The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-09
RESIGN BECAUSE
OF FREE-PASS LAW.
Railroad Officials Withdraw from
Municipal Position.
A NEW REIGN OF TERROR
The New Police Officers Have Been
Sworn in and To-Day Go on Duty.
The GouId's Plans to Build
Virginia City.
A NEW REIGN OF TERROR
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fSpecial Dispatch to Tho Times)
NORFOLK, Va, July S.-R. B: Cooke,
traffic manager of the New YORK, Phli-
adelphia and Norfolk Ry., has resigned
from the board OF directors Oh tile fe'ei >,
burg Asylum His position was affected
by the clause of the Constitution promo
itinr~ an officer Of the State from accept
ing free passes.
others here who will be affected are
Capt. n. NJ. Osborn, agent OF the NJ
folk and Western. and member OIL me
CITY Water Works Board; James w.
Brown ticket agent OF the s. A. L. and
member of the Portsmouth City Councll,
and Col. Walter H Taylor, banker ana
director in the n. and W., and member OF
the Norfolk Sinking Fund Commission
Several of these Will resign.
NEW POLICE TOMORROW.
All the men of the new police force
have been sworn in and the new reign
of terror to evil doors will begin to-mor-
row. The last changes made to-day
were as follows: Captain Stevens was
reappolnted to be a patrolman; that is, he
was reduced to the ranks. Jas. H. Cod
frev and w a. Ship We're appointed
patrolmen.
n. NJ. Burright, j. Furlong and h V.
Crosby, who had applied for the posi-
tons of sergcants were appointed as pa
tIolmen instead. At noon these ana
about ninety other men will begin as the
new police department of Norfolk. There
is ALREADY a great deal of comment and
much dissatisfaction The Norfolk Land
mark condemns the radical changes the
Police Boar and Mayor Rlddick have
made and declares that The city Will
never have a. satisfactory Police Depart
nent so long as the system of reprisals
and spoils prevails
GEORGE GoULD's PLANS.
Railway experts here are intensely in
terested in the plans of George j. Gould
1t is stated positively that he has dc
clned to locate the terminal of the great
Wabash system at either Annapolis or
Baltimore.
The chief reason assigned is that he
seeks a deep water seaport.
Recent Investigations have shown that
the depth of water to be had at Nor
folk. at Baltimore and at several other
places contiguous is but thirty-one feet
ii draft Vessels drawing more than
that can't be expected to enter any OF
the we'll known harbors on the inside the
Capes, although vessels craving forty
three feet of water can come in that
natural gateway.
The next place considered. after Bal
timore and Annapolis, were Drum Point.
on the Chesapeake Bay seventy-1Fe
miles from Cape Henry, and Yorktown,
thirty-fve miles from Cape Henry. At
the latter place there is forty feet OF
water. at the former ninety feet
ONLY FORTY-THREE FEET.
But practical seamen ask what would
be the use Of going to Drum Point on
the score of water, when there is but
forty-three feet limit at the outlet of the
Capes II Yorktown be selected as the
terminal the PatuXent River must be
hridged for the Western Maryland Rail
way, over which the Gould traffic must
come to the sea. 1t Will cost more
perhaps 10 bridge than to carry freight
the additional forty miles by water, the
distance between the Drum Point and
the Yorktown sites.
The site at Drum Point is not availa-
BILE because. there is a sand spit above
the mouth OF the York River, which
prevents vessels at greater draft than
about thrty-one feet from going beyond.
Hence forty-three feet is the draft avail
able to Yorktown only after that there
is only what can be had there, no matter
how deep the local narbor.
TO FOUND y CITY.
The chief interest here is the fact that
Gould is still seeking a place for a rail
way terminus. and more than that, a
place to found a large city. There is
little question of the possibility OF new
and great city. if backed by the capital,
the traffic, the energy and the brains
which are behind the great Gould sys-
tenn of railway connections reaching half
way over this continent and country.
He cannot be daunted by the two fail
urcs of Coils 7. Huntington on the At
lantic and on the Pacific. On the con-
trary no doubt he will be instructed by
them and therebyO avoid the errors and
misconceptions Huntington committed.
However that may be, there is q great
deal of interest here both among the
railway experts and the real estate
agents, as to the plans of Gould.