The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-07-25
VERY OLD AND VERY NEW
JULIAN RALPH WRITES ABOUg
Us IN IAHPER'S WEEKLY.
Information for the Interesting Ar
t;cfe Furnished by Miss Adelaide
Fries, OF SaIem-Xyhat Dark
The LlactnricS

! FFIeS, OF SaIen-SA nat tic park
les Sing in the Factories.
"The Very old and Very New at
Winston-Salcm" is the title of an in
terestiag article which sppeared in
last weeks ie:ue Of Hartcr's Weekly,
printed in New York.
Nr. Julian Ralph is the author of
the excellent production, but he an
nounces that he is indebted to Miss
A. f., (mcaning Miss Adelaide Fries,
| of Salefn) for the information.
THE SENTINEL gives the following
| extracts from the article:
In Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
the visitor may see a alatter-day trolley
| car speeding through a street some Of
whose quaint buildings antedate the
foundation OF the republic. In Win
ston-Salem one may see a throbbing,
| modern commercial town, snowy and
| pretentious, stirring alongside of a
| quiet, quaint cid village that is 81 relic
Of the subdued religious spirit of the
colonial period.
| The two towns are very unlike each
| other. Winston is nineteenth cen
| tury creation, and Salem clingS to its
| tone of the seventeenth century.
| Winston has its modern court house
| square faced by banks, stores and
| hotels: it has its factory distrit set
| apart, and also its precinct of hand
| some streets devoted to dignified villa
| residences. Meeting the spirit OF this
| age, ID has many churches. whereas
Salem still has but one, the MoTavian,
usually crowded at service times by
those brought UP to love il and by
those who are fascinated by the pecu-
liaritieS Of some of the ceremonies.
The centuries seem a trifle confused
in old Salem, for factory stands
close TO the Oldest or its dwellings,
and year-old houses all but jostle
some that have outstood the allotted
span of human life. Winston lies
high, on sloping ground, and cid
Salem is lower, on level. Both en-
JOY the stimulating climate of pro-
grcsSiye North Carolina. ever mild,
yet scarcely ever enervating.
These cities are credited in recent
year with a shipment of sixteen
Of one hundred millions OF cigarettes.
Cotton and woollen goods are also
manufactured there. as well as wagons
and iron and wood working machin-
cry. The assessed value of Winston
realty is So, ,63S, 000 against a million
and a half for Salem. The tax rate
in the newer town is LIS: in the old
=
debt of 800 coo, against Salem's S50,
600 Of Indebtedness These figures
show the reader what, perhaps, he
thinks of as the SlOWness of the older
half of ''the twins" but visitors agree
that the backWardnesS of Salem is
delightfully."- attoned for by its calm
spirit and quaint appearance. North
ern folk who visit even those very
engines of industry, the tobacco fac
n
day conditions as prosaic as if the
business were rot done by negroes.
Ny talented contributor, who knows
the place by heart, has dotted down
some scraus of the bUbbling songs
that these ebon operatives chant and
sing with floods of melody the while
they work at full limit with bodies
swaying and fingers flying. Here is
verse from one song:
'Ax'd my nanny fur er piece er bread
Climb up ia der sky.
She hit me SO hard l fought l was dead
Climb up tn der sky.
Climb IN. de little chillun,
Climb up, de older chilIun,
Climb up tn der sky.
Now's yer chance tn get tn hebben,
Climb up de six an sebben,
Climb up III der sky
At times they sing their comments
upon the merits and faults of the diff
one after this fashion.
''Befo' I'd work for Simpkins, P. j.,
I'd walk all night an sleep all day:
Walk all night tu keep f'om eatin',
An sleep ali day tn keep fom eatin'.''
Salem is beloved by the modern
slaves of the camera, who keep busy
levelling their black boxes in every
direction, now at some Old-fashiuned
farmer coming in from the mountains
with apples, chestnuts and tobacco to
trade for store goods, and riding in
rude wagon with a round top, and
with frying pans and a water bucket
humping its sides and tail board.
But the old Moravian houses, with
their red tiled roofs, are the best
| quarry of The camera fendS-the an
cient brewery, for instance, and the
| last-century bakery, still in use. The
parochial school for boys is another of
| these relics of simpler times. and then
there are the "WidoWS' House" and
| the SISTERS House," wherein a spin
ster of the congregation may be inde-
| pendent, and transform room into
'home" upon the payment of nomi-
| nal rental. Here, too, is the Salem
Female Academy, occupying several
buildings, founded in 1902. and ever
since maintaining high place in the
favor Of the Southern people. 1t is
! no longer old-fashIoned. The girls no
| longer wear caps or prosecute their
I studies upon benches IN class-rooms
| with sanded floors Yet in its origin
i al points of excellence the old Acad
emy is unaltered. 1t is unsectarian
and modern in its standards:
/ Truly inston-Salem-active mart
of industry combined with staid CEN
!. tire of old time religious zeal-is an
| uncommon and uncommonly interest
| ing point on our map-a trySting
/ place of three centuries; an altar
whereat the enterprise of today has
mated with the peace of the past; a
twin pair of which one is the best
| that was, and one is struggling to be
| foremost in all that Is.
Winston Defeated by Mt. Airy.
Winston's new baseball team met
defeat at the hands OF the Mt. Airy