The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-28
MARKER WILL Be
UNVEILED TODAY
Interesting Exercises to Take
Place on the Crater
Battlefield.
Times-Dispatch Bureau,
loa North Sycamore Street.
Petersburg. Va, April 81.

Among the guests at the unwilling
tomorrow OF the stone marker placed
on the Crater battlefield by Petersburg
Chapter. United Daughters or the Con
fcderacy, will be Governor and Mrs.
William Hodges Mann. Lieu,enant-Gow-
ernor and Mrs. ]. Taylor Eiiyson. Major
and Mrs. r.. W. Jones and many visit
ing veterans. of Mahone's Brigade.
As has hcen stated. the orator of the
day will be Colonel William II. stew
art. who commanded the Sixty-nrst Viz
gin.a Regiment. OF Mahone's Brigade.
which occupied the centre of the bril-
gadc In the famous charge to recap
ture the Confederate breastworks, after
the mine explosion. on July 80, 1864.
The marker is placed to designate the
extreme right of the brigade in that
charge. Colonel Stewart Will be intro
duced by Assistant Acknowledgement II.
NJ. Davis.
MortuHry and birth Record.
The report OF the Health Department
Tor the month ending April 20 shows
q total of ~thlrty-pinc deaths in the
'cltY-whitcs twenty-one, colorcd eight
cen. These figures show a marked de-
crease as with the mortality
~ bHS W. 'OllVlllH lIlpnIlS
OF The past six years. OF tho deco
dents, eight were under five years old.
nine were between the ages of sixty
and eighty years, and several acre in
the nineties. Two persons died of aet-
anus. three OF tuberculosis. three OF
pneumonia. fourteen of kidney dis
eases and one of old age (ninety-eight
years.. There were six deaths nj he
Petersburg Hospital. and six deaths
were certified by the coroner.
During the month ~forty-one births
were reported to the depa rtment-
whites IS; colored, %; males. &c; fe-
Veto Ivy the Mayor.
Mayor Cameron has vetoed the ordi-
nance recently passed by both branches
or the Common Council regulating the
erection of buildings in the city and re-
quiring all such buildings in the future
70 nave their front entrances facing OH
me public street. The veto is based on
Inc doubtful Legality of the ordinance.
!, ms is me second veto OF the ordi-
nance. changes in The original having
been made. as 1t was thought. 10 make
it legal. I'M
Charters Granted.
nc Corporation Commission has
granted a charter to the Virginia Paint
manufacturing Company, Inc. of this
e,ty, WITH a capital not to exceed
80 OOJG1l 10 Ut nhHuIaCturG
and sale OF paints. and the officers are:
PRESIDENT. F.. 3. Davis, Jr.; Vice-Prest-
nent, K. t. Wilson; Secrctary-Treasu-
rer. w. L. Young.
The commission also granted ycstcr-
aoy a charter to the Matoaca bridge
Company. with John a. seay as pres1.
dent: Howard James. yice-prcsidcnt!
II. 4. Holt. secretary. The purpose Of
the company is TO build and operate n
bridge across the Apnomatton River at
M~atoaca. a.
Invitation Accepted.
Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, of the
southern Female College, in this civ
mas accepted an invita- tion extended BY
the southern intercollegiate Oratoricai
Association, embracing Six universjttns
IN the Southern States. to attend and
act as Judge of tho oratorical contest
~ the University of virginia. on Ned
hesday evening. May q. The contest
VIII be followed by q reception TO tho
representatives of the universities and
me JUDGES, given by the Delta sigma
iNho fraternity Association.
Personal ana Otherwise.
mayor cameron has called tho atten-
tion OF the Police Commissioners 10 tbe
law requiring fire escapes on certain
buildings. The ordinance has been
practically ignored.
ilans and specifications for the new
iNNocliStOCk ~ Co., in the burned
district. are in the hands of contrac-
Tors and bids VIII soon be opened.
state officers of the knights of CO.
iumhus officially visited Petersburg
Council last night and wecr hospitabiy
entertained. The visiting officers were
state Deputy John III. Sheehan, Ron
noke: District Deputy James p. Patter-
son, Richmond, and State Treasurer 81.
J. Murphy. Norfolk.
Evangelist George Fl. Wiley is preach
ing with great power at Ettrick N, %.
church, and there have been thirty.
seven conversions. During the revival
az the Second Baptist Church there have
peen twenty-siX admissions to tbc
church. and there were fourteen bar
tisms last night.
y IRE occurred in the boiler-room of
the AppomattoX Box Company about
midnight last night. which was fortu-
haiely qnenched before much damage
\. Il. b.. Friend and c. Livcrmoro. OF
ms city, have been granted d patent
Tor a freight car door OF a new tyne.
invented by them. -
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