The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-05-06
The Commercial Club, Again.

we OUScIYe Will peCuttal PNa9uiC toO
growing prosperity OF this excellent insti.
tuition. At the last annual meeting OF the
Club the constitution was so amended as to
permit merchants in the country trading at
Richmond to become members. This was
specially desired by these men; they had
been entertained often by the Club, aud en-
joyed themselves so much that they felt like
having hand, too, in providing the need
full for the purpose. This Club, as We all
remember, took charge OF the several excur-
sions OF merchants from other States with
which Richmond was favored during the
past year or more, and tue work was
done most creditably. To-day it will en-
terrain large body OF merchants from
Eastern North Carolina, a region it be-
hooyes us to cultivate. Altogether, indeed.
it seems to have fulfilled the best eXpecta-
tons of those public-spirited men who
founded it, and we look forward to long
career OF usefulness for it, and consequent
benefit to the community.
What we had specially in mind when we
began to write was this: Could not the
Commercial Club arrange permanent colt-
mittee whose business it would De 10 "orh
M the trade movement Of Richmond! Inc
bulletin showing this movement, ooth OF
raw products and manufactured goods, fur
uished to the press say once month unccr
the auspices OF the Club, would draw pub
lie attention to what we are doing in way
to add to the capital OF the city by the in
ducement Of many an enterprise not now
dreamt Of. Any man Of us who soberly
considers what has been accomplished in
| Richmond since the war, and that through
the labor alone of our own people, must feel
| proud OF his home. We have much to brag
Of, and we must brag more than We do il we
want other people to inquire into what we
have to reward the employment Of their
capital and enterprise.
| Our means OF communication with all
parts of the country is becoming more and
more complete. AS a ir>t-class distributing
point, no one will question the advantages
we possess, and it is our business to make
them to the las: degree available. To the
five railways and the river will soon be
! added the Richmond and Allegheny rail-
road. This built, we shall not be long with
out complete western connections, when
will come shat is needed to make us a grain
market--namely, cspacious elevator, then
a thorough Improvement c: our water.
front, and then the deepening Of James
4 river to point that will admit Of vessels OF
heavy draught reaching Richmond with ease
and safety. These things are bound to come,
aud it is our work to prepare for them by
driving our business ut all points, and
| letting the world know that Richmond is
/ able to take care OF the trade she seeks, and
on terms as favorable as at any other point
| whatever.
Tue record of the trade movement we re-
Ter to would speak Tor itself. Our young
men must soon take the shoes Of the ole
men, and they must continue with credi!
what has been SO we'll begun. We cannot,
therefore, press upon them too strongly the
necessity ef looking to aud working for the
general interest. Il is manifest that there
can be no stable individual prosperity if
the general interest founders. We have
Iererything to cheer us; let us make the
most OF It. ...;s 9 s5s. ss,t