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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30
THURSDAY. MARCH 50, 1905,
City Congestion and the Remedy

City Congestion and the Remedy
Although New York has Just opened up
its expensive subway, there Is talk OF
spending from s2oo. 100000 to s25o'o oe0 for
other suhways, as 1t has been found tliat
Transportation facilities are still made
u,ate TO the enormous demands. The
World says that the workingmen OF New
York and tradcsmen who supply WORKING
mems needs are interested in having TINS
enterprise begin without wasting mora
time on preliminaries. "A greater sum is
deducted from New York wages says
our contemporary, ...for the one item of
rent than anywhere else in the world.
SLOW costly and uncomfortable transit.
is the reason. Compelled to live near
his work the workingman is at the land-
lords mercy
q hint for Richmond There Is much
complaint here Of high rents. and it has
s been stated on several occasions by a
REPRESENTATIVE OF the work.ngmen OF
Hschmcna that they are compelled 20
live txo or three families in single
house In reply to this the question has
beer, asked why these people do not move
on, into the country The answer Is
simple enough. They must have city
co1.yel.sences; they must have schools t,
ara they i,,us, have rapid tran sportasion
ssr; II the city VIII! Incorporate plenty
81 vacant lands IN the outlying sections
il viii no, be long before there VIII D:
:.u-,eiYus settlements with city convent
esscss, ana wherever there are settle
rsents there will be good street ca
ss-sice NOBODY pretends tina, all tiii'
uould come at once Il will take time
but the longer ne delay expansion IN
longer VIII be delayed this nscesssr'
development We ought TO begin at IN
earliest possible nomeu'.s so that thek
u.uch-needed improvements will come
the earliest possible moment. We ar
certainly not going to improve the con
dillon by doing nothing. The only prom
Use Of relief Is to be found in expansion.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30
| Democcratic Principle.

The Times Dispatch is very tender
about he interests and very anxious
about the possible losses and embarra SIS
ments of the local candidates; and us
position in that respect Is in curious con-
trast 10 its absolute Indifference to the
interests.of the State candidates, and q, 1or
that matter of THO party in the state
at large. Ut nd{catcs, In IAN editorial
printed this morning and printed else
Wnere that the possible detection OF
voters who fear the nomination Of Judge
Mann is a strong reason for separate
urinary and with some show of anima-
| ton it repels the suggestion that voters
| in botl, primaries, II two are held, snail
! be required to pledge themselves TO sup
| port all the nominees. In other words. 1t
| is entirely willing to have men go to the
rolls and vote for local officers, pledgins
| themselves no further than to support
4 the local nominees, to whom there is no
possibility OF opposition. while leaving
themselves free TO stay away from the
4 State primary. and to. bolt the State ticket
to which opposition Is likely This Is
most remarkable position for Demo
icratic newspaper.-The News Leader.
1t is not a remarkable position for this
aper 10 take. II is the position we have
/ always taken. and which we shall always
4 occupy-tlat Democrats who pledge theEl-
4 selves in a local primary to support ane
local ticket be not required to pledge
themselves beyond that. Let us remind
our contemporary: There was time wller
good Democrats in Richmond were IN
willing to pledge themselves to support
the nominee of the national Democratic
party for the presidency. Does the News
Leader hold that all such Democrat!
should have been excluded from the cit.
primary?
we believe IN local self government
II the State and city primary are helt
:, as one. Of course, all who enter mus
: pledge themselves to support all the noini
/, nees, State and local. But II the cit!
$ primary is held separately, then IN
y pledge should apply only to the local can
didates. II that be "a most rcmarkabl
!. position for Democratic paper to occu
r py,'' make the most OF II. It is the prin
r ciple for which we have always fought
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30
The Origin Of a Name.

Editor OF The Tjnles-D Dispatch:
Sir,-Nis.tors from3other States historic
cally inclined at THE Mecklenburg'
often ask II the hotel was 50 called for
the county in which 1t Is situated, how
did the county gctsits name. as they are
certain this section#of Virginia was not
settled by the Germans.
TO settle the controversy and enlghten
those not informed, 4 VIII state that the
counties of Charlotte and Mccltlenburg
we're formed from Lunenburg county IN
El764. Charlotte was named for Queen
Charlotte. wife of George the Third.
Mccklcnbnrg. in honor of the Queen OF
George the Third, Charlotte OF Mecklen-
burg Strclitz. This is the way the Ger
man name comes In I. D.4J'
Chase City, Va.
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!. "a y : . recommended that the culti-

