The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-12-17
GRADUALLY GROWING.
GOLDSRORO CABS GAILY OF IT'S
GLORIOUS GALAXY OF GAIN.
Busy Brick-Layers Build Big Business
Blocks in the Burned Borough. Boast
ful OF its BOundIess Boom.
Especial Cor. of STATE CHRONICLE.

GOLDSBORO. y. G.. Dec. Il. Just
year ago the telegraphlc wires, that lead
out from this enterprlslng town throbDed
with the following three words, Colds |
boro in ashes" and the sun Of bright
Monday morning shed its light on twenty
two piles Of smoking debris, where, twelve
hours before, stood twenty-five Of the
| largest and most important business
| houses in the town. OF course such DIS
| aster-a conflagration that melted away
| 5000, 900 worth OF prOperty-caS shadow
| of depression over the town, but deSpon-
| dency and depression lives but little
While where pluck and energy exists.
Scarcely had this Mondays sun gone down
| before the plucky men who had sustained
| (S0me of them) serious losses, We're plan
/ ming for the immediate erection OF better
and more cOmmodious buildings. Ener-
getc citizens like Julius 4. BOnltz, ". ).
Fal mcr, W F. Kornegay, Fonville 4 Sauls,
| Dr.. J. F. Miller, b. NJ Privitt, Judge
Faircloth and the WE'LL Bros, were not
the men to sit down and pine over
even so disastrous mishap, and before
the ground was even cool many sub
stantlal brick walls were going up above
it. Just twelve months have passed and
| during that time nearly every foot OF the
| burnt district has been rebuilt, not with
cheap wooden buildings either, but with
commanding iron front structures, that
are not only credit to GOldsboro, but are
monuments to the indomitable pluck OF Its
| citizens Where stood the Old Messenger
building now stands the new Messenger
building, the largest, handsomest and
costliest newspaper building IN the State
On the corner where stood the little
brick drug store how stands the large and
handsome drug house of Messrs. Miller
& shannon, and next to it the large new
furniture house of Messrs. Royal, Borden
q Co. The popular firm of Messrs. NJ. +.
CasteX IL Co.. have a building more com
mcnsuratc with their growing business.
Near the spot where the fatal cigarette ig-
nited the bale of cotton, which caused the
conhagration, stands the new brick hard
ware house of Messrs. Huggins Il Free
man and next to it is the handsome grOc-
cry store Of Messrs. NJ. l.. Lee u Co. The
new kornegay building towers high above
what the old building was before the fire,
and on the spot where the fire started IS
now being completed the new building for
the Bank of New Hanover, which will be
one of the most imposing and most con
! veniently arranged banking houses any
where in this part of the country. Two
other handsome buildings that have gone
up are those erected and now occupied by
Mr.. W. 5. Farmer and MesSrs. Sol Elm
stein & Co. These new buildings gives
Goldsboro q new and commanding appear
auce, they also demonstrate what conf
dence its capitalists and business men
have in the future of the town. In each
one of these new buildings We find extern
Sve business enterprises actively at work
building up the towns business interests
Goldsboro is just forty years old, it hay
ing been Incorporated in 1S45. 1t enjoys
advantages that few towns in North Caro-
lima possess Besides being the terminus of
the n. G. and the A. u n. G. Railroads,
it is one of the important points on the
". Il W. +. Il. (the Atlantic Coast Line,
over which there is probably more through
travel than any line between the North
and the South it is the trading centre of a
large scope of country, which IS one of the
most productive sections OF the State.
While it has built itself up mainly on the
cotton trade, Yet there are other lmpor-
tant features connected with its business,
prominent among them is its trade in rice.
You would be surprised to know the
amount Of this Carolina commodity that
annually changes hands in this market
one of the most important industries in
the town is the rice mills. owned and op-
perated by Messrs Strauss q Co. This
firm is composed Of Mr.. J. Strauss, Mr. j.
J. Street and Mr.. I. B. Lyman. They are
men Of means and of push, and the sue
cess they have made of this enterprise is
! evidence Of their good judgement and Ju-
. dicious management. This is a profita-
! bic industry to Goldsboro, it takes the
) rice in its crude state, hulls it and refEles
+ it, and then sells it to the different mar
. kets all over the country. 1t brings mon
a ey to the town from distance, and thus
; operates to add every year to its wealth
+ and volume of business. Messrs. Strauss
f x Co. also own extensive plan1ng mills
\ and deal largely in all kinds Of dressed
and undresstd lumber.
4 The Goldsboro Cotton Seed Oil Mills
! is another one of the important in
I dustries of Goldsboro. 1t is managed by
q Mr.. Frank Borden, one of the most enter
Q prising and active young men of the town
. They make cotton seel oil and the Prolific
o Cotton Grower, a guanO that not only
= stands the test of the chemist, but chal
# lengcs any other first class fertilizer IN 9
n field test. The carriage and buggy fac
i tory Of Messrs. Borden, Jones Il Co., Is
. also one of GOldSbOro's extensive manu-
i factoring enterprises. These leading man
e. ufac1orles, together with numerous othe1
# enterprises. smaller but no less deserving
i make Goldsboro one of the most energetic
# and prosperous of our eastern towns.
10 Among its merchants we find many wh'
ii have by energy and push, made fortune
for themselves and every year increased tn
ry business Of the town by inducing trad
n from almost remote sections. Notable
n among the leading business houses are tn
at wholesale grocery establishments of MeSsrs
s. Henry Lee x Co., Edgerton Il Finlayson
:, NJ l. Lee x Co, b. NJ. Privett < Co, anC
en- Denmark & Humphreys, the furnitur
i'll store Of Messrs. Fultcher Il Kern, ano
Royal, Borden x Co; the dry goods estaL
lis lishments of Messrs. Veil Bros, Sol Elm
he stein Il Co. Asher Edwards and Hood
ed Britt x Co, Hollowell 4 Co., and For
on veille 4 Sauis.
i GOdSbOro is not 50 dlstinctivelv Carolir
.of ian as many other towns in the State
ife may be said to possess a little more {
oe the strictly business spirit than many othe
bo Tar Heel towns. Being one of the stoppin
tes places for the many tourists who 90 fro1
Cd the North to the South, it has been in
mt bued more or less with an air of reserI
and caution. The stranger don't feel quiz
so much at home at first as he does in son
other towns (maybe because SO man
strangers come here, but when you one
90 get acquainted, no town extends its hosp
Is tally more freely, and no where will yC
es- find sojourn more pleasant.
ses The professions here boast of men WI
in yield to none in learning and in their abili
m to cope with their fellows. Teachers phi
nd sicians and lawyers are an important pa
will of the citizenship of every town, no less