The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-08

7 one of the State but likewise of the
South. The schools include one for
whites and one for the colored
people, under the superihtendency
of Professor Thomas r. Foust, and are
managed by a board of nine trustees.
consisting of f. B. Borden chairman;
w. G.. Britt, DR.. M. E. Robinson, N. w.
Musgrave, j. w. Bryan, George Langston,
w. T. Yelverton, Henry We'll, Col. A. c.
Davis.
The location of the school for whites
is in the northeastern section of the
/ city in the midst of some five acres of
ground these grounds being larger thaa
any similar school grounds in the State.
The school buildings are four in num-
Der with a grand total of thirty-six
rooms, special attention being given to
modern equipment as to heating and
sanitary arrangement. Single, adjustable
desks form a necessary part of the ex-
cellent paraphernalia. With the recent
issue of bonds above referred to the
management are enabled to give the
school the equipment so long desired.
The school is supplied with a fine libra
ry, containing some 5000 volumes. select
ed especially with a view to aptability
They are also nicely supplied for the
study of science, having a compound mi
croscope and other necessary apparatus
The corps of teachers, twenty in num-
Der, in the school for whites, are con-
sidered to be among the best educators to
be found in the State. Being in perfect
accord with the work and in harmony
with their surroundings, the best pos.
sible results are attainable. Graduates
of the GoldsborO graded schools are in
the various avenues of trade and they
all take high stand. Goldsboro has
been fifty spoken of as a Pedagogical
Spring Board" 'Tis true that from this
institution has gone forth into greater
fields of usefulness u number of educa-
tors who had their beginning here.
Among these: E. p. Moses, Raleigh; E.
A. Alderman, President Tulane Univer-
sity; j. Y. Joyner, State Superintendent
Of Public instruction; l.. ID. Howell, Of
the New York city schools; j. l. Foust
of the Chair of Pedagogy, State Normal
CHURCHES.
The Baptist Missionary and Primitive,
Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Holt
beautiful church edifices. The pastorate
is an able one and hailing as it does
from the Emerald Isle, via Canada to
the Gulf stream, including, also, the
huckleberry swamps of Sampson, is a
cosmopolitan one. No city of it's size in
the days, present and past, has been
more highly favored with an educated
clergq From Goldsboro have gone forth
inn no Ia
bright pulpit orators. Among them:
Dixon, Deems, Whitfield. 1t has been
said, if a preacher would enter higher
pulpits, first let him be so fortunate as
to be called to serve a Goldsboro church.
COTTON MARKET.
In the midst of splendid cotton belt,
and because of her cotton factories
Goldsboro has become quite a cotton
market and cotton distributing centre.
More than 10000 bales are marketed here
annually. With resident buyers both for
domestic and export trade there is every
assurance that the market will be sus-
tanned.
TOBACCO MARKET
Some $500, 600 pounds of tobacco are
the annual sales. Her advantageous loca-
tion as to railway facilities and the
Availability the soil in the surround
ing country to the growth of the world
famous bright yellow leaf, with unity on
the part of the citizens generally with
the tobacco men, GoldSboro should enjoy
an annual sale in this product of from
5,00O,000 to 100000 pounds The mar
ket is yet in its childhood days, but the
child has not received that nourshment
necessary to develope a healthy, vigor-
Gus infant. Farmers from the older to-
bacco growing counties would do we'll
cultivating the weed in these parts
knowledge is power, true saying, APP
plicable to the successful growing of to-
bacco.
CATTLE AND MULE MARKET. I
No finer beef is to be had than is to be
found in the Goldsboro markets. The
cattle industry, fattening of cattle for
market, is a growing one here. and mar
ketmen of Richmond and other cities to
the north are liberal buyers on this mar
ket The lowlands along the small
streams in the county afford splendid
grazing and the cattle industry could be
made n more gigantic one. No one in
the county has a stock farm for the
raising of mules but Goldsboro, drawing
as it does from the west, has become the
largest mule market in the State Deal
ers here in this species of horse flesh do
an extensive business, certain of them
having sales stables located at num-
Der of points in the State.
HOTELS.
Nothing is more essential to the de-
velopment of town or city than It's
hotels. The travelling man OF today IS
a progressive fellow and believes IN
keeping right up with the procession. He