The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-17

mile and a half of pipe into Linkhorn
Bay. The emptyins is by powerful
system OF pumps operated automatical-
ly by electricity. Linkhorn Bay is a
large body of salt water to the west
Of the town. which is fourteen feet
deep and mile wide. Through Lynn
Haven Inlet 1t empties into the Chesa-
peake Bay and thence into the Atlantic
Ocean.
Every house In Virginia Beach Is re-
CURED by law to connect with this
magnificent sewer system, and all
have obeyed the law
Making Fresh Water Salt.
The streets OF the long -drawn out
town have been graded. and all places
that held stagnant water have been
either filled or drained, so that there
is no breeding place for the mosquito.
large centrifugal marine pump.
operated by electricity and discharging
$500 gallons of salt water per minute,
Is kept constantly pumping salt water
from the Atlantic Ocean into Lake
Holly. to the west Of the town, maxi
ing the lake n body of salt water. Thus
Virginia Beach becomes an island en-.
1Iiely sUy Sdlt. WdleT.
This wonderful Improvement, that
has been installed at great expense,
taken In connection with the filling
up and draining OF all stagnant water
pools. knocks the mosquito entirely
out. and last year the festive little
insect with its siren song was a
stranger and rarity on the beach,
The town government thinks that If
nothing more had been done this
splendid accomplishment we'll repays
them for the $4,000 expenditure. Bu.
much more was accomplished. I The
town las a splendid little building.
which is called the town hall 1t II.
two bodybuilding made OF con-
crete, and is said to be flreproof. On
the first floor there is the Mayors
court room and a pretty safe jail struc-
ture that has six steel cages for the
accommodation and safekeeping of Of
Tenders, and in addition, ample room
for the central station Of the fire de-
partment
Where People Meet.
On the upper floor there is an as
i.sembly hall % by 60 feet and, several
Offices for the town officials, including
la splendid layout for the town SER
| geant. The people meet here to dis
cuss public matters.
At present the public school OF the
| town is given room in the town hall,
but the people of the Beach are not
altogether satisfied with that arrange
ment. and a contract has just been
4 closed for the erection on a beautiful
4 lot OF a st-class school building. The
school population of the town is some
4 thing over 200.
Lovely Drives.
Seventeenth Street. eighty feet wide
lis the business thoroughfare of the
'!town, for on this all the stores, eight
\ In number are gathered. The stree
lis we'll laid off with granolithic side
\ walks and kind of shell road In the
middle. 1t leads ont into Princess Anne
4 county, running through the acres ant
miles OF pine forests Tof far-famet
Princess Anne county. Through thes'
pine forests are some OF the loveles
drives that are tn be found on tn
entire Atlantic coast. and every on,
1 OF them Is crowded with romance
Y which. If reduced to writing of th
j rather elongated character. would fiji
4 colup,ns and pages untold. On Seven
tesnts Street and Cypress Avenue
which intervenes, there Is somethin,
: like a mile OF granolithic sidewalk
which add to the beauty and the com
fort of the Beach. These grano'ithi
,isidewalks which have been put dow,
Il blythe town authorities added to tn
!, two miles or more of boardwalk alon
the beach make Virginia Beach a
ideal recommending resort that is no
: surpassed by anything in New Jerse
! or any other seaport State,