1. THE TIMES: KTCHMOND VA. SUNDAY. APRLL £8. 19Q1. ,11
ACTIVITY IN RESIDENCE BUILDING HERE TOBACCO CROP
I NEARLY ALL SOLD
SHOWS MUCH INCREASE OF LATE. IWETRUST Predictions Vary as to Outlook for
Another Year.
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Great Number ofHandsome Dwellings Going Up in Lee District _
FIGHTON WELLS-.WHiTEHEAD CO. sj" a warm invitation to sec our special lines of
and Every Indication of Greater Activity—
tions of Two Fine Houses.
Front Eleva- Southern Paper Unqualified in Denouncing
Methods Employed by the American
Tobacco Company
—Trades
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for butchers, grocers and private families, won't be ont of |j
The accompanying illustrations are types of the residences whichare being erected in Lee District by Mr. Gilbert Hunt, the architect Notes of Interest. pj order. Also that •.'.',-'
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and builder. Mr. Hunt is erecting upwards of thirty houses in Lee District, several of them to cost as much as $15,000 apiece. It is believed
that building activity in that section has barely begun. Since the City Council has voted to give to the properly owners of the district the ; Sales of loose tobacco on the Richmond
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public improvements to which they were entitled as taxpayers, there has been a great demand for lots out there and the price has advanced breaks are decreasing visibly each week, to get our special prices on theALASEA^for,- while we J
rapidly. The erection of these residences is earnest that the purchases were not mere speculations. or day rather, and it wiil not "be long'be- XT had the biggest business last year we ever-liadtin-Refrige- J
fore the crop is -exhausted.; Of course^lor rators;* we also had our prices raised 25 fper -.cent, on us. l
some little time yet tobacco willbe com-
ing in spasmodically, but the major por- THIS YEAR we've done away with the broker 1 middle-
or l|
tion of it has already been sold and the . man, and our prices are 30 per cent.; less than last year.
season will soon end. 1
With the passing of last year's crop of fc^ Under these circumstances do you Jhink-you can afford to £
tobacco arises the inquiry: With a crop jjg pass us by? Remember, we've soldthese"Refrigerator» for j
3o per cent, short in 1900, what will be the the past twelve years, and KNOW they're no experiment, j
conditions next year? It appears to' be
6 Chas. G. JURGENS'Son j
hard to make a satisfactory prediction
of what next year's crop will produce, and
marty conflicting surmises have been
made. One or two warehousemen said re-
cently that it was their opinion' that the
crop will be a. large one and that the out-
look at present is very favorable. They
say that the farmers will exert- them-
selves to make up. for last year's short
output and that the result will prove sat-
isfactory. But others say that it is not
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419-421 E Broad St. Between 4th and sth Sts.
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LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF
1£
so. They declare, and this seems to ijo
the prevailing impression, that the com-
£'i £
ing crop will be short. By government
and other reports the season is already
two or three weeks late and the weather,
up to a day or two ago, was very unfav- B* *
iS Carpets, |
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orable.
On the whole the more conservative atid attan Bab y-Carriages.
wcil-foiinded prediction seems to have it
that the crop will be a light one. _But
tobacco dealers are not alarmed.
year's short crop and this year's outlook
Last
atld a
** kltlds °*
for a similar one wKI serve only to inten-
sify the activity of the trade.
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$3 75 '
T
0% M43SE=SI
As estimated from statistics from sev-
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eral of the leading markets, the crop last
year was more than one-third shotj.
Chase City sold 750,000 pounds more than
the year before, and is the only place
which can boast an increase. Other mark-
ets show a decrease from 25 to 40 per cent.
Statistics from several of the markets
£4t J^m i
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••rUIuMI UnC...
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for cash or on easy payments.
£
j
£
have been received and are printed in the
current Issue of the Southern Tobacconist.
They may be interesting:
Sales to
Richmond (6 mos.)
Danville (7 mos.)
Farmville (6 mos.)
Apr. 1, 1901. Decrease.
4.515.525
Lynchburg (6 m05.)... 17,950.600
.27,513,100
2,201, di0
3,675.500
11,562,GC0
3,000.0i10
REMARKABLE STORY OF HOW
Petersburg (6 m05.)... 7,454,642
Winston, N. -C, (6
mos.)
Kinston, >T. C, (7
mos.)
