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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

Erwin Mills, Durham, n. {.
building of a devastated Southland.
4 few Of them began their labors at
Durham in a few months the vii
lage was a small town; in few years
It was Il big town; and in few more
years it was a hustling little city.
To-day it is Durham" East Dur
NAM West Durham" South Dur
ham" and "North Durham" with
nearly ten thousand people riding and
walking in their daily ayocations,
over graded streets, in the shadow of
factories whose towers touch the
clouds.
One of these large and imposing
factories is the Pearl cotton mills, To-
Gated in "a beautiful grove ON com
nanding eminence in the north-west-
ern section of the city.
The Pearl cotton mills was iucoTpo.
rated ia 1872 with q capitalization Of
S175, 600
The mills located in the northwest
crn part OF the town, and the machin-
cry is placed in a handsome brick
structure Of three-stories, two hum
dred and ffty-fve feet long and eighty
feet wide Adjoining the commodiouS
building are well arranged and wei
ventilated lapper, engine and boiler
rooms.
Durham does nothing ON small
scale. 1t builds on broad foundations
and with manifest great faith in the
future. 1t doesn't believe in falling in
the rear ranks of the moving process
sion.
1t believes in stepping to the front
and leading the way, so when the Pearl
mills people were ready to equip their
mill, they bought machinery to make
class of goods not generally made in
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ceeds in every new thing he under
takes, while Mr.. b., an industrious,
enterprising man seems born to fail
ure?" This question has been asked
since time began. 1t is easily answer
ed. The successful man may not be
any more Industrious or as well edu-
Gated as the unsuccessful, but he knows
how to do it''-whether it is girdling
the earth with cigarettes, making cot
ton goods, or causing two blades of
grass to grow where one formerly
grew.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

Secretary aud Treasurer Durham Cot
ton Mills and Pearl Mills, Durham
erection of this handsome church.
The browning act of Mr.. Wattss be-
neyolence is the gift of Watts Hospit-
al, which he built on the most approved
plans and furnished with everything
that could make a complete Hospital.
1t cost him a very large sum of money.
When it was finished he gave it to the
city of Durham. No gift could have
been more happy because it supplied
Durham's greatest need-and the need
of every town--in furnishing a place
where the poorest man, woman or
child in sickness can have the best
nursing and most skilful treatment.
Only last week Mr.. Watts gave $37,
500 to the Union Theological Seminary
of the Southern Presbyterian Church.
Mr.. Win II. Branson is Secretary
and Treasurer of the Pearl Cotton
Mills. He has the practical manage
ment of the mills, possessing the son-
hdence of the stockholders in a mark
ed degree. In fact so completely does
ne enjoy this confidence that in no in
stance has the President and owners
failed TO act upon his suggestions, and
they have always found his advice and
management wise and judicious. Mr.
Branson came to Durham in 1884 as
Secretary and Treasurer of the Dur
ham Cotton Mills which position he
still holds, managing both these great
plants, young man as he is, with the
success and skill of veteran. He
carries a wise head on young should
srs, and that is why the Pearl Mill
corporation gives him its unlimited
confidence, and that is why he man
ages to make whatever he touches &c
forward successfully.
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ERWIN COTTON MILLS
NAMED IN HONOR OF MR.. ". A.
ERWIN, SECRETARY AND
TREASURER.
mn. B. N. DUKE is PRESIDENT

