The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-16
INCLINE RAILWAY
IS GREAT SUCCESS
Nearly 1900 Ride to Mountain
Top When Cars Starr
Operation.
RACK AFTER 10 YEARS
Liquor Gases Before Courts
III Roanoke. Woman and Chill
I dren Have Narrow Escape.


Especial to The Richmond Virginian,)
ROANOKE, VA, Aug. le.--Itoa-
uoke.s incline railway has the rfom~
tee of winning great success. j was
4 Normally opened Sunday and nearly
1 dkteen hundred people rode in the
cAfs to the top of the mountaig' E,gi!-
Il teen years ago the summit OF MAJ
mountain vas opened as park. 40
Tel and observatory were built and a
winding road three miles in lengte
& was constructed. The ente-p 'is9 WAS
failure Since then the hutci h.lA
been occupied by two negroes To-
day tine mountain top is reached IN
four minutes on a modern incline
road, which ascends 10 the height of
z,iH0 feet.
The passenger train due h1re at
1is50 A. II. Sunday Killed two ne
9roes. Eugene Wade. at Cooper. ".
Z Va. and George Hairstcn, at Roanoke.
WAds was walking along the cast
hcuad track looking at trsir pass
tng On the westbound track. Ee was
killed Instantly. Hairston, a section
latc<ar, MAS walking through Tie Yard
end failed to hear the approach. He
Wa terribly crushed and died a. Roa-
make Hospital short while after the
accident.
Two Syrian women and -four chill
dren, driving into the city SUNDAY eve
ming, had narrow escape from
4 death. After crossing Roanoke river
they started to drive over the tracks
Of the Roanoke and Southern, failing
70 see or hear the approach OF the
o'clock passenger train a motorman
and passenger of a street car stand
tnE few yards away. saw their dam
ger and by yelling and shouting at
\ trAAted their attention. The woman.
who was driving. pulled with all her
strength on the lines. the horse leap
~ backward and buggy. horse. women
and children went over a twenty-foot
ennbankment into a pile of sand. Not
one OF them was hurt.
Back After IL Years.
After being away from Roanoke
fwelye years Mrs. b. a. Jones' Of At
lnnta, Ga. and her son; MIR. Horace
Jones. of Portsmouth, Va. are visit
\ 1ng relatives here. They say that
many remarkable changes have taken
I place In Roanoke since they were here.
When the case of j. Nj. Ayers, a
salem avenue saloon man. was called
4 IN Police Court yesterday he was ad-
rised that Jake Myers, the complain
\ ant. who charged that Ayers had sold
liquor TO minors and had allowed
gambling In hts place, had withdrawn
the warrant and paid all costs. Myers
~ first claimed that Ayers had sold
liquor 10 his son, but it was shown
G that the boy was twenty-one last
Christmas. The gambling referred TO
4 wxs chewing gum slot machine.
George cambridge and viii Taylor.
charged with selling iiauef Sunday
4 viii be tried to-day. Daindridge gave
bond for his release. Taylor was un.
khia to do SO and Ia In jail.
The Valley Baptist Association viii
meet In Buchanan this evening, The
81 Raw. ID. A. Glenn, of F'incaste. will
preach the opening sermon.
The Rev. w. w. Hamilton, Of the
First Baptist church, Lynchburg, Is
Visiting In the city. He Is aceompan-
v 1sd by his wife.
The Rev. II. J. Shipman, of Meridian
Nina. who preached at the First Rap-
4 fist church here Sunday, left yester-
u day for Buckingham county to visit
mis- grandmother. who Is very iii.
Driver Fined $50.
Thomas Divers. a driver for the Vir
Winia Brewing Company. was fined So
IN police court yesterday for selling
81 liquor without license. He took al
Il order from Dump Myers for a barrel o
n beer and after having it ratified q
q the brewery delivered 1T to Myers
81 who was arrested before he had tim,
u ~ ta3te the beer to ifts destination. II
his decision Judge Berkeley said tina
the transaction between Myers ant
Divers was carried on in a rather un
& d&Rhand fashion; that he would fin,
III Divers and let the case go to the higher
n court, and that breweries should maxi
records OF all Sales 30 that the cour
u might protect licensed saloon mel
Il agAfnst blind tigers.
Mr. Edward Ayers. policeman, re
4 burned yesterday from the Gaps o
81 Smith Mountain or Palestine. In Bed
81 ford county. where he attended las
week the annual meeting OF the Bap
& fiet Strawberry Association. AS h,
&ras walking from the station on hi
81 way home he met an old friend. Mfr
w. G. LAftw1ch. In the course OF thei
oonversation they discovered tina
- xAiTty-nina years ago they attended
n meeting OF the Strawberry Association
N ~ Palestine and that the meeting las
weak was the first held there sine,
lhat time. Mr.. Ayers says that be
n tween six and seven thousand persons
y were present at the sessions of tn
4 association and that II was the iarges
attendance 1t has ever known. Man,
persons were there from Salem. Roa
Nj HOixe, Bedford City and Lynchburg.
M Mrs. r. l.. Nichols applied TO Com
8 1nonwealths Attorney Perkins yester
II day to have him take criminal actor
Against her husband who, she says
a left her August s. Nichols worked 70
" the Virginia Bridge and Iron Com
pAny. Mrs Nichols has two xmar chill
S dren and her house rent and other az
fairs are In bad shape.