The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-12
PAVING ROW
IN NORFOLK
Hot Fight on and Work Taken
OFT Of Hands Of Street
Committee.
REBUILD ORIGINAL CAPITOL
! Great Bridge Chapter Consider
ing This Project-Case OF
Alleged Forgery
REBUILD ORIGINAL CAPITOL
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NORFOLK. VA, May 11.-A red not
| fight on the asphalt question Is brewing
In Norfolk. At the meeting OF the selece
I council. last night the $4,000 appropriation
for paving CRANKY street was taken out
! Of the hands Of the street Committee ana
| referred to the Boulevard Committed.
William Pannill. chairman OF the street
Committee, Is the Norfolk representa-
tive of the asphalt trust and John
4 Whitehead who is agent for rival con-
! Germ. claimed that he was not getting Il
! fair deal.
Great Bridge Chapter, Daughters OF
the American Revolution, have under con-
sderation a project to rebuild the orisi-
mol capitol building on jamestown ISL
and. The matter was introduced by Hrs.
james +. Hubbard at Il meeting held yes
tcrday and was referred to a committee
! Mrs. Hugh Nelson Page was reelected
! regent OF the chapter.
CHARGED WITH FORGERY.
g. W. Fulford was held In the Police
Court this morning for trial on a charge
OF forging a check for 500. The com
planant is, r. 7. Childs, superintendent
Of the Norfolk Portsmouth and Newport
News Company. by which Fulford was
recently employed. 1t developed at the
hearing that F'ulford had deposited in
the Traders and Truckers Bank a note
for s25, purportng to bear the signature
OF w. II. Venable, one Of the companys
COUNSEL. Mr.. Venable denied the sigma
ture.
rhe three people injured in the COL
lapse OF the grand stand at the Pythlan
carnival last night are reported as rest
ing easily to-day Heroic work By sailors
from the navy yard. who we're on the
grounds at the time. rescued several peo-
pie from beneath the pile OF "reckase
and probably prevented longer list OF
injured.
The United States government is rap
Idly putting Fort Wool, more popularity
known as the Rip Raps, in Hampton
Roads. ON war footing 1t is said IN
Official circles tina; thorough test Of he
stone Qualifications effectiveness VIII
soon be made. High calibre guns of the
most improved pattern are being
4 mounted.
FUSIONISTS WILL NOT SERVE.
The Fusionis,s of Norfolk county have
declined to serve as election officials In
the coming primary, and meeting OF
the county electoral board has been
called by Chairman a. T. Stroud to name
Successors to those appointed and who
have failed to qualify.
A movement Is under way in Norfolk
looking to the formation of an Original
Settlers Association. 10 be composed of
the descendants of the colonial Norfolk
families:
The Misses Burchadt. who recently
made startling time in horse race In
s Norfolk county, VIII ride again to-mor-
row afternoon on their bronchos Virginia
and North Carolina AT the last race the
best half mile was made In ffty-two
seconds.
RED MEN TO PARADE
Twelve hundred Redmen from the
tribes OF the order in Norfolk, Ports
mouth and Berkey will parade in Nor
folk Tomorrow night in costume. There
will be about nine immense floats Illus
tratlng scenes OF Indian history, and all
along the line OF march red fire Will be
burned. The parade will be in honor
OF ST. Tammany. w W. Dey. j. W
Trehy and A. NJ. Higgins will be chief
marshals