bowden, and Chair
man Park Agnew.
The mission of the Fredericksburg gen.
tlemen was to induce the Secretary Of
War to send fresh supply of troops now
thai the Fourth Regiment is gone, TO
| Fredericksburg. In the absence of Secre-
tary Alger, Representative Jones intro
| duced the members OF the committee to
MISUNDERSTANDING f-War Meikeljohn.
| Mr.. McCracken was the first speaker.
| and he presented the claims and advan-
| tages of camp sites in the vicinity Of
| Fredericksburg, setting forth that there
|
and bathing purposes for a whole army
and that the sanitary condition of the
! locality was proved by the splendid health
| of the Fourth Regiment, which had been
| there for several months. Not a man of
/ the regiment had died in that time, and
! there was little or no sickness among
| the men.
Mr.. McCracken was followed by other
| members Of the committee, and the APP
| peal for the troops was endorsed by Con-
gresham Jones and Messrs. Agnew and
| Bowden. The Secretary seemed TO re-
| gard favorably all that the gentlemen
said, and he promised that he would send
an inspecting officer down 10 make a re-
port upon the proposed camp sites. II
this report should be in accordance with
the requirements of the department,
brigade, at least would be sent TO the
ancient city. The gentlemen left for
home very much pleased.
HAMPTON ROADS DELEGATION.
The second delegation came to vindi-
cate Hampton Roads from the insinua-
tons and aspersions that have re-
Gently been published about that grand
body of water, and right royalty did they
do it. The delegation consisted Of Hon.
William A. Young, John +. LAWYER and
Board of Trade Of Norfolk; X. Lancaster
Williams, representing the Chamber of
Commerce. Of Richmond. and Postmaster
Fred Reed and William Il. Burgess, Of
the Business Mems Association, of New
port News. Their mission was 10 see
the Secretary of the Navy and ask that
the alleged order restindng the order
for the rendezvous Of the auxiliary craft
of the navy in Hampton Roads be count
ermanded.
The delegation was accompanied by
Senator Martin and Collector Park
Agnew, and in the absence of Secretary
Long, they had quite an extended inter-
view with Assistant Secretary Allen. The
latter assured the gentlemen that no such
order as the one referred TO had
ever been issued; that it was the inten-
ton of the department to make the
Roads a naval base for some time to
come. and that all the vessels ordered
there-some sixty or seventy in number
would rendezvous and be retained there
until reports had been made on them
by inspecting boards, and until some
disposition had been made of them.
PRAISE OF THE ROADS.
Senator Martin introduced all OF the
gentlemen to the Assistant Secretary,
and nearly all Of them had something
TO say in behalf of Hampton Roads, and
Of the greatly traduced transportation
lines. Mr.. Agnew, who IS an extensive
shipper Of coal from the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal TO Boston and other
points North, said that there was sufii-
cient anchorage in the Roads TO foat
the combined navies Of the world with
out interfering with the existing steam
boat lines. He made the forcible point
Roads
there was not another safe anchorage
until Martha's Vineyard was reached.
1t was a harbor of refuge for vessels In
distress and in bad weather, and was
frequently filed with ships seeking
shelter from storms.
Secretary Allen assured the visitors
that the original order Of the depart
ment would be carried out, and they
retired perfectly satisfied with the result
OF their visit.
MASTERING OUT AND THE THIRD.
Adutant-General Corbin stated to-day,
in reply to an inquiry by Collector Agnew,
that if 50 per cent. OF the rank and tle
Of the Third Virginia Regiment should
vote that they desired to be mustered out
of service, their wishes would be com
piled with by the department He said,
however, that it would be the province
taken, and upon a report as TO the re-
suit made by him, action would be
promptly taken.
DEATH OF p. NJ. BRADLEY.
Mr.. Powell NJ. Bradley, the young man
from Prince William county, who had
such q terrible fall into the cellar or the
Hotel Johnson, last night. died this |
morning. after the operation OF trepan- |
ming had been performed upon him at
the Emergency Hospital He had been |
Collector Of Customs at Panama, under |
the Cleveland Administration, and was a |
relative Of Justice Bradley, OF the Su-
preme Court, of the District of Columbia. |
POSTAL.
C. NJ. Hall has been appointed fourth
class postmaster at Orange, Sampson 1
county, n. c., vice J. G.. Jones' resigned. |
Mollie Mullen has been commissioned a
fouth-class postmistress at Derr, n. c.,
and Edward T. Meachum at Stokes, Va.
A new office has been established at
Tinker, Iredell county, n. c.
Superintendent Bradley, Of the Railway
Mail Service wires to-day as follows:
"New York, n. Y, August %, 1898.
white. General Superintendent Railway
Mail Service, Washington, ID. c.:
"Steamship Vigilancia sailed yesterday
at $3.50 u. NJ. for Santiago, and carried
mail wagon. We verified the condition
OF mail wagon on dock, while waiting TO
be loaded on steamer. Steamship Car
ibbee sailed yesterday, direct for Ponce,
Porto Rico, carrying mail. New YORK
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