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WILLIAM H.BJ5EHAED
gdltor and ProprUtor. '
WILMINGTON, N. C.
December 1, 1899.
OUR IROff AND STEEL TRADE.
This country is rapidly becoming
the greatest iron and steel manu
facturer in the world, and also the
greatest producer of iron. This year
the production of pig iron will reach
13,500,000 tons, and the production
of steel 10,000,000 tons. Ten years
ago we imported $71,000,000 worth
of iron and steel manufactures and
exported $14,000,000 worth. This
yearwe imported $12,000,000 worth,
and the exports will reach $100,000,
000, and this in the face of the fact
that pig iron has. increased in price
from $11 to $24 a ton. The demand
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IS BO glcau mu eeiy lumaw "
country is kept,busy, and somo of
the Southern furnaces ship iron be
fore it is cool. .
A remarkable thing about this is
that while the activity in this coun
try is phenomenal? there is extraor
dinary activity also in other iron and
steel, producing countries, . whose
manufacturers compete with Ours,
and yet, notwithstanding this com
petition, our exports continue to in
crease with a steady and a most grati
fying rate. A noticeable featuro of.
these exports is that they covor
the field and embrace about all the
leading articles in general use, .as
will be seen by the following exhibit
by the Treasury Bureau of statistics
showing the value of the principal
articles of iron and steel and manu
factures thereof exported during the
ten . months ending October 31st,
1899, as compared -with the exports
of the corresponding period in ,1898:
1893.
1899.
Machinery $14.797,eil
Builders' hardware 6?8t.4
Mtai-woretng machinery 4 7i4,488
Pipe and Citings 8.636.047
Wire 2.447.3)
Locomotive engines 4 6 8,819
Sewing machines 8,6 196
Fig Iron 2.003.OJ6
115,3.015
7,806 7S1
6,524.8)4
1488,333
4,S5.077
4,2T2,8M
8 -461,899
3,8aO.M9
2.466,014
2.451,51(1
2,818,011
1,776 617
l,e09,873
1,537,756
1,18 ..3-J8
SMI 45
7f 8 087
39 ',844
833 78
8.0,989
Fnmps and pamplng ma
chinery B metrical machinery......
Typewriters
Structural iron
Steel sheets and plates ...
Engines, other than loco
motives Wire nails
Bt-el birs or rods
Priming presses
Cut rails
Bar Iron
Iron sheets and plates
1,8M,167
1.931.474
1,714 89
1.113 778
62J,77
1,328 870
45i838
511.161
62491
497 4 J3
184 913
144.201
Total...;"... f37.29a.56J $86,16-3 2:8
This is an average of something
over $3,500,000 a month and would
give for the year an aggregate of
over 8100,000,000; a colossal differ
ence from the $14,000,000 worth ex
ported ten years ago.
Another gratifying feature of
these exports is that thef cover so
many departments of the iron in
dustry, showing progress in all and
the ability of American enterprise to
compete in all. Another gratifying
feature is that in extending this
trade we have succeeded in compe
tition with countries which con
trolled the iron markets of the world
when we made none for export, and
had to import most of what we used.
England controlled the iron markets
because she had the iron mines and
her jrpn and Bteel makers were mas
ters of the business. Germany had
an abundance of iron ore and she,
too, became a great iron and steel
maker Against these and others
American enterprise, genius' and
skill had to compete.
To make a large exhibit of cotton
exports or of foodstuffs is nothing
remarkable, for the world depends
in a great, measure upon this country
for its cotton and its foodstuffs.
It is simply our good fortune that
we are in a position to supply these
and that no other nation can take
our place, at the present at least, in
supplying these. But these require
no extraordinary amount of enter
prise or genius, for the soil produces
both. They are harvested and the
only manipulation they experience
is the putting in form to ship to
market. If we shipped crude iron
the only achievement then would
be that we supplied something
which we could afford to ship to
countries which could not produce
it as cheaply and. there would be
nothing in that to entitle us to
special congratulation, but when it
comes to- shipping manufactures
which require a high order of train
ing and skill, that is another mat
ter, for it shows that in construc
tive rorocrflsa this nnnnr.rv ofanrla ot
the front and leads other nations
which not many years ago could
pose as teachers in the iron and
steel making industries.
As it is the most universally used,
iron is the royal metal, a source of
more wealth and Tin war t.n a Tiafinn
than all the other metals combined,
for it furnishes the base of numer
ous industries that would be impos
sible or at least insignificent with
out it. It is the metal tha j turns
the furrow for the farmer, and makes
possible the locomotive that draws
the train and the great steel steamer
that ploughs the deep. The nation
which supplies the world with the
iron and steel manufactures it needs
willbe the nation that will control
the markets of the world, gather
wealth and become great.
