The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-12-30
AS THE C Runs.

and people who do business are already
busy with the final summing up, which
tells the story Of the years successes and
failures in a financial way-a pretty sure
index of what 1898 holds for those who
grid up their loins and go in to win.
AS to Durham the record of the year
lust past shows the business institutions
Of the town to be on a more solid basis
and with better prospects Of permanent
prosperity than ever before in its history.
While failures and rumors Of failures
have come to US from other towns-fail-
ures which have been felt and which have
shaken public confidence TO the Lurt Of
any other enterprises which might be in
sight-Durham has gone steadily forward
without a break in the solid ranks of her
growing institutions, but with an ever
increasing demand for more room and
better facilities.
1t is a matter Of town pride, that with
| so many rival firms, each fighting for a
place Just ahead of his competitor, there
has not been, during the twelve months
lust closed, a single failure among the
business firms OF any importance in this
city, and very few among the smaller
dealers, who, as a rule, have grown and
prospered, and while not so fast as some
others, are getting there ali the same and
enjoying life as they 60 along.
The marked improvement, but in guam
tity and quality of stock carried by our
merchants this season over that Of last,
has been the subject of general remark.
And the fact that there was ademand for
it shows that Durham is every year APP
preaching nearer to the dignity a city,
with a corresponding Improvement in the
finances and culture, geneaally speaking,
of her people.
And this is but an item,
Think for a N where We we're
this time last year, and then admit with
COLONEL SHAKESPEARE that illustrations
are all right when they illustrate.
Compare the Cd Claiborn hotel as it
then was, in all its antique and dilapi-
dated desOlatiOn, with the elegant new
structure now nearing completion and
which all admit will he the handsomest
hotel in the state
Remember Trinity college as u crum
bling ruin with doubts as to its ever be
ing fit for occupancy, with the present
sp~lendidly equipped buildings in which
nearly two hundred young men are re-
ceiving instruction in the higher branches
Of science and philosophy.
Call to mind the fact that the Erwin
Cotton mill, which in itself means sew
eral thousand more people for Durham
In the next twelve months, was then
merely talked Of the project having as
sumed no definite proportions.
Compare the wretched old wooden
shell in which, this time last year the
young idea was vainly e~ndeaysring to
shoot, with the magnificent new graded
schoo! building Of to day, and think
what il means.
Run over your list OF friends who a
year ago were living in mean rented
hOuSes-wrctcied affairs-and who are
to day adjoining their own homes-homes
that are handsome and modern and beau
tiful.
And when you remember all that has
been done and All that is in progress,
draw your own conclusion as to what
another year will bring, and congratulate
yourself that you live in the Invest town
in the state-a town in which every man
can get work who wants work, and
where there is always the peace and
plenty which follows in the wake Of
prosperity.
DySpepsia and its attendant ills are