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lt may be said, without the least
disparagement to the other sections
of Wake county all of which to be
sure are good, that the fairest of
them all is that around Wakefield,
which ifl now traversed by Jin.'
newest railway, namely, The fUljpn
ft PatnltcO Sound. It was my good
fortune to be the lirst newspaper m&n
to take a journey oter the then par
tllaly : completed Raleigh ft South
port Railway, at that time khon
as the Haielgh ft Cape Fear, and on
Thursday of this week there was an
other bit of good luck in being the
pioneer to traverse the Raleigh &
Pamlico Sound route.
The morning was foggy and cool
and the mist hung low as I made my
way to Pamlico Junction, two miles
north of the city.
The first thing noticed was a great
nnnnlnsr bordered bv masohry, un
der the lofty track of the Seaboard
Air bine and the road-bullders were
mnatnirttne thrnutrh this a new
highway which means safety, taking
the place of the extremely dangerous
grade crossing at Pamlico junction.
Pamlico junction is marked by a
modest little station and I was very
warmly greeted there by H. M. Rob
inson, the new chief engineer of the
road, and who really has alt the du
ties and responsibilities of superin
tendent, which to be sure he Is well
able to asume, fifteen years of thor
ough experience with the Southern
Railway having well fitted him for
all his duties. There was his car
bearing on Its side the name "Suf
folk ft Carolina" and there was a
string of other cars, box and flat,
bearing the names of other roads
which form part of the great system
of which the Raleigh ft Pamlico
Sound has now become so important
a factor, for example the . Norfolk &
Southern, the Suffolk ft Carolina,
the Atlantic ft North Carolina, "etc.
Link in Great System.
I do not care how much of a trav
eller one hs been, there la- always
a sensation in thus going over a new
line of being a pioneer, and. as you
awing around the curves In the new
country, the forest gives place to
fertile fields and as you look ahead
and see the "Slated Trail" which
the busy workers have made ahead,
you feel in spite of yourself some
thing like an up-to-date Daniel
Boone, exploring a new country. The
Inception of this railway is due to
two Raleigh men, Edward Barbee
and Claude Barbee, and they cer
tainly were not only seeing ahead,
but were doing their city and their
state as well a great service. They
constructed and carried on things
as far as they could. Unfortunately
they could not get many people here
to sea what they saw and so realiz
ing that tney wsre doing the best
thing possible under the circumstan
ces they sold to the new company,
which, to be aura, is pushing the
work and which has millions Where
they had thousands. And how this
line, so modestly begun in :t private
way, has become a link In a grdtt
system, which takes in northeastern
North Carolina and divides every
thing with the Atlantic Coast Lne
and which will meet every move of
the latter in the way of development
and extension, a syndicate Which has
taken over the Atlantic ft North
Carolina Railway, the Newbern,
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Pamlico ft oriental, the Roper
railways, the Suffolk ft Carolina, the
Norfolk ft Southern and other minor
lines and which has bought from a
lumberman a, billion feet of stand
ing; timber, not to speak of other
billions which It lias in other ways
Secured. It is a short hundred
miles rrom Raleigh to good water at
Washington and tjvo thousand or
more laborers are hustling every day
to finish this fair stretch, Which
tXom end to end traverses a section
rich in timber, and good farming
lands, and which gives Raleigh a new
outlet and Inlet too. . The company
is building 200 miles of good line In
all. Next summer a Raleigh ban
can take a car on this line, go to a
point opposite LaOrange, there be
transferred, car and all to a line
connecting with the Atlantic ft
North Carolina and be whisked Nto
Morehead City and Beaufort, or he
can go through to Norfolk via Wash
ington, Kdenton, Elizabeth City, etc.,
and make the time about as quickly
as it Ib now dona over other lines.
Raleigh will be three hours or there
abouts from steamboats at Wash
ington. Bridges Are Pew.
From Raleigh to Chocowlnlty,
which is on Chocowlnlty Bay on
Pamlico River, is a trifle below
Washington and the broad river will
be bridges there, the distance to
Washington being three miles. Above
Washington, this stream Is the Tar;
below, it is the Pamlico. It is
strange but true that in this hun
dred miles the line crosses oniy
Crabtree Creek, two mles north of
Raleigh, then the Neuse river, six
miles out . and Just above where
Crabtree enters it, then the Little
river, and there are no more streams.