and l8it is recommended that the culti-
walton Of celery be tempted. Z, !, h,,t
The Galveston sand EXTENDS IRON, muUmt
cane II, Henry, and along the ,she Re. Of ..
:i,esapeake Bay to yVilloughby SPIT =,
distance Of about tirty,two niles h ans
- Rrnnd T3ny. and Is five miles In length
and over two miles wide. - ~
4 The Dismal Swamp projects into me
extreme southwestern. part OF tiie u, 10 :,
loccupyng ii territory OF about t%eii. =,
,sniIare miles. No satisfactory ANALYSIS OF
I Il. q soil OF tho swamp could be made MADE
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30
Railroad functions.

Editor Of The Times-Dispatch:
sIr,-NVill you please name the junction
points on the following railroad y
your query column Sunday: Bait lmore
and Ohio Railroad, between Baltimore.
Md, and Parkcrsburg, Nv. Va, via Wash
5Ington, d. c.. and Cumberland, Mary
land? DAILY hl1Al'' i1ti'$
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad runs rum
through trains between New York and
st. Louis. Mos via Baltimore, Washing
ton, Cumberland. Md, and I'arker '' 'l'
( W. Va. On local trains from Baltimore more
changes would have to be made 4, ct Wash ASH
!ngton and probably8at Cumperlanu'xA NJ
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30
: the National Capitol dome

plans for the National Capitol dome
and extension. Ia
31eot--sir3 John stniner died. v.
1eO3-Thc award OF the Coal Strike com :
mission went into effect in the anthlra-
y cite region OF Pennsylvania.
1ood Prem Ter Com hes, OF Franco, ordered
tho removal OF religious emblems from
the French courts OF Justice.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30
QUERIES AND
ANSWERS
Carnegie's Address.

Editor Of The Times Dispatch: 4.
n sir,-yvill you kindly give me tilroush
your Query Columns tho address OF an
i d S,ali5 a SUBSCRIBER.
{ No. West FIFTY first Street, New York ORR
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30

ETotal .lpi,lt1 II,
The Norfolk sand IS found principally N
the hines. and between the Fayscmond
and the Western Branch. not more than
two or three square miles oce,ir. east It o. o.
Elizabeth River. tbs the earitt s Ir 1,s
omit. as they arc liable to be washed by
no cnp nd
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30
Hard Lines.

Munngcr--Yoa 40 mot inject Gho ,Igla!
contempt, spite and venom mo '''u1
word, saf., -, hott a,.
Mannger--No Nonsense! Speak IL ln W ri ,mI
you say Plush" WhsSnpvEou lm nntIo 4 Fit Ilt.
IN an imitation sea'skl''' i - wv
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30

1t might lie well enough II Addicks, OF
Delaware, should become an carly patient
of Dr. Osler. He Is Of age.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30

good many people who voted for
Roosevelt had Mr. John Hay very dis
t!nctly IN their .nnds.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30

Tho theatrical season In Richmond is
trying to go out in flame of glory, with
of succeeding i'll the effort.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30

April is a foolish and deceptive kind OF
a month Frogts chat XIII have been known
10 come in that uncertain period.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30

Russia Is at least getting chance to
draw her breath for another foot race to
some point farther north.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30

Greater Richmond means greater Yir-
GINA and greater Virginia means q great
deal to virginlans.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30

during /, long period OF time and IN spite
of all sentiment In Its favor mas f' J. pcei
compelled to abandon 1t,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30
aR etquuest t

Editor of GThcSI Ahles 20 spatcll GS.ifsIf
r;g-Wi1ls4 hse. inform me COR
rcctly; in this Case, when a man Is in
love withsa young lady, what must he
say or do to wii3her affections?
f5 " IA A READER.
The editor of,Ss Queries and Answers is
too old TO answer this query. He hasflost
his cunning. Perhaps some Of the young
1nen-or bettcr16tlle young S,omen:-yw'lll
advise our correspondent.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30
SOIL SURVEYS.
IN NORFOLK. AREA 4 RI ].
Of Agriculture Is
sues Report Containing Re
suits Of Work III Virginia
NINE TYPES RECOGNIZED e; ] 9 i
History Of Truck Raisillgsi1l1l Nor 7:
folk County Growth of III
dustry Very Rapid

