The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-15
THE DIMES DESPATCH: RICHMOND VA SUNDAY JUNE Is 1918
RICHMOND BUILDS
OTHER LIVE CITIES
Helped to Make Birmingham
Great, and Now Setting Pace
for Nashville.

r. II. Edmonds editor of the Manu-
facturcrs' Record OF Baltimore. travels
Il good deal in the South. and under
the heading Notes by the Way in
Dixie" writes for the Record some
mighty Interesting industrial STUFF and
development notes and all about things
down south Ills latest Notes" are
ABOUT Nashville. Tenn, and incident
ally h" gets in n few good words about
Richmond bringing out the fact tha,
Nashville is becoming great because
she is taking Richmond as a pattern
That is pleasing to Richmond This
city is sufficiently proud of her twonti-
eth century progress. and she viii take
IL Is an addition to her bunch
OF laurcls 10 be told that she Is acting
as guide and helper TO other great
ana growing Southern cities Mr. Ed
monGS writes about Richmond Nash
vile In part az follows:
NasnEiI" promises 20 duplicate Rich
inohd In rs material advancement. In
many respects Nashville and Richmond
ar" alike Ia tn" carly days following
the way they both had men OF wiiun,
might be said: There were giants in
those days" Richmond had many men
OF exceptional financial and business
AFFINITY who became noted leaders in
the development OF the south They
we're largely responsible for much OF
the railroad building activity Of the
central South in the early eighties.
for the development OF Iron and coal
in birmingham and for many broad
enterprises which set the pace for
growth throughout the south In
those DAYS Nashville. TOO. had railroad
builders and Iron and coal developers
II had its shocks. It's coles. its BaXters
and others who were as great in the
tf.l Hf.r - Ia. IL x...
Of the poverty following the war 10
industrial victory az we're the men be-
tween 1851 and 1865 who led the armies
OF the South 10 victories on many A
sanguinary battlefield These men
were railroad builders iron and coal
operators, and TO some Of them. as
10 Richmond men, is due much credit
Tor the creation Of Birmingham and
It's vast industrial activities
Later on there me a period of los
s"n"d activity at nom" and in outside
operations in Richmond az well as in
Nashville. In the last five or ten
years. however. Richmond has caught
KS breath again. and has been max
ing splsd!G progress in leadership
throughout the South In financing
many OF the South's important I'm
dustr!es. and in the broad development
OF It's own Industrial and financial
~ ~ 20 'S VS. -! ihlS1HlOnH
IN IN" last five Or ten years in all OF
these respects has been most marked
Nashville. II | read the signs OF the
times Alright IS preparing TO follow
R!chmond's example and once more be-
come a leader tn many broad activities
covering the South. and once more
TO develop moro rapidly than ever be-
fore its own Industrial and financial
interests. Splendidly located IN a
country richly endowed b. nature With
exceptional advantages for CONNER
cial and industrial affairs Nashville
halted for a while just as Richmond
did. but now II is moving forward
with every Indication that II is 10 dup
licate Rlchnond's progress in hnan-
cial and industrial development. To
the outsider the evidences of this
change are probably more noticeable
than TO Nashville people themselves