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4 i. r Vol. I No. 2. RALEIGH, N. C, SEPTEMBER 22, 1883. Price 5 Cents. 1 r . WINSTON, HER MARVELOUS GROWTH AND WONDERFUL PROSPERITY. The Place Thirteen Years ago and to dayA Sketch of the Rise of her Man ufacturing Concerns. Special Oorresponden.ee of the Chronicle. Winston, X. C, Sept. 20. When Co& tez pushed his way through the almost im penetrable jungle of the Rio Grande val lej, and found himself subsequently at the gates of an Aztec city, where every mark of civilization was apparent, where nourished the industrial arts, and where a refinement reijjned that was undreamed of ' in. the philosophy of hi.s native Spain, he was filled with the most indescribable as tonishment. It is a surprise similar to that, and hardly less intense, that greets the rambling tour its who, perchance or otherwise, stumbles upon the bustling little city of Wins'on. Expecting to see a country town he finds himself wiihin a noisy inland metropolis, possessing every accompanying indication of city-like thrift and go-aheadativeness. Macadamized streets, beautiful shade trees, magnificent store buildings, immense man ufacturing concern?, elegant and pictur-, esque residences, handsome turnouts, rat tling trucks, crowded streets, a well dress ed population, and a countless number of other details impress themselves upon him and heighten his surprise. To the reader who ktiows Winston from hearsay alone, thn sounds extravagant and far-fetched, but a visit to the place will verify every word. Thirteen years ago the spot where Win ston now stands was a wild, uncultivated forest, with a house or two scattered at lengthy intervals. To day there stands a prospeiou city of over seven thousand in habitant?, including Salem, and with Wauditown, a suburb, of several hundred, the location of the two largest wagon manufactures in North Carolina operat ing a large number of emplo3'es and con trolled by the Messrs. Nissen. Winston is situated on a ridge in a beautiful valley, with the mountains in the distance. The siirroundingcountry is famed for its health giving mineral wafers, its salubrious cli mate7its fertile soil and especially for the production of a bright tobacco, that for delicacy of flavor, toughness of chew, brilliancy of co'or is unattainable else where and is sought by buyers all over the world. Maj. T. J. Brown is the pioneer to whom much of Winston's present prosperity is due. It was he who laid the foundation stone of our present immense business in tobacco, by building in 1870, the first ware house, and there the weed has been sold up to to-day. The manufacture of tobac co was begun about the same time, by Maj. Ham. Scales, and followed shortly after by Mr. T. L. Vaughn, Messrs. P. H. Hanes & Co., the Reynolds Brothers, and other firms. With marvelous rapidity the p ace has been built up, and the tobacco busi ness augmented until to day there are four large warehouses, twenty four plug facto ries, two smoking factories and over fifty leaf dealers. There were upwards of twelve million pounds of leaf sold in 1882 and a much greater quantity, it is thought, during the present jear. Over seven mil lion pounds will be manufactured this year, much of which is bought In the other markets of the State and shipped hither. Large quantities of our leaf are sent throughout the United States, and our manufactured goods go to every portion of the civilized globe. Upwards of fitty counties in this State and Virginia, supply our market with tobacco, and many in stances it has bt en known to be the case that p antcrs from a f-w miles of Lynch burg have hauled their leaf to Winston be cause our market has the "reputation of paying fancy prices. There are over three thousand five hun dred hands employed in the tobacco factories, who reeehe on an average of $9 per week. Thus a sum of over thirty thou sand dollars is placed into circulation every Saturday night, resulting in a more strict adherence to the cash system. Messrs. Brown & Brotl er. manufacturers of the celebrated "Old Oaken Bucket'" brand, have the largest factory in Winston, and anticipate building an addition this fall. They are the first in North Carolina to manufacture navy plug, which they have but recently commenced. Messrs. P. II. Hanes & Co., are doing the largest bu siness this year. They have magnificent buildings, which must in a very short while make way to even larger ones, at least, extensive additions. R. J. and II. II. Reynolds are large manufactu rers ; likewise T. L. Vaughn, whose bus iness has increased so extensively that he is now building a five-story brick factory, which is claimed