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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-17
As TO GOOD ROADS,
A LONG TALE Of WOE
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year easy and quick trips to and from
the station, with or without a load
There are many thousands OF
sturdy, good. respectable and reliable
farmers of the North and West who
know Of us and our land. and who
want to come here and cast their lot
with us. but when they come to spy
out the land they tell you that they
are dairymen or truckers and that our
roads prevent the Successful conduct
of this business. Ask the farm real
estate agent how many of these bona
fde intending purchasers have turned
back and declined to buy on account of
bad roads. and as he recalls them he
has heart failure brought on fby the
sad recollections of money lost in adj
vertising and the many weary miles
of mude through which he has strug-
gled in his effort to do business.
.Now. II we will adopt and put into
execution some sensible. practical plan
Of good roads construction, Statewide
in its scope, these immigrants will set
tie here in large numbers. They will
all be taxpayers. and thus help pay for
tho roads. They will improve their
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tainty picture the new White as it
will be by the 10th Of June at the
latest.
Old visitors who come in this sea-
son will not recognize their old rooms
either in the hotel or in the cottages.
In the first place, the entire grounds
are severed in the most up date
manner, the terra Gotta. pipes being
embedded under ground in solid walls
of cement. thus insuring absolute sam
itation, and DR.. Frohlinger, OF Rich
mond. who has thoroughly Investigate
cd the work, pronounces 1t simply per-
feet
The main sewer runs through tho
grounds and nearly a mile beyond.
emptying into bold mountain stream
far away. The hotel and every cot
tage, in fact. evory building on tho
place, Is connected with the main pip
ing and all OF the connections are as
completely sanitary as the main sew
en- Besides the mile of piping beyond
the grounds to the river, there have
been laid within the grounds 5000
feet. All of the plumbing for the en-
tire establishment is perfect.
In the Hotel Proper.
A hrst-class electric light plant has
been installed and the old kerosene
lamps will never again be seen In the
hotel and cottages and on the grounds.
but every room in every cottage and
In the hotel will be brilliantly lighted
by electricity, and the magnificent
grounds viii be a grand white way.
Two immense steam boilers are being
put In, and In every building on the
place there will be both hot and cold
water on tap every minute Of tho
season.
The improvements in the hotel prop
err are on a mighty scale. The lobby.
the ladies' reception rooms the writ
ing rooms and the immense dining
room are being furnished with hard
wood doors, and all OF these are being
greatly beautihed by the army or
painters, paper hangers and decorat-
ors, Tho cafe, which will be a new
and attractive feature, Is to be q
beauty and a JOY forever, it being
most handsomely furnished with new
tables, chairs and other furnishings,
and the entire floor will be covered
with velvet carpetlng.
Carload after carload Of new furnl-
ture has arrived to go into the ho-
tel and cottages, However, much OF
the old mahogany and walnut furni-
ture, that cannot be duplicated In this
country at this time, will be kept,
All of this has been retouched and all
of those old magnificent hair mat
tresses and other room furnishings
have been renovated and made new
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lands and add value and thrift ia
every neighborhood in which they
settle.
Let US remember and let US rcaliz,
that nothing can be done without
organizations close. compact. bust.
ness-like organization. With this we
cannot fail. Are we men enough and
sensible enough to have it?
II thank you, Mr.. Editor. for your
continued courtesies, and am with kind
regards. Your old friend,
"a YOUNG MAN
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she'll the company in order to make
the New Old White" the most up-to-
date mountain resort In the country,
is spending this spring the sum of
$4,000, which is probably but a
patching of what may yet be done.
! had heard something about this
proposition. and l came up to see for
myself / have seen these old grounds
when more than 1000 guests We're
here, but f1ust sly l never saw a
buster scefe here. than was presented
d0y, when | found over $50 work
men as busy as g hive of bees.
Here are carpenters. bricklayers,
plumbers, upholsterers, paper-hangers,
decorators, machinists, carpet layers,
electricians landscape gardeners ana
nurserymen, ordinary lahorers and
messenger and water boys. all working
as tremendously and as methodically
as did the thousands Of master work
men, fellow crafts and entered appren-
tees at the building of King solomon
temple, and all having in view the
one object of making the "Old White
entirely new before the opening DAY
on June Is next.
