The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-03-14
DOINGS OF THE OLD DOMINION
The Latest Virginia News Told in
Short Order.

Alumni Of the University of Wash
lngton and Lee and a committee
from Lee Camp, Confederate Veter-
ans, held a meeting to discuss the
matter OF permanent memorial to
the memory of Gen. Robert f. Lee
A large number of other admirers
of General Lee were also on hand.
The meeting was largely a conference
on ways and means. One suggestion
was that the chair of American his
tory at Washington and Lee be es-
tablfshed and endowed. Among the
speakers was Governor Swanson, and
another was DR.. George II. Denny,
president of Washington and Lee
The meeting was the Outgrowth of
a suggestion made recently by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, VINO said of Lee that
he hoped the people of the country
would commemorate his life and
deeds by the establishment at some
great representative educational in
stitution of the South of a perman-
ent memorial
The four-masted schooner William
Neely, which recently stranded in
Cape Lookout inlet with IL feet of
water in her hold, has been pumped
out and flOated by the Merritt &
Chapman Wrecking Company The
schooner was bound from New York
to Charleston.
The jury in the Circuit Court at
Staunton failed to agree in the case
of Kirby Stump, who, with Frank.
his brother, and Arch Brown, was
charged with stealing some so tur-
keys last November.
Company has filed in the Office of the
Clerk OF the Court of Hastings in
portsmouth a general mortgage to
secure the issue of $4,000. 900
per cent. 20-year bonds, guaranteed
by the Morton Trust Company.
James j. Burke is trustee.
Three big steamers, it is announc-
ed in Norfolk, have been purchased
Tor the new Potomac River Line be-
tween Norfolk and Washington.
They are the City of Worcester and
I. II. Northam, from the New Eng
land Navigation Company, and the
Dreamland, from the Iron Steamboat
Company. The City of Worcester
is OF 2,4S9 tonnage and is almost
twice as large as any other vessel
now on the Potomac. The line is
expected to be in operation in time
for the opening of the jamestown Ex-
position.
The Norfolk and Ocean View Rail-
way Company, which recently ac-
quired the Bay Shore Railway by
purchase under Federal Court liti-
cation for $765, 900, placed on record
a hrst mortgage to the Baltimore
Trust and Guarantee Company for
$l,5OO,OOO to secure an issue of 80
year per cent. bonds to provide for
organization expenses, improvements
and betterments and the acquisition
and construction of additional lines.
jacob Rudolph, a prominent farm
er and eX-COnfederate soldier. died
at MS home at WardensVille. aged
40 years, following a long illness of
consumption. Mr.. Rudolph was a
member of Company /, Eighteenth
virginia Calvary, and served with
credit He was severely woundedH
at Gettysburg and had not fully rel
covered from his wounds to the dayF
OF his death. Two sons and threeF
daughters survive him.
Mrs. Ellie May White has insti-
tuted suit in the Corporation Court
at fredericksburg for a divorce from
b. Fl. White, Jr.
1HlrCy-nVe gentlemen, representing
nearly 100000 commercial firms
ana individuals and more than 20
per cent. of the annual freight ton
mage OF the United States, met in
the Jefferson Hotel, Richmond. to
formulate plans for bringing about
a general improvement in the freight
movement condition. 1t is held by
these gentlemen, who come from
nearly every section of the country,
that the inability of the railroads to
make quick freight transportations IS
paralyzlng the commercial interests
OF the United States. 1t is their
purpose to revOlutionize the entire
freight situation in the country. Ad-
dresses were made by several indi-
Vlduals, after which a committee of
hve was appointed to consider the
advisability of making the organiza-
ton permanent and to consider the
propriety of merging the organiza-
tion with the National Reciprocal De-
murrage Organization, of Chicago,
which has already done considerable
work along the demurage line. This
committee reported at the afternoon
session, as follows: 1T is the sense
of this committee that a permanent
organization be perfected that then
a committee be appointed to confer
with the executive committee of the
National Reciprocal Demurrage AS
sociation for the purpose Of ascertain