11,466,331
5,481,150
1,714,0-S
-
4,054,458
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A MURDERER WAS FOUND ODT
766.156
Louisburg.-N. C . 2,600,000
Decrease. in nine Innocent Man Was Hanged and All the Trees
markets 52,575,149
ARE INDIGNANT.
Tobacco journals are 'paying consider-
Pointed the Way to the Guilty.
able attention to the attempt of the
American Tobacco Company to force the Editor of The Times: who was charged with the crime. At this,
Wells-Whitehead Company, of North Sir,— l vigorously protested
enclose a clipping from the Hardy trial the prisoner the circumstantial evi-
Carolina, manufacturers Of Carolina his innocence, but
let us know dence was strong, and he was convicted
Brights cigarettes, out of existence. In- County News. Please
tense indignation is felt and particu- through your valuable paper whether it and sentenced to be hanged. He main-
larly Southern papers are denouncing
the trust in no qualified terms. is a true story. I think every reader of tained to the last that he was not guilty,
and deiclared that the prayers he had
The "Wells-Whitehead Company' has ' your paper would like to know. If true, offered for vindication would be answered
Ibeen and more than any other com-, it would do more toward
article
giving the trade a very excellent convincing skep- after his death. On the scaffold he told
persons of a hereafter than many the people to watch the trees in. the
pany outside of the great: trust has com- tical neighborhood, for they would point tho
peted with the American Tobacco Com- sermons. way to the dwellingof the real" murderer.
FRONT ELEVATION OF TWO FINE RESIDENCES TO BE ERECTED IN LEE DISTRICT. pany in the sale of cigarettes. And the D. S. M'NEILL.
Old Fields, Hardy county, W. Va. His friends had not much faith in his
trust has taken active measures to crip- April ISth, 1901. predictions, but a watch was kept on the
Mr. Gilbert Hunt will in a few days begin these buildings, to cost $15,009 each. ple the independent company, and to do trees. It was noticed that a. cedar treo
this has resorted to such methods as re- The clipping is as follows:
near the jail died soon after the execu-
ducing one of its brands to the absolute HOW IS THIS? tion, and the blight extended from tree
cost of the tobacco tax, or $1.50 per thou- 'The** truth of the following marvelous to tree across the country in a straight
sand. Commenting on this situation the story is said to be vouched for by prom- line like a man makes In blazing a way
Wheat is beginning to color up, and It Southern Tobacconist,
President Donati to see that the old-tima
REVOLUTION IN COOKING. is thought the yield will be as usual. of this city, says inent and well known citizens of Albe- through the woods. The line of dead
enthusiasm was awakening. part: trees stopped at the gate of a man's house
Richmond will play in Norfolk to-mor- Politics are. very quiet in this part of in"It marle county:
row, beginning a three-days' series. The Nelson, but on every hand are heard is determined by use of its capital "A strange story of the fulfillment of who had never been, suspected of the
games will be good ones, for the teams warm, kind words for Montague, and and greed for more to- ruin and run ; a prediction is related by a correspon- crime. The strange indication caused so
every rival off the leaf and manufactured dent of the New York Sun. He says that much talk that the man was arrested and
are evenly matched, and it is probable most of the Democrats here favor him as market; the consumer as well as the pro- some years ago a murder was commit- later confessed his guilt. The narrator
171 EfTPirTTV EAR QTftVEQ that the standing of the clubs may be their nominee for Governor.
changed as the result of these games. There are several aspirants for the
The strongest club has not been picked postofiice-at Afton, which is Garwood,
ducer must be at the trust's mercy, and ted in the Shenandoah Valley and suspi- of this story decfares that itis absolutely;
a well pay- this is called honest and fair business, cion fell upon a merchant of Roanoke, true."—Ex.
ing station. They are: J. E. C. best and tit example of trading, best for
yet. One team seems to be as strong as the country, elevating for the people,
another, and the pennant race from pres- R. Fitzgerald and F, W. "Goodloe, the
present incumbent. progressive and expansive, etc. Ifthere pleased the largest number of membersi
ent indications will be a close one. are morals or principles in such move- convention assembled at Montgomery
Then
ments there are better morals and prin- and of Utah at Salt Lake City. The En- Dr. Z.comes Dwightand F. Prof. ClarK.
The locals will return on Thursday Hillls,
Richmond Housekeepers and Cooks May morning, accompanied
team from Raleigh. These two clubs
by the strong
play at Broad-Street Park on Thursday,
Congressman Jones Goes to Porto Rico,
FREDKRICKSBURG, VA., April 27.-A consequence.
