The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-23
PROF ANDREW SLEDD
IN NORFOLK PULPIT.
He Made No Reference to the
Recent Controversy.
He SEES NO GREAT APATHY
He Thinks the White Vote Will Show
Up Well in the Close of Registra,
tion-Large Patronage on the
Cape Henry Electric Line.
He SEES NO GREAT APATHY
Especial Dispatch to The Times1


NORFOLK. VA. September 22.-Pro-
fessor Andrew Sledd. who left a chair at
Emory College. Georgia. because Of an
article in the Atlantic Monthly about the
attitude of the whites, toward the negro,
preached here yesterday. The announce
n.ent did not attract a large audience to
Mckendree Church. The preacher made
no reference TO the controversy.
Professor Sledd IS visiting his sister,
Mrs. kinton. here He will leave soon to
attend a Latin course at Yale University,
where he has a scholarship.
RECOVERY FROM APATHY.
Colonel Joseph Button, clerk of the SEN
ate, of Richmond, visited here to-day
BE said the Democratic State Committee
would meet Tomorrow in Richmond TO
consider plans and the prospects of the
fall campaign. Speaking of the registra-
ton, he said that he believed the people
were recovering from apathy. il any ex-
listed, and that the reports from some Of
the congressional districts, in which reg
istration had taken place. showed that 90
per cent. of the white voters had been
registered
RUNAWAY GIRL RETURNED.
Annie Jones. colored. the housekeeper of
E A. Bennett, of New York, got her
daughter here to-day. She came here last
week, bringing the man. Thomas Spruell,
who gave the girl, Sadie Jones. money to
run awaq with. Sprueil declared he would
lind the girl II the mother would bring
him here. But he did not. and he and the
mother returned to New York.
The police found the girl in a boarding
house. on Queen Street. detained her at
the mothers request. and she goes back
to New York tonight The case attracted
a great deal OF attention from the police
here. because of the evident respecta bility
and the distress of the mother, and be-
cause of the laudable efforts to save her
daughter.
TO CAPE HENRY BY RAIL.
Trains on regular schedule to Cape
Henry yesterday. Despite the rainy
weather a thousand persons took their first
trip on the new road to the interesting
and historic spot. where the old English
built light standing about a hundred
feet on a sand mound. as stone monu-
ment to mark the entrance OF the I'M
migrants of 1907 into Hampton Roads
between the capes. which they named
Henry and Charles. after the sons of the
King.
The new light house at Cape Henry Is
100 feet high. built OF brick stone and iron,
and intended to last at least century.
Both are graceful shafts. and command
a magnificent view of the Roads. the
sea and the great sand hills and the
grand forest OF the land back OF the cape.
A GREAT SAND HILL
a peculiar and wonderful feature OF
Cape Henry is the sand hill. 1t gives an
exhibition, the gigantic way in which
nature does her work
There Is hill of sand rising gradually
from the beach and extending back half
mile, rising gradually till 1t attains
a height OF $50 feet. Then it drops on
precipitately till only a goat or a boy
would attempt to go down It's side into
the forest below.
Tall cypress and pine trees rise from
the swamps below $50 feet. but from the
beach their tops cannot be seen. II Is a