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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
Las elecciones del Casino
de la Habana

Con animation extraordinaria sc
efecGuaron ell dia 5 del actual en- ell
Casino Espanol de la Habana las elec
clones para la renovation de la Junta
Directiva, resultando triunfante la 81
guiente candidatura u
Presidente. -SeilOr don Ram5n Prize.
to Gonzalez.
Vice Presidente -Senor don Manuel
Otaduy.
Vocales.-Senores don Prudencio Ra
bell, don Saturnino Martinez, don Ma
nuel Saavedra, don Pedro Landlords,
don Manuel g. Wales, don Aquilino
Ordoflez, don Juan Azpuru, don Fer
nando Pueyo, don Miguel Vazquez
t'onstantin, don Arturo Foyo, don An
tonic Vesa y Fillart, D. jose Maria vi
llaverde, don Leonardo Olfa, don Jose
Oorripio, don Manuel Perez, don Ra-
mon Crusellas, don Mariana Juncade
LA, don Felipe Bohigas, don Francisco
Palacio, don Cefe.ino Perez, don Diego
Montoro, don Miguel A, Garcia Perez,
don Maxinino Fernandez Gonzalez
don Segundo. Mendez, don lose Lyle
sias, don Sabas e. Aware, don Santos
Garcia Santos, don Francisco Garcia
Castro, don Ezequel Oarnicer, don
Bernardo ALVAREZ, don Diego Fernan
DEE, don Victor Garate, don Genaro
velasco, don Jose Soils Garcia, don
Mateo Coll, don Antonio Fernandez
Gonzalez, don Augusta La7ama, don
Ramon Garcia Mon, don Faustino
Angones, don Adolfo Diaa y D.az, dor
Ramiro de la Riva, don Marcelino
Martinez, don Jose Valdes, don Patri
Clio de la Cuesta.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
Ell Doctor
AN DUEZA PALACIO
Ex-Presidente de Venezuela

El cable nos trasmite la triste nueva
del fallecimiento del ilustrado doctor
don Raimundo Andueza Palacio, ex-
Preside1te de les E.E. U.U. de Vene
zue]a, acaecida en- Caracas la noche del
IL del presente mes.
Andueza Palacio sirvi6 &tlesde muy
tierna edad q su pals, va en- las filas de
la oposici6n al Gobierno del General
Guzman Blanco, va en- Administrator
nes diferentes, llegando a ser varias
vecee Ministro de Relaciones Interio
res, Representante y Senador en- varios
Congresses de aquella naci6n y Ministro
de Relaoiones Extsriores, cuya cartera
desempen6 hasta los 1ltimos dias de
Julio pr6xmo pasado.
En- 1890 tue eegdo .Presidente de
la Rep1blica, & hizo un buen gobierno,
habieneo sido mug combatido en- la
prensa, y derrotado por una revoluci6n
verdaderamente nacional, por ha5er
intentado permanecer en- ell poder.
Pas6 alganos amos en- Europa con su
tamilia, y, al regresar a Caracas, puso
toda la Influenza de su alta persona
lidad pOlftica al servicio de la Restau
raci6n Liberal.
Era un gran orador, y Sc le conocia
con el nombre del gran tribune; abo
gado de altos vuelos; polftico liberal y
democratic; su popularidad fu6 inmen-
Sa y expontanea por. la austeridad y
tranqueza de su caracter.
Venezuela lie decreta honores, de
claraudose por tan sensible perdida en-
duelO nacional.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
ALIANZA LATIN A
Francia, Espana e Italia

