The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-09-26
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PROSTATE.
-Four wears OF wsr bad stripped her; her
labor Was metemorphased into an incubus
he, institutions we're overthrow; her debts
and burdens were increased; her property
and taxable values we're annihilated; her
energies were parslyzed; her very existence
was suspended.
This was twenty-three years ago. During
A 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
ened and burdened by many within she had
IN devote all her facilities to the imperative
demand of the houL the preservation oil her
being as State and people.
Al last she stands upright again in the
vigor of renewed strength, in the JOY OF re-
stored health in the full power Of sovereign
State and the pride of a hale and prosperous
people. ,,;c,
As such her Capital City, her beautiful
Richmond on the James now sets hef
house IN order, prepares her feas's' sets out
her wares and stretching out her hands unto
her sister cities, saysto them
CONE AND SEE Me-"
Richmoud. the Capital of Virginia. IS the
Queen ofthe South snthroned upon her tree
clad hills and crowned with the diadem Of
beauty and health.
Situated on the elevated plateau at the
Falls ofJames River once the Powha'an, sue
stands at the gateway between the uplahuS
Of the Piedmond and the lowiands 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 msny miles REQ" j.
ono Of the landmarks Of the continent and
ono IF the heirlooms Of American history,
gentleman Of Virginia member of the King
Council. Representative of the Colony bur
CESS Of bis County. was entrusted to run the
mucb questioned line between Virginia ana
her sister North Carolina. Thus occupied
living awake one night in the juniper recesses
Of the Dismal Swamp, came to Inn thousl's
ofhis home. and with them one of those IN
snirations which may be the whisper OF a
nassirg angel. and may be the emanauon Of
genius. He would found a city nay he
would found,two; one should be on the Ap-
nomattox. but the other should be on yet
60 emo, on a oueenlier river, his OWE
majestic James
He knew the spot for It. There Nature
herself had laid the site-a more skiiiiui en-
gineer than he had drawn the plaza OWNER
architect had laid the foundations.
1t was already a city and wanted but the
buildings and the people. These must IN
eyitably come in time. Indeed that most
rash hut most brilliant and farseeing young
man who had been once bis 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 anu
killed his oyerseer and cattle, had he not
clsmored for revenge until he had started
revolution which came deuced near up-etting
His Majestys Government, and played the
devil generally. II would be the CHIEF city
in Virginia, the largest in the Southern
colonies if not on the continent, II the peo-
ple would but recognize its advantages and
build it up. What 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 IL
cool in summer and incompatible climate
and purest water from unpopulated
springs view of the foaming
waters. glancing and dashing over
immense boulders for nearly two miles
made a landscape whose beauty was I'M
rivaled as place ofresidence fora beauiy-loy-
ing people. this side of the oak clad reaches OF
the Thames. The river front was easily ac-
cessible, and evenly attributed and at the
same time so immense that il would grind
the grain of a continent and run the factor
les of nation. Behind il was the rich Pied
mont running up to the Blue Ridge and yet
further back behind the azure mountains an
unexplored region which stretches 10 the
French territory, Louisiana. Before il was
the
HEAD or DEEP 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 a city?
Thus must have thought Colonel VIM.
| Byrd living 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 it after
that Incompatible spot upon the loved and
winding Thames,
| RICHMOND.
This was in 1877 and from that day to 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 a home delightful. or place Of bust
ness desirable Richmond stands supreme.
Since il was founded the most momentous
events Of the nation have clustered around il:
focusing III az IN Were in tho focuc Of a ct,p