Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-01-29
FOR A MIDWAY PARK
On the Beach Overlooking
Hampton Roads.
A SPLENDID MARINE VIEW
Far Ahead of That OF Any Other Seaside
Locality In the United States.
other Matters of
Interest.

Right on the heels of the numerous
rumorS concerning railroads to be built
IN tins n ar future. comes q suggestion
Which is worthy OF careful consideration
by TIE people OF Hampton and Newport
News. 1t Is that the two towns should
unite in an effort to acquire land for
spacious and handsome park on the
beach overlooking the waters of fIamp-
ton roads.
The wonderful advancement made by
Newport News and Hampton during the
past eight years means thar, unless it
should be Unexpectedly checked. the
population will soon be double what it is
today. Including those who live in the
Two towns there are, in round numbers,
aorut 10000 people on the lower end of
the Virginia Peninsula. The rate at
which the growth in populatio has
been going on during the time men
toned would increase the figures before
the close of the first decade of the
wv ntieth century to $4,000. But this
addition in numbers is reckoned upon a
basis of underlying conditions similar
to those by which the section, has been
enVironed since the beginning of 1893
conditions which everyone will admit
whatever the facts may be, We're not
favorable to rapid urban growth.
Eilt let 1t be granted that Newport
news Is TO nave the various imports i I
Improve ments foreshadowed, by recent
events, and that it is to be come. ted
with Hampton and Old Point Comfort
to to say nothing of the prosperous farm
ths section lying between this p7ace-by
ihotnei electric railway, frirEine the
osach anc affordins to strangers the on
portunity to View the finest marine nan
Drama to be found in all this land. no,
TO mention thy fame, the w.;Ie wc,l5
through. of the splen.Sd body of water
spread out before tbs m-wtat then ?
ms p!oddirE wayfarinE fool might easi
~ answer the question. An Oh man
VINO "dted many years ago on a farm
near where Phoebus now stands. left b
nina prophecy which. at the time i,
was uttered, caused him to be called a
crank Tie declared that ths day would
come when bis rustic abodseIno,e /, he
In the mfaSt ur q iIue.n,- 4-r-t+--.l-----i
10 r>ewpurt NEWS. some OF those who
heard the OLD mans prophecy have lived
to- see it partially fulfilled. Ten wears
more. under favo1able circumstances
will bring its full realization. Then
Newport News, Hampton and Pho5bus
Will be town of nearly 100000 people,
What would Sc large and important a
city be Without, a park? Wnerz could BE-
found a more charming ard convenien
place for it than the shor= OF Hampton
Roads? Would it not be wise to take
look ahead and begin in the work
now! Ten years from this tins grount
| on the water front between tn. twc
! towns vii. de worth much more than i,
| is now. 1t Will become SO valuable tina
! the city could not afford to purchase it
| Already thz beach section is attracting
| the attention of rich tourists. 4 lazy
! The wife of one of the wea!thiest mer
| in the city of Baltimore. said a few
| weeks ago. While visiting Hampton
| tl.at in extensive travis in nearly every
| country in the world. she had seen NJ
place so beautiful. Before leaving her,
! she bargaineI with a real estate man
Captain r. III. Claibcc,ne, to purchase 70,
her several acres of land. Let the 1--WE
towns wake up before they find them
selves, like Norfolk. city without :
BREATHING place for its thnnsan ase OF pSo.