The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-05
HISTORY OF CREW
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road. Is tho home of large number
OF road men who man the trains. such
as conductors. engineers, brakemen.
etc. These, who make their homes In.
Crewe, number about 450. The Offices
of the division superintendent and train
dispatchers keep quite another hundred
hfgh-priced men busy. At least $50
more men, conductors. engineers. brake
men. etc. whose runs are on the di-
vision west of Crewe, and have their
homes In Roanoke and LynchburE.
make their changes here, and there
fore. spend nearly half OF their time
in 1rewe. thus adding to the money
spending population Of the town.
a majority-a large majority-of the
men who work In the shops and who
run the trains on the eastern divi-
ision are men of families. aud have.
homes in Crewe. either as owners or as
renters. The pay rolls of the shops and
! the train forces are enough within
themselves to make the town one of
commercial and financial Importance.
Tho Offices Of the division superin-
tendent. Mr.. v. A. Riton, employs a
/ number of clerks, accountants. book
keepers. etc, and altogether the rail-
road colony is sufficient OF itself to
make a considerable town. both in pop-
ulation and money distributing capa-
city.
Nottoway's LoyclieAt Town.
However, the railroad contingent
was but the nucleus around which the
town was built. Tn the 1neantin,e
Crewe. being the "baby''@of the rail-
road. the Norfolk and Western has all
ways nourished It. and some of tho
1 handsomest residences here were built
slby the company and It's employees The
IN 4 Al TT.
tntendent. just completed, is a sample
in evidence.
But the railroad and its holdings
tand It's enterprises are not all Of the
town Of Crewe, not by large ma
5saccord With the generally accepted
idea, but the generally accented idea
ie wrong. ar@wrong. It is true that
the railroad company owns q great
IDEAL of property here, including a long
sistrip Of land lying between It's tracks.
Ishops. station. depots, etc.,and the
town proper, the business centre OF
which is a quarter of a mile hence.
There are, outside OF the shops, depnts
i and residences of officers but few build-
1ngs on This property OF the company.
4 Hence people viewing Crewe from the
i Gal. windows Of passing trains CON
Is
nothing here but the railway interest,
and that that makes up but strag-
Z cling sort OF a town. sa$5
They have to be told before they
4 md it out that beyond tho railway
\ "trip, a quarter Of q mile beyond this
4 fringe, there is q busy and iwide-awalSe
Il town OF $500 people; a place Of hand-
\ some homes. of active merchants OF
II nergetic manufacturers, OF sedRtes and
1strlctly business bankers. Of schools
and churches;a place we'll laid on into
Eide streets and beautiful avenues.
End altogeth Their a town which. had Gold
\ @ith lived until now, might we'll in-
s. pire him to write sweet verses about
Il another Sweet Auburn, loveliest wis
llage OF the plain 5s
twentieth Century Merchants,
~ With s large q popnlat lion as ~ has.
4 and that made up In the main Of peo-
pla who earn good money! Crewe has
4 naturally attracted live and energetic
merchants. There are marchant s here
tto-day who can show thetx thousar nd g
\ who came to Crewe In Its Z earl yE{ ys
with oily enough cash to stock the
smallest kind of q at tore. vi There a re
stores on and a bout Caro-
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