Woman's
ciples in actual revolutions of warfare in deavorers were tendered a charming re-
cital this afternoon by the young ladies
Salem College. To-night the co.ic.n-
T. Sweeney,
in the order named.
R. Roberta
The board will make every effort tc
Christian "Union "The more dastardly and rank and of
Soon Cease to Use Fires in Friday and Saturday. has been organized at Guiney's, Caroline high-handed such acts, the quicker this iion heard an excellent missionary scrmnh
McGlone has been released, and it is county, by the .election of the following raking down of the trusts will follow." delivered by Rev. Willis R. Hotchkiss,
give tho members during the coming sea'
son the best course of entertainments,
quite probable there will oe one or two officers: Mrs. M. A. Nunn, president: missionary to East Central Africa- ever enjoyed in Richmond. They wiU
Their Kitchens. other changes in the make up of th-3 Mrs. Thomas Catlett, treasurer, and Mrs. Winston, N. C, a strong advocate 'for
club. C W. Colbert, secretary.
The Southern Tobacco Journal, ( of
Mr. R. E. Lyon, of Baltimore, one of make every effort to secure Lieutenant
Independence in tobacco manufacturing, the capitalists who own a number of val- Peary. Max O'Rell, Henry Wattarson»
Congressman W. A. Jones' and Mrs. says that there is but one remedy left uable iron mines in Stokes county, is pro- and others of world wide fame are alsu
Jones,' of Richmond county, have gone
Affairs at Afton. for freedom. This remedy, it says, iies curing a right of way for a railroad from spoken of.
to Porto Rico, and will be absent moo". in A large number of
the organization of the consumars c.f Madison, Rockingham county, that the season were enrolled subscribers for next
to
TIRED OF THE SMOKE AND ASHES, (Special Disp.itch to The Times.)
AFTON, VA., April 27.—Mrs. John J.
of the summer, i
A large number of members of Myrtle the. country into leagues, pledging them- mines.
Lodge No. 50, of Odd-Fellows, of this selves to buy nothing that is made
He announces to-day
by railroad is assured. A contract has been
the last week, and tha
limit of membership has been almosC
McHenry and little son. of Louisville, city, a trust. entered into with the Southern Railway reached. New members can Join to-mor-
Ky.. are expected to arrive at Afton about will attend the anniversary celebiu- whereby the latter company will extend row at the office of the treasurer, Mr.
tion of Mount Vision Lodge, at Occoquan, I Scarcity TRADE NOTES. Hill, No. 13 North Twelfth Straet.
Much lins l'Tn said of iho industrial boiled so easily, it is plain that it is an June Ist to spend the summer.
Prince William county, to-morrow after- of labor is a cause which will its line from Leaksville to Madison. Mr. J. L. Those who hand in their names promptly
Although it has been cold and wet for says a large force- of will be
revolution which was to iv» accomplished easy matter indeed to supply enough heat the past ten days, the fruit in this sec- noon at o o'clock. Dr. J. F. Thompson, operate tobacco the securing of a large Lyon work in the mines hands
against
immediately willhave equal chance with the old mem-
in Richmond by ho harnessing of h« by means of electricity to boil eggs or tion seems not to have been injured in of this city, will deliver an address on crop of- for next iseason. This set to
Tames and making it furnish posvor to to heat the water for a bath. The cook- the least. "Odd-Fellowship." scarcity has suggested and put in prac- after construction of the road has begun. bers in selection of seats. More than
manufacturing establish- ing for a. small family does not require tice, as yet on a liuiitcu bat approved one hundred were shut out last year by
run the great not applying in time.
ments of tli»- city; but there has nothing much heat. A little wire attached to one scale, in North Carolina a truck system
been written of tho domestic revolution of the stoves, which tbe dealers of Rich-
u25a0•.vlilcli may r<>f.-inL from the achievement mond are already beginning jo show in
for housing- tobacco. To utilize the
special . trucks for the purpose and sav-
j{t the Congress PISTOLS POP TILLEMPTIED.
