The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-09
ALDR|CH TO VISIT
BEAUFORT HARBOR
To Secure Appropriation
for Improvement.
MEN OF MONEY COME
A Party of New England Capitalists
Will Visit the State Next Week at
the Invitation of r. S. How
land. Sketch of Beau
fort.

Especial to News and Observer
Goldsboro. n. c., Nov. S.-Next
week Senator Nelson M. Aldrich and
party of dozen New England capital
lists will visit North Carolina. They
come at the invitation of Mr.. r. S.
Rowland, president of the Rowland
Improvement Company, lessee of the
Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad.
The party will start from Jersey
CITY on a special car over the Penn
syNania Railroad Friday morning
November 11th), reaching Richmond
Friday evening and spending the night
at the Jefferson. Saturday morning
they will resume their journey via the
Atlantic Coast Line. arriving in Colds
boro at 1915 o. m. Here they will
stop for a reception to be given them
at the Hotel I<ennon by the business
men of the city, but will leave in time
to make the trip to Morehead over
the Atlantic and North Carolina Rail-
road by daylight.
At Goldsboro the distinguished
party will be joined by Governor
Charles B. Aycock and his secretary,
Colonel Pearsall and Attorney General
Gilmer. Senators Simmons and Over
man and Representatives Thomas and
Small will also become members of the
party at this point and remain with
Senator Aldrich during his stay in
Eastern North Carolina.
Two days, Sunday and Monday, will
be spent at the Atlantic Hotel at
Morehead City during which time
Beaufort Fort Macon. Cape Lookout
and other points of interest will be
visited. Tuesday morning, the party
will start on its return North, leaving
Cfoldsboro at 1885 .. M, arriving at
Raleigh at 1926 ,. m. and arriving at
Greensboro at 6:35 p. m The night
will be spent in Greensboro and next
morning, the party will drive over the
city for an inspection of the enter
prises which are so repidly making
Greensboro one of the most important
cities i'm the State. They will leave
Greensboro at noon. arriving at Wash
ington at $50 that night, and in New
York Thursday morning G1th)
To Improve the Harbor.
AS has already been stated in the
newspapers. the object of having SEN
ator Aldrich visit this section is that
he may inspect Beaufort harbor with
= view to securing an appropriation
from the next Congress sufficient to
make it the important harbor that ma
ture designed it should be, and that
the Atlantic coast now requires. The
other New EnglanGers in the party
are men of large wealth and nave be-
come interested i'm this section by red-
son of Mr.. Howland'S ACQUISITION of
the Atlantic aud North Caroline, prop
critics The party includes an ex-
Governor of Rhode Island, two presi-
dents of trust COMPANIES tile vice
president of the Metropolitan Street
Railway. New York and others identi-
fed with large interests and import
ant enterprises in .aat part OF the
country.
TIC FIarbor u Old Days.
lin this connection. it may be of in.
tercst' to recall the fact that Beaufort
harbor has been known and used as
a Shipping point and refuge for vessels
ever since Amadas and BarloWe made
their first voyage 1584) from Eng
land to the North Carolina coast. Or
that voyage their first landing was or
Ocracoke Island. and Sir Richard
Granville, in his account of the voy.
age. tells us that later, they "came tc
anchor in d harbor where they caught
much fish that would have yielded
them twenty pounds in London
There seems to be no doubt that thi:
was Cape Lookout. at the entrance o.
Beaufort harbor. Later, the waters
about Beaufort and Cape Lookou
furnished a convenient and faVOritt
resort for Edward Teach, the noted
pirate who had a squadron of si2
vessels and 100 men. He sailed into
ana out of Beaufort barber many
times. There is a place near Ocra-
coke, which to this day is known as
"Teach's Hole
Chart Of the Harbor.
The first chart of Beaufort harboi
was made in 1922. ct the instance OF
Governor burlington and sent TO the
Lords ProDrietors. In it he speaks OF
the harbor of Beaufort as being the
most convenient in the province, and
of its admitting the largest merchant
ships To fortify it against The
pirates and orivateers who found it &
convenient resort. several forts were
Gin 1747) erected along the coast. One