The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-10

ing: and If the contemplated improve
ments and new business enterprises
already in sight, not to mention others
which may come hereafter, are carried
out. do not think I am stretching
the imagination very far to predict
that at the end OF this decade we may
reasonably expect population Of
100000.
Il do not think am too optimistic
in also predicting that within ten
years from now there will be further
EXPANSION and more annexation, and
the limits OF the city OF Richmond
will be bounded-on the east by For,
Lee, in which vicinity and along the
Charles City Road and the C. G. o.
Railroad extensive Improvements will
be seen in the next two years. employ
ing probably $500 to 1000 laborers and
necessitating the expenditure OF ST.
100000. More pay rolls make commu-
mites, and communities make cities.
and this far East END, now within
two and half miles Of the suburbs
OF Richmond. will be built up with the
homes of thriving and prosperous
workmen. and be so populated and OF
sufficient Importance to be also an
nexed.
Then the line will be extended
mount, taking in Chestnut Hill, Bar
ton Heights and beyond, including
Gintcr Park. and thus on to Acca Sta
tion at which point there is already
immense development now going on,
and few people realize the Importance
of 1t. Consolidated railroads at this
point are building an immense iron
bridge across their twenty-five or
thirty tracks SO as to give free access
to the adjacent territory; the Rich
mond Forging Company is already
erecting their plant, and already there
is located in its Immediate vicinity
various manufactures. such as the
Southern Stove Works. Richmond
Foundry. Rosenegk Brewery, Koiner's
Mill. Richmond Machine Works and
other large plants. employing probably
! 1900 to 1000 hands.
Thence the line will diverge to
Westhampton The development In the
last two years has been marvellous.
IF any observing individual will go
to the top Of some skyscraper of Rich
mond and observe the smoke Issuing
from 100 smokestacks and chimneys
and observe in every direction build
ings of all sorts and characters now
going up, from the home of the modest
workman to the fifteen story sky
scraper or the s1,oOO.000 post-off1ce,
they will be inspired, like myself, with
the thought that we will not only
have at once a greater Richmond, but
In the very near future a still greater
Richmond, and the wellin will be now
ringing for 100000 population, So
mote it be, amen"
An Original Annexationist.
Augustine Royal, the senior member
| OF the real estate firm of Augustine
Royal G Co.. OF Manchester. has been
/ known for forty years as an annex
ationtst. Mr.. Royal was asked If that
| statement was true. and II so what In
| duced him to be all annexationist and
what he thought would be the good
| results from annexation. After study
| ing while he became reminiscent,
| and In the remarks he made he gave
some very interesting history. Here Is
| what he said:
II came to the town of Manchester
in 1865. AT that time the population
was between $500 and 1000 people,
1 and was a part Of Chesterfield county
l engaged in the real estate business
In 1872 under the name and style of
Moody & Royal, and have been almost
continuously In the same business ever
/ since. In 1874 the town was cut off
from the county and the city of Man
chester was chartered. In the early
seventies such splendid men as the
late James A. Cowardin, part owner
= and editor OF the Richmond Dispatch.