The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-02
|BUSY RICHMOND
IN THE PAST YEAR
Brief Review of Some
OF the Big Things in
Capital City.
ALL VIRGIN IAN S
PULLING TOGETHER
Cities and Towns Making the
Country, and the Rural Re
gions Building UP and
Helping the Cities and
Towns - Optimistic
News.
DY FRANK y. WooUsGs,
Iudustrtal Editor,


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80 Oue's srl'''io'lu a'iu OUT
-. $50 go . " ,ne pape'' about
,'.,, u OF tne
- rs. nc " l' s,.' a''u Futai regions
lt may be wen enough on this. tho
i'rst ''u''u'ly IN the new year, to let the
town ana village and rural readers oc
we pipcf Know somewhat about Rich-
'i'oiia
however the local department OF
me liines-Dispatch OF Saturday. the
prst Issue OF the new year. has antici-
( pated me IN that II gave In detail
| much OF the information about Rich
i mono progress which had intended
! To deal In 1T remains only for me TO
| summarize ana put in concrete forr,
much of the detailed information which
! mas ALREADY been given
Great Year for Richmond.
In the flrst place let ii be UNDER
/ stood that tile ysAr 1909 has prove,, 10
4 be one OF the most prosperous years
\ Richmond has ever known. ana mi.
,
I fort TO the virginia readers of Yne
I Times-Dispatch. There is an idea tnat
/. the country people feel /. little antago
nistic to the capital city. hut this t,iei,
has been greatly exaggerated The
country people love their capital CITY,
ana the people of Richmond love tho
country people Richmond is a part
of the state and the state feels pride
in Richmond.
The country people from the Ten
nessee line to the Atlantic Ocean and
from the Potomac River to the Nor,
Carolina line rejoice in Richmond,s
prosperity, and Richmond rejoices in
1.-THE splendid development OF every
inch OF Virginia soil that has expert
enced development In the past few
years. Virginia makes Richmond and
Richmond helps to make Virginia
great
a False Alarm.
During the lastatwelve months lave
Travelled al, over the state in the IN
terest of development. in the interest
of good roads. in the interest OF bet
ter schools, and in all of the Interests
that are calculated to make the old
Commonwealth what God intended it
should be. the grandest and the best
empire under the stars. and / am yet
to discover any specially noticeable
semblance of that antagonism between
the capital city and tho rural country
which the politicians and the dema-
gogues pirate about and pretend exists.
But this article is intended to be OF
an informing character. and not an
infringement upon the prerogatives OF
the editorial writer's Just want TO
let the country people know somewhat
of Richmond's doiugs in a CONNER
cial way within the past year.
Mistaken Ideas.
A few days ago couple of tourists
from Indiana landed in Richmond. and
while they were wandering around to
see the historical sights ran up with
them and one OF them asked me what
was the population of the city. + told
him that, Including the suburbs which
are really part of the city, I expect
ed the next census to be taken this
year would give Richmond at least q
hundred and thirty thousand. The
"tIooser" expressed his surprise. and
said he had an idea that 10000 would
cover the whole thing. 1t is likely
that many virginians have a similar
small idea of their capital civ. Hence
RI. 6eures In the issue Of January
are well calculated to omen their
ewes
II u,,, lust SIM ny few NJ thosa
eg,,ras The total receints ~ tha
b.. Ger. e., ,ast 80, - sssi
80. =, o,,'ee W ,ass = 90 49,
-vo'9'' oei''S ~, ',as.'ase wv any
Nious Sear % so',e''.ie' ~ - s a'u 'ii'tt
post-onlce recelpts zen the story or
towns business as no ngures can. Let
the reader study these figures
What the Banks Did.
Other suggestive figures are bank
clearings. The bank dealings for the
past year amounted to 1851 ,2OI,117, as
against S29S. 53a,561 az the wear proceed
ing. the increase being s6o.s74.55s.
Richmond hanks clear on,,, R,chmon,,
checks ana have d.i,y snt+,ament -