The Washington herald., 1912-08-05
he virginias and the lumber-producing


territory of Tennessee and the Carolinas
and to the marvellous and productive
truck-raising sections of Eastern Caro-
lima and Tidewater Maryland and Viz
ginia. bringing into Norfolk. for manu-
featuring purposes or transshipment. the
minerals and products OF these sections.
Then reaching out, by the means Of her
many well-operated railway lines. into
the middle and far West, she brings 10
this port this successful competition for
water ports of entry. and chiefly for for
eign shipment, the manufactured product
Of these sections.
1t will thus be seen that Norfolk af-
fords the manufacturer ready access to
raw material, the farmer and trucker a
quick and satisfactory means Of trans
portation to the great markets of the
country for his produce, the lumbermen
an outlet for his logs to tidewater, where
are located the mills that convert them
into lumber for building purposes and
foreign shipment.
1t is not hard to conceive, then. Of Nor
folks being a great center of CONNER
cial and Industrial activity, and she IS,
For too long have her people labored
under the false impression that the world
would know intuitively how generous
Nature had been to her and would
straightway seek to share in all that She
possessed, but cities are not built that
way, and Norfolk is not the great metrop-
oils that she should be simply because
she has been too content with what she
had and too Indifferent as to how much
or how little the world at large knew
about or appreciated them.
Charms Every One.
Now 1 am fully aware of how little
interest the general reading public take
in the usual accounts and descriptions
Of cities and their industrial possibili-
ties, or rather the account and descrip-
tions of the usual city, but Norfolk is
not one of these, nor am here to weary
you with uninteresting details regarding
a place of which you know little and
for which you care less. But rather, am
1 going to tell you about a place of Pc
culiar uniqueness and Of striking in
dividuahty.
1 have lived here and have studied the
place and her history and have been
vastly interested. I have delved into the
records of business done and have been
impressed. I have visited her many re-
sorts and points of interest and by them
have been charmed and entertained. l
have INDUCED myself to the fullest in all
the good things to eat that the waters
hereabout so richly afford and the land
30 abundantly supplies and have been
made serenely content and at peace with
the world. Throughout the long hot
summer days 1 have reveled in the COOL
ing breezes from OF the waters, no mat
have been most comfortable. And I have
suffered no Inconvenience from the cold
of the winter, for it is tempered by the
proximity to the warming Gulf Stream
and the salt water that surround and
encompass the city in every direction.
So. to me. 1t is a glad haven of peace
and contentment; a place OF most won
derful Industrial and commercial progress
and possibilities and in every way al
good place to live and to end ones days.
And will tell you why I am SO i'm
pressed with this place and location, fol-
lowing years of travel during which time
I visited and studied most OF the points
of interest and Industrial activity in
this country and. therefore. am mott
speaking altogether in ignorance
To my mind Norfolk possesses seven
great and important sources Of inter-
est and commercial value, in the pos
session Of which she il unique and theyl