The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-19
ARE NOT
EQUAL. TO
OCCASION.
Transportation Compa.
nies Not Liberal.
#SUBsCRIBETO SMALL
AMOUNT OF STOCK
Exposition Company Will Have
to Hustle During Next
Ten Days.
VERY RETlCENT Il
AS TO RESULTS
VERY RETlCENT t...'
AS TO RESULTS
It is Learned, However, That
the Companies Agree to- Take,
Only Ono Hundred Thou
sand Dollars Of Stock.
Mitch More to be Dis
posed Of.
rom our Regular corrcspondcnt,)

(From Our Regular correspondent)
WAEHINGTON. D. c., Dec. 18.-Thc
effort TO have the transportation lines Of
Virginia assure the SUCCESS of the James
town Exposition by subscribing 10 the
stock or the Exposition Company suf-
fi.icnt sl;In to mako up the million dol
Iurs without which the State nppropria-
licn Of $4,000 is unavailable. has failed.
REPRESENTATIVES OF fourteen railway and
steamboat lines met here to-day, and
after hours OF dellbcration, agreed to
subscribe ono hundred thousand dollars to
the enterprise.
A st ring was attached to even this small
amount, as II is to be given, provided that
II will assure the SUCCESS OF the enter
PRISE.
The conference was held at the Raj
cigb Hotel. Judge Leigh r. Watts, gem
tral counsel Of the Seaboard AIR Line.
presided In the conference were many OF
Tie hest known railway men In Virginia,
Including Messrs Alexander Hamilton,
Of the Atlantic Coast Line; President l..
l., johnson, OF the Norfolk and Western;
a. sB. AndrewS. one OF the vlce-presidents
or the Southern: President w J.. Gull
lnudcu. OF the Old Dominion Steamship
Company irving NHeisiger, 1;rcsidenr~of
the Virginia Navigation Company; r. 3.
Cooke, OF Norfolk. representing the New
! Ork,& fnbtsluCF dHu olAo1h 1Ai ~.
want, the Norfolk and Western; John X
Sherwood, OF tho Baltimore Steam Packet
Company; General Manager ] Nj. Barr.
OF the Seaboard Air Line, and several
Others.
TIC session began about noon at the
Ea!elgh. soon after the conference was
convened. General Fitzhugh Lee appeared
and made an address, In which he urged
tie companies to respond as literally as
they could. and make the scheme OF q
Great Exposition on Hampton Roads TO
Celebrate the foundation of the first
Anglo Saxon settlement In the new world
a success. lie was followed by Mr.. Theo-
dort Wool, OF Portsmouth. one of tho
svitc-presldents OF the Exposition; Q. d.
Bachelor, OF Newport News, OF the En-
ecutIvc Committee, ana r. S. Southgate,
OF Norfolk, also an official of the COM
pany.
The addresses of representatives OF the
Exposition Company consumed ABOUT an
hour. At . O'Clock the conference took o
reccss until g for luncheon. The session
was then resumed and with the exception
az mn intcrrnlssion OF half an hour. e
tr:nsuor tn ton men were IN continuous
| session until about s o'clock Tonight.
None OF the members of the conference
would give out any Information as to
what had been agreed upon. or even ll''t
an agreement had been reached as 70
anything, but the foregoing Is correct
simmar!zation Of the work done.
summed up, the situation seems to be
that II the Exposition Company can
raisc upwards Of two hundred thousand
| dollars in ten days, there WI. be m Ex-
position. 49,
hontas, and ono Of the leading Repuoll-