The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-27
YOUTH MEETS DEATH
N APP0nATT0x RIVER
Almar RosenblOom Is Drowned Near
Petersburg While Trying to Take
Some Kodak Pictures.
BUSIEST TOWN IN COUNTRY
Owing to Large Number Of Hopcwcll
Employees Visiting Cockade City.
Business in Petersburg Is More
Brisk Than Ever Before

Brisk Than Ever Before.
Especial to The Richmond virginian.)
Petersburg. Va, Sept. 26.---Almar
Rosenbloom, aged about ten years, son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. Rosenbioom. wasi
drowned about clock this afternoon
In the Appomattox River here In what
is known as Long Jetty." some dis
lance below the city wharf. The youth.
In company with several other boys.
went out with kodak TO take sorne
pictures, and just how the drowning
occurred could not he learned. A
searching party is engaged in drag
ging the river for the body, but up to
n late hour tonight it has not been
recovered.
semi Monthly Payday.
Yesterday was tle regular semi
! monthly payday of the DUPONT Pow
der Company at its enormous plant
near City Point. when the many thou
sands of employees of the company
received their regular wage check. to-
falling something like half million
dollars.
Soon after the first eights1our shift
ca me off duty at { o'clock yesterday
morning large numbers of them COM
menced to pour into Petersburg. and
when the 3 o'clock shift came off duty
this number was greatly Increased. In
consequence. Petersburg merchants
with their elaborate displays OF fall
and winter styles, did lucrative BUSH
ness. 1t is estimated that upon the
semi monthly paydays at the DUPONT
plant from seven 10 eight thousand
/ employees Of the plant come to Peters
burg to do their shopping and To get
short outing from the densely popn-
j lated villages of Hopeweil and City
! Point.
| As rule. those who come to Pc
| tersburg are very orderly, except 4
small number of toughs. who are all
ways found among this large number
/ OF laboring people, These usually be-
come 'tanked up" soon after their ar
rival here and land in jail, where they
remain until they have sobered out,
quite a number frequently appearing
in police court on Monday morning TO
answer to minor offenseS.
I Owing to the recent change In The
Norfolk and Western passenger scsned
ule and the addition of two trains be-
! tween Petersburg and City Point. traf-
i fic between the TWO places mas heen
| made much easier and more comfort
liable.
| Many of the iitney buses which
have piled between Petersburg and
Hopewell have left within the past few
|
so within the next day or two. owing
| to the lack of patronage.
Building Activities decrease.
/ Building activities in and around
Petersburg have largely increased dur
ling the past few months, owing to the
| tremendous demand for living quar-
tiers by numbers of persons who are
| employed at the DUPONT plant and
| who live here Many new tenement
| Hrnf hpi n
the city and numbers of others are in
course Of construction
The Centre Hill apartments, recently
purchased by Mayor Robert Cabaniss.
! Will soon be completed and will fur
nish living quarters, with every mod
ern convenience, for something like
fifty small famiiies.
/ The Watson apartments, which will
| replace the old Watson mansion In
! North Union street, while not vet un-
der way of construction will be rush
ed to completion as early as possible,
!, The work Of excavsiting for these
| a partments Is progressing satisfactory
ly. and When they are completed much
Will be added TO the attractiveness OF
this section.
| Perhaps the quickest piece of con-
tract work ever known in the history
Of Petersburg is the building of .
block Of stores with a thirty five-roon
hotel above at Washington and Union
Streets by the Harrison Construction
Company for the Cockade Realty Com
pany. The contract for this WORT
leaIied for It's completion within nine
ty days. Thirty days have not Yet
passed and work on the building,
which has been rushed both day and
night. justities the assertion that the
entire block will be occupied within
less than sixty days from the time that
the contract was signed.
| Bualest City In County.
| That Petersburg Is now and has been
| for some months past the busiest city
| in the entire country can be seen from
! the following statement of business
done by the Norfolk and Western Rail-
way Company on the City Point branch
during the twenty -four hours OF FRI
day, last.
/ During this period the ~ & w. com
pany hauled Or the nine mile stretch or
road a total of 511 loaded and empty
| freight cars, 26o going to Hopewell
and ISL being brought away. In addi-
| ton fifty three loaded cars were sent
out from here over the main line. Thus
1t will be seen that fourteen trains
of forty cars each would have been re-
quired to handle this amount OF bust
ness. and IL carried In one train ii
| would have been more than Ave miles
In length
The passenger traffic Is heavier in
proportion. One hundred and ninety
seven passenger cars were required to
handle passengers on the City Point
branch on the same days as above,
which at an average OF fifty-six per-
sons to the car would total HOSP.
Nearly all of these passengers reside
IL Petersburg and are employed at
Hopewell, The railway company is
taking care of this tremendous amount
of business In remarkable manner and
there have been no accidents In the