(1-rom Our Regular Correspondent
+ WASHINGTON, D. c.. March 2o.----;'rhe
,Depart,nent of Agriculture Inns just Is
sued atlarge volume devoted TO tho re-,
suits or soil surveys madc III many I
States. several pages are taken UP WIN
reports OF the surveys made IN the nelgn u
borhood OF Norfolk In what is known as
lie Norfolk area. This area is charnc-
tcrlzed as lying In the extreme SOUTH
eastern part Of the State of Virginia, ana
,,,st Mt the southern extremity of Chesia-
peakc Bay. fronting OH the bay, Hampton
Roads, James River, and having a 'front.'
ngc Of thirteen miles on the Atlantlc.
Norfolk is the center of the area, wv
miles from New York by water, and wv
from Boston,
Truck Raising.
In the Introduction to tho chapter de-
voted to the survey Of tho Norfoik area
the report stntes that truck RAISING vas
bcgun IN the Norfolk country about 1911
BY two or three farmers from New Jer-
sey !, !.
IAN old Journal relates that on May
II, 1850, GOO bushels Of green peas ana
500 quarts OF Strawberries were shipped
Nyerc shipped to Boston. In ls52 B the tn
shipments OF early vegetables had won q
dcrfulIy Increased. and "a large and profit.
able business was done. The growth q
the Industry has rapidly progressed, until UNI,
at present nearly. all the. best available
land along the tidewatert inlets IS devoted
to the production of.svegetables for the
Mort hern markets. According to the
twelfth, census, Norfolk county produced t
4,5o7, 80 quarts Of strawberries N I ls9S,
while Princess Anne county shipped 70 Il
400 quarts. IN the same a. year N No Oh,
county shipped 59l 1882 bushels Of potatoes a.
Norfolk, Princess Anne and Mans
counties produced on 6G3 acres 81 per.
i.cent. 8of the kale grown in the United
States. Norfolk county had 0oe acres de-
voted to the production of spinach.
The report mentions the seldom appear
ance Of snow at Norfolk. and states that
lrainfallsIs we'll distributed throughout the
year. The average length of the grow.
Ing season Is 2sl days. the average date
OF the last killing frost In spring being
4 April Sd. and Of the first n$fallFNovember
| 10th. During the last ten years the latest
frost in spring occurred on April 2lst ana Il
1 the earliest in fall on DC ober 10th.
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Areas Of Different Soils.

Besides The Galveston sand and swamp
non arabic types seven distinct types Or
soil3swcrc recognized and mapped In the
Norfolk area.-The following table gives
the area OF each type: -,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30

During Mr.. Roosevet's hunting trip
to tho Wild West, every precautiou will
be taken to prevent his capture by Mr.,
Castro, of Venezuela.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30

The gas inquiry In New York is on at
full blast, and somebody Is likely TO be
asphyxiated.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30
To Whitcn Straw Hats.

Editor of The Times Dispatch: u,
Sir,-Please tell me In your Query coi.
umns what will whiten straw hats tllat
havo turned yellow. :.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30
The Marriage Law.

Editor of The Timcs-D Dispatch: 4,
Sir-Simply to settle a con troversY VIII
YOU publish In your Query Columns OIL
trhe Times Dispatch IL there Is any law
that will force man TO marry
a woman If hey3 does not wish to; II SO
on what circumstances?
None except the unwritten Law, backed exc
by q shotgun.
Bodies Of the Condemned.
Editor of The Times Dlspatch:#
sir,-NVill 3 YOU: please tell mo In your
Ouery Columns what the law in Virginia
is regarding tile disposal Of the bodies Of
criminals who are; hung 2, You stated III
your paper that tile University resigned
It's right to the body Of NlcCue ..ss
The law permits medical colleges in the INC
State to have bodies Of persons who Who hay have
been executed, for the purpose Of dis
secting thein:
Baltim ore Hospitals.
Editor Of The Times D dispatch:
sir,-Q) tNvills.you kindly give me w
raines OF oneSof two private insane hos
|pitnls n,Bal timpre :. n .S ..3.
II. (2.) il Who Governor of Wash Isl
ington State and whereSisshe, from? !, !, j,
80 re- Ri n &. 4. a r. EADER.
KS We do sIN5 ki,o3wssIf you viii writ,
TO THE ma ltinorc you San an .I $
'e ess,a Albert issSa 1eaa.
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WASHINGTON bureau: No. sol Fourteen,n
street, Northwest Corner PennsySa l'
Avenue
Manchester Bureau: Carriers Drus o 't = =
No. 1902 Hull Street.
Petersburg Headquarters:J.B Beverley :. La
rlson's, No. 100 North Sycamore s1see''
The DAILY TIMES DISPATCH Is sold
at 2 cents a copy.
The SUNDAY T1MES.D1sPAICa -
sold OF cents a copy.
The DAILY 1NES-D1SPATCH, incsua
ter. by carrier, IL cents per week or oV
cents per MONTH
THE TIMES. DISPATCH, Richmond va
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30

