The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-01-27

consumptives from the north are making our
city II place of winter residence. The city has
advanced rapidly with its new sewerage Sys-
ten, the need of which was mcnaClng the
health of all The Board OF Health organized
under the new charter have be,n indciatiga-
BILE in their work OF enforcing sanitary laws.
Campbell and Salem avenues have been
paved III business sections with chtlhowic Wit
riiicd brick, set Cdgcwisc, and they apparent
| ly successfully resist the pressure Of the hcaN-
lest wagons. The other streets after being
brought to grade and rolled were covered
with stone broken to about the size oi he'll
eggs, then covered with finer layer, and the
last covered with puiNrriZcd stone, which, AT
ter being SprukIcd with waite" Was rolled into
II compact miIS$ 10y tension steam rollers. re-
ducing all tn Il solid roud-hti vi sin inches i,
depth. The result * road ''smnoth as
tiOor' and nosclcs>, but dusty i'll dry wealth
er.
The city has just passed an ordinance 10 sub
stitmtc electric are lights of tw" thousand can
die power each Tor gas Il hgEt,nE the streets,
at Il cost % 2l cents per night for each light.
The past summer saw the completion of the
Terry building, seven stories high, and costing
one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Ii
contains two banks. on" with one hundred
thousand and the other with one hundred and
fifty Thousand dollars surplus. The rest of tn"
building Is devoted TO offices.
Several miles of street car tracks were laid
during the past year. The cars are propelled
by electricity from an overhead wire, known
us the "IrullCy' system; the current also
lights and heats the cars. No matter how cold
the day the passengers always lind the cars
comfortable
1892 has gone into history as the gre. build
ing year in Roanoke. The careless. ChuruC-
tcristic buildings OF the period of speculation
have given place 10 brick and iron structures
that would grace any city. Liquidation ol real
estate debts is going steadily forward. and
the close of 1898 viii see the most prosperous
! year yet enjoyed 10y the Magic City.
The Roanoke Machine Works, covering
| seventeen acres, have issued orders to increase
| capacity and number of workmCn to an cN
| tent surprising its rec rd. The force HOW
numbers one thousand men, but will reach
| one thousand eight hundred i'll February.
Roanoke Is an established fact. a directory
| census taken i'll October gave IL population Of
| nearly twenty-four thousand inhabitants. 1t
| Is only II question of IL few months before JiIC
| Il. n o., now hut forty miles Distant and the
| {. y o.. only twCnty-iiVc miles away, are run
| ming trains into Roanokc. The n. W. Rail-
| road, under the wise management of President
kimbail. is the great factor that Is solving the
| future for Virginia and disntcgrating many
| foolish and antiquated ideas that for years
| have held in CHECK the development OF her
| mighty resources. Since the close of the Civil
| War this road has grown from an unimpor-
| tlnt line of 100 miles to system, within itself.
| of nearly thirteen hundred miles. reaching
! from the ocean nearly to Chicago and ramity
| ing throughout the mineral regions of Virgin
| il, W. Virginia. North Carolina, Eastern Ten
ncs>ec, Western Maryland and ohio, and Il few
days since, was granted PERMISSION by Con
| yrusS to enter Washington city. The entire
system is controlled from Roanoke. thus Civ
ing employment to more than two thousand
men at this point.
Roanoke is not typical Southern town. but
is Il composite production, combining the en-
crgy Ui the North with the awakening desire
of the South for development OF her re-
sources This, with conspicuous element
from foreign countries, principally young
| men. nuke up Il population that is not
passed for hopeful, energetic effort.
Already this mingling and intermarriagc be-
tween the two sections are having their effect
i'll softening the fert city of sectional hatred,
and which is the only solution of the question
We are rapidly moving to that not far of
divine event. wherein all thought of the
bloody past will be that it only incvi-
table product of our national evolution, to be
remembered only us other decisive epochs of
history.
+. p. SMITH