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RALEIGH, N. C, SEPTEMBER 22, 1883.
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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
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of
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A CREAT ENTERPRISE O
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How it Han Secured Ciood X
And How ;od Workmen II
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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
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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
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