will be the largest in the place. Several new factories are contem plated in the next few months. Of course tobacco manufacturing is the principal industry of Winston, but there are many other enterprises which would do honor to many places of greater preten sions than Winston. The Woolen Mills, owned by Messrs. F. & H. Fries, operate 900 spindles, and manufacture every year nearly one hundred thousand pounds of wool into rolls, yarns, cloth, etc. The Arista Cotton Mills, owned by the same firm, operate 6.4S0 spindles, and work up into sheeting, etc., over 23,000 pounds of cotton per day. These mills have an im mense trade, which is constantly increas ing. Electric lights are used, and several hundred employes are given labor. This same enterprising firm also operate the largest tannery in North Carolina, and iat-nt process rollers " and other im proved machinery. The Salem Iron Works, operated by Mr. C A. I lege, is the largest establishment of its kind in the State. They manufacture liege's Saw Mill, which has been so ex tensively advertised, and which has re ceived llattering distinction at several in dustrial expositions. These works manu facture various other articles, which go. to all parts of the world, their saw-mills hav ing been shipped to Brazil and Canada. Messrs. Fogle Brothers and Miller Broth ers are large manufacturers of tobacco ''oxes, with which they supply the facto ries lu re and elsewhere. It is impossible in a letter of this charac ter to mention every one of the numerous small industries that go to make Winston the largest manufacturing place in the State, and which will tend to make her in tlte very near future the largest city in Western North Carolina, if not the entire srate. It may be well for me, however, to mention the fact that there are here man ufactories that make a patent well-fixture, a'i improved fanning-machine, shuttle blocks, tobaeco-llues, fruit-evaporators, :md candies. Brandy peaches are put up, fl"it and vegetables canned, and a fully flipped pottery in operation. In the Koper season the packing and shipping of fruits and grapes to Northern markets is illustriously carried on, and the traffic in dried fruit is immense, over two million 5fJlouring mills are the largest of the "d the Twin City, and in which have fce.Vy - been placed a complete set of pounds having been shipped from Winston during the past season. The outlook for Winston is indeed rose ate. New people are moving in continu ally, new firms are opening up, new build ings are being erected, and new and more progressive ideas infused. Our new graded school building, which is to cost $10,000 and be placed upon a $2,o00 piece of prop erty, is a fit improvement to put by the side of the best water-works in the State. Prof J. L. Tomlinson, late of the Wilson Giaded School, has been elected superin tendent. To every man, either in North Carolina or anywhere else who desires to locate in a pushing, wide-awake city, where the peo ple take him by the hand and whisper a word of encouragement in his ear ; where Jiving is cheap and wages are good ; where there is money, and health and happpi ness, and many of the best things of earth, I commend him to Winston. Let him come on a prospecting tour and see for himself. E. A. O. CAPE FEAR PICNICS. A Description of an Interesting and Hospitable Custom of Having a Good Time. Special Correspondence of the Chronicle. CUMBEBliANl 0S.T Scptfirber t& You say I must write of whatever is pecu liarly North Carolinian. You hit the nail on the head then, sure ; for that is pre cisely what we expect The State Chron icle to be a journal peculiarly about pe culiar Noith Carolina subjects Well, is there in any other State pre cisely such a custom or institution or habit call it what you will as the coun try picnics of the Cape Fear region? The idea of the picnic, of course, is old and uni versal. But it is usually a Sunday-school picnic, or a young folks" picnic, or some thing of that nature. There is generally some sort of organization or association which indulges in such fun. But in Cum berland, Duplin, Sampson, Moore and other counties hereabout, there are picnics every summer or fall, which are conceived and carried out without any such organi zation. Theie is no purpose but to have a good time. Old people go. Young peo ple go. The boys make hay while the sunshine on the cheeks ofTtbe girls lasts ; the matrons compare babies ; the negroes compare dogs ; the farmers compare re ports of crops ; everybody is in a good hu mor, and nobody has anything in the world to do but to talk and to be talked to, to laugh and to be laughed at. You find human