The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-03-05
ROANOKE SOUTHERN HOR-
NETS NEST.

Chamber OF commerce rooms last
night was quite largely attended.
Col. VIM. Johnston presided.
The matter of securing the
Roanoke & Southern for Char
lotte was fully and freely discuss
ed. Col. Jones, Col. Anthony.
Maj. E. F. Young, Mr.. Walter
Brem, Mr.. E. D. Latta, Mr.. J. H.
Wellington and Col. VIM. John
ston made speeches. The out
come of the meeting was that the
chairman appointed a committee
to confer, with the railroad men
and see what can be done for
Charlotte's interests. The COM
mittee appointed consists OF
Messrs. J. L. Chambers, E. F.
Young, p. NJ. Brown, r. NJ.
Oates, S. Wittkowsky, J. S.
Myers, d. A. Tompkins, NJ: c.
Mayer, 7. L. Vail, r. A. Dunn,
f. w. Latta and Geo. E. Wilson.
Col. Brown is chairman of the
committee charlotte News.
Our little neighborhood, over
here in Forsyth, cat the end of a
spur track of the Richmond
and Danville' seems to have
walked up the hornets nest over
in Mecklenburg.
From the above report of a
very earnest meeting of the
great body of excellent business
people of Charlotte, we are to
have a visit from that city of a
delegation of it's very best men,
on a conference about matters of
grave concern to that people
and to ours.
We are very glad of it. VIM
ston and Charlotte ought to
come together on an understand
ing of this matter. Winston
is the mother of this Roanoke
and Southern enterprise. She
put her own shoulder to the
wheel to push it when there was
no other shoulder around to help.
She did it at some risk and at no
little peril.
Citizens of Winston and Salem
risked the better portion of some
good fortunes in this enterprise.
1t looked none too bright at
times. There was a strong an
tagonist to contend with, a dam
gerous foe to encounter, a power
that. had they failed, would
have been as relentless it had
been ungenerouS.
But we won. The Roanoke
and Southern is an entity, a
success. 1t will have soon span
ned the space between Winston
and its objective point of connec-
ton for free and open traffic
northward, Roanoke; and then
it will seek new obstacles of con.
quest-southward.
The destiny Of the Roanoke
and Southern is a South Allan.
tic tide-water outlet. 1t aspires
to the Importance of terminal
dignity 1t has proposed for it
self a great link in the chain of in
ter-State carrying commerce. II
can hardly be satisfied with less
Now, Charlotte is the rationa
point of determination OF. this
line on it's way to the South At
lantic Coast. Perhaps Port
Royal holds the key to the situatio L
as the most desirable port of the fut-
ure for the South Atlantic, and il
may be that the Roanoke and South.
ern will find its most desirable out.
let there. Charlotte may be looking
in that direction herself for outlet
But, in whatsoever direction, or tc
whatever deep water terminus the
Roanoke ard Southern may. ulti.
mately lead, Charlotte should APP
preciate the fact that the day the
Roanoke and Southern Road crosses
the confines of that city, that day,
for the first time is competitive
transportation freely open to the
traffic Of that locality.
As she easily appreciates herself,
Charlotte ought to have the line OF
the Roanoke and Southern, and it is
with herself.
The money directed by the direct
tax bill to be refunded is to be paid
to the governor of States and