The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-15
battles Of modern warfare was fought on her

surrendered at AppomattoA 'nsini" ""'
PROSTATE.
Four wears OF wsr had stripped her; hei
labor was metemorphased into an incubus
o,i,s,;,ntions were overthrown; her debts
and burdens were increased; her property
ord ,arable values were annihilated; her
energies were paralyzed; her very existence
was suspended.
This was twenty-three years ago. DurnP
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 bad
to devote all her facilities to the imperative
demand of the hour, the preservation OF hef
being as a State and people
Al last she stands upright again in the
viror of renewed strength, in the JOY OF re-
stored health, in the full power of a 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 out her hands unto
her sister cities, says to them
COME AND sRE NE"
Richmond, the Capital Of Virginia; is the
oueen ofthe South enthroned upon her tree
clad hills. and crowned with the hadem Oh
beauty and health.
Situated on the elevated plateau az 'he
Falls ofJames River once the Powhaian' she
stands at the gateway between the upiahus
Of the Piedmond and the lowlands OF the
r;dcwater. The breath Of the mountain
fans her brow, the tides Of the Ocean WASH
her feet.
old William Byrd Of Westoyer' whose
historic mansion not many miles REQ" u
ono IF the landmarks Of the continent, and
one Of the herlooms Of American history
gentleman of Virginia. member 81 the Ming 3
Council Representative Of the Colony Bur
cess II his County, was entrusted TO run the
much Questioned line between Virginia and
her sister North Carolina. Thus occupied
living awake one night in the juniper recesses
= I. a..
Of the Dismal Swamp, came to him thoughts
or his home and with them one OF those IN
spirations which may be the whisper oil a
passirg angel, and may be the emanatloh oil
genius. He would found city, nay he
would found two; one should be on the APP
nomattox but the other should be on yet
fairer spot on a queenler rver, his own
majestic James.
He knew the spot for it. There Nature
herself had laid the site-a more sklliiul 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
evitably come in time. Indeed That most
rash hut most brilliant and farseeing young
man who had been once his fathers neigh
nor. had chosen the spot with his rare WIS
dom and had there plantation or quarter
and when the Indians had come down ana
killed his overseer and cattle had he not
clamored for revenge until he had started
revolution which came deuced near upsetting
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 II the peo-
ole would but recognize its advantages ana
build it up. What spot ii was
An elevated plateau right at the falls OF
the river. above malaria and ague' Win
the fresh air of the mountains, keeping 1t
cool in summer, and incompatible climate
and purest water from unpopnia'ed
srri,ce. a view Of the toamng
waters, CHANGING and dashing over
in,pense boulders for nearly two miles
made a Landscape whose beauty was I'M
riyaled as place residence fora beauty-io'-
ING people. this side of the oak clad reaches OF
The Thames. The river front was easily ac-
cessible and evenly d stributed and at the
same time so immense that il would grind
the grain of a continent, and run the factor
los NJ n nation. Behind it was the rich Pied
mont running up to the Blue Ridge and yet
further hack behind the azure mountains an
unexplored region which stretches to the
French territory, Louisiana Before 1t was
the ..,.
HEAD or DEP WATER NAVIGATION
with IFS 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 WIN.
Rvrd living under the stars reading the future
with prophetic vision, for Oh the completion
Of his mission. he laid out the streets and
SQUARES Of a citl on the fair spot at the Fails
Of the James. nd 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 tins side the sea whose
beauty was comparable, he named it after
that Incompatible spot upon the loved and
winding Thames,
RICHMOND.
This was N 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 thecharms and advantages which can
make a home delightful, or place Of bust
ness desirable Richmond stands supreme.