If within ten years our exports of
iron and steel manufactures have in
creased over sevenfold, what may
not the next ten years ho w when
; we have learned the needs of the
world more thoroughly and are bet
ter equipped with transportation fa
cilities of our own to reach the
world's markets? Want of these has
been one of the obstacles aeainst
which we hare had to contend in
competing with foreign rivals, for we
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hare had to ship mainly in their ships
and in reaching the oriental mars
kets we have to pass through their
canals or circumnavigate a continent.
The ascendency which we secure in
the iron and steel industries we will
hold, for the same attributes en
terprise, genius and skill that put
us at the front, will keep us there
and put us still further to the front,
and the South will bo no small fac
tor in this contest for the world's
supremacy in this greatest of manu
facturing industries.
IF GOOD IN CUBA WHY NOT
HERE?
In the scheme of reconstruction in
the South the Republican states
men, who concluded they might
have need of negro votes, made the
emancipated slaves voters without
any qualifying conditions, and there
and, then they started the so-called
race conflict. In the scheme of' re
construction for Cuba they do not
propose to do that, but to eliminate
the negro as far as possible from the
control of public affairs. This meets
the approval of Republican organs,
some of which harshly criticise pro
posed franchise qualifications in the
South. One of these, the New York
Commercial-A dvertiser, commenting
upon the plan proposed .in Cuba,
thus discourses:
"Secretary Root recommends ' the
immediate appointment of civil gov
ernors in Cuba and the granting of
suffrage to Cubans on an educational
and Drooertv Qualification. When
this is done it will give an opportunity
among other things, to test the wise
predictions of Booker T.' Washington
that the negro can find sure relief
from many of his troubles by associat
ing himself more closely with the in
terests of the community in which he
dwells to grow up with the country,
no longer to be its childish member.
The negro has. been a child long
enough, not held responsible for many
childish acts, though cruelly punished
for crimes that the mixture of mature
passions with childish lack of self-control
exposed him to.
'Instead of emigrating, of further
disassociating himself from his pres
ent surroundings, the negro should
feel-and thus make his white neighbor
feel that he has the welfare of the
community as much at heart as any
one. In Cuba, says Mr. Washington,
the negro has thus associated himself
with ibis country's welfare, and there
the negro question is settling itself.
"It will be interesting to see if, with
the fairer start negroes have in
Cuba and with the wise restrictions
put upon the ballot, the negro question
will, indeed, thus settle itself. If it
does, it will be a most hopeful augury
of the ultimate settlement of the ques
tion in our own Southern States.- It
will be a strong argument for the es
tablishment of more of the manual
training schools for negroes which
have already done so much good.'
"Mr. Washington shows his wisdom
most signally by addressing himself
primarily to his own race, not to the
white man. Wealth brings a sense of
responsibility only when hard earned,
and the regeneration of the race must
come f ro j within. This impulse from
within starts under fairer conditions in
Cub i, where there is less antipathy
between the Latin whites and the
blacks, than with us, whether from a
smaller di tanca separating the meu-
talities of the two races or from the
1' ss sympathetic nature of the Anglo
Saxon toward an inferior race."
This, overlooking the palliation
for the crimes for which negroes
are sometimes "cruelly punished;"
is in the main correct, but it may
bo asked if qualified suffrage, the
purpose of which evidently is to
keep the government out of the
hands of the negroes, be the good
and proper thing for Cuba, why is
it not the good and proper thing for
the South? And why do the organs
which commend the proposition for
Cuba condemn the white people
of the South who advocate it?
PROGRESS IN MARINE ARCHI
TECTURE.
Big and fast ships are so much the
order of the day now that they at
tract but little attention, and no sur
prise is expressed when mention is
made of contemplated vessels much
larger than we have' now. In the
building of ships wonderful progress
has been made within the past half
century, how much is told in the
following brief extract, which, we
clip from an editorial in the Balti
more Herald:
"An interesting rennrt wrni bat
forth impressively the increase in the
size oi vessels nas Deen compiled by
a ranx u mil, our uonsul at Amster
dam. From this document whiph
contains the figures given in the
course oi an address by air William
White before the British A
it annears that in 1R40 t.h rw
steamer of the Cunard Line was onlv
trm r x 1 i .
ji xeei Jong, ana coma make on an
average J4 Knots an hour with en
trine df 750 horRA TinWAl ftrirl a .na!
consumption of forty tons a day.
Since then the speed has been increased
to zzy Knots, reducing the time of
voyage 38 per cent., while the length
of ships has more than trebled, and
their engine-power is forty times as
great, vine ratio ot norse power to
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weigm camea nas quadrupled, with
proportionately one-ttard the coal con
sumption.
"The White Star TAner rWanir. nt
1871 was 420 feet Inner rf 7 ann fa
disolacement. and nsnahlA vf
at Knots an nour. Eighteen years
later tne extreme was represented by
the Teutonic, 565 feet in length and
oi .ld.uuu ions displacement. During
the tast decade the Inno-th has noon
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increased to 625 feet, and a vessel now
unaer construction will bring it up to
ssi-v m i i .
ddu ieet, wita a displacement or 553,000
tons. S3. 000 hnrstfl nnwpr And an eati.
mHieu Bpeea oi zat Knots.
