The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-05-12
. OLD BUCK WRITES!
TELLS ALL ABOUT WHAT HE THINKS
SHOULD BE DONE.

SHOULD BE DONE.
He Il in Favor of Institutes All Over the
Green Earth and Would if He Conld
Place Them Round About.
Mr.. ". T. Blackwell, II of the best
men in all this world, writes the follow
ing letter from Greensboro where he has
become a graduate in the matter of the
Kelley cure:
l am we'll and have just graduated. L
am now just waiting for my diploma and
counting a little to pass off the time.
have just graduated all of my pupils
on poker and given them their diplomas
and sent them home. / will take no more
classes here, as the weather is rather
warm.
| guess | will be home in two or three
days. l have had a good time and lots Of
fun. There are some new people coming
in every day and the graduates are leaV-
ing five or six at a time. Best regards to
L Tduk IIcdIll, DlCh DIdChudI4) III. Ool-
ley and the boys.
No news. Everything quiet here ike
trade. But this institute has advertised
Greensboro more and better han every
thing else put together since 1856. The
newspapers and their circulars and the
people who have been cured and the men
whom they have cured are sprinkled
around everywhere. All the preachers
are pushing the thing on until in my
opinion this town has been benefited to
the amount Of one hundred and fifty to
two hundred thousand dollars. Rents
and everything is going up and Green's
boro is known and talked where she was
never thought Of. 1t hurts my feelings
to see Durham money advertising a com
peting own and we are not getting any
benefit from it. If l had the money that
once had and had not one share Of stock
in this concern, | would build them a
good, large house and present it to the
institution for the benefit Of Durham's
great enterprises. 1t would be a bigger
boom for Durham than a large cotton
factory or an iron furnace or most any
other enterprise. Then, too, this institute
properly belongs to Durham. Our bust
ness men had the money, pluck and brains
to build it up, and when it was first started
not ever the city newspapers or any of
the people would take hold of it. Now
Y rnnrcI1yn rnnc tln rAo In~1H4 OIL
would kick like smoke against it being
moved away. The people here are now
saying this is the very place for the in
8titution on account of the railroad facili-
ties. You know we have as many rail
roads at Durham as they have here, and
the Durham and Northern railroad car
ries a great many more passengers than
the Yadkin Valley does. Sometimes you
have to travel alone on the Yadkin Valley
and we have no road going from Durham
that is not we'll patronized. Iguess any
body that could get to Greensboro could
come on to Durham.
| am for getting this institute to Dur.
ham. When we add this big thing to all
the rest of the big things that are in Dur
ham and about to commence, we would
boom up things then sure enough.
| did not know Durham was so far
ahead Of Greensboro as she is until this
trip. This is a good, quiet place and
good people live here. They are satisfied
to take it quiet, but the Bull factory and
the Duke factory turn out in two short
weeks more dollars worth of manufac4
tured tobacco than the whole city of
Greensboro does in six long months, and
some times when we are busy, more than
Greensboro does in twelve months.
| wish | had the money I once had and
| would be at home buying up material to
build the institute next week.
They are making ten to twelve thou-
sand dollars a month and a good deal of
that amount is clear profits, and the thing
is in its infancy yet. 1t is bound to grow
and that very fast, as this whole plant is
under the best Of management.
w. 7. BLACKWELL.