The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-28
GROWN TO BIG CITY
since END OF WAR.
Richmond Of To-Day and That Ct
Forty Years Ago.
PROSPEROUS, PROGRESSIVE
Her Lines Have Stretched Out. Waste
Places Have Built Up, and Her
Wares Go to The Great Mar,
kets Of III, World.
PROSPEROUS, PROGRESSIVE

! The Richmond of to-day is not the
Richmond of forty-odd years ago.
The remarkable strides Of her people
In business and the increase in population
are worthy of the highest praise, and
comparisons fl the bosons of her citi-
gems with the warmest feelings OF pride
Forty-two years ago Richmond was
city, it is true. but her population was
but a little over 10000 as against 5000 as
shown by the last census and nearly 10o.-
cG1 as a ccn~ervative estimate Of the pres
ent popr1'- ton. While she was always
a market and feeder for a large back
country. yet she has never been so deep
" aroused in business sense as now,
and in the long ago everything done was
on a small scale as compared with the
busy hum of trade. commerce and manu-
facture which IL evident on every hand
today In manufacturing enterprises
the old Capital City has surprised and
e~ca'!ed the expectations and hopes of
the most sanguine she makes for both
domestic and export trade the best loco
motive engines that are constructed on
The American Continent. ana her ships
builded by the home people ard launched
IN historic waters. rue DIS pt ouciS oily
that travel the seas of tho world.
INCREASED TERRITORY.
For+y-odd years ago Richmond's west
ern limit was Lombardy Street but
from that point east to Foushee Street
there were no houses. and from Foushee
east to Eighth Street little wooden
shanties stood where now the towertrg
and splendid store houses beaut'fy and
adorn and to the south and west the
architect had never dreamed of the hand
some brown-stone residences that now
stand as monur-ents to the happiness
and prosperity of an ever en:erprislnS
people.
There We're no factories down town.
save few. where tobacco was made
ready for use. and the fashionable re-
silence portion Of the city was on East
.1ain. Cary. Grace Franklin. Clay. Mar
shall and Leigh Streets. and some por-
tons Of Church Hill.
There no sp endid pile Of stone for
City Hall: no Lee Monument: no Cham
Der of Commerce: no new Federal Build
ing: no State Library: no Masonic TEN
pie and indeed. none of the fine build
lngs which now dot her seven hills ana
which only come as a result of push
and enterprise on the part Of citizens OF
q community.
LARGE MANutACICRiES
IT addition TO largely increased facil-
titles for handling and manufacturing to-
l,acco and the splendid equipments for
steam engine and ship building. statistics
VIII show that in other lines Of manufac-
ture Richmond measures 10 we'll with her
Southern sisters. She turns out more
homemade baking powders in The co-1re
OF year than. perhaps. any city her size
in the United States. and ice. glass. beer
Il r., nf Nnyy "a ar
manufactured here in large quantities.
Richmond also has large number, OF
strong. prosperous banks. and has come
to be one of the distinct money centers
OF the South. Her shoe trade and manu-
facture is something worthy OF note, for
in these lines she stands at the head of
the Est Of her Southern sisters. Her wa
tor front has been deveooed and improved
unit, ocean going steamers may come
into her ports and she has encouraged
steam and street railway development
urti. she has an almost perfect system Of
beth.
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.
In SCHOOLS and colleges she is in the
front ranks. It's public school system is
rs good as will be found anywhere. and
she. has two uo-to-date medical colleges
besides Richmond College and a number
OF fine schools for women.
It's corporate limits enclose .523 %
acres. It's streets extend over lis miles.
are wei! graded. ana many or them are
macad anl'Zed or paved with Belgian
blocks or other material. Ii has excel
lent natural drainage. supplementsd with
a well-deveoped sewerage system. Its
two reservoirs with purning Canacity OF
over "a 900 eco gallons ner day and storage
capa city of over 30 0oo 600 gallons. afford
ample supply of excellent water for
domestic PURPOSES.
SOME STATISTICS.
The assets of the city are estimated at
5000 900 and its taxable values at s70.-
100000.
The mileage Of the railroad systems
rentered at Richmond including the
Farrlville and Powhaton. connected with
Richmond over the Southern. ard the
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad and
he Norfolk and Western. which enters
Richmond over the Rich-nond and Pc
'ersburs Railroad. is as follows:
The Atlantic Cost Line. 2.152
Chesaneal.e and Ohio ................. 1.o25
Farn7vf!le and PowFla tan .......4.. q3
Norfolk and Western ................. 1.6i1
Richmond. Fredericksburg and Po-
Seaboard Air Line ..... . 691
Southern Railway ... 1875
WHITE HAND on PROGRESS.
And so it is. that what forty years aeo