"in Kir Wlllm-m Whita'a nnininn
the maximum has not yet been reach
ed. When we reflect that the depth
Of Channels trio lamVi nf rVaAa
and the freight movement were con
ditions prerequisite to the construc
tion Of SUCh lnvintVi
soiue adeaaate id rf Viof in
crease in the size of ships really
, means.'
A life insurance case has just gone
through the Kansas courts for the
sixth time. The amount involved
was $10,000. The insurance com-
patiy claimed that a trick had been
played and the wrong corpse palmed
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Wi buo 1UOUIBU cuap. OU lax It
has spent $100,000 in litigation, and
i the end hasn t been reached yet. '
THE MASONIC FAIR.
The Count of Tickets Shows That
the Attendance Tnesday
Night Was 2,3H.
GOOD CROWD LAST NIGHT.
The Camming Lot Sold at Auction Many
' Valuable Articles Awarded to Share
holders Brilliant German at
Mldnlftat
There was such a large attendance
at the Masonic Fair at the Temple
Tuesday night that Capt. Billy Mon
roe, the door keeper, did not under
take to count the tickets after closing
for the night The Star yesterday
estimated that the attendance was over
2,000, and sure enough the count yes
terday shows that it was 2,311.
Success After Success,
Each night of the fair has been a
series of successes and last night was
no exception to the rule. The atten
dance was good, and . the business
done by the country store and the
various booths was very satifactory.
One of the exciting features was the
selling at auction of the lot on Four
teenth street between Wright and
Dawson, donated by Mr. W. M. Cum
ming. Mr. M. S, Willard was the
purchaser at $25.80.
Share Awards.
Great interest was taken in the
award of shares in various articles at
the different booths. The liveliest in
terest was manifested in the award of
the flee Parker hammerless double
barrel shot-gun at St. John's booth.
The award was made under the super
vision of Mr. John S. Armstrong, pre
sident of the National Bank of Wil
mington, and it turned out that Mr.
George T. Hewlett was declared the
shareholder.
The following were the other
awards:
St John's Booth Half dozen half
hose, Mr. W. L. Williford; doll, Mr.
E. L. Matthews. ;
Country Store Handsome rocking
chair, Miss Chrissie Black; pair shoes,
Mrs. A. Montag, of Atlanta; glass
smoking set, Mr. M. S. Willard ; glass
bowl, Mr. Tartin Schnibben.
Concord Chapter Booth Handsome
silk umbrella, Mr. E. P. Parker; beau
tiful doll folding bed, . Miss Cannie
Chasten; two buckets lard, Mr. M. W.
Jacobi; two buckets lard, Mr. E, H.
Sneed; two buckets lard, Mr. W. T.
Carroll.
Shrine Booth Very handsome cher
ry chair, Capt F. W. Ortmann.
Wilmington Lodge Booth Two
bottles pickles, Mrs. R. H. Grant
Orient Lodge Booth Fine lace
handkerchief, Col. John L. Cantwell.
Lemonade Booth Three baskets of
fruit to Messrs. W. L. Williford, J. H.
Carter and John Hill Bunting.
The keg of fine syrup awarded to
Miss Alma Hewlett on the first night
df the fair, was delivered last night.'
The voting contest for the pretty
doll at the Chapter booth, was won by
little Miss Maude Parker.
A valuable donation was sent to the
fair yesterday by Messrs. Alexander
Sprunt & Son, cotton exporters. It
was a standard bale of cotton, and it
is on exhibition in front of the Temple.
It will be disposed of on the last night
of the fair.
TO TEST IT.
From - time to time we have had
reports of movements to test the
constitutionality of the law taxing
the issues of State banks. The latest
is the movement in Richmond, re
ported in the dispatches published
yesterday, which seems to have
something behind it, as it is reported
that eminent counsel has been re
tained to argue the case before the
U. S. Supreme Court.
The opinion has long been held
by good lawyers that this act is in
valid as discriminating against State
banks, and as something not intend
ed to be perpetuated when the act
was passed. If the Supreme Court
sustains this contention, the Gor
dian knot will be cut, and a long
stride will be taken in the way of
currency reform, concerning which
so much has been said and in which
the people of the whole country,
but especially of the South and West
are so much interested.
This is about the only hope for
State banks, for it will be a very
difficult if not an impossible thing
to secure any action from Congress
now or in the near future in favor
of State banks, the idea being to
nationalize the currency and keep
State banks in the back ground.
Under the present systemj the- big
banks in the money centers practi
cally control the volume of the cur
rency and they will stubbornly oppose
any movement which will have a ten
dency to break their grip on that.
If this Richmond movement suc
ceeds, as we trust it will, that grip
will be broken.
