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CONSEQUENCES OF - SHOT LEGISLATIVE METH The Oystermen's Boats are Sdle and Without Emv ployment. TWOIBIB GftiEES SUSPEND, Several i Hundred Bohemians go Home Colored Laborers are Walking the Streets; and trie Oyster Tongers -are out K)f Pocket MQpey.- : B The recent enactment of the o yster.law, which put a sudden atidlvery unexpected check to the dredging f the shell fish, has proved disastrous, and it maybe sai'l injurious. The legislature ofiNortii Carolina seem to have rroslv erred in dealing out this new measure, in tiie manner m which it has 'been executed. The - g state continued to sell licenses without regard to the bill, already practically -sure of success; and though hundreds of licenses were perhaps issued, which included the usual season's rights, to tong ojsters through the month of April, the new law, with no;prOr tection for. the men, whose hard earned dollars went intacne state . .- - " .." - i treasury, swooped down upon the unsuspecting fishermen and deal er and robbed him, practically, of his full license valuation, and this in the month that has b'e'en con-? cedelthe best in the year, and with the oyster beds in as fine shape to stand a full season of dredging as they have been' in years. - x There are these who are in a position to know, who solemnly affirm, from an impartial and disinterested stand-point, that the ioyster beds could actually stand working the entire year 'round, if con lucted under"""" the ususl regulations. The oyster bed requires more or less culti vation, to keep in repair, and so numerous are the bed3 along our nearby coast, ii mej uo forded not only our. fishermen, but those from the less cultivated coasts of Virginia . and Maryland, good returns. - - The greatest part of this hard ship is not alone in the loss of license money, which the state is little affected by; but it is in the face of a bad fishing season, that the month of April, the best part of the oyster season, ' has . been taken from these already dis couraged coast fishermen.- The result of this is certainly enough to provoke these boatmen to an extreme state of exasperation, and the Tar Heel does not hesitate to re-echo their grumble, which in all reason is well founded. ; "If it had been necessary to pass this law," say the fishermen' then why could it not have been put in effect next season, in order that our license money might be properly invested? We could then have counted on our position in the mattery whereas, now we do not know which way to turn to cover the losses of a bad fishing season, and. the unexpected 'cur tailing of the month of April, the best weather we have for dredg . ing oysters." . .. The fishermen are not the "only ones who are suffering as a result of thiSflaw. There are capitalists, who have been induced to our 5 HP shores; men who have invested thousands of dollars in- oyster plants along the Btvers. and Sounds 44 eastern North ; Carolina. These men send a mass of ,Bohemian population - from 1 Maryland to North Carolina, and the merchants of this' state reap the. benefit of the purchases , necess ; ry for the maintenance of this horde of foreigners. . Iu Elizabeth City alone, an entire island colony, have migrated to Baltimore this week, whose combined salaries wete practically invested'here, and Hok. a S. Maxx. Who explaias the, new oyster law. might have this montn gone into the pockets of our merchants. -The new law; q skirting . fifteen days sooner, really does not shorten ouraseason, but fifteen days, but this year the law went into effect as formerly, on December 1st and so the season was shortened a full month; a fifth of the entire season. In addition to this about three hundred colored people have! been thrown out of work, and the merchants are catching a full share of the brunt of this stupid piece of legislature epactnient. The new law makes the season for dredging from; November 15th to April 1st, a Reason of four and a half months. The old law was from December 1st to May 1st, a fiv . months season. The Boyle Oyster Canning Company suspended active busi ness Wednesday the 1st. Mon day April 6th two train loads of Bohemian, Goat Islanders, left Elizabeth City, for Baltimore, wheie they will engage in picking strawberries, ; or canning sundry goods. This factory has a daily capacity of 16,000 cans, or 15,000 bushels of oysters per