nature at its best at a Cape Fear picnic. If the people have any skeletons or grievances at home they leave them there ; but, if they have anything good to eat, they bring it. The picnic bears the same relation to social life that the revival bears to religious life. Every body loves his neighbor a little better af terwards. Of late years most of the picnics have been called farmers' picnics, and some body' (who," as a rule knows nothing about farming) is invited to make a speech about agriculture. But in spite of so good a pre tense, I have never yet seen a farmer who thought he had learned anything about farming from a picnic speech. This agri cultural dodge is a convenient excuse. I do not believe there is another country in the world where such a quantity of good thingsjto eat is promiscuously gathered to gether and promiscuously scattered abroad as here. Every housewife prepares enough dinner for all her friends : all the neigh borhood is the friends of every one ; and the consequence is, there is enough dinner for half a county full of hungry people at some of them. There is always a par son to invoke a blessing (generally a good Presbyterian in this immediate section), and his prayer for a proper enjoyment of these temporal blessings is usually an swered if the visible signs of enjoyment are to be trusted. The best characteristics of every people have some channel of transmission to suc cessive generations. I have frequently thought that the rousing good old times that our Scotch ancestors had in their clan meetings are near of kin to the good times and hale fellowship we Scotchmen have at our "farmers' " picnics. Of course, it is not Scotch folk only who go, but it has got into my head that it is a peculiar Scotch institution. The buggies and carriages and wagons drive up to the grove or spring, from ten o'clock till 12. Every one has its share of babies ; a dog brings up the procession be hind many ; and there is no vehicle but has a large trunk or box. A plain table has already been constructed in a shady place, from 50 to 100 feet long, and plain benches for the ladies have been built near by. The people gather in clusters about the table and talk till about 1 o'clock. The master of ceremonies then invites every body to bring his basket or box or trunk. At one recent picnic the master of ceremo nies had been court-crier, and he yelled : 4tOh yes ! Oh yes ! Oh yes ! All you that have baskets, boxes, or trunks of of som'thin' feat, fetch it up ! Oh yes!'' The men and boys and negroes (for there is always a small number of negro men and women house-gervants in the com pany) bring the som'thin' t'eat ; table cloths are spread ; a dozen brave and gal lant fellows, arranged along the table, wrestle with chickens and turkeys, trying to take an 'under-hold" with a dull knife ; and the crowd smacks its lips and draws gradually nearer. The parson asks a most patient blessing. Then with appetite which has become fierce during the long prayer, the gentlemen wait on the ladies and help themselves. All stand and eat and talk, and drink lemonade. After the dinner has been digested, the speeches are made and heard ; and dancing sometimes follows and sometimes there is no dancing. But always everything is merry. Generosity", hospitality, good nature and all manner of kindliness have received an impetus. There is nothing pleasanter in the world. There are no better people in the world. There is nothing like a Cape Fear picnic. Hereafter The Chronicle must come and see. Mac. Excessive Humility. IYom the Winston Sentinel. Winston thinks it's about time for him to find an 'k humble refuge in the Republican ranks." No doubt of it. " Humble " bye the bye is a very appropriate word. A man must be all-iired lk humble " to join a Mottly crew like the Republicans. Both are Handsome, Then. From the Western Carolinian. Two ladies met in Hickory last week who had been told about five hundred times that they were as much alike as two blue beans. After looking and measuring and comparing records, each felt compliment ed and was happy. Hyde Probably for J. E. Moore. Special Correspondence of the Chronicle. Engelhard, N. C, Sept. 15. I think the majority of Democrats in Hyde prefer Jno. Ed. Moore, Esq., tc fill the place of Pool, deceased. THE PINES. MOORE COUNTY'S PROGRESS INDUSTRIES. AM) A Glimpse Through a Forest at a Busy and Rich People Some of their Char acteristics. Special Correspondence of the Chronice. Blue's Crossing, Sept. 19. It has not been many years since Moore county was considered one of the remote regions of the State. So long as it was without a railroad it was dicffiult of access. Its