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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23
Much Quietness on the
Ri9lto; Tn a t Is to
Say, in Richmond.
HOLIDAY SEASON.;
GENERAL DULLNESS
Home Makers Taking Advantage
of the Summer Solstice-Mak-
ing Some Right Good Mid
summer Deals-That Is
What Some of the
Agents Say.

Talking with one OF the best in
Formed real estate men yesterday at.
ternoon, learned that the past week
was considerably dull. He explained
the situation TO me in a way that I did
not like. but all the same IT seemed
to me he was telling the truth, and
the truth is the only thing L am in
search Of
1 guess what this truthful real es-
tate agent told me must be the basis
OF all of my real estate gossip for the
current week. Just what he told me
may not be just what the public wants
10 near. but all the same / suspect IL
is more or less correct
Summed Up.
To sum the whole situation I'M in
oTief, II may be said that there were
no large deals worthy of mention. All
OF the agents and all of the boone RS
nave all kinds of hopes for the imme-
oiate future. but they have not made
any good sales the past week
Ihey say that the inquiry is very
bright. and they expect big sales tho
coming fail, but ali the same they
are little slow in reporting irnme-
date cash sales
HOHe Buyerh In Evidence.
From what ] car learn from the
nome buyers and the other good folks
who are looking for cheap home sites.
] am inclined TO think that the home
buyers arc very much in evidence II
may be that the owners OF and the
holders Of these home sites are dis
posed 10 he little too exacting when
II comes to selling TO the home buyers
i nave heard some complaint OF that
kind
Anyhow. homo buyers have been
much In the majority during the past
week, and learn from good sources
that almost 100000 have been in
vested the past week In home making
property.
some other reports as TO invest
ments could easily run the real estate
transactions OF the week up TO $1,000.
900. There are many runors in the
air as to big deals on Broad Street
and some other streets. heard tina,
II. S. Wa!lerstein had bought whole
lot of ground. and 1 button holed him
IN the office OF Pollard & Bagby and
asked him for particulars Mr.. Wal
1erstein broke his suspender strings
getting away from me. and said he
would see me later. 1t is not very
much later. but l have not seen him
since. Maybe Will not see him much
more until the whole thing is closed.
Wallerstein is hard to reach when he
doesn't want TO be reached.
From all the information can
gather the real estate transactions of
the past week footed up about sieT.i5O.
This includes deals that took place
within the city limits and the more
active transactions within the subur-
ban regions.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23
by FRANK S. WOODSON,
Industrial Editor.

The chicken raisers of Virginia have
an organization that is we'll calculated
to do great deal of good in a gen
eral way.
This organization. which is known
by the name of the Virginia Poultry
Association. and has Richmond for its
headquarters. has for the past several
years been holding a poultry fair in
this city early in the year. This poul-
try exhibition attracts to the city
many people not only from among the
chicken raisers near to the city, but
from distant parts. The associations
exhibition has grown to such an ex-
tent that the executive committee is
now finding some difficulty in getting a
house big enough for the show.
1t is curious fact that many of
the public buildings of decent dimen-
eions owned and controlled by the city
are encompassed with certain restric-
tions. and city laws that largely cur
tail their usefulness. The armory, for
instance, is tied up under law so thai
nothing short of a man in uniform
can get into it.
ALL the other public buildings in the
city are in like manner circuinscribed.
So when the chicken raising folks go
around to look for place in which to
hold their annual show the city of
fers no inducements and the associa-
ton has to rent quarters at exorbi-
tant rates and oftener than otherwise
nave to pay big money for inadequate
quarters.
Norfolk. II right good town of its
Kind. but one that is wide-awake when
g. good thing Is In sight, is Offering
the Poultry Association right SHARP
inducements to hold their next show
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23
INDUSTRIAL BR1EFLETs.
Notes from All Over tho Wide-Awnke South.
Many New Industries.