month. The loss of license, says Mr. Davis, the manager, is small, compared to the business injury, which will 'amount to several thousand dollars in profits. This being the can ning company's loss, what must be the -attendant , loss, to hired help and the fisherman's profit? Mrv Davis says his own individual ; loss pn license and idle vessels .will (amount w ftw. hqw may omw vessel owners are; suffering,!: and what must be the total damage? On Monday a . rumner .had it thai the Governor ' had'extended the time of the new statute- and that the season would be held out until Maj lst, as usual. MrT Win der, the shell fish inspector, - tele graphed chief - Webb, -in Baleigh and was - informed that nonsuch iTntion had been taken as the law still held good. C .' r J The followinsr is an extract of the oysterjaw recently, passed; It is.provided that there ;shall be one oyster commissioner," p pointed by the Governor, at a s'alary of $900 and actual traveling expenses not to exceed S300. and one assistant also appoint': hrtKt'w nirOTOniii Wlinnsx . 1 ..'1 I' T.' ? $700. There shall be a sufficient icitnt number of -inspectors to carry intofV, effect and enforce ; the law. They. snail ue appointed by the com missioner frou the counties where tHeir duties will lie- and "shall receive from $30 to $50 per month uurmg tne oyster season, 'lne commissioner shall have power to remove any inspector at any time for cause,-and no inspector shall be paid for any longer time than" ho serves. The term of ofice f the cskimissioner and the assistant shall be two years, or until their, successors are appointed and qual ified. They shall" be subject to rtnioval by , the Governor upo$ complaint and a beaiing. Tiw bond of the commissioner shalJ b $2,000; of the assistant $1,000; of the inspectors, $500 each. The rigid enforcement of the cull feature of the law is specified. AVhenevtr ojsters are offuretf for sale or loaded t.pon vessel or car without having been roperly culled, the boat or car shall be se'zftd aud the oysters scattered upon tLe public ground. Every person, firm r coropration engaged in buying oysters shall keep a permanent record of all oysters, when and from whom bought, the number of bushels and the price paid therefor. All these reords ' shall at all times, be open to-the examination of the commiss ioner, the assistant and the inspec tors. 1 It shall be unlawful for any person to catch oysters 5fiom the public, grounds of, the tate with out first obtaining a license so to do, and noperon shall be licensed for this purpose who Is not a bona fide resident of this State and who has not continuously resided therein for two years next preced ing the date of his application fork license; and it shall be unlawful for any, person licensed nnder the provisions of the act to employ as agent or assistant any person not (Continued on 4th page,) . CAPTAIN HODGES M. GALLOP. '7THE above is an excellent likeness-of the late Captain HodgesJ W- ; M. Gallop, late keeper ef Whales Head Life Saving Sta tion, and f6urider of the Surfmen5s Mutual Benefit. Association. His life was given to the nolple work of, saving human lte, and the association r in its commendable effort to .erect monument to his honor Lbyine hancis have put into 2 fund the - amount, necessary to nnrrh anri unveil this statue now rest in Currituck, the county othis birth 'The order for this statue was given this week. rtihr mi: J tmX.? fJ I ' City Fths;Favc the ".V j. -"it THEY PASS - RESOLUTIONS. The Purchase ofhhis Sit Will Give Univers Approval, So Say the Solon." The Treas ury Department Ask for Bids For the Site. 4 r U f - t : I1 - " ' ' - The City Boardiiof Aldermen recognizing the gt'neroaity-of Mr. H. T. Greenleai injoffering-to the United States - Government his' square on Haiti Street, and next to the County Cuit House for the Public Buildivg site followed the footsteps of the Chamber of Commerce of this (Jity and passed the following Resoluudns at. their meeting on Moiir- night 1 recom- . mendiug his pqunfo to th Gov eminent. . : - Whebeas, it wasaigreed by the citizens of Elizabeth Citv, at a mass meeting hId duiing the year 1903, that the . sie, for. the public buil Jin g should be ihan ged, provided an appropriation, sufS rintly large for tJMlpurfthCse of a whole square on -Main-;, street, , could be secured from the Gov ernment, and whereas, suci . on Hppropriation had been