The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-22
WELCOME TO ROANOKE,
THE GATEWAY TO SOUTHERN
PROGRESS,
HER FAST PHENOMENAL. HER
FUTURE ASSURED.


Tho Norfolk delegation arrived carly
yesterday morning in n special Pullman
car chartered for the purpose. Three
rows of fcstoons of bunting in rcd, sal
mon, pink, purple and white hung grace
fully above the windows, and beneath
them was painted on large white back
ground the words 'Norfolk Real Estate
Exchange to Roanoke Convention"
Ihe names of the real estate firms Of
Nv. FL. IL. Trice & CO., e. NJ Henry, II.
L. Rogers, III. J.. Page e Co, L. a. Par
sons, Smith IS Pannill. a. W. Cornick.
Myers & Co., Hannah & Byrd, Pollard
Bros, Roper & Slcdcr, Poindextcr,
Jackson e. Crummit, Shields, Martin &
Catlctt and S. Il. Barney wcrc placed in
tho intervals between each car window.
AS the trains pulled in at the station
the tall stately men, in beavers and
nerbys, who got off could be invariably
spotted as the delegates. AS the com
mitteo on Arrangements of the Roanoke
Exchange had arranged for tho enter
tainnent of the larger part of the real
estate men at the Ponce dc Leon, the
4 greater part Of them made for tho SAT
4 from skinned porter, whose attempts to
get the hang OF the French pconuncia-
tion of his hostel:y were somewhat lud-
I ferrous. But his stcntorian cries OF
\ "Ponth .Deei-Yon" were sufficient to
mako known his meaning.
Norfolk,
4 DR., Il. A. Parsons, who came up with
i tho Norfolk party belongs to Roanoke
i and wcll never give him up. He is 36
Il aind hustler from Texas, where he was
4 born. He lived in Salem for some wears
and came to Roanoke last March Since
then he he's been on top of the biggest
enterprise which Roanoke has known.
When the Roanoke and Southern was
Il hanging fire, he came to tho front with
a d $4,000 subscription which settled the
i question off hand. He was at the fore.
q frctlt of the Woodland Park sale, which
advertised Roanoke as it was never adj
a tertised before. Now he has Norfolk
Il on his string and will give that city q
II taste Of his quality in the near future.
& He is engineering the big auction
81 sale Of Lambert's Point lots at Norfolk
III which comes off next week. The Doc
"a tor is a bright energetic man and his
"a friends will fight for him all day long.
81 This is what the Old Virginia Real
"a Estate News says about him:
81 "Mr. l.. y. Parsons, a man who can
~ oven organize victory out of defeat. lie
81 is naturally one of the leaders of men,
g8 and masters of situations. There are
81 no circumstances in any situation,
SNhowcvcr unfortunate, that his native
@ cleverness does not extract some adj
|A vantage from them. He speaks and
"a phen hear him; he acts and men follow
|@his example, He counts for host in
tHahy enterprise with which he is con-
y3Anectcd.
68 w. il. II. Tricc, the founder tho firm
s3Aof w. II. III. Tree and Co., took n de-
fS3 partment room in the Office of Leigh
4aBros. and Phelps; of Norfolk in 1877,
1yyith capital of only $500. Walter
saSharp joined him 1881, and the firm has
into one OF the largest in Norfolk,
EfsMr. Trice is now worth 100000
4s Mr.. Trice was born in Louise county,
{S3Ha., and was, before going to Norfolk, a
WI s}}1hail agent on the Norfolk and Western
sssk Alfred.
S| (Wafs Z Sharp, of the firm of w. II.
SSadR. Tricc 81 Co., of Norfolk, is forty two
/ H531v1ears old and is a son of the late w. w.
s5Sharp, president of the Exchange Bank
$l!sAbk Virginia.
2H Going to Baltimore he lived there
ssseNen years, and in 1881 he joined Mr..
{a5rHice in forming the firm of W. II. Ii.
q gRTrice tS Co, He fought hard to secure
3sAhe annexation bill, which secured to
a sfNorfoli her first great start in progress,
a 'sbringing 700 acres of new territory to
Ethc city. He organized tho Business
j seAfen's Association, and with William
n barmill appeared before the legislature
All z lsecure recognition of real estate mon,
aHl pich resulted in forming the State eX-
MI Tango
.W Smith e Pannill, of Norfolk, real
I'M ltate and insurance brokers and auc-
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