Many New Industries.
Chattanooga. Tenn. July 22,-For the week
1ust ended al! the reports from all parts OF
the South and Southwest, as made to the
Tradesman, are encouraging. The reports
show that general rains and cooler weather
have SO improved crop conditions that ear.
Tier predictions as to bumper crops will stu
velopment there seems TO be evident The
progressive movement that characterizes
this entire section.
Among the new Industries reported for
the week are the following:
Virginia.
Observation-Disclosures orchard company.
Norfolk-S5o.ooo realty company; slo,tN
realty company; $4,000 reality company
$4,000 automobile company.
Norton-$l0.o0o brick and manufacturing
company.
Richmond-sloo.on lumber company.
Roanoke-s 100 hotel company.
WilIiamsburg-sl50c0 packing company
West Virginia.
Beckley--S50,0o0 mine.
Berkeley sDrings-s2oo.ooo giasa.and COM
pany
Milton-Water company.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. development COM
Yany; $4,000 water and power company.
Parkersburg-s5,oco bottiing works; se.oos
sottlng machine company.
Summit Point-slo.oo0 plumbing company.
Wheeiing-sso0e0 piano company
North Carolina.
Candor-sloo.oo0 mine
Durham-slo.O0o bicycle factory.
Elizabeth City-Cottono.l mill.
Farmville-s500c0 hardware company.
Oriental-sl5.ooo development company: $780,
eoo warehouse company.
Rockin CHA R-sl5.000 machine company.
WilninRtnn--x25.00o realty company.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23
GOOD ROADS TRAIN \
BY The SOUTHERN
Good Roads Advocates to In
wade Virginia to Help Boost
Good Roads Sentiment.

Washington. D. c.. July 22.-Thc
special road Improvement train" be-
ing operated by the Southern Railway
and affiliated lines in cooperation with
the United states Office of Public
Roads. will enter Virginia on Au-
gust >, and Will spend arly a month
in the state, the detailed schedule hav-
ing been arranged up to September
This train is being sent out by the
southern Railway to stimulate inter
est in tho movement for better wagon
roads AM to give practical informa-
ton TO county road officials and 70
farmers on the building of good roads
and their repair. The schedule for
the period indicated is as follows:
August 5. Saturday, Clarksville, 10
a. NJ.
August :. Monday. Alexandria. $3.50 A
NJ; Manassas. . p. NJ
August s Tuesday. Marshall, "a. M.
Front Royal. . p. NJ
August 8 Wednesday, Woodstock, 20
a. NJ: Harrisonburg. $3.50 P. NJ.
August H. Thursday, Charlottesville,
P. NJ.
August II. Friday, Orange $3.50 A
NJ; Culpeper. P. NJ
August l., Saturday Remington, 10
a. NJ; Warrenton. P. NJ.
August Il. Monday, Covesville, 10
4, NJ; Rockfsh, P. NJ
August Is. Tuesday. Arr. gton, 10 A.
NJ: Lawyer. 1 P. NJ.
August 16, Wednesday. Alta Vista. 10
a. NJ.
August II. Thursday. Chatham, $50
a. NJ; Rocky Mount $3.50 P. NJ
August is. Friday. Danville, 2 p. N.
August 10, Saturday. Martinsville. 10
A. NJ: stuart . P. NJ.
August 81. Monday, brakes Branch,
10 y, NJ. South Boston, $3.50 P. NJ.
August %. Tuesday, Meherrin. 10 A.
NJ; Burkeville. p. NJ.
August 90. Wednesday, Jetersville.
$40 a, NJ. Amelia. 2 P. NJ.
August "a, Thursday. Mosely. 10 A.
NJ: Midlothian, p. NJ
August Is. Friday. Fair Oaks, 10 A
NJ; Tunstall, $3.50 P. NJ.
August IS. Saturday. West Point, 10
A, M; Cohoke, 2:30 P. NJ.
August %. Monday, Keysville. 10
A. NJ.
August 20, Tuesday, virginia, A.
NJ; Boydton. P. NJ.
August 80. Wednesday, Broadnax, 10
A. NJ; Lawrencevllle. P. NJ.
August 81. Thursday. Emporia, 10
A. NJ: Drewryvile. 3:30 P. NJ.
September /. Friday. Holland. 4 P. NJ.
September 2. Saturday, Suffolk. 10 A.
NJ; Primers Point. p
At each stop free lectures and dem
onstrations will be conducted by two
road building experts of the United
States Department Of Agriculture.
L. E. Boykin and II. S. Fair
banks, assisted by representative Of
the land and industrial department of
the Southern Railway Two coaches
Of the train are filled with exhibits,
pictures and working models. and the
lectures are illustrated with stereop-
ticon Views. The southern Railway
at great expense is handling this train
without charge to the government In
order that the people along Its lines
may have the opportunity to receive
the valuable information as to road
building which 1t affords.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23
CROPS IN GOOD CONDITION.
Recent Rains Benenciai--surveying Line for
Railroad
Especial to The Times Dispa,ch]

