Peninsula Enterprise, April 16, 1887

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - ResortsInfrastructure -- Commercial - Hotels

The Powelton Hotel of Wachapreague city, of which Mr. A. S. Kellam is proprietor, is to be enlarged this spring, to accommodate the numerous visitors from Richmond and other points who have already applied for quarters there this summer.

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Residential developmentProfessionals -- Realtors and developers

Mr. T. M. Scott has for sale several desirable building lots at Eastville station, which he will sell on easy and accommodating terms to purchasers.

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Moral -- Property crime

The store of Mr. Lloyd Savage at Onley station was broken open by thieves last Thursday night, and eighteen dollars in money and a small quantity of goods taken therefrom. The offender is suspected, but so far no arrests have been made.

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Infrastructure -- Public : Camp meetings

A campmeeting will be held in grove at Parksley station this year commencing July 27th, by members of M. E. Church. The encampment is to be a large one. Several tentholders are expected from abroad and eminent divines are to be in attendance.

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - General StoresInfrastructure -- Public : Fire companies

At the time of the fire in Onancock, Mr. Slocomb, of the firm of Slocomb & Ames was on his way from Baltimore with a stock of goods, worth $5,000, which will be opened by them at Town Hall next week to be occupied by them temporarily as a store.

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - General Stores

Kent & Wilson, Parksley station, one of the best and most enterprising firms in our county, have gotten in large quantities of spring goods and again make their bow to the public. Live men like them are always on the alert to secure bargains, and hence are always able to supply their customers with goods on the best possible terms. In addition to their usual stock of goods, they are also carrying a good line of furniture, which they offer at prices which no individual can purchase it in the city. They also pay the best prices for everything a farmer has to sell, and have facilities for handling all kinds of produce, poultry &c., however large the quantity. At this time they want 1000 pounds of old hens, for which they are paying the very liberal price of 10 cents per pound.

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Fields -- Crops - Other vegetablesInfrastructure -- Commercial - Residential constructionTransportation -- Railroad - SteamboatsTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fraternal orders

Cheriton.

Mr. Sherman, living on Hon. W. L. Scott's farm, will sell 8 to 10 thousand barrels of kale this season.

Mr. J. T. Spady, of Cobbs Island has built a very neat house at this place.

The steamer Cape Charles has been taken off the line to Norfolk, and the Old Point Comfort put in her place.

Mr. John T. Savage's health has improved very much since he stopped attending club meetings, the efforts of his friends having been crowned with success by threatening to give him up if he persisted in his wayward course.

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Infrastructure -- Public : TownsInfrastructure -- Commercial - Residential constructionSea -- WreckingTransportation -- Water - Wrecks

Chincoteague.

The building boom usual here in the spring has already commenced. Capt. John B. Whealton has added a handsome porch to his dwelling, Capt. Wm. Risley has enclosed his premises with a handsome fence and the old hotel is to be remodeled and enlarged and a dwelling to be erected soon by Mr. D. J. Whealton.

Capt. B. Shoe arrived here on Wednesday in search of information in reference to the three-masted schooner heretofore reported as sunk off Cobbs Island. She was bound from New York to Washington loaded with bricks. Her crew of six, it is supposed, was lost and the force at Life Station will be furnished by Capt. Shoe with a description, which will enable them to identify the crew, in the event they are washed ashore. The rigging, sails &c., of schooner saved by Capt. C. E. Babbitt & Son were sold at public auction Wednesday.

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Transportation -- Water - SailboatsForests -- Forest products - Stove WoodForests -- Shipping : WaterTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fraternal orders

Craddockville.

The schooner, J. W. Croswell, Wm. T. Kellam, Capt., left Concord Wharf last week with a load of wood for Philadelphia.

The Good Templar's organization at this place has a membership of about eighty.

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Infrastructure -- Public : ChurchesTransportation -- Railroad - Rates and faresTransportation -- Railroad - RegulationSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : SeasideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Seed

Greenbackville.

Richard H. Sinnickson, of Cincinnati, Ohio, the gentleman who recently purchased the Winder's Neck property, has donated three-quarters of an acre of land near the old "sign post" about two miles above Horntown, to trustees, for the use and benefit of the M. P. Church, and a church edifice is to be erected there at an early date. This religious denomination seems to be gaining ground rapidly in upper Accomac, and its growth is due in a great measure to the fact, that it has always kept aloof from politics.

Vast quantities of oysters are now going to market over the D., M. & Va. R.R., both from here and other points along the line of the road. The Inter-State commerce law is no advantage to our shippers, as the freight charges have been advanced, and oysters in this section of the State have not been in a condition for the last several years to stand any increase in the expense of getting them to market. Much dissatisfaction exists in this section in regard to the increased rate of freight charges.

The schooner Peter J. Hart, Capt. J. S. Pruitt master, left here on last Monday for the Chesapeake, after another load of small oysters for Mr. Hancock.

The health of the people of our town at present is better than usual, and that is saying much, as this place is now conceded to be one of the most healthful to be found anywhere in the State.

