The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-21
The Diamond Shoals Driven
from Her Station.
SCHUBERT a TOTAL WRECK
Captain and Grew Taken OFF by Life
Saving Crew-serious Effect of
Cold Weather on Produce
Markets.
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NORFOLK, VA. February 20.--The
Diamond Shoals lightship. No. Il. arrived
here to-day. She was forced to leave
her station because she had been twice
driven to sea and had lost both her great
mushroom anchors and lG5 fathoms OF
steel cable. She lost one anchor being
driven away from It by the force Of the
storm Of Monday night sixty-tiVe miles
X to sea- She returned to DO driven away
from Hatteras by a second storm, when
the force of the gale caused the chain TO
slip through the hnwse holes and the
lashings in the cable box snapped. Cap
tain Tawse says that the steel cable. one
and fve-eighths inches thick, snapped like
Irvine. The gale blew at ninety or one
hundred miles an hour. The lightship VIII
lrefit and return Immediately to her sta
ton.
SCHUBERT A TOTAL WRECK.
The Schooner William II. shubert,
which went ashore three miles north of
Roanoke Island In the hurricane of last
Monday night, is q total wreck. The
steamer Rescue, OF the Merritt and Chap
man Wrecking Company stripped the
vessel, and Is now on her way to Nor
B folk. The cargo Of coal Is lost. 1t was
+ the bulky coal that prevented the wreck
ers from floating the schooner. The Shu-
bert, at the time she was driven ashore
in the seventy-mile gale. was bound from
Philadelphia to Cardenas Cuba. Captain
Doughty and crew of ten men We're taken
off the vessel by the life saving crew
from the Bodies Island Station in the
breeches buoy, and have been cared for
az the Station. Now that the schooner
1, loss the crew will come to Norfolk
and be sent to Philadelphia. Schooner and
largo was worth In the neghborhood OF
$4,000.
PRODUCE MARKET AFFECTED.
The Intensely cold ,weat Their prevailing
In New York and New England has de-
creased the sale and the demand for pro-
duce. 1t could be shipped from here by
steamer, but it cannot be distributed by
rail from the great markets. New York,
Boston. and Providence. accessible from
here by water Then In addition to the
lack of transportation facility for dlstri-
button from the market centres, there is
The lack of that certainty of rail delivery
which must exist In order 10 warrant the
shipment of perisnable freight. Produce
is nearly always sold on commission and
the owner is careful not to ship when he
is doubtful whether It will arrive in time
to sell for enough to pay freight and
charges. The farmer or owner takes the
risk OF the marke. In any event. but he
doesn't wish to take any additional
risks on account of failure in delivery
Consequently, shipments from here are
light for two reasons, both of them the
results of the intensely cold weather on
the railways of the North and the New
England States
WANT TO BE REGISTERED.
AT meeting of the Town Executive
Committee held at the office of the Nor
FOLK County Democrat last night, COM
mittee was appointed to visit Richmond
T and request the Legislature to pass
special act whereby the voters of the
town OF Berkeley can be registered The
Legislature ut the last special session
passed an act empowering the electoral
boards of counties to appoint registrars
for the purpose OF registering voters In
towns, and it Is stated that the Electoral
Board of Norfolk county neglected to
carry out the provision OF the act and
that the time For registration as fixed by
the Leglslatsire' has passed Therefore q
special act will have to be passed by the
Legislature TO enable the voters Of
Berkeley TO have their names placed on
the registration books.
is MILLER IN IT?
Is Hugh G. Miller in the postoflce con-
test as factor? That Is proposed as an
interesting question, The conditions arc
as follows: President Roosevelt allowed
Judge Lewis to choose Coles for his as
6lstant in the district attorneys office,
but had to withdraw the permission to
keep Miller In, He had forgotten that
Miller was filling the place. 1t is under
stood that the President wishes to please
Miller because he feels kindly toward
him, but he was sorry then and Is still
sad because he was obliged to recall his
permission TO Judge Lewis. The death
of Colonel Waddy puts another opportu-
nifty in the way OF the President to allow
Judge Lewis to choose his own assistant
by transferring the present assistant at
gtorney, Hugh G. Miller, to the postof,ice
berth. Meantime Captain Nichols. willis
not opposed by the organization, Will not
he endorsed by the organization. He will
not have the endorsement of the banks
for that will probably be turned to Miss
Waddy, for whom petition Is circulate
ing among the citizens and the business
men. Captain Nichols will have the en-
dorsement Of Colonel George e. Bowden.
Because OF that endorsement the organ-
:, cation will not oppose Captain Nichols,
hut It will not endorse him and proha-
hly will not endorse any candidate. The
decision therefore Is more positively
with the President than is usual in such
cases, He may determine to do what
Will please Judge Lewis, and what will
fix Hugh G. Miller, or he may determine
to heed the endorsement OF the banks
and the petition Of the business men.
GOVERNMENTS THREE CONTESTS.
Contests for three land COMBINATIONS
are pending In the United States District
Court here One of them and the one
in which the largest amount OF money
and the greatest interests are involved,
Is the Schrnoele tract, which the Gov
erlment wishes to add to the maynard
In Portsmouth, another Is the Shafer
lot In Richmond needed for the new
postoffce and sull another is tract
OF land at Alexandria needed for tho
extension of Fort Hunt, In all Of
these cases District Attorney Lewis Is
seeking to reduce the awards made by
the commissioners appointed to fix a
value on the property at which the
Government shall buy II from the own
ers There Is delegation here tod v
in consultation with Mr.. Lewis about
the Alexandria property This delegation
Is headed by i. i Layton. of WnalI-
i ington and It Is seeking TO make an
arrangement for hearing as to reason
ibie value OF the price fixed there. Cap
tain Thomas II. Hodges Of Tie navy.
y yard. Portsmouth, Is here IN the capaci-
~ OF consulting engineer 70 assist MIR.
Lewis In obtaining reduction of the