Especial to The Times Dispatch.)
Etna Mills, Va. July H.-There has been
good rains every Friday for the las, three
weeks In this section, and the crops are in
good condition. The dry seasons in May and
June gave the farmers a chance to work
their crops ahead OF the grass. and they
did IT, consequently the crops are looking
prosperous.
Claiming NJ. Ward, OF the Northern Neck
Railroad. has q corps OF engineers running
a line from Boswell where the Chesapeake
and Ohio and Richmond. Fredericksburg
and Potomac railroads cross each other
down the Ridge Road via Dawn" Mango
hick Epworth 10 Dunkirk, on the Mattaponi
River, which point the engineers reached
tonight. Mr.. Ward says the road will be
built by this route on to Tappahannock
thence across the Rappahannock down the
Northern Neck via Warsaw on TO the Ches-
epeake Bay. He declared the people
responding TO the requests OF the road in
way on giving the rights OF way and the
CSC per acre for every OF land owned
within six miles OF the railroad To raise
the amount asked for by the Richmond and
Northern Neck Railroad. which amour, Is
$1,000. $4,000 has been subscribed by the
tt-oe counties asked to raise that amount
Ring william, King and queen and Essex
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23
Home manufactures.

In the quantity of coke produced
West Virginia leads. SO I am told by
an authority on the subject, but am
informed by the same authority that
West Virginia Ia largely outranked
in the value OF the product Ala
bama for instance. largely leads West
Virginia in the value on the ground
of the coke product. The reason for
this lies in the faot that the output of
Alabama has in the iron manufacture
ing centre Of Birmingham and vicini-
ty local consumptive market, where
as practically all of the West Vir-
gnia coke Is shipped to furnaces out
side OF the State. In reaching for
these markets not only does the coke
OF West Virginia have to meet in COM
petition tho product from other States,
but each district in the State becomes
rival with the other West Virginia
districts. and the result Is exhibited in
the statistics of production and value.
Now, there is hint right here A
hint and a suggestion that Is good not
only for West Virginia. but for Vir-
g!nia. West Virginia ought to have
and could have, were II wise enough,
/ factories of one kind and another to
CONTINUED on Second Pase.S
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23
CHICKEN EDITOR
GOESTO HAMP TON
Learns New Things in General,
and About chicken-Breeding
in Particular.
BY WALTER c. scHAAF.

Hampton, Va. July 22.-As sit here
on the broad piazza of Professor Gra
hams model. up to-date home and look
out at the vast expanse OF water, 1
cannot help but think. this neighbour
hood would be a grand location for i
duck farm on a large scale. With
large pens running down the sloping
green banks. and say a hundred feet
into the water. would mean practi-
cally no labor except the feeding.
Now 1T is a well-known fact that
ducks that have access to moving
water and grassy banks will ind
three-fourths of their feed. This is
why the duck farms around Baltimore
and Long Island pay so handsomely.
To get back to my this weeks let
ter: On last Tuesday we accepted
Professor Grahams kind invitation to
come down aad inspect the agricul-
tural department OF the Hampton Nor
NAL Institute We were met at the
train by the jolly doctor Of the inati ;
tute and escorted to the office, where.
after cordial handwriting with Pro-
fessor Graham and assistant, we were
shown AROUND the different buildings.
To say we were surprised at the mag
nitude with which this great work is
being carried on, is putting 1t mild
~. The $50 students are taught al
most anything they wish to learn in
the way of a trade. After making
the rounds OF tho machine and boiler
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23

Continued on Fifth PasAa
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23
VIEWS AND NEAR VIEWS:
HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
Suggestions and Hints That Come by the Way
of Sister Stakeholder Raisers About to
Shake Richmond Norfolk Bids forPoul-
try S.ow-Various Notes.

the coming year in the city by the
sea Richmond ought to keep this
show, and / think 1t would pay some
body to give the chicken raisers all
the room they want for a show and
not charge them cent for It, Wheth-
err that somebody be the city authori-
ties or the Chamber OF Commerce. or
any other organization. do not pre-
tend to say. but we ought to keep tho
chicken show right here in Richmond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-20
Oil as a Protection.

