The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-26
CHANDLER ON ROANOKE.
The New Hampshire Senator on
the Magic City.

Senator William E. Chandler, of New
Hampshire, who recently made an ex-
tended tour of the South, writes three
column letter to the Concord Evening
Monitor, giving the impressions of his
trip. Senator Chandler spent several
hours in Roanoke, and writes the fol-
lowing Of this city:
Roanoke, Virginia, Here is the live
Hest city of this whole section. 1t has
been created by the location at this
point OF tho headquarters of the Norfolk
and Western railroad, whose offices and
shops emp 10y all the population needed
Tor a fiourishlng community. The CITY
has grown with great rapidity. The
centre OF business is alive with excite
ment. Expensive modern residences are
sprlnging up. The high hill opposite is
being made accessible for a great pu bile
park, in which is to be hotel and also
cottages of unsurpassed capacity and
desirability for summer sojourning. Of
all the valley cities Roanoke has tho
surest path to wealth, imagine.
although l do not wish to compare it
with any which L have not seen. Mr.
Robert Ii. Rolfe, of Concord, who has
been on prospecting tour in this
region, and Mr.. Clarence johnson,
United States immigrant inspector, who
came here hunting for prohibited
foreigners, were pleased to indorse
Roanoke as more attractive to Northern
settlers than any other place thew saw.
Here Mr.. Herbert Janvrin Browne,
from Exeter, n. H., has started THE
ROANOKE TINES, daily, weekly and Sun
day, and is conducting it with zeal
and energy sure to bring success; which
indeed have already brought him sue
cess, through large circulation and
profitable advertisements. He intro
duced myself and Ensign Lloyd H.
Chandler, U. S. N, to Major Charles G..
Eddy, vice president and ira iiic manager
of the Norfolk and Western railroad.
with whom most agreea BILE and useful
hour was spent. 1t is part of Mr.
Eddy's wish to manage all the plans of
the company for the development Of the
region through which the road runs;
and this is done with intelligence, lib
crafty and great foresight and force.
The Norfolk and Western confines it.
self substantially to the two Virginias.
Its main line reaches from Norfolk
through Roanoke. and down towards
Knoxville, Tennessee, with several i'm
portant branches. 1t has lately ac-
quired the Shenandoah Valley road,
and proposes to build an exten sion
through Front Royal Gap to Washing
ton.
While praising the wise and able
management Of the Norfolk and West
ern system l take occasion also to speak
of the excellent condition and satisfac-
tory management of three other great
companies which are opening and de-
veloping the mountain regions of the
three States: The Richmond and Dan
Vile, the Chesapeake and Ohio and the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
The stations, bridges, roadbed and
tracks ere in much better condition than
l expected to find them; no pains have
been spared to make the lines strong
and safe for rapid and heavy trains. On
the Shenandoah Valley road, which had
been in the hands OF a receiver before
the Norfolk and Western took it, much
the trestles, but the work is going for
ward rapidly.
Major Eddy entered the army from
Wisconsin at l6 years of age as pri-
vate soldier, but during the last year of
the war was confidential telegraph
operator for General Sherman; he treas
ures with great care the original tele-
gram in Sherman's handwriting, sent to
General Johnston, saying that the
terms of peace arranged between them
were disapproved by President Lincoln
and that there must be an unconditional
surrender of Johnston's army. Major
Eddy also has from Sherman letter OF
commentator written at the close of
the war, in which he speaks with all
the we'll known generosity and warmth
OF his nature, of this, his faithful and
beloved subordinate. The train bells
draws us away regretfully from Major
Eddy and Roanoke.
a SUNDAY MORNING BURGLARY.