The News and Observer.
VOL. XLVII. NO. 47.
LEADS All SOUTH OMBUM DAILIES IN NEWS AND. GIMUTM.
PRICE OF WATER
UNREASONABLY HIGH
Dr. Lewis Opposes Renewal
of Water Contract.
LAW AS TO WATER SUPPLY
INSPECTION OF WATER SHED
AND ANALYSIS OF WATER
REQUIRED EVERY THREE
MONTH'S
BOARD OF HEALTH WILL SEE TO IT
Only Seven of the Fourteen Companies Using
Surface Water Have Had Analyses Made
in the Past Six Months. Danger
to Health.
1 went around yesterday to see Dr.
R. 11. Lewis no get some information
about water and water works, and said
to him:
“1 notice, doctor, a statement in the
Wilson News that at the reeenit Health
Conference there you spoke in compli
mentary terms of the Wilson Water
Works. What is your opinion of their
system, and do you think it possible for
Raleigh to have as cheap water as Wil
s<>ji ?”
|The cost of water in Wilson is 10
cents, in Raleigh 40 cents. The town
owns the system in Wilson. —Editor.]
Dr. Lewis replied:
“Our examination in the very short
time at our disposal between the ses
sions of the Conference was limited to
an inspection of the stream at the in
take and the pump house, and 1 uin,
therefore, unable to give an opinion in
detail. 1 take pleasure in saying tibia,
however, that the Wilson water supply
possesses the three prime requisites—
abundance, qualitiy (or it ougfit to Lie
good if properly looked after) and
cheapness. 1 win not prepared to say
that Raleigh could with justice to the
water company have as cheap water as
Wilson because I do not know all the
v facts. It has been said that the Ilaleigh
plant was intended as an advertisement
by the promoters, and that it is excep
tional in quality of material and work
manship—and therefore more costly*—-
whether to the extent of the stock is
sued or bonds stfld is for some one
better informed on those features to de
clare.
“I Co not hesitate to say. however,
that in my opinion the price charged for
water by the Raleigh Water Company
is unreasonably high. It is simply pro
hibitory to the very class that most
need it. It is among the poor and ig
norant that unsanitary conditions chief
ly prevail and disease is more likely to
originate and spread. Os till others
they most need an abundant supply of
pure witter and sewer connections. But
they cannot have them at such prices.
This condition of affairs should not be
permitted to last a day longer than is
absolutely necessary. I was positively
shocked to see in the papers that the
idea of renewing the franchise of our
water company was being entertained.
I have my doubts about the wisdom of
- municipal ownership in general, but the
water supply should undoubtedly be
owned by every city, even if as it result
of political favoritism it should be rim
ostensibly at a loss, for if all the people
could l>c furnished an abundance of
good water there would be a net gain
(o the community even then.
“Doctor, what is the law in regard
to public water supplies and the juris
diction of your l ward in connection with
them
“i haven't the* time nor you the space
to fully answer your question, so I
will have to refer yen for our powers
in general to section 5, and specifically
to sections 18 and 19 of chapter 214,
Laws of 1895. As disease can be, and
not infrequently is, conveyed wholesale
by contaminated public water supplies
their oversight constitutes consid
erable part of our work. As supple
mentary to the original act relating to
the Board of Health just referred to we
secured the enactment by the last Leg
islature of “An act to protect water sup
plies” in a somewhat emasculated form,
however, I regret to say. But it is
not entirely without virtue, for it re
quires regular inspection of watersheds
every three months or oftener if in the
opinion of the health authorities there
is reason to suspect the water supply;
and quarterly analysis, both chemical
and bacteriological—at the expensd of
the companies. A copy of this law
printed in the Monthly Bulletin of the
Board was promptly sent to all water
companies and to all mayors of cities
and towns having public water supplies.
It is the duty of the municipal authori
ties in the interest of their citizens to
see that its provisions tare obeyed, but
whether they have done so or not 1 am
not prepared to say. I am pained to
state, however, that only seven of the
fourteen using surface water have had
ihe analyses made in the past six months,'
so far as I have been informed. This
matter was considered by the Board in
private session at the recent Health
Conference, and the inference drawn
from the failure of the water companies
to have these analyses made as the law
requires was that they were suspicious
of their own water. These examina
tions at comparatively short intervals
are necessafy to ascertain if the water
is contaminated and that the source of
impurity may Ik* located and removed.