Miss Burns, of opeka, Kansas, is
so anxious for the return of a $2,500
broach which is now out somewhere
on the Kansas prairie, that she offers
$500 reward to the person who cap
tures it. At last accounts it was
accompanying a toy balloon to which
she attached it to amuse a child,
while riding on a train which was
bowling along at the rate of forty
miles an hour. A whiff of wind sent
the balloon through an open win
dow, and that's all Miss Burns
knows about it.
The patriots are showinc ut.
There are already $25, 000,000, of
claims nied for damages sustained
by American citizens in the war with
Spain.
Berry Wall, "the king of the tfaw
York dudes," has gone to the wall,
gone into bankruptcy; liabilities,
$9,000; assets, nit.
OYSTER INSPECTOR WHITE, j
Keiisttted la Office, Bat His Salary Be
diced One of the Supreme Court's
. - Political Decisions. J
Special Star TOegram.
Raleiqh, N. C, November 28. .
Theophilus White, who - was rein
stated in the office of oyster inspector
by the Supreme Court when it flush
ed a covey of political decisions a week
ago,- is not quite happy. The act of
1899 changes' the salary of the office
awarded him by the court, reducing
it from $75 per month to $35. The
Supreme Court has benignly said it
would permit the Legislature to ret
duce the salary of an incumbent in
office, though it cannot turn him out
Theophilus failed to ask, in his com
plaint, that the court say whether he
was entitled to the $75 per month
salary of bis old office or the $35
salary of the office into which the
court inducted him. So Treasurer
Worth has asked the ' Attor
ney General to decide the ques
tion. That official declares his
inability to decide it and adds: "As
different salaries are provided for in
the different acts and as the Legisla
ture has the right to change salaries.
subject to the rule as above stated, and
as the question of salary has not been
passed upon by the cburt, I respect
fully suggest that yola make no pay
ment of salary until the question has
been judicially determined by a man
damus or otherwise. I may add that
White is entitled to the emoluments
pertaining to the office, but just what
emoluments are attached thereto does
not clearly appear."
Supreme Court Decisions. .
Opinions were handed down by the
Supreme Court today: Collins vs.
Teer, from Orange, per curiam, af:
firmed State vs. Chaffin, from
Forsyth, new trial. State vs.
Ridze, two cases, no error. Bur-
ney vs. Allen, from Bladen,
error. State vs. Beachum, . from
Richmond, error. State vs. Frender,
from Alleghany, affirmed. Lafferty
vs. Young, from Cabarrus, error.
Lowe vs. Dorsett, from Randolph,
affirmed. Cotton Mills vs. Manufac
turing Co., from Montgomery, no
error. Burnes vs. Railroad, from
Randolph, new trial on fourth issue
alone. Brafford vs. Reed, from Ca
barrus, affirmed. State vs. Mclver,
from Montgomery, new trial. Robe
son vs. McDowell, from Bladen, pro
ceeding dismissed. Miller vs. Guano
Co., from New Hanover, no error.
Dalby vs. Hancock, from Granville,
reversed.
River Shipping.
The steamer A. P. Hurt cleared
yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock for
Fajetteville after waiting over anight
for the arrival of the New York
steamer. - .
The steamer E. A. Hawes arrived
from Mill Creek, up Black river yes
terday at noon and cleared late in the
evening for a return trip to points
along Black river. There is now
plenty of water in the riyer and Capt.
Smith hopes to carry his boat up as far
as Clear Run, which point she has not
reached for several months on account
of low water.
The steamboats Driver-And f Sea
bright are expected in port from their
respective runs to-day.
The tug Buck is now towing gum
timber rafts from up the Cape Fear
for the Acme Tea Chest Company in
place of the Imperial, which is laid
up for slight repairs to her wheel.
Mr. Will L. Miller, representative of
the company, says that he has already
another steamer cargo ready for ship
ment as soon as a vessel arrives. '
Machinery is now being placed in
the tug Anna by Capt Charles
Wessels and she will be ready for
harbor and river duty in a short while.
Hon. John D. Bellamy.
Hon. John D. Bellamy will leave
here to night for Washington to as
sume the active duties of the position
to which he was elected by a majority
approximating six thousand. Mr. Bel
lamy will represent a district embrac
ing the two largest cities in the State,
and a constituency noted for its in
telligence and conservatism. If abil
ity, industry, energy and devotion to
duty count for anything, John Bel
lamy will soon take rank with, the
most influential Representatives in
Congress. There is not a lazy bone
in his anatomy, and whatever he un
dertakes will enlist his best efforts.
He carries with him to his new field
of endeavor the most cordial good
wishes of his thousands of friends in
the "Shoestring" district, who predict
for him a degree of influence 'and
popularity among his fellow members
rarely attained by a Representative in
Congress. " ' -
Accident to Steamer Richmond.
Mr. H. G. Smallbones, superintend
ent of the Clyde Steamship Company
here, received a telegram from Nor
folk last night stating that the steamer
Richmona, which left New York for
Wilmington last Saturday, broke her
propeller at ssa and was towed into
Norfolk.
