The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-16

II IL EnJoyfng-Greensboros Com.
merce Also Grows-The Transforms.
ton the Work OF the People Them.
sri,es-GOOd Roads and Education
Gold and Copper Mines Promise We'll
a Patriotic GIT TO the Nation.
GREENSBORO, y. G., Nov 10 Beginning
with Boston in the East, sweeping on in
broad belt westward through Massachus-
etts and New York: skirting the lower edge
of part Of the lake system in Pennsy VI
vania Ohio and Michigan and stretching
on through Illinois. there IL In the North
n great mountain range, 40 to speak. Of
industrial ACHE vement. Starting with
Worcester and Springfield in Massa ch usetts
this massive business backbone Of a broad
belt Of country has in Albany, Utica. SYRIA
cuse Rochester, Buffalo and Cleveland,
aspiring peaks Of population and pros
perity soaring ever higher as they 60 west
ward until the imposing dome Of Chicago
towers far above them all
And, opening southwark from Albany.
there is, in the Hudson. the vestibule TO
the great seward gateway of it all-im-
ptTldl New 10TH HeTPU.
Here in the South there is a correspond
ing range Of solid. rock ribbed industrial
growth that at a prodigious pace is rearing
itself higher and higher with every year
until it is fast becoming in every way
fit complement to the massive chain OF
business strongholds and buttresses which
extend from the sea to the Lakes In the
North.
II begins, too, this Southern range, in
another Boston. the Boston Of the South
Richmond in old Virginia. Perhaps the
microscopic sesrcher Of history might
fnd traces in the past Of a time when, on
matters political and otherwise. there we're
some slight divergences Of sentiment he
tween Richmond and Boston. Perhaps
the love between the two was not at times
efusive
Bu, thst is neither here nor there Rich
mnnd in her solid wealth. her culture and
conservatism, is the Boston Of the South
Al this day, and the Boston of the South
she will ever remain.
SO, beginning with this Southern Boston
and stretching southwest wardly through
Virginia. the Carolinas. Georgia and Ala
bama. there extends this industrial noun
tain range Of the South-a broad belt Of
uplifting material and intellectual growth
which in the rapidty Of it's rise and in the
brightness Of It's future probably is not to
be matched in the entire United States
to-day.
Like the corresponding belt in the North
It has its chain Of growing peaks of wealth
and population; beginning with Danville
in Virginia and including Durham, Winston.
Ia
nooga and 50 on. increasing in size as they
go southwestward, until the Chicago OF
the South is reached in Atlanta. Ga and
the Pittsburg in Birmingham. Ala.
And, To carry the analogy still further
there is the future great seward gateway,
the future New York OF the South, in that
marvel Of rushing, splendid growth
Norfolk. Va.
Now Of all the chain Of vigorous towns
and cities in this great belt Of Southern
prosperity. this new-old city Of Green's
boro is away up at the head Of the process
sion as TO it's growth Of the pas, decade
and o. to iis outlook for the future.
The transformation Of Greensboro from
mn insignificant and wofully duh village
into a stawart. wide-awake. swiftly grow
ing city has b"en so sudden that the people
here are still bewildered with IL. II IL like
lifting a man up bodily from some Lonely
willie Four Corners and dropping him down,
say, in front ofthe Brooklyn Bridge entrance
during the rush hours.
The Greensboro old-timers are still irving
u cipher out just where they are AZ Therp
is no simpering, maidenly arectation in
their this is so sudden" AZ the impetuous
wooing OF the Progressive Present with
the Somnolent Past.
SUDDEN PROGRESS
II was sudden. They are still IN q meas
ure gasping AT the snddenness Of H. II
there were any obstructive old fogies
among them. as Of course there werc, for
the amiahle old true-pennies are in every
community-n there were any such, they
were run over and swamped before they
got wind enough to raise their voices in
protest.
And even the progressive spirits Of the
place. the city fathers who have tried their
best TO keep abreast with the overw helminR
ruah Of things and to keep the city improve
ments right up alongside Of the city's
growth, are painting cheerfully. are pretty
we'll back from the front OF the procession
The pavements. the water works. the other
up-to-date city equipments In their per-
fection arc coming on and will get there in
time would be there now II the city would
ever come down TO half-speed in its growth
long enough for them to catch up.
As It is there is gap to ill In these re-
spects, vigorously as the work Of building
In the wake pf the citys progress ,s going
on. That sma. gap, In and of itself, IL
eloquen, OF the very speed OF the wheels Of
progress, here.
II IL not necessary to GO back to ante
bellum days. or even to days right after
toe war, for basis Of comparison bet tween
the Greensboro Of the past and the Green's
horo Of the present. The Greensboro Of
ten years ago was practically ident ical
with the Greensboro OF the day thirty
seven YEARS ago, when Gen. Sherman and
his Federal Army, on the one hand, and Gen
Jonnst on and his Confederate Army on the
other, met here and, in the vernacular OF
the mount aims allowed" hat the war was
over.
Greensboro had 5000 and hundred or
two inhabitants then; it had 5000 and a
hundred or two Inhabitants ten years ago.
NO OILERS HERE.
And at this present day Greensboro has
1900 Inhabitants and the hundreds and
the two hundreds are swarming in here
or are headed this way, 30 fast that by another
decades census you may prepare to see