pop ulation was comparatively j-parse, its great natural products were not within reach of the markets, and the people lived much as they did half a hundred years ago. Every man owned his home, and the most of them owned very large tracts of timber land. They were independent and happy, but very far away from the rest of the world. They were good Presbyterians the most of them, at least and every man served God a long way from his neighbor. Deer and wild turkey were abundant, and these, too, claimed no small share of the men's devotion. Moore was in the back woods, but it was a county with a good history, and with good people, for all that. Now, however, Moore county exports more dollars worth of Jiaturaiproducta jroi uti.jj.-5, uiau v uiucr wuuij in mc State. To their contentment the people have added riches, and to their riches greater energy. The wholesale merchants of Raleigh will bear witness that their largest and best patrons, best in qualities of heart and of purse also, live and thrive along the Raleigh & Augusta Air-Line. There is no comparison between the to tal amount of hpcal freight carried each way on this road with that carried on any other that runs from Raleigh. Of course it almost entirely consists of lumber and naval stores, but few other industries in the State are more profitable to the oper ators and none other is so profitable to the railroads. The building of this rairroad to Hamlet through Moore illustrates the healthy ef fects of railroads on the people as well as on their industries. There is more cash in Moore county to-day than in any other county in the State that has no greater pop ulation, and the value of property con tinually appreciates. Timbered land adja cent o the railroad cannot now be bought at all, and that at a reasonable distance bring? a good price. Just before the road was completed Dr. Hawkins and other gentlemen, who were associated with him, bought large tracts of land near the line, which now constitutes the greater part of the section from which large shipments of the products of the pine are made. Al though this was an enormous speculation and yielded the speculators a large profit, the most of the land was bought the second time for a price that was ludicrously low. What manifold profits there are in a pine tree ! It is as rich as it is graceful, and as versatile in its uses as it is monoto nous in its music. In the first place it has for centuries enriched the earth with its leaves. The turpentine-operntor, who in boldness is the equal of a Chicago grain speculator and has a good hand for gamb ling on next year's prices, makes enormous fortunes (and often loses them) from the tree, without making its music cease or without doing very great damage to the timber. Then the lumberman, who is a spoiler of the. country, cornes ; and yet he leaves enough wood to pay for ttie land if it could be got to market for reasonable freight charges. The day has not yet come, though it is coming, when the lightwood knots will be converted into tar, and when spirits of tur pentine will be distilled, by a finer process than the one used now, from boughs and knots. After the turpentine men and the lum bermen have done their worst and gone, the land is rich in possibilities, although they leave it naked Cousin Sally Dillard fashion. The cotton planter will come one of these clays and the Devil's Gut will run through corn fields instead of Juniper swamps. In those days, however, two peculiar in habitants of this region will be no more ; and when they are gone the characteristics of the country will be greatly changed. These are the "turpentine nigger" and the " pine rooter." The turpentine nigger do you suppose he'd handle a hoe? Nev er as f Rnf li'll lmrifllf n inor nc rln vfrruisl v he handles a "puller" or manages a He "gets religion " sometimes but he gets drunk oftener. He don't work more than four or five days our. of seven, and spends the others devotedly at the bar. Many a Saturday night at some of the stations on the rnilroad, King Rum rules the colored brother, and his white neighbor now and then acknowledges the same sovereign. Yet the turpentine darkey is an independent fellow and knows his rights and dares maintain them. The other peculiar citizen of the pine woods, who like his biped kinsman, spends all his time in companionship with the majestic pines, is the pine-rooter, a hog, at least a distant descendant of the hog, whose qualities are yet as swinish as the qualities of those which ran down the preci pice into the sea. His ears are midway be tween the end of his nose and the end of his tail. Indeed he is all nose. It is