The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24

Embowered by beautiful trees, Green
vile is assuredly one of the most beautl-
full towns in this State, which is famous
for its beauty. Indeed, its tree-shaded
streets, charming residences and hand
some public buildings are well calculated
to make a lasting impression upon every
stranger who is so fortunate as to be
able to visit it. 1t was one of the
first places to be settled in Eastern
North Carolina, and for many years has
been famed not only for scenic attrac-
tiOns, but for the culture and refinement
of its people, OF late it has gained
new and deserved reputation as one of
the most progressive and huorishlng
towns, both in commercial and indus
trial sense of Eastern North Carolina.
1t is surrounded for miles upon miles
by some of the richest soil i'm the State,
is the outlet for one of the finest Timber
tracts in the State, the deep and pic
turesque river flows by its doors, and it
has large warehouses, mills and shops to
make the air yibrate with the hum of
human industry.
Everybody who knows about Green
willie at all knows that it is a live, -four
fishing and growing place. That it has
fine future is guaranteed by what dts
citizens have already achieved. There are
few places in the South where there are
apparently better opportunities for manu-
featuring profit for those who have
little capital and energy and ability. 1T
has resources which should make it a
great centre for furniture, box and wa
gon making and other wood working in
dustries, and it Us a natural site for cot
ton mills and the other plants which al
ways locate where the former factories
concentrate. All that Greenyille needs
to-day to achieve the destiny worked out
for it by the bounty of nature is more
capital, more factories, more citizens OF
the same high class which it now pos
sesses.
CHURCHES.
GreenvilIe is well supplied with
churches, almost all denominations being
represented. There is the Methodist
church, the Baptist, which is Memorial
church st. Paul's Episcopal the Pres
byterian church, the Catholic, and
Christian organization.
The first Baptist State convention was
held at Greenville.
There are several colored churches.
one Methodist and three Baptist.
PRODUCE.
Greenville is large cotton market,
and also large peanut market. The
trucking industry embraces principally
Irish potatoes. The surrounding land is
very fertile.
MANUFACTURING.
This is confined almost entirely to
large carriage factory.
CITY AND COUNTY.
The county officers are all Democratic,
as are also all the city board.
There is am able legal fraternity, com
posed of some of the best lawyers i'll the
State.
The medical profession is well repre-
scented by body of learned and slxillful
practitioners.
The health of the city is excellent.
FIRE PROTECTION.
The city has been burned down as often
as three times, the last fire being on
May 4th. Several years ago one end of
the city was burned, but was immediate
~ rebuilt. The new buildings are going
up rapidly, and are very handsome, be
ing constructed of brick.
There is one steam engine and one
chemical engine.
FIRE DEP
Every town of any pretensions what
ever, as a natural thing, prides itself on
its department. There is mo town the
size of Greenville but has "the best"
department in the country. But Green
vile is proud of her athletic firemen;
they have reached a degree of efficiency
that must be gratifying, not only to
themselves, but to the city, whose pro-
lection they are from the element that
consumes.
SCHOOLS.
Greenville is well off in the. matter OF
schools, having the Greenwille Male
Academy of which Prof. w. III. Rags
dale is principal, and Prof. Hargrove's
Female School in the old college building.
TELEPHONE SYSTEM.
There is local and a long-distance
telephone service, and the Western
Union Telegraph.
WATER.
The springs and wells are exceedingly
good and free from injurious matter.
Greenville is the head of navigation ON
Tar River.
LOCATION.
The distance to Kinston is 2S12 miles,
to Tarboro % miles, to Raleigh 100
miles, and to the Atlantic Ocean %
miles. The city is very near the center
of Pitt county
TOBACCO
This lis of the bright yellow variety
The tobacco industry started in Green
vile seven or eight years ago with one
warehouse. Now there are five large
Furnishing warehouses, in which over
100000 pounds of tobacco were sold