Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-30
STAR SPECIAL
SPEEDS ON FOR
GREATER CITY
Success Has Crowned Efforts
Beyond Expectation.
REALIZED Is THE HOPE
No Longer is the Train Matter of
Speculation.
MANY ORDER BOOKS ARE FAT
Outside of Splendid Missionary Work
Numerous Firms Have Accomplish
ed Results-Next Weeks Tour.
No Longer is the Train a Matter of
Speculation.
MANY ORDER BOOKS ARE FAT

Success has crowned every effort
OF The Stars Special Exposition
Flyer thus far. The merchants and
business men who are included in
the enterprise have to a man eX-
pressed great satisfaction with the
enterprise, and there has been no
hitch or setback to mar the mission
AIRY work for greater commercial
and industrial Washington. Some
stop orders and other incidents
have proved the very pertinent fact
that the trip is not simply one OF
missionary efort-for all the firms
that are represented aboard the Fly
er have had the satisfaction of scor-
ing material and profitable results.
AT every point where the train has
paused on its journey the forerun-
ners have been received and well
coined with open hands, and in many
instances with enthusiasm. The
train next week will wend its way
over into West Virginia.
Special From STAFF Correspondent
RALEIGH, N. c., September %, 1905.
With the passing of next Tuesday the
Greater Washington Exposition special
will have completed it's mission in North
Carolina and will be speeding onward to
spread broadcast among the people OF west
ern Virginia the news of the awakening
of the national capital to new fields of en-
deavor.
Besides Raleigh, where the special will
lay over until Monday morning only FIVE
towns In this state of those included in the
tinerary-Durham, oxford, Henderson,
Littleton and Weldon-remain to be visited
And when. at dawn next Wednesday morn
ing. the special pulls out of Weldon and
crosses the line into the Old Dominion, not
a man aboard but will feel satisfied with
what has been done and will be confident
that the purposes of the trip, so far as
North Carolina is concerned, have been
accomplished
today. with these five stops yet to be made,
everybody is happy and contented. Order
books are fat with new business, the flu
ture of Greater Commercial Washington
looms big and golden through the mist and
haze of present-day doubts and difficulties
and the rays of disinterested optimism
shine on our party like the summer sun
on the cotton fields of the southland.
Seed Sown Broadcast.
The seed has been sown broadcast In the
fertile trade soil of this, our nearest neigh
Dor of the two Carolinas. and 1t remains for
the business community of Washington.
working together. shoulder to shoulder, to
reap the resulting harvest. The crop will
need attention and careful cultivation
There will be rain and drought Weeds
and grass will spring up to choke the young
crop and worry the field hands-you men
OF Greater Washington. The summer will
be long and the work hard. but when the
harvest time has come-and 1t will come
work with a swing and a purpose-the
golden grain Of growing trade will repay
our labor thousandfold
L sincerely wish that every one of YOU
at home who is interested to any degree
in the Greater Washington movement
could spend some time-even one day-on
this special train. 1t matters not what
your present opinions may be. They would
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