The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-09-24
battles Of modern warfare was fought on her


surrendered at Appomattox Virginia was
PROSTATE.
Four wears OF war had stripped her, her
labor was metemorphased into an incubus
ho~ institutions we're overthrown; her debts
and burdens were increased; her properly
and taxable values were annihilated; her
energies were paralyzed her very existence
was suspended.
This was twenty-three years ago. during
q large mart of this period the problem OF
existence the paramount question OF simple
beiop encrossed all her powers. Misunder-
stood and Stunned by all without, threat
ened and burdened by many within sh nao
70 devote all her facilities to the Imperative
demand of the hour, the preservation Oh he'
heing as a State and people.
At last she stands upright again IN the
,igor Of renewed strength, in the joy OF IT,
stored health, in the full power Of sovereign
state and the pride of a hale and prosperous
people. ,,.;e,l
p;cbmond on the james now sets hef
borse N order. prepares her feasts' sets ou'
her wares and stretching out her hahds ui''o
her sister cities, says to them
CONE AND SEE MI"
Richmond. the Capital of Virginia i Inc
o,,oo,, ofthe South enthroned upon her tree
oIod hills and crowned with the dladem Oh
beauty and health 49,
situated on the elevated plateau at the
rous ofJames River once the Powhatan, she
s,ards a, the gateway between theupiands
&c tho Piedmond and the lowlands OF the
T;aowatsr The breath Of the mountain
Cas- hor brow the tides Of the Ocean wash
her feet.
o,d William Byrd Of Westover whose
historic mansion not msny miles felo" is
ono If the landmarks Of the continent ana
one Of the he;rlooms Of American history
gentleman Of Virginia, member Of the hins s
Council Representative Of the Colony BuF-
,oss If his County. was entrusted TO run the
mucb questioned line between Virginia ana
her sister North Carolina. Thus occupieu'
WING awake one night in the juniper recesses
ofthe Dismal Swamp, came to him Thoughts
&c his home and with them one Of those IN
spirations which may be the whisper oil a
passi-g angel and may be the emana'ion OF
aenips He would found city, nay be
wonld found two; one should be on the APP
pomattox. but the other should be on a yet
fairer spot on queenlier river his own
majestic James.
He knew the spot for it. There Nature
herself had laid the site-a more skiiiiui en-
eineer than he had drawn the plan-a OWNER
architect had laid the foundations
II was already city and wanted but the
buildings and the people. These must IN
eyitably come in time. Indeed that most
rash but most brilliant and farseeing young
ma, who had been once his fathers neigh
bor had chosen the spot with his rare WIS
dom and had there a plantation OF quarter,
and when the Indians had come down ana
killed his oyerseer and cattle, had he not
clamored for revenge until he had started
revolution which came deuced near up etung
His Maiesty's Government, and played the
devil generally. 1t would be the CHIEF city
in Virginia. the largest in the Southern
colonies if not on the continent, if the peo-
pie would but recognize its advantages and
build it up. Whats spot 1t was
An elevated plateau right at the falls of
the river, above malaria and ague' with
the fresh air of the mountains, keeping II
cool in summer, and incompatible climate
and purest water from unpopulated
springs; view Of the foamins
waters, glancng and dashing over
immense bouiders for nearly two miles,
made q landscape whose beauty was I'M
riyaled As a place of residence fora beauty-lov-
ing people, this side fthe oak clad reaches OF
the Thames. The river front was easily &C
cessible and evenly distributed and at the
same time so immense that it would grind
the grain of a continent, and run the factor
les of a nation. Behind twas the rich Pied
mont running up to the Blue Ridge and yet
further back behind the azure mountains an
unexplored region which stretches to the
French territory, Louisiana. Before il was
the
HEAD OF DEEP WATER NAVIGATION
with its diurnai tides which could float any
vessel that His Majesty's marine could send
across the seas.
How could it be otherwise than a city?
Thus must have thought Colonel VIM.
Byrd lying under the stars reading the future
with prophetic vision, for on the completion
of his mission, he laid out the streets and
squares of a city. on the fair spot at the Falls
Of the James, and the head of deep water
which had haunted his dreams in that then
far distant shore of the Dismal Swamp, and
as there was no place this side the sea whose
beauty was comparable, he named it after
that Incompatible spot upon the loved and
winding Thames
| RICHMOND.
This was in 1877 and from that day 10 the
present, Richmond has been the Gem City OF
the South.
For beauty, for salubrity, for convenience,
for all the charms and advantages which can
make home delightful, or place Of bust.
ness desirable Richmond stands supreme.
Since il was founded the most momentous