! IN HUMOROUS
their windows, will do the work. Cook- ing of labor, every eighth row of tobacco
oX the Virginia Electrical Railway, and
Development Company In making hc ing devices are pretty expensive, but it
electricity to supply all is believed that the price will be re- VEIN, leaves a space live feet wide-, which is
space for the truck, or better handling
of Sages, Deputy Marshal Shot Three Times and Opp*
river Lo supply
needs. duced as the use of electricity becjmes by hand. Eastern North Carolina is ns- neat's Life Saved by a Book.
Thr» possibility of coolcing and lio.iUdp: more general as a cooking agent. . ing such trucks, lessening and saving (Copyright— l9ol.)
(Special Dispatch to The Times.)
iiv electricity is now a glittering feature The cost will probably be the ohlet labor. The Benedict— A wife's wise counsellngs
life for the Richmond obstacle in tlio way of tho general use Mr. A. 11. Caiiigan, lute with Air. E. K. entereth her husband's mind, and after LEBAXOX, VA., April 27.—Grtm-
of prospective
liouFckcepcr, which is <.'f deepest Interest of electricity in cooking and for other So Queer. *• <
Victor, of this city, is nnw...travelling lor many days returneth to her in jewels' and dy, Bunchanan county, Vh., last Mon-
electricity domestic purposes. i »
the FrictionkoS Metal Co., of Richmond. precious raiment. day, was the scene of a serious shooting
!m Uie city ol Buffalo, wliere Carrie—There goes Nell with her fiance. They say he fell in love with her,'
(i
He worked West Virginia successfully, affair. The particulars are hard to get.
It; supplied from Niagara Falls, electricity It is much more expensive than coal
or wood, Init the. cost of cooking for a
1
at first sight. . and left last Friday for Texas to work The T'sycholo'sist— The heart of a woman An old feud existed between Ebb Wit-
it, }*r><i
for heating and cooking to such Bessie— That's ,iust like him. He always was a funny fellow. They say he 1
is" as a driven well,' and he who> would ten, son of R. B. Witten. of Tazewell,
i
family will not be great enough to " fields. He is expected
un c-xicul. «s to most -seriously affect small
the coal trade of that city. The revolu- deter its being used.
liked olives the first time he ever tasted them.— Boston Transcript. J homeoil and other
the
in September. sound! its' depths must" be- blessed in pa- Va., and Deputy United States Mar-
shal of
lion, by the way. lias given tlie highest Of course, where a steady heat is re- The Latdlaw-MaKiil Co.* of .Richmond, tience, even like one who dives' for pearls. Beavers, Buchanan county. Va.. and ThO3.
has doubled the ca pacity.of ..their sheep- son. ol Judge Alexander Beavers,
pleasure to the householders, as it lins quired throughout i'.i^ entire day t-is
if economical feature does not come jn. The
Agility* <
juip. plant. The Glasgow, Scotland, fac- Tho Masseuse— As a sure prevention for of Grundy.
b"»Mi shown to be In tho interest
:leanlin<-<ss, comfort. a::0, in some cases, reason so many of tho manufacturers of "Arcthusa says she's afraid to get married." —
—rr- u25a0:- u25a0
] tory has closed in that city," and it is in wrinkles, contentment knocks facial-mas-
, consequence.- of this r.nd the!l>ettcr facili- sage all to pieces.
They met Monday, when the old trouDl«
was revived. Both men pulled their
c!" economy. Richmond arc contracting for.--the use of "Why?"- pistols and began firing about tha sama
HARD ON OOAI. DEAX.KRS. electricity as a motive power is because "Oh. the sa>s she has been racing for .street cars so long she's afraid she' ties here that the Ku:hmq:id 'factory is to
Suppose Ihat a consi(!"rable portion of the fact that the coal in the furnaces
of the rooklnp and beating, which is is being consumed Whether not; machin- the
will run down the aisle to the altar."— Chicago. Record.-Herald . !be doubled, giving employment' to a large
Inumber of Richmond people.
!
The
reasons falsely. Is that because
.
Cynic—lt has been "said that owing
she
time. Witten was shot three- times-r
once through the I6ft lung, once In th«
to a fortunate instinct woman never shoulder and once in the
abdomen. Beav%"
done in Richmond by moans of wood and ery is actually in motion or Postponements Dangerous. HOO-DOO MACHINE.
