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I rr afic .Cbatbam IRccorfc Zbc Cbatbam Recorb. rl. A. LONDON f ! EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. RATES OF ADVERTISES: One Square, one Insertion... oe One Square, two Insert Ions.... 1.59 One Square, one month........ s.09 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. St .50 Per Year STRICTLY IN ADVANCE V VOL. XXiX. PITTSBORO.CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C, THURSDAY. AUGUST 22. 1907. NO. 2. THROUGHOUT THE STATE TO SKIN THE PUBLISHERS PROGRESS FOR PEACE . l ' " ' " T AH HEEL TOT ICS Items Gathered From All Sections of the State -Jr Interest in Rate Hearing. A Aspecial from New York City to the Charlotte Observer says: The dispute between the authorities of Xorth Carolina and the Federal ! Courts over the observance of v. a 2 1l-4-eent rate law reached another Wge, when former Judge Montgom Jerv, of North Carolina, who was ap pointed by Judge Pritchard, of the iFederal Court, as special master to I lake depositions, sat here and heard Ike testimony of several witnesses. I (General Counsel Alfred P. Thorn, Vf the Southern Railway Company ol AYashington, represented his com pany's interests at the session. Tho testimony was . taken behind closed 'doors at the office of the Southern .Railway in this city.. , Counsel representing the North 'Carolina corporation commission at hhe clay's hearing included former JJudge James E. Shepherd, Walter E. jDaniels and F. A. Woodward, former Gov. Charles Avcock, of North Car- olina. and Speaker E. J. Justice of the State House of Representatives, I were also present. I Vice President H. B. Spencer, of the Southern, who is the son of form er President Spencer, was a witness He was questioned at length as to the Southern Railway, its cost and equip ment and many minor details, Dep ositions will be taken in "Washington and other cities after ' the hearings here have concluded. J. M. Barr, formerly president of the Seaboard Air Line, now a lumber merchant of North Carolina, and who was called as an expert on railway operations, tesified that in his opinion i the carrying of local freight in North Carolina costs three times as much to operate as through trains -and the local trains were frequently only part ly loaded " Mr. Barr said that a high er rate was charged by railroads in this State for carrying local freight than for through freight, but he did not believe the difference in price was sufficient to equal the increased cost of lacol traffic. Mr. Barr said that he did not be lieve a fair profit from passenger traffic was posible at present in that State and that possibly there was on profit whatever. It was brought out that passenger traffic within the State was somewhat mixed and that a number of so-called through 'trains on the Southern Rail way between Washington and Atlanta made stops at towns and way points in the State, so that as a' matter of fact it was not possible to calculate with exactness the cost of carrying ' - '-...' . ' . , . ' 1 1 l 1H K ' 1 I. i II 1 11.! 111! distinct and apart from through pas- I Following his examination by coun I sel, Mr. Barr was interrogated by Speaker Justice. "Do you know," said the latter, "that at one time there existed what might be called a gentleman's understanding to the effect that the Seaboard Air Line I should refrain from extending its H 2.11 1 -v- i 7 i t 1 , mieis uimi certain jortn Carolina ter ritory under fear of reprisals by the Southern Railway." "There was no express understand ing." Mr. Barr replied. ' He was then asked whether he knew that certain business houses in the State had actually been - driven out to seek other fields for business because the SouthernRa ilway had built up a monopoly in various parts of North Carolina. The witness said that he did not know that to be a fact. To other questions intended to show the Sou thern's supremacy in North Carolina Mr. Barr in most instances pleaded that he was not in possession of suffi cient actual facts to testify accurate ly regarding them. Tar Heel Brevities. Prof. Darius Eatman has resigned the chair of pedagogy at Wake For est College to take a course in that study at Columbia University, having obtained a scholarship there. Numa W. Sowers, a boy of seven teen, was bound over to eourt at Sal isbury on the charge of seduction with promise of marriage and giving drugs with criminal intent. The allianee adopted resolutions opposing immigration from foreign countries by solicitation or appropria tion of State or department funds for that purpose ; , favoring State prohi bition; reduction of passenger rates and more equitable freight rates; ag ricultural high schools in each con gressional district ; . building farmers ' institutes under the county