said, whether truthfully or not I shall not un dertake to say, that he can drink from a jur. He was born with a natural antipa thy to big pines and with an unconquera ble love for the roots of small ones. He digs a hole almost deep enough to bury himself head-foremost and gets as the fruits of such labor a pine root as large as your finger. When these pass away, as deer and turkey are already going, Moore will con tinue to be a solid county of excellent cit izenship and of great wealth, even after three kinds of nien have got rich here, viz : the speculators, the turpentine men and the lumber men. Cotton will grow precisely as it grows now in the Cape Fear region, which was once covered densely with pines and is now covered thickly with cotton. Melons grow as well in Carteret. The agriculturist will be the last and best man and the richest of them all if he manages well. There is room say this in Boston for 50,000 energetic men in Moore. The Yan kee will not be alone who comes. They have been here. Especially do consump tives find the pure dry air and the resinous smell of it a check if not a cure. A great sanitarium has been talked of at Manly. It ought to be built. It would pay. It would do good. Jackson's Springs, too, (for Moore, also, has springs) now the difficulty about the title to the property seems to have been settled, ought to be a great watering place for those who sutler from dyspepsia. Al ready it has many guests from the adja cent counties every summer. Every one of these stations will be a town one of these days, aud some of them cities. Manly surely" will be. If the rest of the State keeps pace with Moore, we may soon have a Boston Exposition in North Carolina. Already the gentlemen along this road will build, and tar, and pitch everything within several hundreds AMONG of mile and furnish rosin gratis for alt the fiddles that will plav the "Old North State. MORE BOSTON NOTES. From Memoranda Made on the Spot br a Distinguished North Carolinian. far the Chronicle. The Mechanics' and Manufacturers In stitute, where the Exposition is held, has an imposing appearance. Both the front and side elevations and the interior is ex ceedingly spacious and commodious. On entering the hall there is an impression of vastrn ss, order and taste, and yet the pro portions are so admirable one do-s not know how great is the area for exhibition until it is conscientiously tramped over. It presents a busy and brilliant scene, crowded with visitors day and night, and indeed the evening brings the largest at tendance. As well a I have known and as long as I have loved North Carolina, I was surprised, gratified and instructed as I looked at the display, and was proud of it and of my native State. THE DISPLAY OF SOME COUNTIkS. Cherokee and Swain furnish beautiful marbles grey, black and variegated, ex ceedingly rich and odd, with delicate lines an? -lelicate, unusual tiots, and revealing its susceptibility to thevm6st perfect iol-f ish. For ornamental work these are pro nounced by these Boston connoisseurs to be unsurpassed . And they are as greatly astonished as they are charmed. Granite, too, extorts admiration and praie, and they know what granite is in Massachu setts. Black granite from Anson, varie gated from Davie, green from Mecklen burg, and the "Scotch" from Wilson, awa ken much inquriy and commendation. A leopard, cut out from the "leopardite," a spotted granite of Mecklenburg, is an ob ject of great interest. So, too, the brown stones the sandstones, rather are beau tifully displayed. These are of various colors, ranging from dark green to light yellofc', rich brown and the most delicate shades of pink. The display of gems is mosc notable the nost attractive display, perhaps, in the bulding, and the finest, I was told, in the world of native product. The rare and p-ecious Hiddeuite a native of North Carolina and only to be found here ru bies, emeralds, sapphires, garnets, and other gems are shown, so as to make a maidei's eyes water (or shine) and the pocke s of papa suffer. The choicest of the collection of Professor Humphreys, Mr. "Vim. E. Hidden "s private collection very. :omplete and valuable Mr. J. A. Steveison's (of Statesville) collection, and those f other amateurs and men interested in smh studies, Messrs. Wheeler and Steele of Charlotte, all are here, and are very nuch admired. AVOIDS GOOD NORTH CAROLINIANS. Noi less admired is the exhibit of native wood; about one hundred and fifty1' spec imens in all. Very attractive are the huge block of timber, in the rough ; cherry, 4 feetin diameter; ash and black walnut, 5 feet; pine, G feet ; cypress, 9 feet ; ami white oak