The Aceutania viii carry her supply of
oil between her double bottoms. o cavity
twelve inches wide extending the entire
$50 feet of the vessel This viii not only
be great saving of space. but will con-
tS!hute TO the safety of the passengers,
because if there should be a collision the
resistance of TIE oil would be very great
and il that collision took place in q gale
the leakage OF the oil would subdue the
waves.
The harhor of SOUTHAMPTON, England, is
being d"edged SO as to give a channel of
thirty-tiye fee. at low water, which will
be necessary to admit the Olympic and
dock LOO feet long is being constructed
to receive her
has recently bought tract of 16o acres
OF land at the head of the deep water
harbor at Montauk point. the rip end
OF Long Island, where S5,Co0.Gu3 is to be
spent in the construction of five piers
1,0oe feet long and 10 feet vice. with the
necessary Warehouses;, so as TO receive the
Olympic and the big ships OF the future
there instead OF compelling them to go
into New York TO land their passengers
and cargo. There is fifty feet OF water
where the docks are to be built. which
will accommodate the largest of them. 1t
is possible that future ships may be of
draft greater than fifty feet but thirty
two feet is the limit at present. 1t will
save at least eight or twelve hours time
and a very considerable risk of accidents
to have the big steamers land at the end
of Long Island. Very often the steam
ers that are used at present are de-
tanned on the bar at Sandy Hook when
the wind and the tide don't happen to suit
them. and the arrivals and departures Of
all the large ships used at present have
to be regulated by the tide. Although New
York bay is fine harbor for ordinary
purposes. the channel is circuitous and
crowded. Collisions frequently occur be-
tween the great clumsy freighterS and
the barges that are going up and down
all the time. All this would be avoided
II the steamers stop at Montauk point,
and the Pennsylvania railroad can take
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-20
GOING BACK HOME.
Digger Stanley Claims Unfair Treat
ment nv Fight Critics.

NEW YORK. February 2o.-An outgo-
ing transatlantic liner this week VIII
have as one of her passengers Digger
Stanley the English bantamweight cham
pion. on his way home. Stanley says he
is discouraged by the treatment some
critics Of boxing in this country have
accorded him.
Il was truly dumfoanded. said Stan
ley. when after beating Frankly Burns
safely on points. read in some papers
the next day that I'd lost. I'll be glad
to box Burns in London. and will guar
antee him square deal, too.
Stanley was charged by some critics
with using unwarrantedls rough tactics
in the fight with Burns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-20
ATTACKED BY OWLS.
Keeper at Zoo Seriously Wounded by
Eight of the Birds.

PITTSBURG February 20.-Attacked
by eigh; big horned owls, which were en-
ragged when lie disturbed a female bird
on setting of eggs, Assistant Keeper
Frank Luddeake battled against the over
towering odds in small cage a the
Riverview Park Zoo, North SIDE, until
other keepers heard his screams and
dragged him out, torn and bleeding from
"a hundred wounds.
The attack was made Thursday, but
the news did not become public until
yesterday. 1t will be several weeks be-
fore Luddeake will get out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-20
C H[lROlII C
ULCERS
Indicate Bad Blood.

Where the blood is pure any wound
or laceration of the flesh heals "by
first Intention This is true because
nature has provided constituent to
the circulation known as Plasma,
which joins and holds the place to-
gether until the tibers and tissues can
permanently knit and Intervene.
Whenever the ulcer becomes chronic
it is because this healing quality OF
the blood has been impaired by some
impurity iii the circulation. and the
place remains open. injecting all sur
rounding flesh, until the character OF
the circulation is changed. No sore
can heal where the blood is bad: be-
cause the morbid impurities on which
it thrives are constantly deposited
Into it by the burdened circulation.
Cleanse the blood and the sore will
heal of its own accord. because then
its very source and foundation will
have been destroyed S. S. S. cures
Chronic Ulcers of every kind for the
one great reason that it thoroughly
purilies the blood. l; goes into the
circulation and removes every particle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-20
SMALL MANS FEAT.
Lilliputian, Height 40 Inches,
Weight 40. Arrests Heavyweight.

BELFAST. Me-. February 2o.-Stand-
ing little more than three feet in
height. yet arresting a man of full
grown stature and landing him safely
in tie police station. was the work of
Admiral Don .. Robbins of Belfast.
VINO lives with the family of City Mar
shall Marcellus r. Knowlton. Being a
member of the marshals family. '..Ad-
miral' Robbins considers that he is an
any person who is not law-abidinG.
Don. who is the smallest man in New
England. is forty inches tall. weighs
40 pounds and is forty-nine years of
age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-20
Chance to Sell Battleships.

