The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-10
WHY IS THE CITY OF NEW BERN
NOT AS LARGE AS LOS ANCEIFS3
Answer Is That It's People Don't Realize What Fine
Place They Are Living in, This Resulting in Their Not
Telling World About 1t.

before they are thirty years old.
The whole thing is here. Delight
ful surroundings, healthfulness.
Pheasant neighbors, opportunities for
business that YOU would
incorporate in the working drawings
II you were planning a community to
order at the hands of a landscape en-.
g1neer. And why isn't the town run 7
ming over with a population of
least fifty or hundred thousand?
l like to get into a new,place and
! nose around and get acquainted with
1t and with it's peculiar little prob
lems OF this sort. So it is not hard
to figure out the situation at New
Bern. 1t is city Of ten or twelve
thousand people because it does not
have a. big visiting list 1t is not
! Well acquainted over the United
| States. A certain gain comes from
acquaintance that cannot be offset
| by anything else. It is with a town
Just like man. Ii "a man has a
! wide acquaintance he has q large
| circle in which to do business. If
a town has wide acquaintance it's
circle is large, just the same
| Acquaintance What New Bern Needs
If New Bern had the same ac-
ouaintance Los Angeles enjoys New
Bern would have a hundred Thousand
people without an effort. Look at
| the three thousand mile journey tC
get to Los Angels. It is almost 3
| certain breaking Of home ties for the
man who goes to California. The
same man could come to New Berr
and be within less than a days ride
from his old home and friends. That.
one advantage.
Lots of people who can never ge
as far as Los Angeles would lool
on New Bern as in reasonable reach
ing distance. That's another advan
tage. And another is that New Berl
| is not so far but that the man VIII
has not decided that he wants t
change can come here and lool
idecide, and not lost q fortune in tn
1 trip il he does not want to locate.
But the people who might come t
the sound country are not familia
! with these things.
In the story or fiavenwood cOupl
; OF weeks ago I told how war ha
kept this section from holding it
: down for years after ueace came. Blu
there is another thing to understan
+ when the slow growth Of New Ber
is under discussion The broad ur
q settled prairies OF the west afforde
y an opportunity for the railroads t
promote the settlement Of the couT
| try out that way. Enormous bonus
:, es OF free land made is profitable fo
: the railroads to push ~into the terr
!, tories. and invite people that wa.
+ No such Inducements brought raj
: roads south. Roads down in tn
. direction had to earn the money. The
y had no free land from friendl
= Uncle Sam.
OF Not On Main Line Of Railroads.
g When North Carolina commence
! railroad building in 1886 the Tou
70 selected was from Raleigh to Caste
IT and Weldon, and then from Weldo
e. to Wilmington. 1t was only a. sho
'e time before the war that the Nor,
le Carolina railroad from Goldsbo1
Connection from New Bern to the
J. lines gave an opening; out to the wes
,e ward, but the two north and sou1
70 lines that resulted ultimately in tt
r. Seaboard Air Line and the Atlant
= Coast Line served to carry traffic
le the west Of New Bern instead OF
"a New Bern.
"a. Florida, New Bern was left to Il
Al east OF the tide of travel. II
"A straight line from Washington
re- Jacksonville cuts through Raleig
50 Even the important port OF Wilmin
ton could not get on the main line.
-s New Bern was left with the job
~ hand OF making Of itself railro
to point. The development Of the No
es folk Southern has commenced
,e change the situation. 1t is posslf
,t- to get to Richmond and Washinst
ia by a choice 70 four OF five rout
ms BUTLER-TWO ny ::
.st from New Bern. these being by Ki
s s+oD hy Selma, by Washington a.
ne the Coast, one by Norfolk or
Suffolk. 1t does not signify that t
70. schedules by all. these routes
on satisfactory. The roads are the
Is and the schedules will De mace
,w At the demand on them any time t
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