The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-14
AS sEITz SAW RICHMOND.

spent a night and part of a day in
Richmond last week, and picked IN
some interesting facts about this town
which nc has repeated 10 the readers OF
The World in this fashions
The war-worn Richmond is no more
y splendid city is growing, with true
american rapidly and on lines Of splcn-
dor. beautiful now houses are plenti-
fui, and majestic business buildings
are creeping into the sky. Big steel
works clang and roar on Belle Isle.
where the prison is now but a memory
ooacco is doing much Of 1t, but i'm
proved agriculture ana intense industry
arc doing more. The South Is solid
in wealth and progress-and Richmond
is still its capital
Uncle sam still has some sentiment
Two sections of the walls of the old
Post-otce are being worked into tho
new one, now building. because they
were the only ones that stood when
Godfrey Weit2el marched into tho
naming town in April 1862 Tho ar
chitect has followed the old lines.
Richmond now has l2I,6eS people,
an increase of so per cent In ten years.
some io.64?,St9 folks rode in her Jim
Crow street cars last year 1t is a cit,
OF churches. They are we'll attended
q
mems Bible classes marched in Il stree,
parade. There arc more than II. 800
BaDtists in the town. The Presbyterian
population has grown considerably
within the YEAR
y colorcd chauffeur can be hired for
s2a a month in Richmond. The uptown
railroad station is called E;lba
Cornmeal is still substantial ration,
and water mills grind the best quality.
the razor-hack hog is going, ana the
Virginia ham promises to become n
memory with the increase in thrift.
Razor backs and shiftlcssness iavc an
affinity.
Ii Seit1 would go around more and
sec things for himself. he would bo a
wiser and happier man. and likewise
more useful and public spirited cit.
izen But he makes one mistake in hls
thumb-nail sketch Of Richmond in
what he says about the razcr-back hoe
and its relation TO what he cans
"shiftiessness." AS matter of fact.
there is no affinity between the two
things. The razor back is The king OF
hogs He is not shiftless. but. instead
the most independent and self-reliant
and industrious of his race With him
TO root is to live. and not 10 root is to
dle. No bars can restrain him; he
takes more chances than the hogs on
change in Chicago: he rushes In where
MS fat and wcll-fed brother or the
west would fear to venture; he is
bundle Of energy. nect-footed as tho
deer and cunning as tho fox. and when
he has run his race and is treated as
only creatures of his kind can be
treated at smithncld, Virginia. he
makes the finest eating in the world.
Seitz thinks. evidently. that because
the razor back IS thin in person. so TO
say, that he is shiftlcss; but he is not.
If he were running a newspaper IN
New York his pace would be- too swift
even for The World. which comes very
near exceeding the speed limit al times
Cooked at the Wcstmorcland Club, and
served with hominy made from Vir-
ginia corn, ground in an old-fa ilioncd
mill. run by an overshot wheel, fed by
a race ovcrgrown with MOSES and
ferns. there is nothing within the range
of things worth eating to be compared
20 the razor back. except for those who
like to swim in grease.
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