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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-11
THE OYSTER SITUATION.
: New port News Times-Herald.

Should the people of Tidewater per-
sist in their blind and utterly unreason-
able opposition to the change in the
lines of the Baylor Survey" said a
prominent member of the legislature
yesterday, ''the ruin of the tongers in
the James is likely to be complete. If
they succeed in preventing action by the
General Assembly which would permit
the Commission of Fisheries to properly
police the lines, they are likely to face
within few months the practical aban-
donment of the river by the State
This statement appears in one of the
Richmond newspapers and we believe it
to be true.
"As matter Of fact" he went on,
sit is folly to continue the present
policy of spending $4,000 year in a
vain effort to guard the existing lines.
when the State gets revenue of only
1000 from this source.
1.-The natural oyster rock in the James
is but an insignificant part of the total
oyster ground of the State, and it is
nothing short of ridiculous to spend
one-fourth of the appropriation of the
commission to take care of this little
strip"
There ia something in this for the
tongers to consider. BY opposing every
change that is proposed to protect the
oysters in that section, they may defeat
their own end.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-11

to be that it would be good idea for
Virginia to give the plan of leasing
come of its oyster rocks trial. rs Con-
necticut has built up a great industry
by leasing all of her bottoms. IL that
is what is wanted, let the proposition
come up in the shape of an amendment
TO the constitution and have the ques-
tion fought out on its merits. Other
wise give US constitutional legislation
that will provide protection for James
river public oyster beds. Newport
News Press.
Do we read Alright? or do our
eyes deceive us? We are going to
take the Newport News Press Ian
ardent opponent of the Byrd
Wickham billy in all sincerity, but
tell it in equal earnestness that
its proposition comes too late,
we fear, to save the James. Be-
sides, we are not willing to 90
quite SO far as to tamper with
the Constitution and jeopardize
the natural oyster beds of Vir-
ginia. Once an amendment to
the Constitution on this point is
before the people, we fear they
will strike out the clause alto
gether. Surely our contemporary
now "Out-Herods Herod," and
we hope it will not hereafter fall
back on the plea that it has of
fered a remedy, for it must know
that the day passed two weeks
ago when anymore bills could be
introduced in this Legislature.
We have felt all along that the
Newport News Press and Norfolk
Virginian- Pilot-the only Tide
water dailies Sighting the propo.
sition for protecting the James
did not exactly understand what
they were wind-jamming at. The
State ordered a new and minute
survey of the beds, which was
done by the United States gov
eminent more thoroughly than it
had ever done such work before.
Based upon this, the State,
through it's oyster officials, has
mapped out lines that would en-
brace fourteen thousand acres,
including the five thousand OF
natural rock, every foot that is
represented upon the map by
natural growth oysters, and cut
ting out only such as is held
by planters and showing their
oysters thereon. 1t has fixed the
location of Warehouses;. This
number, and the natural bound
aries, have been increased under
the Gravatt compromise lines,
and now, as before, under the
proposition every foot of actual
natural producing rock could be
adequately protected.
Every sugS estion of our New
port News contempory has been
met Except the constitutional
amendment), and we are amazed,
sinceentertaining the views it here
expresses, that it has ever OBJ
posed the Byrd-Wickham bill.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-11
The REAL OYSTER QUESTION
Richmond virginian1

