Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-08-09
DAED- McMINNVnLE, TENNESSEE sATURDAY-AUGUsT 1880

folk, on the Atlantic coast, and many
of them donned bathing suits and en-
joyed surf bath.
Norfolk, with its genial climate
and numerous surrounding points of
interest, it seems to us would be a
delightful place to spend few weeks
at almost any season of the year,
particularly through the summer.
There are magnificent hotels at Old
Point Comfort, Virginia Beech, New
port News, and other points. Nor
folk proper has 10000 inhabitants,
Portsmouth has 10000, and Berkeley,
another suburb, has 5000. All of the
business streets of Norfolk that we
were on are laid with granite, and
the city has good street car service,
only horse cars being yet in use,
however. There appears to be fine
opening there for electric street cars.
Norfolk's newspapers appear to be
behind the age. They have three or
four dailies, all fair local papers, with
some special telegraph service, but
we didn't see a line of Associated
Press news in any of them. They
all have large advertising. A full
er acquaintance with the place might
put different face upon matters, but
judging from what we saw on our
brief trip, there is a fine opening at
Norfolk for a modern progressive
daily newspaper. A clever, more
friendly and hospitable people can
not be found in any city.
The leading citizens and business
men of Norfolk extended to us every
courtesy and attention that true Vir-
ginia hospitality of the old school
type could suggest. There was only
one regretable feature to our visit
it was too brief.
Magnificent palace steamers ply
between Norfolk and all points on
the Atlantic seaboard. One can leave
| Norfolk at 6 o'clock in the afternoon
and breakfast the next morning in
Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washing
ton, or New York. The NOrfolR
harbor is one of the finest on the
globe. A number Of important rail
road lines terminate around the har
Dor, and it seems destined at an ear
ly day to become the leading South
ern entrepOt. A great opportunity
lays before some company of capital
lists to complete the Tennessee Mid
land Railroad to Bristol, and extend
it on to Norfolk. No other railroad
can be located in the South which
would open up as much rich and I'm
: developed country, or which coulC
: command as much traffic. The road
: which now serve the immense terri
tory between the Atlantic ocean ant
} the Mississippi river, embraced il
the states of Virginia and Tennessee
l are already overburdened with bus
3 mess, and the material development
t of the two states is but begun. TAX
!, ing a birds eye view of the country
2 and noting its immense possibilities
: we do not see how the building c
= the Tennessee Midland can muc
+ longer be delayed.
: Pleasant occasions are quickest t
: end, and all too soon our part
J, turned their faces homeward at l
!, o'clock Sunday night. We passe
+ Bristol about 2 o'clock Monday after
noon. A large number Of our ne'
K friends there were at the depot t
+ say good bye again and bid us Go
= speed to our homes. BY the middl
Il of the week all were at their places
o picking up the old lines of duty wit
C renewed vigor, stronger courage, an
y broader views of the world and on
y fellow men from the weeks ming
It ling and touch with each other.