The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-01
"A MONUMENTAL CENTER
And a Central Monum emit.
The Norfolk 6 Westerns Gift to Roanoke.

AS Roanoke towers above all other
cities in Southwestern Virginia, so in
certain sense, Woodland Park will for
ever tower above our beautiful city. We
say sin q certain sense adviscdly, be-
cause, in truth, the highest lots of land
of that beautiful tract which, on the
18th of this month, will be offered at
public sale, are very much below the
actual height of many of the ridges in
and around Roanoke on which our citi-
zens have built their residences. But
Woodland Park is to have a granite
tower of fair proportions that shall
stand there forever to commemorate the
miracle that has been wrought in the
last two decades of the nineteenth CEN
fury.
The idea of this memorial tower was
conceived by Hon. +. j. Kimball. pres
ident of the Norfolk and Western rail
road, who. in behalf of that great and
most prosperous corporation. yesterday
rendered this costly gift to the Wood
land Land Company.
The latter promptly accepted the
proifer and also voted to give whatever
land might be needed for circle in the
centre, of which this monument must Ice
erected. The railroad company intends
to build tower of artistic proportions.
(using New England granite as the ma
terial) upon the base of which there will
be abundant space for preserving, in short
sentences. the history of Roanollc's pop
ulation and progress. When it is re-
but 400 inhabitants, and that since then
its population (as shown by the recent
census) has reached nearly 1900 souls,
1T will be seen how valuable and signifi-
cant memorial tower this will be. not
alone to the living generation but to all
that Shall succeed it,
10 Roanoke citizens it will forever
have profound interest, because to the
latest generation it will tell the story
OF this city's growth from small begin
nings to great and glorious prosperity.
~ SOSh nave oily OlllllS W Scll tiQVorC1SG
in THE TIMES, the leading paper OF the
mineral belt OF the two Virginias.
VIRGINIA NOTES.
The Republican Congressional nomi-
mating convention met in Norfolk yes
tcrday. and it is said there will be con-
testing delegations from every county.
who will make it hot for CONGRESSMAN
l'owden. and are likely to put up an in
dependent candidate if he is renomina-
ted. EX.Congressman Harry Libby. OF
ola Point. seems to be the choice of the
antl-Bowden element among the whites
while the colored voters incline to j. c.
Asbury, the colored Commonwealth
attorney of Norfolk comfy
The Acme Torpedo Company, on the
West Virginia side of the Ohio river.
was blown up yesterday morning, and
Ralph Schoeff, an employc, who was
making glycerinc. was killed. Portions
of his body were blown across the river.
Loss S.. 600
The Kanawha and Michigan railroad.
with chief Offices 1T Charleston. W. Va.
has been sold TO the Toledo and Ohio
Central, and will he operated as a part
of one of the Vanderbilt lines to the
! Northwest
Inc corner stone of the St Johns
Episcopal Church at Rippon. Jefferson
county, w. Va. was laid Saturday last
with Masonic ceremonies.
Mr.. Calvin Farmer. we'll known
citizen OF I.ynchburg. n carpenter by
trade. died suddenly yesterday.
Mrs. W. d. Couch, an aged and re-
spccted lady. died in Lynchburg ycster-
I day.
THE lIoTmI BHANDoN-F'rom list
embracing 32S names for the new hotel
at Basic City the above has been chosen.
First, because of its historical associa-
tons; secondly. because OF its euphoni-
GUS and ariStccratic sound, and thirdly.
because 1T is Il name that. once heard, can
never be forgotten. ''Brandon,' the
name chosen for the new hotel at Basic
City, is the title of the famous and his
toric estate of the Harrison family on
James river. The very name is an in
toxicant, and seems to have been born in
an aristocracy of sound.-Basic City Ad-
vance.
The latest railroad news is that the
baltimore and Ohio will build road by
the shortest practical route from the
Knoxville Southern to the city of Chat
tanooga.
If tho Norfolk and Western railroad
builds from Bristol to Knoxville it is
said that the East Tennessee, Virginia.
Georgia railroad proposes to retaliate by
building from Bristol to Danville, Va,
thus carrying all its business to the
Richmond and Danville system.--New
York Journal of Finance
II anything of Importance occurs in
Roanoke, Southwest Virginia. or any
where in the world. you can count on