The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-01-10
|0UTSTR|PS RIVALS
IN RACE DURING
THE LAST DECADE
Figures Shows Municipality
Has Gone Forward by
Leaps and Bounds
ADVANTAGES AND
FLUCK TELL TALE
Capital OF Its Citizens and
Their Faith in City's Future
Sp,l Present Era Of
Prosperity

Stes by step, like unto the steady
sturdy stride of a big. STong man.
Richmond has gone swiftly forward.
outstripping Southern competitors in
the race for commercial supremacy.
and especially in the last decade, as.
tonishing the Southland with a record
of financial and Industrial progress.
There has been lot a single miss
step-no slipping back--just a steady
forward march, with rcsolute race
lurled upward and eyes fastened
upon the rising sun of prosperity.
the future reckoning the young giauE
to push on to a goal OF greater
achievement.
With the rounding out OF each
twelfth month, local historians poiHr
with pride tc it's accompl .shments in
having compounded increases OF
every commercial interest. and tag
1t az the banner year" But the
achievements of the past, as glorious
as they have been, are but the fore-
runners of Greater Richmond.
BY Leaps and Bounds.
1t would require columns of space
to tell the story of this phenomenal
growth as literally described by ths
stereotyped term of leaps and
bounds" Nor has 1t been buift upon
the ephemeral bubble of boom.
but founded upon its natural and
acquired advantages and its strategic
position as the gateway of the South
advantages which the business
ability and leadership of its own
people have made the most OF be.
cause they are men who have an
abiding faith in their citys future.
| Richmond men have had the in.tia~
tive to devise industries and develop
enterprises and the faith In them 10
back them with their own money,
and In the doing have created many
vast business interests and developed
vast wealth, serving as an inspira-
ton to the whole South. In Rich-
mond Is found remarkable examples
OF the development of modest ems
terprises into establishments of ma
tIonwide note, covering a range -
wide as that from the making OF
pickles to the building Of locomo-
tives, the founding and growth oe
which has been due TO local capital
and local initiative.
A Logical Market Place.
Six railway systems oring Pich.
mond in close touch with the North
South and West and make 1t the
logical market place for a large tcr-
rtory, and its location geographi ally
is most favorable for the assembling
! of raw materials for-tfre rrrar1rac--
ture of products which so 10 almost
! every land under the sun. Occupy
ing both banks of the James river
where the falls Of that stream meet
the tides of the sea, the city enjoys
the advantages OF both water trans
portation and water power-ttasi0
features-one in connection with inc
problem of production and the other
with that of transportation the
James Is navigable to the sea ana In
addition to its commerce In sailing
vessels barges aud other craft, the
F'urman lire operates steamers from
Richmond to Petersburg and two
steamboat companies, the Old Doc
minion and the Virginia Navigation
company. as we'll as the rail lines
connect at Norfolk and Newport News
! with coastwise and oceanGolng ves-
sals affording transportation faciii~
ties tn all parts of the world.
Trolley Transportation. Too.
In addition to the steam road con.
nectiens, Richmond electric railway
/ sSstssM,s sfe .a sisstS. assa sfzssss
I Tssa-Efrsfnss4 arsssfway and Power cons-s
pany. which has fits network OF tracks
over the city, reaches Petersburg.
twenty-three miles to the south. ana
| trolley lines to Norfolk and to WaHh-
| ington, d. c.. are projected. Tn0
Richmond and Chesapeake Bay Elec-
trio railway operates a line to Ash
| land. sixteen miles distant. and VIII
! eventually penetrate the Northern
| Neck of Virginia to tap the great aR-
/ ricultural section which will become
/ one of the richest In the United states
, when the draining of the Chirkanom-
| inv swamp lis completed, ana tnS@
| Richmond and Hepr'co. already OBJ
Grating over eight miles OF trackaTNs
| has secured franchise which WIN
| permit both its city and suburban -
| tension.
| Facts and FIGURES.
Figures usuaiiv make drv ana uns
| interesting reading. but figures ar
necessary to cor~ey an idea OF Hicnss
r,,ord's progress in q decade. ana tH03
story thew tell IS SO amazing that 0noS
! r-ust reeds sit M and take notsces
Z For A~smrIe. as 70 population. FeW.a
/ rosssh'v IF Us own people are aware
~ the fact that IN the t~u wears fro1u
| 1000 to 1910 Rschmond's populatton
s~owed an increase OF SOL ner cent
The v-ri.ed States census--ultrA-con~
/ se-yattve afways--gave the city I'D
nrnr,aticr Of t"7 s2s in 1910 ana 9ns~s
esn Nv 1900. with the an-sxatfOn okg
H,ettond Park. Swanrhorc, HMvtAM
Heights end other outlying t~rYitct
/ which will be effected within tAMa
coming year. Richmona viii boaSt e
scrnething Ike 10000 snhebttaMAMs
and II ~ not far cry from TIRE AnNxlz
To eaa, aeo. which - nxed ~ thu noMS
~ achievement In popuiati0p
lfst4 !F
II The operations NJ the nnAne4a& ~
\ stituticns nre perhaps the Aeee @
f~x Of business nrcsperity. aNA
have shown such increasN
] dseede ~ T. a6aF6 ampA