A water company failing to have them
made is like an army that sends out no
scouts to learn the whereabouts and
force of the enemy and like such an
army is liable at any time to a catas
trophe. In. order'lo prevent a repetition
in future of such reprehensible negli
gence the following action was taken:
“Oil motion the secretary was inv
structod to publish in the Bulletin the
name of such water companies as fail to
comply with the requirements of the
law to protect water supplies with com
ments; if they continue to refuse to
comply to send marked copies of said
Bulletin to a number of, the leading
citizens of the city or town, and if they
still persist in refusal to have the water
examined by the State Chemist ami
by one of the bacteriologists of the
Board, and to publish tin* analyses.
"It has been aptly said that the char
acter of a water supply is as sensitive to
criticism as a woman's virtue, and it is
easy to understand what effect such
publications would have upon consum
ers. We hope, however, and believe
that tin* water companies will not render
this necessary, for we desire to encour
age in every way the use by tin* i>eoplr*
of the public water believing it to be
much safe than wells in cities and large
towns, provided tin* supply is properly
looked after ami cared for.
“Well, I expect I have already said
too much for your crowded columns,
so just put me down as ail uncompro
mising advocate of pure water in tin*
greatest abundance as cheap as possible
—especially to tin* smalt consumer.”
MARION’S PROGRESSIVENESS.
Round Knob Hotel to be Closed-The
Gruber Family.
Marion, X. C., Nov. 5. —(Staff Corre
spondence.)—Alarionv nestling at the foot
of the Blue Ridge, is one of the best
little towns in Western North Carolina.
The progress in development of this place
during the last few months lias been re
markable. Eight new stores and two
furniture factories have been built re
cently. One of these factories ships an
output of two or three carloads per day.
They will both double their capacity in
the spring. ,~t least twenty-five elegant
dwellings have Ihkui built during the past
year. There is not a single vacant house
in town, but they are greatly in demand.
-Several very nne ones are now in process
of erection, iur. Wrenra, proprietor of
Catawba Factory, is building an elegant
one. Perhaps the finest in town is a
large brick dwe .mg being built by Air
Charles Bobbitt.
The most imposing structure which is
Iseing rapidly pushed to oonqsletion us a
large opera house located by the side of
the Eagle Hotel. It is planned for star *s
beneath and when finished wall be one of
the neatest in the State.
(Marion boasts of a eomiSete telephone
system communicating with various sur
rounding towns. It will soon be extend
ed to Alorganton. Ruitlierfordton, fcUel
by and Charlotte.
T)iie travelling man will find two ele
gant hotels. AVe stopix'd at the Flem
ing Hotel under the management of the
famous Gruber family. Thousands of
people will remember the prodigies that
composed this wonderful trou,»e of musi
cians that have mode many tours of the
State, -hey Win remember the Profes
sor as he stood -etare his audience on
one foot and played nine instrumenta at
tilw? same time without the aid of any
mechanical cuuifiicivanoe. They will re
member Airs, mruber’s superb soprano
and the sweet voices of the children.
When we saw the children last they were
small. Now they are grown young
ladies and the oldest married.
Five years ago they left the road and
went into the hotel business at Marion.
They were indeed connoisseurs as eater
mid attentive to the wants of tneir guests
yet they have lost 4ione of their musical
tastes. Their parlor seems to be the
rendezvous of the young talent of the
town, and every night there can he heard
sweet strains of music and merry voices.
Prof. Gruber has a vioinn tiwee hun
dred and eighty-four years old which he
prizes very highly. The maker of the
Instrument made only fifteen others. Tin;
owner has been offered, lie says, twenty
two thousauu d’ollaris for tills valuable iu
stimmeot.
The professor got out tans violin and
gave us some music. It is not often in a
man’s life that he gets a chance to listen
to such an instiruanent in the hands of a
master. We were permitted to take the
violin and admire its beautiful carving
and womder at the hieroglyphics which
mo one can interpret.