The Richmond had on board a full
cargo of merchandise for Wilmington
merchants, and the dispatch states that
the goods were transferred to ; the
steamer Saginaw, which vessel will
bring the cargo on to Wilmington.
She will probably be here to-day or
to-morrow. . :
ThaRichmond was towed back to
New York by the Old Dominion line.
Proof of the pudding lies In the eating
of It Proof of ROBERTS' TASTELESS
CHTJX TONIC lies In the taking of It.
COST NOTHING if It falls to cure. 25
cents per bottle If it cures. Bold strictly
on its nrits by
ROBERT E. BELLAMY,
mar Si ly Wholesale and Retail Druggist.
The East nmiina Tinol
Estate
Agency has excellent facilities
bs for
t j larma and timbered
It advertises all property am
only a nominal charge unless
madf 0Fr term etc-, addrei
Grady & Co., Burgaw, N. a
lands.
sale is
AFTER-MATH OF THE .
CRIMINAL COURT.
Tweflty-oMPrisoutrsSeBttoWorkHoW.
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Caaia Qaag System.
- Twenty one prisoners sentenced at j
last week's term Of " New Hanover j
Circuit Criminal Court to various j
terms in the county jail with leave to i
the commissioners to work them , on
the public roads, were yesterday
afternoon delivered by Sheriff MacRae
to Mr. M. G. Chadwick, superintend
ent of the county work house.
They are all colored and were at once
taken to the stockade. The name and
term each one is to serve is given
below:
Ed. Green, twenty days; Wm.
Henry Blanks, twelve months; Mag
Baldwin, one month; Abram Beatty,
four months; Frank Mumford, two
months; James. Morgan, ' eight
months; Steve Moore, twelve
months; George Moore, four months;
Jeter Gordon, twelve months; Wm.
Simpson, eight months; Owen Mad -dison,
eight months; Joe Ward, six
months; Henry Wright six months:
George Zelley, eight months; John
Rhodes, four months; Joseph Smith,
twelve months; Joe Smith, twelve
months; Mac Taylor, twelye months;
Arthur Taylor, three months; Charlie
Fisher, two months; Fred Davis,
eight months: Chapman Williams,
two months; Moses Coachman, three
months ; Fred Jones, two months.
The three prisoners sentenced at the
same session of court to terms in the
State penitentiary will be taken this
morning to Raleigh by Deputy Sheriff
S. H. Terry and George T. Bland.
They are Tony Swain, white, three
years; Josh King, colored, five years;
and Jim Gilchrist,, colored, three
years.
County Chain Gang System.
A Star representative yesterday
afternoon had a short talk with Capt
John Barry, the County Road Super
intendent, with regard to the im
provement to the county thorough
fares by the method usually known
as the county chain gang system, so
strongly urged by Judge Battle upon
the occasion of each session of the
Criminal Court held by him here
since his election. Capt Barry' said
it would of course be impossible as yet
to inaugurate the work with any grea t
degree of system until crushing ma
chinery and other apparatus f rroad
work is at hand. He will, however,
start this morning if. the weather will
admit on some improvement to he
Castle Haynes road near Smith Creek
bridge, as a certain quantity of rock
and other material is available there
for the work. Yesterday he made pur
chase of a number of hand tools and
other supplies needed for the work and
'had them sent out to the work house.
Besides the prisoners sent out yester
day there are thirteen already at the
work house and it is understood that
these will alio be put to work with the
twenty-one sent out yesterday, mak
ing a very creditable beginning of
Jthirty-four convicts.
' Capt Barry is greatly enthused with
the work and is thoroughly conversant
with roads and road making.
Back From Chicago.
Mr. C. W. Woodward, formerly
manager of the California Fruit Trans
portation Company's office in Wil
mington, but now of the Fruit
Growers' Express, which is under the
control of Armour, who has the con
tract for handling the berry shipments
on the A. C. L. the coming season,
has returned from a trip to Chicago,
where he went to confer with his
people with reference to the approach
ing year's business. He is very much
enthused over the season's prospects
and thinks that the Armour people
will furnish a service of refrigerator
ears fully up to the requirements of
the truck growers.
Scholarships in the A. and M. College.
Capt Ed. Wilson Manning, Super
intendent of the County Public
Schools, is in receipt of a letter from
President Winston, of the A. and M.
College, stating that there are yet a
number of vacancies in that institu
tion and requesting him to hold an ex
amination of applicants' on Saturday
morning, December 16th. The exami
tion will be held at 10 o'clock and the
subjects willbe Arithmetic (complete),
Algebra (to fractions), English Gram
mar and American History. Presi
dent Winston states that there will
probably be about twenty-five vacan
cies in the college, and young men
will be selected to fill them, who pass
the best examinations and have the
best endorsements as to character.
New Baptist Church. '
A new Baptist Church was Sunday
afternoon organized at Acorn Branch
in Cape Fear township by Dr. C. S.
Blackwell, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Rev. J.J.Payseur, pastor of the
Brooklyn Baptist Church, Rev. J. . R.