.; ers was also hit and might have been se*
coal. wTf done by electricity. The re- It is not at all likely that the use of Are The government weather, and crop re- doesn't reason at all? riously, if not mortally, wounded,
had
Kult would be most* disastrous In its electricity in cooking will bb general in come, b'lt "I think Edward VII.makes a gre a t mistake in putting off his coronation ports of last week .show that in Virginia, not the ball penetrated a book, that waa
t-rtcctx upon the fuel trade of the city, Richmond for some time to so lons." the Carolinas and Kentucky, tobacco Alathewg Melange. in his vest pocket.
however beneficial it mUrht be to the there is little doubt that in a short time "What's the reason?" plants are very backward, but in Mary- (Special Dispatch to Tbe Times.) Politics are quiet In this section. Th«
it will be in use in many Richmond "His head will probably get so swell e a the crown won't fit It."—Cleveland land they are in a more thrifty condition. Russell, however, is about
householders. VA , April 27.—Mr. county of
Such a revolution is by no means -.m- kitchens. And cooks will not have to Plain Dealer. Sunshine and warmth is much needed. FJTCHETTS. equally divided between Swanson ami
pOKsiblc. an.l may bo said to be almost get up so early to Mart the kitchen The Virginia bulletin says plants are W. J. Gentry, of Richmond, is visit Montague.
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probable. The Jainca has been electri- fire. cßpsponsible.c late in >some sections and doing well in ing Mr. and Mrs. John A.- Fleet at Fleet- The great snow which fell on .the 3H*
!i«vj rm«i (he product is being distributed Not ßpsponsible. others. wood. and 21at instant has nearly disappeared.
through the city for s-.ic-h isi- as may be A Kichmond man, Mr. R. T. Durham, Messrs. Elijah and Dabney Baker have Itis feared that much damage was dona
fi.si'. d by the customers. That cooking SUCCESSFUL SEASON.' Mrs. Columbia
stole four kisses?-
Heights— And you didn't order him from the house when he>
' has invented a penny-in-tlie-slot ma- returned to Mathews after having spent to fruit.
V chine: The penny turns, when dropped a few weeks in Richmond.
' Garland Cook, who was serving: a, one-
;« one <>f tlif uses to whlcli t lie all-use-
ful <--,irr<-m. may be put- is not generally Local Lecguetflub llzs Shown Up Remark-
:
); own.
or thf.fct wrr-hous?
ably Well.
Eagle. .
Miriam— How could 1? He explained that he was a kleptomaniac!— Brook'yn
"You Do"
quickly around a dial, with
spaces at intervals on the face of the Fleet. ;
AVinpuny, of Baltimore, is year
in. a hand and "Ido" printed in narrow on a visitS:to her daughter, Mrs. K. W. Russellsentence for the penitentiary from
Mrs. A.
county
in
murder, and whom tho.
Governor pardoned last week, returned
.lust on U>e outside
<>f the Virginia Electrical u25a0ruilway and
Tho Virginia-North Carolina league
Rohhed Him., dial. It is to determine thereby who Mrs. John R. Winder has returned from home yesterday.
DAvelopment Company is a large wpodsh season so far has been a most success- treats to drinks in ,soda water and other Baltimore. . Mr.'W. J. Kendrick. the popular chair-
tank, of th<> capacity of probably two ful one, aside from the very bad weather "You sec that prosperous-looking man over there? Ho robbed me of the- beat stores. It will.be placed in cigar stores, Hon. J. Boyd Sears has entirely recov- man of the Democratic party of Russall
prevailed a portion of the lime. chance of becoming rich'l ever had." and a big .company in New York is ered from his recent illness and Is him- county, is an applicant for reappointm«r>t
hundred gallons. This tank Is kept lull that
t.<; water which is seething- and boiling
M a sreiit rate fil the time. One would
think, without examination, that there
.
must be heat under the vat or that the
ton
not.
being about the only one that did
Richmond has lost only one crame
"How did it happen?"
"He refused to let me marry his daughter."— Detroit Free Press.
' Noftb* Same.
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organized to make -the Hoo-doo machine, self again.
suggesting who do treat.
NORTH STATE ENDEAVORERS.
crops on account .of the
weather.
as superintendent of public instruction
long spell of wet charged
county. Mr. Kendrick has dis-
The farmers are very backward in their In thia .nobly the duties
of this offlc*
during his occupancy of the same, and
v. ai.tr onspp from the boilers on the in- in this way, the second one on the home
t.ifiti of the building.
Th«- water is boiled by means of an
f'.«"-l!ic current. Running from the
grounds with Norfolk.
This weather
*witchboard or bomewhere else are two ter, but to no great extent.