alliances; establishing an agricultural school at Hillsboro; co-operation in securing the substitution of cotton for jute bagging. A resolution endorsing the action of the United States Depart ment of Justice in proceeding against the American Tobacco Company was also passed. The North Carolina Farmers' Alli ance in annual session at Hillsboro the past week elected- the following officers for the next year: , President, J- E. Peterson, Goldsboro: vice presi dent, J. A. McAllister, Lumberton; secretary-treasurer, George F. Par rptt, Kingston ; .lecturer, H. M. Catec, Swepbane; steward, J. C. Baiu, Hade; sergear.t-at-arms, George T. Lane, Aurora; State business agent, beorge F. Parrot t, Kinston; trustee tf- & A. fund, W. A. Graham, Mac- Heroic Women Honored. Wilmington, Special. An immense gathering of people attended the elab orate ceremonies in connection with the unveiling of a monument to the heroic women of the lower Cape Fear during the revolutionary period, the scene of the patroitie exercises hav ing been the historic Moore's Creek battle ground, in Pender county, near Cuirie. The weather was ideal and people came from far and near, in cluding a large party from Wilming ton Vhieh returned on a belated train . The exercises opened writh an ia vocation by Rev. A. D. MeClure, D. D., presentation of the moument was by former Representative E. A. Hawes, of Pender, who paid glowing tribute to the material ancestry, of the people of the lower Cape Fear, The aecexDtance was by President J. F. Moore, of the Moore's Creek Me morial Association who spoke elo quently of the lofty patriotism which inspired the people of this section and the State. The formality of the unveiling was by Miss Lillian Colvin, asisted by Miss Katie Bannermaun, this being followed by a beautiful decoration of the shaft by 13 young ladies repre senting the 13 original colonies, di rected by Missess B. B. Lucas and Jennie Hawes. The address of Hen. Charles R. Tillnian, Congressman from the third district and always a staunch friend of the Moore's Creek Monument Association, was the fea ture of the day. He spoke eloquently and most fittingly. After the exer cises a delightful picnic dinner was served on the grounds and that every detail of the arrangements was car ried out perfectly spoke volumes of praise for the several county commit tees which had these matters In charge. The exercises were inter spersed by the singing of patriotic songs and music by an excellent band, "Dixie," "The Old North State" and "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" having been favorites among the many selections rendered. The monument is of Winnsboro blue granite surmounted by a statue of imported Italian marble in carved ! likeness of a beautiful woman posing "Rememberance," the top piece be ing six leet tall, the whole monument towering to. a height of 15 feet, stand ing on a marble base, five feet seven inches square. Its weight is mora than 25,000 pounds and it was erected at a cost of something over $2,000, being the work of the Wilmington Granite and Marble Works, of thi city, Mr. R. D. Tucker, proprietor, as successor to H. A. Tucker & Bro., The inscription on the shaft are as follows: Front side: "To the honored mem ory of the heroic women of the Lower Cape Fair during the Aemriean Rev olution, 1775 1781." On the reverse side: "Unswerv ing in devotion, self-sacrificeing in loyalty to the cause of their country, th eir works do follow them : and their children rise up and call them blessed." v On fourth side: "Most honored of the names recorded by the Historic Association, is that of MARY SLOCUMB, wife of Lieutenant Sloeumb, riding alone at nights sixty-five miles to succor the wounded on this battle place her bight on the pages of his tory, and should awaken in successive generations, patriotism and love -of j country. ' Virtutes majorum filiae eonserv ant." On the third face is this inscrip tion: "This -monument Was erected by the Moore's Creek Monumental Association in the year 1907." State News Items. As the result of a special ordinance passed some time ago by the aldermen the Southern has made Lexington a flag station for No. 34. The people of the town are pleased with this change. The Shaw Cotton Mill, of Weldon. was granted a charter, the capital being $100,000, authorized and $25, 000 subscribed by W. T. Shaw, W. A. Pierce and others. Insurance Commissioner James R. Young paid into the State-Theasury yesterday $37,944 representing the recipts of the department for July. This is an especially good month 's business. The commissioner also paid into the treasury $2S0.41, represent ing a part of the insurance that wa .carried on the dissecting hall recent ly burned at the State University. In the work of compiling and audi ting the