The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-28
TO ENLARGE,
NAVY-YAI.R|[i''D:.
SChnoele Land Likely 10 Be
Purchased.
TRAINS YACHT BULLETINS
Non-Reg,straton viii Not Excuse a
Citizen from Jury Duty--Ra'lway
viii Give Labor Day Celebration
of its Own.
TRAINS YACHT BULLETINS
fsncc,al 10 The rlmos- plspntch.)

Especial to The Times- Dispatch)
NORFOLK, VA, August 2i.--Captain
William swift, Of the General Board OF
the Navy, was here to-day to mako flnal
arrangements for tho enlargement OF TINS
navy yard. 1t Is believed that the
schmoelo land. adjoining the yard, and
valued ut seUO, 600, will be purchased as q
result Of his visit.
Despite the fact that the Central Labor
Union cancelled It'd arrangements with
the Norfolk Railway and Light Company
for Labor Day celebration at Ocean
View, because the company asked for
troops during It's strike. celebration VIII
be held under the RAILWAY auspices. The
Seventy-f1rst Regiment may parade
DROWNED IN RIVER.
The body Of u white man. supposed to
be 3. C.. Vaughan. of South Norfolk. was
found this morning about $3.50 o'clock
near W. u. Thomas and Companys Ma
rne Railway, on the Eastern Branch OF
the Eliza both River, BY a colored work.
man. Tho man was about thirty years
OF age. Letters addressed to 3. c.
Vaughan were found in his pockets, to-
gether with a photograph Of himself and
q Metropolitan life insurance receipt
Many privileges will be enjoyed by tho
voters who registered before the first
day Of the coming new year, and It Is
likely that all those who for ono reason
or another failed to enroll their names
on tho books during 1902 will not foil
to do SO before the end OF the present
year.
NO. ESCAPE.
1t s fact that there are many mon,
not only here, but in other portions OF
the State. who deliberately rcfrained
from registering last year. with the idea
that II thoy voluntarily disfranchised
themselves they would be relieved from
jury duty.
Judge Croker, of the Portsmouth Hutt-
ings Court, relieved 70 number Of them
of this impression BY q statement to tho
effect that there would be no escape for
them on this ground.
Many Of them We're summoned for Jury
duty, 1t turned out, and the opinion Of
those who thought thoy might shirk the
responsibility Of serving on juries by fail
urc to register, was rudely changed.
The registrars OF the city OF Norfolk
have already announced their gIttings.
but those OF Portsmouth. having an
abundance OF time before October. have
not yet done so. In both cIties the reg
!stration will probably, bring last year
totals UP considerably higher than they
were at the close Of the registration
last year.
THE PERMANENT LIST.
member OF the late Constitutional
Convention. who is certainly in POSI-
ton to interpret exactly the intent OF
| the registration ordinances OF the new
| Constitution. stated to-day to repre-
| sentative OF thl> paper that the diner
ence between the permanent and the
annual registration clauses is that those
| who get on the permanent list before
January 1. 1904. will, under section Il
of the new Constitution, not have tc
register again. unless they should be.
come residents OF another State OF
| otherwise disqualified. There are GER
tain requirements affecting the standing
Of the annual voter, which those on
the permanent list will not have to con-
tend with. For example, the latter class
must answer any and all questions at
fccting his qualification as a voter which
may be asked him by the registrars. The
permanent man escapes this. Further
| the man who fails to register before the
1st Of January must have paid all pol
taxes assessed or nssessable against him
under the old or the new Constitutions
for three years prior to the time he Offers
to register. The permanent man has
only to pay the poll tax assessed under
the new Constitution.
The annual voter must also make
application In his own handwriting anG
without assistance for registration. This
the permanent list man is exempt from
BOTH TO BLAME.
The local steamboat inspectors to-day
! rendered decision In the harbor COLL.
sion case OF the fishing steamer POGO.
moke and the navy-yard launch Daisy
Tho sinking OF the Daisy was due to the
carelessness Of both navigators, the In
spectors find. They suspended Captain
C. L. Hainey OF the Pocomoke, but I'm
posed no punishment on Captain ". N
RnInle, OF the Daisy. who must answer
before naval investigating board.
| Tho inspectors hold, however, that he
was not only careless. but incompetent
In view OF the fact that he has Insufl-
cient knowledge OF the navigation rules
for inland waters.
YACHT BULLETINS.
| A novel idea OF the Senboard Air Line
Railway was the transmission to-day Of
al the yacht race bulletins to all the
passenger trains Of tho system where
ever they might be. Thus tho news
reached the swcltering passengers ir
Georgia and Florida md Alabama, was
road by the South Carolinians and the
North Carolininns md by the passengers
on tho tra ins In Virginia within few
minutes after 1t had been paced on the
bulletin bonrd here Tho enterprise. ot
the messenger department was probably
greatly appreciated by the passengers.
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