Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-22
RICHM0ND'S PLUCK.
tn EXPOSITION SCHEME WILL PUT II
TO PRACTICAL TEST.
mr. starke Sufficiently Encouraged 10 90
Right Straight Along with
His Plans


mously reported by The committee a few
days ago, was on yesterday printed and
will be distributed in the House of Dele
gates tomorrow, when i is expected that
under suspension of the rules it viii be
speedily passed and sent to the Senate.
This is the bill Incorporating the Nir-
ginia State Agricultural and Mechanical
Society.
The bin incorporating the Suburban
and Exposition Railway. Company has
also been favorably reported by tue
committee 10 which it was referred.
This contemplatcs making the transpor-
tatiou accommodations to the exposition
grounds on unquestlonable fact, and 1t Is
stated that whether it should suit the no
tons or pleasure of the present railway
lines 60 extend their rosds ont there will
not be q considoration-th the road will be
put down ana run all the same.
GETTING HINTS.
In few days competent man will
go to Atlanta and Jacksonville to inspect
the buildings at those places and look
into all The detailed plans. sc. also, to
gather any information which may he of
value in the way Of arranging exhibits,
handling large crowds at the gates, trans
portation, hotel arrangements, &c.
LOCOMOTIVE BROTHERHOOD.
I'm the Office Of President Starke yes
terday a Dispotch reporter saw large
Photographic group taken last October
in Chicago. and upon asking what fine
looking body of men they were, Mr..
Starke replied that's q photograph
OF the convention of the brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers OF the United
States, held in Chicago last year. ! am
glad YOU have noticed it, since ] want
our people TO know something of their
proposed meeting TINS year.
This organization, said he, is known
the world over The recent tilt between
It's grand chief 7. VI. Arthur, and Mr..
L. Y. FowdeIly, of the Knights of La
Dor. we have all read about. This pic
ture was left few days ago bya commit
tee OF engineers who called. Here Is the
programme Of their twenty-fourth an
nual convention. held last October IN
Chicago. II il quite volume O53
pages), and on the front page is their
motto "SUbricW GM truth, Justice
and .NoraliW, Defence not D.fdnce,
reason no, Jioi7icC"
THEY MEET ~ RICHMOND.
The Brothcrhoodof Locomotive EDgl-
neers was organized, continued MIR.
Starke. in 1868 and now number %, 1000,
and covers every railroad and every
State and Territory in the United States,
AS well as a large pant of the British
Provinces and Mexico. Their annual
conventions have been held in the past
few years in New Orleans, San Fran
cisco. Chicago. New York, &c. This
year they have decided TO convene in
Richmond. They have never met in
Virginia before. The number OF dele
gates sent to these conventions, with
their friends, run from 800 to 900, and
perhaps more. You can see at glance
that there is no body Of men-the en-
gine-builders, Observation-Disclosures.
and electric-men would go ont OF their
WAY farther to get before than these. Last
year great trains were equipped with move
air brakes and heating devices, engines
rugged with Observation-Disclosures and
inspirators and the many cOntrivances
which iuventveness has brought ont re-
Gently. These trains, loaded with engi-
neerS, were run out on test excursions.
Now, [ want the Brotherhood to meet
during our exhibition, and they are
ready to do anything they can which
t-.t. 20, ~
in our midst. They feared that hotel
wOnld be scarce, but OF
course they can arrange all that before
hand.
MACHINERY EXHIBIT.
Think, said Mr. Starke, what ma
chinery exhibit We will have if the coun-
try knows that sucha committee ofjudges
is going to be here. We won't have to
beg them to come, and there is whole
crowd OF railroad-men we won't have to
beg 10 come, either. But the engineers
must have somewhere to meet. The
Armory is the only place that will ac
their sessions Now won't
it be too bad if we don't have a ma
to take advantage of such II
display as we can have in this line
Then we wish to have the exposition be-
cause we want a crowd here. We desire
these representatives from all over the
land to tell the tale all along the routes
they run in the busy North and over the
wide fields of the West of what a busy
lively town Richmond is, what our re-
sources are, the magnitude OF our water
power, and the grand display of our
mineral and vegetable products, &c.
THE HALL.
BY the way. Mr.. Starke added, | am
told that Gilmore signs because he has
DO place here to give one OF his grand
concerts. Now, if our Exposition
were erected we could give
him full scope, aud many such uses Be
sides a permanent display would from
time to time be found forit.
Mr.. Staike says that in this great I'M
lertakipg he has received encouragement
from many people in and ont of Rich
mond, but he laments the fact that some
Of our citizens who ought to have been
The first to come forward and offer their
help have taken no notice at all of the
These men he wishes to
interest and arouse, and they can be OF
great service.
There is an enormous amount OF work |
10 be done, and while Mr.. Starke is
giving nearly his whole time TO it every |
public spirited citizen of Richmond |
should hold up his hands, and that may
be done by letters of encouragement, by |
offers OF personal help, by assurances of
financial support, and in the hundred
other ways with which generous spirit
knows so well how to inspire sympathy,
and good will.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE.
"Has anything been done?"
Yes, great deal In the first place
the night plan has been got. 1t is to
capitalize the 500, 900 worth OF property
Of the Agricultural Society. With the
buildings erected the property will be
worth Sl75,0 600. In ten years it may be
worth double that.
In the second place the city of Rich
mond has given assurance that it will
capitalize its $50, 900 interest in the So
cicty.
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