The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-05
BAY SHORE
IS TIED UP
Tanners Creek DraWbridge
Out of Commission.
SUSPECTED OF SHAMMlNG
A Negro Charged With Criminal As
sauIt is Adjudged Acknowledgements
Are Still Out, but Traffic is Not
Much lmpeded Gossip.
Especial to The Tlmes-Dlspatch)


NORFOLK, VA. June 4.-The accident
to the Tanners Creek drawbridge is
more serious than was anticipated at
first. The bridge was pushed aside by
the collision of the Standard Oil Com
nany's barge at 6 O'Clock on Monday,
and has not been In use since. The Same
draw that serves the Bay Shore road
serves the Tanners Creek shell toll road
also, and that road is impossible, too.
The truckers of that section have to make
"A roundabout tour in and out of town.
The bridge irons cannot be replaced for
several weeks, and If a temporary bridge
cannot be supplied the tie-up may last
for three weeks, or until new irons can
be procured from the foundry at Roam
oie, where the bridge was made.
There were thirty men employed on the
Bay Shore, who will be out of employ
ment till the bridge is repaired The
physical damage to the bridge is est-
mated at 200, and 1t Is said that there
were new men on the barge, as the re-
suit of the strike No libel has been
filed yet because there will likely be an
amlcab BILE adjustment OF the damages.
SUSPECTED OF SIIAMM1NG IN
SANITY.
Ell Winslow, a repulslve and intensely
black man, was tried to-day for criminal
assault The jury Of the Corporation
Court was out but few minutes, when
1t returned with a verdict of not guilty,
because of insanity The detectives and
the jailers who were called to keep the
prisoner quiet during the trial, declared
that the prisoner was shammng; that he
was quiet In JAIL and that he became
quiet again when returned to his cell.
The charge is that he made a criminal
assault on an idiotic negro girl. Mamie
Brooks, Of fourteen years of age. last
be sent to Petersburg, no doubt, and II he
continues to show signs of insanity he
may be kept there for life. The police
officers fear that he will be out and back
here in short time. The negro is
wretched looking, and Is poor and friend
less. The court assigned one of the at
torneys at the bar for his defense. The
prisoner did Sot pretend to offer any de-
tense for himself.
ENGINEERS STILL OUT.
There is little change In situation in
regard to the marine engineers walk-out.
While a few owners Of single steamers
have agreed to meet the demands of tile
engineers. yet several lines still remain
tied up. and the managers say they will
not accede to the scale of wages. There
has been some inconvenience caused by
I,
little. as enough tugs have been kept In
commission to meet the demands Of the
owners. The New York. Pennsylvania
and Norfolk Railroad runs a regular
freight schedule between this city and
Cape Charles, and the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad is also maintaining a
schedule between this city and Newport
News. The Ocean View road runs
launch to Old Point, and there are pros
poets for the regular ferries on Hampton
Roads
GRIEVANCES SETTLED.
Mr.. w. w. Haygood. third vice-presi-
dent of the International Brotherhood Of
Maintenance of Way Employees. who has
been in Portsmouth for two weeks In the
Interest of the trackmen of the Seaboard
Air Line system, says that the griev-
ances of the men whom he has been rep
rcsenting have all been settled satisfac-
tory
The Grand president, Mr.. John T. Will
son. arrived here to-day and paid
visit to General Manager Barr. The
matter was discussed and was settled
to all. Some Of the men
have been benefited over s6,1oo year;
others not so much. Grand President
Wilson goes from here TO ST, Louis.
COaMODIOus LAW LIBRARY.
Another room Is opened in the new
building for the law library.
BY the courtesy of the government and In
Difference to the recommendations OF Col
onel George E. Bowden. the custodian
of the building. the Secretary of the
Treasury has granted permission for the
use of the additional room In the building
for the law library This Is the general
library of the bar association of the two
cities here, which has free accommoda-
ton in the government building, and
therefore the handsomest library rooms
in the State, The new room adjoins the
already devoted to the library,
and is on the third floor in the room for
mcrly occupied by the civil service COM
missioners,