roll of Confederate pension ers as just approved by the pension board it is discovered in the State Treasury that one U. S. Dollar is a pensioner in Ashe county. George F.Parrott, who becomes secretary-treasurer and State busi ness agent will establish his general office at Hillsboro. W. J. Paythress, a well-appearing white man was arrested in Graham his home by Sheriff Pinnix of Reids ville, Tuesday afternoon and taken to Wentworth. The warrant for his ar rest was sworn out by Mr. C. K. Noien cashier of the Bank of -Reidsville, and it charges that Paythress forged a check for $12.50 on the said bank. A Batch of Newsy Items From Moun tain to Seashore. Governor Glenn has granted a par don to William Simms, an aged negro of Raleigh, who had been sentenced to the roads six months for assault and resisting an officer. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction is notified by County Sup erintendent E. T. Atkinson, of Wayn? that Woodland school district has ju.T votod a special tax for the improve ment, of stcho'ds without a dissenting vole ucd " ilhout having had a single public meeting or speech for the elec tion. A letter from County Superin tendent C. S Wright, of Wilkes, is l the effect that Elkville, in that county ha voted a s-ecial tax. In- addition to the extension of th. street nv 1:ilv in Raleigh (more than three and a l-jlf miles of new line to be built) the Raleigh Electric Com pany is gening .under way other im portant unpi t vements. A new 500 kilowatt steam turbine generator from the General Electric Company ,is already there to be placed in position at the-power house. The power house and car sheds are being remodeled and pacticalty rebuilt, the construc tif.n beitiir of brick and steel with con crete inundations. A new 440-horsc power b.-iler is to be added to the number row in use, all these being in addition to the fine water-power plant of the company at the fall of th-? Neuse where the greater part of th:1 current is generated. There is con siderable double-tracking under Avay on Hillsboro street .running out to the State fair ground. This will be completed in time for the State fair The North Carolina Patriotic So ciety, P. C. Enniss, secretary, is doing much to awaken interest in the North Carolina flag; so much so that it is hard now to imply the demands for these flags, the orders for them com ing in for all sizes and grades of fab ric. The flags are now waving over practically all the State and couni.v buildings in compliance with the act of the last Legislature. More than five hundred State flags were shipped the past two, weeks to the Jamestown Exposition in preparation for North Carolina week events. - The society has just furnished two very hand some State regimental flass for the three regiments of the North Carolhu National Guard thst will spend the "-eek in camp at Jamestown. Thev are of the finest field flag silk, with rld bullion and other regulation trimmings. Twin-City Tobacco Association. Winston-Salem, Special. On thi first Monday in September the- Winston-Salem Tobacco Association will meet in annual session at which time the reports of the officers for the year will be read and officers for the ensu ing year will be elected. The asso ciation has been in existence for 30 years and has as its members every tobacco man in the Twin City. Mr. Sterling Smith is president and Mr. Z. T. Bynurn is secretary and treas urer. The report of the president will show that some 10,000,000 pounds of leaf tobacco were handled here last j-car. Arrested for Burning His Own Store. Carthage, Special. George W. Hor ner, a conspicuous politician of this county, was arrested here Friday under a warrant charging the burning of his store some time ago for the purpose of securing the insur ance money. He is also charged with removing goods from his store before the fire occurred. Mr. Horner is c well-to-do citizen of this county and is postmaster at Hamp. He is under bond of $1,000 for his appearance here next Wednesday at a preliminai ; hearing before H. A. Foote, Esq. No Donbs About the Road. -Mount Airy, Special. The building of the Statesville Air Line Rrailway from Statesville to Radford, Va., now seems as much of a certainty as -anything that has been proposed in a leng time, and capitalists now so re gard it. A meeting wa& held here a few nights ago and $5,000 subscribed to give the work a start. The survey from Radford to the North Carolina line will begin at once; the surveying forces are now pushing this way. Charters Granted. The - Charlotte Sanitarium Com pany; capital, $125,000 ' authorized and $11,000 subscribed by E. C. Reg ister, W. O. Nesbitt and J. A. Crow ell. . Efird Bros., of " Concord, general mercantile business; capital ' $100,000 authorized and $10,000 subscribed