The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-03-02

Business Man.
Winston-Salem wants one office.
That one is the head Office of the
internal revenue for the Fifth North
Carolina district.
THE SENTINEL proposes to make a
bid for it and it asks the cooperation
of every business man in the Twin
City.
If there is anything that the biggest
plug manufacturing city in the world
deserves it is government building
and the collectors office-and this pa
per believes that if our claims are
presented in the proper manner we
will get both.
The collectors office is big plumb
for somebody-and why should not
Winston-Salem have it There are
only two districts in the State and the
Fifth is by far the most important.
Here are some figures which prove its
Importance:
The collector receives $1,000 per
year: he has two deputies at $500,
one at 81 600, one at 81, 400, two at
ST. POO, two at 81, 100 nine at $1,000,
ten at $500, one at 5000, one at S400,
and one at $500. Besides these there
are four distillery surveyors who get
So so per day, one clerk at $500, anOth-
er at 5000 and d messenger at $3.50.
There are also employed at different
times throughout the year 427 store
keepers and guagers who receive from
two to three dollars per day. There
are many more deputies here and BIC
more storekeepers and gaugers, the
number in the other district being
only Ill The revenue for this dis
trict is understood to be in round
numbers a million and half per
year, which is from p to 30 per cent
greater than that OF the Fourth In
ternal Revenue district. Winston
contributes about half the revenues Of
this district, and if the office would
locate here the business done in Win
stOn would increase 5000, 900 year: in
other words Winston would contrib
ute One-third of the whole Internal
Revenue of the State.
Everybody knows that Winston is
the great tobacco manufacturing town
of North Carolina, hence her claims
for the head office are backed by unde-
niable facts and figures.
The tobacco manufacturers all over
the Piedmont section concede the
feet that the headquarters of this in
ternal revenue district should be no
where else but in the Twin-City-a
they will lend their endorsement for it
to come here.
There is another well known fact
that-the counties which contain large
numbers of distilleries are within easy
access of this city.
The many benefits accruing from
the office should stimulate every citi-
zen of Winston-Salem to work and
| fight for it.
1t is not only on account of the
| magnitude of this Office that THE
| SENTINEL. desires it here; the large
| patronage the many people that it will
call to our city, the prominence it will
| give Winston-Salem, but another ar
| gument exists why our efforts ShOulC
| be strenuouSly directed to the attain
ments of this end, and that is that {
conspicuous and costly public build
| ing would undoubtedly be erected by
the Government in case the office i:
/ moved here. Taking all these thing.
into consideration there is no reasoT
why the Winston-Salem Chamber o
Commerce and every man of influence
should not make united effort il
| trying to secure what the twin town
deserves and should have.
WHAT MT. AIRY MANUFACTURERS sA,
In order to get their opinions SEN
TINEL representative visited Mt. Air
few days ago and interviewed ever
tobacco manufacturer. This question
was propounded them:
stWhere should the collectors offic
of this internal revenue district
located?"
Without exception they answered
sWinston."
Judge j. f. Graves was the first pei
son the imam of news" questioned
While he is not a tobacco manufact
urer we considered him man compt
tent to ssjudge" on a matter Of thi
kind. He said: 81 see no reason VIII
Winston should not have it. In fac
she has the best right to it of an
place in this district. Her impol
lance as tobacco manufacturing Gel
ter gives her precedence over ever
other town or city. For personal re;
sons, of course, / should prefer I
have the Office in Mt. Airy, but as
know our town is not entitled to i
there is no use of trying to make a
argument in her favor. TO speak NJ
honest sentiments / would say tI
head Office should go to Winston"
The manufacturers talked as fo
lows:
Sparger Bros: ssWe favor the off
being in Winston. Think it shoul
be there and nowhere else. is I'll
most convenient location of any pla.
in the district You can add our el
i r1orsement to Winston having it. I'll