Time has dealt gently with the Profes
sor and ids estimable wife. Though gray
hairs adorn their heads, they are still
sprightly and Vivacious.
Turner, the mlau who killed Pyatt a
few nighlts ago—account of which appear
ed in the ~ews anil Observer—lias not
yet been caught.
There is a rutnior that Otho Wilson
will give up the Round Knob .Hotel be
cause it will cease to be a railroad eat
ir.g house, and that the trains will cease
stopping because Otho is not railroad
commissioner any more. Tin* hotel is
sadly in need of repairs and a new co.it
of paint.
11. A. CHAPPELL.
Little bits of paper,
Old cigars dioppisl small,
Little puffs of smoke, boy
Keep from growing tall.
Quids and stumps worked over
In a nasty smoke
Make a boy a rowdy.
Alake a youth a bloke.
1
Wry bad tobacco.
Paper thin and poor
Something cheap and filthy,
No one need endure.
\
Let us come out strongly
Anti-cigarette,
Fight it to a finish
llanl, lest we regret,
—Chicago New 3. .
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 1893.
OBJECT LESSON OF
GENERAL EDUCATION
What the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts Stands for.
MONUMENTS OF HEROES
RALEIGH SHOULD BE AN ART
GALLERY WITH TIIE FORMS
OF THE STATE’S REVER
ED SONS.
GLIMPSE 1 ? INTO NEW ENGLAND HISTORY
The New Englanders Have Commemorated
the Heroic Deeds of its Great Men.
There are Lesso r s for North
Carolinians to Learn.
Hartford. Conn., Nov. 2. 1899.
To tin* Editor: Being in New England
on a visit to schools, and having spent
a delightful day here. I feel like writ
ing a short letter for your columns,
which I hope will interest some of your
readers. Hartford is a beautiful city of
about eighty thousand inhabitants, sit
uated near the centre of Connecticut, in
tin* valley of tin* Connecticut River. A
.settlement was made here by Rev.
Thomas Hooker and a handful of men
and women from Boston in .1(550. Tin*
church yard in which he sleeps was
pointed out to me today. The school he
established, known as Hartford High
School, has about one thousand students,
mid is a largo feeder to Yale College.
! Out of this grew Trinity College, one
of tin* best colleges in New England, Is
I located here, Imd is a splendid progres
j give school. The* city schools are very
excellent. The American Institution
! for the Deaf and Dumb, one of the
j very best schools of the kind in the
| country, is located here, and has been
I in successful progress for nearly a cen
• tnry. The capital is a magnificent edi
fice. costing over*wo millions of dollar*-.‘
beautifully located in Bushnell park, the
old site of Trinity College, It is built
of marble and granite, and handsomely
frescoed. In the Senate Chamber I sat
‘ in the chair made of the Charter Oak,
which fell in 185<>, and in which the old
charter was* hidden to prevent its remov
al by the King’s emissaries. I had the
j pleasure of looking upon the original
I charter itself, “which is carefully pre
| served in the State House. In the State
Library 1 saw the portraits of all tin*
1 Governors of the State since its found
ing. Statues of many of these stand in
the eapitol and in tin* park surrounding
it. Chief among the statues that stand
as memorials to the State’s regard for
. their distinguished sons is the one to
Nathan Ilale. the unfortunate teacher
and soldier who was arrested during the
Revolution and hanged as a spy. On it
are inscribed his last words, "My only
regret is that I have but one life to give
for my country.” Among those who
are perpetuated in bronze and marble
j are Noah Webster, Trumbull, Rev.
Thomas Hooker and Putnam. A mag
nificent life-size portrait of AVashingtim,
painted by Smart for tin* State
! South Carolina, and bought by Con
necticut, seamls in tin* Senate Cham
ber. Autograph loners are to be f and
in large numbers in the State Libra v,
from distinguished men of Colonial ai d
Revolutionary days. A revolving can
non from, the sunken Spanish warship
: Viseaya. /stands in the rotunda, and
hundreds of battle flags, torn by the
i storm of the civil War, are preserved in
i suitable cases in ithe building, ihe mod
est homes of Noah Webster, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Charles
• Dudley Warner, and! Senator Hawley,
a North Carolinian by birth, are pi anted
i out with pride by these people.