and poplar, 10 feet in diameter. "Theie are big things," said one Boston man o another, "I thought to be found only in California." Then the polished wood. These are exquisite, revealing ev ery jhase of each kind of timber, and numlmng, I think, 120 varieties; Df Dabney has worked, most ..faith fully and Mth great wisdom in collecting and arrarging this display, and has endeared himself, all the more by his timely energy and udgment, to the people of North Carol n a. The life-long and self-sacri-ficiuowork of Professor Kerr has borne good fruit. How Governor Morehead woul. have rejoiced at such a manifesta tionNf North Carolina and her -vast and varie! resources ! BOSTON MONEY. Tcmany it may seem strange to know that ioston leads New York in the num ber c its National Banks and the amount of caital. The outlet for so vast a store of cpital is naturally where native re soures promise the largest, surest and swiffcst returns. Let these moneyed men, the (Solid men of Boston," see the ores, and j;ems, and stones, and ornamental wooes, and marbles, and the untouched and undeveloped native resources that awai but their magic means to bring im medite and untold revenues, and the re sult ill bean influx of capital, enterprise, popiation, thrift, and prosperity. At any ate the hope is worth the effort. , W. S. Li. P-rsonal Notes from Washington. oecial Correspondence of the Chronicle. Washington, Sept. 18. The President retuned ten days ago, but a Cabinet meet ing as for a week impossible. Its mem bemvere not returned from their summer junl?t. Tfere is a strong under-current of talk amog the politicians about the Speaker ship of the House. Mr. Randall has a sma experienced force which are of great wehjit, already here at work for him. Mr; arie and .Mr. fe. b. tox, who are not sf skilld at political manoeuvre, are pullino uiiei . wwes, repeeuvejy irom tne Whit Sulpur Springs, Va., and New York city t m - - -i . . - r J l oim meec one oi itanaaii s chief trie ster and of late he wears the face of Sphix. Bnts and dry goods have gone up ai wiucontinue in tnat direction until ausjcious second week in December. reain of this annual revival is due to fact that the average boarding: h keei r, the shrewd room-renter and cai er, j well as the Washington maidf widvs and divorced women makei metious preparations for the influx unsspecting. and unsophisticated gresmen, with their train of constit and' hangers-on." The leading mel of Ar delegation are generally fre tne narpies. Cnerals Ransom and Scales ha bee occupants of the old Southernl knvn as the Metropolitan, where tot .Lamar and Keagan also reside Irs. Gov. Vance owns a handso defie on Massachusetts Avenue. eltantly and tastefully furnished fen. Cox ana his charmins: wi sup of rooms at the Riggs 1. Wharton Green will pre quterea at Wiilard's with his wl, it is said, is greatly admired fj loit Arthur. Her aunt, yougre. is srs. David Davis. Who kncQi tlf-'North Carolina idea" msf he some day as romn Xto: cdlj of A MODEL TOWN i A CREAT ENTERPRISE O ll I.E3IAN COMPANY I How it Han Secured Ciood X And How ;od Workmen II . -aim. C.ood Home. Sjerial Correspondence of the ?, Chicago, September 17 Ii gthis somew hat dull season I know that wcuhl be more, hit retin readers than a brief description ,othing $ your town oi Pullman; and I believe th interesting to the progressive South because it may give a hit will re , of the ct a very the con- ght r?- - of the t of one ; an Pai- ; oh the important method of improvi; ciition ot IaiMnng men. winch sibly be used in the manager negroes. 1 he town of Pullman is the ft of the great factories of the llf ace Car Company, and i situa Illinois railroad, a vw miles fr- -n Chi-'ago. Several years ago the plate prairie-land, uncultivated aud ':i"'!':;';.e t The Pullman company purcha? d t- l,rV , of land lying between the railroad ! ;e lake, and the first thing it did was to dram it perfectly. A system of undergrouua sewers was constructed, and an immense water tatfk built, large enesuh nd'htgj enough to cause a continual flow thremgn the sewers to their mouths. A rea C?T" liss engine pumps water from the lake in to this reservoir. This first work inur healthful ness, cleanliness and reasonable security against fire; for the water .rora the reservoir can be made to flood anj building in the town. , This system of sewers and waterworks having een finished, the town was laid out, with wide streets and Inrge lawns. Several hundred dwellings were built, not in solid blocks, as in large cities, but each dwelling detached frorv! the others, and with a yard and fence aJ&i "t it. They are evfrv one of excelled cSlck, but