The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-17


WYTIIEvILLE, Va, July 1G.-lSpc-
cial 1.-The real estate agents of this
beautiful mountain city, Justly known
as the Saratoga Of the South. are dis
pensing Old Virginia hospitality to.
day. The visitor does not need the as.
surancc that they derive genuine pleas
ure from it.
The Virginia Real Estate Exchange
was booked to meet here yesterday, but
ewing to the attendance of many mem
bcrs at the Worlds Fair Convention in
Pulaski, and delay in the arrival of tho
train from that place, no business was
transacted. President Simmons was as
fresh and active as if he had not per-
formed hard days work, but rccogniz-
ing the fact that most Of the members
were tired he consented to merely call
the body together and adjourn.
This morning tho visitors were dc.
corated with badges and given the cor
dial hand grasp and friendly greeting
that has secured for Wythcvillc the
reputation of being one of the most
hospitable cities in the South.
At 10 o'clock the exchange was called
to order by the president, who intro
duced Hon. VIM. l.. Yost, mayor of
Wythcville, who delivered a brief, but
enthusiastically graceful, address of
welcome. He alluded to Roanoke as n
symbol of energy, character, liberality,
and progress, and declared that the man
who spoke word in disparagcment of
it proclaimed himself an enemy of Vir-
ginia.
The president responded briefly to the
welcome extended and asked Secretary
Nelson to read the minutes of the last
meeting, but owing to lack of time this
was dispensed with.
The committee on credentials reported
the presence of % members. OF this
number Norfolk was credited with IS,
Bucna Vista IL, Roanoke 16 Bedford
City $, Elkton s, Salem 4, Wythcvillc .,
Bristol >, Basic City I, Charlottesville
1, Radford 3, ShcLdun /. Lynchburg l,
Shenandoah l.
The committee called attention to sec
ton l, article ,, of the bylaws, which
has amounted IN many cases to prohibi-
ton, owing to the fact that numerous
individuals and firms have rendered
their che cks, which, under the existing
bylaws, could not be accepted unless
rendered by the local exchange, and in
that case it required n full membership
Consideration of the committees rec
concentration was deferred to later
hour.
President Simmons read his report a
most excellent one, bnt its length pre-
vents its reproduction here in full. The
following extracts will give the readers
OF Tie TIMES an idea of its splendi id
quality:
when our exchange was organized in
January, we were full of hope for tho
first term, and your board of dire ctors
forthwith mapped out much to do for
the advance OF our cause, believing that
they know what to do and how TO do t.
And we were honest. We realized that
it would be necessary to secure the sym
pathy and cooperation Of the press, as
much depended on printers ink; so we
sent out circular letter to the princi-
pal newspapers Of the State asking if
they would publish our monthly reports
OF development, and such other matter
as might be considered Of general inter
est in this connection, and received
most cordial assurance of good will and
cooperation.
ga proper placing before the public
of the advantages that our State pre-
scented to the investor and the wonder
full developments accomplished and an
ticipated was considered of paramount
Importance at that time; hence our
every energy was bent in that direction.
Believing that the immediate future
would be equal to the recent past and
that the most forcitle way in which we
could demonstrate to tho public the real
strength of our progress in Virginia,
was to compete statistics and present
the result weekly through the medium
OF the press, we prepared form Of in
quiry, copy Of which was sent to each
local exchange to be filled out and sent
into the secretary at stated peoiods,
which would embrace all points of in
tercst going on in the real estate world.
But our anticipations were not realized.
Meanwhile We underworld to
attract the attention OF the public in
another way and thus introduce new
blood and new money among us; so con-
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