II
The Virginian has said that al
oyster question is the seed supply. In
the course of the hearing "Wednesday
before the Senate Committee on E;st,
and Game, Mr.. Madison, of Warwick
county, said: WIN
| The Lee lines in themsalvas o -.
enough to be scared at. But the ovs.
terman nave no assurance that thew
would not be changed within the nov,
lew years. The new plan would leave
lS'OUo acres Of land in Warwick county
and II the change were made the com.
mission should take the money il gets
and shell the ground. This would make
the James the seed bed of the world. %
MT. Madison is police officer of
warwick county and is in position n
know the situation well. He has the
interests of the longer at heart. and he
would never consent to any change
which, in his opinion, would iniure them
or put them in jeopardy.
Mr.. Darling, at Hampton, took very
much the same position. He said that
ne was opposed to breaking the BAYLOR
Survey, but he was in favor of straigh-
tenlng the lines in such way as to
make police protection easier.
IF present conditions are kept up."
SAID Mr.. Darling, ''the longer will be
the man who will break the BAYLOR
Survey. The oysters are disappearing.
and 1t viii soon result in such a condi-
ton that prices will be so high for seed
that there will be no profit in the bust
ness. He had not made a dollar for
three years. He could not see that
anybody would lose anything by the
change, and thought it an improve ment.
Mr.. Darling is the man who kept his
force on the payroll in dull season in
spite of the fact that there was no
work to DO. "You boys have helped me
to make what | have" said he, land Il
VIII not turn you out because the oyster
business is dull. That sort of man is
rot apt to be in favor of any legislation
that would "oppress the poor man."
we do not profess to have expert
knowledge of the oyster question. We
do not know that the lines proposed nv
the Commission of Fisheries are alto
gether in the right place. But we are
very clear on this point, that the seed
beds need better protection and that
any enlargement of the lines which
will insure this without violating the
spiri' of the constitutional provision is
both sensible and desirable. That is
the question for the General Assembly
to consider. and the members must take
into consideration the fact that the
tongers have sort of superstitious re-
verence for the Baylor Survey. They
fear that any change in the lines is the
opening wedge" as they call it, for |
plot to take the natural rock from the
people and give it to ,private interests.
Such a superstition is not to be taken
seriously.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-11
MONTAGUE FOR REPUBLICAN.

| Much surprise has been ENTERTAINED
throughout the State that ex-Governo,
Montague should take the side of the
Republican Parsons who is contestinp
the scat of Congressman Saunders from
the Fifth District, particularly in tina,
Mr.. Montague should attack the acts Of
the Virginia legislature in redistrictinp
the District.
Here are sample comments from two
papers friendly to him:
For some time past, Ex-Governor
Montague has been receiving favors at
Washington, and his name has often
been mentioned in connection with ap-
pointment to high and honorable posi-
tons to be made by Mr.. Taft. Now he
is on record as representing a Virginia
Republican in his contest for a seat in
Congress, held by one of the ablest
Democrats of the State. ''We told YOU
so, "vicei is monster" etc. Here is
a lesson with moral. -Farmville
Herald.
Friends of former Governor A. 7
Montague will be disappointed and dis
pleased to known that he will appear as
counsel for John M. Parsons, Republi-
can. who is contesting the seat in
the House of Representatives of Mr..
Saunders, the Democrat who represents
the Fifth district. Governor Montague
is practising lawyer and has the legal
andethical right to represent any client.
itseems to us. however, that he should
consider that much of the weight he
has as practitioner and advocate is
given him by the fact that he was Gov
ernor of Virginia. That position and
the influence resulting from his occupa-
ton were given to him by the Democrats
OF Virginia. They should be regarded
and held, we think, as a trust. They
should not be employed in a political
matter against the people and party
that elected him and from whom he has
sought seat in the United States
Senate.-Roanoke News.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-11
WILL THE LEGISLATURE
TAKE EXPERT ADVICE?
Richmond Times-Di.patch.J

