The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-06
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Negro Business League 5A: lias.
Taken UpSMatter With ..it'15s Viz u
f.sHs. GINA Railway fficials..
STATION AT DRAMA r I n a ]. BURNED VI e ,.
STATION ! All 0RlANA BURNED i /. E ,.
I President Roosevelt Awards Awards.
Medals for Bravery to Two
Il. Locomotive Engineers s

555 ,rha Negro Business League has ap-t
/ nointed a committee, which Will take up
viii the Virginia railroads the matter
gof white people riding in the Jim Grow l' 'aY
Il cnrs Isl III , III
The claim made by the negroes Is il,at
Y the coaches provided for colored people
Ara had enough as they are, but Wien:
they are made the dumping grounds q
5the entire train3Flt becomes overbearins
for respectable colored men and women ms.
IJe said lit Is a. common thing for the
whole train S crew. including WorkInt1etl
3Sin # greasy oyeralls, to take refuge In the
Goa eli provided for colored peopl W pllee
they occupy seats! and eat peanuts, 8thlro "
4hrlls and fruit Feelings over ~ 9 seats y.
and floors and make things disc 5'e
lin general N II NJ II y (.
XII The Chesa peake and Ohio railway stu z;
zion A { Orianu was struck by lightning
Wednesday and burned to the GROUND l1l1t1
$oriana IS sixty-tWo miles distan t$A IT rom
al3ichmond III on the Peninsula division.
The station, which cost $1,000, Will be ct II
once rebuilt. At iii
SsSThe following is II comparative st "a,
snlent Of tile earnings and expenses OF ne =
chesapeake and Ohio Railway for l The
" 10Ont
Gross eaIrlndh,li s2106, 341. 1905,
81 So, ITS. 81: IL eeffsea 81, 1893 s62.16.
III ass eXbbehs 1S36 ST S52, 75151; 1905,
& q Ia St4 "a: lhlGGffeeha AZ, sos, 1856 62.
earhi ss43 500, q
4 ss5s se5. 7s; Increase, 4,o25.5 "a VI, rs y
8*s From July to date;&E Il 81 .-
Gross enrnlngs1oc6, s22 4o6, AZ W sl w
II S1s,s77 ,s15.41 increase. .b2s .6li ~. 80
Less expenses-1slG, SlS, o79. osl,l6; SlSV 'o'
dG1 E16 fS
Net earnings 1906, 5 $S,S27 Gs li 0Voo'
a 81 760, so. 90: Increase, 50, OCT 100. 81.
s#fThe Southern Railway desires to 1 cor.
Is rect a statement made by them rega riding
& the number OF passengers ca rrled to B 3 az
PARK at West Point, july 4th. The nuns
Der should have been 400 people,
335 presiden Roosevelt has awarded medals
4t of honor to two locomotive engineers for
+ heroisnl, Charles Nv. Haight, Of the Dela-
ware, I,ackawanna and w estern, "a t1ea,
and George H Williams. OF Braintree,
Mass, on the New York, New Haven
&Sand Hartford. At West Winfield n. Y,
on April E26, 1905, Mr.. TIaight climbed out
on the pilot Of his engine and picked
Y little cAiiu from between " tho rails
while the trains was running alta good
q speed. Mr. Williams dashed In front on
an approaching train at Quincy, Mass,
for the purporsei Of saving a woman from
being run over. This was on December
& 81. 1905. n 5s
The Norfolk and Jamestown Exposition
Railway has been Incorporated with $780,
900 capital by Baltimore capitalists to
build electric lines from points on the
Norfolk and Atlantic Terminal. In Nor
folk, Va, to the jamestown Exposition
grounds. and 10 points in the neighbour
mood of Sewall's Point and Norfolk. The
officers are: President. Alexander Brown;
III Vice President, b. Howell Griswold, Jr.;
Secretary and Treasurer, Austin McLana-
y han. These officers, with John I. Rowe.
Irving f, Campbell. William J.. Royal
and John J. Blake, Of Richmond, Va.
d are the incorporators * a y
permit has been issued to the Douls-
vile and Nashville for, the construction
OF nve-story freight terminals to cost
Z 900 at Atlanta, Ga, WEE y