Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-29
STOP or THE FLYER
IN FINE OLD TOWN
Encouragement for The Stars
Enterprise at Fayetteville.
SOME HARD, FAST FACTS
Many Object Lessons for the Doubters
on the Tour.
COMING UP TO LOOK AROUND
Merchants in the Historic CITY De-
clare Their Intention Of Giving
Washington a Show.
COMING UP TO LOOK AROUND
Special From a STAFF CORRESPONDENT.

Special From STAFF Correspondent
FAYETTEVILLE, N. c., September %
Fifty and more years ago this town of Fay-
etteville was the busiest place within many
many miles around. Everything came in
and went out by wagon and Fayetteville
being at the head Of navigati of the Cape
Fear river, communicating with Wilmington
on the Atlantic coast was the commercial
metropolis of this section. Today while It
is town of some ten thousand inha bitants
the activity OF old is not apparent, on the
SURFACE at least, and it is not exactly dan
gerous to cross the main street. but the
citizens of the town are looking forward to
a reawakenfng or to a more prosperous fu-
ture. Mayor Powers, who spent some time
on the exposition train this morning said
that the government contemplated deepen
ing the channel of the Cape Fear river so
that Fayetteville might have water COM
| munication with Wilmington all the year
round. This is of interest to Washington
jobbers and shippers in view of the fact
that we have now entered a field where our
competition is by water route. New York
ships to Wilmington direct, from which
point goods are transshipped to Fayette-
Vile and distributed in this section Of North
Carolina. Fayetteville merchants declare
uOWeNe1, tldt II w dSnlnRIOn COul0 IN some
way arrange to ship by water to Norfolk
and transshfp from there to Wilmington, we
would have access to the trade of eastern
North Carolina and need fear no competing
city. I was surprised to learn that even in
view of this water route from New York
that business Is done with Baltimore job
bers. whose goods are shipped by rail- The
only excuse for this appears to be the per-
sistency and progressiveness of the methods
of the travelling men representing Baltimore
houses, Baltimore freight rates are neces-
sarily much higher than the rates over the
water route from New York
An Old Town.
Fayetteville is an old town and looks it. I
asked Mayor Powers how old it was, not
having time to leave the exposition train
on a still hunt for statistics, but he couldn't
tell me. save that 1t was one Of the most
ancient communities in North Carolina.
got that impression myself during a walk
through the business section, and this idea
was strengthened when 1 saw a battered
sign that read, 1.-The Fayetteville Observer,
established in 1925" l just simply had to
go in and take a look around, and from
casual observation should say the editor
was smoking the same pipe that he
christened when the first edition of the
paper was run Off But he was good enough
to publish a very nice piece about the
Greater Washington exposition special and
its mission in the southland, SO 1 shall
carefully refrain from further anvil work.
May I say again without the risk OF be-
coming tiresome that the exposition train
is in a class by itself as a missionary. Just
see 1t for yourself. These folks down here
had no more idea prior to the arrival of the
special that Washington was in the field for
business than they have that tobacco grows
in the streets Of Boston.