Among the first bills introduced in the
Legislature at this session were three
designed to improve and develop the
fishing industries of Virginia. One OF
these bills was re-codification of the
fish and oyster laws of Virginia, which
are now in a deplorable state of con-
fusion. The other two were the Lesner-
Cooke bill to regulate the use of fish
nets, and the Byrd-Wickham bill to re-
arrange the lines in James river and
reduce the cost of policing the natural
oyster beds. If these questions had
come before the board of directors of
any private corporation it is incredible
that there should have been such delay
in securing favorable action. 1t is.
however. very difficult matter to move
large body of men.
The Times-Dispatch believes that
every one of the above three bills will
prove of the utmost benefit, not only
to the State of Virginia at large, but to
the oyster and longing interests in the
Tidewater district as we'll. The opinion
of the Tidewater representatives, how
ever, appears to be conclusive in this
matter, and unless the Legislature
speedily awakens to the Importance of
the real question involved it will be too
late to protect the oyster and fish in
dustries of Virginia at all. These bills
do not involve the question of opening
railroad or digging a canal works
that might be carried on at any time.
They are aiming primarily to save re-
venue to the State, and above all to
save an immensely important and valu-
able asset which is now in process of
being utterly destroyed. I
The bottoms of the York, James and
Rappahannock rivers, Chesapeake bay
and its tributaries, in ali some three
thousand square miles, can under proper
administration produce for Virginia
citizens from 81, 0O0, 900 to S16, 600, 600
year. But in order to accomplish this
end it is absolutely essential that the
present suicidal and destructive policy
be abandoned. 1t will be poor salts
>o~sAoh " virginia NiISu n6r INDUSTRIES
have been destroyed and her. citizens
deprived of the rich rewards and oppor-
tunities that lie now under their hands
to think upon what might have been.
Next only to the reformation of our
tax system. if indeed it does not stand
above 1T, Is the issue involved in the
preservation of our oyster and fish in
dustry. Nor does it seem arbitrary to |
ask that the representatives of all the |
people accept expert advice. If Com
missioner of Fisheries Mcdonald Lee
and the United States government ex-
pert, DIR. HI. F. Moore, are not to be
followed or believed, to whom then shall |
the Legislature turn for counsel and
advice? Certainly the Tidewater rep
resentative have been needed for fifty
years, and the present situation is a
on that leadership.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-11
Why does Great Britain buy
its oatmeal of us? ;

Certainly it seems like carving
GOALS to Newcastle to speak of export.
ing oatmeal to Scotland and yet. every
year me Quaker Oats Company sends
hundreds of thousands of cases Of
Quaker Oats to Great Britain and
Europe.
The reason is simple; while the
English and Scotch have for Centuries
eaten oatmeal in quantities and with
regularity that has made them the
most rugged physically, and active
mentally of all people, the American
has been eating oatmeal and irving ali
the time to improve the methods Of
manufacture so that he might get that
desirable foreign trade.
How well he has succeeded would
De seen at glance at the export re-
ports on Quaker Oats This brand is
without rival; Is packed in regular
iOc packages, and in Theoretically seal.
cd tins for hot climates. s.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-11
A RIP vANwINKELEAN PROD.

1t has been suggested that if Com
missioner Lee, of our Board of Fish
cries, will lead in the fight for proper
protection of our fisheries in the next
Legislature. he will find ample support
The Oysterman.
Where you been at, friend
Commissioner Lee has been sit
ting up with the legislature eight
long weeks seeking proper pro
lection to the fish and oyster in
dustries, and his newspaper
helpers can be counted on ones
fingers. Is this to be the be
ginning of a two-years' tiradt
against the officials fornot doing
their duty? But the Commission
OF Fisheries feels that it has done
its duty in pointing out the
breakers ahead, and will doubt
less now take the advice o.
POlonius' father
There is nothing in this borrowing
Of woes galore,
1t only leads to sorrowing
And nothing more.
The course is far from glitterinp.
Brings added strife,
And may be found embittering
Your later life.
No bank will then come hurrying
10 pay you, son,
For all the useless worrying
You've ever done.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-11
FOR BETTER LAWS.

The Norfolk Landmark has
been earnest in behalf of better
fish and oyster legislation. Prac,
tlcally nothing has been done in
this direction for twelve or fifteen
years, and we are not keeping
pace with the outside world las
witness our recent years of hard
times in the fish and oyster in
dustries), or improving our own
wonderful resources. The close
season for fishing referred to
below was the proposition to lift
all pounds between July first and
September first. This was not
objected to by interests and rep
resentatives from up the bay, but
was hard fought by Buckroe,
Hampton and Cape Henry fisher
men, aud was stricken out of the
fish bill. On fish and oyster lines
the Landmark says recently:
AS The Landmark has said several
times, it is more interested in the fish
question than in the oyster question.
important as the latter is. We do not
think that the James River oyster bill
should be changed, but the reported
committee alterations reducing the
amount of fertile acreage thrown out
would not disturb US seriously if the
Legislature would restore the closed
pound-net season in the fish bill and
provide for codifcation of the oyster
and fish laws of the State as recon-
mended by the Fish Commission. The
necessity of such codification was set
forth as follows by Major Anderson.
while he was Acknowledgement of Vir-
ginia, in letter to the Fish Commits
sioner:
The questions which you have re-
Gently submitted to me furnish add;-
tional reasons for a careful revision of
the oyster and fish laws of the State.
Your experience and observation rnust
confirm my own as to the CRYING need
Tor such revision, not only to Supply
paipabie omissions in the law, but to
make clear confused, and sometimes nm
lnteiligible, provisions and to reconcile
requirements In
deed, there ought to be careful and
painstaking revision of all the statutes
in reference to the oyster and fish in
terests of the Commonwealth. There
g so much confusion and conflict in the
avs as they are now expressed in the
statutes of the State, and SO manv ex-
septions and qualifications, and special
and local statutes. that it must be NOT
,nly exceedingly difficult, but impossi-
Die for you and your board and your
'ubordinates to intelligently and eff
GENTLY enforce and administer their
provisions.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-11

