The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
The Charlotte News of same date
as the following:
"A MODEL CITY-NIT.


has the following:
IL MODEL CITY-NIT."
Under the above head the following
ocal item appeared in Tuesdays Char
otte Observer:
do you find The Model City
dull these days." asked an OBJ
server man, yesterday. of a we'll
known travelling salesman who
has been coming to Charlotte for
the last twenty years.
"DullI That is the name for it;
and if you people persist in pass
ing little fool ordinances about
huving cigars. and limeade. and
the like, on Sunday, you. might as
well stock up four tomb-stones at
the great Independence Square,
for the towns name is mud. That
is the truth. There was time.
when the fair city of Charlotte
was praised by every one, but that
is not true today. Everybody
kicks at her now.
eff your people have not found
that il is dulicr than it has been
before in fifteen years it is be-
cause they have not taken stock.
Why. what are your real estate
men doing? Where do your ar
chitects find employment? It's
not at home, but in the adjoining
cities What about your plumb
ers? They have to get out of
Charlotte to do business. Dull?
Yes. | should say so.
- see from the papers that you
have to dig hard to get up $1,000
10 entertain an encampment of
soldiers. What do you think of
that? Dull? That is not the
name for tits dead.
Yes, but it is a Model City,
declared the newspaper man.
so | hear-yes, it's a Model
City all right"
The gentleman must not know tn
ropes.
The above article is misleadin!
and false in almost ever
statement made, and We cannot re
frain from expressing our surprise q
the Observer for allowing it to so qn
The News knows from it's own Elk
perience and patronage that bushes
is anything else but dull here com
pared with the same season in othe
years, and it has too much apprecla
ton for the generous patronage it re
ceiveS from our merchants to ALLOW
TO misrepresent their bust
ness and this city without entering |
vigorous protest. We challenge tn
Observer to give the name of thi
man who has so misrepresented Char
lotte. and if they refuse to do SO VI
challenge him to admit that he mad
these charges and to furnish the proof
Real estate in Charlotte is worth
more today than ever before in its his
tory, and we venture the assertion tina
our real estate dealers are doing
better business than ever We believ
that the same things will be found t
be true as to our architects and on
plumbers and our merchants and on
There is one true statement anon;
the ISLANDERS. We have had to dig har,
to get up 81 600 for the encampment
The reason for that, and the only rea
son, is that we have no saloons herr
to put up the money to make add
tional opportunities for dealing out de
struction and damnation to our eX
pected visitors. and our people Woult
infinitely rather lose the encampmen
because of this condition than be ;
party to the debauchery of the STATE
Guard or the visitors who may attent
this encampment.
This statement is partially true
There was a time when the fair cit!
of Charlotte was praised by everyone
but that is not true today. Everybody
kicks out at her now" The only diff
ference between now and formerly II
this matter is that gamblers, whiskeA
irummers whiskey soaks and buns
find no chance to ply their vocations
here. and they are kicking out al
Charlotte, and Charlotte is willing thai
they should, but right thinking travel
ing men, and business people and
home builders are singing Charlotte's
praises as never before, and Charlotte
is progressing as rapidly and as salts
as she ever did, and all she
asks anyone is to learn the truth IN
his matter and then tell the truth
about it.