The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-29


of his position. I.
We need many superintendent In Vir-.
GINA just like Mr.. venable.
FIGHT FOR PROTECTION.
The testimony Of Mr.. j. P. Morgan be-;
fore the United States examiner in the
N0Ahern Securities investigation was
highly entertaining and interesting. Mr..
Morgan made livery plain that this was
a. fight for position, and that the owners
of the Northern Pacific were compelled
to do something to protect their inter
tion.' says the New York Sun, instead
of being the ending of competition be
tween the two lines involved-the North
crn Pacific and the Great Northern-was
defense against a, danger which had been
proven with terrible emphasis during the
Northern Pacific road awoke one morning
to find themselves reported the poperty
of a still bigger enemy, the Union Pacific;
and having barely escaped from capture,
they resolved to build a house so large,
that is, representing a capital SO great,
as to be safe from attack. And so the
Northen Securities Company, holding.
company, or trust company, was con-.
structed. in which the Great Northern
and Northern Pacific might be secure
Both roads, have entered it willingly and
gladly, and there they await for the
General may pull their house down and
drive them out Needless to say, the
entire business Organization of the coun-
try waits on no coming event with
greater interest
This deal seems to have been the only
way out OF the difficulty. The organiza-
ton Of the United States Steel Corpora
ton was also a, necessity of conditions.
A number Of great steel and iron concerns
were about to go to war, and the fight
would have been so disastrous that they
were constrained to make terms and be
friends, instead Of enemies.
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several DAYS ago a. woman in Rich
mond, being in a hurry, attempted 70
cross the street ahead of q. wagon which
was being driven by a negro. Inc driver
deliberately applied the lash to his team
and tried to run the woman down. Alter
the woman had escaped she turned and
looked at the negro and he scowled$ at
her in q, way that made her flesh creep
On Thursday afternoon a horse dashed
down Fifth Street dragging a buggy in
which were seated a woman and child.
Wesley Armstrong, a negro man, saw
the danger, and at the risk OF his own
life stopped the frightened horse and
saved the woman and child from HARM
It is not always fair to judge negroes
as race. There are mean negroes and
good negroes, as there are mean White
folks and good white folks
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The General Assembly has determined
to have a committee of five to inquire
into the advisabilty Of establishing an
other Normal School in Virginia and re-.
port at the next session. That is Well
We have little doubt that the commit
tee, after having made an examination,
will report favorably, and we hope that
the report will be formally acted upon
by the next General Assembly.
The Governor did right to veto the bill
providing that person named therein
might practice pharmacy without stand
ing the required examination before the
State Board of Pharmacy. That sort of
class legislation should not be tolerated.
A competent pharmacist can stand the
regular examination, and if a man cam
not stand it, he ought not to be permitted
to fill prescriptions.
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The Richmond Times says: 1T cannot
be too often asserted that the men make
the town" How about the women?-
Farmvlle Herald.
The women? Why they make the men.
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We print on the financial page to-day
an interesting article from Messrs. G.
w. Branch & Company on the outlook
for cotton. The figures have been care
fully compiled and should be filed away
70: reference.