Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-14


in parenthess it will find too little and
have to increase)-and it proposes to aid
each enterprise that comes, to the extent OF
25 per cent of it's capital stock-that is, to
a $40 900 plant it will give to the amount
SIS 900. Tt will be a workingman's para
disc as far as cheap living is concerned, and
| its health is unsurpassed. 1t has clay
which is full of silica and of which the best
brick is made, and am Informed that one
policy of the company is to make these
brick and sell them at cost of manufacture
to people Who will build brick houses,
something that viii! be of great advantage
to workingmen who build.
To the manufactures that ale brought
here the field open before them for their
output is unlimited Situated at the ter
minus Of the 5000 miles of the r. & D. Ry.
system, and of the 5000 miles Of the great
Terminal syste II, which ramiiies the great
South and Southwest, Their railway outlet to
those sections is perfect. And situated at the
first deep water on tne Atlantic heir way is
open to the markets Of the world. Manu-
facturers will be keenly alive to these ad-
vantages. Another advantage which will
| be a telling one, is that this being it's deep
water outlet the great Richmond and Dan
vile system will have the highest interest
in seeing that it is made large manufac-
turing town-as it is already an exporting
one-and will make it SO.
THE COMPANY AND ITS IN1PROV EAIENTS.-
VALUE OF ITS WATER FRONT.
The Improvement Company has, after
careful consideration, fixed upon a liberal
programme. 1t proposes to be an i'm
pTouenaent company in fact as well as
name. 1t intends making a handsome city
which it can do cheaply, for from the soil
and level character of the land the finest
streets can be made with slight outlay
On these streets it will put electric CARS
| Though there is one of the most modern
hotels already here, it is at the Eastern
point Of the city, and as cities always drift
Westward, the company will erect costly
hotel of it's own, located on a bluff
overlooking the broad Pamunkey river.
Just at the foot of the bluff is anoted duck
island where hunters will find sport-in
fact a well-aimed shot from the new hotel
window would bring duck feeding on that
side Of the island. At the foot of the bluff
there is fine fishing. And it's visitors who
neither hunt nor fish can spend their time
in visiting the old home of the Lees, the
farm house in which George Washington
first met the widow Gusts, the village of
the Pamunkey Indians, OF the battle field
of Seven Pines. This is historic ground,
all around here. The Terminal Improve
ment Company is not a mere town lot sell
Ing organization. It has good thing and
it knows it, and intends to improve it up
to it's highest point. The three miles of
deep water front the company own is gold
mine of itself, and | will confidently write
here that it will be sold for more than the
whole amount of the company's capital
stock, which is $SCO,0o0.
The fact that piling here is new
Ell attacked by the worms makes it
the best place for wfarves on the Atlantic
coast. The Richmond & Danville Ry.
knows this from experience, for while it
has to renew its boat wharves Oh the river
below here about every eighteen months, it
doesnt renew them here once in twenty
years. The Improvement Company will
improve its holdings and will not offer a
single lot until all their work is done.
Of this Improvement Company happen
to know several personally. The President
W. Ritchie Quarles of Richmond, is an old
friend of mine. He is a banker and one of
the foremost men of affairs in Richmond.
Maurice Laupenhimer the Vice President,
is an officer Of the Arrow Steamship Com
pany of Baltimore. e. Wilkinson the Sec
rotary and Treasurer. is from Philadelphia
originally and has been a resident here for
seventeen years. He is the Mayor of West
Point, and has signalized his citizenship by
being one Of the most progressive men here.
1t was lie that started the system of arte-
sian wells six years ago. He has started a
hosiery factory, an immense brick yard, land
been for years a leader in everything for the
benefit Of the city. C. G. Thompson of
Staunton, is well known to your people as
one Of the most successful of the men who
have been forwarding the new progress
that has struck your section, and he is
putting into service here his long and pro-
fitable experience gained in the Valley. In
taking advantage of every natural advan-
tage of q locality and in impressing its
value on the public mind he has no superb
Or Among the directors are Sol. Haas the
| Traffic Manager Of the Richmond & Dan
vile Ry. Co.; c. w. Westbury an officer of
the same railway system. and an enterpris-
ing young citizen of West Point; Chas
H. Simpson prominent merchant of Rich
mond; Henry r. Pollard now of Rich
mond and formerly prominent member of
the House Of Delegates and S. Cohen the
head Of the The Cohen Company Of Rich
mond, known all over Virginia
THE FUTURE OF WEST POINT.
It is rather audacious for small modern
prophet to add his predictions about a town
to those of Commodore Maury A man
like him with bis universal knowledge of
the trade roads of the world, both by water
and by land, stood high up on hill and
could see far into the future with accurate
vision. The fact that he said thirty-five
years ago that the commerce of the great
Southwest would pour into the salt water
Of the ocean at West Point. and that it is
doing that to-day proves his far sighted ac-
curacy. But we minor prophets Of 1890,
must also have our say. 1t is true that our
} predictions aye based on what is almost
actually passing under our eyes, but that