The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-17
The Richmond Boosters

Raleigh Is welcoming her big Sis
to- morrow, and IS going to entertain
| her while here little better than she
has ever been treated.
many of the neighbors special guests.
busy people all, who have but q night
to spend in this city Of hospitable PEG.
pie. They will reach Raleigh about
protracted picnic while it lasts. and
| silently steal away at 8 O'CLOCK tne
following morning.
The fact that this junket has been
taken before will rob IT OF none OF
| the novelty, but will make It all the
more delightful a prospect The R.ch-
mond Boosters are making TINS VISIT:
They tried it last year and the trip OF
| the earth around the sun Is no more
big annual event than Is the eA-
cursion hereafter Of these modern
business men through North Caroiiha-
The march through North Carotlna
isn't des' gned as a PROSECUTING tour:
and isn1 designed for the purpose OF
wares that North Carolina might with
profit and convenience purchase ~
believed by every man who VIII come
here. They make no conceaiment OF
a purpose to make no concealment OF
| primacy among the Southern sisters
. in charm o. appearance and In point
! Of prominence In the Industrial worIo;
Atlanta people condescending!y can
New york the Atlanta of the East
Richmoni peopIe will have some title.
before they finish. as allurins as Az
lanta
The Richmond Boosters. consisting
cial. manufacturing and industrial cap
! ,ains are coming to North caIohha
Tomorrow over hundred strong on
| a business and pleasure tour. stoppIns
at number OF the imper. .naciai train.
Consisting Of four steel sleepers: two
| diners and one baggage car. These
representative business men ana cap
sains Of savs in North CARR
| lima, and the object of this tour is 70
shake hands with old friends ana
make new ones and to cement the ousi-
hetyeen North Carolina and the cspi-
| tai OF the Old Dominion State
They are coming to North Carolina.
no, in an effort to secure the leesti.
mate business of the merchants anu
manufacturers OF their Siste. ste TOW, u~e
Richmond the Commercial Capral OF
the South.- such wares and merchan-
disc as they must necessarily purchase
abroad.
They are appealing to North caro-
llinians to help TO build up the cues ss
OF the south instead Of sending their
| money to markets further away iroin
home. from which they cannot hope
1 to receive any dement,
They are not asking the people OF
:. Richmond on the single plea Of
Eeepins the money at home and buiio.
F., ING M the south. but IL Is toe op1ect
of this tour 20 get better aeoSa,n'ea
snu,hern market can supply the wants
Of the South at just as reasohapie
prices and with just As gooo eooos
as can be supplied BY any 0.ner
market in tine as,cs M1i'0' anu
All North Carolina will give the
| 4. cbmond Boosters q hearty welcome
and the glad hand Of fellowship VI
| % nSogress ana development. and even
IN. progressive Richmond Boosters VIII
it,na here much worthy Of emulation
The "trip Is e mean I'm E RSns,. ran ere
a,sDl.y Fl eS . e every honest
d nr Men shake hsnds and drop
the quarrel when their dollars are a.
stake North csT F,esmonders sy thai her
soldiers were first AZ Bethel last al
Apncmat.cx and farthest At Gettys-
hu,.s." but che can easily per.uaoe
R,ehmSnd, IN That S.s ssr ana man" hey VIII com.
pr.rnisc upon that erea. principle.
r. N. Booster. hadn't given US Q
n,eh, trip they wssld have seen thsnss
~ .,o,d face 10 face with the rising
hact euildsng Of the Commercial Ma
.sscnai : quarter million structure. as
h ndsome - any mans town mas
;n~ ceremonial that marks the rise
Of This buildins. Md when they turn.
"a their eyes they would have seen
the 6egspnsng Of smother building OF
lssr. SIC ana tmporfance-thc Citizens
vssiena,-whjch IL preparing TO butid
20 an eyeveu-story height
Far,aer M Fayetteville street they
swoujA have seen q state building now
approaching compsetion- ana IN
mali radius big buildings refnarking
ihT~ btrsfness would have been observed,