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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-03-25
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A Young Ladies' Mission.

Far from home. sick and among
strangers, poor girl lay dying; and
her sad, pitiful cry for mamma rang
through the heart and very co&sdors
of the soul of one of the young ladies
OF the Il. Y. p. U. of the First Baptist
Church, and that young lady decided
to get the mother to her daughters
bedside, although the mother was 8, 800
miles away; but nothing daunted the
young lady's mission, and she went to
work Result: The mother is by the
bedside of her daughter, and manv
many thanks to all who so generously
aided in the good work. B. Y.P.U.
b. II. ROBINSON. Secretary.
In world, where sorrow ever will he
known wherever found the needy
And the sad and lone;
How much joy and comfort you can all
bestow,
If You scatter sunshine everywhere
you go.
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Death of Mrs. Amanda Lee.

The Bedford Springs correspondent
Of the Bedford Bulletin says:
Mrs Amanda Lee. widow OF the lat
Lafayette Lee, died at her home Fri
day last of the grip. She was sic,, only
one week. She was one of our oldest
and most highly esteemed citizens. She
was buried Sunday last at IL O'clock in
the family burying ground, Rev. Mr..
Ledbetter officiating. y large con-
course Of relatives and friends were
present. Among those who came from
distance were her son, Ernest Lee.
and her granddaushters. Misses Bessie
Carter and Alice Schenk, from Norfolk
and Harry and Walker Barnes and
Amandus Andrews, from Lynchburg.
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AMUSEME NTS.

Master Ernest Butt entertained n
number of his young friends Tuesday
afternoon Mt the home of his parents,
on Claiborne avenue, In honor or his
tenth birthday. The hours from to 6
o'clock passed all too quickly for the
children present, who enjoyed every
minute to its fullest extent. Dancing
was INDUCED in and all those amusing
games which children delight in were
played. There was also some very
clever recftations by the little ladies
ann gentlemen, after which they were
invited into the dining-room to partale
of the good things which had been pre-
pared for them. The birthday cake.
with ten candles, was an important
feature of this feast. Among those so
fortunate as to be present were Misses
Marion Graves, Nora Lawler. Lucy and
Annie Sibley. Laura and Clara Led
better. Beulah Osborne, Nina Albert.
Mary Clark. Marie Piedmont. Mollie
Lawler. Doris LeFauchuer, Eva CAIN
Masters Burke Hickey Thomas Burns,
Farrell Fitzpatrick, Vernon MolinG.
Roger Tatem, Percy Guess. Harry
Sellinger, Raymond Keyes. Fred Dal-
ton. Leo I<lutz. Vincent Lawler, Frank
and Charley McCourt, Robert Lawler,
Jimmie Winslow and Willie Connor.
WHY SMITH LEFT HOME"
George II. Broadhurst's latest Anglo
American success. "Why Smith Left
Home" which Is the attraction at the
Academy next Friday and Saturday
and Saturday matinee, is represented
as having all the Ego" of the brightest
of French constructions, as ingenious
as any of the involved farces of parti-
tions and transoms that come from
gay Paree," but is so rich in whole
some American fun that there can be
no doubt as to its entire originality.
What is more welcome to hear is,
that throughout its three acts of pure
farce. there is not Il single suggestive
line. This man Smith" has a loved,
loving and lovely wife, who unfortu-
nately. however, has host of unlovely
liinsfolk. who have the visiting habit
painfully developed They continue to
arrive with distressing promptitude.
IIe asks the cook. an Irish lady. who
is also secretary of the "Amalgamated
Cooks Upliftin' and Protective So
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Shipping Notes.

The schooner yacht Romer arrived
here Friday night from Beaufort, S. c.
Mr.. Clifford Berlin, of Cincinnati. OWL
er, aboard. Mr.. Berim's yacht ran into
a storm OH her trip here, and he was
thrown to the deck of the vessel,
spraining his arm. He goes to Old
Point for few days, having tele-
graphed his mother, Mrs. NJ. ]. Berlin.
of his accident and condition. Mr. Be
rim is world traveller, and talks OF
going next to Manila.
Schooner st. Thomas is to go on
Graves railway for repairs and over
hauling.
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THE TWELFTH CENSUS.
ENUMERATORS FOR THE SECOND
CONGRESSIONAL, DISTRICT.
The following letter is self-explana-
Department of the Interior,
Census Office.