secured through the untiring efforts of Bon. Jno. H. Small, and the Secretary of the TJ. S. Treasury has now advertised forbids for a site for the said building, and Wheeeas, Mr. H. T. Greenkaf has offered his square on Main street as a site at the rice cf $22,000 and ' Wherevs, certain other, places to a sea kincr. whose - remains I T I are now being offered as sites which are entirely unsatisfactory to a large portion of our citizens, aii ! "; I '.' , Wheeeas, the said Greenkaf , lot is centrally located and the pur chase thereof would meet with the approval of the greater part of our citizens; Theeefoee, be it resolved by the Board of Aldermen of Elizabeth City, in council assembled, . Fibst, that we recommend the purchase of the aforesaid" GreenV leaf lot on Main street, i- Second, that we recommend the said purchase be made as soon as possible in order that that work may be commenced on the said building without furfcherelay. We would much rather see the building erected upon the Hinton site, but'as no satisfactory terms can be made with the owner let us stick to the agreement made bv the citizens iu the mass meeting in August; 1903 aud have the building erected on the Grenleaf square and not on some back street corner lot. We' can get a whole square and have the appropriate a sufficiently large to buy the same and . we hope that the citizens will not submit to any less; The recommendations for the Greenkaf site from the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of City Aldermen Are sufficient and need n further comments . from us- - A Spring Event The. Opening of McCabe and Grice last week was a subject of interest to shoppers generally. This large department store, which is filled to the gallery's, .literally, and covering an area of two or dinary stores both upstairs and down,' was loaded with almost every imaginable, thing in the dry goods and millinery line. There were di ess goods, in uutoid varie ties and colors, stylish offerings in spi'ia g head wear, and trimmings, suggestive aad an intelligent clerks to assist the customers in makiug a purchase, and - each department sp clearly arranged as to give the shoppers the scope of a New York City trip. It is needless to say that nearly every lady in' Elizabeth City in spected and made purchase. There are still left on hand a number of choice bargains, whch wfll be placed on sale, next weeK Those who have failed to "-complete their Easter purchases should make a call at McCabe and Griee's store. The Crew Quit. . The tug boat W. f W. Graham stood at her moorings here Mon day, ready to start, whei for some reason, several of her hands decid ed tOtake-Frehch leave: The Captain of the boat, had just given the order to start the engine, .when two or three of the boat, hands jumpped fo the dock and refused to go farther. The men gave no reason, for their action, and the Captain took the matter in very good grace. , Calling, to the pilot to signal the engineer, he cahnly announced that he would travel without a s-crew, if he couldnt travel with. one. The bells, soun ded, the paddles churned the water, and with the Captain still perfect master of the situation TheGraham cut across the Pasquotank and made towards the sound. Subscribe to The Tar HeeL Only $1 per year. MISS LOUISE DAVIS Her Composition on The v Tar Heel Considered STUDENTS CONTEST The , Methods Adopted by Eastern Carolina's Leading Weekly ; are Skillfully : Qb served, and' penned by a Bright High School Student. Many of the Tar Eeel readers are familiar with trie offer which' was made' several months back, which placed at the disposal of the city graded school a handsome set of eight Twentieth Century cyclopcadias, these valuable re ference voVumns to be presented to the chool library by the? scholar who should writ9 the best essay on "The Tar Heel." AccordingVto this effer, the scholars of the higher grades visited the plant, and a number of essays were submitted us for consideration. All of these essays were handed in, numbered, without the names of the scholars attached. They were, then filed awy and each feature 6f the composition and general merit, including, spelling writing, punctuation, condensation, neatnessand memory, were taken into consideration, in passing on the paper which was entitled to the highest mark. The Tar Heel selected the ten best, and then the five best, and finally the best, which was report ed by its number, tojjthe school teachers, who in turn gave us the name of the winner,, the editor himself being ignorant of same un til it was given him. In passing on this contest, our idea was to jndge from a news-! paper man's stand point The scholars, with note I oiks in hand, called at the Tarv Heel ofilce, as before "stated, accompanied by their teachers. The entire plant was set in motion and every feature of newspaper v;ork , pjint- ed out to them.