The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-24
heloeity Of Machinery lncreasep
Until if Went to Pieces.
THERE WERE NO LIVES LOST
The Steel Tank at the Central State
Hospital is a Huge Affair-The Elks
Have Resold Their Purchase.
Tribute to an Honest Man:
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PETERSBURG. VA. May 23.-The slip
ping of the governor bel; al the Robert
Clarke pianng-fniIl this afternoon caused
general destruction, and it is marVei
that no lives were lost The slipping OF
the belt increased the velocity oil me d1lN-
iRs-wheel from about 12o or $50 to about
800 per minute Increasing correspondinSly
the velocity OF the wheels and puiieys IN
the room where the machinery was To-
Gated -Four men were at work at the
planes when me belt slipped. None of
them were injured. The velocity was so
intense that pieces from the pnlleys were
forced through the first floor. breaking
out the sky light to the building. Hardly
more than sphnters remained of the
wooden pulieys, which before the acc;-
dent were four or five feet in diameter.
One or two planes were damaged. but
the main loss was to the shafting and
pulleys all of which were torn away
and broken to pieces. The engine is in
tact and suffered no damage except to
the breaking OF the steam pipe. The loss
will be 500 or $500.
A MAMMOTH TANK
The work of building the steel tank at
the Central State Hospital is now well
under way. The capacity Of the tank
will be 5000 gallons. AS soon as the tank
has been completed the fire department
building will be put up at the hospital
and the institution will then be thorough
~ equipped Tor protecting its building
against fire.
The work on the laundry to be built at
the hospital will begin Monday. All mod
ern machinery Will be installed.
The two stores at Sycamore ana Bank
Streets purchased Tuesday by the Elk.
have been sold privately to Major R. NJ.
Sally. of this city. The purchase by thu
Elks' committee was made subject to the
action of the members Of the lodge. The
lodge thought that $4,000 was too much
to invest at present in real estate
DR.. W. E. Harwood. j. E. Whitehorne
and W. r. Parllam. the pension commits
sioners appointed by Judge Mullen under
the acts of the last Assembly. have all
qualified and will hold their first meeting
next Thursday night.
HONEST AND FAITHFUL MAN.
John West. the colored man who dled
IN Richmond Wednesday and was buried
in that city to-day, was for nearly thirty
years head nurse at the Central state
Hospital in this city. Every officer ana
en1ploye at the hospital was devoted 10
West He was honest, proficient. faithful
and devoted to duty and never tired of
ministering to suffering humanity. he
was never heard to murmur. however
hard the work he had to do The officers
and employees feel that they have sus-
tanned a personal loss in the death of
this faithful man, VINO was true type
of the ante-bellum negro. All the en-
ployes who could be excused from duty
at the hospital to-day went over to Rich
rnond TO attend the funeral. The officers
and erployes will raise a sum to erect
a monument to his memory, and DR..
Drewry, the superintendent, has prom
Used subscription equal to the sum col
lected.
Rev. George E. Booker. pastor Of High
Street Methodist Church in this city. Will
deliver the address before the Washing
ton Literary Society of Randolph Macon
College at its annual celebration June
18th.
A white tramp giving the name OF Bert
Stephens, of Philadelphia was arrested
here Wednesday night. He was travel
ing from the South by beating his way on
freight cars. At the station he was found
to have $50 on his person, all OF "hlch
he said he had secured by begging. lie
was returning to his home in the North
to open business with his capital.