Els objeto de vivos concentrates en-
los circalos pofticos y diplomaticos un
artfculo publicado por el peri6dico de
Roma ell "Messagero," abogando con
calOr pOr la alianza entire Fiancia, Ita-
liza y Espafla, cuyas naciones segdn ell
art(aullsta. tienen destinos y aspiraclo
nes iguales que realizar & inteles comu
nes que defender.
Una liga aduanera y una alianza po-
Utica franco italica espanola, dice, per
mitirla & estas tres naciones latinas lu
char con gran ventaja en- defensa de su
prOpia conservation.
Nunca-termina diciendo ell artfculo
-se ha presentado OCCASION tan opor
tuna como hoy para realizar esta
alianza.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20

aparte de que MIR. Hunt COnOce per
fectamente dicha ley y debe conocer
Iigualmente a los que lie van q enga1lar
6 a sorprender.
No tememos que nlestro humilde
trabajo merezca censusa alguna del
Gobierno y mucho meEos tememos que
Sc trate de ejercer preston, como Sc
dice, EN- ell amino de Mr.. Hunt y Mr..
Allen, para obtener de ellos una reso-
luci6n fueIa de ley que iLutilize nues.
ira asociaei6n, por que tenemos plena
confanza en- la justicia e Unparalleled
de aquelIos dignos funcionarios, que no
Sc dejaran sorprender seguramerte por
nadie. Y aquf es donde viene bien la
palabra sorprender. Tenemos muy
tranQuila la conclencia y creemos posi-
tivsmente haber cumplido con la ley.
TampOco tememos, como Sc asegura
en- VOC baja y tono de verdad, que ell
senior Consul de Espafla SEA- uno de
los que trate de obtener aquella reso
luci6n No solo no 10 creemos, sinv
que 10 consideramos inverosfmil.
Ell Senior Consul habra podido de.
mostrar 'sus simpatfas los senores de
la Jnnta Provisional, porque estos iban
a constituir la Oolonia Espanola, pero
una vez constituida 6sta por otrCs es
panoles tan buenos como aquellos, no
creemos que Sc decida a favorecerles
con su Influenza, inclanandose del lado
de ellos mas que del lado de nosotros,
sobre todo, cuando nosotros no acepta-
mos la lucha que aquellos al parecer
nos prop0nen, sino que esperamOs, una
vez pasada la efervesceneia del amor
propio, Gne former parte con nosotros
de la OolOnia Espanola que fundamos,
es cierto, antes que ellos, pero que no
por ESQ deja de ser la Oolonia Espa
floa de San Juan dc Puerto Rico.
Debemos, por 1ltimo, contestar ell
cargo que Sc nos hace, diciendO que
constituimos nuestra sociedad por ell
procedimiento de la emboscada.
81 asf fuere, culpa nuestra no sera la
de haber tenido que recurrir q ESQ pro
cedimiento, fin de librarnes de otra
emboscada mayor en- que Sc nos Queria
hacer caer.
Ouando la guerra no Sc hace frente
a frente, hay que esperar del adverse
rio que emplee procedimientOs analogos
a los que usa el otro.
PerO nosotrOs nos limitamos & de.
fendernos, hacienda uso de los derechos
que nos comedian las leyes.
ESQ es todo, y nos proponemos no
contestar en- 10 suceslvO ning1n otro
cargo que Sc nos haga, nj palabra gor-
da que Sc nos dirija. Ell que desee
fOmentar la discordia; !; ell que desee co.
locar a unos espanoles frente de otros,
aparentando tener de su parte los ele.
mentos mas numerosos y de mayor
arraigo, que estan del lado nuestro pre-
cisamente, y fernando Colonias imagi-
narias, que continue profundizando la
zanja; nosotros no tOmaremos paTte en-
esa labor tan infortunada.
San Juan, Agosto 20 de 1900.
Manuel Luiila, N. Perez Morris a
Lynn, A: David Gonzalez, Anselnao
GonSales Padin, antonio Ahumada
Jose Maria Pelaa, Juan de ArruSa
Francisco Caldas, Ramon Torres, Leo
IpoIdo Castrill6n, Ramiro r Osores
Antotin Troncoso, Bernardo Fernan
deg, Joaquin MatienSo, Juan Cortines
Nicasio Arsuaga, Alejandro Gaos.
Nos adherimos los acuerdos Y ma
nitestaciOnes de nuestros cOmpaneros
de Directiva.
Remigio Ochoa, Leonardo Planas
Antonio Marta Som0sa.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
La Convention Naci0nal
para la declaration
de la Independence
DE CUBA

