Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-26
IN NEWPORT NEWS.
OFFICIAL FIGURES SHOWING THAT
SMALLPOX Is DISAPPEARING.
The PENINSULA RAILWAY COMPANY.
Its Ordinances Sfgned-Bnse-D alI
Standardization About school
Missing.

NEWPORT NEWS, VA, March o.
Especially -Mayor Moss to-day signed the
three ordinances granting the Peninsula
Railway Company, which was chartered
by the last Legislature. the right Of way
over the principal streets and two OF the
proposed bridges over the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad. These ordinances were
passed at last nights Council meeting.
Now that the company has its franchise
complete. and there can be no more OBJ
stacies in fits way. the work OF laying
tracks and building its power-house will
be rushed to completion. The tracks and
iron material for the road have been or
dered and some of 1t is on The spot.
The Councils action last night practi-
Cally closed up all Of the differences be-
tween the railroads, and Newport News
will soon have the benefit OF two services
The Council passed the long-pending
-eighth-street bridge ordinance
pver the Mayors veto. and the Newport
News and Old Point Railway and Elec-
Uric Company will lay its tracks over this
bridge when IL is completed.
BASEBALL.
Jack AIageo's Pets" as the Newport
News Baseball Club is generally known,
will play Arthur Irwin's Senators at
Rverview Park next Thursday afternoon.
While tho locals do not expect TO win.
they are confident OF putting IN" a
credltable game against the Washington
aggregation. Manager Magee to-day gave
out the makeup of his nine as follows:
Jack Magee. catcher; Jack Host. pitcher:
VIII Magee, first base; Enright, second
base; Knox, third base; Behne. shortstop:
loft H.lH talI
Dlstill, right field. Knox was at one time
with the Portsmouth Virginia League
Club. and played second base. The other
PLAYERS on the local team are all old ia
Sorites.
SHIP MISSING.
The steamship Allegheny, which sailed
from Newport News several months ago
for the other side, has not been heard
from, and is believed TO have gone down.
On the Allegheny sailed a MIR. Driver,
who left his family here. Mrs. Driver
has applied for her husbands wages, ac-
cordng TO directions, at the office of the
Shipping Company but she has not yet
obtained satisfaction.
The Phoenix Line steamship ST. Enoch,
with a cargo from Hamburg, Is now
about ten days overdue at this port. No
fear is entertained for the safety of the
vessel, as she has encountered many stiff
gales, and weathered them all under the
able mastership OF Captain owen.
The Treasury Department to-day adver-
tised In the city papers for bids for q
public building site. The sealed propo-
sails must be in by noon April 18th. when
they will be opened.
The quarantine season opens April list
and the national and state quarantine
officers in these waters are preparing for
Il.
SCHOOL OF METHODS.
Much indignation is felt here over the
action OF the State Board OF Education
and Professor Il. G. Glass I'm refusing to
give Newport News which was admitted
~ the strongest candidate candidate the
State School OF Methods, owing to a mis-
taken belief that the smallpox situation
here IS alarming.
Your correspondent to-day obtained
from tho Board OF Health a correct state
ment. which shows exactly the situation
as It Is In Newport News to-day. 1t is a
fact that at 6 o'clock this evening there
were hut los cases OF smallpox in the
pest-house and in the city. This is quite
a drop from 800 cases ten days ago and
II the situation continues TO improve as
rapidly as II has in the past two weeks
the disease is bound 20 be entirely stamp
ed out by April 18th, or May LIST. at the
latest.
There are now i0i cases IN the pest
house under treatment and all Of the pa
TENTS are recovering. This morning there
were fourteen cases in the city, and this
afternoon seven OF these were released
from their homes and the quarantine
raised
The school authorities and the members
or The Board OF Health are at loss 30
understand why Newport News should be
put out OF the race for the School OF Me-
thods. when there IL absolutely no reason
10 believe that smallpox VIII Do IN exist
ence here in June or July. The School
Board has a statement from tho Board Of
Health, properly signed. predicting the
snd OF smallpox Ia six weeks, at the
longest
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