The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-25
Mr.. ELWOOD cox.
A MAN OF MARX"
His Views as to Rates
and Things.
is ALL The BOBBINS
Discusses Passes, Privileges, Rail.
roads, Freights'and DireCtOrships.
Owns Both Friends and Enemies.
Are Shuttle Blocks Special
Iy Classified?
(Staff Correspondence.) }

Yesterday 1 had something to saJ
of Mr.. Caesar Cone; today, permit
that l encroach upon some of the
space that might otherwise be given
up to the rumors of an impending
sea-fight in the Far East to the more
present, potent and palpitating per-
sonality of one Mr.. Elwood Cox, of
High Point.
In more ways than one are Mr..
Cone and Mr.. Cox twin children Of
fortune and philosophy. In this are
they birds of an exact feather, that
they waste little time on letting the
public contemplate the processes by
and through which they arrive at
their officially expressed conclusions
as to matters of public import
No doubt it is an incident of sue
cess that those holding opinions at.
variance with what the public believes
and expects of a common intelligence
should in a manner remove Them
selves from the public gaze as a turtle
withdraws his head with dignity at
the approach of an alien personality.
The success, itself, is the shell and
the writer is not the one to deny
enclosed therein. Nevertheless the
public is a curious Argus and what
lies on the outside of the enclosing
mentality-and that is as far as the
public can go--is always of consum-
ing interest to those who cannot pene-
trate further. Therefore, as to Mr..
Cox:
A very pleasant gentleman, with
an egnimatical face. Tall, reserved
and dignified. A man who gives the
impression that he would not even
I.rI
knowledge of his superior powers and
his superior equipment in more ways
than one. Surmounting a face that
is cold with immobile features set
in q dark complexion, a dropping
black ,mustasche and calm grey eyes,
Mr.. Cox appears modestly on the
horizon of ones vision, waiting for
his reputation to prove his worth.
And, be it said in passing, his worth
is so proved. AS he moves among
the throng in his own or a foreign
city one hears whispers of his passage
as ne goes, is greeted with nudges at
his approach.
"See that man." they say THAT is
j. Elwood Cox, he who made the
furniture business at High Point what
1T is! Smart! Why 1 should say so.
Do you know about his trust? Why
he is the man who makes all the bob
bins and shuttle blocks in use in all
the mills in the worldi ElwoOd Cox,
why he's 4 wonder! You ought to
know him by all means
And so it happened, quite by chance
and unthoughtedly, that Mr.. Cox and
/ foregatheredr and were introduced
in a Winston bank and. to my eternal
credit as a, scribe, recognized each
other mutually.
Mr. Cox hesitated a moment and
then he smiled like the magnanimous
man he is.
Il should know YOU" said he, "are
you the man who has been writing
I averred that partially I was
guilty.
you have done me great injus-
tice." said Mr.. Cox.
"In what respect?"
''Tn saying that l had Sandford
factory; that l had received freight
refunds from the Seaboard Air Line
for goods shipped to q factory at
Sandford, a places at which l never
had a factory in my life. That is all
a mistake. Are you the man who
wrote that?
II did" / confessed, "but from the
official records of the Railroad Com
mission in an interview from the
clerk of the Commission"
II should like to see the paper"
said Mr.. Cox, and together we went
to the Twin City Club and hunted up
the files and the paper was produced.
If you have ever pOked fun at a
successful citizen in the public prints
and then run upon the said citizen
and then been forced to sit by quietly
while he reads your effort for the first
to watch the pass
ing surprise and Indignation and OUT
rage in his eye as he peruses what you
have written-you will understand the
strain under which / labored while
awaiting Mr.. Cox's terribly slow pc
rusal of the screed.
Mr.. Cox laid the paper with dig
nity across his knees THAT is very
strange" said he, 1T is all mixed.
The Railroad Commission has got me
all wrong. / never had a factory in
Sandford. / did have a little affair in
Raleigh. which l afterwards moved
because it was not profitable. 1 see
here that / have gotten q refund of
five hundred dollars from the Sea-
hoard I never had that much busi-
ness with the Seaboard in my life. 1t
is some other man they are talking
about"
But the case is reported In the
official records Of the Corporation
81 can't help that" said Mr.. Cox.
s.Resides I never use gum logs, l
never nave. They must have got me
mixed with fellow named Clement