The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11
MAY BUILD ROAD
|NN0RTHERNN NECK
Another Ray of Hope for Open
ing OF Rich Ter
ritory.
ARE CALLED
t Present Time People Are
Compelled to Depend on
Boats.
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Especial to The Times Dispatohl
| Lancaster Va. July 1o--Another
ray Of hope for a railroad down the
| Northern Neck OF Virginia has just
i appeared a call has gone forth for
meeting OF the citizens OF Richmond
and Westmoreland counties, to be held
at Warsaw next Tuesday. and also a
meeting Of the citizens OF Lancaster
and northumberland to be held here
| on the 18th, to confer with the repre-
sentative of certain capitalists who
VIII submit plans and propositions
| looking to the building of railroad
| from Fredericksburg or some other
| point on the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg and Potomac Railroad down the
Northern Neck Peninsula to the Chea-
apeake Bay. On no other section of
| Virginia Is railroad SO badly needed.
With soil said to be superior to that
of any other section OF Tidewater yir-
ginia for farm and garden products,
! the people of the Northern Neck have
| to rely entirely on the Slow going
steamers that ply UP and down the
Rappahannock tho Great Wicomico
/ and tho Potomac Rivers for travel and
transportation to and from the cities
to which they ship their products. and
| from which they get their goods and
! other supplies II takes from two to
three days to go to Richmond or Bal
| timore and return. and the travelling
/ expenses amount to $40 or $12. AS 1t
| is, the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany now owns all the steamers that
| ply between this section and the East
| ern markets, and 1t is to be expected
that this great corporation will fight,
as 1t has done in the past all efforts
to build a railroad down this PENN
sula. The construction of railroad
/ down the Northern Neck would result
In the rapid development OF one OF
the finest agricultural regions of Vir-
| ginia by bringing It's water and farm
| products within easy reach of the
great cities OF the Atlantic seaboard
and also OF the Middle West. Rich
mond would reap no small advan-
tage from the establishing OF close
railway connection with the Northern
Neck of Virginia,
| Trial Postponed.
/ Thomas j. Downing and Waller E.
Hathaway, OF Lancaster, have return
ed from Warsaw. where they have
been attending the trial OF G. Milton
PSydner in the Circuit Court OF Rich
mond county, on the charge OF felony
! In securing canned goods from the
/ Totuskey Canning Company, of which
he was president. Tn. trial began last
| Tuesday. but owing 10 the illness OF
one OF the Jurors. who appears to
! have eaten Unexpectedly. the case
! had to be adjourned on Friday till
next Thursday, when ii will be re-
stunned II the sick man Is well enough
to attend. Only two witnesses have
thus far been examined. The Com
I monwealth Is represented by Clarence
s. Towles. of northumberland. and
Thomas j. Downing and Walter e.
Hathaway, of Lancaster. while the ac
cused is represented by Herbert Lewis.
1 of West Point. Conway c. Baker, of
Westmoreland, and Armistead N. Well
ford. OF Richmond county. Joseph w.
| Chinn, Jr., the Commonwealth's at
torney for Richmond county. being
one of the directors OF the Totuskey
Canning Company and an important
witness in the case for the Common
| wealth, was. at his request, relieved
of the duty of presenting the case.
and the court appointed Clarence S.
Towles. Commonwealth's attorney of
northumberland, to corduct the pros
ecution. The Armour Company and
the Totuskey Canning Company, who
are parties to the prosecution. en-
ployed Mr.. Hathaway and Mr.. Down
ing to assist Mr.. Towles. The pros
poets that when the trial is resumed
| ii will be one of the most hotly con-
| tested cases ever tried in this sec
| ton.
Steamer On Fire.
| I Several days ago the fishing steamer
Peter C. stinson. belonging to Bellows
e. Squires's fish factory at Ocrau. was
found to b. on fire under her coal
| bunkers while she was on Der way
] down the bay. Her pumps We're put
to work ana the fire appeared to be
extinguished Thinking 1t best to re-
turn totthe factory the steamer was
on her way up the bay when fire
broke out again, The steamer was
then run under a. full head of steam
to ocrau, where additional hose was
brought into play, and the fire was
soon extinguished The damage done
is slight, but If the steamer had been
far out at sea 1t is propable that she
would have gone down with all on
board.
Captain w. D. Newbill. OF the Third
Field Artillery, stationed at Fort
/ Myer. near Washington, came down
last week under orders from the War
i department and visited the celebrated
Mt. Airy estate in Richmond county.
with a view of establishing there a
range for artillery practice. While
Captain Newbill found several good
ranges on the estate. 1t is thought
4 that his report will be unfavorable
to the location Of range there, owing
to the fact that the shooting would
have to be done over so many small
houses. thus endangering the lives of
the occupants.
The county school board of Lancas-
ter held it's annual meeting here yes
4 terday to close up the business of the
past school year. DR.. Frank W, Lewis,
division superintendent, presided, and
every member of the board was pres
ent. The reports of the district clerks
were found correct, and the settlement
with the treasurer was satisfactory.
Lancaster has raised her school levy
to the highest constitutional limit, and
II the progress made by the schools is
very encouraging. After the regular
meeting was over the trustees from
Whitestone District listened to dele
CATION from Kilmarnock appointed 10
LAY before the board petition for a
/ new school house and additional
| teachers for the school at that place.
| About $1,000 has been raised by pri.
yate subsCription, and it is understood