tory:
Department of the Interior.
Census Office.
Washington. D. c., March 2S, 1900.
Mr.. Heming c. Smith. Supervisor of
the Census, Second District Of Vir-
ginia, Suffolk, Va:
Dear Sr:-I am informed that you
will meet Hon. r. a. Wise, representa-
tive from the Second district of Vir-
ginia. at Norfolk, for the purpose OF
consulting with him regarding the ap-
-pointment of enumerators.
1t is my desire that the appointment
or enumerators in your district should
De equally divided between the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties, and that
DR.. Wise should have the naming of
those Republicans to be appointed. You
are permitted to delay your list one
week from March 2sth, so that this
matter can be properly adjusted. 1
am, Very respectfully.
w. r. MERRIAM
Director
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An Ordinance

PROHIBITING THE WEARING OF
HATS OR ANY ADORNAIENT ON
THE HEAD IN ANY PLACE OF PUB
Lie AMUSEMENT TO WHICH AN
ADMISSION FEE is CHARGED.
~ BE 1t ordained by the Common and
Select Councils of the City OF Norfolk,
that 1t shall be unlawful in any place OF
public amusement to which an admission
fec Is charged for any person. irrespective
OF sex. to wear hat or any ornament
or adornment on the head liable to pre-
vent those sitting in the rear or such per-
son from obtaining Il view of the stage.
t2) 1t shall be the duty of the proprle-
tors, managers or other persons in charge
of such places OF public amusement to
which this ordinance applies TO sec to
its enforcement, and for a failure on their
part so to do they shall be punishable by
Il fine of not less than two dollars nor
more than ten dollars recoverable as
other city fines are now recoverable.
80 This ordinance shall be in force
from and after it's passage.
Adopted by the Common Council. March
9th. 1850.
j. r. EAST.
..-.--- President Common Council.
Adopted BY the Select Council March
18th, 1900.
FRED. GREENWOOD.
President Select Council.
Testc: II. S. HERMAN
City Treasurer. nrh21- st
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The Registration Books.

The city registrars have been sup
Piled with 1000 names of deceased per-
sons and those convicted of crime.
Clerk RoYster has been at work for
some time on the poll books looking up
inc names of deceased persons and
those who have been convicted OF
crime. The 600 names will he erasod
from the books
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B. Y. p. u. Meeting.

The Baptist Young Peoples Union of
the First Baptist Church will meet this
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock with the pres
ident, Mr.. Walter A. Edmonds. presid-
ing. An interesting program has been
arranged. and n cordial invitation is
extended TO the public.
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Naval Reserves Cruise.

A detachment of Norfolk Naval Re-
serves. under command of Lieutenant
Hudgins. will take a trip up Chesa-
peake Bay day OH their practice boat
Siren. Colonel w. w. Sale. OF the Gov
ernor's staff. and Judge VIM. n. Port
lock. of the Norfolk County Court, will
accompany them.
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A Lamp Explosion.

The fire department responded to an
alarm from box 81 about o'clock last
night. Its services were not needed.
however, as it was only a lamp explo-
sion at Captain Southgate's residence.
No. IL Warren Crescent, Client. The
blaze was extinguished by members OF
the household.
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of laughter, and in this it has been un-

Oh IauBHteT, und IN ChlS lC has been I'M
deniably success.
why Smith Left Home" will be pre-
scented by the following capable actors:
Frank Tannehill. Jr., Eugene Redding,
c. Jay Williams. Frederick Roberts,
Gilbert Gardner. Nellie Maskell Jennie
Engle, LOttie Williams Salter, Rose
Hubbard, Belle Chamberlin and Lizzie
May Ulmer
Seats Will be on sale Wednesday
next. Prices. 25c. to s1.oo. Matinee.
csc. any seat
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NORFOLK'S MERCHANDISE RECEIPTS
The Figures For the Past Years Show Steady Increase in
Amounts
Amounts.

