Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-13
Chamber Of Commerce Wants
Sailors 10 Spend Their Shore
Leave Here.
Will Be LANDED At olO POINT
During Six Days Of Fleets Stay in
Roads, Three thousand Men Will
Have libert" DaiIy-luncheon
With Chesapeake & ohio Directors
and Officers as Guests Of Honor.

Free transpor; nj on from Old Point
and return for any and all who desir"
to spend their shore leave In this cisy
is an inducement which the Cham
Der of Commerce proposes to ofter
to the men OF the battleshfp fleet
during the six days the vessels Will
be al anchor in Hampton Roads this
month.
About 1000 men will be given lib
ersy. each ,iav during the stay Of the
fleet. and as the landings will be
Newport News should entertain at
leasi half of this number.
A special committee composed o.
Messrs. J. r. Sprague. H. Is. Holmes
and ]. Reyner was appointed by tn"
Chamber last night to take this mat
ter in hand. The committee will get
into communication with the street
railway company at once and make
such arrangements as ma be- necrs-
sary. 1t is probable that special
trains, consisting OF motor car AMI
several traiiers. will be chartered to
make trips between OH Point and
this city every hour of the day. Nor
folk has arranged to have big steam
er leave Old Point every two hours.
offering the sailors free transporta-
ton to and from that city.
Interesting Meeting.
An unusually Interesting meeting
Of the chamber was held last night.
Many matters of importance were dis
cussed and interesting reports were
made by the committees
One of the most important actions
was the decision to invite the board
OF directors OF the Chesapeake q OHIO
Railway, the principal officials of that
company, and other prominent guests
to ln present at luncheon to be
given some time in the near future
in honor Of the railway directors.
Bosh Messrs. Hawley and Scott.
anaong the new owners and directors
of the Chesapeake & Ohio. have ex-
dressed their intention of visiting the
city, and President Copeland suggest
ed that arrangements should be made
for making their sta here pleasant.
This led to a general discus sion and
the final decision was to invite the
directors land officials and give a
iUuCHSou ii ho"''is
Small Boat harbor.
Mr.. w. 4. Cot!reli brought up the
small boat harbor question and this
was discussed at length, though no
action was taken. Mr.. L. b. Manvtlle
said that President Circuit, of the Old
Dominion Land Company. had taken
no action in regard to this matter
becausa the company nj this time had
under way q plan Tor locating an IN
dustry near the proposed site for the
harbor at Poins Breeze. A harbor on
the waterfront between Twenty-fiitn
and Thirty-third streets was suggest
ed, and from the discussion that fol-
Lowell there NAV be results In the
future.
MIR. Armstrong made an interesting
report concerning the roads conven-
ton in Richmond. and urged the
Chamber 10 get into line with this
movement. The secretary was direct
ed to communicate with the president
OF the new state organization. Mr..
Armstrong stated that he had taken
the liberty 20 give the name OF MIR.
D. S. Jones as a representative OF
this community TO the organization.
PROGRAM for Fleet Celebration.
Mr.. Ivan II. Wise, who represented
the Chamber on the joint Tiiewater
committee appointed to plan a cele'
bration Of the Homecoming Of the bat
tleship fleet reported program adopt,
nv the committee This program,
which has been published in these
cciumns consists principally Of the
celebration in Norfolk on February
% and the Officers ball at Old Point
on the night OF the ;wenty -seventn
Mr.. Wise alEo brought to the at
tention Of the chamber the fact that
Norfolk will run q free boat to trans
port the sailors to and from Old
Point. and suggested action by the
Chamber in this connection
Secretary Carly and Treasurer
Phillips made Interesting reports.