VOLUME
THE
PILOT
NUMBER
19
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Address all communications to
PRINTING COMPANY. VASS, N. C.
POWER COliPM TO
S-
LL SONE STOCK
gan n ills Power and Light Will
0 Ver Preferred Shares to
Community Investors
SoiViC time ago The Pilot in discuss
ing lie matter of investment by the
peop- concerns made the
statoD’v^nt that it would not be a bad
plan if ^loore county industries would
offer >01110 of their securities to Moore
county people, the argument being
that 1110 re opportunity could be open
ed particularly to small investors, and
that such investment in concerns here
at home would be a stimulus to thrift.
The Pilot further argued that get
ting people in touch with local securi
ties as an instrument for saving would
be wholesome and profitable, and that
a local institution which has a con
siderable number of local people in
terested has a strong community sen
timent working for its success.
Although the announcement last
week that the Sandhill Power Compa
ny would take this step came as a
surprise, the action was so logical
that the surprise is not startling. Mr.
McQueen w’as at once asked to give a
little further ir/ormation on the sub
ject and the following is substantially
what he said:
“Since the discovery of the many
uses that could be made of electrical
energy, there is no business in our
country that has had a more solid and
steady growth than the making and
distribution of electrical energy, and
where properly managed, no business
has been more uniformly successful.
“The growth of the Sandhill Power
Company has been no exception to this
rule, as you will see from the gross
sales of current for the first two
months of the years 1922, 1923 and
1924—which is the only time for
which we can cake a comparison for
three years by the company as now
operated:
1Q99 1Q9^ 1
Jan. S9,449.11 $12,031.99 $15,620.29
Feb. 8,203.66 11,708.93 13,868.21
“The Sandhill Power Company
serves a territory extending from Lib
erty in Randolph County on the north
to Raeford in Hoke county on the
south, and from Pinebluff west, to
Cumnock east.
“This entire section is progressive,
and covers a variety of interests. The
sales of current by the company are
largely for domestic purposes, and
therefore cannot be seriously affected
by adverse manufacturing or business
conditions. Its income is derived from
twenty-five hundred different custom
ers, only two or three of which are
large enough to materially affect its
income.
“The officers of the company are:
J. R. McQueen, President and Treas-
wer; A. R. McQueen, Vice-President;
S. J. Stutts, Superintendent; R. L.
Chandler, Secretary; A. T. Lewis, As
sistant Treasurer; William C. Whit-
ner, Leonard Tufts, H. A. Page, Jr.,
and U. L. Spence, Directors.
“Every one of these men has been
identified with the business interests
01 this section for a number of years,
the ni^ost of them for a life time, are
all interested not alone in the compa
ny, out in the development in everv
the entire section.
The st^k to be sold is Preferred
btock, at the par value of $100.00 per
per share. In every way this stock
takes a precedence over the Common
fetock. In other words, before the
holder of any Preferred Stock could
lose either principal or interest, the
entire Common Stock surplus,
present to more than
J175j000.00, would have to be lost. As
tne Common Stock is practically all
owned by the management, any loss
pom any cause whatever would be the
joss of the managers and not of the
holders of the Preferred Stock.
“This Preferred Stock will pay 7
per cent dividends, payable semi-an-
^ disaster
should happen to the company so that
the interest was not paid when due, it
^ cumulative and will have to be paid
be^re the Common Stock can get
either dividends or any return on this
investment. The company has never
tailed to make more than enough to
pay the interest on all its indebted-
believe these dividends
will be paid promptly and in full.”
PLAY AT FARM LIFE
There will be a. play (comedy) at
Farm life School, Friday evening at
eight o’clock. Admission 25 and 35
cents.
NOT A PARALYZING LOSS
The Charlotte News, in its edition of
March 24th, says:
“Railway Loses In Fire—The en
gine house of the Allegheney division,
Pennsylvania Railroad, at North Oil
City, was totally destroyed by fire
Sunday, entailing a loss estimated by
railroad officials at $55.00.”
A round-house, or “engine house”
of that value ought not to cause the
road officials to even “sit up and take
notice.”
WAR OR IGNORANCE
SmiES NOTHING
Homer H. Johnson Tells the Ki-
wanis Club Something
Freedom Ring Business
At the dinner of the Kiwanis Club
at the peach building in Aberdeen on
Wednesday, Homer H. Johnson of
Cleveland, was the speaker and he
gave the meeting something to think
about. A subject or his address might
have been a comparison between the
forms of government in this country
and those of the old world but pre
ferred to classify it under the head of
letting Freedom ring as the club had
just been singing.