Segun ell general cubauo senor Gar
cfa Velez y otros pollticos importantes
de la Gran Antilla, reina mucho entu
siasmo entire los partidos politicos que
existen en- la isla de Cuba para acudir
a las elecciones de Delegates para la
Convention Naoional que ha de reu-
nirse en- la Habana ell primer iunes del
pr6ximo mes de Noviembre.
La campana de constitution de 90
mites y propaganda, por Ell interior de
la Isla, SO esta llevando cabo por las
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
BRllLaNTE RECEPTION
EN- La EMBAJADA INcLESl

Noticias de Tien -Tsin anuncian
cue antes de anoche -bubo una bri
llante reception en- la Legacion bri-
tanica celebrando ell exito del eierci
to aliado que lego a Pskin en- uno
de los momentos mas crfticos para
los extranjeros residences en- aquella
plaza, cuando ell hambre y los fana-
.ticos rebeldes los asediaban con mas
yigor que nunca.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
CABLE NEWS.
The Trouble in China.
Ii Hung Chang invites Foreign
Leaders to a Conference

Dispatches frem St. Petersburg
state that the Governor of Port Ar
thur, has telegraphed that Prince LII
Hung Chang has invited the Lea
ders Of the international columns,
which entered Pekin on the 18th
inst to conference in the building
occupied by the Tsung Ii Yamen,
which conference was held this NOR
ming.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
Prince Tuan deserts Pekin.

Dispatches from Taku state that
it is persistently reported in that
City that Prince Tuan father of the
heir apparent Of the Throne Of Chi
ma and one of the most bitter enc
mics OF the foreigners, seeing that
the cause is lost and that the allied
columns have entered Pekin has
mysteriously fed to the Province Of
Shan Si.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
mlSTERIosA FuGA
DEL PRINCIPE TUaN

Telegramas de Taku dicen que
en- aquella ciudad circula insistente
mente ell rumor de que ell principe
Tuan, padre del here9ero aparente
del trono de China y uno de los
mas encarnizados enehigos de los
extranjeros, al consideraf perdida
su causa J yer que las columnas
aliadas entraban en- Pekin Sc fugd
misteriosamente 4 la provincial de
Shansi.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20

comisiones designadas por los respec
tivos partidos con gran actividad.
Aunque hasta "a fecha las conven-
clones y comisiones gestoras de los par
tidos no han desigLado los candidates
que habran de presentar Ell dichas
elecciones, va suenan nombres y Sc da
por SECURE que seran elegidas persona
lidades cubanas de reconocido talento
6 ilustraci6n.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
South American Representatives
Embark for Spain.

Dispatches from Madrid state
that several prominent public men
from South America will embark in
the Spanish cruiser +" kio de la Pla-
ia" which anchored yesterday in
Callao, who will represent in Spain
the South American Republics du
ring the sessions to be held by the
Spanish American Congress.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
c0NFRATERNIDAD
HISPAN0.aM MERICANA

Telegramas de Madrid dicen que
en- ell crucero espanol Rio de la PIo-
ia, que Sc encontraba aver surto en-
ell Callao, embarcaran algunos pro-
minentes hombres pdblicos que re-
presentaran en- Espafia q las Repd-
blicas de la America del Sur duran
to las sesiones que celebre ell Con-
greso Hispano Americana.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
Grand Reception to the Ambassadors

News received from Tien Wsin
announces that night before last
there was brilliant reception III the
British Legation in honor Of the
success of the Allied Army which
arrived in Pekin at the most critical
moment for the Foreign residents
in that town, when hunger and the
fanatical rebels assailed them with
greater rigor than ever.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
Information DOr cable
NuBVa York, 20 Dc Ag@to
El C0NFLIcTo CHINO
c0NFERENcIA En- TSUN-Ll-YAMEN