AT last Colorado has only one Governor,
but he isn't any great shakes.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30

The Pope regrets that the war should
go on in the far East The only way in
which the Popes sentiments differ from
the Cars is that the Pope is frank
enough to express them.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30

Oxalic acid may do. But there arc arc
preparations for. the purpose. which nrc
better Consult your druggist.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30

vladiyosiok Is getting back on the map.
according TO tho latest dispatches.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30

Cipriano Castro Is now more or less
seriously involved with Columbia, France
and the United States. 1t would be
rather surprise to this lively Venezue-
Ian to wake UP some morning and find
that he had been smudgcd off the map.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-30

None except the unwritten law, ba ''ls
oy Il shotgun.
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-25
HIS LODE INSPIRED
BY II MERE SKIRT

Since King Charles the Mad. In
Paris no one has been completely free
from luuacy while the springtime Is
happening"
That is a sentence extracted from The
Beautiful Lady" by Booth Harrington.
Further along he tells US that not only
is this so as TO the Parisians themselves,
but that the visitors there are not so
sane as they were elsewhere.
You have only to go there to become
az lunatic as the rest
This idea is elaborated in a well-written
way, but you have to read several pges
OF the book to get the full good of it,
1t is necessary for Harrington to ex-
plain this SPRING time Partisan madness,
because otherwise you would think his
hero was absurdly mad for falling in
love with the beautiful lady before he
had seen anything OF her except her
skirt. True, IL sounds rather sudden at
first announcement, but listen to the way
the love-mad fellow talks about that
skirt and you won't be so surprised.
Skirts express a whole lot Of things to
the sensitive, the appreciative and the
knowing-this anywhere and in Paris
evidently more than anywhere else. Did
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agnostic could find in it a lead to emo
Element; and even a Haeckel might lis
ten TO the poetry of the suggestion that
for aught we know spirit may be petri-
fed in the crystal, sleeping in the mower,
awakening in the animal and in the man,
so nearly alive that in himself he hnds
the evidence that God is. In the pleasure
it will give to all Christian readers there
will no doubt be mingled the belief that
all the best beauty of 1t is an unconscious
graft on the true vine, and that Felix
could not so happily have been delivered
of its truth If the Light of the World had
not lent him aid in bringing 1t to frultion.
Grated or not, as you like 1t, there is
so much fine fruit on this ethical vine OF
Adlers it is hard to select just what to
give you for a sample. wide appear
may be got by the election of just these
two things to tell: one of his elucidation
of way to love your enemies; another
Of a most artistic way to love your
friends-an art by which in striving 10
grow yourself to something greater you
become. in a sense, creator in your friend
of the ideal you would were there. 1t is
a presumption, but such a pretty one
that we might pardon it in our friend
even if we caught him in the very act
of it:
Understanding is the prerequisite of
influence. Character study exalted to the
rank of duty is one of the corollarieS or
the point of view l am trying to present.
Not every one is rich enough to have a
picture gallery in his house, with por-
traits in it by the old masters. or by the
new But every one should have in his
heart a picture gallery in which are hung
the portraits of his friends. He should
be constantly busy retouching these por-
traits, adding a shade here and light
there as experience teaches. He should
paint them lovingly, not uncharitably.
grieving over every blemish, pondering
earnestly whether by some art he may
not succeed in obliterating it. He should
visit this gallery often to contemplate
the portraits that are hung there. The
gallery is not mere gallery, but stu
dio. The owner is not a mere owner, but
also a painter; and, better than any
painter, he has, to some extent. the
power, by faithfully studying the image,
to change the original"
And again the painful love which we
bear toward enemies. Simply
on the ground that they are
fellow-beings, we recognize that they are
other selves: that the degradation of hu-
manity in them, OF which their wrong
doing is evidence concerns us-not as
objects of their malefcence, but in so
far as we, knowing better than others
the evils of their state. are especially
called upon to redeem them to call into
activity their latent spiritual life, which
is the same spiritual life that is in us.
And il is on this account that what is
called the forgiveness of enemies, or bet
ter the redemption of enemies, has be-
come a test Of true religion
Mcclure. Phillips & Co.. New York;
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rash. childish. impeachable assertion.
but when the Lady Noggs is grown
to be woman she will probably mod
ify her affirmation so it will run
this way: Marriage, stated as gen.
eral proposition, is a sensible thing, but
nevertheless, to the critical eye. each in
dividual love-making and marriage is a
silly thing.
One of the best of Lady Noggs pranks
was when she tagged the express train
in order to have it stop AID take aboard
a sick baby so it could be hurried to
London surgeon. When Noggs went to
the bedside and saw the grief of the
parents, who were her friends.
and learned that the home doc
tor thought getting the little one
to London swiftly was the only
chance, she found herself in her helpless
sympathy staring at red handkerchief.
Then the association of ideas got in its
work: "Then came an idea so dazzling
that she shut her eyes for twenty seconds
to grapple with it, opened them and cried,
I'll stop the Northern Star!
Mcclure, Phillips & Co.. New York;
81 50).
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-25
BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE GIRL AND THE DEAL-By Kari
Edwin Hartman George w. Jacobs q
Co.. Philadelphia
THE BEAUTIFUL LADY-By Booth
Harrington. Mcclure. Phillips q Co.,
New York
THE HOUSE OF CARpsBy John
Heigh. Macmillan Company. New YorkI
81 So
A DARK L.ANTERN-By Elizabeth
Robins Macmillan Company. New York:
81 80.
THE RELIGION OF DUTY-By Feli1
Adler. Mcclure. Phillips q Co.. New
York: 81 20 net.
TERRITORIES AND Dependent
CIES OF THE UNITED STATES-By
William Franklin Willoughby- Century
Company. New York
A MAID OF JAPAN-By Mrs Hugh
Fisher Henry Holt & Coz New York;
s125.
MASKSBy Emil Friend George w.
Ogilvie & Co.. Chicago. Ills.
THE APPLE OF DISCORD-By Ro-
man Catholic.The Apple OF Discord Com
pany, Buffalo, N. Y.
A WOMAN'S CONFESSIONAL-By
Helen woljeska- Life Publishing Com
pany. New York
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ORPHAN GIRL uITH
JEDERAL JUITORy

