The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-29
THE CITY BEAUTIFUL.

"reenshor", Insurance Headquarters,
Zig Banks and Cotton Mills
greensboro. the city bea utiful, Is
about as live proposition as one
could want to meet up with. The
writer can we'll remember when the
Town was n mere station on the old
North Carolina Central Railroad so far
as business was concerned. Even
then IT was a beautifully la id off town.
mad considerable retail business. good
schools and churches a bank and the
usual small shops. but Was no. re-
garded as very much of business
town.
The Greensboro of to-day is an edu-
chtlonal centre, banking centre. a,
cotton manufacturing centre. A wood
ana IRON Working centre and Il life
ana nro insurance centre, being the
nome OF three life companies. four fire.
companies and two Industrial health
ana accident companies. The city has
hFe strong banks, Il number of whole
SAFE houses and any number Of up to-
ohte retall stores. magnificent sys-
tenn OF public schools. two colleges a
great state normal and Industrial col
lese, Stale agricultural and me-
chanical college for colored people.
ia business college and two denomina-
tlonal colored colleges, a Kelley IN
stltute and two other sanatoriums Of
j. +. .
Hns become Man,fncturInr 1,cntr
IN manufacturing. the .sty is a lead
er, 1t has four of the largest cotton
factories in the South, one Of them
being the largest denim mill in the
world. and 1t goes without saying that
these cotton mills employ thousands
Of hands The town also boasts or
me largest terra Gotta works in the
South. The products of its other fac
tories are furniture. wood working
machinery, laundry machinery, stoves.
crate bars, sawmlls. carriages and
hugEies. These, with the foundries.
machine shops. boiler works, iron
works. lumber manufactures, brick
yards. cisar factories. overall factories.
Hour mills candy factories. etc. em-
ploy thousands of well-paid hands
who spend a sight Of money In the
town. F''1s
And yet Greensboro is a very small
city as measured by miles and yard.
for its limits have not been attended
In thirty years, and thereby hang a
tale
Facts An 10 Population.
The corporate lines take in or
four square miles, and within these
corporate lines the census takers last
year found l5.S?5 people, an increase
over 300 of 5,S57. or as per cent Bit
these figures are misleading. for tho
real Greensboro can Justly claim a
population of over $4,000. as shown by
actual figures, and the same actual
'iEures show that within circle oc
three miles, every part of which ia
reached by trolley lines. there are 49,
900 people, who to all intents and pur-@
poses OF trade and traffic and develop
ment are a much citizens OF the city
as If they resided In the heart OF the
town and did business on Elm Street.
But as to the 5000. Be 1t understood
that the policy Of tho conservative
citizens and officials OF the town iss
always been to make good and attrac-
tive and comfortable a small ares
rather than to annex outlying terri
tory. spread out over the half OF a. j
county and let il go along in Slip
shod way This policy has n,ada
Greensboro beautiful, but I4think has
been carried 70 an extreme. and her s Z
more OF active energetic and business
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