The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-02

long he remembered ~ the great
crowds that lined the route.
Arrived at the fair grounds the
vTlt0rs scattered and excortec by fair
i. QIi.gIals visited the several exhibit
buildings. sheds and stalls, in which
were displayed some of the finest or
Mecklenburgs products.
About noon the directors and OIL
GERS of the fair summoned the COVER
n0rs, their generals and their colonels
and In automobile took them back
through the business section of the
/ city to the Gregory Members or the
party were registered and shortly be-
fore ! o'clock forty-sx guests of the
| fair association were seated In the
dining-r6om for the banquet
AZ the head OF the table was seated
President r. y. Roberts, of the fair
association To hts right was tho
governor OF North Carolina and on the
left the governor ,of Virginia, Rang
ri down from Governor Cratg's side OF
tho table were General Lawrence W.
Young Of Ashevit!c, Colonel s. Vert
liam Battle. of hsheviiie. General Il,
tG. Rnyster. OF OXFORD, Colonel w. 4
McGhee. Of Franklipton, and Captain
e. f Fuller and I.ieutenants J. G.
Steeali and V. A. Taylor. of OXFORD,
Members of Governor Stuarts STAFF
seated beside him, were Colou@ls Ju-
lien II. Hili, chief or star, Warren Z.
TAYLOR. Henry Lee Valentine, II. H
Goodwin, James J. Pollard, Richard
T.. Beall Harden Hairston. r. Nice
Burlington. J. n PaschaH. w. III Lang
horne and John w. Williams.
Among others We're Captain ". W.
Baker. Of Chesterfield, chairman, and
Delegate John Y. Lewis. member of
| the State Panama-Pacidc Exposition
commission; General superintendent Il.
t w. simpson, J. II. Drake and II. l..
I Bishop. Of tho Southern Railway com
| pany; Mayor w. H. Jcfreys. Jr.. OF
chase City; r. L. Roberts, president
! Ir. A, r. Finch. vice-president; II. u
| Patterson. treasurer G. f. Geoghegan,
! secretary, ana Lucius Gregory, Of the
, fair association.
Old Fashioned Dinner.
I The dinner was a splendid ono. being
I one Of the old fashioned Virginia din
nera The menu embraced number
1 Of the seasons most choice delicacies.
! Both the States whose executives were
/ in attendance were honored by dishes
peculiar to those States, and all had
| been 80 skIllfully prepared and so adj
| mrably served that tina governors
dinner a decided success. There
/ was no speechmaking' here, the din
ner party breaking up with cigars and
! going again to the fair grounds, where
/ the gathering waited TO hear from the
chiefs of the neiehbor Comonwealths
[ The addresses We're made from the
! speakers stand, erected in front OF
| the grandstand, which was filled to
! its capacity The usually open space
fy4,t, gfjs tsa1ty in ftp, - no a
was filed with seats and these too
| were occupied when President T. +
/ Roberts, of the association, who pre-
sided, presented Mayor Jeffreys
! Mayor Jeffreys after cordially well
/ coming TO Chase city the two gov
ernors. paid each pretty compliment
and presented Governor Stuart.
Governors Make Speeches.
| Governor Stuart's address was al
most wholly confined 20 subjects of
/ vital interest equally to the farmer
and to those dependeIf upon the
farmers product The topic dis
cussed at length was t're conservation
( of the soil. though numerous minor
incidental matters were touched. Gov
ernor Stuart, concluding. presented
! Governor Craig
The North Carolina executive in the
course Cf his address emphasize the
lmporta3s7a Of the back to the farm"
uovene 7t of good roads and OF civic
purity. He declared that the trans
portaticn corporations of the country
have done their part in recent de-
cadrs "a binding together in iron
bonds the communities Of the nation,
commended their efforts to be OF real
aid To he communities they serve,
and dsp}0red the antaconism from
VI -i0us quarters. He declared that
the railroads and telegraph and news
papers bring into small compass the
entire world, and that invention. mod
ern progress and modern freedom are
making all interests interdependent.
lie sketched briefly economic condi-
lions before the war and compared
them with conditions today, when sec
I tionalisn has been wiped out largely
by present day forces.
Nortl, Carolina Dryer Than Ever.
Referring to prohibition Governor
Craig declared that though North
I 7srufina adopted it few years ago
by some 10000 majority, the State
/ now. should the question be put.
> would make the majority for prohi-
bition q hundred thousand or mora.