The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-09-05
THE FUTURE GREAT CITY.
A Letter of Faith and Prophecy About
Suffolk. The Great Future
Mapped Out,
sirroLn, Va. August sOth, 1895.


Editor Of NOrJoM lifyilian:
knowing that whatever makes Nor.
folk great will be sure to send the
'Baok Wafer OF prosperity rising
around aud overlooking my own home
town, ! am impelled to give utterance
10 feeling akin to prophecy that
comes over me with force aud vision
oil tho future that has been constantly
IN my MUD of late.
The recent action of the Southern
Hallway system III securing Norfolk us
deep water terminus, aud tho uulet
movements OF tho Baltimore aud Ohio
people who, believe, are preparing for
the same thing, III the event they lind
1t necessary, aud L believe they will
lind 1t 90 III the near future when the
ocean steamship lines begin to run
weekly between Norfolk aud Europe
direct, should, If We uro wise, cause us
to look into that future with an eve of
faith and 500 the greut city thut Will
arise around and upon the shores of
the "king's Chamber" and begin now
to Icy the foundation on which one of
the grentest cities Of the New World
can DO built; and with q proper foun-
dntion its building may be greatly
hastened.
That city. if right preparations are
made, Will oxtend from Ocean Wow
around TO Norfolk and around the
shores to BerkIey, Portsmouth. Port
Norfolk West Norfolk. Newport News.
Hampton and Old Point, 1t should
receive namo that in tho future, when
It's grand proportions begin to take on
shape, Will be suitable to it. Having
decided on pame, some OF our best
legal tnIent aud few of our wisest.
most patriotic and experienced oitizens
should be entrusted with the prepara-
ton OF charter, wbioL for wisdom in
the administration of justice aud for
cleanliness aud purity IN tho collection
and disbursement OF finances, should
serve ms model Tor others to COPY.
This name und charter should apply
to Lumbert's Point, Norfolk, Ports.
mouth, Berkeley, South Norfolk, Port
Norfolk, West Norfolk, aud the sub
urbs around each, aud for many ron.
sons should be name in which each
would lose It's identity,
The charter should contain wise and
liberal provisions for extending the
city, aud ought to contain proylsIous
so as to render it impossible to check
lts extension when such extension was
Justllled aud deemed needfui and adj.
Niohuics L no IeHlOuhltB OIL local towns
and villages when about to be copsoIi-
date., for fear that they may lose their
local identity III tho new name, and
some ono or more of the others preserve
theirs, naturally renders the SELECTION
oil new hume difficult; therefore this
name should be entirely now and suit
able TO the great city and its location.
A good many Of the places now
named would preserve somewhat of
their present appellation in the new
city and Ocean View would be known
us 1.-The View" Willoughby Spit us
Tho spit" Newport News as ,sNev
Point" etc, aud these names might
aud doubtless would be perpetuated IN
the names of sub. postollices in the
great city. The new City Hall would
eventually BIO located on Sowell's Point.
because 1t would be the central point
OF the great metropolis aud from tho
dome OF the City Hall view OF the
entire city and the gateway between
the capes leading to the commerce of
she world would lay at the feet of the
enraptured beholder. But what shal!
the name OF the now city be? [ bog to
suggest ga the numo snitable for a
grent city that was spread around aud
about the great harbor defined by
Manry as the "King's Chamber" thut
OF "Centreport.
JNo. A. BROWNE.