Marshall and a number of laymen
from the different city churches. The
church starts off under very, favorable
auspices and a committee composed of
Messrs. F. J. Dempsey, T. A. Watson,
Wm. Reitter, W. F. Kerr, Robt.
Scott and Perry Murray, has been
appointed to select a site and proceed
with the building of a house of wor
ship. Messrs F. J. Dempsey and W.F.
Kerr were ordained as . deacons and
Messrs. Perry Murray and T. A. Wat
son elected as clerk and treasurer,
respectively.
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CAROLINA-BEACH- ; ,
, PRETTIER THAN EVbK.
A Big CrowJ Weat Dowa Ofl the Steamer
HMl.-jlMAt SaaAflv in Seethe Dim -
H Doae py the Storm.
The steamer Wilmington, according
to Cpt Harper's announcement made
a trip to Carolina Beach, Sonday after
noon, leaving at 2 P. M and getting
back to town at 6 P. M.
Notwithstanding the -threatening
weather, Capt Harper carried down a
party of nearly two hundred ladies
and gentlemen who wanted to see the
destruction wrought by the Hurricane
of October 30th, 31st. py the
time the steemerleft the weather had
become right - favorable and the trip
turned out to be a very pleasant one.
The railroad from the pier to the
beach had been repaired and was in
good condition to within 150 or 200
yards of the Oceanic Hotel. The
greater part of the section of road that
had been destroyed by the storm has
been graded and it will all be rebuilt
better than ever, before very long.
The party only realized the destruct
iveness of the storm till they looked
on the scene. The condition of the
cottages was just as the storm had
left them, except the houses, of course,
that had been swept away by the tidal
wave, for such many believe it to have
been. Another exception, also, is . the
cottage of Mr. Walter Smallbones who
is having his house rebuilt He
pluckily determined to rebuild and
the frame of his cottage is already up.
The storm left the beach itself pret
tier than it ever was. The waters
levelled off the sand clean over to the
sound, and the beach is now two feet
higher than it was before, the ocean
having piled-the sand up higher.
The beach is also wider, a part of
the sound having been filled in with
sand washed- over by the enormous
storm tide.
Among the passengers who took in
the trip was Mr. W. H. Fallon, ob
server of the weather bureau here.
He went down to ascertain what dam
age had been done to the United
States signal station. He found that
the building was undermined, and its
front turned to the south instead of
the east as it originally stood. The
window blinds had been torn away,
the glass in the sash smashed, and the
doors stove in. The building can be
repaired.
It is noised around that the steamer
Wilmington will probably make an
other trip to the beach on Thanksgiv
ing day (next Thursday), and that
there will be an oyster roast at the
beach.
THE PENITENTIARY FARMS.
Committee Will Lease tae Cape Pear Rice
Farms Two of the State Farms
Purchased. '
Senator E. L. Travis, of Halifax
county, and Representative W. C.
Newland, of Lenoir, members of the
etxeeuiixo ooinmitfrco ot - tl North
Carolina penitentiary, arrived in the
city last evening.
These gentlemen are here to look
after the penitentiary rice farms, on
the Cape Fear. The Star understands
that the State's lease on the rice farms
expires in one to three years and that
the determination of the board
is to give up the leases or sub let them.
It is the intention also to sub let the
Castle Haynes farm, the State's lease
on which expires in about three
years.
Senator Travis, in conversation
with a Star representative last night,
said that it had been decided to pur
chase the Caledonia farm of 7,500
acres in Halifax county at $64,000,
and to purchase the Anson county
farm from Judge Risden T. Bennett
and others, some 2,300 acres, at $22,
000. The lease on the Northampton farm
has expired and will not be renewed.
The lease on the Halifax farm will
also be given up, and the desire also
is to get rid of the rice farm on the
Cape Fear. The Caledonia farm of
7,500 acres, the Anson farm of 2,300
acres, and the Tillery farm of 2,300
acres will be the only farms conduct
ed by the State next year.
Messrs. Travis and Newland will be
here till this afternoon to dispose of
the lease of the State riee farm here.
CAPT. ALP. INGRAM HURT.
Badly Braised Bat Not Serioasly Hart in
a Rnnaway.
The following from the Charleston
News and Courier of yesterday will
be read with interest by Capt. Alf. In
gram's many friends in Wilmington:
"By an unfortunate runaway on
King street yesterday afternoon Mr.
John McAlister and Capt A. Ingram,
of the Clyde liner New York, were
both seriously injured. The accident
happened near Went worth street at
5 30 o'clock. Mr. McAlister was driv
ing down King street, with Captain
Ingram, and his horses became fright
ened at the police patrol wagon,
which was running behind with the
gong ringing loudly. The wheel to
the team was knocked off and the
occupants of the team were thrown
out. Mr. McAlister fell on his head.
He was seriously injured, and the at
tending physician said last night that
the extent of his injuries could not be
positively learned. Captain Ingram
was not badly hurt, and he will
escape with slight bruises. Captain
Ingram was sent to the Infirmary.