Despaebos de San Petersburgo
anuncian que ell gobernador de
Puerto Arturo ha telegrafado di
ciendo que ell Principe LII Hung
Chang ha invitsdo a los jefes de las
columnas internacionales qae entra-
ron el dia Is On Pekin para una
conferencia en- el edifcio que ocupa
ell Tsung-Li Yamen, que Sc verlfi-
cara en- la maf1ana de hoy.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20

den que, a consecueneia de la ex-
traordinaria actividad de que estan
dando muestras los flipinos Sc han
agrupado las guarniciones america
mas que prestaban servicios en- pue-
bios muy aislados de aquella isla
temiendo cualquier intentoaa por
parte de los flipinos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
The War in the Philippines.

Dispatches from Manila state
that the Filipino rebels have orga
nized an exceedingly aggressive
campaign in the Island of Mindanao
with the intention of assautling from
ambush the United States Army.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
AGUIhALD0 EN- H0NG-koHG

Telegramas de Hong Kong ase
guran que ell generalisimo Aguinal
do estuvo anteayer allf, de riguroso
inc6gnito, habiendo celebrado una
entrevista conalgunos miembros de
la que fue Junta Revolucionaria en-
aquella ciudad.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
la GUERRA EN- FILlPINAS
ACTlvIDAD De LOS TAGAL0S

Despachos de Manila aseguran
que los rebeldes filipinos han orga-
nizado una campafia verdaderamen-
te agresiva en- la isla de Mindanao
aprovechAndose de cualquier co
yuntura favorable para atacar al
eiercito de los Estados Unidos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
vIaJE 4 TIEN.1slN

Las memo; ;onadas noticias af1aden
one han salido de Pekin para Tien
Tsin muchos de los extranjeros re-
sidentes en- aquella eiudad, princi'
palmente mujeres y ninost
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20

that day before yesterday Aguinal-
do visited Hong Kong i'll the stric.
test incongnito to confer with seve-
sal members Of the Evolutionary
Junta in that city.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
Women and children
arrive at Tien sin.

These reports add that many of
the foreign residents principally
women and children left there for
Tien Tsin.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
Activity Of the American garrisons
IN the Philippines.

These dispatches add that in
consequence of the extraordinary
activity shown by the American
garrisons in the Towns on which
the greatest attacks were made but
little damage was done by the Fl
lipinos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
EStado Mctt00vur )l0giCO
{ (Obseyvac;ones del Weather Bureau
Departamento de Agricultural

9P. M. Agosto 10
Temperature termom6trica. $40
Preston barolnetrica ....... 1904
Humedad relativa ......... 88
VelOc;dad del viento. ...... 11millas p. h.
Direction del viento ....... u.
Estado del tempo. .......... Parcialmente
nublado
"a. Nj. Agosto 20
Temperature termom6trics. o1.O
Preston barometrica ....... 30.O5
Humedad relativa. 80
Velocidad del viento. ..... 10 milla ,. h
Direction del viento. .... e.
Estsde del tempe. .......... Parcialmente
nublado
Temperature maxima en- las
1ltimas "a horas. ........ $50
Mfnma id id d.. 77.O
Media i'll i'd id ...... 8I.5
Total, precipitation i'd i'd. O.10 pulgada
GACETA DE AVER
Sin ningdn acuerdo de importaneia
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
Aguina1do confers with

Revolutionary Junta at Hong Kong
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20

Dispatches from Hong Kong state
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
ToMAH PREcAUCI0HES

Los mencionadQs telegramas ana
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
y
NOTICIAS DEL OLA

Procedente de Liverpool tom6 puerto en-
la manana de hoy ell vapor espalol 'sTeles.
fora".
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20

