. Virginia in black and white . GLADYS INN, CLiFTON FORGE, VA- The old church still stands to which the good king and queen, William andMary, presented its first communion service, and it is still in use. Newport News.— This is the sea-port city of the Chesapeake &Ohio Rail-way, and it is admirably situated upon a plateau at the head of HamptonRoads, the most accessible and the safest harbor of the Atlantic Coast, into 57 which vessels of the largest tonnage may enter without the aid of pilotboats, find perfect safety in times of storm, and land directly at the Chesa-peake & Ohio piers. The po
. Virginia in black and white . GLADYS INN, CLiFTON FORGE, VA- The old church still stands to which the good king and queen, William andMary, presented its first communion service, and it is still in use. Newport News.— This is the sea-port city of the Chesapeake &Ohio Rail-way, and it is admirably situated upon a plateau at the head of HamptonRoads, the most accessible and the safest harbor of the Atlantic Coast, into 57 which vessels of the largest tonnage may enter without the aid of pilotboats, find perfect safety in times of storm, and land directly at the Chesa-peake & Ohio piers. The port is on the course of vessels plying betweenNew York and the Gulf of Mexico and South America. It is an important. New iNtermoNt Hotel, coviNgtoN, Va- coaling station, the coal pier having handled a million tons last year, whichwill be materially increased in the future. Here is located one of the largestgrain elevators in the United States, as well as the largest shipyard, whosedry dock, 625 feet long, is capable of receiving the largest vessel that the shipyard is comparatively a recent enterprise yet it has alreadyturned out several merchant ships, notably the Morgan Line steamers. ElSud, El Norte and El Rio, all of which have shown remarkable speed. Thepresent regular steamship lines from Newport News are the Old DominionLine (New York), Merchants and Miners Line (Providence and Boston) andthe United States and Brazilian Line (Rio de Janeiro), while regular serviceto Europe is given by the Furness and Barber lines. Six steamships of thefirst class are now being constructed by the Chesapeake & Ohio SteamshipCompany, limited, and upon their completion they will make weekly sa
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