Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-31
TOBACCO AND
est TRUNK ENTERPRISES


'Sf TRUNK ENTERPRISES
50 Petersburg has been an industrial
center OF Importance for many years
with its big tobacco, cigarette and
edgar factories; its mammoth trunk
nd bag enterprises, and its Spanish
eanut and lumber market. To-day
te city can well lay claim TO being
numerical center. with q trade of
.sh volume unprecedented in the his
ry of the State. Every two weeks
3 Du Pont plant pays out approx
SeT 100000. Petersburg gets
- portion of this money. and. in adj
Hion. It's merchants and wholesale
ySouses supply the Du pont commissary
with considerable goods
~ William NJ. Martin. secretary of the
Petersburg Chamber of Commerce. is
one of the busiest men among the many
busy citizens of the city. He is con-
stantly at work on plans to improve
the transportation facilities between
Petersburg and Hopewell. in addition
to seeing that the people are thorough
ly alive to the opportunities which the
development of Hopewcll affords.
while loyal Petcrsburgers are nat
aurally proud of their historic city. it's
Shospitable homes, its numerous and
prosperous industrial enterprises, and
Its able professional classes" said
6Se4Stlcy Martin. they realize that to
g attractive city must, in addition,
e clean. healthy, we'll governed and
enutiful They know that the era of
arrowncss is over. and that every
pmmunity must stand still or advance
proportion to the intelligence and
ublic spirit of the average man. The
prit of cooperation has spread
through the community, and progress
IS no longer regarded as negligible or
automatic The Cocfrdc City. as
EPresident Madison dubbed Petersburg.
Rgrows year by year to be better
place TO live in and to work in. be-
cause its people not only wish that it
should, but because more people than
ever before are taking the right steps
to make it better"
FAvoRAnLY LOCATED FOR
INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE.
Petersburg is most favorably located
both for an industrial and commercial
center. II is at the head of navigation
on the AppomattoX River. twelve miles
above it's confluence with the James at
City Point 1t was founded by Peter
Jones in 1888 and incorporated in 1884
The Importance of the city, from Il
business standpoint, in 1915 compares
- with the prominence it had nifty years
ago, when the armies of the North and
South were battling for supremacy in
the dying days of the confcderacy
The census of 1910 gave Petersburg
a population of 2Al27. an increase of
&c per cent since 1900. Two years ago
the government reports indicated Il
population of nearly 10000 and to day
il is not difficult to see that there
are $4,000 inhabitants. There Is not n
vacant house in the city and all avail
able living space is occupied Several
thousand employees of the Du pont
plant make their homes there. and il
is probable that more would do s.. if
there were available homes.
THREE TRUNK LINES
PASS THROUGH CITY
From transportation standpoint.
Petersburg has splcndi. advantages.
Three trunk lines of greg railway sys-
TENS operate through the city, and
these, with the water transportation,
offer unsurpassed shipping facilities.
The Norfolk and Western gives means
of transportation east and west, with
direct connection to the coal fields and
the sea ports. The Atlantic Coast Line
and the Seaboatd Air Line run north
and south. while there is hourly con-
nection with Richmonu over the elco-
trio line OF the Virginia Railway and
Power Company and daily boats each
way from Richmond and Norfolk
No city government III Virginia is in
better financial condition than Peters
burg. Its bonds sell at a premium
which speaks well for the safe and sane
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