The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-04-14

progress. Tne people appear pros
porous, for the most part, and happy.
everybody else. It was a great day.
day OF carnival. of entertainment and
OF Inspiration.
The celebration closed with dis
play Of fireworks at the ball park to-
night, and with a banquet at which
several hundred were seated In the
F, Dupont Hotel at City Point.
| Given Great Welcome.
Met by members OF the reception
committee. detailed from the commit
tee of fifty. headed by N. England.
at the Dupont Hotel Station of the
N 4 W., the Governor and his party.
consisting OF members OF his staff and
officers of the Virginia Volunteers. in
service uniform. and representatives
OF the Richmond Chamber of Com
merce. were taken in automobiles for
a sightseeing ride through "a" VIII
lage, City Point. Hopewell and "B''
village. There were more than a
dozen cars in line and as the visitors
were whirled through the streets the
sidewalks were lined with people OF
various nationalities who cheered the
CHEF executive and his STAFF.
| The train arrived shortly after II
o'clock. IT was made up of the car
| in which the Governor and his party
started from Richmond on the regular
$3.50 A. c. r train and the special
locomotive provided by the Norfolk
and Western Railway at the Peters
burg station.
In the Governors Party.
With the Governor In the car from
| Richmond were Secretary of the Com
monwealth B. o. James, Lieutenant
Governor j. Taylor Ellyson. Attorney
| General John Garland Pollard, Colonel
Julien Fl. Hill. chief of staff. and the
following members of the STAFF
Colonies W. H. Langhorne, A. J. Ter
rell, Warren p. Taylor, r. McC. Bull
| lington, John w. Williams. J. J. Poll
| lard and Henry Lee Valentine, and
Capt ain W. w La Prade Colonies e.
e. GOODWIN and Ashton w, Gray, OF
city.
Former Adjutant- General Charles
J.. Anderson, Colonel 10 Lane Stern.
| inspector-general of the Virginia Vol
unteers; Colonel Allen Potts. Major
| T. NJ Workman. commanding the Vfr-
ginia Field Artillery Battalion, and
Captain A. NJ. Shipp. Y. s. A.. detailed
TO the Virginia Volunteers. were other
representatives OF the military.
| Representatives of the Chamber of
Commerce of Richmond. who ac-
companied the Governor, were head
ed by E c. Laird as personal rep
resentative Of President Workman. of
the Chamber. and by Business Man
ager william r. Dabney. The Cham
ber's representatives were: 8. w.
Travers, Milton Cone. Robert Lecky,
Granville G. Valentine. Horace Il.
Smith, John C. Easley. DIR. e. N
Calisch. w. H Adams, Charles 2. Nor
man. Edwin A. Palmer and ]. T. Pal
ulatory.
Escort From Petersburg.
| From Petersburg to Hopewell the
party was escorted by a committee
representing Petersburg, Hopeweil and
Prince George. Boarding the train az
Petersburg were Judge Jesse Y. West,
of the Prince George Circuit; Q. ..
District Attorney r. III. Mann, Dele
gate David A. Harrison, Jr. OF Prince
lGeorge and Surry; Judge Lawrence
Perry Of Hopeweil Police Court; j. "
Fai son, member of the Administra-
tive Board recently appointed by Gov
ernor Stuart to direct the afrairs OF
| the States newest municipality. Rev.
Father Haier. of the Cathoic
Churches at Petersburg and at hope
we'll; former Senator Charles TrotteT
| Iassiter and Senator Pat III. DreWry,
| of Petersburg.
| This was the personnel OF the party
when It reached Dupont Hotel station
| On the committee of Hopewell people
who welcomed the visitors or placed
automobiles at their disposal for a
sight seeing trip that lasted for more
| than an hour were Richard Eppes,
| '.father of Hopewell": M. A. Finn and
Ben tamin Harrison, OF the Adminis-
| trative Board; President e. NJ. Cleve-
Iland and Secretary /. NJ Warren, OF
1.-The HopeweII 2uo, 600 League RchaTd
Boisseau. Max Neustader. j. l.
Vaughan, Judge #. II. Britton, syl-
vanius p. Anthony, p. q. Bunting. T.
r. Trout. o. II. West, J. M. Luke. X.
O. Sudbury, J. X McCotter. e. L. Pot
| ter. william Amarosa. NJ. A. Siloer-'
stein, Drs. r.. x. Giertng, I. Leion. J.
/ Elder, 8. G.. Gill. Hertsberg and
ILeonard. Fl. B. Goodlow, Alden Bell.
Reys. Gresham. Wylie, Wilson ana
Tucker. ana Messrs. Long and Was-
kins.
Irinee Dupont Is Present.
| Secretary william NJ. Marion. E. C.
Kent and Horace l. Smith, OF tho
| Petersburg Chamber OF Commerce
were among the members OF that or
sanitation who assisted the entertain
ment committee. Commemorative
| Attorney Samuel w. thinner. OF Pc
| ter-sburg, was another who assisted IN
making the visitors feel at home.
Delegate Emmett Lee Mann. OF
Mstoaca. and Senator Hening. OF
esterfeld, were representatives on
the General Assembly who went with
the party on the automobile trip ana
who were among the guests at the
luncheon by George Guvenator. OF
Richmond. at O'Clock In the Dupont
club house at City Point
Superintendent Allen of the Du-
Point plant at Hopewell and other Of
ficials of the company. with Irinee
| DUPONT. who Is here from whining
ton. Delaware, representing the Du-
Pont family at he celebration. were
In the receiving line at the club house.
Mr.. DUPONT expressed his pleasure at
| the success OF the celebration and
| his qualification at being able to con-
| tribute toward that success.
The Industrial pageant which had
| formed In b village at noon reached
| and passed before the Dupont Club,
| from the broad front piazza from
which Governor Stuart and his party
reviewed the parade. The process
sion required more than fifteen min
utes to pass the club house on it's way
to the ball park, where II disbanded.
Several hundred of the paraders were
in the packed grandstand a little
later for the Governors address.
The Pageant Passes.
rho ,>auoorf rnoda IN Of reurA-