The United States might sell several OF
our obsolete battlesilips to Greece, if
Congress would permit. and that would be
very much better than to allow them to
rot at the docks. The life Of battle
ship is growing shorter and shorter as
time passes. In the olden days men-of-
war were kept I'm commission Is long as
they would float, but the invention of
new devices. the adoption OF new de-
ordnance have been so rapid during the
last few years that a battleShip that
costs six or seven millions of dollars is
out of fashion almost before it Is fin
ished. Only a. few years ago battleshlps
of 1900 and 1nGD0 tons were considered
invincible. Now we are building ships of
twice that tonnage and it Is a question
whether any limit will be placed upon the
size Of the floating fOrtresses that are to
defend our coasts. Passenger steamers
struction, and marine architects assert
that there is no reason why they should
not built ships of 100000 tons. The only
objection that now exists is the lack of
docks big enough to receive them. There
is no dock in New York capable of re-
ceiving the new White Star liner Olympic,
which is coming over in June, and the
Cunard and Hamburg-American compa-
MES are already building vessels that are
even larger.
1t is just seventy years since the Fri
tannia, of 1.1:i9 tons, the first Cunarder,
crossed the Atlantic, with Samuel Cunard,
the founder CT the company, on board,
and it took fourteen days and eight hours
to make the crossing. The Mauretanie
and Lusitania now make it in less, than
four and IL half days.
The first exclusively passenger ship that
| crossed the Atlantic was the Galatea, in
1915. and she made the voyage from st.
Johns, \. T.. to Portsmouth in eleven
days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-20

The Mauretauia and the Lus,tania are
7e. feet long, IS feet BEAM "3.010 tons
and 1O,c00 horsepower, which accounts
for the tremendous speed o: twenty-eisht
knots an Gour
You viii notice that the new Cunarce.
aud the Europa will use oil for fuel
which will take up much less room than
coal and give more space TO" cargo ard
passengers. II takes six thousand tons
of Goa! to run the Mauretania across the
Atlantic and that occupies fully one
fourth of the space of the vessel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-20
Comforts
Fine Decorative Linens
Household Linens

4J-inch Handmade Renaissance AND
Irish Braid Ceatcrpieces, all linen
$500 Values at $50.
9-inch Handmade French Cluny
Doilies, beautiful designs.
$500 Values at S2.25.
1G-inch Fine AToravian Damask
Tea Napkins. scalloped edge.
500 Values at $500.
12-inch Round Scalloped-edGe Pat
tern Cloths. Moravian Damask.
500 Values at $500.
Hand-embroidered Linen Sheets
and Pillow Gases; very elaborate
and fine quality of Irish linen.
$1,000 Values at SI2.oO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-20
Great Westerns Passage.

The first quick passage from Bristol to
New York was made by the Great West
erp in 1888 in thirteen and half days.
In 1867 the Dreadnought brought the rec
ord between New York and Queenstown
down to nine days and seventeen hours;
I'm 1869 the City of Brussels reduced it to
seven days and twenty-five hours; during
the same year the City of Paris made 1t
in six DAYS and twenty-one hours, and
that record remained until 1885. when the
Etruria crossed in six days five hours and
thirty-one minutes. 4 few weeks later
the Etruria cut another hour off her rec
ord. and it stood unsurpassed for six
years, until the Teutonic made a cross
ing in five days sixteen hours and a half.
Three years later the Lucania cut nine
hours off that record. and in 1909 the
Deutschland reduced it an hour more.
which was five days, seven hours and
twenty-three minutes.
In 1900 the I.usitania crossed in four
days eleven hours and foTty-two minutes.
and the Mauretana in 1910 brought the
record down to four days ten hours and
thirty minutes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-20
SIXTY IMPERILED IN WRECK.
Twenty-Five Injured When Coaches
Are Derailed and Burn.

ADAlRNILLE, Tenn, February 90
Twenty-one persons were injured and the
lives of three score imperied when two
coaches burned after being turned over In
a railroad wreck here Yesterday after
noon. No one was dangerously hurt, all
escaping before the flames consumed the
two coaches
nessee Central railway and were derailed
when being slowly pulled into side
track. Wien they toppled over gas lamps
set them on fire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-20
ALL TINGED WITH INSANITY.
Physicians Expert View of the
Human Race.

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. February ot-Dr
owen Copp. who has just resigned from
the Massachusetts board OF insanity to
lake charge OF the Pennsylvania Hos
pital for the Insane. says that every one
at some time in life is bordering on the
verge Of insanity.
There are extremely few families
which survive for three or four genera
tons without the outcropping OF some
case of insanity he continued. "Asaiy.
there are few men or women Who do not
pass through certain times In their lives
which are SO severe as nearly to drive
them out of their minds. All of us are
on the verge of insanity at one time OF
another in our lives. although we may
rot actually pass over the fine line which
is drawn between sanity and insanity