R J Reynolds High School - Black and Gold Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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2 SECTION B. YEAR CLASS. FIRST E TH I CN1 CQ ,-

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THE BL.-lC'lx' AND GOLD 21 this way several hundred candles could be made in a day. There were several different kinds of candle holders, which were made of wood, bronze, tin, Hlllil all kinds of metals. These candle holders suggested the lamps At first the lamp was made on the order of the candle. The lard was put into a tin vessel, in the middle of which was a small cylinder, a bit of cotton was put in the cylinder and then lighted. A little later came the German vapor lamps. ln the bottom of this lamp melted lard was poured, and the wick, which had previously been saturated with liquid, was then lighted, which heated liquid into vapor and thus kept the lamp burning. Then came the kerosine lamp with prisms attached to it, and finally an electric light bulb which was used in Salem in 1881 . The matches in early days were made by dipping cedar matches into sulphur. The second tire-engine brought to America, is in the museum. This engine was used for years by the early in- habitants of Salem. lt is a quaint wooden affair not much longer than a large wheel-barrow with a handle to it and gutta-percha buckets placed on either side of it. The oldest printing-press in North Carolina is also in the 'Wachovia museum. This press was brought to Hillsboro, N. C. before the Revolutionary 'War, and while there it was used to print some of the various proclamations of Lord Cornwallis. About 1827 it was purchased by Mr. John C. Blum of Salem, N. C., who established the printing busi- ness in Salem and began the publication of l3luni's Al- manac . The VVeekly Gleaner was published in Salem in 1829. In looking over the old pile of The Gleaner , I saw a quaint notice of a new machine invented by a man in Michigan, for printing letters. The article said that a young lady could sit in front of this machine and play on it just as she would on a piano, and in the

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THE BLACK AND GOLD 23 course of an l1our or two she could write on this as fast as she could write with a pencil. One of my friends who was with me said that the most interesting things to him were the cooking utensils. But there are so many of these that I can name only a few of the most important. There is the old-fashioned bake-oven, the clay crockery, the wooden sausage-grinder, the coffee roaster, which was fastened on a stick and put over the fire on a hook, meat and hash choppers, the long ,handled skil- lets, an apple pealer, pots of every description and size, batter-cake turners, steak dishes from Germany, and huge plates. U A In addition to these articles used by white settlers, there are many Indian relics such as Indian baskets, made by Indians in South America, idols, dishes, woven baskets, arrow heads, eocoanut vases and bowls which were fashioned out of a cocoanut, Indian saddles, moecasins, skins, and as a fitting climax to the Indian relics, there is a ehild's scalp that was found by a man at Old Town, N. U., in 1905, while sawing into a poplar log. Other things of interest that cannot be classified are, flags used in the Revolutionary and Civil Vllars, old fash- ioned organs with one pedal and stops, three on a side, old piano, one of which was played at a reception given to George VVashington, pieces of the ill-fated battleship Maine, old tooth-pullers, that makes the bravest of hearts shudder to look at, knee and shoebuckles, all kinds of locks, ink-holders a hundred years of age, scales for Weigh- ing foreign eoin, sea trunk covered with hair, quaint hat boxes, petrified wood, oil paintings, mangle, ironing ma- chines, sun dials, cyelometers, and typewriters. In Walking through the old hall of the museum, in standing in the midst of its Wonderful collection, I found myself face to face with many generations of men and Women. First