The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-10-15
COMPLETE ENTRIES
FOR RACING EVENTS
southstde Fair Expects to Provo
Notable Event This Year With
Record Attendance.
HoPEwELn ROAD
Committee OF Twenty Ave Pushing
Work Looking to Educational Cam
phign--Coroner's jury Fails to Place
Blame For y. n W. Tragedy.

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entries for the harness races at the
Southside Virginia Fair, which will
open here next Tuesday. were com
pieted this morning and indications
are that the races will be the best that
nave ever been held here.
larger number Of fine high-hred
racers nave been entered than ever be-
fore since the fair association was
nrst organized. In several Of the
events scheduled there will be as
many as fourteen starters Every
class Is satisfactorily filed.
Prominent among the entries are
the horses Of Mr.. A. A. slagie of this
city, Ruth Palmer will be seen in
action IN the 2:1s and ala trots and {
an Petersburg race-iovers are pulling
Tor her TO come under the wire a
winner Mr., Slagle will also start his
pay stallion, j Brook. In the three I
year old class and If his record while
IN training is any indication Of what
may be expected of him he should
at least he close contestant
Workmen are engaged at the fair
grounds getting everything in read!
ness for the opening and the directors
az the association have decided not
to permit any visitors to the grounds
on sunday or Monday.
There has been a rush for season /
tickets and larger number Will be !
Aeid than upon any previous occasion !
Committee of Twenty-Five Meets.
Ihe committee of twenty-five rep
resentative business men and citizens,
of which Hon. Charles r Iassiter is
chairman, appointed at q mass meet
ing few evenings ago to call upon
the city Council to make an appro-
priatlon OF $50, 600 to aid in the build
lnu OF Oh y
Petersburg and City Point. held a
meeting in the Chamber of Commerce
last evening and discussed plans OF
further procedure. The meeting was
called because Of the report Of the
Finance Committee Of the Council be- !
ing adverse 10 the appropriation.
After considerable discussion il was
decided to inaugurate a campaign Of
education among the voters and tax
payers resolution was adopted
authorizing the appointment OF an ex-
ecutive committee OF three to formu-
late plans for the educational cam
paign and in accordance with the
resolution plan of orga nization has
been outlined by the chairman and
tho following persons have been re-
quested to serve on the several COM
mittees to meet. organized and take
charge of their respective duties.
Executive Committee--Charle r.
Iassiter chairman; F. NJ. Hobbs. J.
l.. Rosenberg. Walter T. Raugh. W. f,
Harris, e, b. J Whitmore.
Finance Committee-Walter T
Baugh. chairman; Fl. p. stratton,
Walter Sachs. T. E Maclin, r, G.
Kent I. A. Rosenstock. Richard
Eppes.
Publicity Gon1nftteo-W f. Harris,
chairman, s w thinner j. NJ. Ham
rahan Edward Egenbrun, j. NJ. Gal
Ilagher. + f. Thweatt. Sol Cooper,
Stanton Pitcher, NJ. A. Wood.
Membership Conmittee-E Il. ].
Whitmore, chairman, DIR. Fl. G Leigh,
w. II. Wilcox. Dr. j. NJ. Burke, C. T..
Morriss. NJ, G. Jackson. T. B. Maclin,
~, VI. Gallagher, Charles r. Lassiter.
IF. NJ. Hobbs. Claiborne Wilson, ". II.
Frey, Wallace NJ Rucker, John II
Perkins. Robert @ Bass.
The executive committee will meet
at the Offices Of T.assiter & Drewry,
tn the Leigh building at $40 O'Clock
tomorrow Griday) evening.
Wants Birth Certificate
Rev. Father Martin ]. Halter. pastor
iof St Josephs Catholic Church this
city. Is in receipt Of letter from Mrs
Fl. @. Poarch, formerly of Petersburg,
hut now of New York. requesting that
iof her son. Moses James Poarch. who
is now being held in England on
suspicion of being a Canadian by birth
and subject To military duty, Mrs.
Poarch states in her letter that her
son was horn IN Petersburg in 1892
and that he was baptized by Rev
Father r. J O'Farrel, a former, pastor
of st. Joseph's now vicar general of
Richmond a week after his birth
Jury Fixes No Blame.
County Coroner J. II. Hargrave and
"a jury empaneled TO hear evidence in
the Cedar Level accident in which two
young men. James A Gould. OF Ches-
terfeld County, and Percy Hollywood,
of this city. we're killed on the night
of September IT, met yesterday at the
county courthouse and concluded the
Investigation NJ the circumstances at
tending the accident. The Jury sub
sequently returned a verdict that the
two young men came to their death
in a t!tney by bong struck by a Nor
folk and Western shifting engine.
thereby not fixing any blame. Suit
has been entered against the railway
company by Young Gould's relatives
and other suits are expected to fOf-
low II a compromise is not effected.
Inquest Ia Held.
Coroner George Fl. Lundie and a
jury composed OF Chesterfield citizens
held an inquest yesterday over the
body Of Master Ebert M Thomas, the
eight-year- son of Mr.. and Mrs
w j. Thomas. Of Violet Bank. who
was killed by being run over by an
automobile on the r. & p. Turnpike,