The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-09
"a Great Meeting at the.
Y. M. G. A Hall
Last Night.
MAYOR MCCARTHY
MAKES ADDRESS
His Honor Tells Of the City's
f Needs and Pledges Govern
1nent Aid So Far as He
Car-Mr. Bryan and
Others Make Ad-
dresses.
Mr. Arents ought to be compelled to
rebuild the Jefferson or demoIsh those

Mr. Arents ought to be compelled to
rebuild the Jefferson or demoIsh those
sinister ruins.
5s II | had my way would put the
next school building RIGHT In the mid
die OF a park. Nothing Is too good
tor the children, and the centre Of a
1 block without air, lleht or play
grounds Is no place for school, and
+ nothing would 40 alorlfy and beaut-
school In the middle Of Its largest
grass plot. .5
The boy is not an outlaw. He 4 Is 4,
our future citizen and our future
ruler. It is crImIraI folly to send
him off th. streets, allowing 9 no place
TO play football or build fires, or
\ swim, or play. The result is that we Il
\ drive them to smoking cigarettes, and
force them to make the bar and pool
rooms their play grounds, to their
and our eternal loss.
Boys are the richest asset that Rich
mond tas-let us develop and Instruct
this priceless source Of all true Growth
towards the city that Is our ide eas
Let us have done with this coWar'dly
y cry OF poverty. Richmond is mot not
poor. She Is powerful, prosperous 4Il and
able to have any reasonable and ne e;-54 ~
cessary convenlences. II Richmond 4
wants $500 900 High School, all she ne &
has to DO is TO say SO. .i ss' .}S
Richmond should have flag that
syn1bolizes Its power, wealth, pros.
Z perlty, peacefulness, education ana &
culture, IT his outward representation
Of our CITY should be borne by the
4 poles and tlremen In i every parade sHdAe \
and should float over every city school
or other public bulldlnu.-E xtracts a!'Hs (
n from Mayor McC Carthy's speech at last s 1
y nlaht's Business Mems Meeting
The business mems meeting; calied !, 2
the r. gP. Al, local post, and sheld At IN N
Y. NJ, Hall las night fort f1e pur
pose Of pressing Richmond commerce ON
and material advancement, was aeon
plete success, and anuHber OF i vleorouu y
and delightful speeches were ma dte,s che
among them having been those by: Mayo
McCn rthy and Mr. ]. Stewart Bryan, VIII
we're down on the programme for e tn
only ''set addresses. 81
rho meeting was we'll attended. and Sth
net results were that the chairman. M :
John C. Freeman was directed TO q 81
the Chamber of Commerce, the Il. f. y
and the Civic improvement tea sue t
name five members each on q joint com
mittee to raise 5000 to advertise the ad
Of. Richmond and to repor
later on as TO howl may best be spent
Another meeting will bc held shortl!
when this connlittee will report. .335#
Mr.. Freeman Presides.
Mr.. John c. Freeman called tho meet
Ing 10 order at 8:40 O'clock. and intro
iuced Mr.. Joseph NVallersten, who made
i most interesting address, 4sl
~ e,I1a n
Richmond resident in tho city for NJ
ways saying that Richmond was q ''.slop
town. He praised the material ndvan
Lnges OF Richmond, and declared that tn,
.ity could easily be made I; great one
IL the people would only take hold, ant
lId tho T. p. A. iii their efforts.
Mi. NVullerstcin read Il letter from /
former Richmond drummer, who wnrnll!
the meeting, and declared thn
lie believed Richmond had u great future
Mr.. Wallerstein was applauded warmly
when he said Richmond was not SLOW
anu In closing lie appealed to his hear
,rs to help demonstrate this to the world
Mr. j. Stewart Bryan was cordially re-
reiVed when he came forward and was
as the first set speaker. Mr.
Bryan made u most Interesting address
He dwelt upon tha fact that men needed
In order to go forward
and that they should be given helping
hand when they showed u disposition to
press forward In the march of progress
Tho speaker praised the 4 i. a, for
their uniform efforts In favor OF the
raisng of the commercial standard all
,ver the country and often his audience
broke into applause,
Mr., Bryan often had his hearers con-