The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-14
CITY NORFOLK
A Sketch Of Its Growth
and the Record OF
Its Greatness,
IT'S EARLY HISTORY.
Fullof Stirring Events-Its Later
Record Full Of Grand
Achievements
4 CITY OF plGuY INDUSTRIES.
0fEappy Homes-0f Solid Wealth
ard General Prosperity-Its
Increase in Population,
in Busines and in
Commerce.
q CITY OF agNY INDUSTRIES.

Tha poet who sang il
'T'urn backward, turn backward,
o time, In thy flight,
And make me boy again just for
tonight"
. these oft-Quotd lines would never have
been written. So far, as is known no
resident OF this beautiful city has ever
been heard to express the slightest de-
sire to impede, much less to reverse,
fo- one instant the splendid progress
she is making in all that combines to
create, retain, maintain and carry for
ward to It's ultimate goal that municipal
Sraa tness which is surely ours. Nor
lives there a man with soul SO dead,
that ever to himself has. said, II would
gather be a boy In the picturesque old
Town that once slept by the mirroring
waters Of the Elizabeth than a man
sharing IN the brightness Of her pros
porous present and the promise OF her
fruitful future"
p'icable evolution springs from awkward
girlhood to mature grace and lowell
ness, 80 does the average careless LITTLE
town grow TO The grea tncSs OF q mc!ropo-
lis So has Norfolk thrown away for
ever the Inadequate garments OF her
girlhood. and stands forth among her
sister cities by the sea, peerless in the
rich robes ofther commercial grea ess.
And looking at her. we do not know
2he freckled little maid, who so long
ago, with innate feminine pervers!ty
refused to grow until she got ready. and
snapped her igurative fingers in the face
Of the conditions that were always Try
ang 70 teach her that She really must
try and assume n little dignity. and
endcaVor to ttit herself for the future
Che was to grace.
Itwere curious to go back n century
or SO. and raml.le reminiscently through
tha early days Of what IS now tho
greater Norfolk. Where we are going
we already know-Ahead Wnei. we
came from may also. as a matter nf his
tory ana infotma ton. lbs Interesting; for
Sc we III! not come from somewhere we
would have 10 place TO go The birth OF
a city Is Just about as Important. even
IN its career, a $ any other that is likely
to befall
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the,
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