- - : Many of the papers submitted aro Very creditable indeed.5 Some of them ' display considerable talent iu the manner of eompo? sition. Several very pretty stories were made owi of the matter in hand, and, if spaoe permitted, these wouldyklso be pubbished on their merits. However as we have said, the Tar Heel wanted to to be concisely and clearly compre hended,and presented to the pub lic as it might appear to the" eye of one unacquainted with the " ac.ual methods of issuing a newspaper. Realizing that our plant : was the largest and best equipped, weekly plant between "Washington and Atlanta, not run ' in connection wi thf a daily, we " had 9! desire to see ourown image in print. . Miss' Louise Davis, has given us thiwrite up,yln just the style we desired it, and we -' present - her photograph along with, the sketch of the " Tar Heel. whioU she dias submitted us. . . Through this young-lady, we tender to our grad ed school a set of volumns which we trust will be of benefit to the school for-'years vto: come. ' It is complete as a reference work and we are; 'delighted-,-to have, the privilege of giving it,; through the meduim of our jersonal repre TO t . . 1 sentative 'Miss Davis."-EachTOl-umn will contain the name ofv the young- lady, who" .gives - it, and through her we' desire to thank her schoolmates " for ' the kind expressions contained in their compositionV" fand ' their painstaking efforts to prornbtt. :the. welfare of the city school. nnrnrHiT. mini nnrnniin . r . , r Miss Louise Davis. Miss's '.Louise Davis .is'"the"- daughter cf Mrs.' Penelope Davia ' ' and the late William L. Davis. ' -She " was , bwn'm Pasquotank ; -County, Decemb)BrX?0th886. The family moved to Eabeth' "City ?- -about eight years' agd.ips Lc:-s received her. r e duoaiicfntirey XS- the graded schools of thiuTctty and is a member, of the claW. pi 1904. She is a perfect blonde, bnght vi- vacious and attractive in "manner and coztversation. She. ia , taenied , . in music, . and the -'rjubiic will , remember, - with ; pleasure; "the- leading role she so ably . presented , in the beautiful" operetta'"' Gen evieve, which was 'given; by hei grade 'at the closing K exercises of the. public school last session. She " is at present a member of the City -Road.M., E. Church choir;' and her ' " progress in her school classes have been very creditable indeed!-Those who have met Miss Davis will con gratulate the Tar Heeljn having go charming a reperesentative in the presentation of ourccyclopea- ' dias. The composition' written by Miss Davis is as follows: . , ' Mt Visit To The Tab' HaaaT Office. ' The pupils of the - sixth and seventh grades : of the". Public Schtol marched to the - Tar Heel office on Friday .morning" Xovem-' vJ -ber 14 i h, 19G2 under the chaperon- 5 age of our principal, Mrs.' L. B. Bradford, and our tenTher TVTisa Wilma Sawyer. ' , 'S - cordially, by Mr. Cohoon the editor, v " r He invited' us' to investigate the y,i process by which the paper is" made. We were" ' first conducted to the composing". "room, or the V; t place where the type is first set. It is interesting to" watch' the- V compositors as they, with great , ; sp,eed and facility, pick up 4,he' metal letters tha't form the words. '.J-fw. These words are placed in & brass J, case called a stick, which " is . held, t ; in the Jef t hand,' while the! type is. , being set , The sticks : are put in galley racks. Six of the' galleys,. J which are-' twenty' inches . long, would fill one jage of a paper. ml ' 11. J r 1 i- n 1 '.-fit juwr uio prooi vuiieuuiii Dy the proof reader, it is put in a ! , chase and becomes a form. "When ' : sufficient mateiial is set up , to , fill four pages, th? sleets ontwnici the matter .is to be printed, are" run through the' printing;' press, 7 wTifoTk ia inn bv a tlrrao . nna y lialf horse" power 4 electric, motor. : i (Continued on 5th' page.) v v
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