The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-06
A MAGN1FIENr CITY H0l
To the Seeker After One of the Best
Places For Home and For Bust
ness Advantages Greensboro
Offers Great inducements.


man. is true end somewhat alliterative.
The proper study of progress is Green's
boro, while not at all aliterative Is true
from alpha to OMEGA.
Growth and progress' Those are in
evidence from the time that .uu alight
from the train at the handsome south
ern Railway depot. in the Midst OF
crowds, and after flying trip ever The
city fall asleep in the Guilford Hotel,
the latest addition to the fine hotel ser
vice of this Twentieth Century C..y,
which has still other great hotels rap
idly approaching completion.
If you only looked at the piles of
brick about the street, the lumber
that lies here and there and the vacant
stores on Elm street. the principal
street Of this beautiful city, you might
think things were hanging fire, but
when you investigate and find that the
bricks are for rebuilding, the lumber is
a part Of them and that the vacant
buildings are only vacated under pro-
test to make way for newer and hand
somer business houses, you find that its
u,
violent hands on the city.
Greensboro is new town in the sense
of the new costume in which rcigning
belle appears some evening. The belle
has an unlimited wardrobe, she has had
conquests and new dresses In the past,
has them in the present and is going to
have them in future, just as Green's
boro has had it's share of progress in the
me t..,~n
an incident of it's great present and the
greater future that is before it which Is
being materialized every day in the
present, materialized in brick. mortar
and stone. in increased wealth, in more
people. in a Greater Greensboro.
''rhe Gate City" as one is fond of
calling this beautiful place. which
stands at the open door of the Piedmont
section, midway between the fertile
plains Of the East and the beautiful up
lands of the West. is the county seat Of
a great county. Formed in ITO from
parts 81 Rowan and Orange counties, the
county was named Guilford. in honor or
Lord Worth, Earl of Guilford with
Martinsville as the county seat In 1908
the county government was removed to
Greensboro, so named in honor of Cen
eral Nathaniel Greene. who at Guilford
Court House on March 18th, 1881. faced
Lord CORVALLIS and the British in one
of the last bloody battles Of the Revolu-
tion, which staggered the Royal troops
fighting against patriots.
It's location means more to it's pros
perity than being a mere spot on the
map, for location is a potent factor in
the making of a great city. Nesting
as 1t does among beautiful hills that
have their crescendo in the grandeur Of
Pilots Knob some twenty miles awav.
with perhaps an average heighth Of 900
feet above tide water, it is in the midst
of the most fertile portion of the Pied
mont section. furnishing a happy me-
dunn between the level plains of the
East and the majestic mountains of the
West. without extremes of heat or cold.
Behind 1t is splendid back country.
from whose well titled fields comes
grain and grass and fruit and tobacco,
it's pasturage making possible the best
Of stock.
Nature fixed these surroundings. but
the cunning hand of man has aided too
1t is the centre of great lines of rail-
roads that bring to it all that it needs
and take from it manufactures that
bring wealth in return. Seven lines OF
railroad makes easy the question of traf-
fic and travel and daily pour into its
hospitable gates people from all sec
tons. These iron pathways link
Greensboro so closely with every sec
ton of the State that leaving a morning
meal by the sea or on mountain top one
may sit down to supper here and touch
elbows with travellers from the far
North and the far South. On the main
line Of the Southern Railway and with
the SeabOard Air Line as one of its sys-
TENS. 1t has open to it, by land and sea,
the markets of the world. It's location
however you view it, is one that chal-
lenges comparison with any other city
within the Union, and challenging. wins
first place.
In yet another particular Greensboro
can proudly boast of the value of it's
location, and in this nature and man
have combined forces. This is the
health of its people. coming as direct
result from the happy mean of it's stu
alton and temperature. 1t is not meant
that Greensboro has the reputation of
being a health resort, thought there is
no reason why it should not have this Its
mortuary list makes more than ia
vorable comparison with places that
claim more, and the completion of the
sewerage system, which is now under
way. will guarantee to the city still
lower death rate, thought in the way
of freedom from epidemics of any kind
nothing better can be offered
than the record of the past
year, during which none have af-
mopolitan population and the influx OF
people from every quarter the exceed
ingly low death rate tells Enthusiastically
that the section is healthful one.
With all these natural and acquired
advantages at hand the first question
that logically comes is. What have heI