The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-29
ION TO RICHMOND.

The growth of the city of Richmond
has been. particularly for the past ten
years. the most notable urban growth IN
the South Atlantic States. 1t enjoys the
blessings of the lower freight rates that
water transportation guarantees. The
organizers of the old Richmond and Dan
vile system, the father of the Southern
Railway, were mainly Richmond men, and
they did much to give an impetus to the
business, manufacturing and financial
power and prowess of the former capital
of the Southern Confederacy
For four long years soldiers from every
Southern State fought in the trenches
that defended that city from the Federal
cry: ION to Richmond and returned
home with feeling toward the city they
had defended that they had to no other
city in America. 1t will ever hold
warm place in their memories. Many
soldiers and the sons of soldiers visit
that city to look upon the monuments of
the Souths great leaders, to go into the
museum of Southern relics. and to linger
amid scenes made dear by associations
by recollections, by the ties formed in
cause that is dear to them. 1t is a beau
tiful city, rich in history and in tradition,
rich also in beautiful parks and every
thing that goes to make delightful and
lovely city.
But Richmond, while cherishing past
traditions and sacred memories, has not
lived In the past. Its business men have
been as progressive and wide awake as
those in any New England city. They
spell business there with big B, progress
with a big P. and enterprise with big
Z. In varied manufacturing it leads any
city of its size in the country. and its
manufacturing plants are steadily grow
ing in number. its plants enlarged, and
giving employment to a population of
thrifty and industrious men and women.
Richmonds banking Institutions are I'M
equalled in strength, capital deposits. sur
plus, volume of business and prudent and
progressive management by any city in
the country of it's population. 1t is like
wise the greatest life and fire insurance
center in the South
In colleges and in schools, in hos
pitfalls and sanitariums, in libraries
and in parks, in its hotels and homes, in
monuments and paintings, in newspapers
ard the publication of books, in public
buildings and grounds, in splendid pub
JIG spirit and faith in itself and in the
SoUth's great future-in these higher es
of the cities of America.
Perhaps Richmond's primacy is best
seen in its business houses-wholesale and
retail. They do a volume of business
that is larger than any outsider would
estimate, and this business is growing by
leaps and bounds It's wholesale trade is
nc of its biggest commercial cards. Drum
mers from strong and successful houses
in almost every line travel more than
half dozen States thoroughly, and make
trips into dozen States to meet the army
OF customers. In North. Carolina the
trade with Richmond is like an ever
widening stream, pouring a rich volume
OF trade in the capital Of Virginias Com
monwealth. North Carolina merchants
love to go to Richmond, both because
they feel at home and because they find.
combined with every advantage offered
by Northern cities, a comradeship and
courtesy and a common feeling that is
pleasant and delightful The News and
Observer is glad to be the means OF
bringing Richmond and North Carolina
closer together, of strengthening old ties,
and helping to turn the footsteps of North
Carolina business men, who must go to
large cities to buy, to the progressive
capital of North Cardinals sister State.
In the April Century Magazine, Charles
Marshall Graves contributes delightful
article on Landmarks of Poe in Rich
moEd from which we make room for
the following extract, which is not map
rropriate to this edition of the News and
OBSeTNef:
Poe loved Richmond he loved no
other place on earth. His happy child
hood was spent there-rthe only period OF
his troubled life, which was free IRON
want. Here he found his foster-tather,
John Allen, who was proud of the orphan
boy, and the only mother he ever knew,
who was sweet and gentle with him to
the end. Here were the friends and play
mates of his boyhood and here lived the
gentle woman who was the "Helen" OF the
most beautiful of his early poems. Here,
after first ceremony in Baltimore, he
was married byca second to lovely and
youthful Virginia GLENN. and here they
\ spent the happiest year OF their married
iite Here, as the editor of the Southern
Literary Messenger he did much of his
pest work.