As 1 looked upon ‘the statues and
j paintings of this Stale's heroes todaj.
1 I could not help feeling very sad :o re
j fleet upon our own sad mistakes along
this line. We are too remiss in our du
ty to our heroes. Our capital must
also be an art gallery, in which the rev- i
ered forms of our heroes may appear to
prove our pelritisin, and our apprecia
tion. of those who in peace and war
labored for our welfare.
This is also the home of many great?
insurance companies, whose palatial
buildings were pointed out to me today,
'ihe Pope Manufacturing Company,
which makes tin* Columbia Bicycle, is
situated here. The dress, the voice, the
architecture, tin* a ; pern net* and cliarac- I
tenistics of flu* people are very different
here from what they are in New York j
and to the southward. I haven’t seen j
but one negro in the city, and lie looked
lonesome. The laboring people are more
intelligent nnd better paid than ours.
1 hope to jot something more from
Northampton or Boston. Till then,
adieu.
M. 11. HOLT.
Northampton, Mass., Xov. 2.
Yesterday I wrote a few lines from
Hartford. This morning Mr. Goodwin
and myself enjoyed a ride up the beau- ;
tilul and prosperous Connecticut Valley,!
past \\ indsor, Springfield, Chicopee and
Holyoke, to this place. The rains of tin* !
past few days had ceased and we had
a char, cool, crisp morning, so that
every mountain, farmhouse and City stood
forth res pendent in the sunlight. The
Connecticut, “the long river,” averages .
here about one thousand feet in width,
but is quite shallow. A prominent sea
ture of tin* landscape is the New Eng
land tobacco barn, or more nearly, to
bacco shed, because the itobaeeo raised
lure is air cured. Most of our Havana
cigars are made of this tobacco. North
ampton is a great educational center of
Massachusetts. Smith College for high
er education of women is located here.
Dr. See lye, formerly president of Am
herst College, is president, of Smith Col
lege. Nearly fifteen hundred young wo
men, half of them from other States,
are in school here. The entrance ex
aminations are as high as those required
to enter the Sophomore class at our
State University. It costs a girl here
from 80(10 to So.OOti dollars per annum
to go to this college, owing to her fath
er’s money and lack of sense combined,
dust across the valley, at the foot of
beautiful Mt. Holyoke, stands Alt.
Holyoke Seminary, another large school
for the collegiate instruction of young
women. There are several 'Hundred girls
in this school. Seven miles up the val
ley, hut in plain view this morning, rise
the dome of Amherst College, where a
thousand young men are fitting them
selves for the professions and for life.
To the westward only a .snort ride, over
tin* beautiful cerulean Berkshire Hills,
is Williams College, where for half a
century that born teacher, Mark Hop
kins, influenced so many men during
their collegiate life. Here last but not
least is tin* greatest oral school for the
deaf in tin* world, the Clark School,
presided over by one of the greatest
and most consecrated of women, Miss
Yale.
There are many spots, sacred in his
tory and tradition, near here. Mt.
Holyoke on the east and Mt. Tom on ihe
west side of flu* Connecticut river, tare
known as the haunts of Alassasoit, so
long the friend of the New England
settlers. These are also the home and
haunts of King Phillip, who did not in
herit his father’s love for the “pale
face,” but who led a rebellion of his
race, and after his defeat by Church,
and tlu* destruction of his Graves, met a
tragic death among these hills. Not far
away is Deerfield, the scene of one of
the most cruel butcheries of the Indian
war, and many relies of that fearful
catastrophe, picked up near The spot, are
preserved in a museum there. Not many
miles to the southeast is Mystic, where
the LVquot Indians were destroyed, af
ter having danced the war dance, and
applied the war paint to exterminate the
infant settlements of Hooker at Hart
ford, and Duronv>ort at New Haven.
