T.L. Higgs
If you can’t do a man’s work, get off the job; and if you want to know what a man’s work is, follow me and see how I do it! That’s Thomas L. Higgs, Engineer to the Pasquotank Highway Commission. Higgs is the toughest, liveliest, hardest working son-of-a-gun ever brought to Pasquotank County. He is not content to boss a job of road building, but when the work doesn’t go to suit him he pitches in and does a day laborer’s work, day in and day out if necessary till he has shown every man on the job what he wants done and how fast he wants it done. And men work like beavers for Higgs because they know that Higgs knows what a mans can do. He got over 3,000 feet of brick road laid on the Newland project last week. And now Tom Higgs is taking on a little work on the side. His job with the Pasquotank Highway Commission may go with the finish of certain construction work this summer. He expects to stay right on in Elizabeth City just the same, anticipating enough sewerage, drainage, paving, mapping, land surveying, etc., to keep him busy. Photo by Bayard Wooten.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, March 31, 1922
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