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Infrastructure -- Public : TownsFields -- Crops - Other vegetables

Nassawaddux.

Several new buildings are to be put up at this place during the spring.

Radishes are being shipped in large quantities from this point, daily.

ONANCOCK IN FLAMES.

Infrastructure -- Public : Fire companies

Fifty-Five Thousand Dollars Worth of Property Destroyed.

The central and principal business portion of Onancock is in ashes. It was destroyed by fire originating in an unoccupied part of Mr. Wm. R. Hallett's store, about 10 1-2 o'clock Tuesday night. When discovered the flames were bursting through the upper story and soon enveloped the stores of Wm. I. Bagwell occupied by Winder & Mapp, and of Slocomb & Ames on the opposite sides of it, and rapidly spreading consumed them and the stores of John H. Riley, John W. Duncan and Kellam Broughton & Sons, receiving no check in that direction until it had reached the stores of Powell & Waples and drug store of Wm. T. Wise. Here the citizens succeeded by climbing upon the stores and thoroughly saturating them with water to stop its progress and in saving them together with the Baptist Church and other buildings adjacent to them. In the meantime the store of Walter D. Lewis and stores of T. A. Northam occupied by Wm. C. West and I. Gordon, and shoe shop occupied by Pat Scott on opposite side of street had caught fire and were soon destroyed. The shoe shop of John T. Scott, stables and hotel of Benjamin T. Parker were next to fall a prey to the devouring flames, which sweeping down the street towards the steamboat wharf soon consumed to ashes in quick succession barber shop, store of Tully Parker, book store of D. J. Titlow, and dwelling of Henry Carmine. The fire after raging about three hours was finally gotten under control but not until twenty-three houses, several smaller buildings, enclosures, mercantile goods, household property &c., were destroyed, aggregating in value about fifty-five thousand dollars. The loss is estimated as follows:

W. R. Hallett, storehouse and stock of goods, $3,000, insurance $4,500; Slocomb & Ames, double storehouse and stock, $17,500, insurance $8,500; John H. Riley, store and stock destroyed and damaged $3,200, fully insured; John W. Duncan, jewelry store and stock, $1,000 no insurance; Kellam Broughton & Son, store and stock $1,200, no insurance; W. D. Lewis, store and stock, $5,000, no insurance; T. A. Northam, two stores and shoe shop, $2,000, no insurance; W. C. West, stock of groceries $300, no insurance; Israel Gordon, stock of general merchandise, $1,800, no insurance; Ben T. Parker, hotel, stables, barber shop, the shop furniture, etc., $7,000, insurance $2,500; I. W. Bagwell, store and unoccupied dwelling, $1,200, no insurance; Winder & Mapp, stock of groceries, $600, no insurance; Frank Jones & Co., tailors, $600, no insurance; Tully W. Parker, unoccupied storehouse, $1,300, no insurance; Henry D. Carmine, dwelling, furniture and store, $2,500, insurance $1,500; D. J. Titlow, stock of books and stationery, damaged by removal, $300, no insurance; Powell & Waples, goods damaged by water, $300, insured; W. T. Wise, stock of drugs damaged by removal, $250, insured; P. A. Leatherbery, damage to building, furniture and goods, $300, insured; John T. Scott, shoemaker, $100, no insurance; Kellam Broughton, unfinished building $400, Geo. Merrick barber, $50, no insurance, Mrs. Thos. Carmine, $100, no insurance.

If with the losses estimated above, the broken furniture, destroyed enclosures and property stolen are taken into consideration they will reach at least $55,000, and are covered by insurance amounting to $19,700, all in companies represented by Mr. L. W. Childrey, except $4,500 as follows: Virginia Fire and Marine, $7,200, Phenix, New York, $2,500, Birmingham, Alabama, $1,500, Iron and Oak of Birmingham, $1,000, Hope of New Orleans, $1,000, Mobile Mutual, $1,000, and Agricultural, Watertown, N. Y., $1,000.

The origin of the fire is unknown and cannot be accounted for, as no one had been in the building for several hours where the fire first started nor was any combustible material deposited there. Several parties suffer greatly by the fire -- one or two of them being entirely ruined should receive aid from our citizens.

Immediately steps will be taken by Mr. B. T. Parker and Messrs. Slocomb & Ames to build again, and most of the burned buildings will doubtless be replaced by better structures at an early day.

The Peninsula Railroad System.

Transportation -- Railroad - ConstructionTransportation -- Railroad - LegislationTransportation -- Railroad - Corporate

DOVER, DEL., April 12. -- The House to-day passed the House bill consolidating the Delaware Railroad, its Eastern Shore feeders and the Delaware, Maryland and Virginia lines within the State into one system, to be known as the Delaware Railroad, with power to build a branch from Dover to Milford. This branch of seventeen miles, with seven-mile branch from Stockton, Md., to New Church, Va., will give the peninsula system two parallel lines between Dover and New Church.