Tar Heel Success

EDITORIAL SECTION—I 6 PAGES—PAGES 9TO 16. The News and Observer. PRICK FIVE CENTS. VOL. LIII. no; 66 KALKIGH, NORTH CAROLINA. SUNDAY MORNING. MAY 31. 1903. Leads all M©rtJi Carolina. Dailies in Mews and Circulation they caused faculty to make more changes political Exchange firm composed North and settled in Duplin county, where j the and affairs. The history of the t:ce, in which the success he has achieved Cotton of their rules for the government of the surprising even his friends. Carolinians, and David R. Williams, an- soon acquired vast properties in land and in Dukes is well-known to North Carolinians lias been to University, than, perhaps any other man and year Hv ill exceed $20,- other member of the Exchange, is also became the dominant spirits of the com- reads like a romance. They could His income the first in his day. His meagre preparation for not from the Old North State- munity. have done in any other country on the 000. college seriously handicapped him during globe Wyck, brother of the first David Rush Williams, manager of the young Hill great apti-; SUCCESS what they have done in the United Augustus Van As a boy showed years of his but at HEEL two course, TAR the first States. Mayor Greater New York, former judge cotton department of Mclntyre and Mar- for and at the age of thirteen of tude work the the four years it was noticed candidate for Governor, is another shall, W. S. Halliburton, formerly of in a large country end of A few short years ago they were poor and years was employed j was all odds leading man attorney- So Ralph Hol- Durham; John Campbell Weir and J. S, knowledge that he by the boys struggling for existence on a poor successful are H. store where he acquired a of! missing the vale- Massey, George Gordon I'pimrose, ejre other brokers who are in his class, and though farm in North Carolina. they are land, Albert P. business that in after years proved of; YORK Now Joseph formerly from North Carolina. dictory by a small fraction of a point, he SEW Judge II GREATER (Battle, Willis B. Dowd, him. During his three worth $15,000,000 to $25,000,000 apiece and immense value to highest Among the physicians who came from succeeded in graduating with the their business globe. extends around the North Carolina to New' York and have honors at the end of his four years’ course J. B. Duke has lived in New York; of North Caro- for made names here are Dr. Russell Bel- and delivered the Philosophical oration at Something About the Achievements several years. He owns a splendid farm lamy, Dr. J. Herbert Claiborne, Dr. Wil- the of 1889. over in Ncav Jersey on which he has, Centennial—Commencement Busi- liam H. Hall and Dr. William 8.. Pritch- During the succeeding two years he Who Have Entered the Northern spent a fortune. He is a bachelor. linians ard and Dr. James Philips. taught private and public school at las B. N. Duke has recently legal become a Sketches of some the leading North in Duplin county, and quickly Carolina So- resident of this State. of old home ness World. The North He was elected Carolinians in New York are given here- attention because of his original President of the North Society attracted Carolina with. They show that nearly every teaching and his strong ideas a couple of months ago, succeeding methods of ciety a List Distinguished Men W. W. county in the Old North State is repre- matters. His interest in of Fuller, the general attorney of the on educational sented and that the representatives are from his early experience American Tobacco Company. R. B. Ar- education dates State, but are doing very well, you. re-entering Who Left This rington, Mr. Duke’s private secretary, is thank as a teacher. Upon the Uni- study of 1891, he the secretary of the Society. versity for the law in SPRUNT HILL. ability organiza- Proud of Horn*. Mr. Fuller, whose legal knowledge and JOHN again exhibited his for ability tion. The order of Gimghouls the senior please this morning in publishing scund business have enabled the The News ahd Observer takes promoters the Tobacco Trust to evade Won Success Abroad and Will Re- class society, at this time greatly reduced who of paid something about the many North Carolinians have achieved suc- the gitfalls set hy hostile legislators, turn to Live in Durham. in numbers and strength, him the formerly salary honor of an invitation to join its ranks cess in New York. lived in Durham. His is John Sprunt Hill is a ha*ppy illustra- $50,000 and he is cur- on the of a charter member. He at have ben hurriedly prepared, but their excellence is said to be a year, tion of that