The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-22
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DEBTORL
.1he Ancient Law Did Not
Suffice to Hold West.
CAR COMPANIES SEPARATE
No Formal Meeting or Announcement
o. Dissolution, but Notice Given
tina, Transfers WIN Be No Lon
ger Accepted The Ferries
,snoc,o, 70 Tho rimes-Dlspntch.

tspec,al to The Enthusiastically
ii SoRE IpsiL.I = VA, August 2l,-Jnstice
Tascwcll Taylor to-day forbade freu
Finckc, first officer Of the United STATES
rayal collier Lebanon, leaving mere WIN
he child of Elsie Fass and another wo-
) man. The entire party was arrested LOT
disorderly conduct last night.
ISincke and Elsie Fass we're mt nrst
thought to be man and wife, but wnen 1t
was proven In court that they were not.
Z 1,,ncke's charge that the mother was not
n proper person to rear the child ieiI
nat and she was given Its custody
4 The absconding debtors law or VIZ
rinla. regarded rs the States one sur
Giving barbarlsm, as It allows imprison-
nent for debt, failed to hold J. II. West.
The court held that the ancient Virginia
statute was being used BY Vests local
creditors to collect North Carolina Jndg-
ment. and refused to hold the man IN JAIL
until the money was paid.
NO MORE TRANSFERS.
Although there has been no meeting or
tho directors Of the Norfolk Portsmouth
md Newport News Company to perfect
tho details of the separation of the sew.
eral companies composing the consolidated
3 concern. the separation Is in effect
Formal notice has been given that the
i transfers of the Norfolk and Portsmouth
Companies will not hereafter be honored
on the Atlantic Terminal Company 70
Newport News and on the Peninsula lines.
4 The next adjourned meeting, to be held
to-morrow. will, 1t Is stated be attended
by REPRESENTATIVES of Alexander Brown
and Sons, Of Baltimore, and the final
deeds will pass.
The torpedo boats cambridge and
Chauncey leave the navy yard to-day for
Rockland, Maine They will participate
'ir the siege Of Portland, which Will be-
- = l,,rt NJ rha p.
.ceived Geographic orders for sea late
last night They were made ready for the
voyage In remarkably short order. 1t Is
expected that the torpedo notilla will be
sent to the East after the manoeuvres.
Z IT will be the first long cruise ever under
taken BY our torpedo boats, and one not
without considerable risk
NEW INFANTRY COMPANY.
Forty-flve names Of the necessary sixty
have been secured by the promoters Of the
new Infantry company which Is being
formed here. An application will be made
/, to the Governor for the muster In of the
organization as an unattached companSI
This is necessary. because all the regt-
,nents Of the State militia have their full
quota OF commands.
f. The Southern Bell Telephone Company.
which only four years ago erected one OF
the finest exchanges iry the South In
large its plant. 1t has purchased for
s $4,000 a lot on Plume Street, and will i'm
mediately Greet thereupon, ono Of the
greatest exchanges outside the great
cities.
Many entries have been made by the
owners of fast yachts for tomorrow s
contest on an elght-mlle. straightaway
course In the lower Chesapeake 1t will be
the first race Of the kind that has been
,1P ,f/,,,
Roads Yacht Club. The course will be
around the Thimble Light. and return to
the clubs pier.
COMMON CARRIERS.
The Norfolk and Newport News Com.
pany, lesses Of the Norfolk county ferries.
+ connecting the cities Of Portsmouth, Nor
folk and Berkeley, will likely have to prove
that 1t Is not a common carrier before
a point that has been raised before the
Ferry Committee OF the City Council
is determined finally.
The fact that the company charges five
cents each for packages carried by pas.
Rengers on Its boats, Is held by the Hon.
Goodrich Hatton. who was a member Of
the late Constitutional Convention. to
make 1t come within the Jurisdiction OF
the Corporation Commission, and unde:
the laws affecting common carriers
Mr.. Hatttn told .the Committee on Fer.
ries that'thc Terry company should wheN
1t charges for the packages carried by II.
passengers, issue receipt for the same
! regular bill OF ladingssuch ms Is issuet
by railway companies.
He held that passengers have the RICH
10 demand such receipt when they pa.
their money The point was not met b.
tho ferry people, who commended, simpl!
that the city having made a contract witt
" the ferry lesses for the operation of 1t
property, should protec them In the ex
ercise OF all the rights granite
under that contract, leaving the court
q to decide whether the city had any RICH
to make such contract, and Whether o
not 1t violates tho transportation law
Of the State