they vary in size and expe elegant res idences to humble cr Every building-. Tver, was made as perfect' as possibleVaving gas, water, good ventilation, ancrall the other mod ern conveniences. They would not be called line houses here, but they are cer tainly in all that concerns comfort, health and convenience, model dwellings. There is no possibility for dirt or bad air to do injury. Besides these dwellings, the number of which has been continually increased un til the town now contains about 2,000 in habitants, there is a block of business buildings; rather, it is one large building, called the Arcade, which is divided into stores on the ground floor, and the upper floor is an elegant little theatre. It will compare favorably in its furniture and equipments with any small theatre in the world. It is a pleasure to enter it, and to look at it, even when the stage is empty. There is also a hall where secret societies and the like hold meetings. Besides this, there are an elegant little church and a commodious school house. The little hotel near the railroad station is so beautiful a building, so comfortably arranged and $o well kept that people go out there fn.fli the city as to a summer re- sort. f To the le of the town and the hotel are the ma corapanyJ fmouth double shops ot the id sleep- ing cars, A ufacturedf is astonisl no room t man- Nor do town con You step of an art, itself a thuough srisrantic the troti architeei as nob shops : elled v flower in the left t the s sum law closi agi me ins ha son cai of e 7 ' H ere elegant parlor ac A Ath a rapt r r w 4 i i and benlfkent UKo. grandly carried out. It remains to be seen how many other manufacturing companies will follow o good an example, A ytem wmwhu like this whh changes it Nrn to me, oiiffbt to b adopted to the ngnes In the Smith. In fact, a yon know. Mr. John C. Calhoun, in Arkans, has carried out a somewhat similar plan with the very bet results One thing is certain, Mr. George Pull man ami Mr John C. Calhoun, although they do not allow themselves to be called philanthropists by goody-goody men. who are always ta'.king about improirinir the condition ot mankind and never do it, are two of the wi-nt and most useful men in America. Thev do imnrove th n. dition of men, but they make money bv it themselves and cause the men to aav" money hy it. And this I the only enI ble and ound method. If you give men houses or advantage of any ort free, you make beggars of them. The true philanthropist is he who enables men to make themselves independent. W. M. S. TIIK CHHOMCLK OX 8ALK. The Readiness with which tke lVoplo Bought it in HiilriCh, Kt other iti-, and on the Cars. Vhen 'fiiE 'CHRONiciTs newsboys Master Clarence Busbee and Master Au brey Watson, wnt on the street of Ral eigh last Saturday morning, there were people who felt and expressed a new sen sation. "111 tike one." "litre." "That look like business" they said, and the boy found good sale for them till late in the afternoon. People from the country, ladies in the farthe-t parts of the city, Jews, G"titiles, white, black, boys men everybody bought them, and not a few persons even gave the boys oubscriptlona. "Iz dot de new baper?" a thrifty Ger man asked. Veil, pring it here. I vant ter zee dot baper. I vants de baper ever' week. If it dells lies on Scherman wim mins I'll trink no more glag beer till I vrings one feller's neck off what vrites for it. Takng dis money. I yanU dot baper . ever week." At the Yarborough House and at the bookstores a number of copiea were sold. The boys of the Union News Company, who went out from the city on the trains, sold more copies than they ever before sold of any North Carolina paper, except on such special occasions as the days im mediately after elections. Prompt sale was found along all the roads from this city to Greensboro, to Goldsboro, to Weldon, and to Hamlet. The boy who went out on the R. & A. A-L. road Saturday night, in spue oi too ui ness (and he seldom sells papers at night) sold all he had before he reached Manly. As late as Tuesday the boy on the train from Greensboro found more purchasers of The Chronicle than of any other paper he had. At Greensboro the paper created no little excitement. The local politicians and the neighbors of General Scales were very greatly gratified at the results of The Chronicle's canvass, "4 Governor, sure." was a frequent remark. In Winston there was ready sale for The Chronicle; and at both Winston and Greensboro standing orders were re ceived on Monday from newsdealers for a number of copies every week. The News (inmnanv made another order for the jointer t " 1 " " " lf '-WrV 1 i a I f I