Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-27
NORFOLK, VA.
A Growing City That is Destined Shortly
40 Become SreAt shipping
Point.
A Railroad to the Reach Projected
what the CHI sapeake and Ohio
is Doing.
OF the Arpeal. ]

Memphis aud Norfolk are united by tive
bauda OF steel, il may not be smis. to speak
Of the progress the latter city has made
during the past four years. The census as
now.tskirg by the police will add 5000 TO the
popula ion over the United States census OF
1880. BUSINESS of every description is
hourishing, and Norfolk is on boom, such
a. she never experienced before, and one
that surprises the o!dest inhabitants of ye
ancient borough. Buildings of every de-
scription are going up as if by magic, and
still ihe cry is for more, as the demand for
residences by the busy loilers is greater than
the suPply. Railroads surrouu I'd her; canals
empty tho wealth of eastern North Caroliua
INTO her lap; and the early truck is already
arriving from the sUrrounding country, and
shipped North as fast IS it arrives.
Lines of steamers run to Baltimore, Phila-
delphia, New York, Providence and B ston,
and each and all 90 out loaded with freight
sBd passengers. There are three lines of
railroads that connect with Memphis-the
Norfolk and Western, Chesapeake and Ohio,
and Seabosrd aud Roanoke, each ami
every one OF which have done an i'm
mense business this season in bringing 10
Norfolk the great staple of the South-Cot-
ton and from Mr.. Norman Bell, secretary Of
the Norfolk Cotton Exchange, l get the fol-
lowing figures in relation 10 the receipts and
shipment of cotton from the 1st of Septem-
Der, 1882, to date. The total receipts hss
been in round numbers 707, 1876 biles, being
an increase over last year OF l5S ,21l bales,
and over the big year 80,e08 bales. Tbs
shipments to Great Britain and the CONT
neni of Europe direct has been 321 sol, while
1922 $50 bales have been shipped coastwise;
and thu stark now in hand amounts to 63,
$40 bales. Out OF the number of bales
shipped to the North 10000 bales have been
exported BY way OF Norfolk on through bills
of lsding.
The not improbable Garrett cable from
Norfolk to Europe, end with increased ton
mage and facilities for coaling st Newport
News, the day is not far distant when H amp
ton Roads will be covered with the shipping
of all nations, and Norfolk will become a
metropolis in fact. Everything tends that
way at present, and there is nothing in the
world to prevent it. To show the
number of strangers who come here,
it may be said that the Nor
folk and Southern railroad, which ruus
down through eastern North Carolina, with
the intention of finally terminating At Will
mingtou, N. c., and which is only one year
aud half old, has carried IS, 600 passengers
in that time, and it must be rem -mbered
that the country through which il passes i.
bers ut hand which the other railroads hay.
carried, but it needs no explanation in say
| ing that the other roads must have trebled
| those figures. Believing that the future OF
| Norfolk is An accomplished fact in regard to
wealth and population, a company has been
| formed for the purpose of building . railroad
| from Norfolk to the ocean, which will opsr
| up q new country that has heretofore beer
| sadly neglected, and benighted as it were
| for in it is the only county in Virginia
| princess ANN where person was ever lried
| for the crime OF wi,chcraft. The object oil
the company is 10 give greater facilities for
bringing the garden produce Tor truck ITO mar.
ket, open frst.class watering place and san.
itsrium directly on the ocean. Virgins
beach is seventeen miles due east of Norfolk
and the railroad now building, aud which
will be finished by May, is as straight as an
arrow. The beach itself is not a pent.up
Utica inside the capes, but Lies
four miles south of C,pe Henry
facing the broad bosom of the Atlantic ocean
The Norfolk Virginian in speaking of ii lately,
said: "The Virginia beach was intended
by natures handiwork to become q grand
and popular bathing re-ori. The writer has
visited Ocean View, Old Point, Piney Point,
Csps May, Atlantic City, Asbury Park Long
Branch, Coney Island, and the two Rocka-
ways, and he will say, without hesitation or
fear OF contr adiction, that not one of those
beaches will compare with Virginia beach.
As far as the eye can see, either north or
south, an uubroke line of beach is 40 straight
that transit can scarcely detect deviation
from a direct line, and TO show its length,
over which one can drive without impedi-
ment, We will quote from Justics Kempe and
Capt. Drinkw,ter, the latter in charge of
Life Saving Station No q
"How far can you drive on this beach !'
and the Justice answered by saying: 81 don't
know how far one can go, but once in my
life | drove seventy miles 10 a wreck sale,
and the besch wsa hard the whole way"
Capt. Drinkwater says that in = few days,
he will send the superintendent OF Life
Stations, in buggy, the whole dista to
Mays Head, which is over eighty miles.
There is shade of original timber within
300 yards Of the shore along all the lands of
Inc company, which extend five miles along
the coast and over one mile inland. The
company have q cash capital Of $500, 900;
and there is no danger of a failure TO do all
that's promised. President Marshall Parks
says that applications are constantly coming
in tor stock in the company; and it is we'll
known fact in New York that wealthy per-
sons from Richmond, Baltimore and Wash
ington City are already buying lots at Vir-
ginis beach, wherein they will erect summer
residences. Those citizens of Memphis who
have visited Ocean View, will readily see
the difference between the two. As il is,
the people of New York will welcome the
opening of the railroad 10 the beach in May
BY grand celebration, for many of them
have been there in wagons, and they all
point 10 it as their coming pride in the way
of 4 summer ocean sanitarium.
The Joy exhibited over the arrival Of the
first carload of coal over the Norfolk and
Western railroad from Pocahontas, in south
west Virginia, was intense. Flags waved,
sslutes were fred, and the mayor aud other
citizens of Norfolk rode on the locomotive
drawing the car of coal through Water
street. The coal was consigned to Mayor
Lamb, and by him turned over to three
charitable institutions. The mine is owned
BY the railroad company, is seventy five
miles from New River depot, on the Norfolk
and Western railroad. 1t Memphis has net
seen any specimens of the Pocahontas coal
yet, no doubt she will, for the railroad COM
pany intend shipping it everywhere, and
have built an immense, "chute" at their de-
pot here, from which they will ship coal
north, thus verifying the old saying of carry
ing Goals ts Newcastle.
President Huntington, of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad, 10 his last annual report,
SAYS that sipce August, 1882, there have
been coaled from their wharves at Newport
Newe. los steamships. This coal comes from
West Virginia.
Here are two railroad towns at each end,
but whose bodies stretch out and ever a vast
country, which will be eventually drs ined
for the bensi of NJ, mpbis aud Norfolk,
sPERRY.