Golf Is All the Go.
have heard some of the latter-daS
'.outers" say the trouble with the "Olt
White" was that 1t did not have the
golf grounds it ought to have. 1t hat
the grounds Nil right, but they htA
not been properly laid off and ar
ranged. SO when l learned that thi!
supposed defect was Icing remedied
was naturally attracted by the people
who We're making the golf course {
little garden of Eden, and if l am any
Judge of golf / will risk my reputa.
1ion on the assertion that White Sui.
phur Springs will have this season tn,
finest golf course in the whole coun,
try.
Sporty Natural Hazards.
Alexander Findlay, TIA champion
golf player of the world, came here
last month, and came all the way from
New York. to view the grounds ant
lay off the course. He was accom-
panied by his famous grass-grower
Mr.. Pickering, who assisted him II
the work. Both Findlay and Pickering
were very enthusiastic over the nat
nral beauty and condition OF tn
grounds, saying they We're the Yer,
finest for golf in America, the sam
having superbly sporty natural haz
ards. They spent not little time il
laying off the course, and after the,
had completed their work they de
clared ii TO be the finest course the.
had ever seen in all their travels. Mr.
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The Casino is located in the grove of
% ching rai, NO. q the left Of Tho Z,

The Casino is located in the grove OF
soughng pines to the left of the main
entrance as one enters the grounds
from tho railway station The Casino
is to be splendid building, near one
of the band stands and overlooking
the tennis courts. II is large and
commodous, and has wide porches all
the way around. 1t will be as hand
somely fursished as any building on
the grounds. and in all respects made
a magnificent Longing place where
one can sit and listen to the music OF
the tennis players or do anything else
he likes for comfort and pleasure.
Another new feature is strictly
up-to,date laundry, which has been
installed in the lower part of the
grounds This necessary appendage
has been equipped with the latest and
most improved machinery.
The Grounds and Surroundings.
Thomas Meehan, a famous nursery
man and landscape artist of Philadel-
hands setting out shrubbery. making
sew flower plots and beds, and trim
ming up the old trees. Under his gem
eral supervision force of laborers
and forests surrounding OF all dead
trees, limbs. etc. and identifying the
many romantic walks and paths
through these woods and marking out
new ones.
An immense rock-crusher and a
mighty steam-roller are being made
to assist another large force Of men
who are building macadam roadways
and drives. Every road and driveway
and path within the grounds is being
laid with macadam, and in addition
the entire distance of the road as 1t
bounds the golf course. has already
been macadamcd. There will be on
the property of the company at least
| five miles of perfect drives. to say
nothing of the magnificent mountain
| roads beyond, for which old Green
brier county has long been noted
Dig Telephone Exchange.
| The contractors, who have engaged
| to have the telephone exchange in
| Grafton by the opening day. are to-
| day stringing their wires in every d.
rection The exchange. of course, will
| be in the Office of the hotel, and every
room In the same and every room in
every cottage will have telephone.
/, and in addition telephone booths will
grounds and about the golf course.
so that strollers and ramblers about
the grounds and golf players may be
able to talk back to headquarters.
| Manager Baxter tells me that on
| $50 rooms in the hotel and 500 in the
| cottages, and Will be able to comfort
ably take care of 1900 guests, He
/ also says he Is going to do a stunt
/ that the Old White and no other SUM
to do, that is have a full band for
I lawn and orchestra music on hand and
| ready to blaze away on the opening
day.
away and the New White is here in
modern, up to- date form and lovelie,
place cannot be found anywhere or
] the earth.
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Findlay will be here off and on dur
the grounds and to do some especially
artistic stunts. On the recommends
ton of Mr.. Findlay, j. II. McMullen
has been employed by the company to
here as superintendent In charge to
keep the course and the grounds In
condition, and to instruct beginning
golfers. He is said TO be one of the
best men in the country for this pc
culiar kind of business
The Geography of 1t.
