Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-11-15
AT NEWPORT NEWS.
THE MOVEMENT TO DEEPEN THE
CHANNEL
TO Be PUSHED VIGOROUSLY.
Federal Court In Bankruptcy C"se,-
An Inspection by Halfway WI"
ciaIs-Thc BattIeship kent"ch'
big Organization.

NEWPORT NEWS. VA, November
H.-(SpeciaL)-At the Business-Men
Association meeting, held especially 10
take up the matter Of urging Congress 10
dredge the channel over Newport News
Mddlc-Ground Bar, the entrance to TINS
harbor, IL was decided to get TO work
at once, and the following committee TO
further the movement was named to-
day: General Superintendent Post, OF the
ship-yard. chairman; j. l.. Patton, I'M
porter, secretary; II. c. Blackiston, agent
OF the Chesapeake and Ohio Steamship
Company; II. e. Parker, terminal super
intendent of the Chesapeake and ONO
railroad; II. J. Fitzgerald, agent OF the
United States Shipping Company; j. w.
Elliott, Collector of Customs Of Newport
News, and w. b. Vest, president OF the
Business Mems Association. ms COM
mittee will prepare the necessary data
and will correspond with the virginia
senators and congressman, with the
transportation men OF the East ana
West, and with the shippers in the West
who send grain and other exports through
Newport News. This matter interests
the whole State and a great part OF the
West, and 1t is expected that the dele
cation which will be sent 10 Washing
ton will be one Of the most influential
ever sent out OF the State.
Judge Edmund Waddill, of the United
States Court for the Eastern District Of
Virginia, has decided to hear all causes
and bankruptcy cases in which lawyers
and parties in Newport News and vicinity
are interested in this city I'm future.
This is step towards transferring the
Federal Court TO this city when the new
Federal building is completed here.
President a. j. Cassam Of the Penn
sylvania railroad. and the officers and
directors of that system, numbering
twenty-three in the party, arrived at Old
Point this morning from Philadelphia
and came TO the ship-yard in private
car over the Chesapeake and Ohio. The
party spent two hours inspecting the
yard and then took dinner at the War
wick, after which they spent several
hours inspecting the Chesapeake and
Ohio terminals and yards. This after
noon they went to Norfolk and left to-
night for Philadelphia. The object Of
this tour was to inspect the newly ac-
quired Baltimore, Chesapeake and Allan
tic railroad.
The battleship Kentucky is taking on
picked coal and stores preparatory to
starting Thursday morning for New
York, whore she will 90 in dry-dock and
have her bottom cleaned for the official
trial, on November I'D.
\ report Is in circulation here TO the
effect that Coils =. Huntington, on his
own statement, is contemplating the es-
Enlistment here of a large cOttOn-mill,
10 give employment 10 the women and
children Of the ship-yard employees.
The first mass-meeting of the Union
Endeayor League, the largest organiza-
ton Of young people in any city i'm the
State, was held tonight at the Wash
ington-Avenue Methodist church. Many
people were turned away. The league
has a membership Of over five hundred
made mp Of members of the various
church societies.
General Ed ;. Hyde, of Bath Me. prin-
cipal owner of the Bath Iron Works.
died this evening at sis o'clock at the
Chamberlin Hotel, Old Point A stroke
Of apopleXy caused his death The re-
mains will be forwarded tomorrow morn
ing TO the home Of the deceased, in Bath.
General Hyde and family came to Old
Point about two months ago. The Gene
raj had been in bad health for some time,
and he decided TO stay at Old Point until
he recuperated. He was accompanied by
his wife, his son, and the latters WIFE
and Miss Hyde. He left another son in
charge of his ship-building works, at
Bath, during his absence. lie was feel
ing well all day until a few minutes be-
fore he suffered an apoplectic stroke. He
was down at dinner in the afternoon and
was walking around in the hotel an hour
before his death.
The battleship Texas sailed this morn
ing from Hampton Roads for Boston,
Mass