The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-11-23
Ritllmond dispatch,
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER %, 1881



ciety Of virginia. Both these gentlemen
think that IL the city OF Richmond
viii lend to the Society for ten years
$4,000 Of its 3 per cent. bonds. upon notes
20 be endorsed by Major DREwRY, Colonel
Palmer. Colonel DELANEY, and Colonel
BgygmRy, the Society will emerge from
It's troubles, and be as successful hereafter
as lis most ardent friends could wish.
We have nothing TO say just now ellhcr
fer OF against the proposition ia question
We fully believe that the state Agricuitu-
rsl Society Is so well calculated to ala IN
promoting the prosperity Of this city that
we who live here should never dreamlor
orc moment OF allowing il TO perish Tor
want Of n little credit. Il has in the past
NOT only drawn Annually 10 this city many
thousands OF dollars, but it has served Tor
wears to provide for an annual reunion OF
thousands OF the very flower OF Nirginia's
flock Of good people. There are assocla-
lions connected with it, too, which render
IL dear TO many hearts in the Old Common
wealth.
Would gift Of S25,0OO-to pass over the
question OF loan-set the Society upon It's
feet and insure It's success! II so, why has
t,e Society had 20 incur debt OF $4,000!
ii we were TO express an opinion on the
subject we would say that, money or no
money. the Society can never be a success
until il Is made accessible by railroad.
There were more strangers in Richmond
this year during The Fair than there had
been since 1915. They availed themselves
of half-sare tickets and crowded the city.
But they did not go 20 the Fair-Grounds.
Besides five thousand Riehmondcrs who
wanted TO 90 TO tic Fair, didn't 90. Why
not? Because they could not get there
without sacrifice Of personal comfort and
the destruction OF much wearing apparel.
II must be understood hereafter, weeks
Ii not months. beforehand that abundant
facilities for gcttiDg to the FAIRGROUNDS
will be afforded by the railroad company,
OF else many people who would otherwise
do SO win not even come to Richmond
during the Fair. We would be willing TO
insure a successful Fair Il we could control
the railroad and the streets Of Richmond.
Il there any reason why the railroad conf
Uany cannot be expected 10 carry all the
passengers to the Fair who wish to so
there? None in The world. The company,
If they have sufficient notice, can, il neccs-
sary, resume control over their track
on Broad street. But they must
know what they have to expect;
and they must not be compelled to stop
their trains short OF Fourth or Fifth street.
To allow them to start their ears noiurther
inside The corporation than Elba Park is to
reduce the travel to such an extent rs to
render the trips improbable to the railroad
company. OF course they will be party
10 no such contract rs that.
VIII il be said that the merchants and
Others on Broad street think that The pre-
sence Of Yunning-trains OF that street dam
ages their business more than the crowds
those trains attract add to the same? Then
LET the trains start from the Byrd-street de-
pot. That's ont of the way, is it! Not by
any means. Almost hall the people Of
Richmond live south OF Main street. All
of these can get to the Byrd-Street depot
more easily than to Broad street. Again:
Allthe people livingnorth of Broad street, as
well as those living between Broad and
Main, would not have to 20 more than q
few squares further to get to Byrd street
than TO ret to Broad. That is TO say, the
passenger who used to get on at the corner
of Broad and Eighth would have to walk
as much further as to the corner Of Fourth,
Third, Second, or First, depending on
where his home Is. None would have TO
walk any greater additional distance than
we have indicated-and that greatest dis
tance is six squares. When they once be-
come familiar with the new route, passen-
gers will like it. The cars lift the ladies
and gentlemen out OF the dust and deliver
them at the FAIRGROUNDS fresh, clean, and
nice. Who wouldn't walk square or two
10 secure such comforts? Who wouldn't
rather pay twenty-five cents to the railroad
than ten cents 10 JerSey-wagon, or any
other such conveyance, or fifty cents to q
hack?
But the railroad charge need not exceed
10 cents; and the extra . cents would
have to DC added only because the con-
ncction railroad company might demand
that much for the use OF its track. These
and other details can be arranged between
the interested parties. We are confident
that the officers of the Richmond, Fred
ericksburg and Potomac Railroad Com
pany are Just as willing to do whatever
could be reasonably demanded OF them in
this behalf as the most jealous of the friends
OF Richmond and the Agricultural Society
could wish them to be.
Again There must be water at the Fair
Grounds. The city water ought 70 be con-
yeyed thence. The visitors to the Fair en-
dusty Thursday when there are fifteen or
twenty thousand OF them present las there
will be next year II these hints are effect
ual) lose more money In one day in DAM
aged wearing apparel Than it would cost to
lay al the dust on the several roads and
tracks Of the FAIRGROUNDS.
We should like to hear from Professor
PuRYEAn, Colonel BEVERLEY, Colonel
PALMEH, Major DREwBY, Mr. FNNEY, or
any other friend OF the Society. 1t will
not do TO wait until next summer to at
tend 10 these matters. The sooner there is
an understanding as to what is to be done
the better. We hope for candid discussion.
Let us understand one another all around