The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-05
PASSENGER STATION
SOON TO Be REALITY.
Good Progress Being Made on
Building In Petersburg.
OF INTEREST TO PENSIONERS
Mus, File Their Petitions This
Month or They VIII Lose Their
chanees-Back from Tropics.
Petersburg News Gossip.
OF INTEREST TO PENSIONERS
Especial Dispatch to The Times.)

(Spccial Dispatch to The Times)
PETERSBURG. VA, August 4.-Thc
new passenger station on Washington
Stree, for the Atlantic Coast Line Rail-
way will soon be reality. The founda-
ton is now about complete and the work
will be carried forward rapidly The
building Will be an ornament to Washing
ton Street. and will be a convenience to
the travelling public. Local. as well as
through. trains over the Coast Line will
be run from this station. Nearly opposite
the station site now stands the build
ings formerly occupied by Tappey and
Steele. Founders and projectors have re-
Gently been negotiating for this and adj
Joining property with view to building
there a large hotel and a threatre.
All the claims of pensioners who fail
to file their applications with Robert Gil
liam, clerk of the courts of this city, so
that the judge may pass upon them anu
certify them before September the lst
next, will be void. There are several
pensioners who have failed thus far to
file their applications and the clerk has
been unable to locate them. They are
Thomas w. Crowder, James a Heath.
Mary n. Edmunds. Henrietta w. Marks
Julia A. Saunders. Anna Rebecca. Perk-
irson. Hester A. Traylor and Frances b.
Waddell.
BACK FROM THE TROPICS.
Mr.. D. Ii. Jackson. of Petersburg, who
has been travelling In Central America
for several months on business for the
Standard Oil Company, returned home
yesterday in the best of health and we'll
pleased with his trip Mr.. Jackson has
been kept busy giving his friends &C
counts Of travel in tropical regions. He
will be in Petersburg for two or three
weeks before leaving on another trip.
DR.. Preson Hay. of Williamsburg, who
has been i'll with malarial fever. was
aorusht to his fathers home in Peters
burg Saturday night. He did not rest
very we'll last night, but his condition to-
day shows improvement.
The report of the Superintendent OF
Schools in Petersburg shows the school
population by the census of 1900 to be
761s-white. 1907: colored 4,ol1. Total en-
rollment in the schools. 3,552-white,
I5s6; colored. l,736. Per cent. of enroll
nient 1875, AND per cent. Of school popula-
ton in attendance 33.7
Messrs. Hall and Arlington, principals
OF the Petersburg Academy, have just
issued an attractive catalogue which con-
tains many fattering testimonials from
parents whose children have been pupils
in this school. DR.. Battle, in speaking of
the school. said: Il believe Messrs. Hall
and Arlington, the principals. comprehend
and apply the philosophy of teaching"
BRIEF PETERSBURG ITEMS.
Messrs. Alexander Hamilton. r. B.
Davis and George Mason, of Petersburg,
will attend the meeting of the Bar AS
eociation at Hot Springs this week.
The Second BAPTIST Church will carry
TN excursion from Petersburg to Nor
to.k. Ocean View and Virginia Beach on
the l4th. 10
Mrs, John Wingheld. who recently visit
ed Mrs Leroy Roper, In this city. died
1,r,- \, Col. $I,;e
typhoid fever.
Mrs. S. K. VIM. Mrs. Carter r. Bishop
Hnd her son Don, left this morning for
the Old Sweet Springs to spend the
Mrs. John Wingfield. who recently Wis
tied Mrs. Leroy Roper in this city,,tdied
et her home in Norfolk this morning
hnd Thomas Arnold, of Baltimore. who
haxs been spending several DAY, DAYS nPe
Mr.. jerome NJ. Walters after two
weeks vacation. spent with relatives in
Etaunton and with friends in MiddleseX
county has returned to the city
The new Catholic school-house on Mar
ket Street will be completed by the be-
si Mr. and Mrs e0 oaenh s'o Of Norfolk,
burg
Rev. John Ridout has returned from
Mrs. Charles Jackson and Mrs N c.
jackson are at Warrenton. Va
Mr.. Eugfe Parham, Of New Orleans. is
visiting friends and relatives in Peters
burg.
Mr. Samuel ". Arlington is visiting
relatives near Warrenton. N. c.
Mrs. Hatcher Seward and children have
returned from Virginia Beach.
Miss Nellie Green, daughter OF Mr.. sgd
ney Green. is 81 with fever
Thieves this morning about o'clock
attempted to rob the store of w. P.
Aldridge on Oak Street. The cries of a
woman nearby. who heard them in their
efforts to gain an entrance. frightened
them away.
The chain-gang in Petersburg has not
been at work for several days. Mr.. Peter
Scott has been appointed special officer
to take them IN charge. and they will be