by W. C. Wilkinson, E. L. Efird xand tthers, of Charlotte. The Stonewall Hotel Company, of Grensboro, to operate hotels and eat ing houses at Greensboro" and at oth er points in the State capital, $125, 000 authorized and $50,000 subscrib ed by J. M. Jamison. A. A. William;, O. C. Andrews and others. Mr. Jami san was for a long while a member of the firm of Gresham & Jamison who -Derated hotels and mating souses on the Seaboard Air Line. The Parker Paper Twine Company, of High. Point; eanital $125,000 by W. T. Parker, J. H: Mills and others. The A. .S. Melvin Company, of Fay etteville, for mercantile business; cap ital $10,000. by A, S. Melvin and oth- PLAGUE BREAKS OUT Deaths Reported From San francisco DISEASE WELL UNDER CONTROL But One of the Reported Sufferers . Has Survived With One Excep tion, a Foreigner From a Coastwise Steamer, 4 the Patents Were of the Poorer Class, Dwelling in the Neighborhood of Chinatown. San Francisco, Special.. Five cases of bubonic plague, four of Avhich have resulted in death,' have been reported to the health department. The pa tients with one exception were cf the poorer class of foreigners dwell ing in the neighborhood of China town. The exception was a foreign sailor from a coastwise steamer. Prompt measures were taken by the city, State and Federal officers, and a spread of the disease is not feared. President Jules A. Samon, of the city health board, and Health Officer Wtitkins said that the situation was well in hand and no occasion existed for alarm. The infected steamer was ordered into quarantine with her passengers and will remain secluded until releas ed b- the heaith department. The two shacks inhabitied by the other patients were fumigated, -locked uvj and sealed. The bedies of the two Mexicans, an Italian and a Russian Pole, who succumbed, were destroyed in quick lime. Report Sent to Washington Washington, Special. The first in timation of the pleague at San Fran cisco was received Thursday by the Marine Hospital Service. The tele gram read: "Three cases and death, plague San Francisco. - Diagnosis made clinicaily and by strained smears from spleen and glands. No reasonable doubt as to certainty, of diagnosis of cases seen and verified by long continuation with health officials. Cases found within two blocks of old Chinatown." On receipt of the information in structions were sent to Surgeon Aus tin to confer with the State and lo cal authorities and make full report on the measures adopted for eradi cation. , Surgeon Austin telegraphed that two foci had been discovered that tho local board had disinfected known in fected buildings and proposed to in stitute a campaign against rats. He said deaths in the citv had been veri fied and that a" general disinfection of suspected districts would begin. He asked for the assistance of two offi cers as medical inspectors and olS; as a bacteriologist in the State lab oratory. It is stated here that Assistant Sur gepn Long is a trained bacteriolo gist and thoroughly competent to handle " the situation that has devel oped. Sixteen Deaths Reported. Harbin, Manchuria, By Cable. The bubonic plague has broken out in South Manchuria and sixteen deaths have been reported. Travelers pro ceeding into North Manchuria are being medicallv examined at Kwang Ching Tsu. Pacsenser3 cn Steamer Asia. San Francisco, Special. Among the passengers on the steamer Asia, which arrived from Honolulu Avas Oc car S. Straus, Secretarv of Commerce and Labor. K. Ishi Yi, Secretary of the commerce bureau of the Japan ese foreign Office, who will visit the principle cities of this country, before returning' to the Orient, was also a passenger on the Asia. , An Entire Village Almost Wiped Onfc By Fire. , " Hancock, Mich., Special. The vil lage of Hubbel, 10 miles from here was nearly wiped out by fire. Twenty-two dwellings, four stores, a hotel, the postoffice and the coal sheds, tres tles and coal piles of the Calumet and Hecla Mine were burned. The loss exceeds $100,000. Receiver Asked For Big Shirt Man ufacturing Company. . Utica, N., Y., Special. Application was made before United States Court Judge Ray at. Norwich for ' the appointment- of a receiver for Curtiss Leggett & Co., manufacturers of shirts, collars and cuffs, Troy. A pe tition' is filed by three Troy creditors who allege that the firm is insolvent The liabilities are placed at $1,100, 000, while the aassets are said to be nominally $2,000,000. It is said the stringency of the money market has cramped the company. The company employs about 1,400 operatives. Two Lives Lost in Fire. Old Orchard, Me., Special. Two lives were lost and five persons were injured, three seriojusly, as a result of the fire which swept through this seashore resort . causing a loss esti mated at $SOO,000. The dead: Phil lip Partridge, 24 years old, of Pitts burg,, Pa., struck by Boston & Maine train at Kennebunk and killed while j on way to the fire. Unidentified man, I Kineu Dy explosion oi soua tanJc, neau blown off. J international Paper Company Behind Print Paper Merger. i ' Appleton, Wis., Special. The In ternational Paper Company is said to be behind the print paper merger now being brought to a successful close. It is said that within 12 months the International Paper Comp&Vyj which was incorporated in New York in February, 1898, with an authorized capital of $118,000,000, will control the print paper market of the United States. To do this the company will expend from $30,000,000 to $50,000. 