Goldsboro weekly argus., 1914-02-19
GOLDSBORO AND
ITS POSSIBILITIES

bar, replied to the toast "Goldshor'
and It's Possibilities as follows:
Mr.. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentle
men: Il have been assigned subJec
upon which might well be written
book of a thousand pages, and yet,
am expected to so digest it as to cover
the theme in ten minutes. And so
when l found that / was compelled tt
sIeak 1 decided to arrange as best
could a short summary, showing the
capital and resources of this city, the
achievements of it's progressive cit
izenship and what this community and
these people propose to do this year
and in the years to come.
might dwell at length upon the
history of this county and it's capital
but 1 would only be telling you what
most of you already know.
The Goldsboro of yesterday was the
most modest town in all the South
The Goldsboro OF today is bold in its
achievements It is the capital of the
County of Wayne, and if you traverse
North Carolina from Cherokee to Cur
rituck, you will find that no county i'll
al the State was touched by nature
with more lavish hand. The citizens
of this community are of the highest
type in the whole nation. This town
has sent forth statesmen who have
wrested expressions of admiration not
only from the nation, but from strange
tongues. It has reared and trained
educators of national fame. 1t has
developed business men who are a.
we'll known in New York, Boston anG
Philadelphia, as they are in North
Carolina It has given to the State
judges, whose opinions h"ve been read
and cited by the Chancellor of Eng
land, and yet, from motives past find
ing out, we have heretofore spoken of
our own with scrupu1ous care, whilC
on the other hand we have given our
admiration, with generous candor, tC
the achievements of our neighbors
There is no explanation of this unless
it be some deep and reverential fear of
the noble sentiment to which patriot
ism and pious thought have con-
demned us: Esse guam videri.
But the Goldsboro of today is {
greater Goldsboro. Her progressive
citizenship has forced her to the notice
of the commercial world. We hav'
taken on a new life, unit today Colds
boro and Wayne county stand as the
very synonyms of progress in the vo-
cabulary of all North Carolinians.
We are living in a great age which
has been properly denominated an age
of experiment and advancement. The
human mind seems to have burst its
ancient limit in search of the means
of progress Our nation, whose motto
wave of money power driven by an
impetus of commercialism, sweer
across it with a suddenness and i'm
mensity which takes the breath away
froI all the lockers on in other coun-
tries. With the springing up of this
new era Goldsboro has changed t.
meet the new conditions, and she ha
been keeping pace in the forward
movement, and it's citizens have de-
termined to be masters of the situa-
ton. The Goldsboro of today sur
passes any city in North Carolina ir
proportion to it's population.
It has nineteen industrial plants
with sixteen hundred and ffty-nine
0f
who draw monthly forty-seven thous-
and five hundred and seventy dollars
There is invested in these industrial
enterprises one million seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, and the
output from these plants amounts an
nually to three million three hundred
and fifty-eight thousand, nine hundred
and forty-eight dollars.
Goldsboro has four banks with re
sources of two million, five hundred
and fifteen thousand, nine hundred
twenty-five and 37-100 dollars.
Goldsboro handles annually thirty
thousand tales of cotton and from
three to five million pounds of to
bacco.
There is being erected in Goldsbort
a court house costing one hundred
thousand dollars; one six story office
building costing seventy five thonsant
dollars; one five story Office building
costing sixty thousand dollars. Colds
boro has subscribed stock for twent.
thousand dollar tobacco warehouse.
Goldsboro has thirteen miles o
graded streets; twelve miles of pave'
streets and twenty seven miles o
granulithic side walks.
Goldsboro township has recentl
voted one hundred thousand of goo
roads bonds for twenty six miles o
road; and forty thousand dollars TO
a new high school building.
In almost every block in the City Q
Goldsboro, there is being erected ney
buildings either for business enter
prises or residences.