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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-20
Labouchere's stylographic Peh.

Owing to using stylographic pens, my
temper is deteriorating, my language is
getting strOng-noC TO say profane, nv
fingers are always covered with ink, and
my writing is unreadible. AT one mo-
ment tine pen pours forth ink like a foun-
tain and blots everything, at another
moment it declines to blot the paper. My
existence is passed in screwing and uu-
the nib, aud in trying to get ink
Oft my fingers. Were / on a jury EN-
pannelied to try any manufacturer of
these pens, 1 should ask to be excused on
the ground that hated him SO much that
il would be impossible for me to hnd him
innocent Of any crime. London Truth.
Curious Qualities OF Pineapple Juice.
According to Signor Marcano, there is
in the common pineapple a ferment or
principle, similar to pepsine, of such re-
markable strength that the juice Of a
single pineapple will digest ten pounds of
beef. Ii this prove trne, a new aud i'm
pCrtant agent in the treatment OF dyspep-
sia has been discovered. But even more
striking was the further announcement
in the same paPeF. written by a practical
chemist, that the juice of the pineapple is u
very active solvent of the membrane
formed in d~ipAtheria.
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line Of this road, all good iron or other
manufacturing establishments, when
started with sufficient capital, have in
variably made money and are doing SO
now.
We have now numerous letters from
parties wishing to establish glass works
in the South. Some OF these come from
the Pittsburgh and Ohio districts,
where the natural gas is giving out;
others from various sections extending
from Illinois and Wisconsin to Maine.
We give these people prompt and
courteous attention, and put them
where they will succeed, with no refer
ence to real estate or town-lot interests
There are several large deposits Of glass
sand in Virginia. One body of this
cand is in Tazewell county, along side
the coal banks; another in the Shenan-
doah valley, near Buena Vista, and one
near Roanoke, whore a large factory is
now locating. An analysis OF the Virginia
glass sand, made recently, shows it to
be equal to the best Juniata and Empire
flint or Connellsville sands. Soda ash,
m important ingredient in the manu-
facture OF glass, Gun be made from the
salt brine at Saltville. The proximity
of this and the Pocahontas coal fields to
these sand deposits will insure the
lowest possible cost obtainahle in glass
manufacture"
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TItE PROSPECTS pR1dnr.