000 in buying up the plants in the middle West. Tuberculosis Discovered in Morgan's Fine Dairy Herd. Highland Falls, N. Y., Special. Tuberculosis has been discovered in the fine diary heard owned by J. Pier pont Morgan and six of his nineteen high breed milch cows have been kill ed on orders cabled by Mr. Morgan. The herd was composed entirely of cows of notable pedigrees and they were kept with the greatest care in stables cf the most modern sort, the most attention being paid to proper ventilation and to all the sanitary conditions that are supposed to pro tect cows from tuberciflosis. Several Hundred Out of Work. New York, Special. Several hun dred employes were thrown out of work by a fire which destroj red a four storv warehouse and factory building in Furman street, Brooklyn. The losd' will reach $200,000. The fire broke out on the third floor and the build ing which occupied nearly an entire block, was a mass of flames when the firemen arrived. Four firemen were overcome by illuminating gas while fighting the fire. The building was occupied by the New York & Balti more Coffee Company ' and several manufacturing firms. Took a Few Drinks and Died San Francisco, Special. An auto mobile containing two men a young woman and the body of a girl who had been a companion on a round of visits to Beach resorts, arrived at the Park Hospital. The three were ar rested an dwill be held until the cause of the gorl's death is fully explained. The dead girl wvas Francis Ear, No. 1411, Golden Gate Avenue, San Fran cisco. Her companions were George W. Ford, Harr McHenry and Pearl Shelton. The men stated that the girl had taken several drinks, fainted and soon expired. Operators Resign Positions. Denver, Col.,Special. Judge Rid die granted a restraining order on the application of the brokerage firm of Otis & Hough, forbidding Fred Wes sel, president of the Telegraphers' Union and C. A. Adams, secretary of the same organization, to call a strike of operators in that office. This' or der compelled the operators in the of fice of Lagon & Bryan to furnish Otis& Hough with market reports. The men employed by Logan & Bryan thereupon resigned. Commissioner Neill at Home. Washington, Special. Commission er of Labor Charles P. Neill arrived home from Chicago where he went on a vain effort to effect a settlement of the telegraphers' strike. He decided not to see visitors and . as soon as he reached the city went to his hime. For the present he is taking no part in the telegraph strike situa tion, but says he is ready to act as mediator if called upon. Falling Scaffold Kills Two. New York, Special. Two workmen were killed and ten others injured, one of them seriously by the collopse of a scaffold surrounding a gas tank in course of construction for the Brooklyn Union Gas Company in Williamsburg: The men fell 30 feet. News in Brief. Seven men were badly burned by a gas explosion in South Boston. The taking of testimony in the Southern's suits against the State of North Carolina was begun. A settlement of the Chicago Ter minal controversy was effected be tween the Baltimore and Ohio and Hill-Morgan group. ' Arrested For Accepting Bribe. . - Bostoa, Special. Building Inspec tor John P. Clarke of. this city was arrested here charged with accepting a bribe from a contractor. Thear rest was made by inspectors who, it is alleged, witnessed the payment of $40 to Clarke by the contractor. Shoots Wife and Kills' Himself. New. York, Special. Angered over a family difference, Valentine Hess, u barber, fired two shots at his wife and then killed himself at his home in Sea Cliff, Long Island. Physicians say that Mrs. Hess will die. News in Brief. The Peace Congress adopted the proposal prohibiting the throwing of projectiles from balloons, and tho Belgian delegate left for home with the feeling that the permanent arbi-1 tratiori court plan is lost. It is again - reported that the Em press Dowager of China will abdi cate. 7!nn!oto vrtonor! tliolf wnorofla flf". T JIUUlOtO SfJ.l bilV.1. VUU ' The Hague. Resolution Proposed By Sir Edward "Fry, of Great