Herewith we present our readers a
summary of the principal merchandise
receipts at Norfolk for the year 1899.
These do not include the receipts by
one large line for four months. 1t is
also exclusive OF the amounts received
by schooners. The figures were pre-
pared by Mr.. e. L. Dawes, secretary
and statisticdan of the Norfolk Board
OF Trade and Business Mems Associa-
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ciety," to help him, IL she will cook so
badly that the guests are driven away
from the house on the first day. she
will receive 500. For each day that
the aunt remains s25 will no deducted
from the amount Aunt Mary leaves
late in the evening of the first day.
The complications are extremely ludi-
crous throughout.
why Smith Left Home" has no
problems to solve. nor does it preach n
sermon. 1t is built simply for purposes
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-03-25
An Ordinance

IMPOSING y LICENSE TAX ON PER
SONS SELLING THEATRE TICKETS
~ Be It ordained by the Common and
Select Councils OF tho CITY of Norfolk
that every person. other than the mana
ger or proprietor OF duly licensed
theatre or of any other licensed place of
public amusement. who sells tickets en-
titling the holder thereof TO admission TO
a theatre or other licensed place OF pub
He amusement shall pay for the privilege
license tax of fifty dollars Per year or
To- a violation OF this ordinance shall
be punishable by n fine of not less than
twenty dollars and not moro than one
hundred dollars, recoverable as other
city fines arc now recoverable.
90 This ordinance shall lie In force from
and after its passage.
Adopted by tho Commoun Council,
March 9th, 1900.
J. r.. FAST,
President Common Council.
Adopted by the Select Council, March
FRED. GREENWOOD.
President Select Council
II. S. HERMAN. City Treasurer.
mh2l-5t
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NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING.


.
This (March D is Independence day,
and the anniversary of the birthday of
Sam Houston. 1t was also on March 2
that President Jackson recognized Tex
as as an independent republic, and on
March 2 the cornerstone of our mag
nificent state capital was laid. 1t is an
occasion on which every Texan should
feel patriotic and jubilant. We have
the broadcast state in the Union and
with fair show are going to make 1t
the greatest of the half hundred COM
monwealths. Considering the Texas of
to-day, nobody can easily understand
why this goodly land should ever have
been refused admission into the Union,
vet it's application for admission wa
rejected at one time by the senate of the
United States by vote of thirty-five to
sixteen. Later the door was thrown
open as westward the star of expansion
took it's way. Since Texas became a
part of the Union it has given opportu-
mites and fortunes to thousands of peo-
pie from the older states. 1t has con-
tributed a full share in men and means
in the grand work of making the United
States of America the richest and most
powerful nation on the earth. Still ours
is a young state, only partially devel-.
oped, with it's best opportunities unused.
There is no country in which the word
independence" means more than it
means in Texas--Dallas News.
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rendition Of a new ballad, Still in My
Dreams, showed pure tone production,
especially in the high climax at the
end. For an encore he gave HaWley's
1.-The Sweetest Flower That Blows with
sympathetic interpretation.
Miss Julia Kennedy ID sweet So
prano and showed much study in
Adams Mona" She is a singer of
promise.
The second part opened by violin
duet by the Misses Leonora Grave and
Louisa Kricek, with Miss Gertrude
Grave accompanist. Never has Miss
Margaret Hogan been heard to better
effect than last evening. She displayed
much sympathy in her solo programmed
1.-The Snow Breasted Pearl and was
completely laden with flowers. Riley
y. Phillips is always popular and gave
dramatic Interpretation to Schu-
mann's 1.-The Two Grenadiers" Miss
Gaffney then recaptivated her hearers
with Erin with her charming song,
Spring is Coming" and Miss Mary
Lynch pleased everyone with her fitting
selection, Killarney" Adolph Schwick-
ardi was the accompanist. Encores and
flowers in abundance were the order of
the evening and it was, well after eleven
before Millers orchestra concluded the
last number.
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and attainment beyond the dream Of
our imagination. May we not count
the passing-on a happy thing, the hap-
piest thing in the souls experience. 2,
May not our farewell word have fitly
intermingled with it's sorrowful sense
of loss for ourselves an element OF joy
rs we think Of the completed years here
turning for him into the opening years
of the hereafter? And may not we all,
even those Of the innermost circle OF
love and friendship, take into the mind
the peaceful and victorious thought Of
brighter day when there shall be q
reunion of loving souls for an endless
life of love? May we not comfort our
selves with the most precious and de-
lightful words which Jesus spoke to
His disciples on the last evening of His
life with them, the hour Of parting
from His chosen friends: "In my Fa-5
theirs house are many mansions. If IT.
were not so, 1 would have told you. &
go to prepare a place for you. I will
come again and receive you to Myself
Yes this was His word, with all it's full
ness Of meaning, "Po Myself"
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grows with the years. He was ready
and willing to pass on to the future and
its revelations of greater and grander
things as the end drew near. The
Fathers voice called him, and we see
him no more.
Surely, the life in its every aspect
as in its years-was complete, and we
may well look upon it, at it's ending,
with gratitude to God for the vision as
1t reveals itself before our minds.
And now the great future is beyond
What is it's life and what is its work !?
We cannot tell, for the veil which hides
the reality is not lifted from our eyes.
But the life here which is rounded out
to it's fullness, and knows at the close
of the years no diminution of it's force
and energy, gives to us it's own word Of
suggestion and teaching This word is
of continued activity, of a larger sphere
of thought and action, of higher themes
for the mind to dwell upon, of richer
experiences in which the soul may re-
joice The man has been, with all his
growth and what we call his maturity
in a period of education, in which he
mas IbuIlu uliIlSell, dILeF coming lIlIU
possession of everything that has been
gained, only fitted for the reception Of
more and reaching out after what is
yet greater and better. The end is like
the earlier days. There is the same
eagerness of desire, the same outgoing
towards what has not yet been attain
ed-the same deep sense of the great
ness of the man as compared with what
has already come to him--the same feel
ing deeply seated in the soul that it Is
itself more than the world in which it
has been living. The pointing of the
inner life is toward what is beyond and
above-the grander life whose possibil-
tiles and whose years are unmea sured.
Such must be our thought as we bid
to our honored and beloved
friend, He has passed from our sight.
to clearer vision, to wider and larger
thought, to knowledge above e'@ high
est reach, to possibilities OF outlook
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MRS. LAyINIA SPERRY.

