The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-16
WILL IN THE AIR
New Berne Resonant
With Music of Work
Building Going Forward on All Sides
What Bryan and The Blades
are Doing. Farmere
and Merchants Bank.
tstaT Correspondence

tSttn correspondence.
New Bern, n. c.. Dec. 12.-There has
not been for many years so much build
ing and repairing in New Bern as at the
present time. Go where you will through
any portion of the city and you will see
carpenters. brick masons, plumbers work
ing like beavers from morning till night
am informed that there is need of a good
many more machinists than are here.
The handsome new brick block OF seven
three stoned store buildings being
erected on South Middle street, by Presi-
dent James H. Bryan, of the Atlantic
and North Carolina Railroad, will be
ready for occupancy in few weeks.
They form notable Improvement to
this portion OF New Bern
| hear that Mr.. Bryan is contenD plating
the erection of another block of stores
on Craven street. on the land now occu-
pied BIZ the old cotton platform
Ground on the corner of New and Mid
dc streets is being prepared for the foun-
cation of the new $4,000 Methodist
church. The large brick Sunday school
and mission rooms of the Episcopal
church are rapidly approaching compile
ton.
Middle and South Front streets. is being
extended back several feet 1t will be an
attractive place of business when COM
pleted.
Mr.. w. B. Blades president of the
Blades Lumber Company. has just finish
cd one OF the handsomest residences ever
built in New Bern, at a cost of about
sos. 600 to $4,000. This handsome home is
on the corner of Middle and Johnson
streets. Nh. Blades gave reception at
his new home about two weeks ago. 1t
was an occasion of delight and enjoyment
TO all present.
! could fill column or more telling
about new buildings going up here and
the renovation of old ones. but / must
wait till another time.
Owing to the weather, trucking prepara-
tons for next spring are progressing
slowly. The cold weather has killed
about ell the native cabbage plants.
| was talking today TO a citizen who
is in n position to know, and he told me
that there were about thirty barges and
forty sckooners tAlt carried lumber from
New Bern, and a conservative estimate
s. that something over 100000 feet Of
lumber has been taken away from New
Bern this year Besides. the three large
sssp lSzHisy ~ zthe Blades Lumber Company,
there are in and around New Bern, the
Munger and Bennett. Pine Lumber Com
pany, Broadhurst and ives, and the Trent.
This gives some idea of the immensely OF
the lumber industry here
A visitor to New Bern never tires OF
going down on the deck at the foot of
Middle street. and seeing the boats come
in loaded with the many varieties of fish.
And he watches with interest the many
fish dealers buying and packing them for
shipment. Ard as fer oysters, why about
the first thing one feels inclined to Go
when he gets here is to fill up On these
delicious bevalves.
There is no talk of hard times in New
Bern. | know of no town in the State
that / have recently visited that presents
more evidences of thrift and prosperity
than this
was passing today by the Farmers
and Merchants Bank, and citizen told
me TO walk in. The doors of the bank
We're open and the depcsitors were draw
ing their money at 100 cents on the dol
lar. The recently appointed trustee of
the bank, w. B. Blades. and the presi-
dent L. H. Cutler. We're on hand and ap-
peared quite happy, handing cool cash,
dollar for dollar, to the depositors. Mr..
Cutler says the trouble is not that they
haven't plenty of money to pay the de-
posiors. but it is to get them to come
after it. This has been going on since
last Tuesday
/ hear it strongly rumored that a new
organization viii be perfected and anoth-
err bank started up here at no distant
date
The sixty ton cotton seed oil mill is run
ming full blast Mr.. r. f. Broadhurst is
the president; W. r. Styron, secretary and
treasurer; c. L. Ives. general manager
and superintendent.
BIr W G.. Daniels has recently returned
from the West with from 10 to 100 head
CT fine mules and horses.
l know of no town in Eastern North
Carolina that is forging more rapidly to
the front rs q wholesaler than New Bern
There are wholesale grocery houses. dry
goods hardware. etc. And why not?
For this town is so situated as to COM
mand trade for a large surrounding
country. embracing Hyde. Onsow. Jones,
Pamlico and other counties She has fine
water as well as railroad transportation
facilities, and all of the above mentioned
ey Ntory - known to be as fine farm
ing and truck ing section as is in the
state, and as the years so by this. the
nam business or reat lever to all other
lines Of business o. nd industry is being
'rgely increased and de, elopod
So ~,'h-e completion OF the new
railroads opening up new territory for
New Bern. see no reason why she should
not in a few years, grow TO twice her
size in population and business
That. she may achieve tins Is the hearty
desire of H. 3. HARDY.
DrouuctTto,t NOT unEnpEn