Mr. Johnson with a few words
swept away that notion that all men
are created equal except that under
the law they have the same equal
rights as they should have. Then he
pointed out that the equal rights un-
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The Horse Show Next Week
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The interesting event at Pinehurst next week will be
the Horse Show on April 3 and 4. A wide variety o
animals will be shown, in harness, under saddle, jumping,
in polo exhibition,
45 classes being
scheduled, with
all the excite-
^Yient and inter
est that goes with
e performances
the contests,
ie show will be^
culmination of
[iH sorts of exhi-
'■’tions of the
of trained
^iKh-class horses,
"■d will include
the accom- —^
i iishments of the various types of animals. The polo
ponies, children’s ponies and the hunting and
f'orses will be of more than ordinary interest. With 45
classes it is easy to see that about everything that can
•^’2 expected of horses will be shown, and all gaits ana
^ction on the part of saddle horses, racing Worses, jump-
and polo playing animals will be brought
Premium list and program may be had from K.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 28,1924
SEABOARD READY
TO NOVE PEACHES
Railroad Figuring on Handling
2750 Cars This Season From
the Sandhills
i^yron, at Pinehurst..
Representatives of the Seaboard
were in Aberdeen last week checking
up on the requirements that will be
necessary in moving the fruit crop
four months from now. It seems to be
the opinion of the shippers that about
twenty-seven hundred and fifty cars
will roll away from Aberdeen and vi
cinity. The Fruit Growers Express
is arranging to provide sufficient cars
to handle shipments to that extent.
The Seaboard is arranging for loco
motive power and train crews and fix
ing their schedules with this end in
view. Increased facilities have been
provided at Hamlet for icing cars.
Raleigh is making preparations for a
large icing plant up there, so that
trains that need attention can be
cared for on the edge of the city.
It is not certain yet whether the
greater facilities will be ready for
this summer's crop but some help may
come from that direction.
The Seaboard is looking into the
situation at Aberdeen with the expec
tation that the full number of cars
now estimated will have to be handled.
This is nearly double that of any pre
vious year in the Sandhills fruit belt.
And the freight men of the roads
realize that it is going to be no small
task. They are planning therefore to
have everything so highly organized
at Aberdeen that fruit coming from
south of that section will be made up
into full trains at Hamlet or this side
and slip on through Aberdeen without
stopping to delay traffic there. This
will leave the Aberdeen yards for
shipments coming down the Norfolk
Southern and up from the Rockfish
roads together with that loaded at Ab
erdeen. By a fast schedule and a
quick succession of fruit trains out of
Aberdeen the railroad feels confident
that everything will be handled in
good shape.
The peach men remember the ex
periences of two years ago when the
biggest crop of the district up to that
time was handled without the slightest
difficulty, although a general railroad
strike was on all over the country.
That gave a confidence in the ability
of the Seaboard to take care of any
business that may be offered them and
also in the enthusiasm of the railroad
men to meet any emergency. The
Seaboard employees are looked on by
the peach men as an extremely depen
dable railroad force. And the gener
al opinion in the fruit district is that
the three railroads converging at Ab
erdeen are going to be good for any
thing they face. Two years ago the
Norfolk Southern won a lot of credit
for itself by the way in which it
cleaned up stuff from the orchards up
and down its lines and kept a supply
of empty cars at the pack houses as
they were called for. The packers
were rarely ever delayed at any or
chard by the want of cars to load or
by having loaded cars in their way
when those cars should be moving out.
A big job will fall on the hands of the
Norfolk Southern this year as a num
ber of new orchards are in bearing on
that line and shipments will be tre
mendous.
KNOLLWOOD EXTENSION
AT SOUTHERN PINES
Francis Deaton has produced in the
Knoll wood extension at Southern
Pines one of the most attractive and
valuable lot designs that have come
from any of the premeditated new de
velopments in this territory. He has
hooked up with the streets of South
ern Pines and then varied his roads
through the Knollwood property in a
manner that brings out all the topo
graphic advantages as well as the
road and street connections, nd he has
given to Southern Pines an addition
that is not surpassed.
The street system in the new addi
tion has merely turned off from
Broad street and cut three or four
cross streets with intersecting rec
tangular streets, bringing this new
contribution of Knollwood almost in
to the heart of Southern Pines vil
lage. The big tract of land that has
laid just outside of Southern Pines
has been overlooked until recently.
Since Christmas a new activity has
sprung up in that section and S. B.
Richardson has sold over a hundred
building lots, with a prospect that a
big and early utilization of that part
of the town is a certainty.
The whole area from Bennett street
in Southern Pines to Mid-Pines Club
grounds has been surveyed by Mr.
Deaton, and roads are already open
ed through a big portion of the land,
connecting both with the Midland
Road and with the new road from
Southern Pines to Knollwood Village
out the Rhode Island Avenue exten
sion. Traffic goes through this new
route now to Knollwood Village and
Pinehurst, and the possibilities seem
that it will be one of the main travel
ed routes.
