Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-04-23

him. He based this largely. he said,
!upcn the knowledge that che city
council always spends every cent IL
gets its hands upon. Answering MI.
Massie. Mr.. Jones said that II did
mot matter how much money was pat
into the city treasury. the council
would spend II all. MIR. Massie ask
ed IL the witness knew how much
money there Is now in the city treas
lury and witness said that he didn't
know: that he was not especially
familiar with the state of the city
finances, as he usually relied upon the
finance committee in these matters.
WITNESS said that he did not think
1.-The Dawson City section of Warwick
lcounty should be taken into the city
because If II was, the county would
he unable to keep up its roads,
(which are now nearly as good as the
best in the state.
| After the witness had left the
stand he was recalled and asked as
to the expediency OF taking the New
port News cemetery within the city
limits He thought it possibly would
be expedient.
Doesn't Want to Come In.
| r. T. jenkins, a negro who owns
his home at Dawson City, said that
i the order in his settlement was good;
that all of the people got along well,
working at the piers and keeping
their gardens. Witness said there
!had formerly been saloons in the sec
ton. He thought that it would not
be advisable, or expedient, TO take
this territory into the city. Question
ed by Mr.. Massie he said that a re-
cent cutting in that section was done
Iby a city man. Witness said that
lmost of the disorder came from down
around the c. & O piers. He did
mot see how 1t would do him any
coed to be taken into the city.
ID. Dawson, a negro who lives IN
Dawson City and owns two houses
There, testified that the order in that
Isection has been good since the sa-
Iloons were taken away. He said that
most of the people living in this sec
ton were negroes and that many OF
Them owned their houses.
As it was apparent that the Eliza
beth City county witnesses would not
be reached tonight, all of the Hamp-
lton people were permitted. at the re-
quest of Mr.. Cumming to leave for
home, to return tomorrow morning
at 10 o'clock.
S. r. Curtis was recalled to the
stand at this point, and Mr.. Massie
continued his crOSs-examlnation. Re
iplying TO questions, witness said that
all of his property in the city of New
port News is on paved streets ex-
cept that on Hampton avenue. Wit
ness said he frequently drove over
the unpaved streets of Newport News
in driving to and from the outlying
sections to collect taxes. Some of
the streets were in as good shape as
Ivy avenue and some were not. He
had not been over the Dawson City
read in two years. At this point Mr..
Read stated that this road had never
been accepted as a county road. Mr..
Massie held that when the county
improved road 1t thereby accepted it.
Witness testified from his records
that the assessed valuation of the
Warwick county territory proposed
to be annexed is s1.145.512.
BIoodfieId Chief on Stand.
E C. Madison, chief of police of
Bloodfeld said that his headquarters
were on Ivy avenue and that he had
the assistance of two regular police.
men, Whitfield and Walls. and four
specials, besides the assistance of C..
& O. detectives. He and his men used
} the street cars, buggy and their
feet in going from headquarters TO
the Dawson City section. One Of the
officers goes to the Chestnut avenue
isecticn nearly every day Order has
been good in the Dawson City sec
ton since the removal Of the saloons.
Witness said that the relations be-
tween his department and that of the
city of Newport News were friendly,
and that he and his men frequently
made arrests for the city force. Pc.
lice protection. the witness continued
is ample on Ivy avenue; a hose reel
and a negro volunteer company give
adequate fire protection. The SAM
tary conditions on Ivy avenue, the
witness went on to say. are excellent
, and there has been no epidemic re-
Gently on account of fifth. Witness
said that many of the city's unpaved
lstreets. especially those in the out
lying districts. are in very bad shape
The county has a regular arrange.
ment fer the removal of night soil.
He described how water from the city
ct Twentieth street and ran over into
the county.
| On cross-exsminatioD, witness sal
that il was the common thing for ne.