~ gather from what you say that you
are persuaded that the prospects are
bright for southern development in the
immediate future"
eyes, the prospects for the South the
coming year, and for many years, are
bright. The advantages Of this section
are being realized more and more by
Northern manufacturers, as evidenced
by the largely increasing inquiry we are
having for locations. The character Of
the institutions making these inquiries
is constantly improving and becoming
more diversified. People Of the North
and Northwest arc now looking to Vir-'
GINA for iron and ore mines to develop.
This is true also OF the English people,
as result OF the reports OF the foreign
visitors of the Iron and Steel Institute
last fall. The character OF iron ores
that the English are inquiring for are
high phosphorus ores suitable for max
ing basic pig metal, which are abun-
dant throughout this section. see
that the London City Leader, in recent
review OF the situation, strongly en-
dorses the views OF Sir Lowthian Bell
and his distinguished associates in their
enthusiasm for the South, and the many
good words spoken for us by our late
English visitors are awakening foreign
interest that promises most substantial
results.
There are now under construction
along tho line of our road number OF
large rolling mills-ono to manufacture
muck bar and merchant iron; another
TO manufacture muck bar and plate
iron; another to manufacture muck bar,
cotton ties, tack plate and tacks; anoth-
or to manufacture structural iron, sheet
iron and galvanized iron; another to
manufacture muck bar and skelp iron, at
tached to which will be large wrought
iron pipe mill. There are also under
construction extensive works for manu-
facturing cast iron gus and water pipes,
the largest in the South, and basic
open.hearth steel plant is contemplated.
II is claimed by the iron men that the
advantages for the manufacture Of cot
ton ties in this section cannot be eQualed
by another section in the United States
on account OF the close proximity of the
raw materials and the short hauls on
cotton ties to the cotton-growing dis
tricts OF the South. All Of these enter
prises arc in the hands OF men Of high
character and large capital, They are
practical Northern men who have been
successful in their old locations, and are
now moving because they are ahleto see
the advantages this section affords.
OPENINGS FOR LABOR AND FARMERS.
"Whatis the outlook for the working
people in that section?"
''There is very wide and urgent de-
mand for skilled labor in all new towns
along our road. Carpenters, stOnema-
sons, plasterers, plumbers, gazflttcrs,
timers, painters, and all kinds OF work.
men needed in building new cities find
steady work at good prices, and their
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ments in this favored region, and two
OF the largest financial corporations
having investments here are syndicates
OF English and Dutch capitalists repre-
sented by Mr. J. II. Dingee, OF $50 Wal
nut street, Philadelphia. These com
panies are the Virginia Investment
Association and The Virginia Land
Company. Their investments cover a
wide range, including interests In land
and Improvement companies, mineral
properties, timber lands, etc. The same
gentleman is the head Of many OF the
land and improvement companies local
to different towns on the railroad.
The management OF all these. inter
ests has been marked by keen intelll-
gence and wise foresight 1t is notable
TINT their enterprises show none OF that
mushroom or fictitious growth which
has made tho name OF the ordinary
"boom town" odious. There is no loud
trumpet-blowing with nothing to justify
it. These gentlemen seek only sub,
stantial enterprises OF permanent and
lasting value. Their operations are not
OF the character OF ephemeral specul9-
ton, but OF real improvements winch
must enhance in value and add to
the value OF all about them in greater
degree year by year. 1t is from such
operations as these that the local COM
munities, the State, the country wakes
great and prosperous, without fear that
some morning light adverse breeze
will blow the whole structure away Ike
the uusubstantial fabric OF dream.
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net earnings are increased by the fact
that living expenses are uniformlylOw.
"Another thing: While this great
industrial development is building fac
tories and towns, it is also Of incaicu-
liable value to the agriculturist, afford
ing him homo market for everything
grown on the farm at the best prices,
without indictments charges or freight
tariffs. The demand for wheat, oats,
hay and corn in Southwest Virginia has
increased so rapidly in the last FIVE
years that it exceeds the supply and
the same condition, arising from the
same causes, doubtless exists generally
through these favored sections, Every
new mine that is opened DIP employs
from so to 100 men and many mules
and horses Every new manufacturing
industry increases these consumers OF
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,ase and comfort Of tour over the Nor

ease and comfort Of tour over the Nor
folk & Western road appreciate its pro-
eressiye and excellent management.
Nothing has been left undevised that
could add to tho comfort, convenience
or pleasure Of the patron. All the roll.
ing stock is Of the most recent approved
design. Elegantly appointed coaches,
lighted by gas and electricity, yesti-
buled trains, smooth track, in short,
every advantage offered by the finest OF
the older roads, is found here. Through
sleepers and Pullman" day coaches are
run between New York, Philadelphia,
Washington and Baltimore, and New
!. Orleans, Ghattanooga md Louisville,
local accommodation trains, even, are
fitted out with the most thorough con.
sideration for those who use them, and
the road is in equipment and manage
ment, abreast OF the times.
The hotels which the company has
established on its lines for the accom-.
mediation of travellers are O wonder OF
architectural attraction, stylish service
and complete and satisfactory cuisine.
No other railroad company has devoted
SO much attention to this important ac-
cessory to good railroad service. The
most favored city offered nothing better
in this regard than the important towns
along this railroad, thanks to the enter
prise Of the company. A leisurely trip
along its route will be long remembered
as q season of enjoyment, unmarried by
the thousand little annoyances so COM
mon to railroad travel under the most
favored circumstances.
In this, Us in the other details OF their
administration, the officers OF the COM
pany demonstrate their good judgment
and their ability. The officers, who are
mainly to be credited with the progress
siye and enlightened management are
President Frederick ]. Kimball, Vice
President Charles G. Eddy, General
Manager Joseph H. Sands and General
Passenger Agent W. B. Berill, although
the entire official corps is made up of
competent and experienced men.
SOME FIGURES.
The Importance of the Norfolk &
Western as coal and ore line is shown
by the following table of mineral traffic
from the company's annual report for
1890, the latest one issued:
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Renoys Associations Building.
Rnok House. Rock House Glen.

