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Sources Of Information.

In conclusion, I want to say the
gren ter portion or the information as to
,huilt this article, was obtained from the
very nrsn who gave Mr. Baker the dole
full story he printed In McClure's, n They
did not know that It was my purpose to
make reply to Mr.. Baker. 1t can be
readily seen that they told me a very
idlTerent story, There As ample evidence
on every hand that they told me the
truth. The real evidence y Is that the men
themselves tho ljckers, mean-are
making money and prospecting.
n have been hero two days, and one
thing | hpye tried to ascertain3is yet q
mys terry TO me. That Is cannot find
out how Intelligent business men could
have made such n lolnnder as to send
for a magazine writer to come here and
write up Danyilln before the world as q.
dead town when the fact Is, that w. is
to-day one Of the liyest lownA In the.
state Of Virginia and Is as prosperous
as any town Of It's size In the country.
.Thes, say here that two or three men
Thought It Was one of The ways 10 con-
tinue the fight against the Southern Raj
way. + have heard of 'DitinE ctr your
nose to spite your face" hut this looks
to me like cutting off ones Whole mead
to spite somebody clse's nose,
The Mcclure nrticle Is n slander--
-9,.. FRANK s.. WoODSON,
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LILLE, VA.,JUsT COMPLETED AT COST OF ST 5000

men can not do thelr work and succeed
without advertising Danvllle whereve.
they go, and if%this he true. suppose we
@wereEto double the number--Wlats must
be the result? Furthermore, the sole
work of every enterprise to which#we
have referred is to bring money into the
City that would not otherwise come here.
The up-to-date idea now is gdo get 4 or
make the goods and go after business.
II seems to US that there is aAsood OPEN
ing for a live, intelligent colonizins n:la
labor agency here. There is demand
for labor Of all kinds. and u. brings "a
good price. II. 3g
I'VE have not touched upon orr ma A
industry-Tobaceo. Itwould I'LL a whole
column for menger recital of what IS
doing In that line. Sc
And now, Just one more reference to
AN institution which we can not name
nlunicipal Industrial or social, Tut II is
decidedly beneficial. and tina I Is our COM.
mercial association, 1t Is now firmly es-
tablished, / out OF debt. with assets to Tho
amount OF $1,000; Its president Is broad
and wlde-awake; Its secretary, energetic
and efficient, and It's directory composed
OF the best business men OF tho city, 1t
deserves tile support and encouragement
OF every loyal and progressive man IN
the city. In view of this recltai Of facts
can any man remain pessimistic and fhh
to see Industrial evolution going on N
Danvlle?f
Bank Statements.
There is nothing that furnishes better
barometer to Indicate the business OF
town than It's bank statements and us
postoillce statistics, There are six char
cred banks in Dnnvllle. that under Nc
law have to publish statements every
now and then.nn one prjvat to hank. mat
does not publish statements. hut does 2
very large buslness-as large L as any
ether one hank in the town. According
tn tho published statement OF these char
tered hanks. on May /, 1905, the deposits
We're $4,000. The published statement on
April "a. 1901. five years u ter. 81, oTs inc
deposits to have heen 1852 900, On APRIL
0. 1905, tcnayears from the first statements,
the deposits We're sa.742,0co, OF these de-
posts, over $4,000 were In savings HANKS,
placed there IN small ppu's hy wording
md sa)aried men, and yet Nj, Baker
insists that in I1anYile only few rich
folks arc making money.
The business Of the postofiice has ms
creased from $4,000 In 1905 to S3377, o1o for
The postal gear ending March 81, 1909.
y Speaking of tie American Tobacco
COMPANY running other men out OF inc
tobacco business, q cItizen7 al, q lDnnNille,f
and q tobacco dealer, An talking with me-.
said: ~ think tho American Tobacco
Company has been blessing In disguise
to Danrille, 1t has forced some of our
mon out OF the tobacco business. causing
them to inpest their capital In other lines
pt industry. Therefore, We have here
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what We SO long needed diversified IN n
,torests., s.s. & s "
d Other RI lustries. "a 4