Everything through this part of
Massachusetts is different from North
Carolina. The style of architecture is
mainly Colo ilia 1. there are no negroes,
the hotel servants are white girls, the
brakeuien, the barbers, the hack-drivers
I will talk with you in almost any lan-
Iguagc >:on may choose, so you do not
have too long a repertoire, and will dis
cuss any subject from the “origin of
; the species” to the “.initiative and the
referendum.”
Time and space forbids discussing
many interesting characteristics of these
people and tlris part of the country.
This whole State, however, stands as
an object lesson of whar universal edu
cation docs to make a State rich and
prosperous. May we learn lesson’s of
economy from Massachusetts along this
line! M. H. HOLT.
WHY THERE WAS DELAY
In Erecting the North Carolina Shaft
in Winchester.
To the 'Editor: At the convention of
Confederate Veterans dm Raleigh last
January, the ltev. James Battle Avirett
amid (>. W. Blackwell were appointed a
committee to raise « sum to supplement
Mr. R ohms’ generous gift for a North
Carolina shaft at Winchester. The name
of Gon. \Y. 11. Check was added when
Air. Avirett removed from the State.
Appeals were at once made to patriot
tic ladies of the 'State, whose wines have
been, given in this paper, and the sum
needed) was promptly raised. The con
tract for the shaft was at once let. Un
fortunately the stone was broken at the
quarry. Tlhfis necessitated getting the
shaft from another quarry and cuttsed
much delay.
*1 am authorized by Airs. ftA rmi stead
Joules, President of the Norm OniPolina
Alonuii mental Association to «ay*tihaft the
shaft will Ik* completed and hi place by
the first of 'Deeemilier. 1 have made the
same explanation as above in the Wash
ing ton and Baltimore papers, disparaging
mention of this matter have appeared in
(those piinb.'icatioiiis.
I would like to add also that the North
Carolina graves in the great Confederate
Cemetery at Wincluster —and she has
inure theme than any other State—-have
mil been marked by large and bitter head
and foot stones than those of any other
(State.
O. W. BLACK NALL.
Kit troll. .*>. C.
Poor Children Who Became Great.
Many of the greatest men the world
has ever produced, says an exchange,
started in life as poor boys, and by their
industry and energy made for themselves
a name that the world can never forget.
isenjaniin Franklin, the great scientist,
writer and statesman was a printer boy.
Simpson, the great mathematician, was
a poor weaver.
iHensdilel, the famous 'astronomer, was
a filter in the English army.
Abraham Lincoln was a poor country
boy and split rails.
•General Garfield and General Grant
both were poor boys, the former having
driven mules on a tow path.
Goodyear, the mam who invented the
process by which rubber could be I r -
drued and made marketable, was one of
tlu* poorest of boys.
Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin
that was smell am immense benefit to the
South, was a poor New Englander’s sou.
'Sometimes a man attains a position
only to discover that nature has not en
dowed him with sufficient brains to
fill it. 1
RALEIGH’S F/ifT
\m_ urns
1,000 Sugar Maple Trees to
be Set Out.
BEAUTIFUL SHADE TREES
PEACE STREET TO BE OPENED
DURING NEXT AIONTIL
ARSENAL WILL SHORILYBE TORN DOWN
A Statement Shewing In Detail the Work That is
Making Raleigh the Prettiest City in
the South. A Month of
Great Activity.
To the Honorable Mayor and Board of
Aldermen:
Your Committee 011 Streets beg to sub
mit herewith the following report:
The work on our streets lias progress
ed admirably during the past month.
The weather has been fine and we have
been able to accomplish very satisfactory
results as will lie shown by detailed
statement of the work done which fol
lows later An this report. We have or
dered 1,000 mice sugar maple trees which
will be set out now in a few weeks on
all tlbe streets in our city which have
'been graded and curbed, and we sin
cerely trust that our citizens will take
a sufficient amount of interest in the
preparation of tiiese trees to see that
they are well boxed and cared for after
they are placed on the sidewalks at the
expense of the eity. We feel that too
much care aiwl attention cannot be given
tii'.s part of our work and we hope in a
few years to see every sidewalk in the
city graded and curbed and mice beauti
ful shade* trees well located on them.
This can be done if tile citizens wi’.l
take an interest in the matter aid assist
the eetmmittee in its work, if tnis plan
is properly canned out and developed as
we desire it will make one of
the mast beautiful cities in the universe.