The Virginia Legislature has elected
the three professors to be chosen or
the State Board of Public instruction.
Ihey are Page, of the University; Ford,
OF the V. M. l.. and Jarman, CT Farm
vile Normal. Page and Ford are new
men, Kent and Tucker having been
dropped. This latter act is ascribed to
the great dissatisfaction felt through
out the State at the selection of county
superintendent last year.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-11
WHERE IGNORANCE is sUpREME.

WHERE IGNORANCE is SUPREME.
1t IS to be hoped til It the legislature
will not make the mistake of starting
the inroads on the.natural oystergrounds
reserved to the people of the State. If
the already depleted grounds are leased
out because they are depleted, it would
be an easy task for other planters next
year TO clean off more of the reserved
ground, then show that it was depleted
and take 1T up at once. About three
years of this process would destroy the
whole of the natural beds. Start the
grabbing once and there will be no stop
ping it. 1t would be far better for the
State to restock the depleted ground
once IN while, so as to preserve as a
permanent seed-bed all of them
Eastern Shore Herald.
How can they restock beds that
are being continually deprecated
upon for lack ofestablished police
lines? This is but a fair sample
as to how ignorant of the pur-
poses OF the Byrd James river bill
are the papers out of Richmond.
The people that have no axe to
grind and no political scalp to
save who have heard the discus
sion OF theproposition know that
the Commission of Fisheries is
after restocking and saving the
seed beds of the James to the
tonger. 1t is their desire to throw
lines around a zone that they
may thoroughly protect and
keep the planter from encroach-
ing upon, besides driving back
many that have already en-
croached. AS an evidence that it
will not benefit them, these
planters are opposing the project
bitterly (the Hampton interests
in particularly. Such writings as
quoted above are not only
egregiously wrong but lead to
disaster for the James river
tonger.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-11

NOTWITHSTANDING the fact has
been demonstrated by actual ex.
aminations and survey that not
a loot of the 4, 1926 acres to be
thrown out in the James is used
Dy the tongers, and that the new
lines are solely to recover some
producing rock already in the
possession of planters, and to
better protect all the natural
rock, the Peninsula Enterprise
and other illy-informed papers
persist in saying there is 4 ,425
acres ofrock to be turned over to
the planters. Of the $4,000 acres
In the survey in James river only
1000 is rock.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-11
THE DOCTOR ARRIVES TOO LATE.

AS matter of fact the leading Tide
water papers do not contend
that the Baylor survey must not be
changed in any degree; they have de-
clared that they would favor a measure
actually Strengthening and defining the
Baylor survey.
Leaving the Baylor survey out of
the question, why cannot the State of
Virginia order a new survey of the
natural oyster rocks in the James river.
and fix the lines Of the public bottoms
accordingly. This is the only way the
constitution can be complied with. And
when this has been done, fix lines for
warehouses or patrols as the fisheries
commission may recommend. If it is
impossible to effectually guard every
acre of land within the lines of survey,
protect the bottom within the watch
house lines and do the best we can for
the rest.
The opinion of most of the papers
supporting the Byrd Wickham bill seems
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-11

1t is said that eggs imported from
France will not hatch. Possibly not,
but they will doubtless scramble, and
that is as much as many of the domestic
variety will do. -Virginian-Pilot.
Horrid thought. Frances race
suicide policy has extended even
to the barn-yardI
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-11
DR.. SYDNOR INDITED.