In other words the road runs on a
ridge between tne Neuse and Tar
river. The bridge across the Neuse
is surprisingly short being a steel
construction leo feet long, and the
stream ldOkt nut little larger than
Ciabtree. Little, river is a small af
fair, say half the slse of Crabtree
hut lies in such a valley that the
road crosses it on a trestle three-
quarters of a mile long and forty
feet high and this is now being filled
in, It requiring 100,000 cubic yards
of earth for the fill. There are ether
trestles on the line but these Will all
be tilled, some of the grades are as
much as one attd one-quarter per
cent but these will be reduced so
that the maximum shall not eexceed
one per cent. In order to effect this
there will have to be about a mile
of grading in all, Mr. Robinson says,
alid the steel bridge across Crabtree
will have to be raised three or four
feet. The road runs really very
straight. A railway is divided Into
what are known as residences, these
being division under the care of a
resident engineer. These residences
are, with their engineers as follows:
Raleigh to Zebu Ion, P. C. Cot h ran;
from Zebulon to the 37th mile post,
A. Snider; from the 37th to the
&Uth, J. T. Erwln; from the 50th to
the 61st, J. T. Mills; from the 61st
to the 74th, J. O. Jocelyn; from the
74th to the 87th, George W. Davis;
from the 87th to the 100th. at Choc
owlnlty, J. B. Holt; from Chocowln
lty to Washington, D. P. Packard.
Then from chocowlnlty to Vance
boro, R. A. CoiVln; from Vance boro
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to New Bern, A. L. Clark, and from
Farmvllle to Snow Hill, no resident
engineer as yet, and to Mackey's
Ferry, E. G. Poss.
But to return to our trip oat from
Raleigh after this station survey of
the railway situation- As we left
the station a little after six o'clock
in the morning, we first observed a
force of graders building a 2,000
foot siding at the junction. This
led me to ask Mr. Robinson a ques
tion in regard to the coming into
Raleigh of the road and he said that
this Work WoUld begin Monday, the
survey having been made, the right
of way having been secured all. the
way to the station which is a couple
of blocks north of Hlllsboro street
on West street and that the stakes
had been set, so that the line is per
fectly plain. It makes a sweeping
curve out from the Seaboard Air
Line coming up Pigeon House branch
and so into the city, through the
fields north of Ulenwood and through
that property. Jt seems that the
road will not be able to get Into the
Union passenger station but will
have its own depot, something like
four blocks away. Pamlico Junc
tion is only two miles from Ralatgh
but the cost of transferring cars from
a road here to that road is certainly
great... Mr. Robinson showed me
vouchers which . set forth that it
ranged from 9 to fll.20. In one
case Jt cost 9 to get 2,100 pounds'
of fUrnltude transferred, then it was
learned that while firewood could be
delivered on the cars qt the end of
the road, say at Wendell or Zebulon,
at $1.50 per cord and could be haul
ed over to Raleigh by rail. It is
small worider then that the company
wjll push its line into the city and
be rid of such exorbitant charges
as these.
SOme Clever Engineering.
The road runs along through the
attractive farm of Mr. Lindsay, by
the Holding dairy, where many fine
cattel were standing in the grove,
past a new brick yard owned and
operated by the Raleigh Brick Co.
then across Crabtree and down the
latter stream through the flats of
Marsh creek, past Johnson & John
son's new brick yards, crosses the
road to Mllburnie, at which point is
located Mr. Boushall's lumber mills.
Not tar beyond this there is a very
Merer piece ol engineering. Crab
tree Creek made a horseshoe curve
and, J. M. Turner, then the engineer
of the road, took the bold step of
making the creek straight and thus
saved two crossings and got a good
grade. The crfeek takes very kindly
to Its new channel and the old one
looks very queer. Not far beyond
Neuse river another force of men
Was met, laying new rail and com
ing from the end Of the road towards
Raleigh, taking up the old rail which
was bought second-hand and which
Is 60 pounds to the yard and replac
ing it With new 60-pound rail. The
Old will be used for siding. The road
runs along the Neuse a little ways
and then swings out into a country
which becomes more and more at
tractive, lh which there is a great
deal of original forest and much old
field pines, many of the latter treeB
being twenty years or more In age
and as straight as arrows, very fine
timber in fact. The land grows
lighter in color and there is every
Sign .of its being just the right soil
for tobacco and so around the farm
houses there are set tobacco barns
and fields of cut tobacco show here
and there. The cotton Is small, but
this is a bad year for cotton on sandy
land. The ... corn looked very well.
