The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-01-03
Arendell Finds Them Making
Hay-Norfolk to New York.
NAMES OF SOME OF T~zM
Their Sand and Ter Nix Enem
Stand and Suck.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CITES
Portsmouth Fortunately hdspted for
Passing through Purposes But
the World Knows and Loves 1t
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Norfolk. Va, Dec. 22.-(Stafr Cores
Sondence. There is so much that is. North
Carolildan in the two towns OF Ports
mouth and Norfolk, so many Tar Heels
resident here and so much natural affinity
between the two Virginia cities and the
Old North State, that whenever / come
hither. l feel like tipping my hat and
saying, Good morning, Aunt Ports
mouth" and 'Howdy-do Cousin. Nor
folk"
have been to Portsmouth a good
many times; no l haven't either; | mean
| have been through Portsmouth a good
many times.
Nobody goes to Portsmouth. | don't
think | ever heard anybody say they
were going to Portsmouth, but / have
never seen but few people who didn't
say at one time or another that they
were going to New York, Boston, Balti-
more, or somewhere via Portsmouth
/ don't think | have ever heard any
body say to anybody else, Lets go TO
Portsmouth
And yet everybody knows that every
body else, if he goes any where at all,
has got to go to Portsmouth and through
Portsmouth. But Portsmouth is a clever
old town. / know it is because it is the
home Of so many clever folks. 1t is the
headquarters Of the hustling general man
agement Of the Seaboard Airline, and
just across the creek is the Gosport Navy
Yard.
About three hundred and sixty-six out
Of every four hundred people can this
THE Portsmouth Navy Yard" The
other thirty four call it simply "The
Navy Yard" But the real name is the
Gosport Navy Yard, with accent on the
Cos.
presume the principal reason that no
body stops In Portsmouth long at the
time, is, that just as soon as you alight
from a train, there are half dozen big
steamers fairly yawning to take you in
and bear you away to Fortress Monroe,
Washington, Baltimore, New York or
some other city by the sea.
But whether you stay in Portsmouth
ten minutes or ten hours the chances are
four to one that you will run up against
from one to a dozen North Carolinians.
II you happen to step into the handsome
new Office building of the Seaboari Air
Line You will find yourself in perfect
nest Of them the majority Of them old
Raleigh boys. Capt. Lewis Rem, the
general train dispatcher, viii be found
in his office dispatching trains from
Washington to Atlanta and a good many
other places. Jim Anderson is there, the
inimitable Jim, who can play to perfec-
ton on telegraph wire or play to equal
perfection, in Pinafore with a bass
voice that would have almost made Frank
Lombard green with envy.
Mr.. j. b. Martin, the general auditor
OF the system, another worthy and highly
esteemed Raleighite as methodical aud as
steady as an eight-day clock, and in the
general auditing department / find Kim
Weathers, just as happy and as jolly as
he was-well l wont say how many
years ago-and Ed. Jones and Tom Cow
per, two other Raleigh boys, who are as
full of business as they are OF other
good characteristics Charlie Williams is
up stairs in Capt. V. E. McBee's office
and will be probably as long as Capt.
McBee has an Office, and that will be
as long as he lives, if real ability in prac-
teal railroad management shall continue
to count for anything.
Many years ago Bin Nye, writing from
Western North Carolina, said that the
Western North Carolina Railroad was
IAN incorporated insult to civilization"
a few years later when as a part of the
Richmond and Danville system, and UNI
der the efficient superintendency of Capt.
Bunch McBee, it had become one Of the
best and swiftest of the Southern roads,
he bought a home on one of its branch
lines, and spent the remainder Of his days
there.
Capt McBee is a native Tar Heel, and
one the State is proud Of.
Col. Thomas J. Anderson, the Sea-
boards General Passenger Agent, is not
exactly Tar Heel abroad, being a native
of the Old Dominion, but he has spent so
much time in the Old North State and
done so much to built up it's piney region,
that he has tar ON his heels an inch
thick.
Over in Norfolk is another nest Of Tar
Heels, and they are in evidence in nearly
every phase of Norfolk industrial, profess
sional and social life.
Judge Mills e. Eure is one Of the vete-
rams Of the Carolina colony. He is to-day
and has been for years, busy individual
factor in the Norfolk cotton shipping in
dustry.
Mr.. J. W. Perry, is another Norfolk cot
ton factor who went from our Eastern
border.
Mr.. w. D. Rountree is an old Wilson
man, and has been for years in Norfolk
what he was in Wilson, a leader in its
trade.
Mr.. f. S. Register, one of Norfolk's lead
ing guano men, is native of Tarboro.
Mr.. Frank Dancy, Of the Old Dominion
Company, another leading spirit in the
manufacture Of fertilizers in Norfolk, is
@ native Of Tarboro, and was fo1 years a
citizen OF Raleigh. He is as popular and
prosperous here as he was in the Old
North State.
Capt George l. Nowittsky, whom every
body in North Carolina knows, is in Nor
folk. His name bars him from claiming
North Carolina as his native home, but he
found his wife in Raleigh, and is one OF
| aise cid States staunehest friends.
On the elegant Bay Line steamer from
| Norfolk Ito Baltimore you will always
| meet enough tar heels to make the triI
a pleasant one and when you land in Bal