That statement is II se The time was
when Danvllle did absolutely nothing
but deal In tobacco and do a retail mer-
camille business, now, MS stated above
there Is n big wholesale grocery business 9s
done here, and the following Industries
nro Iii full blast and doing. Well !, ],
* a factory that makes overalls ana an.
sells them lii twentY.eight States OF this
Union; two Furniture factories that sell
furniture throughout the South, In Mex
leo and Ii, Cuba zone Of them shipped
only last week two carloads Of tables
and desks to Cuba); two sash, blind ana
door factories arc doing a flourlshing bus-
iness. and Danville- made goods are going
In houses being erected all over North
and soutl, Carolina. estbrook's Foun-g
dry and Machine Company are simply
making money hand over fist, making and
selling an improved elevator \.
These elevators are being sold ana
shipped as far West as st. Louis. and
as far North as Boston, and all over
the South. Another foundry company
does nmmense local business, and Q
vast deal OF shipping. The Danville Emit
ting Mills coniine their efforts entirely
TO l,gh.grade goods and sell the bulk
or them In New York City. The Dan
Valley FIGURING Mills, which, by tho
way, have bought out the Piedmont Nils
In Lynchburg, sell their flour In thirteen
states, .The Virginia Hardware Com
phny. has recently added to their estab
sl.shment d harness manufacturing de-
partment, and within the last ten months
has sold throughout the South $5o,Voot
worth Of harness manufactured mere.
Other manufacturing industries are soon
to be established, and the time IS not
far distant when Danylle will be the
enunl Of any city In the South as
manufacturing center. s
Y Real Estate Increased Values.
Nov, MS to real estate vnlues. For the
past two years Danville has been on y
7yerit table real estate boom. The commas
sioner of the revenue and the real estate
agents are my authority for the state
1nent that no town In the state orsin
tie South, perhaps, has enjoyed a mo re
rapid or Inores healthy increase inc :n
value OF renl estate. This is 4 cspecltniiy
true as 10 the residence section Of the
city, Business property has kept fairly
good pace with the residence section. It
would make this story too long to at
tempt to enumerate the half OF the
transactions OF the past two years, to
show the rapid increase In values. Just.
one case viii suffice. I'VE years ngos MI
T.. p. Sangston bought Main Street
store for$his own use as a jcW,elryt house.
Vie paid for 1t the sum Of 1920. Last
week he sold this property 10 Mr.. ia w,
boswell, an expert In real estate matters
and large investor for $4,000 cash.
Just across the street another store, that
six years ago sold for $500. was bought
a rev weeks ago by Mr.. a. C. Conway
another investor. for SIT 100.
b In tho residential section 1t is almost
impossible to buy a lot on which 10
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houses I'LL IL which, NO believe, started
with small capital and have worked UP
byS energy ana Industry to d solid and
successful prosperity We have O hard
ware concern that dropped the retail bus
mess some six or eight years ago, and
went strictly into fjobit,g. IT'S sales for the
first year thereafter amounted to $40, 600.
Its sales for the year now ending -
$loo. 0oa II. is lnodernly equipped and
travels five men. These facts show that
a general jobbing business can be done
from Danvllle.
There is no point in the state That
offers better opening for the sJobblng
Of shoes, dry goods, notions, drugs and
mill supplies than does this city.
I'VE believe that either or all Of these
can be worked from Dnpville on Just as
good lnying basis as from am otner
plnce. Dahville Is now tending out ABOUT
fifty live Intelligent statesmen. These
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8sl,sss.4po}
Present bonded Indebtedness. 6. 81 .26o. 300
Big Money in tt.

81 ! have been reliably informed that
sbea be can se w % any oeRs s sh
electrIc-lght plant.s with the franchises
to go with them. for 5000 coo cash, per-
laps more, but has no idea OF eyer, en-.
PERTAINING a hid The bonded debt Of the
city Is $4,000 Thus It can be seen that
this city can soil these three properties
with the franchise, for enough money
to pay off her entire debt and have
lars left In the treasury, must say
that does not look like I,allsille is tho,
dead town Mr.. Baker would nave the
readers Of Alcc lurea Masazlae bellevs y
Z said IN the outset, that J was not
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panyrlio has gone orr intends to 50 TO

Danvlliss has gone orIihtends to 90 to
the dogs. @ !. wv H Il
am not here 10 defend the American
Tobacco Company or lis business meths
DDS, or TO boost that institution in any
way shape, form or fashion. II may
be a grinding trust, FOR ALL know, or y
may not be. But 1 have to-day sinter.
viewed number OF Danville's citisAns,
and many OF them engaged in the to-.
bacco business, and I have found only
one who would remove the American To-
bncco Company from Danvile II 1t were
In their power, That one was Mr.. Adolf
plus Hines.
u IN n short talk with me, Mr.. Hines
said: II care nothing about the rail-
road freight rates. II some power would
remove the American Tobacco Company
and restore the cid conditions / would
be perfectly willing for the railroads to
sdvance their freight rates 100 per cent.
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RESIDENCE OF W pEArRoss JUST COMPLETED COST