'1'he first station out from Raleigh
is Knight lngale. eight miles away
and the station building is painted a
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deep green, this being the color of
the railway buildings. As we go
further logs begin to border the
right of way and ofrie cannot but
iitlnk that If all .thiS timber, a lot
of which would have to be burned to
get itj out of the way, since it cannot
be given away where it ip, were here
in Raleigh how much comfort it
would bring next winter. The first
station of importance is Wendell,
which Is eighty, feet lower than Ral
eigh, being 285 feet above sea level.
This, place Is duB north of Clayton
and fifteen miles away. It Is a young
town and is growing, and the princi
pal building in It . is the school house.
where, the flag floats, in the breeze.
the building being full of children
and having four teachers, a very fine
example of what a local school tax
will do, coupled with consolidation
of districts, and "plenty of public
spirit. It is no wonder that the first
thing any Wendell citizen will show
ydu Is the school house. To a man,
they are proud of it. The next
thing they point out is i hat the land
sou i h of the road has been bought
by J, P. Whitley, who built the cot
ton mill at Selma, and that he is go
ing to build a cotton mill at Wen
dell, and so he is. He has already
put in a saw mill and is getting
ready to make brick and so he can
do the building himself. He will also
have a mill, town with store, etc.
Wendell is a place with a future,
it la. all laid off into town lots and
the situation is excallent.
The Postal Line.
Great piles of rati line (he track
and there are no end of ties, of cy
press, long-leaf pine and white oak.
Mr. Robinson declares that the pine
is, the best of all and that it will last
Iwenty-tive years while eight is the
life of the white oak ties. Long-leaf
pines begin to appear along the
track and just beyond the present
end of the road the forest of them
begins which extends all the way to
Washington. Cass are noticed piled
high with telegraph poles. They are
for the Postal Telegraph Company,
which is pushing its line as fast as
the road builds. The Raleigh Tele
phone system Is down as far as Wen
dell. Zebulon is just beginning, but Mr.
Robinson said that would be a place
of note on the line. Building lots
are sold, and to be sohi, and the rail
way is interested in the future of
this town. A depot is under con
struction. The timber is simply
splendid and the land shows its good
ness most plainly. Tobacco barns
stand thick and on buildings here
and there are seen the advertise
ments of the Wilson Tobacco Ware
house. Raleigh will have to strike
in to get this traue. By the first of
next March the line will be in ope
ration to Wilson and Raleigh people
may feel very sure that hustling town
will advertise for all it is worth. Old
towns like Raleigh must not think for
an instant that new ones like Wil
son are not formidable competitors.
Never was there a greater mistake
than this. Mr. Kobinson remarked
that last week he rode horseback all
the way from Zebulon to Chocowlnlty.
It was his first tour through that
country and it impressed him greatly.
We left the ear at Zebulon and walked
to the end of the line, rail-head be
ing about a mile beyond Zebulon. and
the right-of-way stretching out be
yond through the woods and fields.
The grading Is under way about three
and a half miles the other side of
Zebulon and the grading force coming
from Wilson towards Raleigh is about
eight miles this side of Wilson, so
the two forces are about 15 miles apart.