luhNf W.
This extension is 105 miles in length.
The bridge at Kenoya is now under con,
struction, and is very fine piece OF
work. Work is being pushed at every
point on the line, and it will be com
pleted within eighteen months. We
have also almost ready for tracklaying a
branch line from Ivanhoe to Speedwell,
to develop the iron ores Of the Cripple
Creek district. This is great agTicHl'
tural and mineral country, the brown
hematite ores Of this section being Of
exceedingly high grade. We have also
completed a line from Ivanhoe to the
Gossan ore banks in Carroll county. As
Is well known, the Gossan ores are
found OVERLAPPING the .Mundic rocks,
which carry sixty per cent. Of metallic
ore, when the sulphur is extracted, and
arc inexhaustible. We are now builds
ing this line through TO the State line;
north ot Mt. Airy, n. O., where we con-
meet with the Cape Fear 4 Ysdkin Val,
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Tho DestlnIcs of Future Towns Along tho
ns...l l.. Ir.naliu,.A IInnh.

Tho Destlnics of Future Towns Along the
Road in Excellent Hands.
One who is interested in tho mar
velous development OF Virginia and
West Virginia and inquiries into the
facts concerning the growth Of the coun-
try along the Norfolk & Western rail-
road aud the work behind it all, finds
that a vast deal OF the capital and energy
that have inspired and impellod the
movement, has its home in Philadel-
phia, or at least is controlled from that
point. Foreign capitalists have not
been blind to the advantages OF invest
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Tho Konova Inn.
Cottages al KenovA

The annual report for this year will
show q still greater increase in 1880, and
several important developments have
The Shenandoah Valley railroad, pur-
chased by the Norfolk & Western in
1890, while it extends through an older
and more developed country than most
Of its new divisions, bears yet an impor-
tant relation to the main line, and is
already having the same stimulating
effect on the territory along the line
which the company's other lines have
had. This division extends from Roam
oke TO Hagerstown, Md, through the
garden spot Of Virginia. AT Front Roy
al branch is to leave this line for
Washington City, and this road is now
being built. Through the valley cities
are springing into being, and the WHO'D
fertile section is has taken on new lie.
wssr vlasmIA is the State fox the
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AN oFF1CIAn STATEMENT
From vlce.PresIdent Eddy of the Plans of
the n. s. W. Company.

