The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-16
ORDER D|SBANDS
FLYING SQUADRON
Cabell's Famous Revenue Band
Passes Away With Old Ad-
ministration.
HAD Bee 0 M Il UNPOPULAR
Strong Arm Squad Incurred En-
nifty of Distillers and Brought
Division of Authority.
HAD Bee O ME UNPOPULAR

FORMER Commissioners Cabelrs Fly
ing squadron Is no more The famous
picReo oand OF revenue men was merc-
ed with the general service yesterday
with the application of an order pro-
muisated by Commissioner Osborne
readJusting the boundaries of the reve-
nue. district over which Colonel w II.
Chapman Is In charge, and assigning
>. "A. Pierce. head of the squadron. to
duty under the local revenue agent
me passing of the "Flying Squadron"
is one OF the important DEVELOPMENTS
oil the change In administration ush-
ereo In with the appointment of Com
missioner Osborne. Created by for
mer commissioner Cabell as a special
diVlsion OF the revenue service dcdi-
Gated to the task OF ferreting out
and Kidding the department. OF VIOLA
tors or the revenue laws the squad
ron at first performed valuable SER
wee. 1t was particularly effective in
the unearthing and running down OF
frauds In Florida.
Unpopuinr with Distillcrs
FOR reasons which are not hard to
guess the squadron incurred the en-
NIFTY OF the distillers, and for the past
year or two 1t has travelled n rough
road. Its first commander, James
orakeford, gave way to Special Agent
Anderson. of the local revenue office.
VINO was in turn last February dis
placed BY the appointment of Special
Agent j. A. Pierce, Mr.. Pierce was In
charge until yesterdays dissolution.
me squadron's work had more re-
Gently been conducted In close co-ope-
ration with the regularly delegated
revenue forces, but as an organization
IL grew Into disfavor with both dis
tiliers and revenue men. The rift be-
tween the squadron and regular force
niIf Nf ~,
pointed by, and responsible only to. the
commissioners state of affairs which
on occasion brought. about n sharp di
vision OF authority.
Commissioners Osborne, it is reported,
was inclined to the belief that the SER
wee performed by the Fixing Soua
dron" did not warrant its retention 40
an integral body, and disllked particu-
larry the division of authority II in
volved. The order which went into
ERECT yesterday disposes of the prob
lem by assigning the six men who com
posed the band to duty under the rcg,,-
lar agents. The action, it appears. Is
entirely satisfactory to distillers and
revenue men alike.
Hns Charge of Virginia
onder the rearranEement OF bounda-
ries Revenue Agent Chapman will
hereafter have charge of the whole
state of Virginia, with Headquarters in
Richmond. Hitherto his district was
composed or the Second Revenue Dis
trict OF Virginia and the Fourth Reve-
nue. District OF North Carolina. The
Fourth and Fifth North Carolina Dis
tricts and the whole State OF South Car
DINA are by the same order placed un-
der the supervision of Revenue Agent
H. H. Sands with headquarters at
Asheville. ~ c.
The shifting OF boundaries follows an
effort on the part of the new admins
tration to contine the territory Of rev
enue agents, az far as possible within
state lines. In Virginia the change
VIII be accomplished by a reader trans
action of business since revenue cond!-
tlohs IN the eastern and western parts
OF the State are much alike