The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-19

oke and much valuable industrial mat.
ter. 1t was to THE TIMES alone that
the real estate men looked for complete
and accurate reports of the meetings
which organized the Virginia Real
Estate Exchange.
When the Grand Lodge, knights of
Pythias, met here on February 10. TuE
TINES. as on all occasions, was the onlv
paper in the city to give complete and
accurate reports of the proceedings. At
the meeting of the Baltimore Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
South, at Greene. Memorial Church in
this city, in March, 1891, THE TIMES
again showed it's superiority as news.
paper by publishing better repors than
any other paper, besides a large amount
OF interesting matter about tho promi-
nent members of tho Conference.
Hundreds of valuable industrial ar.
ticles that have done much to bring
capital to Roanoke have appeared cX.
clusively in TIE TIMES. Among the
most prominent of these were the five
column review OF the building situation
on March 6, 1891 and the building re-
view in November, 1891. In fact THE
TIMES, has. all along, published more
interesting information about the var
1ous industrial enterprises and the build
ing operations in Roanoke than all
other papers combined, as will be shown
by reference to the files.
When Charles Cameron disappeared
1t was through the tinstrumentality of
TIE TIMES that his body was traced to
the river and finally found. When
George Richardson killed John Dooley
TINES reporter secured confession OF
the manner in which the shooting &C.
CURED from Richardson. Before this
confession, which appeared exclusively
in The TIMES, the killing Of young
Dooley was shrouded in mystery
The meeting to organize tho Virginia
State Engineers Association April /,
1891, was fully reuorted exclusively in
TIE TINES. and the fullestS reports of
the meetings of the State Pharmaceuti.
cal Association, and the visit of the
Juniata Valley Editorial Association,
we're found in THE Tines. In fact every
local gathering and every State organ.
lzatlon that has assem- bled in Roanoke
during tho past year has been more
fully reported in TIE TINES than in any
other Roanoke paper.
TIE TINES was the only Roanoke
paper to send representative to the
famous Baker trial at Abingdon in july,
and its reports OF that great trial were
commended by counsel on both sides as
the most accurate and impartial that
were published. The TIMES was the
only Roanoke paper to send staff rep.
resentative to the Virginia Worlds
Fair Convention at Pulaski in july.
and its account of that event was the
fullest published in any paper. TIE
TINES was also the only Roanoke paper
to have staff representative at the
meeting of the Virginia Real Estate Elk
change in Wytheville, and its report of
that important meeting was also the
fullest published by any paper.
TIE TINES was the only paper in Roa-
noke to publish report of the proceed
ings of the Southwest Virginia Synod of
the Lutheran Church at Wytheville. in
July The TINES announced, before
any other paper, that the Bridgnwater
Carriage Works were to be enlarged
and moved to the Roanoke Development
Company's property; that the Virginia
Blanket Mills had been secured for the
same property, and that the Duvall En-.
CINE Works and Norwich Lock Manu-
featuring Company were to have their
plants removed to Roanoke. Also
through the columns of TIE TINES the
people OF Roanoke first learned definite
~ that hotel and observatory were to
be erected on Mill Mountain. THE
TINES also announced exclusively the
resignation of Superintendent Haupt of
the Roanoke Machine Works, and the
appointment of his successor, Richard
Il. Soulc.
1t was through THE TIMES that the
public learned OF the reorganization of
the operating department of the Nor
folk and Western railroad and the ap-
polntment of the different officials.
Among the important matter of news
The TINES superior telegraph facilities
have enabled it to lay before its read
ers ahead of any other Roanoke paper,
we're the important news of Congress,
the embarrassment of the Barring Bros
which was the starting of the financial
stringency from which the whole coun-
try has suffered for the past wear; the
move ments of the members of the Iron
and Steel Institute of Europe, who
made tour of this country; the explo-
sion of the Dupont Powder Mills, the
sudden death of Secretary Window. OF
the Treasury Department, at banquet
In New York; the New Orleans riot. in
which eleven Italians were killed, the
big railroad accident in Ohio and West
Virginia in May, 1891, and the big &C.
cident at Statesville, n, c., tho acct
dent in Park Place, New York, the
lynching of a negro by "a mob OF 5000
In Bristol in June, the political conven.
ton and other happenings, and hun
dreds of other important items of news
which lack OF space forbids mentioning.
few months after the paper started
under the new management Mr.. 2. L.
Terry resigned as president and as
member of the board of directors and
Judge Gooch succeeded him as president.
On March Mr.. James A. Pugh, the
former editor OF the Herald and presi-
dent of the Virginia Press Associa ton,
became attached to the staff of THE
TINES. On the 1st of Nav Mr.. III, ID.