In preparing to adequately present
the wonderful era of progress and de-
velepement of the region along the
Norfolk & Western road, an INTELIIaEN-
GER representative spent some time at
Roanoke, the headquarters OF the COM
pany. Concerning the work in progress
or projected by the company, Vice
President Charles G. Eddy, whose office
is at Roanoke, gave the following state
ment, in answer to inqpiFies<aStp;the
development along the line:
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interior, her jobbing business, ia not
considerable in proportion to her other
business; nor is she yet in any sense u
manufacturing community She has,
however, large lumber industry, vast
cotton shipping business, an oyster
trade only second to that Of Baltimore;
and the logic OF events argues lor her u
brilliant and busy future.
The lumber industry Of Norfolk in
1890 produced 320,0OO,U0O ieet furnished
lumber. There are sixty saw and plan.
ing mills, employing about 5000 men,
and the wages paid out aggregate year,
~ about 100000.
Asacoal shipping pointand as coal
ing station for large ocean vessels Nor.
folk is just beginning TO assume that
importance which her position Justly
gives her At LamDert's Point, the
coming port OF the city, are the immense
coal docks OF the n. q w. Co., where the
famed f6eahott;ls Coui is transferred
from ears to ships for export or for use
in making steNm. The fuct that the
fastest transatlantic voyage was made
with poCahontas coal in the furnaces
has given il quite boom for use ON
steamers, and Norfolk bids fairto be the
coaling station Of all the big line steam-
ers. La 1889, 4,020,50S tons OF this coal
were handled at Lamberts Point, and
since then the capacity has been largely
increased to keep pace with the demand.
MERCHANDISE SHIPMENTS.
At this point, also, allthecotton bust
ness OF Norfolk from the southwest
will be handled. This cotton comes al
ready baled for export, and has only to
be transferred from the cars to the YES
sells. The facilities for handling general
merchandise are also unsurpassed.
There are two large merchandise docks,
two coal docks and a transfer bridge.
The company has besides all the room
it will evernCed for additional wharfage.
About twenty firms in Norfolk are en-
gagged, in oyster packing, and about
1000, 900 bushels are caught each season.
The shucking and handling Of oysters
gives employment to many hundred
hands. Besides these sources, Norfolk
is the home OF that great American
fruit, the succulent and odorous peanut,
and four large establishments are en-
gagged in cleaning and grading the nuts,
the capital invested being about $780,
900, and the employees numbering per-
haps 700
In round numbers, about half mil
lion bales OF cotton are received here
yearly, from the local territory, and five
powerful presses, or "compresses," are
employed in rebaling the cotton for ex-
port, and it is claimed that Norfolk has
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Residence ut Roanoke.
Randolph building, RAdl0rd,


the farms products, and they are going
to continue to increase. We are, here
in Roanoke, paying $50 ton for tim
othy hay, 50 cents for oats, 81 % for
wheat, and there is plenty Of good iarm-
ing land all around here. Sheep raising
is sharply on the increase, but more 70,
sheep raisers are still needed. The
mountains hereabouts are especially
we'll adapted 10 this industry, and
under the present tariff ON woo! it is
highly profitable. A mild, equable eli
mate constantly prevails, and on these
sunny mountain sides the ewes a9tici-
pate the lambing time OF their Northern
sisters by from four to six weeks, en-
abling sheep raiser here to put spring
lambs into the Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York markets at least month
ahead of Pennsylvania and Ohio grow
ers, and obtain corresponding fancy
priCeB.
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"Woolen mills are being built at
Salem, Bedford, Wytheville, Abingdon
Kent and other points to consume Viz
ginia-raised wool. Virginia is destined
in the future to equal Ohio as a WOOL
growing State.
"our great industrial development
and the consequent establishment oil
home markets affords openings for Nor
thern and Western farmers who, on ac-
count of climate or the more profitable
condition OF the farming industry ifthis
section, desire to change and succees Nully
operate small farms near the industrial
centers of Virginia, while the farmer IN
the Piedmont and Tidewater sections
will be greatly benefited not oliy by
the increased demands OF the no itS
markets in their section, but also y :. tn Z,
demand for wheat by millerS ~ hich-
mond, Norfolk and Petersburg ann % StheT
points, who will manufacture Tor praHll
and other South American countries
under the new trade relations 30" 0elng
established with those countries me
Industrial development in NirgliRa Is
doing more for farmers than any esis-
lation that has ever been enacted ever
can be enacted would do for mem mem
They will profit by it, and it viii e9,Shiy
n question OF a few years when Iie u
large farms win be cut up ana lh
200 to 25O.acre farms and ~ sNllef
tracts for gardening. ~,
Mr.. Eddy has given the INN he
speaks OF more attention than any snsE
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TIE n. & WIS INFLUENCE.