Sir William E. Norris tells the story of
AN Embarrassing Orphan, lin the first
person, and so naturally that 1t sounds
as if he himself might have been the
uncle of that embarrassing orphan, who
was such sweet girl any uncle might
well have been glad of having to take
care of her. When the girl is about IS.
she is taken from school and left with
her aristocratic English uncle by her ia
tner. who has made a great fortune in
India. The fathers poor health warns
him that he is soon to die, and so he ar
ranges for this uncle to care for his
daughter and her million dollar fortune
until she is either 21 or married 1t is
stipulated that the existence of this for
tune shall be concealed from the girl
and from all others until she has made
suitable match. The idea is to protect her
from the possible wooing of fortune
hunters. The necessity of keeping this
secret makes her an embarrassing or
phan.
Her uncle and guardian, Sir Edward
Denne, is embarrassed for one thing by
the girls point blank question as to her
fathers financial position, so that she
can decide whether she should go out
and work. Then she becomes embarrass-
ing by taking up the idea that her father
has left her at her uncle's with the ex-
pcCtdllOH lildl size Will marry ana so re-
lieve him of the care of her.
Her French uncle, the Marquis VAL
maison, discovers that she is an heiress
and he schemes to mate her with his
son., Pierre, who is a good-natured ec-
centric, and an absorbed geologist who
does not wish specially to marry at ALL
The Marquis. however. has spent his own
fortune and Is determined to acquire an
other through the marriage Of his boy
Elsie the heiress, has two other suitors,
one Billings, whom she tolerates, and
Major Denne, her guardians nephew,
whom she favors. She refuses the major
because she is afraid her lack of fortune
would spoil his career, and in this way
the situation becomes embarrassing, and
the affair threatens to work out in just
the opposite of the way her father in
tended the secret keeping to result, for
the major Is a most worthy man.
After refusing the man she most IA
vored, she goes to France, and there
Pierre proposes to her just for a mar
riage of friendship and to please his ia
ther. She consents because she had made
up her mind to marry some one or other.
and Pierre was a good fellow and the
best Offor since she declined to burden
the major with her supposedly dowerless
self. The story gets exciting as the ap-
proach of the arrangements for this love-
less marriage are hurried by the eager
Marquis. An amusing part Of the mar
rative is in the diary of Elsie, when she
describes the peculiar and unenthusiastic
way in which Pierre proposed to her.
John c. Winton Company. Philadel-
phia; 81.