En- ell Consejo de miAistros celebrado en-
Madrid ell da del actual Sc autoriz6 al Mi.
nistro &c la Guerra, de acuerdo con la ley
de prescpuestos, para adquirir material de
artilierfa de tiro rapido, & fin de reformar Ell
arnamento del cuerpo de artillerfa.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20

El Tribunal de Distrito de esta capital
vera mailana, en- juicio oral, las causas in
coadas contra Eusebio Rodriguez, por lesio.
nes Benigno Rivera, por igual delito.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20
BOLETlN MERCANTIL DE PTO.-RICO

Entered atthe Post Office at San Juan, P. R.,
a. second class matter July IA, 1900.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20

En- atenta circular nos participa don Ce.
lestino Sola, de Caguas, haber constituido
una socedad agrfcola industrial, que tendra
por objeto la siembra de frutos y elaboration
de azd5ar ron, la cual girara bajo la demo.
minacitn de q. Sola hlio. Son socios ges.
torres de la mlsma don Celestino Sol& don
Jose Domingo Sola y Lopez.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-08-20

Aver zarp6 de este puerto con rumbo Ia
Peninsula, ell yapor correo espanol "Isla de
Panay".
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-24
RUN OVER BY THE TRAIN.
a Popular Man Falls Under thew hceiSs
Another. I|nu.ld on the Track.

Special Dispatch 10 The Tines.
MILLBORO. VA, July 2S.-Mr ": b.
I.ovall. lifelong resident of this place,
was run over by an east-bound lrelSht
train here sunday at 30 A. NJ, cutting
both legs off Just below his knees "niIh
resulted in death an hour later VIZ.
T,ovall Who is a contracting carpenteE'
was returning home from Iron Gate %
sperf sunday with his family. and there
bctrs. no passenger trains stopping mere
he boarded a FIRE ght in Clifton Forge
In leaving the running train he lost ms
footing ana rolled under the tram. W.
T,ovali was highly respectable and pop
ular citizen lie leaves a wife, son ana
five daughters.
The funeral viii take place TUESDAY
morning from the Presbyterian Churcn'
and the interment will be made imneG--
ateIy afterwards at Bratton's graveyard
George Taylor. white man. presumably
2, stack pa inter-. was found in a dying
condition fifty yards distant from the
place and just in advance of the tram
running over Mr. loyal. He WIS suP.
posed to have fallen from an early night
train. He was suffering from conclusion
Of the brain. HIS wounds were dressed
and he was forwarded by the first ira u
to the Kings Daughters Hospital Ut
Stanton.
Mrs. Jane Daugherty, eishty-nine EeaEs
of age. died nj her home here SUNDAY ;
after lingering illness
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-24

dividends for q long time among the under
writer's.
Richmond has magnificent water sup
ply in pon; OF quantity and healthfulness.
and We doubt not that the Mississippi
raftssnen would enjoy It's color and its
taste, both OF which would doubtless re-
mind them Of their own favorite beverage.
taken with a Tin cup from the muddy
Father of Waters which Mark Twain
says is more delightful than any ot1er
beverage except whiskeE. a statement
which, If It be true. should carry conster-
nation to the hearts of the temperance lee
,urers. And there is another point in which
Richmond is to be compl!nented; all that
we have 10 do is to build a basin and LET
tac water clear itself, for, as was pointed
out in an article in The Times of Sunday,
the ideal drinking water for cities IS got
ten from lakes, and a sedimentaton basin
is only a large lake. We wait for the day
when Richmond water supply will be as
clear as it is wholesome, and as brilliant
as It is abundant.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-24
DECREASE OF CONSUMPTION.

