The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-13
PETERSBURG VETERANS
WILL ATTEND REUNION
Board of Aldermen Approprlates $500
10 Pay Their Expenses ON Trip
TO Birmingham.
TO HAVE POLICE BLUE BOOK
Purpose Is to Increase Funds OF Po-
lice Relief MISUNDERSTANDING
Inspectors Election Postponed.

Petersburg. Va, May 12-The
Board of Aldermen. at an adjourned
meeting last evening. made it posi-
| bic for A. p. iitii Camp of Conred-
crate Veterans to attend the Birming
ham reunion without cost to the in
dividual mem bers Of the camp by CON
curing in an appropriation OF $500
to defray the expenses of the trip.
I The Veterans and Sons OF Veterans
, will leave here over the S. A. l.. Rail
way at 1851 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
| Among the veterans who will 60 are:
Messrs Homer Atkinson Walter J.
| Brunei. George Bozel, Il. F. Brown,
| r. Il. Rragg. ". r. Boyle. a. w.
Baxter. ". J. BeVlle, r. c. Blanken-
ship J. Il. Bishop, 7. S. Beckwith.
| George Dyer, a. w. Estes. q. Q. Ellis,
| J. \. Flick Robert Gillian. Wingfield
| Goodwin, w. b. Horner w. f. How
lett, w. \. Jones, william Kali, J.
| T. Little, j. VI. Lamb. Colin Neal W.
| T. Parham, +. c. Powell. NJ. d. G,
j. Perdue. w H Parkinson. W. f.
Quarles, P w. Rainey Marcus Slate.
n. 3. simmons q L. Smith. J. r, w.
Smith, ]. s Seay. ]. r Turner ], T.
| West
! The camp will travel in steel Pull
| man. and each member of the camp
| Is requested to be at the Market-Street
| Station with all necessary baggage not
| later than / O'Clock to procure tickets
and berths Each member OF the party
| Is expected to take along meals for
two days and to provide himself with
uniform. gloves, hat and cane as far
as possible. \ number of ladies will
| accompany the veterans.
Police Blue Book.
| James ". Tirney has been engaged
| 1ere yesterday and today in getting
| up a blue book ton the police de-
partment, the purpose Of which is to
increase the funds OF the Police Re
| lief Association. The Petersburg de-
partment is perhaps the only police
| depart ment that city Of this size
| throughout the country has not for a
t long time had a retief fund ann III
! consequence members of the depart
ment. in case Of sickness or accident,
| have on many occasions been put 10
| great inconvenience and at times suf-
| fering Petersburg is perhaps the only
| city Of its size in the country which
! pays the members of its police de-
partment such mserably small salaS
ries and yet charge them with all lost
time This custom or ordinance,
! whichever 1t may be, has been severe
~ criticized from time to time, but
nothing has vet ever been done by
the city for the relief of disabled
members of the department whether
/ they became disabled through expos
ure while on duty or otherwise. The
undertaking. in which Mr. Tirney is
engaged, is a laudable one and one
which. IT is hoped, the public will
! make success
Postpones Election.
The City Council in joint session
last evening, upon the advice OF City
Attorney Mason. postponed the cleo
ton Of building inspector until June
ice Mr. Mason called attention to the
fact that the building code does not
become effective until sixty days after
ita passa ge. which will be June 81
and that the provision authorizing the
appointment of a building inspector
was a part of the code. The building
code is now in the hands Of COM
mittee being prepared for the printer
Holds Pretty Wedding.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
! Elliott in Fillmore Street was the
scene at noon yesterday of a quiet
but pretty wedding. when their daugh-
ter. Thelma Elizabeth, became the
bride of James Downing Burhy, son
Of Mr. and Mrs. John NJ. Burhy OF
Webster Mass The parlors were
beautifully decorated with ferns and
pink roses and the bride entered with
and was given in marriage by her
father She was alfred in gray tat
feta with hat and shoes TO match and
wore a corsage of lilies of the valley
and pink roses. Mr.. W, A. Elliott.
brother of the bride. was best man.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Henry G. Pfeiffer presiding elder OF
the Farmvine district,
Among the out-of town guests were
Mr. and Mrs. f. F.. Moore. of Crewe !:
Mrs w. + Bass. Mrs. James Edward
Cunningham and Miss Margaret Nc
~. Daniel. of LNnchhurg. and Miss Alice
Robertson. OF Norfolk. The young
couple, after an extended bridal tour.
will be at home on June / at Sagi-
nav, Mich, where the groom holds
a lucrative position.
Health Department Report.
The report of the health department
of the city for the past month shows
seventy-one deaths thirty-three among
the white and thirty-eight among the
colored population. including nine
non residents. OF the deCedents.
twenty-five were under five years OF
age, ten between sixty and eighty.
and two more than eighty years.
Nineteen deaths were certified by the
coroner, Twenty-siN bodies were
brought to the city for burial and
sixteen were taken away. Pneumonia
claimed tWenty-one victims.
Births registered during the month