The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-12-08
PLUCKY WINSTON,
fOT COWED BY ITS MISFORTUNES.
What the ZinZendOrf Hotel Man.
agement Says-Mr. ScOvillc
and Mr.. Wilson Inter-
viewed. &c.
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The Sentinel went to headquarters
as usual, for the fullest facts about the
disaster that yesterday deprived the
Twin City of one of its main features
and ornaments, the traveller of COM
Portable hostelry and the editor of his
home.
1t found President Buxton had been
| called out of town on important bust
Less, but Manager Scoville and Mr..
Wilson, manager of the company,
we're early up to their eyes in work,
the former asserting and cleaning and
! llventorying the miscellaneous heaps
Ct goods and chattels saved from the
flames, and the latter setting up desks
aad putting the new Office in that of
Nfessrs. Gray & Jones, to rights.
Mr.. Scoville was as affable as if in
the handsome halls he made SO cheer
i to hundreds of guests. "It is of
course a common loss, but peculiarly
{ keen to me" said Mr.. Scoville "There
wasn't water enough in the two towns
II have drowned it. had full con-
tldence in the business, it improved
right along and was already selfsustain>
ing. My last report, covering about
sixty days, showed a net loss of about
$3.50, and my next report would have
Inhibited the hotel maintaining itself.
Everybody was kind enough to say
they liked the hotel. l had not thrown
ut my winter advertising lines, but
aiready enquiries for winter quarters
we're coming in a = we would have
had all the people re wanted, and
good people. l can't say just what
am going to do except fix up this
salvage. The Winston Salem people
Rave appreciated my work here and
Mrs. Scoville and feel very kindly
their consideration and reception of
u.s."
With this he cut off little quid of
tobacco and offered US one and kept
right on at work.
Mr.. Wilson said: "Certainly will
tell you all l can. The hotel was the
masterpiece of the company's work.
The main motive of the good citizens
here, who put so much OF their money
ilto the company, was to secure a
f.ultless home, if possible, for who ever
came here. Mr.. Fries had the same
disposition in selling the land around
the hotel and made it a condition
that hotel be built and good one
/ hey knew people would come and the
town would grow and the West End
would be settled, 1t has been doing
nat for years, but they wanted to has
tn it and make it as desirable as posi-
bic. 1t represents two years of unbroken
thought and hopes and work to me
and l was as proud of its unequaled
grace of architecture and its homelike
and beautiful interior as any body. |
My wife dug the first sod and we made |
il our home.
"The insurance on the house, furni-
tire and everything is S1oo, 900. The
hotel complete cost over $4,000.
NIessrs. Buxton, Hinshaw, Gilmer,
Cray and Fries met me yesterday |
e ,ening and unanimously resolved
t'2at it was the sense of the board to
rcbuild as soon as practicable.
4 X
81 don't think it iamodest to say that
TIE company has done great deal for
Winston-Salem. In May, 1890, not a
line was drawn in the woods and
c over fields it owned. Yesterdays
I thanksgiving saw miles of macadmized
S: streets, street railway, almost two
Scores of handsome cottages, great
modern hotel. Of course it will be
rebuilt. Winston doesn't 60 backwards.
Whoever thinks SO isn't citizen. He |
doesn't feel like our people feel. There
l., but one Winston Salem. Before the |
towers fell in there wasn't guest Of
the Twin-City who had not had the
hospitalities Of a home opened to him.
That's a Thanksgiving day for you
with all its calamity.
1--WE are going right along with
business. l haven't got any clothing
left, but I'll go my last shirt on the
West End and it will be cold day
when | freeze.
"The fire caught in the laundry.
don't know how. The engineer was
at the Ryder engine at the low cistern.
When he got to the house he could
not get into the engine rooms to start
the pump on account Of fire and smoke.
l don't think anything could have
saved the building. The wind whip
ped the fire right into the house and
the draft was frightful."
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