The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-09-28
attles of modern warfare was fought on her

PROSTATE.
-Four years OF W.T. bad stripped her; her
labor was metemorphased into an incubus
her institutions were overthrown her debts
and burdens were increased; her property
and taxable values we're annihilsted; her
energies were paralyzed; her very existence
was suspended.
This was twenty-three years ago. Dunng
q large part of this period the problem OF
existence, the paramount question OF simple
being engrossed all her powers. Misunder-
stood and Stunned by all without threat
eued and burdened by many within, she had
10 devote all her facilities to the imperative
demand Of the hour, the preservation OF her
being as State and people
AT last she stands upright again in the
v;oor of renewed strength, in the joy oil re-
stored health, in the full power of a sovereign
state and the pride of hale and prosperous
people. IT'D,
AS such her Capital City, her beauuim
Richmond on the James now sets her
house IN order, prepares her feasts' se's OUT
her wares and stretching out her hands unto
her sister cities, gays TO them
COME AND SEE ME-
Richmond. the Capital Of Virginia. IS tie
Queen ofthe South enthronei upon her tree
clad hills and crowned with the diadem oil
beauty and health.
Situated on the elevated plateau al the
Falls ofJames River once the Powhatan' she
Glands at the gateway between the uplands
of the Piedmond and the lowlands OF the
Tidewater. The breath Of the mountain
fans her brow the tides Of the Ocean wash
her feet.
Old William Byrd Of Westover' whose
historic mansion not many miles reloW is
one Of the landmarks Of the continent ana
ono of the heirlooms Of American history,
gentleman Of Virginia. member Of the King
Council Representative Of the Colony bur
CESS of his County, was entrusted to run the
much questioned line between Virginia ana
ber sister North Carolina Thus occupied
living awake one night in the juniper reces'eS
ofthe Dismal Swamp, came to nm thohSh''
of his home and with them one OF those n
spirations which may be the whisper OF a
nas.ire angel. and may be the emanauon OF
genius. He would found a city, nay ne
would found two; one should be on the APP
nomattox hut the other should be on yet
fairer spot on queealier river, his own
majestic james.
He knew the spot for it. There Nature
herself had laid the site-a more skiiiini en-
pineer than be had drawn the plaza OWNER
architect had laid the foundations.
II was already a city and wanted but the
buildings and the people. These must in
eyjtably come in time. Indeed that mos'
rash but most brilliant and farseeing young
man who had been once his fathers neigh
Dor. had chosen the SPOT with his rare Wis
dom and had there plantation or quarter
and when the Indians had come down and
killed his oyerseer and cattle, had he NOT
olamored for revenge until he had started
revolution which came deuced near up citing
His Maiestys 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-
ple would but recognize its advantages ana
build it up. Whata spot it 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 foamlng
waters glancing and dashing over
immense boulders for nearly two miles
made landscape whose beauty was IN
rivaled as place ofresidence fora beauty-loy-
ing people, .his side of the oak clad reaches OF
the Thames. The river front was easily ac-
cessible, and evenly distributed and at the
same time so immense that il would grind
the grain of a continent, and run the factor
les of nation. Behind ii was 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 is diurnal tides which could float any
vessel that His Majesty's marine could send
across the seas.
How could ii 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 farspot 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 il 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 alt the charms and advantages which can
make home delightful, or place of bust
ness desirable Richmond stands supreme.
Since it was founded the most momentous
events of the nation have clustered around il;
focusing il as it were in the focus Of a sun