The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-09
|CRAyS' FUND IS
GROWING FAST.
Many Are Sending iii Contribu-
tons for Equipment Of Peters
burg Soldier Lads.
' YOUNG MEN IN TROUBLE
Richmond Wants Rivcnback and
Pitt When Cockadc City Is
Through With Them.
lspeelal to Tho Tlmes .Dlppn,oh.l

PETERSBURG. VA, february s.
Contributons TO the fund for tho Pc
tcrsburg Grays are coming In steadily,
and 1t Is hoped that every business man
In the city Will respond to the cali to
aid the equipment OF what the men pro-
pose to make one of the hest military
organizations in tho State A tnrgct
shoot will be held ut the arrnory next
Monday night. when Il handsome medal
will be awarded to the best markslnun
in the company.
Petersburg Council, Knights OF Column
bus, met this evening at the store OF Mr..
}. H. Bailey, and made arrangements
for the ceremonies OF institution next
Sunday. Between 200 and 800 members
Of tho order from Washington, Rich.
mond, Alexandria, Lynchburg. Roanoke,
Norfolk and Portsmouth are expected to
attend, and special railroad rates from
these cities have been secured.
Richmond Wants Them.
The cases OF L. e. Rivenback and c..
3. Pitt, the young men arrested here on
charge Of swlndling people by falsely
representing themselves as agents for q
Philadelphia magazine, Were called In the
Mayors Court, but were postponed until
next Tuesday at the request Of COM
monwealth's Attorney r. II. Mann, and
OF their counsel, I.asslter and Drewry.
Chief OF Police Ragland has received a
letter from Captain Tomllnson, OF Rich
nond, inclosing warrants for the arrest
of the men on the Charge OF working
tho same fraud in that city. Captain
Ragland has big bunch Of receipts
given by the young men to people here,
who paid $3.50 subscriptions to the sup
posed agents.
The suit OF the Appomattox Lumber
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the Norfolk and Western Railroad Com
pany. which was set for trial in the
Hastings Court to-day, Was postponed.
The plaintiff sues for damages from de-
struction Of property by fire, for which
| 1T holds the railroad company RESPONSE
| BILE.
A lnrgely-attendcd meeting Of the local
branch OF the National Association of
| Stationary Engineers WAS held at their
| hall, on Bank Street, last night. The
| subject under discussion was the most
economical method Of erecting and hand
| ling boilers. as@ t5t
| Figg, OF Richmond, won the best race
i OF the season at the Washington Street
| skating-rlnk last night from Herbert
Harrison and Sonny Hughes, of this city,
and Haley, the champion endurance
skater OF the South. Harrison set a
humming pace for Figg, whose time was
1927. Ii
esert4a1s Desperately I'll.
w. r. Crawford, formerly of this city
is desperately Ill at his hon1e,t at Del
Ibitt. in Dinwiddie county, from stroke
OF paralysis, and is not expectsd to 1--we
At Riverside Club.
The Riverside Country Clubhouse was
| thronged this afternoon with a gay
crowd OF friends OF the University OF
| Virginia Dramatic Club, In whose honor
the reception was given. The college
| boys were subsequently accorded a grea,
welcome at the Academy Of Music by ar
unusually large audience. After the play
the actors We're the guests OF honor al
a beautiful german at the Grays' Armory