Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-04-25
ON THE ROAD.
The March of Progress Through
out the State as Seen By
GOldsboro Business Man.

Carolina" should be proud OF his
State, and I am, and never feel
weary in singing her praises. Leav-
ing home Monday, I went to Ra-
leigh. Then Henderson, and Oxford,
and at every town, new buildings,
factories, business houses and COM
Portable residences can be seen just
being completed Or foundations be-
ing laid. Each and every section is
vieing with the other in progress
and internal betterment.
At Durham, there was good feel
ing at the Defeat of Cornell by the
Tar Heel boys at Chapel Hill, in
the ball game Monday. The Harvard
ball team are spending few days at
the Carolina Hotel, Durham. Man
ager Postell, says of the Harvards,
that has been in the hotel life for
years and for quiet, gentlemanly de-
pertinent that the young men who
are out playing exposition games of
ball usually evince, he has never
seen any more so than the ''Har-
wards" Why can't Manager Cook
and Proprietor Griffin, of TIE Ken
non, induce them to play a game Or
games on the Goldsboro Diamond?
Oxford, which in the days Of
mushroom town-building had cleo
trio lights, has overcome the set
back that all booms give to towns,
and is about to have lights of her
own, owned and controlled by the
city. Oxford, that has always had
one of the best schools in North
Carolina for boys, just at this time,
has, I am informed, ]. the largest at
tendance of girls and young ladies at
the Hobgood School, that has ever
been known in the history of this
splendid seat of learning. The board
ing pupils mum Der one hundred. One
hardly realizes the former oxford in
the business and push of the mer-
chants of the Oxford of to-day.
Durham is always ''Push andTalk
and Hustle" It is and has been her
stock in trade, and powerful good
stock it is, when, as in her case it is
backed by men of a keen sense of
progress and ample capital, push
ing, hustling city has evoluted from
a single factory, that now has hun
dred enterprises within the sound OF
the whistle of this mother plant. The
sight that greets you at the noon
hour, when the operatives of the
manufacturing enterprises go to
their meals, shows you plainly where
the great arteries pulsate that give
life to this splendid city. You are not
| even angered by the shrill notes o1
the big whistles that break your
morning repose, but are glad to hur
riedly make your toiletssand see this
surging mass of humanity get te
their place by the machinery that il
it's hum is building city.
This morning en- route from Dur
ham to Greensboro, passed along
''Historic Field" for 36 years age
two Chieftains, both West Pointers
had contended for the mastery ant
the one who led the remnant of what
was the left wing of the Confeder
acy, realizing the great struggle mus
end, had asked his foe and forme
classmate for conference and term
of surrender-Johnso and Sher
man. On the right of the railroad a
you travel west, five miles from Dur
ham and about three miles from
University Station, may be seen al
old time farm house, not now ten
anted, the chimney fallen down an,
near by the kitchen with it's broat
rock fireplace and in the yard th
: full size oak that though now dead
shows that it was once an awning
for the entire yard and many tales c
folk lore have been related meath it
t wide spreading limbs. A well wit
a sweep and bucket that gave sui
cease to thirst of man and beast, AN
still further to the right is the oil
J. stage road as It bends around tl
house, that, if it ever was painted
shows not any sign of it to day. Sue
4 is the glimpse of the historic plas
Of the surrender ct Iog n, Iohnste