Britain, Confirming That of 1899,Unanimously Adopted By Peace Conference Amendment Regarding Laws and Customs, of Throwing of Explosives From Bal loons and Bombardment' of Unde fended Towns Adopted. The Hague, . By Cable:. At the plenary sitting of the Peace Confer ence a resolution proposed by Sir Edward Fry (British), was adopted unanimously as follows : ' ' . " This conference confirms the reso lution adopted ,. by the conference of 1899 reg aiding the limitation of mili tary burdens and as military burdens have been considerably augmented in almost all countries since 1S90, it de clares it is highly desirable to see tho governments earnestly represent the study of this question.". Amendments of the convention of 1899 regarding the laws and customs of land war and the prohibition -of throwing of explosives from balloons and the convention regarding the bombardment of underfended towns, etc., were unanimously adopted. ' Sir Edward Fry and M. Baingeois heads of the British and French dele gations, made adcresses in support of the resolutions given above. After the disarmament treaty between Ar govjtine and-Chiie had been read Uie whole conference enthusiastically . ap plauded Senois Lrago and Concha, wno were cliietly instrumental m drawing :tp that i.c.'.y. M. NelidofT, cf J-. . si a. closed a bril liant speech by saying the conference as unprepared to iicc the question .iimament lmr'ation as in 1S99 and any diii-ui:: ioi: new w ild injure .he .Hive ti f 'peace-. applauded British initiative and recommended adoption of the resolution as "the only T.ani:iry of I'uilncr. progress of tlie qjesf,i.-i:, while :l would be an honor of the present conference to have c;ntributcd :L an immedi:.Le vote." A k'itrr was read from Joseph II. Choi'te supporting in ihe name of the Uri'.ed States, the l'ritish resolutioa and rpiv ing nniean smypa:hy with the terms. Auto Runs Into Train. Great Barrington, Mass., Special. An automobile containing 'a party of five persons from Bristol, Conn., collided with the New York-Pittsfield express at Asley Falls crossing, near here. Three of the motoring party were killed and the other two prob ably fatally injured. The dead: Charles J. Root, 40 years old, an au tomobile manufacturer, Bristol, in stantly killed. Mrs. Root, his mother, Miss Roberts, sister of Mrs. .Root. The injured are: Miss Mary Root, daughter of C. J. Root, condition very critical. Miss Cathrine Root, age 14, niece of Mrs. Root, suffering from internal injuries. Arranging For Prosecutions. . Harrisburg, Special. Criminal and civil suits against Capitol contract tors and former State offieids will be instituted in Duplin county court as soon as the legal papers can be prepared. The indictments will be presented to the grand jury at the September session. ' Wheteher all of the eighteen persons named by the Capitol invstigation commission in its report to Governor Stuart will be prosecuted will be determined by the Attorney-General after consultation with his associates. The commission held a brief executive session to close up the affairs, f the $100,000 appro priated by the Legislature for the in vestigation $10,000 was returned to the Treasury. ' Blood Flows at Chattanooga. Chattanooga, Special. A negro cabin in the rear of 230 Oak street was the scene of a sanguinary con flict between two dusky lovers. And after the entire neighborhood had been aroused Wilson -Pye" was led off, bleeding and apparently half dying, and Mamie Foster,a negress, was un der arrest. - - Launch Burns on Water. Norfilk, Va., Special. The gaso line . launch Edna May bound from Manteo, N. C, for Nag's Head with a large party aboard, caught fire from an explosion near Manteo and was burned to the water's edge. . Miss Midgett, one of the pessengers, was blown into the water and drowned and the engineer and fireman are re ported fatally burned. A negro in a passing sloop rescued those aboard the burning boat. The rescued were I landed at a nearby point. All the rescued were burned some of them seriously. Eighteen Perish in Wreck. Buenos Ayres, Special. Details re ceived here of the wreck in Flindero bay of the American bark Prussia from Norfolk, March 20 for Port Townsend announced from Punta Arenas, Straits of Magellan, say that the captain committed suicide when the vessel ran ashore and that four teen passengers, in addition to four sailors lost their lives. BROKE ALL RECORDS - - North Carolina's Big Dsy At Jamestown Exposition FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND PRISOT Governor Glenn and Lieutenaaafi-Cav-ernor Winston do TtemselsKS acd Their State Proud By Matsaifieercfc Speeches to the Biggest CrowdThat 'Jamestown Exposition .ZLra Seea. Since it Opened. Jamestown Exposition ISmfsSk f Va., Special.Thursday . was . Banner .Day in the history of tins Jamestown. Exposition. In point ox attendance no other day has approached iL-Fidr-v ly forty-five thousand Noxtk Carolin ians were on the grounds nrlren Gov, ernor Glenn was telling, xj. tUe glories of the State and good humoredly tell ing his Virginia friends hays jmhv times North Carolina' had been first It was a fine looking; crowd too these 45,000 thousand Tar Heels. They were the observed of. observers, the? ' guests of honor everywhere, amd ev erybody in the management vied isiib the others to make North Carolin- ians feel at home. More North Carolinians were assem bled here together than wcrre ever be fore in one place since tho .war- The? they were fighting to keej tbe Yank ees out of Richmond. Now they ares having a fine time helping Yirgiaut to celebrate an important event atb the life of the whoLe coatincirL 'The program as arranged and pub lished was . carried out va ftno shape and the people were deUgliiotl niAls the speeches of Governor Glenn atstS Lieutenant-Governor Wrnstsc They, were both in the shaps and fettle the day was fine, the North Carolina, spirit was in the very atmosjiJiere; tlie . music was inspiring, and the ThirtS Regiment band of which Eaieigh is proud covered itself with glory. The speech of Lieutenant-GoveriKW- , Winston was happy, witty, Iright ami up to Frank Winston's iissfc. Iliss broad smile and satisfied sxsr of at old North Carolina She's the Tap of the Pot' gave a good feeling: be fore he began his splendid patriotic address. . Governor Glenn was given a ortfisTi greeting. It was his first appestrant?;' out of the State since the railrca! war in North Carolina in vrlucli in: ' won national fame. The "doma homers" all wanted to see lsim,a3 shake hands with him, and the Lome folks wanted to say i ' Good or yaa, Plain Bob Glenn," and strangers wanted" to take the measure of trjrs man who has brought the Sonihercx Railway to their knees. The ' Gc"F ernor 's theme was North Carolina mzai he measured up to the occasion, sfou passing the expectations of the NorSSs Carolinians who were proati that tw? State was represented on the Jnges& day of the Jamestown Exposition Isg a man who was fully able to thrill the magnificent audience that Luni iijjkvi his stirring and patriotic words. "IQfrs had no manuscript or notes, foot spala? from the shoulder and stirred the peo ple as he used to stir Nortla CaroIaCT. people in the old days o-f 1S9S xntf. 1900 when . the people were arcrnseil by his eloquence. North Carolina flags were present to the three North Carolisa Ilegz ments by Secretary of State X ISrysEra Grimes, State Auditor B. F. Uixxth3im and State Treasurer B. E. Lacy, ttmzs' giving the audience a sample of cnsf- tory from five of its ehicf pssblie offi cials. " . . The military parade, reviewed 1rj the Governor of North Carttitna, G&v ernor of Virginia and Gwenaoi- k3i Massachusetts was the biggest parawila on any Governor's Day dtia-log- S&e Exposition. Twelve reglmcrKts of U S. Cavalry took part. The NosrtiJt Carolina troops deported ifcerarei'res beautifullly and won much pr&Lse Sbr their splendid drilling and inaiioffisr ers. Its a fine body of sjaJdierK, a credit to the State and they receiceil many compliments from gocwl jwJgas out of the State and 11 the- IVmn Ilfficn ers ' grew enthusianstie izt praise E the North Carolina troops. An mlv ship was sent np right over JStcth Carolina troops while they were tLsxII ing.- - ' :- At night the reception was In3if Governor and Mrs. Glenn,, assisted jby the State officials and, their wisaa, members of the Governor's staff ant! their wives, members of the Kbstti Carolina Exposition and their wivefe. and prominent' North CaroJiniam. The beautiful North Carolina !raTS3 ing was illuminated brffiisnHy night was a scene of brightness flie beauty of brave men and fair iFonaes, the glory and chivalry of old Noartb Carolina. ' The North Carolina foJls and the "Down. Homers" Iia3 at fSsK? time here. - It seemed that the wfcoi?e State was here at the reception auI if any are left at home this is 4t say "You don't know what you tcros missing. ' ' It makes one proud to know that he has tar on his luetSs s& Jamestown this week. Press Service Improved. """""V Chicago, Special Decided improve ment was made in the condition c3! the Associated Press -wires. The en tire leased wire eirenit between San Francisco and New York was plactsS in operation shortly after 6 o'clodfc tonight. Up to that time the Western; wires had terminated at Denvec JS. number o foperators who wenl onl cax Monday returned to their work dar ing the day. .... .x
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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Aug. 22, 1907, edition 1
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