Mrs Lavinia Sperry, widow of the
late Marvin Sperry, died yesterday at
the home of her daughter, Mrs w. r.
Northrup, No. 2S7 Sherman avenue.
Mrs. Sperry was eighty-five years of
age and her death was due to a general
breaking down from old age. For the
past six months she had been confined
to her bed. Her husband had been dead
for number of years She leaves five
children, two sons and three daughters
The sons are Elizur H. Sperry of this
city and f. B. Sperry of Bridgeport.
The daughters are Mrs. w. T. Northrup
and Mrs. William A. Lincoln of this
city and Mrs Cook of Lockport, N. Y.
F. J. Linsley of this city, secretary of
the New England Dairy company, is a
grandson.
Mrs. Sperry was a most estimable old
woman, greatly beloved by all who
knew her Kindly and benevolent, she
was surrounded by a host of friends,
who mourn her loss. She was mem
Der of Christ church, and Rev. G, Brn-
ley Morgan, rector of that church, will
officiate at the funeral, which will be
held at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon
from the home of her daughter, Mrs
Northrup, on Sherman avenue.
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may perchance recall them more fully
and vividly than I have been able to
do. In peculiar sense this life and
work of his have passed, so far as the
university brotherhood is concerned,
into its life They are to abide here as
a part of the rich inheritance from the
by-gone time, and are to have their ST.
lent influence for good in the experience
of many men of the future years who
may have little thought or knowledge
of the source from which the blessing
came. But that it came will be a cause
of thankfulness. The life has now
reached it's end My thought of it in
these passing days has been and is of
it's completeness. If we think of the
years only, it has moved on through
them with fulness of powers and of
enjoyment almost to the utmost limit
| of age There has been no oncoming
of infirmity or darkening of the mental
vision, but the brightness and vigor of
manhood have continued until the last
| Illness, the messenger from beyond,
came to summon the spirit to a new
world. What could have been happier
or more complete? What better could
we wish for ourselves than to pass on
ward so joyfully beyond three score
years and ten, and far on toward the
four score years, and to keep within
ourselves the youthful spirit until the
end.
But life does not consist or have it's
significance in it's years. Let us think |
of it in it's progress, and development. |
Our friend had the privilege of birth |
and childhood in a home of culture and |
refinement, with influences and inspira
tons about him which sent him for |
ward happily, as well as successfully, |
toward the season of youth and early
manhood. He had the blessing of edu-
cation and of the high education-a
blessing which is beyond almost any |
other that the world can give, and
which no man who has known it in his
experience can ever cease to appreciate
or to be grateful for with soul-stirring
gratitude. He had favorable entrance
into an honorable profession and
prosperous life work in the line of its
studies and duties. He gained the es-
TEEN of men near to him and remote
from him, and reputation of a most ;
worthy and satisfying character. He
was called as the years of ripest ma
turity came, to positions Of high dis
tinction and wide reaching usefulness.
He knew the best life Of his own nation,
and the best life also of a most culti- :
waited nation beyond the sea. He had ,
the richest of earthly happiness from ,
early manhood to the latest age
that which belongs to the home life. He
knew the blessedness of giving and re-
ceiving in that life-a blessedness that
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ELECTED FOURTH VICE PRESI-
DENT.