1t IS only 10y slow degrees that an idea
which the scientists have evolved ana
proved soaks into the popular mind ana
oyerturns some accepted theory Of health.
Nowhere has this been more apparent than
in the changed attitude of the public, to-
wards consumption. The ravages of this
dread disease have been fearful, especially
In New England, and it is therefore with
the greatest satisfaction that We are able
TO poir.t to a distinct falling off in the num-
her of deaths from til. cause. tbs change
for the better is due almost, If not entirely
n III circular issued by he Health Depart
ment. This circular "a similar one is also
issued in New York sets forth in very
simple language, which is vital IN its sig
n;ficance. the fact that consumption car
only be caught, that it is not inherited
and that as ii is caught, it can be pre-
vented and above ali things, that 1t cGn
he cured. which information, when LalI to
raart and used as a guide to daily conduct.
;,as hal the blessed faculty Of saving life.
~ neoDI. of New England, where these
experiments have been tried, are getting
away from the thought that consumption
is purely inherited disease. and as such
Is f. be taken with the same resignation
that one ordinarily shows as to the color
r. opa,s 1air or eyes. The powerful logic
Of facts has shown that by following the
oo,nr,nn sense rates which the Health De
nart,nent has laid down for the prevention
.. Tho srraad Of this disease. not OILY have
tho no,r and unfortunate been shielded in
thousands of cases from exposure to con-
ta,rino hui even those afflicted have been
shown how they could be healed. 1t VIII
he 4 great day for Virginia When our med-
cal societies undertake to promulSate
similar information. 1t IS a terrible thing
for men to die when they might be saved
by the exercise of knowledge which they
have not. The doctors have generally
shown themselves most earnest IN their
desire To help Inform the people, and some
idea of what can be done IS shown by the
fact that in Maine alone the number OF
deaths has decreased from 1852 in 1882 to
1e2i today. The decrease for the inter
ve7ling years has been steady and certain;
in no case has the number of deaths in
creased The fact that we in the South
have a wonderfully healthful and health
giving climate, though it has saved US
from many shares, has not made this part
Of the world free from tuberculosis. Ana
even here there is a field, and a large field,
for the spreading Of information in regard
10 health and its preservation in the
presence of ony disease. hut especially ole
to which the ounce of prevention can be
applied with such certainty as consump-
ton.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-24
Jour WAITER SUPPLY AND PHIli-
SDEEPulA,S

The residents Of The central part OF Phil
iaaelphia holding debate with the FIRE
Insurance agents who desire to raise the
rates of fire Insurance ON the ground that
the water mains are so small and so
plugged NJ, as to really make the supply
Of water, In case OF fire. too small 10 be
Of any real advantage. The I'hlladelphlans
are trying 10 stick their heads in the sand
ana pretend that 40 damage win ever
GONE. bat the history of cities, no less than
nations, has emphasized the facts that cry
,ing peace. peace. when there is no peace .
Is the poorest preparation that has ever
been devised for the WAY that inevitably
skaters this Illusion. The New York jour
nal OF Commerce says that some day
fire Is going to coma, and when it does
come, there VIII be iainentatoa and small
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-24
PURCHASED A LOT
Congregation OF Wrst-Siew to Move
CIurci! Na.ys.

The desirable lot. corner of Grove Avenue
and Meadow Streets, las been purchased
By the congregation OF West-Niew Baptist
Church.
The Removal Committee Of the church
of which Rev. DR.. I. N. Mercer, the pas
tor, Is chairman, has been authorized to
have the church removed to the new lot
and a contract viii be given out in the
near future
1t 3 thought that this change will en-
large the field OF action of the church,
which is already in very fine condition
The pr esent site is AT the corner OF Curry
and Meadow Streets.
One who attends the revival meetings at
East Richmond Hall is very wildly i'm
pressed with the belief that the "old-tnle
religion is coming back TO the people;
for these meetings are marked by free
dom OF thought. speech, song and prayer.
Sunday night the building was crowded to
it's capacity with silver-headed fathers
and mothers and beaning faced sons and
daughters. The services were conducted
by Mr. W. H Parker, assisted by sew
eral others. Mrs. Frank Watson sang
very sweetly. My Son Give Me Thine
Heart" In the after meeting there were
some three or more conversions and
large number of requests for prayer. This
good work will be carried on through this
week anyhow. Last night Mr.. Fielding