Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-10-27

0ElCI dAu a poAIJ Va ~ ~"
England capitalists will visit North
Carolina. They come at the invita-
ton of Mr.. R. S.. Rowland, Presi-
dent 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
svlyanIa Railroad Friday morning
November 11th), reaching Rich
mond Friday evening and spending
the night at the jefferson. Saturday
morning they will resumetheir jour
ney, via the Atlantic Coast Line, ar
irving IN GoldsbOro at 1915 p. III.
Here they will stop for a reception
to be given them at the Hotel Ken
non by the business men of the city,
but will leave in time to make the
trip to Morehead over the Atlantic
and NorthC Carolina Railroad by day
light.
AT Goldsboro the distinguished
party will be joined by Governor
Charles B. Aycock and his Secretary,
Col. Pearsall, and Attorney General
Gilmer. Senators Simmons and
Overman 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 G%oldsboro at 1885 p.
NJ, arriving at Raleigh at 1925 p.
M, and arriving at Greensboro@9t
$500. N. Il1e night Will be sprSH
in Greensboro aud next mOrniI.J
the party Will drive over the city for
an inspection of the enterprises
which are 80 rapidly making Green's
boro one of the most Important cities
in the State. They will leave
Greensboro at noon, arriving at
Washington at $3.50 that night, and
in New York Thursday morning
Q7th).
AS has already been stated in the
newspapers, the object of having
$500. IIu:oL, x,;oir %hiC SnOfinVo &c
that he may inspect Beaufort Harbor
with a view to securing an appro-
= priatlo from the next Congress suf-
ficient to make it the important har-
Dor That Nature designed that 1t
should be and that the commerce OF
the Atlantic coast now requires. The
other New Englanders in the party
are men of large wealth and have
NLecome interested in this section by
reason OF Mr.. Howland's acquisition
of the A. Il n. O., properties. The
party includes an Ex-Governor o
Rhode Island, two presidents O
trusts Companies, the vlce-presiden
of the Metropolitan Street Railway
New York, and others identified
with large interests and importan
~Senterprises in that part of the cOun
Try.
In this connection, it may be o
Interest To recall the fact that Beau
fort Harbor has been known ant
used as d shipping point and refug1
3 vessels ever SINCE Amadas an'
BRrloWe made their first vOyag
In534) from England to the Nortl
carolina coast. On that voyag
kheir first landing was on Ocracok
Island, and Sir Richard Granville
IA his account of the voyage, tells u
hat later, they "came to anchor 1
harbor where they caught niue
ash that would have yielded then
twenty pounds in London" Their
seems to be no doubt that this VIZ
VNhpe Lookout, at the entrance {
Beaufort Harbor. Later, the water
bout Beaufort and Cape Lookot
furnished a convenient and fdvOrit
resort for Edward Teach, the note
bhrate, who had a squadron of 81
8essels and 100 men. He sailed il
Ab aud out Of Beaufort Harbor MAI
kmes. There is a place near Ger
Joke which to this day is known
tTeach's Hole"
The first chart Of Beaufort Harbt
vas made in 1922, at the instance
8oyernor burlington and sent to Il
ards PYonrjatorS. Tn IL he SDeal