All the graders are Italians. We talk
ed with the gang three and a halt
mles from Zebulon, thirty-nine in
number, or rather I should say wo
talked with the boss, who is Domlnico
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Pazon. He understahds enough En
glish to bring in a dollar a day or
more than the other men get, their
wages being 11.00. Domlnlck as they
call him said that In his own country
the wages would not exceed 60 cents
per dtty for railway work. He said
the men lived for $5 per month. If
they get sick the railway physician
looks after him. They are stout fel
lows, very dark, and dressed like or
dinary Americans and they talk very
little. One of them, who was ad
dressed as Paolo was driving a pair
of mules to a big iron scoop, and he
sat there so elect and so fearless of
eye that one could not but hark back
a couple of thousand years ago and
think of some ancestor of this dark
browed fellow thus riding a chariot
on some Roman holiday. The mules
and their new Italian frfend seem to
to get along very well indeed; for when
I asked Domlnlck what he thought of
it he said "Mule all right." It did not
take but a few minutes to find out
that the Italian has no love for the
negro. Mr. Robinson said this was a
fact. We went over to the place where
the Italians lived; a big, old-fashioned
farm house vacated by the people who
had lived there probably three quarter
of a century and with things tumb
ling down. Once the place had
been very trim wlthi all necessary out
buildings, but now the grounds are
littered with beer kegs, and here and
there in the yard among the shrubbery
are those funny little ovens which
the Italians build and on which they
cook. They make wonderfully good
bread and they can do almost anything
With vegetables. Only they and the
French have such a knack on these
two things. We had brought down to
them on our train 10 kegs of beer, and
Dominick smiled Very broadly when
Mr. Robinson told them the beer had
come. They cannot get the wine they
love so thev take the beer which goes
to them twice a week. The woods
thereabouts are full of the wild bui
lace and the Italians gather these and
eat them joyfully, but strange to say
they do not take kindly to the scup
pernong. Now Wendell. Zebulon, and
that part of the country abound in
scuppernongs, the biggest and the fin
est imaginable, as Mr. Robinson and
myself discovered when we went to
the hospitable home of Mr. Sldney
Chamblee, who invited us to eat scup
pernongs, which we lost no time In
doing. He went out to the vine, and
remarking that he had been sick for
a day or two and didn't want to eat
grapes, but did eat nevertheless, but
presently he sat down, saying that
as long as he stood up he was bound
to eat. While we ate we talked with
him to get his view of the railroad.
He said he was very glad it had come
and was very glad to see passenger
trains put on the but seemed to be
afraid It would make labor scarce. He
admitted that it had raised the price
of all sorts of things the farmer had
to sell, saying that two or three years
ago eggs were from 8 cents to 10 cents
a dozen and now were 20 and that
other things were doubled in that line,
meanwhile line young turkeys walked
around in his yard, getting ready to
come to Raleigh for Thanksgiving.
Mr. Chamblee remarked that labor
w.-rs greatly needed through the coun
try and indeed this is the complaint
everywhere in town and country too.
I told him that a cotton mill man had
told me a few days ago, that not a
mill In Raleigh was fully manned for
lack of enough labor. Negroes are
very scarce in the country, that is on
the farm, they having gone to lum
ber mills, tobacco factories, railways,
etc., where there is employment for
them In mass. They like aggregation
and not Segregation: In other words
to be together and not separated. We
found that this was the reason why
the place where the Italians now live
had been vacated, the farmers could
not get hands to work. Here and
there In the cotton field we saw the
farmer, his wife and children, advanc
ing through a cotton field like a line
of skirmishers, picking as they went.
It cannot be said in the country that
"Everybody works but father" for he
has to hustle these days. We saw him
frequently at work Thursday.
Mention has been made of the Ital-
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ians and it must be remarked that
they have nothing to do with any
body. They certainly work hard and
to Rome purpose, and there are per
haps a thousand of them between Ral
eigh and Washington. They stay in
their camp or at work and none of
them come here or go to Wilson. Mr.
Robinson said that the negro labor
was the best of all, the Italians next
and convicts last. The road employed
100 convicts but dropped them Sep
tember 1. They hud been employed
for over a year. They cost $1.25 and
then the price was advanced to $1.50.
J. G. White ft Co. have the contract
for all the grading of this line, In
cluding the branch lines enumerated
above. This Is a New York firm
which does work all over the country,
being one of the most noted ones in
the business. I asked Mr. Robinson
when ihe road would be opened reg
ularly for business say to Zebulon and
he said certalniv by January. It is
going to take a year to finish It
through to Washington. At Zebulon
a steam shovel is at work, in charge
of two young men, residents of that
part of the county and they certainly
make things lively. The great shovel
never stops. With the clanking ac
companiment of the clattering chains
It sticks its nose Into the banks, tears
out a mouthful, sweeps out over the
flatcars and opens Its jaw and with
a rush there falls out a yard of earth,
which Is later carried away and dump
ed Into the great fill across Little
river, where there is eight months
work ahead. These country boys do
three times us much work with this
shovel as experts have done before
them. The shovel, by the way. be
longs to the Norfolk & Southern. From
Raleigh to Wilson is 48 1-2 miles and
all tills section is being graded by
Italians. The section from Wilson to
Chocowlnlty Is covered with laborers,
some Italluns and some negroes, but
In separate gangs. It Is said that the
road will be to Wilson by March if
the winter Is at all open. Overhead
bridges are being built for the county
roads. The general construction is to
be a good class. The road means a
great deal to Raleigh and I cannot but
think that relatively very few people
here realize this fact. In many ways
It Is important. It opens the best part
of Wake traverses a little corner of
j Johnson, cuts through Nash and Wil
I son and so on. It Will put Raleigh
in touch with new markets, new people
land new Influences. In every way
then the completion of this road or
even the opening to Raleigh of any
considerable section of it is something
to be greeted with genuine pleasure.
