The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-03-29
THE OLD NORTH STATE
Col. w. A. Owen Tells What a linton
County Man Sees Passing Through
North Carolina.
Continued from last week.
Durham

Continued from last weekly
Durham
This is the best advertised town in
the world. Bull Durham ana Dukes
Mixture are known wherevar a man
fills the bowl Of a pipe or an 'it"
puffs the fumes of cigarette. The
Bull of Durham has been painted on
a panel and placed in view Of the
passengers of every railroad in the
United States and he hobs up at every
mile Of said railroad as a reminder Of
the distance you have yet to 90 and
also the luxury he represents. This
animal, the representative Of strength,
has been painted as an advertisement
of the town and interests which he
represents on the Pyramids of Egypt,
on the Rock of Gibralter, on the forts
Of China and Japan, in every cline
and land, and it can be truly said that
the sun never sets on the Bull of
Durham.
This city, like Winston-Salem, is
great tobacco center. The Reynolds
interests have full sway at Winston
Salem while at Durham the Liggett &
Myers, the Dukes and the American
Tobacco Co. have marshalled their un-
limited wealth and resources in MAX
ing tobacco world commodity. Not
only is the tobacco interest great, but
both in East Durham and West DUR
ham are found numerous cotton mills,
where the spindles and the looms are
running night and day manufacturing
the raw cotton into thousands Of ar
ticles for the use of man. Here is To-
Gated Trinity College, one of the great
schools Of the M. E. church, which at
one time received an endowment Of
81 100000 from the Duke, father Of
Dukes Mixture, and nearly every year
the founders two sons add in most
substantial way to this great college.
Also near here is the State university
Of North Carolina and the hospital
for the insane, two worthy State in
situations which are being well foster
ed by the people of the entire State.
One of the latest public enterprises
of Durham is the new courthouse, city
hall and county prison, all in one
building. The building is one Of fine
stone, finished in marble, and is
model for convenience. The building
is five stories high. The first two
stories are used for county and city
Offices, the third and fourth floors for
county and city courts and the fifth
floor is the Jail. The inmates Of this
prison are given plenty Of light and
air. The prisoners cannot reach the
windows on this floor, as the cells
are about four feet from the win
dows so a prisoner cannot reach the
windows and he cannot be seen from
the street below, but he can see down
on the streets. The officials inform
ed me that by the Jail being SO high
from the ground escape was impos-
sible to an inmate and conversation
between inmates and friends and
sympathizers was entirely prohibited,
visited some of the cotton mills
and saw the great interest of the own
ers Of the mills manifested in their
employees by the expenditure OF
thousands of dollars in the building
of churches, community buildings,
play grounds, swimming pools, movies
and libraries so that the man who
worked hard all day in the mill with
his wife and children might have the
Joys and pleasures of recreation. Ev-
erybody in this town seemed to be
pulling for Durham with fervor and
zeal to make it attractive and OF ln-s
terest to the visitor.
| While a guest of Durhamsthe city
was also host to a magnificent body
of men-a tri-State Medical associ-
alton of Virginia, North Carolina and
South Carolina. Physicians are
always men of great character and
friendly disposition, but especially are,
they so when they can throw off the
cares and worries of the sick room for
season and get away from the
scenes of suffering and hear not the
groans of pains and distress. They
are like boys out for holiday, and a
stranger can find no better company
nor better and more agreeable associ-
ates than to stumble into a gathering
of physicians, surgeons and practi-
TONERS, who readily hail you as doc"
and making one feel that you have
struck good bunch, who, at the pres
emit at least, don't care about your
appendix. This medical convention was
made up of a great class of grand
and noble men, and my associations
with them were most pleasant.
Leaving Durham, made a long
jump to Wilmington, on the sea or
coast, passing through Raleigh, the
capital, and Goldsboro, where ] chang
ed from the Southern to the Atlantic
Coast line. So far, thecities ! had visit
ed had been near each other and only
about ride of from thirty minutes
to an hour from one city to another,
but Wilmington is 1870 miles from
Durham.
(Continued next weekly