Goldsboro weekly argus., 1914-07-02
GoLDsBoRo, N. G.. THURSDAY j
AS OTHERS SEE US
A SCRAP OF HORSE-HISTORY THAT
OLD ARGUS READERS WILL
ENJOY.

Editor Argus:-I spenE day not
long since in your spleudid city and
remembering the sloga or watch
word that has been YOU Tor 10 these
many years that eve g Forward, /
was to see, from the M &nificent new
structures that had beer aeared, others
nearing completion and the new terri
tory taken in the corporAIe limits on
the eastern and western Sides and on
which handsome new residences ant
business houses had been built, that
your papers slogan was correct, that
your prophecy of past years had been
attained, for you now have one of the
most beautiful, progressive and "go
forward" towns of the State-lacking
only, from my cursory view point,
take up pen now, however, to write my
impressions of your thriving city, but
knowing as do your loyalty to your
city and its people, and knowing, too
that you take laudable pride and in.
terest not only in those now living
there but in those who have moved to
other parts. I am writing line of a
most worthy, respectable colored man
who was raised in Goldsboro, who
now lives within a mile of this town
who has wrought well, made stauncb
friends and accumulated something for
old age-and this man is Bill chatham
whom you and many others of your
town well remember rs a trainer and
driver of the fast horses of George D
Bennett. chatham told the writer that
he was wit, Mr.. Bennett till the great
horseman passed away; saw the last
clod thrown upon his grave: that he
then began service with Mr.. Matt
White, another lover and raiser of fine
horses, of Elizabeth City, who died the
past year. Prior, however, to his
death, chatham bought piece of land
mile from this town, and brought
with him here some of Mr.. Whites
fine colts for training. He has built
him a comfortable home, splendid
race track, has dozen or more high
bred two and three year old colts ip
training, besides some older horses
that have won the ribbon and prizes
on some of the famous tracks of the
country that he Is also handling.
polite and. has made many friends
among the best and most substantial
men of this section who are backing
him in his enterprise and work in de-
veloping the stepping qualities of the
fine horses and colts owned by such
men as Mcssrs. John Sherrard, w r
Mann, Warren Woodard, w. T. Bras
well, the Pittmans, Mayos and others
On next Thursday, the End of July
there will be some fine and exciting
races on his track, for purses aggre-
eating six or seven hundred dollars
have been arranged for the winners
and a good many entries have already
been made. Some of the horses have
come in. Wilson, Nashville, Battle
boro, Tarboro, Greenville, Washington
Elizabeth City, and probably other
places will be represented by fast
steppers.
Chairman should be encouraged and
applauded by our white citizenship
for he is lending hand in developing
one of the material resources of the
State. Though this be day of air
ships, automobiles and all sorts of
cycles the horse is not yet gone, no1
will he go, for the time will not come
when the fine horses and fast stopper
will not be admired and loved.
I write this without Chatman's
knowledge, trusting that the stand and
station he Las taken and the success
that has been his will be incitive tc
others ef his race to emulate his ex-
ample.
+. w. BLOUNT.
Whitakers. N. c.. June 27. 1914.