The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-01
ANNUAL REPORT
OF FIRE CHIEF
Losses During Year in Peters
burg Amounted TO Less
Than $1,000.
NEW HOTEL PLAN DISCUSSED
Interesting Mission Meeting
Will Be Held To-Day.
Other News.
NEW HOTEL PLAN DISCUSSED
rlmes-Dsspatch bureau.
5 BolilnSbrook street,
Phone 1855.

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| Petersburg. Va. January a.
! The report OF Fire Chief L. V. Far
| iey for the Year 1911 shows Il total
OF ninety-four alarms of fires. ten of
/ which were false alarms: seven were
! due to burning chrnneys; .ifty-n nine
due to fires in wooden buildings, and
| eighteen In brick buildings. Seventy
| i've of the fires were confined to the
| buildings in which the fire originated
and only two were extended.
| The loss of real estate by the fires
last year was only S4.4S2.l3, and on
! the contents OF the buildings, only
! S2,0t6. The real estate affected was
! insured for Slo4,67o. and their contents
| for s2e.oS0. The buildings damaged
| were valued at @l25,635. and their con-
tents ut S6S.921.
Annual Meeting
The annual meeting OF the stock
| holders of the American Peanut Har-
Testor Corporation was held In the
| office of the corporation in this city
! yesterday afternoon. The annual re-
! port of President II. l. Percival was
| submitted. other business was trans
| acted. and the following board of
directors was elected for the ensuing
| year:
w. H. Boyd, of Mecklenburg county
| W. y. Ciwaltney. Of Surry DR.. +. Lee
Seward. OF Isle of Wight; It. +. Bcalt.
| of Southampton: f. L. Birdsong. OF
| Sussex; H. L. Pcrcival and BENJAMIN
| Harrison. of Petersburg.
! a meeting of the board Will be held
on February la TO elect officers of the
| corporation.
| New Hotel Discussed.
The talk of a now and up date
| hotel in Petersburg has been reviewed
and In earnest The proposition Is to
| form Il corporation to erect large
| and modern style hotel in n central
! location, which will furnish abundant
| accommodations. There are three
! hotels in the city which. at times. are
| flled TO their capacity. and are com
! PEELED to refuse applicants for accom-
modations. The proposed new hotel
| IS designed to avoid such conditions as
| this. Capitalists are backing the
scheme, and the probability Is that
| early and definite action may be tancn
| in the matter. One party, II is said,
| GOO stock, which looks very much like
, business
| Taken TO Hospital.
Miss Florence Dillon. n popular and
valued young employee of the Virginia
Railway and Power Company In this
city. was taken to the hospital last
evening, where this afternoon an oper-
alton for appendicitis was performed
| on her.
For Better Rates.
II Is stated tina; as the result Of tha
; freight charges by the Norfolk and
| Western Railway on granite bIoclss
and dimension granite made and ship
ped from the quarry recently opened
In Dinwiddie county. about four miles
west OF Ferndale Park, by Miller *
Kirkpatrick the Arm contemplates
closing that plant. The traffic and
transportation committee of the Cham
oer of Commerce will get in communal
cation with the railway authorities
with the view of getting lower rate
for the products OF the quarry. The !
plant it is said. employs some 6fty
or sixty block cutters
Interesting Mission Meeting.
a n5etins OF interest to all mem
oers of missionary societies. home and |
foreign, of the Methodist Episcopa,
Church, South, will be hold tomorrow
afternoon in WASHINGTON Street Church |
Addresses on The Forward Move
'ncnt' will be delivered by Mrs. Lee !
nritt. Of Suffolk, and Mrs. Mastin and |!
Mrs. Richardson, of Richmond
Death in NIataaca.
Miss Sarah Frances Mann q much |
respected and widely connected resi- !
dent OF Matoaca. in Chesterfeld coun- |
~ died this morning, after protract- !
sd Illness.
Personal Notes.
Howell T. Cooper. for many years |
an employc Of the Seward Trunk ana !
Dag Company, in this city. left for /
New York tonight TO take charge OF |
he company's office in that city.
Mrs Nusent, wife of Postmaster
s. II. Nugent OF Ettrick has been /
called ia Lock Haven. Pa, to attend |
her mother. who is i'll.
Captain James II Mcacham. one OF |
i'ct"rsburs's most honored citizens, cell /
ebrated his eighty third birthday an
hiVrrsary to-day. and was the recip- !
lent Of concentrations from host of
friends. Captain Meacham is IN spien-
did health and Is one of the most ac-
tive and successful of Petersburg.s |
travelling statesmen. His territory GOV.
ers, large section OF the country.
It is expected that Judge Mullen will |
Tomorrow render his decision on the
preliminary motions made last week nv
Charles Hall Davis in the matter OF
the indictments pending against MIN
for alleged embezzlemcnt
Miss Nellie Scott, OF Orange county,
is visiting Petersburg as the guest of
her brother, the rev. T. G. Scott. =. q.
The situation in the Fourth Con
gressional District Is beginning 10 show
some life The sovereigns are hearing
from both of the candidates.
General News.
Argument on exceptions to Commis-
sioner Princes report In the Avery
Tarttc church case was not concluded
before Judge West sitting I'm the
Hastings Court yesterday. and viii be-
resumed tomorrow, There are cAccp-
lions from both sides.
Petersburg Council Knights OF Co.
lumbns, Installed Its newly elected OH