The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-29
GREVAIsD ID. ~STEPHENSON.)

GREVAIsD ID. STEPHENSON.D
New Bern, Sept. ga day or SO
ago a stranger dropped into town and
desired to know something Of New
yern progress. He was thereupon
quickly given the usual Zine % stuff
10 the effect that this was a thriving
oort town at the junction of the Neuse
and Trent rivers with deep water to
fhe ocean, was on the great Atlantic
Toast inland waterway, was a rail-
road center, had V thirty industrial
ulants, had a seemingly inexhauStible
supply Of timber, was the center Of
D trucking country whose soil Woul
crow three or four crops a year, had
u miles OF concrete sidewalks and SIS
blocks Of streets paved with Vitrified
brick. was warmed by the Gulf stream
in winter and famed by ocean breezes
IN summer, had a low death rate, etc,
etc.
About his time the gentleman in
terrupted that what he wished to
hnow about was New Bern progress.
Tell me what you have done in the
past year or So" said he.
Then il was that somebody made an
on-hand recapitulation II was as
funishcd to realize what New Bern
really had done in the past year or
tWo.
! few weeks ago New Bern entered
the lists as q tobacco market with a
big new brick warehouse. There was
30, 900 pounds Of tobacco on the floor
the first day. and the sales on GER
tain subsequent days lave occasionally
reached the $4,000 pound figure.
4 row OF wooden buildings on the
principal business street has been re-
placed by the handsome new brick
home Of o. Marks & Son. completed
only recently n now ready for the
brm 90 move into.
\ few weeks ago the Peoples Bank
moved into its new marble-fron
home. said by he architect to be the
siyely for banking purposes between
Richmond and Jacksonville.
New Hospital Going Up.
ST, Iuke's Hospital, now in course
oil construction, will yield to none III
elegance and completeness of equip.
ment. The hospital building, with {
front Of pressed brick, is being bull
by DR.. K. Du Val Jones and DR.. JOS
eph Y. Patterson. The latter. it Nigh
DO mentioned incidentally. is a Son-in
law OF Senator Simmons.
Mr. w. Il. Blades some weeks ag'
mad the satisfaction of seeing his nev
ice and cold storage plant put in oper
alton. This made the second ice fac
tory in the city, yet before it was com
pieted it's output had already beel
contracted for by local concerns.
Work has now been begun on
magnificent country estate near NeN
Bern for DR.. Earl Sloan, a million
are. who is going to become a citl
zen OF Craven county and a alread
been elected "a director in a local banE
'ie Is erecting a mansion of the Styl
OF architecture Of the early Englis
feorSes, and the gardens slope dow
% mn pom ttx-An ~ rn1rn fhn GO IN
manner rs. did those of Governor Try
on's palace at New Bern. DR.. Sloan
VIII probably he the most completed
appointed country estate in Mort
'aroiina-with the exception, q
course, Of Biltmore.
Ut. Sloan has been quoted as Sa yin
ne wouldn't be surprised ii he mac
another pile of money out of Il sprin
On MS grounds, which has been dl!
covered To nave very exceptional mil
.1al properties. IL so happens tn;
the site of the Sloan estate, though
'oNtly as heart could wish, was on
inc site of the DID Craven county pes
m,ouSe for smallpox paIients-in ia
'lt doctor bought il from the count
"hlch apparently had no further IL
'or II. In his connection n elder
tty rather, given TO irony, has +
"drhed that ii took q man already
Inlihohalre To come down here al
tSCoN'r acres OF diamondS on the 81
me craven county pest house.
The pretty new dwellings going \
New Bern are too numerous to to
nate nut u commodiOus apartIne
'ols" now in course OF constructs
y III. Frank Hughes deserves speci
H"hti"n as an evidence of progress.
The Educational SHE.
turning TO the educational side
ue picture, most significant in I
ihdlN Ol the artistic life OF Pa st q
~arolina, was the founding last ye
= the B~ourdelais School of Music
Nv Bern. an institution where piaI
,o,ln, wind Instruments. dramatic a
tuu languages are taught. Since Il
w the Institution has been conso