The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-10
battles Of modern warfare was fought on her


PROSTATE.
Four wears OF wsr had stripped her; her
labor was metemorphased into an INCUBUS ;
her institutions were overthrow; her deDtS
and burdens were increased; her property
and taxable values were annihilated her
energies were paralyzed her very existence
was suspended.
This was twenty-three years ago. Dunng
a large part Of this period the problem o.
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
10 devote all her facilities to the imperative
demand of the hour the preservation oil ner
being as State and people.
AT last she stands upright again in the
vieor 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. uio,
As such her Capital City, her beauuiui
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 SEE NJ
Richmond, the Capital Of Virginia IS the
Oueen 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 ofJames River once the Powhaian' she
stands at the gateway between theuplands
Of the Piedmond and the lo~lands oil 'ne
Tidewater. The breath Of the mountain
fans her brow. the tides Of the Ocean wash
her feet
Old William Byrd Of Wcstoyer, whose
historic mansion not many miles teloW IS
ono If the landmarks Of the continent ana
one Of the heirlooms Of American history
gentleman Of Virginia. member OF the King
Council. Representative Of the Colony bur
qess of his County, was entrusted to run the
much 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 him Thoughts
Of his home. and with them one OF those III
spirations which may be the whisper OF
pas,irg angel, and may be the emanation OF
genius. He would found city, nay he
would foundl,wo; one should be on the APP
nomattox. but the other should be on yc
fairer spot on a queenlier riyer, his own
majestic James.
He knew the spot for Il. There Nature
herself had laid the siie-a more skilliul en-
gineef than he had drawn the plan-a dlVlher
architect had laid the foundations.
It was already city and wanted but the
buildings and the people. These must IN
evitably come in time. Indeed that most
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 ana
/ killed his oyerseer and cattle, had he not
clamored for revenge until he had started a
revolution which came deIced near citing
His Maiesty's 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 if the peo-
ple would but recognize its advantages and
build it up. What a 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 mpopulated
sprines. view Of the sfoaming
waters. glancing and dashing over
immense boulders for nearly two miles
made landscape whose beauty was UNI
rivaled as a place ofresidence fora beauty-loy-
ing people, this 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 it 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
UNEMPLOYED region which stretches to the
French territory, Louisiana. Before 1t was
the
HEAD OF DEEP WATER NAVIGATION
with its diurnal tides which could float any
vessel that His Majesty's marine could send
across the seas.
How could it 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 lie laid out the streets and
squares of a city, on the fair spot 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 1t after
that Incompatible spot upon the loved and
winding Thames,
RICHMOND.
This was in 1887 and from that day to the
present. Richmond has been the Gem City Of
the South.
For beauty, for salubrity, for convenience
for ali the charms and advantages which can
make honi, delightful, or place of bust
ness desirable Richmond stands supreme.
Since it was founded the most momentous