Work at tile rock quarry has been mov
ing along very smoothly for tlhe past
month or two and we are getting things
in good shape out there.
The new rock crusher wain soon be at
work and with the additional care which
we propose to put on we will be able to
; push the macadam w..- greater rapidity.
We expect to commence the opening
of Peace street within the next 90 days
and when once started; this work will b.*
pushed forward until that street is open
ed and extended to the city limits. We
have delayed commencing this work be
cauoe we desired o complete the grading
and improving of some of the streets al
ready started.
The grading and improving of Boy km
Avenue has been pushed forward begin
ning at Hillsboro street and we will con
tinue this work and t ush it as rapid s y
! as possible consistent with improvements
! in progress in other sections of the city
; until it is graded and put im. good condi
tion from Hill-boro street to the city
limits.
I We called attention iii our last report
! to the bad condition of some of the side
! walks 011 Fayetteville street.
These sidewalks are iimanediately An the
heart of the city and tuey are 'more seen
by strangers than any other portion of
our city, and we regret to say that they
are probably in worse condition than any
other sidewalks in the city.
We recommend, therefore, that the
Chief of Police he instructed to notify
all property owners on these two thor
oughfares whose sidewalks are paved
with soft brick that they must lw* remov
ed and replaced either with granolithic
pavement or vitrified bricK.
We have been in communication re
cently with tin* State authorities in re
gard to removing the old Arsenal from
the eapitol square grounds and we are
able to report that we think we are safe
in saying that this unsightly building will
be torn down and moved within the next
few moil tills. j
The following amount of work in de- j
tail has been done since our last rejiort.
Curbing set as fooows:
On Bloodworth street 011 both sides be- 1
tween 'Newborn Avenue anu Kdimton 1
street, and 011 one side 'between Bdenton
street and Joneis street, and on one side
between Lane street and -akWood aven
ue; on both sides between Oak wood j
avenue and Polk street.
On Polk street, both sides between Pit- \
son street and Last street.
Person street, one side, between Eden-1
tan street and Newborn avenue, and on I
one side between Morgan street and Har
gett street.
Newborn avenue, one side, 'between
Person street amid 1 oodworth street.
Jones street, one . between Soils- 1
bury street am. Dawson street.
500 feet of curibiing reset on Jones
street and eawsaii street on account of
grade being too high.
500 feet 01 curbing straightened upon '
West Martin ** eot between Harrington J
and West street on account Oi illi 11 set- j
tiling and curbing getting out of shape. !
Covered rock culvert on EDm street '
wit ill stone.
Walkway put across the street at in- j
terseetion of Johnson and Wilmington ■
streets. f
AVtailkway put across the street at inter-1
section of \V llmliingtoni and Peace streets. |
Put Sm 12 corners. Also a lot of cur'll- \
lug put tin at a number of places where it j
was left out on account of pries being
in the way when the curbing was set. j
We have macadamized Hargett street
SECTION ONE—Pages 1 to 8,
PRICE FIVE CENTS
between Dawson find Harrington streets.
Tlie following amount of grading has
been done during the month of October
Sidewalks graded on the north and
south side of Morgan street between
Person and Bohint streets .
Sidewalks graded on north and south
side of 'EklenSfcom street between East and
B'l 1 awl worth streets.
Sidewalks on Boykin avenue partly
graded from Hillsboro street to North
street.
Hargett street graded for macadam be
tween Dawson and Harrington Streets.
Sidewalks graded on east and west side
on Bloodworth street between Newborn
avenue and Eden ton street.
Morgan street, and sidewalks partial-y
graded from Person street to Last street.
Sidewalks graded on Bloodworth street
between Jones and Edentan street.
North street graded from Boylan
avenue to eity limits.
Sidewalks graded On Person street be
tween Eldenton street and Newberu
avenue.
Hargett street graded for granite
•blocks between Wilmington street and
Blount street.
Hi rock walls and 55 old trees taken
down and about 500 cubic yards of loose
dirt, moved from the gutter lines and on
account of putting them down brick pave
ments.
