The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-10-07

windows. Banks that stand as refer
A magnificent bis A Greek
restaurant where you f1s ,-~ood
| Things to eat. You know Il. Sqf7 -
Greeks do not hang up their signs q
the cemeteries. A live daily newspa-
per with printing plant that takes
care Of the delicate work required by
the furniture catalogues and that sort
or particular printing. Good streets
and lining them homes that speak of
taste and the money to crafty it. Then
farther down the streets the factories
commence.
The first thing that struck me about
! High Point is that it is a clean town.
a place that you would be willing to
live in. The streets that lead to the
factories are clean streets as we'll as
the streets that run by the big stores
The little homes tell Of a comfort and
prosperity as we'll as the big homes do.
The homes that flank the mills give
evidence of content and thrift instead
of suggesting slums. as is the. case in
too many factory towns, especially in
the North.
Then the town struck me as pretty
. could look al the simple lines of the
| United States government building, the
Friends church, some Of these Lind
say street or Main street homes and
bungalows, or some Of the business
: blocks, and be quite satisfied to live
in the place all my life. Evidently
the High Point folks believe in an
architect.
Or if it is figures you want I might
mention before 1 forget it that the
:. town pays a freight bill variously 'esti-
I mated at from a million and a quar-
e ter to a million and a half a year.
$ High Point is just little more than
IL II Vy.,tn fC fviE .,vo
;, than twenty-one years since the
l psychological moment arrived. Since
o that day factories, homes and schOO
IS houses have been building at a steady
Il gait. The factories grew at the die
tate of the stockholders The home.
a multiply through the needs Of the in
It dividlial. The inSiStent demands O
st the school house prove a source O.
IS never-ending surprise to the citize1
Is who figures that he just finished pay
1t ing bill for the other one.
IS Friends, if there be among yo,
u those who would like to live in a tow
q that feels it's growing pains ever,
~ morning and afternoon let me draw
. moral for you from High Point.
, No sooner is one street paved thai
the people from another one put il
l. a claim. No sooner are the childrel
es in one section provided with a schoC
w house than the territory that was
ie corn field comes along with schedul
ct Of so many new houses built and S
J. many children and an imperative nee
Id for a school house. Nearly hundre
ID and fifty thousand dollars has bee
a invested in school houses in Hlg
it Point since the work commenced
ne score of years ago. and nearly fit
tn teachers are employed. But tn
n school board is observing certain sigr
u that school house and church, street
he and water works, every public utillt,
must keep on asking for increased a.
n. prOpriationS year by year incident
g ally the water systems OF HlSh toli
is, is spreading out into metropolta
at equipment right now, prOVldlnS lot II
if present and future.
on Perhaps it is not wise to say provis
70 ing for the future. 1t is doubtful
Cd much Of the work done now WI! PR
ma vide for much of the future, for Hls
re Point is not figuring on any KIP va
of ,Ninkle sleep.
How did this thing start? How d
: to gather up here in Guilford coun
~ and set in motion such an enthusiast
oh industrial and commercial acIV'3
The psychological moment. as | sa
of little while ago.
ne You can trace the beginning "a
int to Capt w. H Snow, who had start'
,er 2 shop for making spokes and handl
Oh and in small way shuttle blocks al
;s bobbin heads. The persimmOn al
.o. dcgwood of the neghborhood ma
go Goon snuttiepiochS, AloA9 -
,re Northampton county, to Guilford CO
nd lege. When out of school he land
VS. in the hamlet Of High Point and
Nd sOciated himself with Capt. Sno
,fi- They made shuttleblocks and boon
heads that attracted the attention
NV the world. and presently they we
: the only really twenty-four carat pe
nat pie IN that Iihe' lhe "oiiu 'oi'7 $50
jty market
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