The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-14
VIII MINGTON HAS CAUGHT HER
SECOND WIND---N FINE FORM
City by the Sea Has Big Natural Advantages and a
Grand Start Has Already Been Made-lts com
merce on Large Scale.
merce on Large Sea
tBy ION II. BUTLER.)

from the interior, a look tnat m
ciudes the town. the houses. and the
people.
have figured it out that Whining
ton has caught her second wind.
have listened to a good deal or
that old sentiment like in London
with Dickens or Of the old Missions
of California. or this and that and
somewhere else, and | have wandered
around in places hat have been made
famous by human action and human
achievement. But why not ind just
as much OF fascinating history and
tradition in Wilmington as any
where?
Coming up from Southport on Capt.
Harper's boat the other day, l sat on
the hurricane Geek looking over the
river. OF course the dram tree had
to count in the vista. and fro-a ABOUT
the dram tree the picture of Whining
ton is a
New England is quite a bunch of
doing things. but do you know that
the people of the land of the sacred
Goldfish nave a wonderfully active |
fashion of blowing their horn? Up
in the winter belt of the United States
they have "A narrow fashion o. re-
garding New England as about the
whole OF the beginning of this cOun-
try. No slight is intended. New
England made the school ook and
the histories, and because the things
New England did were done close by
the publishing house. and what other
places did was done farther away the
vision caught a better glimpse of New
England achievement.
SOuti, Outtalked.
There on the vessel. with the in
tercsting sky line of Wilmington slow
ly widening as we drew nearer, l kept
thinking how North Carolina had IL
lowed New England to outtalk the
South.
New England is all right. it
WAS in North Carolina that the United
States commenced. Up along the coas
above Wilmington, Raleigh located
the first English colony. and while it
failed. il failed only to see anothe
colony through it's influence estab-
lished at lam own. North Carolina
was finally settled. and I find a GER
tain satisfaction in the fact that the
North Carolina settlers were a restless
sort from the first day they moved
into the woods.
Down here along the river from
wilmington to Fort Johnson at the
mouth OF the Cape Fear. they were
mixing up things as far back as 1744,
when they bull. a fort to protect the
colony in the days OF King Georges
war. which was involving a large
part of Europe in what was there call
ed the war Of the Austrian succession.
1t was at Fort Johnson hat Gov.
Martin took refuge in 1875. when the
people of the colony minated that
they would stand no more of his inter
ference with the rights Of tie colo y
to shape affairs to suit itself, and there
commenced American reedOnl NORTH
Carolina by releasing Governor Mar
tin slipped out from under mon.
archial rule, and made a beginning
for the republic that has grown up.
Wilmington is a kind of myster!
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phases of interest it has presented. Yo,
can wander around Wilmington will
somebody and bump against just a
many interesting things as you cal
find any place. and just as man,
peculiarities of human character
Wilmington is older than lots Of town
that are five or ten times as big. 1
has come along in a most sedate an,
diSnifed gait. yet nobody has eve
hankered much to tread on the tai
of the old towns coat. 1t has bee
an interesting observer of nearly a.
the wars that have been fought O
this continent, for it is just far enoug
inside the shores to make it have
OF refuge or a dangerous resor
Whenever tho American eagle ha
been making a fuss some of the nois
has been pretty certain to b. lear
at the forts that have succeeded eac
other at the mouth of the Cape Fea
Fright Old"
Wilmington is a right old town.
Is one Of the patriarchs among TT
towns of the new world. 1t is not
very big town.
Some of these days Wilmington
going to be one of the substanti
commercial towns Of the Atlant
coast. II you will look at the mi
you will see that at certain poin
railroads converge toward the Sc
From the south they are Jacksol
Vile. savannah, Charleston, Wilmin
ton. Norfolk. and Baltimore.
The m of the United Stat
Is carried on across all four bou
daries. from the east, the west. t
north and the south. But of all tn
goes and comes. over halt OF the il
ports. and much more than a third
the imports pass through New Vol
New York will always be the CHI
seaport OF the western continent,
IL is established. and has all the fs