1t ia Located in Splendid Brick
Building Seven Hundred and Fifty
Feet Long by seventy-FiVe Feet
Vide--it has Been Doubled This
Year. and viii Have 81. 600 spindles
and GOO Looms--sletch CT tts = ILL.,
Client Officers.
Durham is not content with having
girdled the globe again and again with
its popular cigarettes. Is is NOT satisfied
with having within its limits the largest
smoking tobacco aud cigarette factories
in the world. 1t pauses not, even after
having favored with the aroma Of its
golden weed the breezes, wheresOeVer
brefz blow 1t is not content with
having built hustlirg little city in less
time than it takes generally to build a
village, brt it has other ambitions as
well
Durham does not propose to continue
building a ponderous industrial edifce
on one er-etonu-tobacco- but, hav-
ing in mind the building OF great man
ufacturing centre, il proposes to broaden
the foundations upon which it shall rest,
and, therefore, some years ago it began
tho manufacture OF cotton. Durham
is not a4y longer an experiment town
It don't build and operate enterprises
81 experiments. Ii has passed that
stage. When it builds now 1t builds on
a large scale, whether it be factory,
hone 8 hotel, q college church or
hospital.
Three years ago few Durham citi-
z3CS, Mr. B. \. DUKE, Mr. George W.
Watts, Mr. Washington Duke and a few
Others, decided TO add 10 Ducham's man
ufaetaring Interests by building an
additional cotton mill TO be located
on plateau Of beautiful land, one mile
west OF the city These gentlmen were
not practical, cotton factory men asd
man having practical knowiege of the
business was essential il the enterprise
was to be established upon thoroughly
practicable basis. Mr.. VIM. A. Erwin,
of Burlington, was induced to come
and assume the management Of the cor
poration, and the great new Industry
moved off
The Erwin Cotton Mills were organ
lied, and the ground on magnificent
site, Immediately on the main line of the
Southern Railroad, was broken and
splendid brick building three hundred
and fifty feet long by seventy FIVE feet
wide began rearing its substantial walls.
a few more months ard eleven
thousand spindles and $50 looms
began responding TO the industrial war
hoop OF 1.-The Duke Of Durham" That
was three years ago and eleven thousand
spindles and five hundred looms In a
two story building $50 feet long and 70
feet wide was regarded as a fairly
good plant for beginning; but
that didn't satisfy Durham and
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PEARL COTTON MILLS
A GEMIN DURHAM's DIADEM OF
BRILLIANT MANUFACTURE.
ING ENTERPRISES.
GEORGE WsTTS'S BEHEvOLEHCE

The Battle OF Bullets Ended in Dur
ham, aud 1T was one of the First
Southern Towns TO Wage a Success
FIJI Industrial Warfare--The Pearl
Cotton Mills, Under Wise Manage
ment, though Young in Years,
Stands Among The Foremost.
A few years ago prominent North
Carolinian, writing about the wonder
full growth OF Durham, said that in
1865, it was such an insignificant
place, and had IN it and about it, such
an air of dependency, that when Gen.
Joe Johnston marched through it he
became disheartened and surrendered
before he got to the next town.
Whether the little borough Of un-
pretentious shanties that at that time
bore the name OF Durham Station, :"
has ANYTHING TO do with the historic
event that occurred on April Goth,
at the old Bennett house, three miles
west of Durham, we do not know,
but we do know that Gen. Johnston
found at that time very little in Dur
ham to inspire him or his foot-sore
soldiers to further deeds OF vaior, So
they laid down their guns and the
cause for which they had fought ion
four bloody years became Lost
Cause"
There is more significance in the
fact that the act of the bloody drama
was enacted and the curtain OF war
was rung down in the quiet little
Bennett house. three miles west Of
Durham, than would be supposed on
first blush. 1t is particularly 10 this
fact that Durham got it's first impetus
as a great centre for manufacturing
tobacco The soldiers scattered
from here to all parts of the world.
while in Durham waiting for the ne
regulations that were going on between
Generals Sherman and Johnston, the
soldiers became good friends, engag-
ing their time in swapping horses, sing
ing camp songs, telling their war eE-
Deriences, and learning to love the
fine Durham-made tobacco which was
then made on small scale in crude
way. When the negotiations were
finally completed, the soldiers depart
ed for their homes, each one provid-
ing himself with as much tobacco as
ne could carry. When they reached
fheir homes il was natural that they
all, particularly the soldiers from the
north and west should divide their
supply Of the delightful tobacco with
their neighbors and friends. This ere
ated a demand for it far and wide,
enterprising men began the manufac-
tHre ia order TO supply the demand
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Durham, y. c.

