Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-24
IN OLD NORTH STATE
Stars Greater Washington
Special Crosses the Line.
TWIN CITIES FINE WELCOME
Mayors of Winston Salem Extend a
Warm Greeting to Hustlers.
FINE BUSINESS IN FOUR HOURS
Everybody Happy on the Business
Limited and Thus Far There Has
Been Success ALI Round.
TWIN CITIES FINE WELCOME
FINE BUSINESS IN FOUR HOURS

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINSTON SALEM. N. c., September "a
Early this morning the Greater Washington
special crossed the south boundary line of
the Old Dominion. a few miles below Dan
vile and sped onward into North Carolina,
the happy hunting ground of the tar heel.
The first stop. four-hour affair. from 8
o'clock until noon. was at Winston Salem,
the twin city combination that has of late
years been steadily building up a big local
and outside business and bids fair to COM
pete with any city of this section along
progressive commercial lines
The Washington party on board the spe-
cial were all prepared-after the tour
through Virginia-to expect the glad hand
at every stop along the line. but the Win
ston-Salem reception was very warm in
deed. The mayors of the twin cities-for
there are two of them. if you please, al
though the combination and Capitalization
idea holds good as to almost everything
else-were al the station shortly after the
train pulled In, and told all Of us how
much they would like to see the national
capital take its proper place in the COM
mercial ranks with its sister cities of this
section. Another glad hand extended was
William H. Blair, vice president Of the
Peoples National Bank of Winston and
director i'll the National City Bank OF
Greater Washington.
A Boomer Himself
Lord bless you cried Mr.. Blair this
morning at the train. as he gave each Of
US a hearty handshake and a slap on the
back. Don't try to load me up with your
Greater Washington literature. I'm just as
cooked and primed as any OF you to talk
about the national capital. what a great
place it is and what a greater place 1t Is
going to be. l live right here. but II there
is any more enthusiastic Greater Washing
ton boomer on this train than am, l wish
he'd step up and proclaim himself" And
Mr.. Blair went ahead to tell US few OF
his views on Greater Washington. 1 can
only indicate how optimistic they were by
the statement that after lie got through
no one had anything to add to his remarks
Four Hours Too Little.
Good business here too. although four
hours is mighty short stop for purely
drumming purposes. But this Is prob
ably the only trip on record where the
merchant makes a rush for the travelling
man. and not the travelling man for the
merchant. Tom Cross the Golden & Co.
hustler, sold a whole carload Of lard with
in half an hour after the specials arrived
brand new business, too. The Semmes-
Kelley representative. Mr.. Miles, got sew
eral good grocery orders, and now, Just
few minutes before noon, when We are to
start on another jump of sixty miles or so,
every travelling man on the train is en-
gagged with prospective customers and wish
ing in his. soul that there were no such
things as schedules to make him run away
from hard money business.
Everybodys happy. No disappointments
yet. 1 added the yet just to be real
sane and conservative For this continu-
Gus performance success proposition is la
BILE to make almost anybody slip his anchor
chains and handle rosy adjectives with a
shovel.