The following amount of guttering
with paving blocks lias lieeit done:
Open dram at intersection of E dent oil
and Person streets.
Hillsboro street from Boy lan avenue
to the city limits both Nidi's.
Open drain alt intersection of Boy-la n
avenue and Hillsboro street.
Gutters on Salisbury street widened be
tween Edentan and Jones streets.
Four mam-holes raised to conform ro
street grade.
011 McDowell, west side, from Jones so
• Edeuton.
i On Edentan street from McDowell
I street west about b 0 feet.
Brick paving on Salisbury street in
rear of Rescue IFire Company's house.
Two pieces of gutter on. Cabarrus
street about half a block between Wil
mington and Fayetteville streets.
On West Alartin street, south side, be
tween 'Harrington and West streets.
All of wL is respectfully submitted.
JOHN U. DREWRY, Chairman,
1). S. HAMILTON,
L. B. PEGRAAI.
‘ WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.”
That Was the Name Jefferson Davis
Preferred.
-o the Editor: “Let us use the right
word.” Such is the caption in a coau
imuticatiion in your yesterday’s issue
from Air. O. AV. Blauknall. of Kittrejl,
N. C-.,. suggesting the appropriate title ius
descriptive of “the late unpleasantness. ’
Agreed, miy young friend! for so une
thinks I may call you, inasmuch as your
honored father and myself were gobbled
up the same night in the wounded train
from Gettysburg, hustled into the same
little wagon, belonging to Gen. Custer,
which hcNeourteously permitted the next
morning, and thence earned on by vari
ous relays to Johnson’s Island, where
we were kept i n bonds of rt sera in t and
friendship together for about a year and
a half thereafter. You had the advan
tage of us both, for you were “toddling
, around” loose about that time.
Yes. 1 repeat in entire accord so far,
let us use the right word, for it’s a most
momentous word for our children nnd
our children’s children forever. Who more
competent by native intellect, by high
culture, by antecedents, as well as by
primary concern!, than lie who always
use it if he did not invent it. our be
loved (it was nearly written ilia field ess!).
President. Jefferson Davis, blit-rod bo
liis name and fame forever!
| It was under his own “roof tree,” some
six weeks or so antedating his departure
from a world that he had honored, that
he geratly corrected the misuse of the
expression, “The OvM AN ar. It not
that, what then, Mr. Davis? “Ttn*
Avar Between the States,” was the re
! ply. Has the word, or rather the expres
sion, ever since been improved’ upon? If
so, it has esea']K*d scrutiny or passed out
of recollection. What was good enough
for “the Chief” ts, or should, lie good
enough for his followers in war and
; peace, then and now, and in years to
iollow. And so for 0111* I vote tor “Ihe
ear Between the ’States,” despite more
euphemistic phrase, and so inethinks
would t\ Ci Blacknall. Tours, etc..
AV. J. GREEN.
Fayetteville. X. C., Oct. 50, 1899.
$5,000 RAISED FOR ADDITION.
Plans For a $15,000 Enlargement Are
Being Considered.
Newton. N. *C„ Nov. 4.—(Special.)—
The addition to the college building is
now a. certainty. Rev. J. C. Leonard,
who has been to Pennsylvania and Ohio
soliciting fends for building the addition,
returned today. He Juts already suc
ceeded in raising $5,000 for this purpose.
lAlutih more will be raised in this State
aril from friends of tlu* institution else
where. He says that the aimomnt requir
ed wall be raised by the time that the
faculty is ready for -the work to lie com
menced.
The faculty is now considering plana
and specifications but no definite plan er
design has yet been decided on, ’1 he
cost of the addition will be between $12,-
000 and $15,000, according to the pn*.s
«nt puriKxse of the faculty, although : f
may be greater.
A Good Preventative.
Airs. Greene —“Do you always give
your little hoy castor oil for a cold?”
Airs. Gray—“ Yes; I give it for its mor
al effect exclusively.”
•Airs. Greene —“For its moral effect?”
Ali*s. Gray—“ Yes; it will have an in
fluence upon ham not to catch another
cold.” —‘Boston Transcript.
All men are not born equal; only
twins are born that way.