The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-06
WORKING FOR
EXPOSITION
newport News Expects to
Place $4,000 in Stock.
REFUSE THEATRE LICENSE
The Closing Of Variety Saloons and
the Mann Bill We're Sufficient to
Break Up Bar Harbor-Runa-
ways Back from Liverpool.
1sneo,nl 10 The rlmes-plspatcho


NEWPORT NEWS, VA. Oct, 5.-Mr. j.
L. Patton, president of the Chamber OF
Commerce, will call a meeting of the COM
mttee appointed to solicit subscriptions
for the stock of the jamestown EXPOSE
ton Company for tomorrow night, When
reports from the various members Will
be received and plans for future opera
lions discussed.
The members Of the committee have,
up to this time, succeeded in selling about
s35, 900 worth Of stock and 1t is expected
that within the next few weeks over
$4,000 worth will have been sold.
All of the banks of the city are re-
ceiving subscriptions, the mayor has a
5 ..subscription received here" sign on his
desk and the people of the city generally
are interested in the work
REFUSED THEATRE LICENSE
]. Nj. Barton, of Norfolk, VINO LOT
number of years conducted Nar1et'
theatre on Twenty third Street here, ap-
piled for license for n saloon In MS
theatre this afternoon in the Cor
poration Court. Judge Barham re-
fused to grant the license WITH
out discussion, stating that he was giau
when the three theatres which held lortn
In Bar Harbor closed and that nc ola
not propose to license any OF them asail''
Mr.. Barton was inclined to argue the
matter, as he had already billed the CITY
for the opening Of the place tonight, put
he talked In vain and did not succeed IN
moving the Judge.
The closing Of the variety theatres prac-
tically did away with Bar Haroor' as the
place would hardly be recognized now
The Mann bin put most OF the saloons
In that section out of business ana ban
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the city after nightfali now.
CITIZENS PARTIES DEPENDANT.
Theodore Miller applied for an ordinary
iiuuor license for hotel puffes IN Ihe
Oser building, on washington AVenue.
near Thirty-third Street, TINS morning
in the Corporation Cou..; - ~ have nncn
Der OF the citizens in the vicinity nave oech
made parties defendant in the case ana Il
yyill be heard tomorrow afternoon.
Elmer Avery, aged seventeen, ana
Charles Lemkuhl, aged nineteen, Two
Baltimore bows. who shipped from here
nearly two months ago as cattlemen on
the British steamship Shenandoah, re
turned this morning on the steamship
I<anawha. from Liverpool. They We're
,,icped nm by Detective Reynolds ami
viii be sent back home to their pa
rents.
The parents of the youngsters are SAID
IN be prominent Baltimore people. The
Youngsters left home some time ago 10
see the world. They came here and de-
cided to take trip across the wafer
They are now sick of the world ana are
very willing to return to Baltimore.
The day Of the launching Of the bat
t]eship Maryland the mothers OF the
boys were here and made inquiries as
to the whereabouts of their sons, belleV-
ing that they were at work here. Later
MIR. John 7. Avery, the father of Elmer,
came down and requested that the police
make every effort to locate the young
sters It was learned that the boys had
shipped on the Shenandoah. and since
that time the police have been watching
Liverpool boats
DESERTERS.
James Coughlan. deserter from the
training ship Newport was arrested here
to-day and Is being held for the authori-
ties. Sam Mclean, John j. Clark and
Joseph Lally, stragglers from the BATH
ship Maine, were picked up and turned
over to their ship to-day.
The new ST. Vincents Female School
was formally blessed yesterday after
noon by Bishop Van de Nyver. OF Rich
1nond, assisted by Rev. Father T. ]. VIII
SON. pastor of st; .Vlncents Catholic
Church. The school opened for the ses-
sion this morning. with a fairly good
& attendance