The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-19
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.MANY MISSING BUT
BUSINESS WENT ON
City Spent Quiet Day While
Thousands Were Celebrating
at Exposition.
RECORD OF TICKETS l.I!l!1,JI: SOLD
Estimates as to Number OF Tllose
Who Attended Celebration
Vary Widely. /
REC ORD OF TICKETS SOLD.

RI
Notwithstanding the departure from
the city Of over 5000 PEG. 8s
pie to take part In the festivities OIL
Richmond Day at Jamestown. the city
did not yesterday present q picture Of
deserted village. Richmond Is too w!
big town for five or six thousand, n
or even ten or twenty thousand, dinli-#
mutton Of its population to cut much
|'of q figure. Business must go right d
even If very many of the business ri
men take days outing for pleasure
or as a matter Of patriotism.
The banks did business as usual yes
l5terday, and nearly all the rnanil-iss
featuring establishments worked right 81
| along, some Of them with reduced s
All the retail merchants We're on s.
hand with open doors to wait on Gus
| toners, and the wholesale estab lish-8S
ments were shipping g.. goods to all 55j
Southern points. as is usual with them
Richmond went to Jamestown and II
celebrated Richmond Day all light, but
Richmond business did not stop busi-a
ness. WI
Had Off Day. =; I;
The city Hall and the Capitol had
something Of the deserted village ap-
pearance. This was especially true OF
1.-The City Hall. 1tkwas very much de-
serted The appropriation was suftt-
Gent to meet the wishes of all ofSthe
l city employees who wanted to go, and
4 the most of them wanted TO at5public (
A expense. sAs.itiisfi sEp.sls sss
The most deserted, part of the village
A was that portion usually Inhabited by
A the military men. The Howitzers and
the Blues tent to Jamestown in great
numbers, as did also the members of
4 the SEVENTEEN Regiment All Of tho
d early morning trains, left the city pref
4 ty well crowded. but the later trains
could have accommodated more ticket
. buyers than applied for seats. he
railroads did good work for Richmond
\ Day. Both the Chesapeake and Ohio
land the Norfolk and Western agents
parked more cars here than were
called for. a! .sg X
The records IN the ticket agents Of
i fees show that the Chesapeake and
I Ohio carried down 2.625 people. the
a Norfolk and Western carried 1870, and
the steamboats, took down the river
1856. making In all 5.725 Richmond
A folks who went down to celebrate
Richmond Day on special tickets. This
\ includes the military organizations,
4 but does not include something like
! EoVo4 pOopAo ~ W,CAI w VII LWO DAYS
4 ahead OF time and camped out at the
Exposition Grounds awaiting Rich-$
q mond Day. Estimates from the expo
sltion placed the Richmond attend
ance far above the figures here given.
President Tucker even going so far
n as to express the opinion; that fully
S,15000 Capital City visitors were on
the grounds. s#
q It must be said. in Justice to the
railroads. that they prepared. at great
n expense to handle q much larger
crowd than applied for tickets. The
y Chesapeake and Ohio and the Norfolk
and Western had numbers OF cars IN
reserve that were not called for
All Were Plcased.
The courts in the City Hall had
something OF an off day, but the
dockets were not crowded. and they
could we'll afford to continue cases
Manchester did we'll to help Richmond
celebrate the day. and 1t Is estimated
that MT least 500 men and women Of
3 fManchester donned the blue badges
and to that extent swelled the Rich
mond crowd at Jamestown. A large
majority Of the crowds that5went down
returned last night, and each and
= every one of them signed the verdict
that 1t was a great day. Of course
= there were stragglersJsandsi may be
two days yet before all Of the Rich
mond contingent shows UP for duty;
II but at least 90 per cent. OF the Rich
X mond contingent was reported re-i
sturned last night and In good order,