Durham, y. c.
ates are making of the Erwin Cotton
Mills viii perpetuate his nrme as long as
the manufacture Of cotton IS great in
dustrv. as cna of the leaders of the new
generation of yourg men, who, In the
years following the war, with full reyer-
ence for the past, built upon broader
and deeper foundation than their fathers
had done Mr. Erwin has builded wisely
and well, and in the flush of early man
hood must look with qualification unon
what he has achieved. Blu his deseen
dants will frequently and ptoudiy
look back upon what mis- industry and
capacity have wrought, and say that he
builded more wisely than be knew.
He has done and is now doing great
work in the industrial fe d Of his State
and section He has energy, capacity,
courage all employed III the erection
and management Of one 81 ,ue largest
and most successful cotton mills in the
South. He is yet young man, and
while his success thus far has been
great, the future has for MIN and his
enterprises greater renoTn aud grander
achievements.
The Erwin Mills are likewise young,
only four years are yet theirs, bat each
of these four years has brought to this
splendid enterprise Increasing wealth
and we'll merited prestige. Il Is the
principal fount from which the new
town Of West Durham draws its daily
sustenarce. II is the industrial mint
wherein is coined the daily wage of a
thousand wage earners who live well,
dress we'll, whose homes are comfortable
and cheerful, and around whose fresides
peace and plenty abice, men and VIC
men, some in the spring, some in the
summer and some in the autumn OF life
but all enjoying the blessings that
come to industrious workers in a land
where individual industry gets its re-
ward
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the South.
Durham believes in diversifying its
product. 1t believes, too, that it can
make standard cotton fabrics Of all
the different classes as successfully as
they can be made elsewhere.
The Pearl mills were equipped, there
fore, with machinery to make extra
wide bleached and unbleached sheet
ing. 1t has 10000 spindles to spin the
warps and yarn, and 160 looms, from
~ to 80 inches wide, on which to weave
the goods. But few if any mills in the
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gagged in caring for his interests, or
helping his church, or providing for
the alienation of the suffering, or
the afflicted. If you are in Durham
on Sunday, you will find Mr.. Watts If
YOU go to the services at the First
PRESBYTERIAN church or attend Sunday
School at that handsome church. 1t is
one of the model churches in the
inside and out, well
proportional, and admirably arranged
for all the services of the church. Mr..
WATTS was the chief contributor to the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

and soon it was true that the name
Durham became a familiar word in
countries that had never heard of
North Carolina.
The battles of bullets and bayonets
ended forever and the remaining rem
nant of Southern soldiers, augmented
by boys who had come to mans es-
tate during the bloody struggle, en-
listed in another campaign, cam
paign having for it's object the re-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

a few months ago the owners Of the
Erwin Mills held q little consultation,
and concluded to build ell over the face
Of the earth around where the mil is loca-
ted, SO that il might stend IN Ii Q with
the other Industrial establishments by
which it was envir0rad.
The result ia that the roof is now being
put On two story addition that
The herald., 1895-02-27
SINGLE TAX AND MONEY
Joint Debate Arranged to Be Held on the
18th of rIarch

Lionel A. Sheldon will positively be on
hand to address the single tax meeting in
Blanchard Fitzgerald Hall next Saturday
night, on the money question. He will
advocate the free coinage of silver, in ac-
cordance with the platform of the Silver
League of Los Angeles. Single tax speak
ers will endeavor to show the paramount
Importance of tax reform over the money
question. The discussion promises to be
both interesting and instructive. The ex-
ercises will begin at 7:45, with music by
Mrs. Pearl W. Severance, the noted either
player, assisted by Miss Daisie Weller.
Admission will be free to all.
The single takers have made prelim-
nary arrangements for joint debate on
the evening of March 18th, between Louis
f. Post, the distinguished lecturer and
orator from New York and Judge r. NJ.
Widney of this city, the subject OF discus
sion involving the relative Importance of
the, money question and the single tax.
a debate on live questions by two such
prominent and able speakers will inevita-
bly, call out very large audience.
The herald., 1895-02-27
1T WAS A BAD BARGAIN
Mrs. Scheer New Views the Matter in
That Light
She Traded a California Ranch and Zephyrs
for Kansas 1ud Flat and
Billiards

Margaretha Scheer is the latest COM
plainant in the Superior Court to confess
that She bought cat in bag when she
consummated a land deal with Emma S.
and j. \. Munk, Il trade which she now
very much regrets.
Mrs. Scheer last year owned "a acres OF
land in the Rancho San Pedro, near
Compton, which were worth 5000. but
California property did not suit her as
well as Kansas realty, climate included.
1t came to pass that she made the ac
quaintance of the Munks, who, as it hap
pened, had some very desirable town lots
in the city OF Topeka. They were the
owners OF twenty feet frontage on
North Kansas avenue, North To-
peka, which they represented as
Mrs. Scheer now says, to be exceedingly
valuable paying an income of $50 per
month, and estimated at the current mar
ket rates to be worth Just $1,000. The
Munks wanted California climate and
land, Mrs. Scheer Kansas realty and biz
yards; and as the desiderata OF both were
of an even value, swap seemed to prom
Use fulfillment of the desires of all con
cerned.
Consequently they entered into an agree
ment June IS, 1894, by which Mrs Scheer
exchanged her Los Angeles estate for the
Topeka property of the Munks and in ad-
dition gave them a mortgage on her new
property for $1,000, with interest at 8 per
cent. In December the plaintiff became
dissatisfied with her transaction-it takes
winter weather to make one sour on Kan
sas-and she then concluded that the
twenty feet frontage on North Kansas
avenue, Topeka, was not a fine business
property, nor centrally located upon one
produced $6 per month, and that outsi, e
of the $1,000 mortgage she had herself
given upon it, the property was not worth
anything at all. She now claims that she
has been defrauded by the MunlIs' mis-
representations, and demands $1,000 dam
The herald., 1895-02-27

