The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-10
Purchase by U. S. Government
Still Being Discussed.
CRUISE OF THE DOLPHIN
Members Of House Naval Committee
to Have an Enjoyable Trip-Deaths
Of Children in the National
Capital
Tho Times-D Dispatch Bureau,
No. 1417 G Street, N. W.,

Washington, D. c.. July 9th, 1903
A big Virginia Military Institute meet
Ing in this city is planned for next week.
The evening has not yet been get, but
the old Institute men have arranged to
have New Market Experience" meet
ing, attended by all v. NJ. l. graduates
residing here, at which those who went
to the Institute to attend the New Mar
ket week exercises will tell those who
could not attend OF what was said and
done.
There are many old cadets In this city
who occupy prominent places in the DUST
ness and social world.
"Twenty-eight States. the District OF
Columbia and Mexico had students at the
Virginia Military Institute last year.
said an attache OF the War Department
to-day. IT am deeply interested In the
suggestion that the Institute be pur-
chased by the national government and
be made an auxiliary to West Point.
1t is very clear that the West Point
Academy will have to be enlarged In a
few years. 1t would be cheaper TO buy
tho " NJ T. from the State OF Virginia
and make It national institution. ol
course, Virginia could reserve the right
to appoint cadets 10 free tuition
A movement has been set on foot here
70 have the Y. NJ. l. battalion brought
here and encamped n week during the
next session Of Congress, in order to let
Congress and the people Of the country
generally see what Is being done at tho
Lexington school. There are very many
young men DESTROYS OF entering the army
who cannot gain admission 10 west
Point It Is realized that 1t would DC
greatly to the benefit OF the INSTITUTE
TO let these know that an army commis-
i. ut az a NJ. L.
graduate as for a graduate OF west
Point. - -,
1t Is very probable that bill VIII pc
introduced In Congress- next year provid-
ing for the appropriation OF a sum every
year for the support of the virginia al.ll-
tary Institute.
THE attaches of the Patent Office are
.urprlsed and disgustcd at the .act that
there has not been the usual falling off IN
applications for patents this summer.
There were granted seven hundred and
thfrty-one patents last week and the
number OF applications on file Is rs great
as during any of the winter month";. me
number OF patents granted the past year
was greater than in any year IN the MS
tory OF the government.
Ernest n. Dewey. o: Goldsbora N. c..
a distinguished graduate OF the V. NJ, l.
4 in the class OF 1908. will be candidate
for appointment to one OF the Cecil
Rhodes scholarships at Oxford. a North
Carolina man said to-day that young
Dewey was said by the institute authori-
ties to have made better record at the
institution than any cadet In recerc yenrs.
The name Of Virginia candidate for ono
OF the scholarships has not been an
nounced.
Secretsry. Root and Secretary Needy,
OF the War and Navy Departments. have
fatty refused the petition OF employees
that the offices In the two departments be
closed at o'clock p NJ. The attaches of
the departments are supposed to begin
work at 9 o'clock a. NJ. work until noon.
take half-hour for lunch and then give
to Uncle Sam their time until P. NJ.
IT would not strike the average American
that six hours and half formed long
day, and SO Mr.. Root and Mr.. Moody
appear to have thought. At any rate, 1t
was announced in the War and Navy
Departments this afternoon that shorter
hours would not be granted.
1t was stated hero to-day by man In
position to know that John D. Rockefeller
and George and Frank Gould, through
their agents. We're purchasing all the
water front land on York River at West
Point that could DO obtained. 1t is not
known whether these purchases are in
behalf of the Wabash Railway which
may want to secure a deep water port
at West Point or for the Virginia Pas
senger and Power Company, OF Richmond,
which may desire to obtain land upon
which to place attractions for Richmond
people sufficient to warrant tn. cons,ruc-
Ito nof line to West Point.
The following marriage license has been
granted here: Jesse Whitlock, twenty
sight years, and Ella Bowler. nineteen
years, both OF Richmond
The United States dispatch boat Dol
phin left here Yesterday morning with