Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-07-03
TARHEELS In BALTIMORE.
NORTH CAROLINIANS WHO HAVE
WON SUCCESS ABROAD.
The Position They Occupy in the Society
They Still Retain a Warm Re-
gard f. their Old State.
Special Correspondence ef the Sentinel.

Special Correspondence Of the Sentinel.
BALTIMoHE, Nd, June 27.--Among
the 100000 people who constitute the
population of Baltimore, it is safe to
say none occupy, in society and busi-
ness, higher place than the many
North Carolinians who hare ias>@e
this city their home. Though their
social standing is of high order. |
shall deal rather with their impor-
tance as leading merchants, in which
capacity they exert a great influence,
and enjoy an extensive popularity.
After the close of the late civil war,
many gentlemen from North Caroline,
South Carolina and Virginia, moved
to Baltimore, and engaged in mercan-
tile pursuits, bringing here great
portion of Southern trade that pre-
viously found its way to other cities.
The business in such branches as flour,
meat, liquor, &C., that had been very
heavy before and duriug the war, has
since slipped away from this city and
gone to other markets which have
better facilities for their transporta-
ton, and which are not compelled to
labor under such disadvantages as the
unjust DETERMINATIONS in freight rates
with which this city has for so long
had to contend, and which are destin-
cd to be source of evil to her busi-
ness as long as the merchants do not
take mere decisive measures to rectity
a wrong under which they, and they
only, must suffer While losses have
been sustained in these departments,
they have been more than compcnsat-
ed for by the increase of business in
boots and shoes, clothing, hats, dry
goods and notion, and by the deyelop-
Inent since the conclusion of the war,
of other branches of trade, as the drug
business, that previously amounted to
nothing or were entirely unknown
here.
Thinking the many readers Of the
SENTINEL would be interested in the
success of the gentlemen from North
Carolina Your correspondent called
on a prominent one of their number,
who received him cordially and gave
him much information about those of
his fellow citizens who came here
from the Tarheel State, and who,
without renouncing any of their 10y
atty to their new home, still retain
their affection for their old one, and
take great interest in the welfare and
doings of their native State, of whose
success they are very prond. Neither
time nor space will permit me to give
n full account of all the North Caro-
linians here, so, without preference or
prejudice on my part, / have selected
only few of the most prominent ones.
One of the many, large wholesale
drug houses that abound in Baltimore
is that occupying the two large iron
buildings, Nos. 12 and 13, n. Liberty
Street. Boykin, GARNER & Co, is the
name Of the firm, the members of
which are Messrs. I. ]. Boykin and
j. w. GARNER, of n. c., j. g. Stanley,
of Maryland and III. r. Hicks, Of
New York. This house does large
business in drugs, and also in all
chemicals used in manufacturing fer
tilizsrs, an important industry of Bal
timors. The major part of their bus
mess is transacted in North Carolina,
South Carolina and Virginia. DIR. T.
j. Boykin, the senior member of the
firm, is native of Wilmington, but
came to this city about II years ago.
He at once established himself in the
wholesale drug business which he has
ever since carried on with increasing
success Mr.. JAS w GARNER is also
from North Carolina; he joined DR..
Boykin some IA years ago, and has
added, in no small way, to the success
of his firm.
Whedbee & Dickinson, 27 South
Gay Street, cotton and lumber COM
mission merchants, are one of the
strongest houses of their kind here,
and have the honor of being the old
est North Carolina commission house
in the city. They came-to Baltimore
before the war, and did large bust
ness during and after the war, until
now their wealth is estimated at
s5OO,0OO.
Elliott Bros. CIV. L. Elliott, Jos.
P. Elliott, and John Nicholson), all of
North Carolina, are cotton factors and
commission merchant, ON Second and
Gay Streets, who have been located in
Baltimore since the war, and do a
business worth about S25, 900. The
Messrs. Elliot, like many other North
Carolina families, belong to the Qua
ker sect, and excel in those qualities
for which these good people are not
ed. Mr.. Jos. P. Elicit, who is trus.
tee of the John Hopkins University
married a Miss Hopkins, niece of the
late John Hopkins, founder of the
University and Hospital bearing his
name, two institutions that are the
greatest monuments of this City oi
Monuments, and the noblest shafts
that can be erected to the memory ol
any man.
Messrs. Norman and Everett are
cotton commission merchants, from
Eastern North Carolina. They do q
quiet but good business, are safe and
reliable firm, and enjoy a. frst-clas:
credit.
Col. P. W. Hairston, of Herbert &
Hairston, 81 S. Charles ST., is not 8
North Caroliaian by birth, but became
identified with that State by his mar
riage to one of her fair daughters, ane
by lnog residence there. Before tn,
war he was large STAKEHOLDER anc
lapdosvner. He Ia of n wealthy family