The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-14
OF MANY THINGS.
MAINLY RICHMOND
Seeing Richmond Just as
1t Is And, Incident
ally, as It Was.
BIG ENTERPRISES
IN THE OLD TOW N
Richmond Is an illustrated Story
Made by Advertisers, Which
Story Takes Up Whole
Section of at Least Twenty
Pages-Well Worth
Reading.
ny FRANK s. MannsoN.

Many years ago | had an old friend
away M yondcr IN Henry county-up
there where the mountains kiss the
skies and then turn back and battle
their feet in Smith River and several
other sparkling streams OF lesser di-
fntHslons: streams that water and bless
one Of the nnest counties in all OF
Virginia. or all OF the world. as for
that mater. This good old friend ~
y he IL long since dead reckon and If
SO know hcjis in heaven. for purer
soul never brcathc1 and a truer hard
shell Baptist .nevc; shouted Oh the
hustngs---was named Tom Dyer. Well,
Tom used 10 love 70 take part in po-l
litical discussions on court days. True
"A he never ran FOR an Office, not that
know Of. but nc generally had a friend
Or two who %as IN the line OF pro-
motion, and he MAS alwa:s ready to
help friend That was characteristic
OF him always ready 70 help some
body. eueEs | lave heard Dyer make
thousand speeches such as they
were. and Nell remember that his
opening was always III these words:
IF have got the correct id".. which
ithink have and SO on ana SO on.
Assuming as a tlrst proposition that
he had tho correct idee' and nobody
ever doubted IL. he would proceed to
discuss and 10 dispose OF constitutional
questions In way emincntly salts
. lfCtOFEf To N2!n5eE! ana MS hearers. anu
In Way that would have made Daniel
Webster and John g Calhoun ashamed
or themselves. Dut ne vas always
sure, absolutely sure. tina he had the
correct idee.'
H The "idec,r II. to Richmond.
III. Sow.'lt have the correct idoc and
y think have" Il is largely my bust
ness 10 disctss Virginia development
outside 81 Itichnond. and have been
holding down To the 'idee" as best
could. leaving Richmond to take care
OF itself In an industrial way! Right
well has she been taking care OF her
self and talking for herself. The good
3ld town never talked more cloquently
for itself than Il hoes this morning in
u twenty-paGc special section of The
Times Dispatch, which Will go into
history as the..Seeing Richmond sec
ton. OF course, the reader. by perus-
Ing these twenty pages can see whole
lot of industrial Richmond that he. she
or II never before saw. but / want to
help these readers along by naming
some things that maybe in the hurry
Of business they might not just fully
catch up with.
From liilrs Directory.
For instance: have just been read
Ing the HIll Directory for Greater
Richmond for the good year 1911, and
q mighty Interesting boot. II is-a
great big book. Containing in all near
+ ~ 1000 pages and carrying yellow
cover. that is. mildly yellow: possibly
Just little pale Certainly there are
no features OF "yallcr journalism"
Perish the thought. The book is chock
full of very valuable information, and
without It do not just sec how one
could go out to see Greater Rich
mond iH
The Hill Directory Company has
heen getting out an annual for Rich
mond every year for tho past fifteen or.
twenty years. maybe more. but never
before have they gotten out Just quite
IS satisfactory a book. certainly never
one that contains 80 much valuable
information. The great big book is
SO full of Information It will take an
average reader a month or more to
digest II and get well on to the good
things 1t tells about.
am only an average reader. and I
guess 1t VIII take me a month to go
through the whole volume but in the
meantime I can get one of the local
reporters to help me out bit. These
good boys on the local department of
the greatest OF morning dailies have a
way of doing thing up quickly. Pos
sibly II ] should study Hllrs Direc-.
tory q week 1 could not largely i'm
4 prove on the local mans hurried sum
mary.
just In Nutshell
He has given me the benefit of his
hurried notes. and here is his sum-
mary:
For the hrst time the citizens OF
I South Richmond are listed as citizens
of Richmond. though for the informa-
tion OF the uninitiated the guide letter
N" appears after the names and
streets OF South Richmonders. to re-
mind them they were once listed as of
the city of Manchester
Made I'm Richmond.
Another salient feature OF the new
book Is the directory of Richmond en-
terpriBes, under the heading Made In
Richmond" The list occupies fourteen
pages, and was compiled with the aid
OF the Chamber of Commerce. It shows
what many may not know-that al
most every article Of commerce Ia
made In Richmond, from abattoir
products and automobiles all the way
down the alphabet, by way OF boxes
and tin cans, disinfectants and en-
Velopes, furniture and glassware, hats
and heaters, paints and pickles, shoes
and tobacco, clear down to wrapping
paper and yeast.
Statistical reports show 1854 teIe-
phones. 10b miles OF street railways,
1882 Industries, employing $4,000 peo-
pie, and making annual sales agRre-
gazing 9o.2s1.41s.
The general roll OF citizens occupies
more than 1000 pages. beginning with
George =. Aaron, of ZIG Nicholson
Street. and winding up with Peter C.
Z. zylestra. Of III East twelfth Street,
South Richmond. Brief description IL
given OF the suburbs and the way to
reach them. The miscellaneous infor-.
bntion as to lodges. churches, military
lI CONTINUED on Second PaCel NM