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
LAKEVIEW PLANS
UNFOLDING FAST
Building Program for Summer
Includes Several Structures
and Will be Active
Geo. Ross Heads
Market Bureau
George R. Ross, of Jackson Springs^
as indicated by the following letter,
has been appointed head of the Bu
reau of Markets of North Carolina.
'The letter of appointment reads:
Raleigh, N. C.
March 18, 1924.
Hon. George Ross,
Jackson Springs, N. C.
My Dear Sir:
I have the honor to inform you that
at a meeting of the Sub-Committee,
consisting of the President of the
State College, the Director of Exten
sion Work and myself, appointed by
the Joint Committee on Agriculture,
held this afternoon, you were elected
head of the Marketing Division of the
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SOUTHERN PINES
PLANS NEW HOTEL
Needs of the Community Out
growing Present Accomoda
tions for Strianofers
At a recent meeting of the Cham
ber of Commerce at Southern Pines a
discussion of the need of another ho
tel led to the appointment of a com
mittee to investigate the matter, and
R. N. Page was made the chairman of
the committee. Mr. Page is not the
type of man that allows talk to pass
for action, and he set about to inquire
into what could be done. The first
thing he discovered is that the whole
proposition had been approached from
the wrong direction, for, he said to
The Pilot, “The idea that the first es
sential is money is a mistake. The
first and the big thing about a hotel
is a man who can carry on a big ho
tel and make it a success. If we can
get that man it looks to me as if we
can finance the movement without
more than ordinary effort.”
The crowds this winter are like
other winters, too many for the facili
ties, and as Mr. Page says, the sole
question of the future of the Sandhills
is the matter of caring for the people
who want to come here. When the
big hotels are turning away a good
patronage that is willing to pay ten o^
twelve dollars a day for accomoda
tions, and when every hotel balance
sheet shows the right kind of figures
at the end of the season, he says
money is not so difficult to enlist as
might be supposed. Already there
are indications that money will be
forthcoming on the day when a capa
ble hotel man is found who will take
the house and carry it on.
Mr. Page says the job of looking for
a suitable man is going forward, and
he is of the opinion that the prospects
are good that such a one will be found,
and that when he is arrangements will
be made for providing the building,
because the community has arrived at
the point where another hotel has Be
come a necessity for the further ex
pansion of the Sandhills. He seems to
think the outlook is promising.
The plans for the development of
Lakeview are unfolding rapidly, and
indicate a big revolution over there
this summer. Already the fine new
bath house is under roof, and it is a
pretty fair evidence of the character
of the new Lakeview that is about to
arise. The new bath house is of two
stories, with a substantial brick story,
and large rooms for various uses on
the upper floor.- It is big, roomy, mod
ern in all its arrangements, and archi
tecturally attractive and fitting in its
harmony with the surroundings.
This is the beginning. On the hill
immediately above the bath house
men are at work on the foundation for
what is to be called a rooming house.
This is a big structure that will have
about thirty or forty sleeping rooms,
to accomodate the visitors for the
summer, but it seems to be so plan
ned that it will serve as a feature in
a big hotel that is projected for an
other year. Work will go forward in
the rooming house so that it may be
ready for use in the approaching sea
son. This house will be available for
all the year round, as it is the inten
tion to make Lakeview a bigger fea
ture of the Sandhill life than it has
been in the past.
Not much is being said yet about
the big new hotel that is to be put
up next year, but that is a part of the
project that is entertained, and it is
apparent that next year will see as
much activity in the further develop
ment of Lakeview as this year is to
witness.
Besides the buildings already under
way much more is contemplated. Four
new cottages will be started at once.
These will be of four or five rooms,
big enough to accomodate with com
fort a family or group of visitors, and
they will be attractive and in keep
ing with the new plans.
The old pavilion will be rebuilt, and
the boat house will be moved, giving a
longer and more extensive bathing
beach and water front, which will be
more fully equipped to care for the in
creasing number of people steadily
coming to Lakeview. A larger park
ing space for cars will be created near
the McQueen office building, and the
old camp house will be rebuilt and re
modeled, the who'e effort being to in
crease both the accomodalions along
that line and the gene''al attractive
ness of that portion of the place. The
rebuilt camphou*e will be practically
a larger and new structure.
A new and prominent feature will
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Glenna Collett Is Winner
/
Glenna Collett, of Providence, R. I.,
former national woman’s golf cham
pion, came through her match in the
North and South Women's Golf
Championship with flying colors at
Pinehurst, Tuesday. She defeated
Mrs. Charles Daniels, of Buffalo, 5 up
4 to play before a large gallery.
Miss Dorothy Richards, of Cleve
land and Pinehurst, put Miss Rutii
Batchelder, Newton, Mass., out of the
competition, 4 up and 3 to play. She
was 3 up at the tom. Miss Batchelder
played sterling golf for the last nine
holes, but the best she could do was
to halve all of them.