Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-08-04
JEAT OUsY RUN MAD.
Norfolk Has Over-PIayed Her Little Game
ana Now Wants to Hedge.

Norfclk's jealousy of this thriving
young port is too we'll known to need
allusion to, and would not be alluded
to except for the fact that it has been
very strikingly accumulated in the past
few days BY her attitude toward this
city. Not content With quarantining
against Newport News herself, she
has been instrumental in getting other
cities to quarantine against this city,
for no other reason, SO far as can be
learned, except that the more business
Newport News loses, because of quaran-
tine, the more Norfolk has gained. 10
on this date.
rs an example, the Old Dominion
Steamship Company had made
arrangements to send a steamer from
here to West Point and Norfolk in
iluenced West Point to Quarantine
against this port yesterday. though il
was never thought of before The West
Point authorities. as concession, finally
agreed to let the steamer come. pro-
v!ded it brought no passengers
1t has been emphatically stated that
Norfolk informed the l;ichmond au-
thorities that If Richmond did not
quarantine against Newport News
->N'i hoih Nob4d QudItHllllc' aSllnt
Richmond. The latter city, which mas
been the staunch and sensible friend Of
Newport News in this emergency
that She could quarantine and be blank
cd.
But presently the rule began to work
both ways. The Norfolk Wholesale
merchants began to discove- that as
hing & Nnr.fflE En,,
time against this city they could not
get their goods over here The Newport
News merchants, who had been ac-
customed to dealing with the Norfolk
men did not give the matter much
thought, as they were getting all they
needed from Richmond and were very
we'll satisfied With the arrangement.
But it did not SUIT the Norfolk mcr-
chants at all, and they began to con-
ceivc Immediately an intense love for
this city.
1T was ever thus when the pocket
book nerve was touched
after making a fruitless effort TO get
the quarantine raised or fightened in
some way, these Norfolk merchants
cndeaVored to make some arrange
1nent whereby goods could be brought
to Bush's Bluff and there transferred
to lighters to be brought to this city
by tugs. 1T is understood that they
made application to the Chesapeake &
Ohio authorities for assistance in this
arrangement and that 1hc Chcsapcakc
an 'dOhio authorities gave them to
understand that the merchants over
mere We're doing very we'll without
uhcH, and that the company would not
enter into any arrangement of the sort
proposed. Norfolk will probably now
make rcdoubled efforts to get Richmond
ito quarantine US.
I AS stated yesterday morning, Rich
(nond will probably quarantine Nor
Iolk before she does Newport News.
sorfoik wants quarantine SO badly.
,ni1c Will probably get all she rs looking
fl' before she gets through The peo-
!, .c over there were very much slrprjs-
IA last night to discover that this CITY
~, Ia duarantined against them and
/. re inclined to blame Newport News
taking precisely the Same prccau
. rs that they themselves took against
:. : city. They will nid. however. thar
'nn' Ac Of their people or staff can get ~
~. quarantine, as they will also, find