class of educated countrymen basis The sketches rently to be worth ' " once turned his attention to the upbuilding reported ,^MASs4y./ considerable who it Is known to be the work of Mr. W. Bob. Holland, havd come to New York and won strong no surprise when than a a result of of the order and was a factor in more millian dollars as success by reason of their honesty, intel- he of the Evening Journal, of New Yok, himself a North Carolinian, the Dukes. He has years’ experience as a merchant studied placing the society upon a strong and his connection with SPRUNT HILL. ligence and independence. He was born highest positions of Company JOHN and read at nights and odd times and permanent basis. In July of the following and among the number of those who have risen to aided the American Tobacco in in the country near the village of Faison, subsidiary cor- Daly, Ovide Dupre, W. W. Flemming, upon this meagre preparation he entered many other young and ambi- with the leading papers of the world. the formation of various Duplin county, North Carolina, year, like trust and confidence porations holding companies and has John B. Lord, who is employed by Francis on the the freshman class of the University of interest of and AllNorth Carolinians will read with the items interest pointed out ways bv which the promoters H. Leggett and Company, and A. G. North Carolina at the age of sixteen about their friends and former neighbors who have become dis- have accomplished what Pierpont Morgan Ricaud. years. At this time he was a small and brokers youth, char- tinguished citizens in the greatest city in the world. and his associates tried to do through Among the successful and bank- serious minded whose chief the Northern Securities Company which ers of New York whose names are to be acteristics were industry and ambition. (Special Correspondence.) steadily grown larger. There is a feeling van afoul of a snag in a decision of the found on the membership roll of the During the early part of his freshman of pride among the North Caro- Supreme Carolina Society, are: year the Sigma Alpha Epsilon New York City, May 29.—The North State United States Court. North he joined linians that seems stronger than among Mr. now has as his associate Dr. J. H. Parker, of J. H. Parker and fraternity and was the first member of colony in New York includes Fuller Carolina those who claim other States as their Junius Parker, a young man of 35, who Company, who formerly practiced law’ in this fraternity from the great eastern sec- among its members some of the leading parental commonwealths and a spirit of was horn in Smithfield, was educated at Wayne county, but has lived here for tion of North Carolina. Metropolis. comradeship keeps the members twenty years. !Ii firm does a big citizens of the The Tar-Heels which the University of North Carolina and He at onces became a very enthusiastic the colony in close touch with each Durham- Mr. mss on the Cotton ExcChange, and Dr. who live here are prominent in all walks of practiced law’ for a time in fraternity man and bent his energies to the finan- other. Durham in and went to Parker is rated as worth $2,000,000 to $3,- of liie and hold leading places in Parker left 1894 upbuilding of the order. The success by He there 000,000. His partners, William D. Martin ancial, business, professional, journalistic It success is to be measured wealth Knoxville, Tenn. lived until which attended his efforts in this respect literary circles. colony He was married that year to Miss and R- A. Springs, formerly lived in and social the North Carolina is entitled to 1899. is a well known story at the University The perhaps five hun- twelve Mary W. Locke, of Knoxville, and soon Charlotte. colony numbers consideration, for there are ten or and college fraternity circles. At this names on the roster them. moved to New York. He is a son Charles B. Bryan, treasurer of the in dred —there are 325 millionaires to be found among after early date it was noticed by his associates North Society which is a are last to of E. rarker, an attorney of Graham, North Society and a memlior of of the Carolina But North Carolinians the S. Carolina that when Hill set his mind on accom- little more three years oid- Othar by they know N. the New York Stock Exchange, is another than measure success dollars and C. plishing results nothing under heaven State societies here have a much larger matter of actual achievements Among the attorneys of New York the broker who has accumulated a large for- that in the could turn him from his course.

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