The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1891-05-01
i GnLAr DIY COMING
II WHICH CY5ARLOTTE WILL
HONOR ETER PAST RI MAX
LFG GREER IEERFUTUkE.

The Historic Twentieth to BE the Time
y hen Pleasure and Business will he
ESi9nded ii ene Long s'usi for The
Progress oitnIs is0Toas ! ouEs City.
fStaf Correspondence STATE CHRONICLEl
CHARLOTTE, d. O., April 30, 1891 =
Goa the rweDtietb Challotte's electric
cars viii move of - |
It WAS this sentence that struck the |
ear Of the writer IS he stepped from the |
S3ab0ard Air Line cars on Tuesday |
night, and made bis heart throb with |
that feeling Of pride as never fails TO |
STIR the CHRONICLE when the progress of
our great State is tod wi5hi4 It's co..
umls.
Bat the writer found others, who bear
the honored name Of newspaper men,
gathered II this vigorous young city,
sla for what? Surely great Southern
journals Ike the Richmond Times, At
lanta Constitution, augusta ChroLicle,
Charleston News and Courier ard Co
lumbia State had not sent their best cor
respondents TO this scene of Industrial
ard commercial activity indulgiug in
any other expectation than that Char
.otte would present to them a model Of a
1
| they cupld write The recent great but
t0n-touch made by what is known as
the 4 C's. has sent such current of en-
terp1ise through every vein Of intercourse
| hat the news OF it has not only been
confined TO our own immediate section,
out has been her&lded throughout the
entire SOnth even more quickly than
some Of the great coal finds Of Northern
Alabama or Of the Shenandoah Valley.
Your correspondent had heard of his
toric Meckienburg, how III days gone by
} her citizens sTeled with the honest pride
Untrue and unsuliied liberty and how they
threw off the tyrants yoke, and how in
late days their grand-sons and great
grand-s0ns had built beautiful city at
the junction Of six railroads, and he was
not taken greatly by surprise to see, in
stead Of relics of the past, q town whose
future shone as brightly rs any in th,
New south.
Yes, Messrs. McKissick, Of the Char
lesion News and Courier and Blackburn
Of the Atlanta Constitution were stretch
ing themselves over the shaded streets O
! beautiful Charlotte and had been carrie
away by the workings of the 4 Cs.
what IS This C's!
Naturally this question would arise
! Ii represents the Charlotte Consolidate
Construction Company, a company th
# main projects Of which are to bull
and thoroughly equip the most improve
I. system OF electric street cars, to build
handsome suburban city Of residence
e 10 which they have given the name c
Dlw0rth and 10 engage in other enter
J. pclse3 calculated TO push to the frOI
tbs important commercial point.
y As fer as the fast object is coneerne
:. IL vii be croEred with great success
;e Experts nave already pronounced th
II second to no electric system in tt
e. country, and by May 20ea, the annive
X si4ry I'll LEa Dac.aT4ll01 OF independence
+ the cars will be rushing up and dow
9; the streets making liver one Of the live
! cities il the South. TIE building
= DiiYorth is worthy a column in an
y great journal, and the writer, assurin
~ the CHacN NICLE reader that no language
r. sufficiently expressive of the panoram
grandeur Of this garden spot, will pron
he ise at later day when his pen foq
more freely to allow the readers
glimpse Of Dilworth.
,st Grand Preparations for the Twentiet
:, The coming GWantieth of hIay, g
. shriued ii the hearts Of all true sons
Carolina, Will be one Of the create
events III the history Of Charlotte. Loo
OF ing backward it will mark an era
which She may well be proud; looki
forward il will be the key that will u
lock the Uey to untold treasures CO.
On lnercialy and industrialiy.
n Excursion tickets will be sold alo
II, The railroad lines leading into the ci
&c and from points n all the sprroundi
States. Il viii be great day. Basid
the celebration Of the Declaration Of |
dependence and the events accompar
ing the same the Charlotte Electric {
line will rush over this magic city vii
Ige ont cost to all who come to partake
1he the eDjoyments Of the day. Celebrat
Aty orators and musicians will be presG
The and, after the merriment in the city
1od over the suburban town Of DlW0rth,
IN pride Of the State. will be the scene
pleasure and enjoyment. On that {
the first sale opens Of the lots to be
90 scribod later on. Charlotte seldom G.
gets left on pyrotechnic displays and
writer learns that scheme is afoot
have, on the night Of the twentieth, {
eco of the most splendid fire works displ
fo- ever seen in this country.
.elt The Endowment of trinity Ceiiegt
&C President John E. Crowell, OF Trim
lted College, was here yesterday and
IT. looking wondrous hale and hearty, |
sibly the result Of his happy marri
the on Thursday last to one Of New Jers'
ter most cultured ladies. Anyway, he
Al following up the able sermon by Bis
was Galloway on Tuesday night, on be
". Of the endowment fund, and the WI
ld 1t learns that several thousand dollars
style secured by his indomitable energy
and will. The scholarly Bishop COMPILE
d We captured his audience here, and if ?
this dent Crowell had not have been unaV
ably absent On the night of the ser
the result would have been much I
U.s. encouraging.
How People are Entertained Hel
May There is one thing with which this
is blessed, first class hotels. The
May trail which is the Oldest and enjo
large patron ge, is large, commod
md well EQUIPPED. And the Bot
e EN- IN modern in equipment, with ele7a
an = ont bells and every impr0yeaent, eieea
Lhesc furnished and wonderfully vell
low finds al exec lent trade among The
, AID Ntl5ar and re5ort6rs IN general. 4