Mr. Clarence O. Haines, the president,
is a very purposeful man and his vigor
Is manifesting itself in many ways.
The headquarters of the road are at
Raleigh and here the shops ought to
be, the location being natural for them.
Wilson is already making an endeavor
to secure these shops and it Is certain
that town will make an offer of site,
etc. Now 1 Is -ip to Raleigh to see
what it will do in this matter. Such
a chance Is offered but once. Will the
opportunity be grasped or will It not?
These things very seldom come un
sought. Raleigh need not think that
because It is Raleigh it can secure
things.
F. A. OLDS.
FAIR WEEK ATTRACTION'S.
Manager Hall has been diligent lh
his efTorts to bring to the Academy
strong attractions for fair week.
There has been booked "Miss Bo
Peep," "It Happened In Nordland,"
and "The County , Chairman." All
these bookings will have two night
stands here during the fair, except
"It Happened In Nordland."
The "Little Duchess," the play that
will make merry here Monday night,
was well received in Asheville. The
Citizen prints the following criticism
of the production:
"It was indeed a packed audience
which greeted "The Little Duchess"
at the Grand Opera House last night.
Was It the name of the opera that
induced the crowd to go, or the magic
name of Countess Olga von Harts
feldt? It was the two coupled to
gether a real live countess In the
title role (common enough on the
continent, but quite a novelty on this
side of the herring pond). To say
that everybody was satisfied Is say
ing far too little; "delighted" is a
much better word, and it fits the case
to a nicety. Being a musical com
edy, we did not expect a plot and
we did not get one but we got every
thing else that was good and satis
fying. Catchy songs, gorgeous cos
tumes, chic girls, good music, splen
did scenery what more could you
ask?
To take the characters individual
ly we must, of course, accord the
honors of the evening to the coun
tess. She caught the audience from
the very beginning and held It right
through in Jest or sentiment. She
covers a wide area Of the art
which she proved to the audience In
her two songs, distinctly apart, "A
Dip in the Sea," and "Back to the
City." As an Impersonator she has
few equals; liken her to Vesta Tilly
( who could easily be taken for her
twin sister), In form, speech and
manner, you find an artiste of the
first water. She Is not beautiful but
she Is fascinating to a high degree;
she has cot a great voice but she
sings in an artistic manner, sweet
and ender. Her voice Is rather in
clined to be metallc above soprano E,
but it is a common fatting, and Ib
not to her discredit. Her enunciation
is all that could be desired, her
broad A's being father more fascinat
ing than damaging. Altogether the
countess is a charming little lady and
we look forward with pleasure to hev
return.
"Mr. Robert Lett, as the bathing
master, may be classed as one Of the
best comedians seen here for some
seasons, and his "Oh, Promise Me"
was one of the hits of the evening.
Mr. Irving Brooks, as the fencing
master, had a part exactly suited to
him, and it may be truthfully said
that without him the show would be
shorn of more than half of Its fun.
He Is a clever comedian and well de
served the rounds of applause which
were accorded him. Mr. Eugene
O'Brien, as the American lawyer, had
a small part, but what little he had
to do he did well. A sweet and tak
ing voice, and a pleasing manner
are a combination you find in very
few.
"The chorus did a lot of hard
work and added In no small measure
to the success of the evening. The
opening chorus In the second act
could be considerably strengthened,
and so add more lustre to a decisive
ly good production. Later, however,
the girls warmed up and everything
went with a swing and dash right to
the finale."
(Other theatrical notices in 1st Section.)
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