Mr.. Hines, 1t may be said, is one Of the
old-time tobacco dealers. rele FRED to
above, MS refusing to .'evoluten with the
evolution. The passing out from the to-
becco business Of so many 1ne1, once en-
gagged inG 1t and the continuance therein
@ncs others, is simply the old story OF.
the survival Of the fttest Mr.. Hines
has not survived. t5 Al 81
Tobacco Manufacturing.
It is true that twenty-odd years ago
there we're twenty-six factories engaged
in the manufacture Of tobacco in Dan
vile, and there are now or!y foar OUT
side the American Tobacco Company
and they are called independents" but
Danvlle is today handling more plug
and twist tobacco thansi 1t Gid twenty
I, ears ago. The four independents re-
naming In business. with the help OF
improved machinery and modern para
phernalia, are putting ou', quite 100000
pounds of the finished product. whereas
ttwenty-six independents Of twenty years
ago altogether did not put out over co.,
900, and all Of these four independents
are making money and have no idea Of
being run out OF tho business. -Four
more or a dozen more could do just as
well II they would come inSon up-to-2hto
i lines. "a
It is claimed by this magazine article
that because Of the exorbstant5 freight
rates, Danvillc cannot do wholesale 1ner-s
camille business There IRE In Danv1ilc
nine wholesale groceries and SIX large
retail establishments. which also I. 90 q
small wholesale business. "a
Successful Wholesalers.
These nine wholesale stores sold last
year between two and two and "a Lquafter
million dollars' worth Of gobtls;:h they
Travelled not less than twerty-l I've men
and they are4nll making money. Y II Is
true that some of them are rather small
concerns operating on limited capital. and
1t IS true that their territory Is con-
.tracted ,l& When they so cast as 1tfnI as
Mecklenbnrg county. they meet Norfolk;
when they 80 north beyond Pittsylyania,
they meet Lynchburg. and said one Of
these merchants to me, I'VE meet Rich
mond everywhere. Out south these
wholesalers have larger territory.
They sell goods down in North Carolina
as far rs Durham, in one direction, and
westward as far as Wilkes, EWautauga
and Yadkin counties. There S here also
one very large wholesale hardware est;lh,
lshment, which sells goods In four States
travels number ofHmen and is making
money. One or 7. proprietofs Of this
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lLo.W,, Tax Rates.

Low Tax Rates.
The American Tobacco Company has
favored Danyilla In very many wa ys, and
Its buildings and Sstorings have addclE
Immensely to the taxable values Of The
Of Its STOCK after it was bought and put
In l,ogsheats In Lynchburg. Now It
has made Dany!lle its storing point. The
company not only stores here MI the leaf
tobacco It buys on this marltet. but Is
now erecting two tremendous ware
houses in which to store goods here,
bought on other markets. Mind you, It
going nXe tosaeos hees
points, stored here until i Is needed in
their big factories and hen reship It.
In the meantime that stored stock Is
do tbIs9 Simply because tha Danyille
tax rate is s,.40 on the hundred dollars
worthHand In Lynchburg 1t is 81 60. To
save g cents then U taxes ,aSes ths AmeTl
and this IN sS!te OF the fact that there
is a discriminating freight rate to bob
up against "a
The Company Store.
The Dan River Cotton Mills Company.
which is a big branch OF the Riverside
Mills, come In for a fair share OF abuse
by Mr.. Baker he wrote as follows:
Looked at from the money poins OF
view. the cotton mills OF Danyille are q
wonderful success; they pay big profits ~
also employ nrcn and .s women at y low y,
wa ges and work them long hours. Chill
Idren by hundreds swarm In the in 1ill
getting no opportunlty Tor ea9callon;;
vitality stunted and sapped befor they
come Of age Yet these children are the
future cltzens yri,o vii help go;y y,
which society permits them to obtain
AT the company's new mill, which8is
exists not only the familiar abuses Of
hours. hour at low pay. hut the employees live
In company houses, and trade 1t the
company $ truck store After pay,inn,s#
at at the = co oH store, these worknen
4 This is absolutely untrue. The mills do
not employ any chill under WE'VE years rs
as t long as some other southern cotton
mills. a county public school has been
operated at the mills. the conrpa ny do-s
mating to the county the Eronnnt, npo ~
con tributing some cash TO make II q
better building than the county va si $
willing e erect. The eountyaran ! ne
school this usual a. Term ha,r
salaries to carry the school on.n month
longer. The record shows that It was
the hest attended school insthe city. y. =.
II is n stock company and all Of the 4
stockholders are also stockholders In the
cotton mill, but all OF the stockhold.ears
store company. TO all intcnts and lnl,r--
poses ss they are two separate and distinct
asta bllshments. Mr.. OVERLY, who con
ducts the store, showed mo his books
sfallacious statement Of Mr.. Ba ker. For
that two weeks the pnv-rolls Of tho mill
we're sas47,sO. The orders Given on the
store during that two weeks amounted
new hands who had come In TO work
nnd had no means to "A supnort their
families between the time they COM
menced work md the first pay div,
which comes only once In two weeks,
This much, think ouRhtSto be said In
Justice the people who conduct the
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Industrial Evolution.