For much Of this tho credit must be
given to the Norfolk & Western railroad.
The fact is, the establishment by that
company of its piers Mt Lambert's Point
made practically q now town, which be-
came part OF Norfolk, Portsmouth and
Berkeley, on the other side OF the river,
are the residence cities, part OF the
same community, and it docs not take
seer to look fur enough into the future
to see here, clustered about one Of the
finest harbOrs and roadsteods IN the
world, city Of several hundred thous-
and souls.
Old Norfolk ia 80 hemmed In by the
water. which is on every side, that sho
can grow in but one direction, and that
Is toward Lambert's Point. Like all
crowded cities, business houses are
pushing the residences farther and
farther away. The problem, where shall
people live3 has been, however, nap;
pilv solved. Between the old town and
Inc new shipping port lies o beautiful
level tract Of land large enough to house
the population Of the whole city. This
was occupied by stately old virginia
mansions, gardens and groves OF rare
trees, partly covered by marsh lands, and
separated from the city by one OF those
currentless estuaries here called creeks
mr. rivers. This land was acquired by
an organization Incorporated as the
"Nori6lk Company" OF which Mr.. John
Graham, ir., OF Norfolk, is superlnten-
dent and engineer. 1t is now being
laid out in lots and streets on an orlgi'
mai and admirable plan. Liberal tracts
have been set aside for parks and public
snnarcs. beautiful steel bridge, fifty
Feat vide, the roadway paved with Wit
ri6ed having brick, already spans Para
disc creek, leading to old Norfolk, the
county having erected this at its own
EXPENSE, and before a lot is SOLD me
streets arc to be graded and paved, this
work already having made good pro.
frees under the skillful direction OF
H. Graham. the company's engineer.
For ali these betterments the company
pays. ,-,, to,,ho-,,.
Point The centre OF the shipping indus.
try. and the present business part OF
Norfolk, this ground Is the Key 70 !he
sitnation, 1t enhances in value daily,
and with the growth OF the city lets
,hnro viii become Of incaicuiable value,
as Tho residence portion Of the town
must he In the future confined TO mar
row limits aside from this attractive
plat.
ARTISTIC FEATURES.
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NORFOLK & WESTERN
-. nrovn Builder" Of tho South
-. WI BELT and What It Has Done
EAR The COUNTRY IT TRBVERSES.
~. wilderness Developed as If by
Magic into Thriving Towns.
agEB SCENERY AND RICH SOIL,

v,.e , Rarely AttractIyo Country for
A. Tourist or the Resident, and the
Marvellous Wealth of Natural Re
.or,ccs with Which 1t is Endowed
Make # the Mecca ofManufacturers
Magic Cities on the Line.--Mines
and Factories springing up.
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THE WORK OF DEVELOPMENT.

man, and his utterances are based OIL
experience and entitled to weight.
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ARTISTIC FEATURES.

Among the improvements coll'etu'
plated by the company, which shows
fare liherality and regard ior the artistic
side il a canal, called the Hague, IRON
is i'S' associations and the fact that its
is was suggested by the Binnenhot,
IN tiojland's famous capital, 1t will be
lined with trees and drives, and walks
, mon its sides will make Il beautiful
nlctnrp. All about the creek banks,
loo, Shell roads and paved bogIeyerdIs
wiil AFFORD splendid driycsLand rarely
VII" 'r views. The View q the
Imposing marine Hospital, at f2 % y.
month. lust across the liver md OF it7
%rnrn surroundings is notably hne. .,
The ground included in the EorlolE
COMMANDS tract, though within thecor-
Soraie limits Of the city, IRE exempt
from municipal taxation toriiiteen years.
parks arr somewhat rare IN Norfolk
now as, hut there are in contemplation t%o
gne parks, one in the eastern and the
cher in tho western part The western
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"Our most important work now in
progress is the extension from Elkhorn,
W. Va, through Mcdowell, Logan and
Wayne counties, that State, to kenovN,
on the Ohio river, where it will cross
into Ohio to connect with the Scioto
Valley road, now division OF our line
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wssr viaes,A is the State tOE the
colonist.
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SOME FIGURES.

The Importance of the Norfolk &
Western as coal and ore line is shown
by the following table of mineral traffic
from the company's annual report for
1890, the latest one issued: