The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-23
Richmond. New port-Asnin.

find that this idea OF making
West Point the Port of Richmond, the
port. and the great distributing CEN
II" being connected by steel bands in
the shape of fifty OF more railway
tracks. is not entirely original. Con-
gresham John Lamb and Mayor Davy
Crockett Richardson both have told
me that about sixteen years ago DR..
Johr j. Lanerty, of sainted memory
wrote one or more articles in the old
Richmond Dispatch In which he called
attention TO the York River as Il deem
water port for Richmond. His idea
then was ship canal from West
Point to Richmond. Because of the
enormous cost OF such thing this
so-called visionary idea of the brill
liant divine received but scant atten-
ton. The idea / advanced was not
for costly SHIP canal. but merely for
the necessary work on TWO jnsignih-
cant bars in York River that would
make deep water over them capable
OF floating any kind OF "a ship. and
When tncy shall be foated up to West
Point, then Richmond will be right
there with the fifty or more railway
tracks 10 bring all OF their loads TO
town and get ;hcm here in the course
OF an hour That is the idea the
Industrial Section advanced. which is
the same Idea that Mayor Richardson
~ NS4Ni"iiy anu 30 1n0OrScd
In that fine speech he made at West
Point last Wednesday.
Blackberry Relief.
II is said that In war times. when
rations were mighty scarce in the re-
gtons that had been ovcrrun by the
contendins armies. a suffering woman
who had applied to ch..ity for n bu-
smell OF meal, and being denied such
/ an abundant allowance. offered 10
COINDrOIniSn m
bushel. and said that much may las,
'iill blackberry time and then won't
ask your meal folks any odds"
II is now blackberry time in Old
| Virginia. and there are some folks
VINO do not care copper about tho
| nigh cost OF living and will not care
/ as long az hlackberries and water
! melons last.
: Down at Norge. where the Norwe-
/ CLANS and Swedes have settled and
arc making money growing potatocs
! and other vegetables there is much
/ prosperity. There is room in Olc
virginia for many moro Norwe-
sian and Scandinavian settlements.
Inc more OF them the better.
This new idea that tho awful nv
hates n fresh tomato is well worth
looking into, Fresh tomatoes arc
much cheaper than screen doors ana
wires and nets for the windows bo.
cause tomatoes grow In great luxu-
riousness on Old Virginia soil, and II
Goes not cost very much to swat the
fly with tomato.
So far as the reports go TO show,
the bankers who have been I'm session
for several days at Old Point Com
fort did not make any arrangement,
for the reduction OF interest rates OF
for the loosenlng UP of the two for
one" collateral required for ordinary
loans. There were probably some I'm.
: nocent people who thought they Nigh,
do these things. but those people were
mighty innocent
Certainly it IS a cool June, bu. .b,
reports come from all parts of IN.
State that the hay crop has been i'm.
mense. and that all OF the crops now
on the hill are sure Of July suns tc
bring them around all right Their,
are pessimists in Virginia AWAY:
have been and always Will he. but thc
optimists are in the saddle, and Il
the good OF the State. be Il said. the,
arc getting more and moro numerou,