The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-13
DENIES The
ALLEGATION.
Contractor Says He Has Paid
Richmond Negroes.
BARNUM BAILEY CIRCUS
All Washingtonians Went to See it
General Wheeler and Mr.. Swanson
Meet and Play AIphonse and
CASTOR in Hotel Lobby.
.BARNUM BAILEY CIRCUS
Times-Dispatch Bureau.
No. 141T G Street. n. w.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. May Il

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Sidney Clay appeared in the Police
Court here to-day and asked that the
case against himself James Bradley and
Samuel Cowardin. all of Richmond. for
alleged violation Of the eight-hour law.
be postponed until Friday.
The case grows out OF complaint
made TO the Police Department by Jack
Johnson, one of the two members of a
gang OF twenty-five Richmond negroes.
who are of age. They are working on
an excavation for reservoir here.
In reply to the allegations of the men.
Mr.. Clay the representative OF the COM
pany, who is in charge of the work. says
that his contract with the men says moth
ing as to the hours they should work.
and he told Lieutenant Jordan that his
books would show that they had received
all to which they were entitled.
Mr.. Clay maintained In court to-day
that, inasmuch as he is under contract
to finish the work within a given time.
and that in order to do SO he must work
the men ten hours a day, the case con-
stitutes the "emergency'' excepted in
the regulation.
CIRCUS MAD.
washington has gone circus mad and
all its road leads to Barnum & Bailey's
to-day The show is meeting with I'M
precedented success since its return from
nye-year tour Of Europe. and although
1t seats $1,000 people beneath Its DIG tent,
the demand Is greater than the supply.
One would think, from the crowds, that
the people OF the national capital are as
bent on seeing the elephant as any back
woods town In Virginia. The small boys
Of Richmond will doubtless be glad to
learn that there Is probability OF their
coming to Richmond in the autumn.
ALPHoNsE SWANSON.
Representative Swanson is still In
Washington A few evenings ago he and
The Times Dispatch correspondent were
sitting In the lobby of the New Willard
talking, when General Joe Wheeler. the
intrepid little cavalry leader, who won
his straps and his rank fighting for his
sunny Southland. and who added to his
fame by climbing trees in Cuba to locate
the enemy, walked up. The two had
served several sessions in Congress to-
gether.
'TIow are you, General?" said Swan
son, rising and grasping the hand OF
Wheeler. why, ] declare you look
Younger than you did when you sat with
me In the Ways and Means committee
room of the House"
"That Is very kind. indeed" replied
General Wheeler, "but ] am after you in
looking we'll, my dear Alphonse.
"Slnce you have your whlskers trim
med up as you have them you look
twenty years younger than you did when
YOU were In Congress" added Mr., Swan
son.
Now / should say that Is extremely
kind of YOU to express It that way, but "
addressing The Times Dispatch corre-
spondent, "you see Swanson Is still In
Congress and knows how to say agree
able things"
II often remember the days when you
were with us on the Ways and Mearts
Committee, continued the Virginia Con-
gresham, "and you generally managed to
get us on the right side of things"
"Now that is real kind of you to say
so. but ! think we were both usually
right"
And after n few more compliments, AL
phonse Swanson and CASTOR Wheeler part
ed without either coming to grief for his
politeness.
And by the way General Wheeler does
look as dapper as most men quarter
of n century younger than he, He looks
MS IL he could climb trees In a dozen
Spanlsh- American wars yet, and then dc
some tall fghting after that. The pic
lures one sees of him do not by any
means do him justice.
MARRIED IN WASHINGTON,
Frederick II. Farrar, of Richmond, and
Idllian Myrtle Roberts, of Mineral, Va,
we're married here to-day,
James H. Muller and Alice Y. Grady.
both of Richmond. were given license
to marry,