ruary 18th, in the daytime, and was sem
fenced to Folsom for one year by Judge
Smith.
Jacob Schahfer,s n native of Germany,
was naturalized yesterday by Judge Van
Dyke.
Letters of administration to the estate,
valued at $500, of Abigail W Sewall, de-
ceased were prayed for by Mary j..
Sewal.
w. d. Davenport is on trial before Judge
Smith on the charge of grand larceny. He
is accused of having stolen PERSONAL prop
erty valued at $50 from c. ". Tillinghast
on November 20, 1894.
James Quinn sued the city to quiet title
to lot 10, block 8, OF the Sanchez tract.
The herald., 1895-02-27
TRICKERF AND DECEIT
Mrs. Myers Claims That They Were Used to
Defrand Her Of Her Money


Isabella Myers has commenced suit in
the Superior Court agains the Bankers
Life Association of Minnesota and A. B.
Lawson, to obtain Judgment for $4,000.
John II. Myers, the deceased husband
of the plaintiff, insured his life in March,
1893, with the company for $1,000, fulfilled
his contract and afterward died. Mrs.
Myers claims that the association and A.
y. Lawson pretended when she applied
for the payment of her policy, that her
husband had obtained his insurance
through fraud and Misrepresentation, and
threatened her with criminal proceedings
unless she relinQuished her rights. She
was intimidated' and assigned the policy
to Lawson for his own benefit; and he, so
Mrs. Myers alleges, gave it back to the in
Surance company.
She says that the policy was extortcd
from her by Lawson by means of trickery
and deceit, and that his representations
to her were false. Besides the $4,000 she
asks that the assignment made by her be
declared void.
The herald., 1895-02-27
Little Black BiIJy's Fate

Billy Hunt. small negro lad about II
years OF age, whose mother is dead and
who was forsaken by his father, appeared
before Judge Shaw yesterday on complaint
OF his uncle and aunt, with whom he has
been living at Santa Monica. His rela-
tiyes accused him of being an incorrigible
little black boy. Billy howled and cried as
if he was being led to tie slaughter, in
stead of which he was committed to Whit
tier during his minority. The most Sc
Tious charge against the boy was that the
migratory spirit in him prevented him
from Staying at home
The herald., 1895-02-27
BAILEY'S VIEW BLOCKED
The Terminal Ran Into His Wagon, Killed
His Mare and Colt ard Hurt Him

tts nltfc ~oit ara Tim
Henry 6. Bailey is the plaintiff IN q
case nov on trial before jury in Depart
ment Six against the Los Angeles Termi-
nal Railway Company. He claims $50, 300
as damages and for money expended for
surgical treatment and nursing. r. L.
Gibhon appears for the company.
On the 25th OF June, 1894, Bailey was
travelling along the road which crosses the
Terminal $ tracks near Long Beach, driving
awagon drawn by 4 mare whose colt was
frOlicking alongside. His view of the
treck toward the north was shut out by a
string OF freight cars which had accumu-
lated for a distance OF more than a hun
drcd yards.
As he crossed the track with his vehicle
4 train coming from Los Angeles toward
Long Beach, and which, so Bailey alleges
mad given no warning by ringing the bell
nr blowing the whistle, ran into his outfit
The mare and colt were killed outright,
the driver thrown from his wagon and
considerably hurt. 1t is for the perma-
nent loss of his health, which he claims
10 be due to the negligence of the Los An
gelcs Terminal Railway Company, that
Mr., Bailey claims damages.
The herald., 1895-02-27
MnNnr Rader,s plan

