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such as water works, sewerage, and electric lights – all owned and operated by the city at a minimum charge to the consumer; gas, trolley service, and telephone – city, rural, and long distance, while its fortuitious [sic] location for natural surface drainage renders it remarkably dry and healthy and immune from contagious diseases.

In educational facilities, Goldsboro’s public schools have the prestige of recognized superiority, and bear the indorsement [sic] of Dr. Mayo, of Boston, and Dr. Curry, of Virginia, as being “unsurpassed from Maine to Mexico.” This of city schools; while Wayne County leads the State in the excellence of its village and rural free schools and circulating libraries.

Goldsboro is the banking town, also, of the great truck-growing territory of which Wayne County is the center, and the market town of the farmers for their cotton, tobacco, and other produce. Goldsboro is the camping ground of the buyers for the large tobacco manufacturing concerns of the world, who buy up the tobacco crops as fast as produced.

Aside from the many conveniences that serve to make Goldsboro compare favorably with the larger cities of the land, such as excellent streets and sidewalks, pure water, sewerage, gas and electric lights, street car service and ample train service, the city is the proud possessor of a handsome union station, into and through which all the passenger traffic of the city is handled. The Goldsboro Union Station is, in point of architectural beauty, modern conveniences, and spaciousness among the best in the State. This station, while but a step from the heart of the city, is the terminus of one of the street car lines that runs through the central section of the city, giving unsurpassed service to incoming and outgoing travelers.

At this point it is appropriate to mention the public comfort rooms, established and maintained by the commercial organizations. These apartments are centrally located and are exclusively for ladies coming to town to shop. They are comfortably furnished and contain lavatory, toilet and writing, reading and resting rooms for the convenience of the stranger within the gates. They are in charge of a lady employed by the organization, who not only takes care of the packages sent there by shoppers for convenience, but furnishes all desired information on matters pertaining to the city, and takes personal pleasure in seeing that the visit of the shoppers is made pleasant and agreeable.

Goldsboro also has a general hospital attended by the city’s complement of physicians in common, where none are so poor as to be debarred its sheltering arms in emergency of sickness or accident, and where those who are able to pay for its services find every attention that the skill of physicians and the watchful solicitude of trained nurses are capable of bestowing. The main object of this hospital is that of a charity institution and it is so maintained by the freely given annual contributions of the individual citizens of the community; but its success in the care of patients, both in cases of sickness and surgery, has been so distinguished that it is rapidly coming to be patronized as a general hospital by those needing to avail themselves of such and institution.

Spicer Sanitarium, the City’s newest institution of this character is a, well regulated and ably managed sanatarium [sic], equipped in the most modern manner. The operating room and equipment is in general second to none in the entire country, and the facilities for surgical work is unexcelled. No expense has been spared to make this an admirable institution. It is conducted by Doctors Will and John Spicer.

Goldsboro is a city of Churches and church going people. Nearly all denominations are represented and some have handsome edifices in which to worship.

As to fraternal organizations and social orders, Goldsboro has its full quota of members, and the various orders are in a flourishing condition.

The strong financial institutions of Goldsboro are presided over by men eminently fitted for the positions they occupy, being men of sound business judgment and unquestionable integrity. They are conservative financiers and progressive citizens.

Many manufacturing and industrial enterprises, some gigantic in proportion, are located in Goldsboro. New industries are constantly being established. Throughout the following pages we are giving brief sketches of some of the numerous concerns, showing a great diversity of character of enterprises represented.

The Goldsboro Gas Co. was formed and built a plant in 1910. Many miles of gas mains have been laid, and this form of illumination is very popular in the city. Gas is recognized by the housewife as an economical and efficient manner of cooking, as well as by many of the industries as cheap and efficient power. The plant of the Company is modern in everything the word implies and a large number of trained men are employed to insure perfect service.

The Carolina Light and Power Co. has an Eighty Thousand Horse-Power of hydro-electric energy, and offers continuous electric power generated from the rivers of North Carolina at a minimum cost.

Goldsboro is a believer in good roads and is keeping up with the progress of the rest of the United States in this regard. Bonds have been issued and thousands of dollars are now being expended in the construction of superb roads in all directions from the city.

The Press of Goldsboro is fully up to the highest grade, and in all departments of newsgathering, of criticism and thoughtful discussion the papers are true representatives of the press. The city supports an excellent daily THE ARGUS, and several weekly papers, which are of great value to the community.

Eastern North Carolina, of which Goldsboro is the center, has a great variety of soil, of which is a good type may be found in this section for almost any kind of farming. The following are successfully cultivated in this section: Cotton, tobacco, wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, and forage crops.

No branch of agriculture has developed so strikingly in the past twenty years as has the fruit industry. The following fruits are generally grown in this section: Apples, peaches, pears, plums, quinces, cherries, grapes, dewberries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, and blue berries.

No section of the Union offers a broader or more complete field, from a horticultural standpoint, than Eastern North Carolina.

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