The course, which will be ready for
business on the opening day. June To-
begins within a few yards of the
springhouse and eXends along the
Lewisburg Road, which is being ma
cadamlzed, for half a mile. On the
opposite side the course follows How
ard Creek and back to the road. AS
all Of the old visitors to the White
we'll know, there Is a continuous
gentle breeze coming up this creek,
which will always be plea SAINT to the
golf players The course varies in
Width from $50 to 1000 feet, and its
length, as AT present arranged is
2,735 feet. 1t is, as at present arr
| ranged, a nine-hole course. but there
| is ample space on the grounds to add
nine more holes, and the topography
of the land is such that this addition
| can be made within "a month If neces-
| sary.
In any event. it will be made before
the opening OF another season. Two
| attractive springs one an alum spring
are on the golf course, and these will
be very refreshing to the golfers. A
| golf house Is TO be erected in the
| beautiful grove of oaks on the hill
! overlooking the course. Until this is
| completed most comfortable temporary
! quarters will be maintained on the
] grounds.
The management is also installing
clock golf on the main hotel lawn.
/ Just on the west side OF the hotel,
and this will be maintained for put
ting competition Match plays and
prizes will be features of the season,
and 1T is expected that this feature
Will be especially attractive to the
women folks and the golf beginners.
! One thing is certain. and that 1t that
so far as golf is concerned no place
1 In the country Will hereafter lay over
the White.
Whnt New White Is.
i The $50 workmen / have already
1 spoken about are hustling to have the
new White in modern and up to date
/ attire and shape in good time before
opening day, and as | have seen an
I outline of their work to be done. In
TACT. completed diagram of it, and as
all are under contract to finish uI
| IN time, ! oan with a degree of Ger.
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rAvING CONTRACT IN pASy1LLE.
Main Street of Great bright Tobacco
Market to BE Lald With RitulIfhic

Danviiie, Va, April 1s.-Danyille ma.
had great deal OF trouble with its
pavements. Several years ago Main
Street was laid with brick pavement.
and 1t having proven unsatisractors-
and dangerous to the many country
teams that necessarily pass up and
down this, the principal, thoroughtare,
the Council this week decided to re-
place a large part of this slippery ard
unsatisfactory brick work with the
bitulithic pavement, and Friday after
noon the Street Committee closed a
contract with the Atlantic Bitulithic
Company. of R!chmond. to place on
Main Street. $4,000 worth of the btu
lithic. It is understood that the Az
lantic Company Will install 4 plant at
once. and the work of laying the pave
1nent Will be proceeded with Just as
soon as possible
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least, of venerable antiquity was proved
by Gen. Dyrenforth. who quoted Plutarch
to the effect that 1T is a matter Of cur
rent observation that there is usually a
heavy rainfall after great battles" A
prominent official of the present reclama
ton service remarked upon the fact that
in 1874 Gen. w. T. Sherman, James A.
Garfield, John A. Logan, c. B. Farweil
and others who were interested in the
theory that conclusions caused rain, fig
ured on having great sham battles in the
arid regions a substitute for the forms
of irrigation now In vogue. 1t was esti-
mated that the cost for mounting and
transporting 900 siege guns, blank car
tridges, wadding. electric primers. electric
batteries and 100 men for one day would
This. it was concluded. would make the
showers rather expensive.
In 1880 Gen. Daniel Ruggles of FreJer-
icksburg. Va, came forward with a pan
to produce precipitation by means of ar
quakes. Ten years later Congress voted
$1,000 a year and shortly afterward $1,000
more, to enable the Department OF Agr-
culture to conduct experiments having for
their object the artificial production Of
transforms. In 1890 unsuccessful expert
ments were conducted near Fort Myer.
Va, and, few months later. the scene
OF the singular operations was transferred
to a ranch in Texas, near the Staked
Plains. Among the experimenters were
Gen Dyrenforth, Claud Resell. chemist
Of the United States patent ONCE; Prof.
George e. Curtis of the Smithsonian In
stitution and John T. Ellis Of Oberiin Col
lege Balloons loaded with chlorate of
potash and other chemicals We're sent up
to heights varying from 1000 yards to
fourth day after the explosions 1t rained.