He did not have any bones broken,
and was bruised only about the head,
shoulder and hand."
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This shows what thousands have
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VERY SODDEN DEATH.
Miss Leo B. Cameron, Teacher
in Union School, Died In- -stantly
Yesterday.
CAUSED BY
HEART FAILURE.
Pell Dead While Drawing Nap for Demon,
stratlon to Qeograpby Class in Fourth
Grade Schools Will be Closed
To-day for Funeral.
Miss Leo B. Cameron, teacher of the
fourth grade in Union School, and
one of the most cultured young ladies
in the faculty of that institution, died
very suddenly in the school room, on
the second floor of the building, while
making some blackboard demonstra
tions to her class in geography yester
day morning a few minutes after 11
o'clock. .''
The distressing occurrence caused
almost a panic with the children in the
room, and when they saw Miss Came
ron put her hand to her head, utter
a groan and sink to the floor
with a ghastly pallor on her face
they were horrified and rushed down
stairs into the corridor on the first
floor, where they acquainted Miss
Nellie Cook, principal of the school,
with the distressing news. Though
death was' instantaneous and was
without a doubt attributable to heart
failure, Miss Cook hastened to the
nearest telephone and summoned Dr.
W. J. H. Bellamy, who responded at
once, reaching Miss Cameron's side
within five minutes ' after she died,
but of course, too late to revive the
spark of life which had already be
come extinct
Miss Grace Smallbones, teacher in
an adjoining room, and the other
teachers in the building were soon in
the fourth grade room and they tried
to revive Miss Cameron, but they say
she gasped a few times and was be
yond resuscitation. 4
Prof. John J. Blair, superintendent
of the eity schools, who was at the
annex only a short way off, was also
soon at the scene of the excitement
and contributed1 greatly toward quiet
ing the demoralised children and con
soling them in the loss of their be
loved teacher, who was taken from
them so suddenly and under such pe
culiarly sad circumstances. The school
was immediately dismissed and the
pupils were induced to retire to their
homes by anxious groups gathered
here and there in front of the large
school building. Messrs. James F.
Post and James H. Chadbourn, of the
city school committee, also visited the
school soon after the sad occurrence
and tendered their heartfelt sympa
thies. ; '
Miss Cameron resided with her little
nephew, Willie Montgomery, and her
niece. Miss May Barclay, at No. 909
South Fifth street next door to the
residence of her only brother, Mr.
D. D. Cameron, who is well known in
Wilmington. She was 36 years of age
July 6th, 1899, and was a very success
tvil beachfer of wide experience, having
taught for a number of years in the
Union school and for some time in the
county schools at ' Federal Point and
Oak Hill, diss Hetty James, a former
teacher of Miss Cameron, speaks i
the most complimentary terms of her
as pupil and as having all the accom
plishments for a teacher. Prof. Blair
also speiks in the very highest terms
of her gifts in this direction
The deceased lady is survived be-
sid s her brother, Mr. D. D. Cameron,
by a nephew, Mr. Geocge W. Camer
on, and a niece, M ss Esther Cameron.
Her parents died several years ago.
No coroner's inquest was deemed
necessary yesterday upon the an
nouncement of her death, and after se
curing a permit from Dr. Wm. D. Mc
Millan, Superintendent of Health, the
remains were taken to the home of her
brother, No. 907 South Fifth street,
from whence they will be carried this
afternoon to Fifth Street Methodist
Church, where at 3.30 o'clock the fu
neral will be conducted by Rev. Jno.
H. Hall, the pastor, of whose congre
gation Miss Cameron wa? an active
and valued member.
As a mark of respect to the memory
oi the departed teacher, Prof. Blair
has decided to suspend all the schools
of the city system until Friday morn
ing and a large number of the pupils
will attend the funeral this afternoon.
DR. EDWIN JAMES GILL
Died Monday Night at His Home in Laoria
burg A Prominent Dentist.
Special Star Correspondence.
Laurinburq, N. a, Nov. 28.
Dr. Edwin Jamesi Gill, after a lin
geriog decline for several months,
died here last night, aged thirty-three
years. '
For two years he was a student at
the University of North Carolina,
afterwards graduating in dentistry
from the University of Maryland. He
had been mayor of Laurinburg, de
clining a re-election to the office. His
practice was growing rapidly and he
was conceded to be among the very
best of his profession. No purer
young man was ever reared here, and
none whose ideals and ideas of honor
were more exalted, j He was a mem
ber of the Methodist1 church and died
in the triumphs of the Christian faith.
Revenue Cotter Algonquin.
The Baltimore Sun of yesterday
says':
The revenue cutter Algonquin,
Captain- Willey, was lowered from
the ways yesterday, where she has
been for three weeks, receiving bilge
keels. The bilge keels are for the
minimizing of rolling at sea, and also
are named rollinsr choc.bn TVia AT.
gonquin went at once under the
uuures oi ine mercnants' AJoat Com
pany's piers for coal. She is expected
to sail soon for Southport, N. C, to
take up. duty there."
