Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-25
CORNERSTONE LAID.
on interesting Event at the Jefferson
Yesterday Morning.
Ok CARMICHAEL OrFIClATEs.
o"e' Hut Impressive c.remon,e.--adar.s.
s0"r Observation-Disclosures Present.
manages ia the Building.

e ceremonies were private. and in q
s'"Se' informal, but none the less im-
h'essiVe. There was no crowd, no rush.
30 music. ana passor-by. unless n keen
o's<'Ner would perhaps not have known
eaat anything unusual was going on about
the building.
ABOUT 10 o'clock those who had been
invited TO the ceremony assembled in the
once OF the work at the corner OF Frank
I'm and jefferson streets. and after a large
ana new United states Dag had been
quietly run up upon the pole in front OF
Nn's tho copper box 20 be Enclosed IN
TIE stone was scaled. This receptacle is
htteen inches long. seven inches high.
ana i've inches wide. Among us contents
are the following articles: y copy OF the
Dispatch, the Times. the State City Di-
rectory for lS9i. a package OF Richmond
Slr~lght-Nut cigarettes. a miniature from
the Powhatan Clay-Works. the Holy
Hielo. the Episcopal prayor-book and the
hymnal. blank stock certificate, a
check and a lctter-hcaG Of the jefferson
Hotel Company. copy OF the charter
by J. c. Shaefcr. j.. a history OF the
ole foreign and United States CONS.
THE CEREMONY.
AS soon as the sealing was completed
Major Gintcr requested the company TO
repair 20 the platform on the outside. and
arm-and-arm with Rev Or. Carmichael
headed the small procession.
The Cornerstone. which is NJ the same
time one OF the dressed granite angie
stones Of the first course over the iounnd-
ton masonry. WAS swung INTO lo7llloh
over its resting place by MT. l.. H. i'ol-
hrmUs. superintendent ot tho Consul ~
ton OF tine building and Mr.. Thomas T.
Savage. mason contractor, after when
thic,t coating ~ cement was laid upon me
Foundation wall Immediately under il.
The c1pper box was then handed 10 MAJOR
t.nttr. who adjusted il in the cement
and the stone which was hollow as u 'ne
bottom. was lowered over 30.
At signal from l'r Carmichn'l an
uncovered. ara that gentleman, having
TAPPED the stone with a trowel ana ii"-
uoi.ucel Il true and wei laid. read a
short prayer for the success Of the Work
and immunity from accident FOR thoe" en-
..teel I'm IT'S erection. Dr Carmichael d'~o
made "a few remarks. in which he c.ht1
attention 70 the fact that cofncr-st"ie
slaEiu- was "a very ancient ceremony. anu
that IL should be We'll done. ANA srohe
a. the necessity Of having fuch ho''i
as the jefferson IN Richmond lie cor
Cluded by asking n blessing. ana request
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the remarks that have been "lrelud
made. for any SGT or mercy 4o'-
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,asion. l do not thtN that li" b'oI p''-
III Of Richmond can be- ~ tIF c"''5
with any want or tA'f-F OF .L',.Ii'>
Contrast ihe city o. ic--dy N4'u '"'l "'
nine aui twenty years ago. Wh-" ne
cruel flames llIl ONE lalf az us MONIES II
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FLE.ASChES Of HE Inn.
Old DR. Johnson once said, as we are
toll. that there was nothing in the world
Dut OF which we could as much pleasure
ps good inn, and II half we read of the
jolly times that characterized the good
inns Of old England be true, he was not
far wrong. But the world has left the
waysids inn behind il. and the old stage
coaches are rotting in their stables now.
We travel by steam and electricity, almost
annihilatlng time and space. business
ana pleasure bring men constantly to-
gethor in masses, ana the great hotels
are for countless thousands almost their
only homes. and nowhere will they find
one more elegant, more convenient, and
more complete IN It's appointments than
Will be the Jefferson.
What an important factor II VIII be in
the material progress or our city-how In
uispensably necessary II is we all under
stahu-ahu .en'uIe 10 uuu u1at II VIII
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s,it here. sometImcs in the inferes. Of re
nuh,ic and sometimes nerhans IN mi,
own. Business-men viii meet here and
discuss their plans. Grave State intereste
viii be settled here. and selfish nriyate
schemes be here arranged. And II takes
hut lifting efort OF the Imagination IN
p,et,Ire 20 ones SELF the bright scenes