The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-01
Boosters LeaveTo- Night
for D a S h Through
North Carolina.
TO STOP FIRST
AT HENDERSON
Richmond Captains of Industry
Will Receive Cordial Welcome
in Many Thriving Towns.
Party to Live Aboard Spe-
cial Pullman Train.
Those Who Will Go.

With all things in readiness the nnal
details completed. and steam up IN the
engine, the Richmond Boosters will
start on their friendly invasion of the
Old North State at 1915 o'clock to-
morrow morning in their special Pull
man train over the Seaboard Air Line
Railway. The train Will be in the
Main Street Station at O'Clock, so
that the how dye-do folks may obtain
good nights rest before arriving in
Henderson. * c, the FIRST place where
the Boosters Will stop to begin their
boosting.
After the smoker in the Jefferson
Hotel Friday night such enthusiasm
was aroused that the success OF the
tour is assured ere the start is made
One hundred OF the city's leading bug
mess and manufacturing firms will be
represented. and among the Boosters
will be small army OF Richmond's
captains OF industry. each having a
different word 10 say about the growth,
and development OF his native town and
OF her increasing possibilities. but
every word part OF the same story,
all leading to the same "hnis," written
a. the end Of the last chapter. And the
story 10 be told, though II deals largely
with commercial grown, 8; fun OF ro-
NANCE.
Not Like Old Town Now.
Fifty years ago Richmond was hardly
more than d pile OF smoking ruins.
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world. with only a few old men ana
boys hardly out OF the cradle TO guard
her portals Yet from this nucleus the
few who were left set themselves to
build up again the city that was, TO
revive and foster her ideals and to
make her rs her surroundings and her
4. location had meant she should be. the
capital OF the State and the leading
business centre in the South And
spires, smoking factories. retail CEN
tres, large Wholesale houses, busy fac
tories and more than 100000 people ali
attest tina the initial effort succeeded.
Now 1t remains, as w. T. Dabncy bus
mess manager of the Chamber OF Com
inerce, said Friday night, for ali to
pun together to the same end. that
Richmond. the ancient capital of the
Confederacy shall come into her own
and be known OF men far and wide.
This Boosters tour. iuaugurated by
The Times Dispatch, and now taken In
hand by the Chamber OF Commerce as
The most novel and greatest advertising
scheme ever undertaken. is a new eff
fort, the first of it's kind anywhere in
the South. That 1t will result success
fully there is no doubt.
Welcome Everywhere.
From every town in North Carolina
TO be visited, and from every town in
It,
stop. even IL II only hesitate, has come
word that the how-dye-do folks will
receive welcoming hand. In tho cities
where longer stops will be made. COM
mittees from the commercial and in
dustrial organizations and from the
Chambers Of Commerce. with bands
playing and banners flying, Will meet
the Boosters and show them what they
have and assure them that when 1t
comes to trading Richmond will not be
forgotten.
The first stop will be at Henderson,
n. c., where the train Will remain three
hours. Henderson is a tobacco and
cotton centre. the largest town in the
world, for its corporate limits, by It's
ancient charter, extend 1000 miles IN
every direction. 1t will be impossible,
OF course. to see all OF SO large a town,
but it's principal points will be OBJ
things. the Richmond Boosters will
learn a thing or two and perhaps bring
some lesson to the folks at home.
The second stop will be at franklin
ton, the centre of some OF the finest
roads in the country. and those who
went on the good roads tour two years
ago will remember and attest. There
one will see big cotton mills and other
Industries.
Big Things I'm Raleigh.
Then will come Raleigh, whore 1t is
said that more building on a large
scale Is going on than in any other
city in the country. An hour will be
spent in Raleigh. and the Rich
mond captains of industry will be met
by their brothers In arms OF that
thriving city. Richmond has long en-
joyed a fourishing trade with the cap
ital Of the Old North State, for Rich
mond can sell goods there on quite
as inviting terms as they can be
bought In North Carolina. The Rich
mond Boosters will be met by a COM
mittee OF citizens representing every
line OF business. trade and profession
a band will accompany the committee
and furnish the music. A short tour
of the city will be made. and an
address OF welcome will be delivered
by Mayor Johnson.
Leaving Raleigh at 1870, the train
will proceed to Sanford, the only town
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