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WEDDING AT FAYETTEVILLE.
Miss Prances 0. Ledbetter Married la St.
John's Church Yesterday to Mr. Lan
don C. Jones, of Wilmiojton.
At St. John's Church, Fayetteville,
yesterday morning at 10:30 o'clock a
beautiful marriage ceremouy was
solemnized when Mr. Lan don Cald
well Jones, of Wilmington led to the
altar Miss Frances Gresham Ledbetter,
the accomplished daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Robt. H. Ledbetter, of Fayette
ville and they were united as man
and wife in the pretty Episcopal ser
vices as performed by the Re. Mr.
Hughes, rector of the parish.
The church was lavishly decorated
withcrysanthemums and other flowers,'
creating a scene of rare splendor and
brilliancy and felicitious in augury
of happiness for the bride and groom.
: The bridal party was ushered .into
the church, to the inspiring strains of
wedding marches beautifully rendered
by Miss Georgia Worth, organist, and '
the bridewas given away by her
brother, Mr. John Ledbetter. Mr. -Selden
Jones, of Wilmington, a
brother of the groom, was best tuau
and Miss Bert Watson, of Fajetteville,
was maid of honor with Miss Florence
Jones, of Jonesboro, Miss Bessie Mc-j
Neill, Miss Lizzie Brady, and Miss
Marion Mallett, ' of Fayetteville, as
bridesmaids. The groomsmen were
Mr. H. Lacy Hunt and Mr. E. C.
Cohen, of Wilmington, Mr. C: P.,"
Wells, of Atlanta and Mr.. T. 0.
Daniels, of Newborn. Messrs. Walter
S. MacRae and Hector McGeachy, of
Fayetteville, were ushers. '
On Tuesday evening the bridal psr
ty was .tendered a reception at the
home of the bride's parents, and yes
terday morning they were delightful
ly, entertained with a wedding break
fast at the residence of Mr. andMr.-.
J. J. CroswelL
At the reception a large number of
pretty and costly wedding presents
were displayed, and the evening was
pleasantly spent; the party beiug
handsomely entertained by Mr. and
Mrs. Ledbetter.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones left yesterday
for a visit to Mr. Jones' motner, at
Jonesboro, after which they will re
turn to Wilmington and reside, with '
Mrs. Lee Holmes, on Second and
Grace streets
The groom is a popular and trusted
conductor of the Atlantic Coast Line,
and has hosts of friends in Wilming
ton, who will congratulate him upon j
the happy union yesterday morning "
and wish for him abundant happiness
in the future.
Among those who attended the
wedding besides Fayetteville people
were Messrs. Jno. W. Cotten, of Tar-
boro; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mclver and
Mrs. L. C. Jones, of Jonesboro.
Pnneral of Miss Cameron.
Yesterday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock
from Fifth Street Methodist Church
the funeral of Miss Leo B. Cameron,
who died suddenly Tuesday afternoon, !
Was held, Rev. Jno. H. Hall, the pas
tor, officiating, in a solemn and very
impressive manner. There was a large
gathering of school children, teachers
in the city schools and a host of friends
present to pay the last mark of respect
to the deceased lady, and many expres
sions of regret aud sympathy, incited
by the sad and untimely death were
heard. The interment was at Bellevuo
cemetery, the pall-bearers being
Messrs. James Burriss, Benj. Mc
Clammy, F. A. Montgomery, R. H.
Northrop, CoL Walker Taylor and
Prof. John J. Blair. There were many
beautiful floral offerings placed on the
grave.
RIVER AND HARBOR WORK.
The General Wright Returns Prom An la-
spectlon Trip to Fayetteville.
Capt. E. W. VanC. Lucas, chief of
the engineer corps engaged in the
river and harbor improvement, re
turned yesterday from Fayetteville
on the government stump puller
General Wriaht. He went to Fav-
etteville by raiL and accom can ied by
Mr Charles Schuster, of the engineer
corps, who is in charge of the work
between Wilmington and Fayette
ville, came down the river on his
regular inspection tour.
The General Wriaht did some snag
ging in the ; river on her trip up to
Fayetteville. She will now resume
work in Town Creek and about the
middle of January will finish that
work and will then go to work re
moving logs and snags in the river
between here and Favatteville. In a
couple of weeks the dredge Ajax will
dredge out the bar and mouth of Town
Creek.
Distillery Seized.
Deputy Collector W. J. Sutton, of
Bladen county, yesterday morning
went over into Brunswick county and
seized a registered distillerv. six miles
from the city on the Georgetown road,
upon therground of some alleged ir
regularities.
The distillery apparatus, including
still, worm and beer tubs, and about
three -barrels of the whiskey were
brought over to the city and locked up
for safe keeping at the Custom House.
Denutv flnftnn Mhiniii tr Viia Viome
on the afternoon S. A. L. train yester
ioi
1
day. .