The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-05
Richmond Boost rs Spe-
cial Leaves w ashing-
ton This Morning.
YESTERDAY SPENT
ON VIRGINIA SOIL
In Every Town Visited They
Receive Cordial Welcome, and
All Pronounce 1t Finest Adj
vertising Enterprise Ever
Undertaken by South
ern City.
From . STAR corresponaent.l

| From a stan Correspondent)
| Washington. d. c.. October 4.-Eu-
terins upon Virginia soil early this
| morning while they were yet asleep.
| the Richmond Boosters completed their
program to-day with a %hirlwind tour
! over their own native heath and cele-
| hrated their unbounded success to-
! night with a sightseeing tour through
! Washington and a box party a. Chase's
, Theatre.
At o'clock tomorrow morning the
( Richmonders will begin their return
To Richmond. arriving home three
hours later.
I Then the frst chapter in the finest
advertising enterprise ever undertaken
by a city Of the South Will have been
! written. and those who have started
this book. which might appropriately
| be entitled "A city SuccAss.'' will begin
| the chapter to follow.
Talk OF Smoker.
Already there Is talk of big smok-
er. given BY the Chamber OF Commerce.
TO which all the business people OF
( the city will be invited. and at which
they viii hear OF the welcome which
their city has received in North Caro-
lima and Virginia, and at which they
/ Will be told that the Boosters builded
better than they knew when they took
up the proposition OF boosting the city
! in the South
The train reached Roanoke early
this morning, long before the people
or the Boosters were awake But the
! Boosters awoke the town. and appraised
! the people Of their coming by a tri-
umphsl march through its principal
streets.
Lynchburg. Charlottesville, Orange.
Culpeper, and Manassas followed in
succession. and at 1:l0 tonight. Ave
minutes earlier than they were ex-
pected, the Boosters arrived in the
| Union Depot. in Washington. They
were met by a score of cabs. and n
n trice were being whirled through the
great thoroughfares OF the capital city
OF the nation. The sightseeing tour
was followed by box party at Chase's
Theatre. after which the touring
i Boosters returned to their train. tired
but proud OF the successes which they
| have achieved.
When all else is said and done. and
| when the last word in the history of
the city by the James is writ, 1t Will
always be told that Richmond owed
her success and her prosperity to moth
ing moro than this tour OF advertise
ment and this teaching of the gospel
of reciprocity.
/ Cordially Everywhere.
Cordially has marked all the recep-
a
ginia, and there have been innumera BIZ
promises that the marketing place
hereafter of both States shall be in
the Gate City of the South-Richmond
geographically and logically the vent
through which all future prosperity of
the United States must pour its tide.
Richmond Is even now the leading city
in the States Immediately below the
Mason and Dixon line, and the Boost
crs, who have welcomed the oppor-
tunity to back her cause believe that
their city will grow TO be still greater
and become even more important
factor in the commercial and agricul-
tural development OF the South.
The movement was originated and
fostered by The Times Dispatch, but
1t has grown beyond that. 1t is now
movement of the people OF Rich
mond, and 1t remains for them to see
that these first efforts of Richmond
} Boosters shall continue until their
work is full and done.
Leaving Winston-Salem promptly al
1901 o'clock this morning, the Boost
ers' train arrived in Roanoke. a city
of Southwest Virginia. at 1915 o'clock.
with everybody on board still asleep.
} The call for breakfast was sounded
at $50 o'clock, and one hour and a
half later the tourists had disembark
ed, and We're assembling on the station
platform for an invasion of the town.
} Robert. better known as Bob" Angel,
) a leading citizen of the city, met the
visitors at the station. He was accom-
panied by delegation of citizens. and
! MIR. Angel and his self-appointed COM
mittee led the how dye do folks on
{ their march through tho town.
: The people were warm in their well
, come. Hundreds turned ont in the early
morning hours to see the Boosters
from Richmond and to give them a
, hearty greeting Faces We're seen in
5 every window, and at every corner a
knot of enthusiastic admirers had
, gathered. The Richmonders had ar
: rived probably a little early. But they
awoke the town. and the citizens
! arising before their usual time, we're
warm In their cordial greeting.
Through several streets, headed by
their own band, the Richmonders
passed, and then returned to the sta
, ton to embark for Lynchburg, close
on tho James.
LynchburE Visited.
Greetings could not have been warm
: er nor more cordial than they were in
= I,ynchburg Headed by william King
IT.. a member of the Board of Alder
men. and by D. III. Mayfeld. secretar y
of the Chamber of Commerce. five hun
dred citizens of the City of Hills met
the Boosters as they left their special
q train. Like n triumphant army. head
ed by a committee of citizens and an
3 escort of police. the Boosters marched
through the principal streets of the
e town All Lynchburg was on the
streets. and there was n roar of well
come along the route. Across the
: streets through which the Boosters
passed We're hung a thousand signs OF