The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-11-29
THE DREAM Realized

| world are the dreamer Who ,-,~s
maxi their dreams come true vo
average practical man" who fri4..
himself hat he has no time for d...
dreams succeeds in doing the sr,.7,
things that are to be seen with the
eye. He knows only the little worr4
that is about him. The dreamer Sac.
the smoke OF the engine coujno o,-.
the mountains before the LEGISLATURE
gives the charter. There are. ha.-
ever, dreanlers and dreamers. som,
who call themselves "dreamers"
not in reality anything more than
ldlers. They sit in coy corners.
watching the curling smoke from thai-
pipes, too indOlent to see clearly amy
thing but smoke. and too near th.
ground to See the vision hpyor1
the cloud Of smoke. They call Them
selves dreamers. Their true NAM is
ldIers. who have no appreciation a+
the rapt visions that come 10 jho-.
whose dreaming is OF the big thfne4
that shall bless mankind, add to thu,
prosperity of their fellows. 0cyolnn
new countries, lift up humanity. or
create some new Influence that shall
make a new and better world.
Fifty years & wise men in Wtde~-
boro dreamed Of a railroad thr0ueh
their place from Charleston to the coal
fields. They obtained charters ana
were at work TO carry out their
dream when the war ended everything
ar ~ ~ b.,;11j,, kf+o. tl,- --.-
under the leadership Of Mr., George ".
Hundley, of Wadesboro. the railroad
was built from Walesboro to Che
raw, the link tina gave WadoeDoro
connection with Charleston. But the
building OF a railroad 10 the coal fields
seemed a long way of, JhOugH from
Wadeshoro to Winston-Salem the men
who looked furthest into the future
saw that such a road must come, When
the Norfolk and Western built 10
Winston-Salem that faith was strenth-
ened. In 1905, under the leadership
of Mr.. Harry DC. Fries. Of Winston
Salem, a constructive statesman. aided
by progressive men in his OWE city.
in Wadesboro and at every inter-
mediate point, began the work thai
has built a road from WinSton-Sulcm
to Wadesboro. The people gladly
voted bonds and the compou< was
getting ready to give out the CONSTRUCT
ton when the panic OF 1907 burst on
the country in its frenzy. making all
new railroad building Impossible. The
building of the road was the chitt
thing; its ownership was q matter Of
secondary importance. Two years
later Mr.. Fries and his associates in
tereSted the owners of the NOrfolF and
Western and the Atlantic Coast Lane,
in the road, showing them that by
building a line OF ninety miles through
one of the best sections i'll the SCUM,
the Atlantic Coast Line could get into
Winston-Salem and the Norfolk and
Western carry coal without change or
cars to Charleston. The more the
owners of these two great systems OF
Southern railways looked into the
it was not long before it was an
nounced that they would finance the
undertaking through a company "E
which Mr.. Henry Z. Fries was to be
the president. It was an important
event for North Carolina and natural
~ the running of the first train over
that line was celebrated by all the
people as the elimination Of 4 Ions
cherished dream.
The completion of this new trdrro
line by two roads. practically from
Roanoke, Va, and the coal fields to
Charleston, S. c.. is a big step forward
and is an event that is to be tttingiy
celebrated in Winston-Salem on DE
other prominent men are to speak and
the significance of this great event i~
to be emphasized.