The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-06
new WATER PLAN
| FOR PETERSBURG.
Aqueduct Property Offered the
City for Twenty-Five
Thousand Dollars.
RoADWAYs 30 NOT STAND
City Attorney Instructed to
Bring Action Against the
II Contractors.

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| 3@ PETERsBIRG, VA, April 5.--Peteis-
burg received new proposition for a.
water supply last evening. when Mr.. Au-i
gustns Wright. Isrcprcscntin the Peters
burg aqieduct. offered TO sell the aque-
duct property to the city for s25, 0O0.5 This
would carry with 1t contract with the
Virginia Passenger and Power Company
to furnish the city with water from the
II upper Appomattox canal. Tho MA tier
was referred to tho Finance COMMITTEES.
Tho Finance Committee was given fur
5thcr time to report OH tho question Of
Issuing sewer and paving bonds
RgADWAYs DETECTIVE.
City Engineer Budd, acting under In
= struction5f from the Council, made q close
| examination OF the brick roadways and
Z asphalt roadways laid here not very long
Z ago. and reported 10 the Council that
neither the brick roadways or asphalt
Z roadways have maintained the condition
Il that the contracting companies guaran-.
ted they should maintain for the time
specified in their contracts. The brick
Soadways have stood better than the
Easphnlt roadways, which nre dccidetIyA
tho worse for wear. The City Attorney
was instructed by the Council TO tar.
Y Just compensation for the faulty road
Y ways. 53 g l5sls
M. 4 IMPROVEMENTS.
SsS The march OF Improvement III Peters
" bhrk goes steadily on. The burnt stores
4 OF Nelson. Morris aud Company and IT,
+. Heath md Company. which were de-
stroyed by FIRE few months ago have
8 been purchased by Aiessrs. John a. Gill
8 and Brother. who will erect on this
"a ground two large brick warehouses.
THE Seward Trunk and Bag Company
will soon begin large and costly addi-
abtion to their. already immense plant on
41HlghEStreet. Mr.. Mortimer Williams has
contracted for handsome dwelling on
tho corner OF Adams and Washington
Streets Mr.. Harvey Seward is making
extensive and costly improvements to iii.
beautiful home on South Sycamore Street
D In every section OF the city there 2 .
evidences tof wealth. growth and Pros.
4 pcrity'.
Tobacco markets are having large sales
and the weed OF all grades sells for good
4 prices Peanuts are active and high. The
peanut business in Petersburg has shown
Il n larger growth, he last year or two,
than eily other brancht#o wholesale
Grade In the city.
The 10000 damage suit OF Mr.. Charles
q i, ,Tench against the Sea board Air Line
Railway Company for alleged defamation
Of character. held the attention Of the
Hastings Court all OF to-day. The case
will probably be- concluded Tomorrow.
Tho PLAINTIFF has been on tho: witness
stand for.parta of;two 'lays.:sat' 80
4 The plaintiff rested his case to-day at
Il 51e9 o'clock. The only Testimony offered
by the defendant company was the dc.
q position OF former Master Mechanic
stump. OF the Senboard Air Line road
A. The counsel for the defendant company
5demurred to the evidence and the couct
rcqtired the plaintifr to join in the de-
&r,urrer., The argument on the demurrer
I is sgong.on at this writing.
Miss Annie Hill Butcher. the daughter.
IL OF Edward Butcher. of this city, was this
morning; married to Mr.. James Alunroe
Culbreth. of Wilmington. n. G. The 3cer,-
mony was performed by the Rev B. u.
z Lpscomb. 81.
Mr.. Samuel Burwell has been elected
secretary and treasurer of the Peters
burg Club, in place OF Mr.. a. b. Wood
hwho resigned TO become cashiers clerk
9 in the PetersburE Savings and Insnra nee
4 Company.
AS q Religious REVEALS gilmore than ordl-
~ nary. strength have developed in four
or five of OUR leading churches.