The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02
THE GROWTH OF WASHINGTON.
NEW ENTERPRISES OF ALL KIND,
How it Can be Reached by Rail and Water. Want tt
New Railroad. New Hotels. New Churches.
General Prosperity

Nydia, now leaves Washington for S
Quarter at Z a. m Mondays, Wednest
and Fridays, returning on Tuesd
Thursdays and Saturdays about
Messrs, Rudom and Godfrey from
haven, Michigan, are owners of this
The Nydia is seventy-ive feet long
keel and has two 40 horse power gas en-
CINE which gives her S0-horse power.
Messrs. Rudom and Godfrey contemplate
putting on another much larger boat about
the first OF October that will make about
fifteen miles. per hour. They will ruin
daily from here to Swan Quarter and it
is almost certain will carry the mails.
1t can very clearly be seen from the
above railroad and steamboat lines how
conveniently Washington is connected
with the outside world.
The brethren of the press here report
that they are having a better business
then ever with largely increased stub
scription list and job work. The Progress
is a first-class local weekly now entering
upon its seventeenth volume. The Ca
zette Publishing Company prints the daily
and semi-weekly The daily has recently
seven column paper. I am informed that
they are rapidly increasing in circulation.
The most important factor of any town
for growth and development is live news
papers and Washington is to be congratu
lated upon possessing these.
| Down the river, four miles on the north
side, Is new pleasant summer resort,
the River Side Park. Messrs. Fulford and
| Sugg are the promoters and owners of this
place. They run gas boats there three
| times a week, and beginning next Monday
will run every evening, the first boat leav-
! ing Washington at p. m. and making
several trips up to p. M, the last boat
returning from the park will leave at
1880 p. m. They have a large comforta-
bic pavilion for dancing. Refreshments
are served, and upon the whole it is very
pleasant outin in the cool of the
evenings after business hours are over.
One of the prime needs of Washington
is a frst-class electric light plant They
voted in May twenty-five thousand dollars
of bonds for this purpose. This is not
sufficient. 1t should have been at least
fifty thousand. The citizens of Washing
ton are fully aware of this imr~''."',+
necessity for their rapidly growing
city, and, my word for it, within Il
few months the town will be bri
| illuminated.
| met Mr. Robert Jennett from
county, who says the crops in his
at this time are very promising,
outlook for a harvest of plenty
Is most encouraging.
Bonds for the new graded schoo'
of twenty five thousand dollars, ha
sold and committee will meet 500
lect suitable site, look over specii
and plans for building. Besides tn
bond issue the town has voted a
tax of 80 cents on the hundred,
cents on the poll for the support
school,
The Christian church here is
plating charging its house of
this year
If there is any one thing that fol
back more than anything else Wash
has been specially noted for, it is
pitality, culture, refinement, pretty
gardens and last, but not least,
! women.
| l have been coming here from three to
four times year for about twenty years,
except the last two years, and from what
mine eyes behold am fully prepared TO
say that all the above is as true today
as ever. Il. B. HARDY.