The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-25
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az tile cisygi several years SO Y g IS SAT-
should they max d trip out the q: " Way
10 II they would not Where they
were. 8iSSl ts
our years ago that sec tion4t*ithln
easy sight Of we va 9 mace
5rp largely mud holes ,arslles aFd
frog pond s. 1t is true streets we're LAID
on, but the FEW PEG pie traye s oas
there did the MD die 81 sthe
road hut cut across IVA cant lots 5tand g
all offthcnlswe acant ossTod1 Gig y
any way to get here tey were ere gong
M The shortest possible inc. are was
nut little inducenlen To- llngersany length
ofVtimcy or ID even wal for here
4, !, nothing interesting TO look at except
ti1egS monument itself, here y ere i "
liei z. no. letter boxes. no Lett
no sew e1si Or culyerts st ~ an th rs
swanIs and frog ponds and not hing else Sc!
II q make stheslantl al tractlye pie who
sLonlbardy Il, street al night had to 4 Garry
matches to lish. sas call q WI
a Broad Street. car, 553 81
The I light 3 eaks in.
III rbes ,rst llrht that was put on
4 Monument Avenue, then called Franklin
street. was Il gas lamp erected at Us the
corner OF M eadow an onunlcnt Avenue,
81 ne, 1902 IA About the same me, N
Ia REQUEST OF several eli gems II wing out
that Way, 4 Postmaster, Knight had a Z, q
letter box put Up, and there wa 9 ono
delivery and ono collection of mail 4 per
time there vas No casIxep Y.
and wa ter st TODD deep on the low places .a
forta good While after co CHI rail- ny SPELL
When Colonel John s. IA Iarwopd u wa p
building his House at the corner g i Alonll-
iiinent Avenue and Nlea{o Street he went
out \ ono hot AFTERNOON to soc how a5 the.
sworl.s was, progressing, and found n three
etro /. boys swimming In his basem entS
and they were good 81 miners, too,3 9 n
they would have been 5dro N1ned KEITH az
4 AT this time Col onel HARDWOOD 2 house ~
In course d construct lon,s was e ne only
dwelling between ( AZ len Avenue and
Mead ow Street. IaS Cows roaIned the fields
and a famous herdcrtS Of city mi kers, a g
negro named II OK used to- la w q rive
about Z al hundred out there feast on tho
grass growing ini llEe park way
III tho middle or the avenue and In the.
$fields tliereahouts, l 3
n. Cow and Frog Concerts.
s ~ is said that more 4 than half tho COWS.
carried bells around theft necks. and
there was no sleeping az where IN: tho
5neighborllood after Eo 8aIrlY we'd with his
2S,nloeacling herd. The owners N several
horses / In a negro set Element oYergoll
Broad Street also made free use Of the
ma rks and the fields, md In tia way kept
their steeds In fine. ord r1 + Snail ca
lust fouryears ago this snrlngs change
came all5around.5 Justice Grlitchfield, on
complaint or tho few citizens out that
way, put n few heavy fines on Fox, q. and
the 3herder sought other pastures, The
horses were also taken i in and their o. ~
tersf ilned, Pedestrian We're stopped from
btramping down the grass in tho city's5
plots, and in time theH4qu Ut cuttin ing across
the, vacant lots. Otisar gas lamps Went ".
gp,fas did other lei ter boxes ~ her peo 4
8plc commenced To build. Tho biggest
Icl,lyert in / he city was built from 70 long
Meadow Street, across I','oaai and so OH;
down to- Glllia's5 Creek, N ID the work.
thoroughly draining that whole seetlo' on.
and ma sing ~ ms d l,y as n. chip Thai, ofs
course, II was deaf to 1. the \ noisy frogs IN
sthoNsweets sprlngt iIne. ~ Il esH
\ The New Picture. VI Vi
D a great CHANG has come. The mud Nv
holes and q frog pom s aye 4 been ~ FLED;