The experiments were then discontinued.
The late Prof. Simon Newcomb ex-
pressed himself forcibly against the air
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offers the most delightful posi- blities
But apart from purely official or pol ii al
considerations. a social element entirely
composed Of southerners, and. Therefore.
OF democrats. has been ple-eminent.
Southern society at the National Capi.al
has been a thing apart ever since the civil
war. and has been brilliant and all-suf-
ficient. as in the Ialmy days when Vir-
ginia offered field for hospitality un-
equaled In the broad area Of the coun-
try. Among those who have he'd an en-
viable position. both geographically and
from the strict Official sense, is Mrs Will
liam Atkinson Jones. AS wife CT the
dean. Mrs. Jones has enjoyed a prestige
which was altogether without trouble
some duties. and which made only for
enjoyment and congenial associa ion.
Il have resided IN washington almcst
twenty year," said Mrs. Jones, land
have enjoyed life in every particular. 1t
is one OF the most interesting and beau
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quake theory of precipitation, and in
speaking on the subject said:
Aqueous vapor in the air cannot be
produced except by cooling agent. ana
mere sound is not this" Prof. Newcomb
held that the atmosphere in an average
room contains about one quart OF water.
and that II dynamite bomb In the outer
world is expected to cause downpour OF
rain simple clappinB of hands ought t.
cause the condensation of all aqueous
the effected argument that rain has
almost invariably followed great battles
he replied that he did not believe that the
statement could be supported by ade-
Quate statistics.
In the early part OF the last century
one Prof. Espey held his own theory OF
producing rain artificially. His scheme
was to build a great fire. when the air.
rising owing to diminished pressure.
would expand and. cooling, would cause
condensation. During the great drought
in Australia, 1SS4-S5, ii was projected
that this theory should be put to the
test. but the government engineers. after
experiments upon q small scale, reckoned
that it would require 100000 tons OF
coal to produce bucket OF rain. An
other theory was that by building hres
on the banks OF streams the aqueous
vapor could be condensed and prectpi-
tated. One man had plan to make rain
of water and lighting fires around the
edges of the pond.
It is said at the reclamation service that
several of the railroads which pass
former arid regions OF the west
are believed to have conducted expert
ments both with sound and gases but the
results were not communicated to the
government scientists.
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Experiments to Bring Rain From the Clouds

1T was recently reported that artificial
rain making has been successfully
attempted in certain portions Of Italy
and other sections Of southern Eu-
rope. The method of inducing the
required moisture from the clouds, it IS
said. is the firing of guns which emit
great quantities of smoke.
This experiment, when brought to the
attention of Agricultural Department
scientists, army officers and others in
Washington. recalled old memories. The
latter were epitomized by one individual,
who exclaimed:
What! Shooting rain out of the skies
again! Why. that notion was tried out.
under the sanction of Congress. in this
city, and proved to be utterly fallacious. +"
In effect. it appears that this apparently
rather grotesque scheme for the reclama-
ton Of arid lands was. prior to the eff
f1c;e-.. -, car-reaching methods now in
vogue, SO seriously entertained by this
government as to elicit a considerable
appropriation from Cong. ess.
Many citizens Of Washington recall the
bang and boom Of rain producing devices
set of on the Virginia side OF the Po-
tomac by the late Gen Robert G. Dyren-
forth early in the nlneties of the last
century. Secretary Jerry Rusk, in re-
port on the rain-making experiments, said
that. SO far as the explosions we're con-
cerned, he knew they were very success
full. but that, as to the object sought to
be obtained, he had no data upon which
to base an opinion.
That the theory OF rain making is, at
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ger nervely. Go silently to back door
of Hotel st. Riches. There you will
meet a tall Brooklyn dentist wearing
red derby. Say. to him, Freedom and
Impurity That is our password. He
will bandage your eyes and chloroform
you. To struggle will be useless. When
you awake you will see where you are"
I'VE realize your Kindness" collapse
me & Nogi together like chorus girls.
Togo, did you realize the Janus per-
sonality of them Finanseers by their
faces?" require Nosi when they de-
parted away.
