The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-24
,a.,Ies &C modem warfare was fought on her

PROSTATE.
Four years Of wsr had stripped her; her
labor was metemorphased into an incubus
her institutions were oyerthrown; her debts
and burdens were increased, her properly
and taxable values we've annihiIatcd; her
energies were paralyzed her very existence
was suspended.
THIS was twenty-three years ago Dunng
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
eped and burdened by many within, sh bad
10 devote all her facilities TO the imperative
demand of the hour the preservation oi her
being as State and people.
At last she stands upright again in The
yiror of renewed strength, in the JOY OF re
stored health, in the full power of sovereign
state and the pride of hale and prosperous
people.
As such her Capital City, her beautiful
Richmond on the james now sets her
house IN order, prepares her feasts. sets out
her wares and stretching on. her hands unto
her sister cities. says to them
CONE AND SEE Nj.
Richmond, the Capital of Virginia. i the
Queen ofthe South enthroned upon her tree
clad hills. and crowned with the diadem oil
beauty and health.
Situated on the elevated plateau at the
Falls ofJsmes River once tn Powhatan' she
stands a. the gateway between the upiands
Of the Piedmond and the lowlapds OF the
Tidewater The breath of the mountain
fans her brow, the tides Of the Ocean wash
her feet.
Old William Byrd Of Wesioyer, whose
historic mansion not meny miles 'clow IS
one of the landmarks of the continent, ana
one of the herlOOms Of American history
gentleman of virginia. member OF The Kings
Council, Representative Of the colony bur-
CESS of his Coun Y, was entrusted TO run the
much questioned line between Virginia ana
her sister North Carolina. Thus occupied
living awake one night int the juniper receSses
of The Dismal Swamp, came TO INN thoughts
of his home. and with them one OF those III
spirations which may be the whisper OF
pas,i angel, and may be the emanauon OF
genius. He would found city, nay he
would found two; one shout tie on the AP
pomattox, but the other should be on yet
fairer spot on quee1lier ryer, ms own
majestic james.
He knew the spot for it. There Nature
herself had laid the site-a more skllliui en-
gineer than be had drawn the plan-a OWNER
architect hal laid the foundations.
1t was already city and wanted but the
buildings and the people. These must IN
eyitably come in time. Indeed that mos'
rash but most brilliant and farseeing young
man who had been once his fathers nelgh-
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 overseer and cattle, had he not
clamored for revenge until be had started a
revolution which came deuced near up.etting
His Maiesty's Government and played the
devil generally. 1t would be the chief city
in Virgiuia the largest in the Southern
colonies if not OH the continent, If the PEG
pie would but recognize its advantages and
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 it
cool in summer, and incompatible climate
and purest water from unpopuated
springs; view Of the foaming
waters, CHANGING and dashing over
immense bouiders for nearly two miles,
made a landscape whose beauty was I'M
rivaled as place ofresidence for beauty-lov- |
ing people. this side of the oak clad reaches OF
the Thames The river front was easily &C
cessible, and evenly stributed 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 il was TIE rich Pied
mont running up TO the Blue Ridge and yet
further back behind the azure mountains an
unexplored region which sire ches to the
French territory, Louisiana. Before it was
the
HEAD OF DEP WATER NAVIGATION
with its diurnal tides which could float any
vessel that His Majesty's marine could send
across the seas.
How could il be otherwise than 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 city, on the fairspot at the Falls
Of the James. and the head of deep water
which had haunted his dreams III 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,
BICHHoND
This was in 1877 and from that day to the
present. Richmond has been the Gem City of
the South
For beauty, for salubr;y. for conver fence,
for all 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 it;
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