The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-05
hum OF INDUSTRY
IN OLD QUARTER
Enterprises. Throbbing With
Industrial Life, Near Cap
itol Square
HOMES OF OLDER DAYS
NOW BIG ENTERPRISES
Industrial Transformation Going
on in Vicinity of Once
Famous Exchange
Hotel.
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Only the oldest inhabitants OF Rich-s
mond c-n recall the day when the
city's social life and activities Gems
tered in the district Immediately easy Il
OF the Capitol grounds and the gov- y
ernor's mansion, and SO 1t In theSa y
residents who can best note the frans-
formation that has slowly but surely
taken place in this part OF the CITY.
To-day large business enterprises.
for the most part, mark the sites
where once stood mansions and homes
whose hospitality was perhaps un~
equaied the world over.
II was In the days before the war
that many of the elite and bon ton on
Richmond made this section teal
home, entertaining lavishly In truA
blue Virginia style. Hardly thred
blocks from the home Of The virs
ginian was maintained the old Ex-
change and Ballard hotel at F0nr-
teenth and Franklin streets. In this
noted hosiery Prince Edward OF Eng.
land, now king of Great Britain. drank
his first mint julep when he visited
this country as u young sfffff In Asbts-
and made the house his headquarters
during hts staF-fHr the city. Dthez-
members of the English royalty made
the hotel their stopping place in thN
early days on visits TO America.
Where tina Prince stopped
The suite of rooms occupied by tnA
Prince of Wales Is now occupied by
+ the Rev james buchanan. secretary
of the Associated Charities Of Rich-
| mond, which maintains quarters In
what was originally the Ballard house
on the northeast corner OF F'rankNn
and Fourteenth the old Exchange
building directly across the street al
Franklin having been dismantlsd ana
| RACED some ten years or more aKp
to give way 70 4 large whciesaie DRY
! goods house. The two hostelries we're
connected by an overhead brfdE9
across Franklin street when merged
| into one hosiery.
Not many years after the war. Wits
/ liam Rockefeller, brother NJ John IN,
visited Richmond. stopping at the E.x-
| change and Ballard Those were the
DAYS when the FaekefaIiers were en-
/ gagged In laying the foundations for
/ the mammoth ell trust that Is NOW
7 gyabriomoas With the naufes & William
Rockefeller came 10 Richmond "a
Inch this field for the trust ana n
4 took him fssit IA shnrs@ time IN de- sE3.
When he left the sn~easlAd fndepen-
dent oil agents ~ Richmond were a
part Of the big trust. say those VINO
recall the transactions IT that time.
4 fine business structure now stannA
on the site Of Fleming Mo-gan's fam-
aus gambling house at FoarteentM
+ less to enter into a history Of fhia
far-famed place of ante-bellum day.
save to note In passing that many a
dollar changed hands under It's FOOT
land many planter of.tne SURROUNDS
ing country Doubtless wagered his all
at the tables. frequently returnin9
nome a BANKRUPT.
Home Of The virginian.
The south side of Ross street near
~sf fsf cav fUshtar8sS
able old homes. In now occupied ~
the Randolph Paper Box Company
one OF the largest of its kind IN thu
world. Directly across Ross street.
locking north. Is old ST. Luke's hos
pitai. now the home OF The Rich
mond yirginian, which though only
live weeks old has become q welcome
daily visitor 70 thousands of hnmNA
throughout the Old pamfnfon- Thia
building was erected In the DAYS be-
fore the war by John Cullen,
wealthy Irishman, who occupied Il -
residence Later 1t was converta0
into a fashionable boarding house
Some wears after the war. Dr. Hunter
Mcclure, yirginia's famous surgeon
acquired possession of 1t for hospital
purposes A eomnaediouS annex wnA
erected in the rear and for NUNS
Der OF years the hospital was tnS
mecca for thousands of persons seek
ling the professional services Of This
, noted surgeon The place was ah&M-
doned as q hospital when ii was found
, necessary to acquire more spactsun
lauarters In another section Of the city.
Richmond's oldest Inhabitants can
also call to mind the time when Coun-
ell Hill, a short distance east OF this
vicinity. contained more than on
, building of historic character. lns
of these structures was TOE CABIN
h,iit in the days OF "TippecAno6 aaQ
, TYLER. too. when William Henxy
Harrison campaigned for the preNas
! doncy and won out in the early fortaA
with this slogan. 81
They say that Harrison himself -
dressed the voters OF Rfchnaond ~
numerous oratorfai lights that sp0M
, + In his behalf. AZ
Where Justice John Beguns
IN this vicinity Justice Crutch0M1s
first enunciated those ethics and pxIMs
cinles az law not embodied IN 6A4
. crutehfieIdian code. Justice Cru&6
field held forth in what was ones -
j, Eold Odd Fellows Hall. At Maya
Franklin streets. tho scene pt M
fectiyitv Of one sort and anotA1
! Its day. Nearby now stands on4
!. The largest trunk factories tn the NM<
I and there ID litfle outward s4rtdAAG4s
: dav that anything but buAinAa4 n1t
! lures formerly stood In thu neteA a
hood. ssg Sss sz
The old slave market Of thlo Me1 %
borhaod has likewise paaees1 tNk
giving place to the pres ..
i of later days. ssas III s;E
around on FouFtesnth At<ee&
joining the old Exchnnge h0tel
I Mefhodist church oE the o1S1S4
! waE located an hon tlae np1a1I