"'Nogi,'' | otter, Il can tell them all
by their photos They are men Of
such high finance positions that the
Stock Exchange shakes at their slight
est sneeze. They employ L. S. Senators
to stand at their doors and receive call
ing cards.
What do this knights of the Double
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parties OF favorite players In her home.
Representative and Mrs. Jones have
been from the beginning among the nome
keepers in the congressional set They
have a spacious and artistically equipped
residence on Q street, where they have
lived for many years. All the family
are fervent adherents of the Episcopal
church, and have maintained pew at
ST Johns ever since they came to wash
ington Miss Anne Seymour Jones. the
only daughter, is we'll known In the
younger set for her splendid horseman-
ship and her athletic prowess In many
directions. She has been carefully edu-
Gated, and already has taken a part in
the many amenities in her fathers home.
The son Is not SO we'll known in Wash
ington, but after his graduation next
June he will spend his winters With his
parents on Q street.
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carrying out the wishes of the home
people. We are in the same position rel
foreign lands to represent his SOW
ereign. Here we play our role,
hope acceptably to our associates. but
life in it's important aspects radiates
from Virginia. My home is a mere speck
of village compared with the great
cities of the Union. We have only
few hundred citizens in Warsaw, but
how one can enjoy existence in sylvan
district Food is a sordfd consideration,
but a potent one. Poultry seems taste
less when l come to big city We have
that inestimable blessing of being our
own poulterers and green grocers In War
saw. Our country about is farming land
entirely. and we raise corn and wheat
and some of the most delicious vege-
tables and fruit in the world. Then, /
viii not let the public into the secret of
what we get fine turkeys and tender
chickens for. il the poultry-yard is not
up to the demand. 1t would cause a tide
of immigration into Warsaw that We are
not prepared to meet. The problem OF
living is reduced, not only in the pc
cuniary sense, in my home town, but in
the most important sense of being able
to live well on moderate means with the
aid of excellent servants. We have good
negroes, men and women, and ones
household matters run in smooth chan
mel.
Hospitality in the south is not pass
ing, in the true sense of what that de-
lightful word signifies. Few families can
now give the magnificent entertainments
that We're synonymous with social occa-
sions in the ante-bellum days. We all
love to dwell on the regality of the old
plantation hfe-MOnticello the Fairfax
and the Loudoun county estates and
thereabout.
Then the guests often came a few days
journey by coach, and there might be
several hundred to shelter for days, not
to mention their servants and horses. The
dinners, which We're attended by scores
of slaves. and the balls. which lasted
past the night until the sun extinguisi,ed
TIE tapers-all these phases Of hospitality
have passed away.
But Virginia still stands for hospital
ity, and there are few homes. even OF
people in moderate circumstances. that
are not filled with guests during the
summer and on holiday occasions. My
own home during the heated term Is
crammed with the friends of my young
son and daughter, and my husband and
l are glad to crowd ourselves and our
chance visitors into any corner we find
1acant. The young people are still po-
tent factor in social life in Virginia now.
as they were in the old days. We elders
are glad to recognize their rights, and
being over. we should give place to our
are prime favorites in entertaining in
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Platform! PLATFORM holla num-
berous voices in collision.
Our Committee on Ways & Means
has been laboring all day in Metropoli-
Platform for the Plutopublican Party"
say him. You notice 1t contains all
the merits of the Democratic and Re-
publican Platforms with mono of their
disgusting mistakes. Following is it:
Conservation: We believe in it, but
we don't think it is needed. The For
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power once before. Mrs Jones. for sew
eral years has held pre-eminent posi-
tion, from the fact that as the wife of
the ranking member Of the House on that
side has precedence over all other women
in the democratic families. Then she
has represented Virginia almost SINGLE
handed for several seasons. The wives
Of both senators had been invalids for
several years. Mrs. Daniels has not been
seen in social life for many winters,
and Mrs. Martin three winters ago re-
tired from active participation in the
amenities Mrs. Jones took up the re-
sponsibility that thus devolved on her,
hostesses in the congressional set. She
is a club woman, and has devoted all her
time to what she has deemed her first
duty. She Is, however, a splendid whist
player and frequently entertains small