Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-05-07
NJ EN OF MILLIONS
DIRECTORS OF BIG ENTER
PRISES WILL MEET TODAY.
200 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
A Special Train. A BiGsupper mt the
Roanoke. The Meetings OF Today.
Scramble by the Machine Works
Band. Etc.

Two hundred millions of dollars was
represented in the corridors of the
Hotel Roanoke last night.
The building was crowded from
basement to garnet with guess and,
hardly a person, who slept in the
house last night, had room all to
himself. The people came from all
parts of the country, but for the most
part thew were from Philadelphia and
England. For today the directors OF
the Norfolk and Western railroad, the
Roanoke Machine Works, the Rolling
Mills, the Water and Gas company,
Roanoke Land and Improvement
company, the Grocer Iron company,
the Shenandoah Valley railroad COM
panv, and n number of other enter
prizes constituting the backbone OF
the city, are to have their annual
meeting.
Some of the delegates arrived yes
.erday morning, but the majority
came in the afternoon. Two splendid
pullman palace ears brought them
over from Philadelphia which had
been the rendezvous of the directors,
aud they came on to the city without
Il single stop.
Yesterday afternoon when the train
pulled in at the Union nepot num-
Der of prominent citizens were there
to meet them. President Eddy of the
Norfolk and Western and President
Trout Of the Roanoke and Southern
were both on hand, and for time a
vigorous handshaking was carried on,
but the visitors were weary as we'll as
hungry, and they did not linger long
about the station and in few mo
ments were climbing the incline that
leads to the famous Roanoke hostelrie.
1t was hard task to get room for
the great crowd, but it was done by
the efficient corps of clerks in charge.
The supper was as usual very fine,
better in truth in honor of the visi-
tors, than it usually is. Then good
cigars and music by the Italian band
stationed on the vine-clad porticoes.
The hum and buzz of conversation
was something the like of which the
house seldom knows. Once a year the
gentlemen, making up the boards OF
directors Of Roanoke's big enterprises,
meet and on this annual meeting they
are always glad to see each other.
Some of them come all the way across
the water to attend to their interests,
but the majority are from Philadel-
phia, with a sprinkling of Roanoke
men and few scattering.
The TIMES has been enabled to get
complete list of the gentlemen in
attendance. They are: r S Brock,
Rowland Davis, New York; VIM c
Houston, Harry F West. Thos p G
Stokes, n Lennig, Philadelphia; w B
Campbell, London; A j Dull, Ham
burg, F G Ely, W Sargent, jr., JOS T
Doran, E p Vogels, a J Hemphell.
secretary of the N g. w, G R w Armes,
o L Clark. ? E Gerhart, S b Grail.
L w Mayes, Edward W Clark, S a
Caldwell, Willim Brockie, Justus c
Strawbridge, Percevil Roberts, Harold
NJ Sill, of Philadelphia; Colonel U l.
Boyce, Boyce, Va, Colonel Henry
Kyd Douglas. Hagerstown. Md;
Clarence NJ Clark, s w Chadwick,
Henry Wickham, Cameron Burnside,
Frank Clyde, J q Clark, London;
Sydney L. Keith, E. j. Collins,
S. U. Cotton, jr., F Kemball Ever
EFT Gray, London Admiral S r Frank
lin, Washington; E. E. Denniston,
Rich. w Clay, rr. Chas Cunie,. Lind:
ley johnson, r D Smith, Edward
llsley, VIM II. Chadwick, Chas II
Mellin, of Philadelphia; j w Cook, of
and G. S. Wilson Of
Hartford.
The gentlemen arriving in the
morning were driven about town
during the day by number
of prominent citizens, and dur
ing the evening number of
of the directors arriving on the after
noon train took a stroll. They ex-
pressed themselves as much pleased
with the progress Roanoke has made
and are enthusiastic regarding its
future.
About 8 o'clock the Roa IKE Ma
chine Works band marched to the
hotel and gave the directors sere-
made. They were agreeably surprised
that the city numbered among its
SO many fine musicians,
and at the end of each number the
band was vigorously applauded by
the capitalists. By midnight the
hotel was almost deserted for the gen.
tlemen retired early, as today they
will be very busy:
Today the directors and stock
holders of the Norfolk rnd Western
will make tour of inspection over
the line extending as far as Bluefield.
The special train will leave the station
at 1:15 o'clock. On Friday they will
go to Norfolk via Lynchburg and in
spect that portion of the road.