Fayette S. Curtis of This City, Chosen
by Directors of the Consolidated
Road
At the monthly meeting of the direc-
tors of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad held in New York
Saturday President John M Hall an
nounced the appointment of Fayette S.
! Curtis of this city to be fourth vice
| president of the road. The board unan-
imously voted to ratify the appoint
ment. Mr. Curtis will have headquar-
ters in Boston and will have general
charge of the engineering department
and such other matters as may be re-
ferred to him by the president or the
| board of directors He will assume his
| duties on May /. Mr. Curtis since 1874
has been chief engineer of the road
lie was born in OWeSo, N. Y, Decem-
Der, 1S43 He attended district schools
until the age of twelve, and between
twelve and fourteen attended private
school in Owego, after which, until the
summer of 1868, he attended the Owego
Free academy, receiving a special
course in civil engineering. He now
has a beautiful summer home in Owe
go, on the banks of the Susquehanna
river. In the summer of 1868 he was
employed by the Albany and Susque
hanna Railroad company, in the loca-
ton and construction of line between
Binghamton and Albany. In 1866 he
was employed by the Southern Central
Railroad company in the location and
struction of railroad between Owego
and Augurn.
In 1869 he was employed on the loca-
ton of line for the Lake Ontario
Shore railroad between Owego ana
Rochester. In the spring of 1870 and
until 1871, as assistant engineer, he
mont and Fordham, now New York
city.
In 1871 for the Harlem River and
Dorchester Railroad company he locat-
ed the line between the New Rochelle
and Harlem river.
In the fall of 1871 for the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
company he located tracks, yards, etc,
at Grand Central station, after which
as principal assistant engineer he pre-
pared the construction of the Fourth
avenue improvement between Grand
Central depot and Harlem river.
In 1874 he was appointed chief en-
gineer of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad company.
Some of the principal works which he
has been in charge of are: The Fourth
avenue Improvement, New York city;
the construction of grain elevator
yards, docks piers, sheds, and ware
houses for the New York central and
Hudson River railroad between 59th
and I'D streets on the Hudson river,
the elimination of the grade crossings, |
building of new stations and the four
tracking of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad between New
York and New Haven, the double track
ing of the line between New Haven and
New London, the construction of a sta
ton at Providence, the elimination of
the grade crossings in Westfield, Brock |
ton. and Boston, Mass, the extension
OF the Boston and Providence railroad I
in Boston to the new terminal station, t
the construction of the six track draw
bridge over Fort Point channel in Bos- I
ton, and acting as consulting engineer |
in the construction of the new Boston |
terminal
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ROBERT EMMETT CELEBRATION.
Wolfe Tone Club Concert Well Attend


The annual concert of the Wolfe Tone
club concentrating the one hundred
and twenty-second anniversary of the
birth of Robert Emmett, attracted an
audience which filled the Hyperion last
evening General James r. O'Beirne
Was the orator OF the occasion and upon
being introduced by Hon. L. j. Fox
spoke for nearly an hour of the work
and mission of Robert Emmett and the
people of whom he was one. His ad-
dress touched many topics of the Gay
and was most interesting.
programme Of considerable excel
lence was well arranged. The first few
numbers We're quite amateurish. when
Miss Lizzie c. Gaffney relieved the situ-
alton. Her singing of 'The Last Words
of Emmett was generously received by
the audience and she responded with
1.-THE Old Black Shawl" which she did
particularly well. Next followed Rich
ard b. Gordon Of this city. who is rapid
~ becoming to be known as one of the
best concert tenors in this vicinity. His