The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-26
WILL UNvE|L THE
ARMY MONUMENT
Extensive Preparations Being
Made in Portsmouth Tor Com
ing Of President
CAMPAIGN WILL SOON OPEN
Protestant Hospital Recently
Burned BY Fire, to BE Re-
llabilitated.
CAMPAIGN WILL SOON OPEN
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NORFOLK, VA. May 3.-Ihe monu-
mcnt n solid shaft OF dressed marble.
erected by the Rear-Admrnl John W..
Phillip Garrison. Army and Navy Union,
to its dead comrades In the Naval Gene
terry, and which Is to be unveiled by
President Roosevelt when he comes TO
Portsmouth next Wednesday to make
his Decoration Day speech, Is In place
and ready for unwilling.
Tremendous preparations are being
made for the coming of the President
All along the route to be traversed by
the President and the parade III his
honor from the Navy Yard to the Nnval
Hospital where the speech Will be made
flags are being unfuried, thousands OF
yards Of bunting Is being hung. ana
stands are being erected from which 10
witness the passing Of the President
and the procession. The whole city ~
being made TO look rs neatly ms post
BILE. Every military and other uniformed
organization IN this vicinity VIII pc
In the parade
Political Situation.
With three aspirants for Congressional
honors in the Second District the cam
pnign will soon open. and is promised
to be a warm one. IT required sometime
for Colonel George w Cabell to finally
make ND his NINA 10 enter lIlG ldIE' wv
now that he has done so he will enter
the campaign with all the zeal Of his
Young manhood Judge D. Tucker Brooke
has been planning for the contest FOR
some time. Representative Maynard.
who will make a strong effort to re-
tain his seat and he thinks with suc-
cess has not been down this way much
OF late. but his friends here have been
far from inactive.
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make the first speech of the campaign,
but he said to-day that he has not yet
determined Just when or where he would
first address the voters. However. n"
desired to make 1t Mt place and tline
convenient for both Messrs. Maynard
and Cabell to be present. The Judge said
that he did not know that there would
be any joint campaign discussion, but
That he is entirely willing that there
should be. should the other candidates
desire It.
Mr. MAYNARD has suggested that the
primary be held the middle OF August.
Judge Brooke says that that would SUIT
him very well. Colonel Cnbell has not
We, said when he would like the primary
held.
The Norfolk Protestant Hospital, burned
month ago, is now caring for thirty
patients, and by the middle of next week
it Will be in position to handle its full
capacity of seventy This will be made
possible by the restoring OF the unburned
wing of the hospital to the reception OF
patients and the continued use OF the
present temporary facilities in the nurses
home and the tolored wards. The work
of fitting out the wing is progressing
rapidly.
None OF the nurses of the institution
has been dismissed. Notwithstanding the
recent disastrous fire, but some OF them
are now taking the furloughs which they
are entitled to each year.
The insurance adJusters are at work.
and within few weeks it Is expected
that the insurance money will be paid.
The Building Committee OF the asso-
citation is preparing its plans to rebuild
OH an enlarged scale.
Seaboard Bonds.
For the purpose OF extensively lncreas-
ing its rolling stock, the Senboard Air
Line Railway has sold to S. d. Loring.
OF Boston. $4,000, five per cent, equip
will mature serially from one TO ten
years. The proceeds will be used In the
purchase of 437 box cars, 1000 gondola
cars and 40 locomotives
Old Hosiery Sold.
The Old Princess Anne. at Virginia
Beach, one Of the famous hotels Of VIr-
gInia, has been sold 1t was bought for
ll25.o6O by Neff and Thompson, architects,
and r. A. Wainwright, real estate
dealer or this city. for parties. the Identity
of whom has not yet been revealed Inc
hosiery will be thoroughly remodeled FOR
the jamestown Exposition.