The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1890-07-24

49, - Dt2uASs AudIlANIly anu aQFerSify
Lover q cloud of gathering gloom, il
shai be through failure on our par,
to do.sair gtzsEss
! 5arhan'.
III sse u Guthrie, of Durham.
| = q pr ::led me by the committee
- xs1 five minutes talk in q
suitay ~ to the toast. "The City OF
DHrl = an exceedingly difficult one
and ssk for myself your geferous in
dules n reminded by this large
gathi hls fdistinguished gentlemen
whost day business ii is TO repor,
currea yentsas they happen, and which
60 ~ nIake up history, that there il
hasi an esitor here of whom 1t could
not 6thfu1l be said he knows more
abort ne Of Durham already than i
do, or gl.s saY further, than any other
citi7sds S. Dafham does. For Aas not
Dur1lsn been advertised far and near
thrf Iii the world from Dan "a
BeeS "a, : tin eyely thing that Durham
has dJae and is doing Is known aIlsl
read of all men. :, :. Hs.ss...
A,d1as time, among the closing years
of &c 18th century, we live since the
days o. Guttenburg, we live in the days
of photographers and newspaper report
ers, and whatever is said or done, merito-
rioussor otherwise, in conspicuous places
or places of ebscurity, is flashed along
the wires with lightning speed, and
through the agency of the great modern
newspaper spress, the vanguard of civili-
| zaion, reaches the millions of readers al
! most as soon as it happens.
IpENe days of King Solomon it was
different Then it was that the wisest
acts of the greatest and noblest of man
kid, whether in building stately man
sions, erecting magnificent temples and
laying ont royal cities adorned with
| wealth and splendor, their acts were
Known to but few. 1t required long and
patient journeyings of those who doubted
reports of such things which might by
accident reach their ears in distant lands,
20 start the caravan for personal observa-
EHon and like the Queen of Sheba so
land see.'
s. There were two things about the Queen
| of Sheba which / rather like-one was
that when King Solomon showed her a
p good thing" she had sense enough to
see it; and the other, woman like, when
she saw good thing was willing to
tell it. What q glorious newspaper re-
porter she would have made in our timesl
I will add another thing about her char
aeteristic of reporters Of our day-she
Earas tsaatlafa half Of the great
s1ssa .nf NY wisdom was MT told me; for
But Solomon, with all his wisdom, could
not come here now ard without one OF
you to show him how to do it, run even
a weekly newspaper for single issue
He never smoked an ounce of Durham
Smoking Tobacco" nor did his son Re
hoboam (who was pretty bad boy,
bv the way) ever see a "Duke Cigarette,
nor did single one of his many wives
ever take a dip" of Tomlinson's world
renowned, fragrant, aromatic Snuff"
But levity aside gentlemen, the toast to
which l am to respond is one which
prompts the reflections of a philosopher
rather than the jests of a clown. You
have come to Durham ''tO see for your
selves" and we are delighted to afford
you the opportunity.
We cannot read in ancient history no.
speak of the traditions of departed great
ness when we approach the subject o
the "City of Durham" She has no ira
ditions yet, and of her history her peOpl'
and all of US as North Carolinians may
we'll be proud. Hardly two decades ag'
had you spoken of the city OF Durham
oven in our own state, the hearer wOulC
not have understood you; but his mine
would twin towards a far off land am
his thoughts become fixed on the "Cit.
of Durham in the mOther-land OF I'm
gland. But now speak Of Durham any
where on the continent and the heare
!. sturns TO the home of Golden Belt TIC
sbacco," and to our own CITY of Dur
sham," as she sits in her pride Of busines
royalty-though the youngest of her siz'
vet as fair as any, and in the line OF he
business queen among her sister cities c
. 1.-THE Golden Belt" History bears m
out in the assertion that this little cit
whose age scarcely exceeds decade, cei
. tainly not as much as two decades, tfc
? only as far back as 1870, the populatio
all told by an accurate census, honesti
, taken, was merely 256,) this little city
to-day well known and has direct trad
. and commerce with nations and people
q in foreign lands throughout the wori
and has become household name 10 Il
8 consumers of tobacco where the name I
our own great state was never heard an
=, North Carolina. even. is terra incogni
, IAN unknown land.
t, Would you believe it: Twenty yea
n ago the total amount OF capital invest'
e in manufacturing in Durham was,
/ told, only $4,000, while to-day 81
e gle establishment represents $4,000
: Twenty wears ago the entire number