The strongest complaint against the
railroad company--and continue to.
maintain that Danville has Just cause Of
coinplaint--is that the discriminating
freighttrate prevents Danville from doing
a wholesale business. 1t is worthy vi
remark right here that at the very mo.
ment Mr.. Baker was writing that l1tssr-
able article for McCl,irei Magazine
and was being coached In 1t by some
ill-advsed Danvllle citizens, the morn
Ing paper OF Danvllle was publishing IN
article Which disproves pretty much
everything that Mr.. Baker wrote along
these lnes Tic article was head&a
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''D|llVIlLE sllADERED
WIDE AWAKE 4 Town \.
lcontlnued FROM First Fage3

SSIoc0 more than last year. and they nre
Sss;ooo more than they were In the year
}1tS under the Bowen assessment and
sec, 900 more than they were in 1897 under
the second Graeely assessment
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Follow the wise few rather than the
vulgar many.-From the Italian
beware OF the fury Of n patient man
DRYDEN If3Gl' a5ss ile J.3 sf4t
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build SO rapid has been the building for
the past two years. E $
more handsome residences have been
erected In DanVile within the past two
years than in any ten years OF Its preyi-5
Gus history. f3 So spoke Mr.. Anderson,
the commissioner ut the revenue. There
are only four vacant lots OH Main Street,
and onfy8one OF those is for sale. The
present owners OF the others are going
to. build on them houses for their own.
#occupancy--two of them are to- be erected
this summer and the other next year.
Municipal Prosperity.
There is no city In the United States
whose municipal affairs are in better
shape. Danyille has the best-payed
streets ofany city Of Its size 1t hns ever
been my pleasure to visit. and $50. 600 more
is being expended in this direction this
year. The city owns Its water-works.
gas works and electric lighting plant, and
runs them In tile interest Of the people.
The following is a statement n OF the
value OF The city's property, made TO the
Council by the Finance Committee De-
&cember !, 1904. The officers of the city
most familiar with tho subjec tell mo
2 that may safely add 20 per cent. IN rcaso
TO every TEN In the statement, except
that OF the bonded debt:
Public buildings and real estate, s13G, 700
Lupic paIRs S.'....,...,..,.. Be. 900
ltlpiicl nrldges .....,,.,,,..,,. 10000
6lupiic schools ........,... 72 900
Fup!lc, cemeterie les .,....,..., $4,000 I
l, l3epartnen Observation-Disclosures. 81, 900
WAFER WAFER l1e $50. 600
al = !, {, I1 Z 1os ,97o
], Guiding 1,, water power property ll2.lsoi
Public streets and sidewalks, 45
paved and unpaved \, ...y.., 100000
8Pllplic seWerage system 1890. ~. 900
Equipment for street work, &c., s, 900
q Estimated value Of franchises
8Eof municipal plants. X Il Y l5S
Water .,.,,......;, /. -. i, 1926, 900 a. H H
Gas OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 0G.J00
Electric light. ..,...,., 10000
5f rs ~ l--------ll-- N 2S5, 900
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establishment aaid TO nj INSTEAD of
growing about rates ana advertising our
disadvantages to the whole world. my
establishment Is pushing business 1t pays
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ANNOUNCEMENT {:

The ARGo Red Salmon demonstration
will be given at n. G. Broaddus, Eley-
enth and Hull Streets, Manchester, on the
18th. 18th and 2oth--Al ondny, Tuesday ana
Wednesday. Through a mistake this was
announced for the. 1lth. 18th and 13th.
All are cordially invited s5,
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The Wholesale grocery business Is grow
ing daily and there Is no tellirb to Swnas
extent 1t will grow within the next two
years. Certainit Is. II 1t KEGS lllp .,s
present gait, competing marke:s VIII have We
to 80 out OF the business prctll soon.
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sent here by The Times Q lspalch to de-
fend the railway company or the Anreri-
can Tobacco Company or the cotton
mills NIL OF which have come in for q.
share or the abuse Mr. Baker heaps upon
things in general. but think a few
words ought to be said in. Justice TO all
three.G ~ \. sS. IL ya
B The great complaint--the one complaint
against the railway--is that gives,
Danville. The railway company has
claimed that 1t cannot give Danyille, q.
non competitive town, the same rat tie as
a competitive point: that to do 50 would
that the railway company Is j,istinable
in its action Hut the Southern has
given Danville everything else It asked
for. For instance. Danville has the best,
both passenger and freight, to &be found
anywhere on the. Southern road between
WashinEton and Atlanta. ssE
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The army OF Richmond druminers hat
so out from tho twenty-odd grocery
houses to sing Richmond's CONNER cial
praises, sell the goods mentioned above
In nineteen States Of this glorious Union.
and the drumnlers from other towns in
the South confess that when they bon
}lp against Richmond grocery proposi-
ton they are simply not In it-they can
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-26