Mayor RAIDER has plan for utilizing the
City Hall yard, which is generally con-
sdered the most feasible of any yet pre-
sented. Mayor Rowan wanted to make it
flower garden and conservatory. Mayor
RAIDER wants to build an engine house on
the rear of the lot, far enough back that
the light shall not be cut off IRON the City
Hall, and have one engine and one hose
wagon company stationed there.
Besides this the Fire Chief and the City
Electrician might occupy part of the
building. Then the space in front of the
building could be paved with asphaltum
and kept clean and clear with little work
or eXnenSe.
The herald., 1895-02-27
Dying After He Reformed

Clyde Ewing, young man who was
sent to Whittier two years ago for holding
up.a Chinaman, but who reformed so
completely under the treatment admins
tered by the officials of the Whittier State
School that he was lately made assistant
to the engineer of that institution, is
lying at DR.. Beckett's hospital on Sixth
street in desperate condition, and the
chances for his recovery are very slim.
Ewing's malady is appendicitis.
The herald., 1895-02-27
The rIaccal,ees

Henry Henrrison OF the Terminal rail-
way, prominent and active officer in the
order of Maccabees, is visiting various
towns in the county making arrange
ments pertaing TO the Forthcoming
excursion to Long Beach, to be given the
delegates to the state convention which
will be held in this city. Mr.. Henrrison
finds lively interest among members Of
the order, not only in Los Angeles but in
surrounding towns, and indications point
to very large attendance at the conven.
ton here on the 18th and at Long Beach
the GOTH
The herald., 1895-02-27
New Suits and Court Notes

O. \. Gibbs, administrator of the estate
of Eunice b. Cook, deceased, yesterday
sned Frederick X. Clark and others to
ioreclose mortgage for $2100.
The trial of viii Stevens, one of the
men charged with highway robbery at
North Pomona, was set for trial April 9th
in Department One Of the Superior Court.
Edward Johnson pleaded guilty to burg
larizing the premises of Mrs. Esther
frasher, S19 San Pedro street, on Feb
The herald., 1895-02-27
Insane From Mornhine

An elderly lady named Mrs. Kate Nc.
Quilkin caused her 27-year- old son William
to be examined yesterday IN Department
Six for insanity. William is a morphine
iend, and has dangerous spells, when he
threatens the lives of his relatives. He
was committed to Highlands.
The herald., 1895-02-27
RedOndO Railway

NO l4--IN EFFECT A. NJ. MONDAY,
JAN. IA 1895.
Los Angeles Depot Corner Grand avenue
and Jefferson street. Take Grand avenue cable
or Main street and Agricultural park horse cars
Trains leave Trains leave
Los Angeles Redondo Tor
for Redondo Los Angeles.
305 a. m.daily. 1880 a. m. daily.
230 p. IN. dsily. 1880 a. m. daily.
5:30 p. m. daily. 4:lO p. M daily.
ASH a. IN. A6 As a. m. s.
Asaturdays and Sundays only.
z 80 train from Redondo in the morn ng
makes run up i'll As minutes.
80 train from Los Angeles in the evening
makes run down in 40 minutes.
For rates on freight and passengers apply at
room ASP Bradbury building, corner Third and
Grand avenue and Jefferson ST. pPhone No. 1
L. T. GARNSEY. President
J.N. SUTTON, Superintent
The herald., 1895-02-27

EFThis time table is published by THE
HERALD for the convenience OF its readers
and the travelling public.
other railroad companies pay for the publi-
cation of their time tables.
The Southern Pacific company refuses to pay
for the publication of its time table in THE
HERALD because this paper is critcising the
corporations policy opposing harbor at San
Pedro; its attitude toward the Nicaragua
propositions; its attempt to oppress and rob
the people OF Pasadena, and its tyrannous dis.
elimination against the interests OF the people.
OF the San Joaquin valley.
COUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY
TINE TABLE-DECEMBER 90, 1894.
Arcade Depot, Los Angeles
Leave for. DEsTrNATfoN. Arrive.
The herald., 1895-02-27
LEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable, and pleas
ant to the taste. the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties Of perfect lax
ative; effectnally cleansing the system
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation:
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession because it acts on the Kid"
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ming them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug.
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactrred by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed OH every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs
md being well informed, you will not
Ecept any substitute If offered.
The herald., 1895-02-27
LOS ANGELES TERMINAL RY.

in EFFECT FEB. 18TH. 1895.
Los Angeles depots: East end First-street and
Downey-avenue bridges.
Leave Los Angeles for Leave Pasadena for
Pasadena Los Angeles.