DIR. G. M. Sydnor, of Warsaw, who
went intol bankruptcy last year, had
seven indictments for felony brought
in against him at Warsaw this week.
His bond was placed at So, 500 which
was secured.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-11

VIRGINIA has sure an acquisi-
ton in the person of Major J. C.
Hemphill who last week came
from South Carolina to assume
charge OF the editorial policy of
the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Nothing bad can come out of
brave old South Carolina, vet
now that she has sent us her
cream, she is by much the poorer.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-27

Southern California and Arizona
Delegates Break WiShbOneS
for 100000 Lunch

With an old-fashioned Southern
chicken supper the forty-frst annuel
conference of the Methodist church,
South, for Southern California and
Arizona, was formally opened last
night with a gathering that numbered
400 and which taxed the capacity of
the church. The banquet was given
at $50 o'clock in the Sunday school
room of the church building on Grand
avenue, near Ninth, and was very
enjoyable affair, many old friendships
being renewed at the gathering.
Following the banquet at $3.50 o'clock
the guests. which included the dele
gates to the conference to be formally
opened this morning, adjourned to the
main auditorium
Bishop r. G. Waterhouse, who was
the guest of J )nor at the banquet and
was the principal speaker of the even
ing, was strong in his advocacy of a
100000 church to be built on the pres
ent site of Trinity church in place of
the site secured for the new church
building elsewhere. He stood firm on
this subject in his address last night.
The Rev. Robert P, Howell, pastor
of the local church, presided and made
interesting but brief Introductory re-
marks. The Rev. ]. F. G.. Findley
offered the invocation, which was fol-
lowed by music by Mrs. Harry Dow
Kirk of Hollywood.
The Rev. S. 7. Montgomery, presi-
dent of the Church Federation, made
an address of welcome in behalf of
that body, presenting a long stemmed
rose to the bishop as emblematic of
the church work.
w. w. Willis Of the Y. NJ. c. A..
made an address of welcome in behalf
of the association, which was followed
by an address by Nathan Newly, rep
resenting the local churches.
The Rev. J. 3. Crutchfield, presid-
ing elder of the Arizona district, made
q general response to the welcomes in
behalf of the conference.
Bishop Waterhouse was the last
speaker of the evening, mingling hu-
NOR and earnestness in his able ad-
dress,
The conference will be formally or
Rani-A1 - a O'@Lack this morning in
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-27
SEARCH FOR MINISTER
WHO DESERTED FAMILY
Police Looking for C. A. Braun, a
Former Methodist Pastor

The police are looking for C. A.
Braun, former Methodist minister,
who is said to have deserted his wife
and three young children last Monday.
leaving them in a penniless and desti-
tute condition. The famtly's condition
became known yesterday when neigh
bors reported the matter to Captain or
Police Charles Lehnhausen.
Mrs. Braun has been kept in bed for
six months by chronic ailment. None
of the children, the eldest of whom Is
only 8, is able to earn any money. The
deserted family occupies a two-room
frame house at POI Colonial street and
is being supported by kind neighbors.
Braun formerly worked for the Par
melee Dohrmann company. Before
coming to Los Angeles about two years
ago he preached the gospel in Pennsyl-
vania, but had given up the ministry at
the time of coming to this city. Be
fore leaving his wife last Monday he
packed up his belongings and told her
he was going to Iowa. She has not
heard from his since.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-27
TRUSTEES GIVE NOTICE
OF $4,000 DIVIDENDS

September, 1905, when the FIRST Ma
tional bank and other financial in
stitutions were consolidated, a divi-
dend of So a share on 5000 shares of
outstanding shares was declared. The
$1,000 was not disbursed, but placed
by the stockholders with F. Q. story
Sfoddard Jess. w. IT. S. Hammond,
j. G. Drake, and ]. M. Elliott, as trus-
tees, to purchase assets of the First
National which were not acceptable to
other banks consolidating with the in
stitution. Yesterday the trustees
gave notice that recent collections war
ranted the disbursement of a dividend
of IS a share or $4,000. More dividends
will be paid on the principal within
a few months. Holders of the stock,
it is stated, are anxious to have tina
$40, 900 at work indefinitely.