where one of the children lives, heard
from her that the townspeople say of
the school: No little girl may marry
who enters there You are reminded,
doubtless, of the legend over the gate
to Dante's hell. My single state is a
matter of common marvel-it does not
help us in our present difficulty, and
may be taken as evidence of a cult
from which young Ngumba maiden
hood must be protected.
"Mfun, the little girl in question, had
her slate as token of her having drunk
at the wells of learning. 1t hung in
her hut, as diploma hangs in doc
tors office-witnessing to her poor little
achievements She slept in my hut
and did me some service. 1 paid my
debt with needle and some thread
when next L go shall take her some
patches. Patches are dear TO little
African girls. Poor Amana, when she
was taken away, went down the path
wiping her eyes on her bits of patch
work.
I'VE were said when those children
We're taken away. Any work for girls
in palygamous country is sad. Other
girls will come. Some whose parents
are Christion, or otherwise enlightened.
we shall be able to keep; and some
will go. Yet not without benefit. Some
thing they will have learned of reading
and writing, of sewing and washing,
of truth and of the love of God.
THE night before Mum left, when
asked the children for what they would
wish me to pray, she said: Tell him
that l am afraid of getting married
1t is a comfort to know that our high
priest was touched by the feeling of
that piteous little infirmity."
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-26
BUILDING PERMITS

superintendent Backus yesterday is
sued building permits as follows
Northwest corner Third and Spring
Estate of y. ID. Stimson, sac Douglas
building, owner A. NJ. Edelman, build
er; addition; $4,000.
North side Forty second, $50 feet ca S {
OF Long Beach avenue-P. j. Leaver ~
Co.. 43l S. Hill owner and builder; one =
story four-room residences $500.
East side Concord, between Eagle
ana Lahtrahco-C; Kenyon and a, w.
Smith, d2l5 T.. Fourth owners ana
$500.
Forty-sixth street, 161 Wcst-I N.
Wylley, l6l w. Forty-siXth, owner; W.
y. Willingham, builder; one and II half
story eight.room residence; $500,
North side FortY-second street, 400
feet east of Long Beach avenue-Annic
NJ. Hurst care r. J. Leaver & Coz own
cr; +. j, LcaVer X CO., builders; one
story four-room residence; 5000.
Thirty seventh street, 1892 West-G.
IT, sloan and Il. L. Pcttithls, 934 w.
1hirty-ninth, owner: G, T.. Sloan, buiId-
$1,000.
. Compton avenue. 471O-Nrs. Harden
berg, 47l1 Compton avenue, owner; F.
D. DtweIlGGy bullder; addition water
Dewey avenue. liO5-Lizzie b. Mer-
rill l4O5 Dewey, owner and builder;
one.,story one-room shed; $50.
Fox, 1414 H. Fifty-second, owner, Hess.
builder; move and addition to one-story
frame residence; $3.50.
Forty-fifth street, 1887 EAST. A.
Atwood, 1887 10. Forty fifth, owner and
builder; addition to and repair one
story frame residence; $3.50,
Fifty-second street 1853 East-Daisy
10. smith, lS47 Il. Twenty-ninth, own
er; L. X. Smith, builder; one-s story two
room residence; 500.
Michigan avenue, 2023-IT, G, Beer,
l22 ~ Soto, owner and builder; one
gst.a fnsats q
Third street 637 East-S. Guasti, 112i
S. Los Angeles owner; Hutton Bros,
builders; general repairs to bar, 500.
Maple avenue, 356S7-A. r. Stanford.
1925 li. Twenty third, owner; John l..
sheets, builder; one-stOry siX-room
Iesidence; $1,000.
rhirty-siNth street 1913 West-W l..
Shook, ia w Second. owner and build
or, one-storY two-room residence; 500.
Thirty-slXth street, 1919 West q T..
Carlsan, I20 w. Second owner and