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VOL. VHI. NO. 75. GBEENSBOBO. N. C SATURDAY. M AY 4, 1901. Price Five Ceiitf. SPECIAL NOTICES All advertisements under this head 5 cents per line; n6 advertisement inserted for less tban 15 cents. BARGAINS IN EVIHRY BOX OF Shoes in our stars. They were bought to be sold and a price is plac ed on each pair that .tells the most skeptical that the line of giving away has been closely approached. Nothing short of going barefooted will save you the' money that we can ii footwear. J. M. HENDRIX & co; It IF YOU LIKE GOOD SODA WATER drink at our fountain. GRISSOM & FORDHAM. It THE CARPET STORE IS THE PLACE to get carpets, mattings, window shades, etc. I will make a specialty of the cut order department. I will measure your house and make esti mate on request. Ask for samples J. N. LEAK, 110 S. Elm Street. FRESH FISH AT CITY MARKET Saturday. Stall No 11. A. H. WOLF, Proprietor. t3 FOR SALE NICE BUILDING LOT near new Spring Garden Street Me thodist church and" Normal College. Price $200. Apply to J. L. Brock- mann, at Thacker Store. Brocllmann's DRAYAGE PHONE 104 FOR QUICK delivery. G. A. KESTLER. nl4-lm TURKISH BATHS MAY BE HAD every Saturday afternoon or even ing at 407 Lithia street. Price 50 cents. m23-tf SEND US YOUR LACE OR SWISS curtains, blankets and anything else you want cleaned up for spring. Such work handled with care. New flut ing machine. Linen laundried as cheaply as can be done any where. GATE CITY STEAM LAUNDRY. DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK how much it cost you to use gas with out a torch and wax tapers from the consequences of hanging on Chande lier to light the-gas or standing on your plush bottom chair? More damage may be done by lighting one chandelier one time without .these conveniences than it would cost to buy a outfit for each and every room in the house. We have them at all prices, 15, 20 and 25 cents for torch and . wax tapers. Stop and get one, - and thereby stop a nuisance in your house. GATE CITY SUPPLY CO., 217 South Elm Street. Phone 161. PHOTOGRAPHS 10 CENTS ONLY ten days longer. Ten photos for 10 cents. MANGUM & COBB, 330 South Elm street, over West's Con fectionary store. It LOST BETWEEN NORMAL AND G. F. C, pin, small triangle, blue center; C. L. S. in gold letters; turquoise in each corner. Made by Haskell, New York. Return and get reward. MRS. RANDALL, Normal. BUSINESS FOR SALE WE ARE I going out of the retail grocery busi ness and offer our stock of staple and fancy griceries, store fixtures, and lease on bujiding for sale as awhole. Business is now paying. If not sold by Tuesday night will sell, beginning Wednesday morning, entire stock at retail at reduced prices. T. G.. M' LEAN & SON. ARE YOUR DOLLARS DEAD OR alive? If you qgry them in your Pocket they are dead. . If you in vest a few of them in a pair of our shoes they will be, alive and return you big value J. M. HENDRIX & CO. It REMOVAL J. QI1VB & Co. have moved their grocery and pro- R duce store to 214 NortB?Elm street, W. W. Workman Js associated yrith the business where he bJ&pp to srve his friends and acquaiiSaces. C It WHITSETT COMMENCEMENT An Interesting Program for Thai Intitution Arranged for. An interesting program fo rthat ins titution arranged for: Saturday, May 18, 8 p. m. Declama tion Contests By Athenian Literary Society. 1 Sunday, May 19, 11 a. m Annual Sermon By Rev. C. E. Hodgin. Sunday, May 19, 3 p. m Annual Sermon before Y. M. C. A. By Rev. J. D. Andrew. Monday, May 20, 8 p. m. Declama- uon Contest By Dialectic Literary So cietv Tuesday, May 21, 2 p. m. Annual re union of the Literary Societies. Wednesday, May 22 Commencement Day 10 a. m. urations Dy society Representatives; 2 p. m., Literary ad dress, by Francis Preston Venable, President of the University of North Carolina; 3 p. m., Graduating Exercis- es of the Class of 1901; 8 p. m., Con cert. Music by Whitsett Mandolin Club and Burlington Concert Band. OAK. RIDGE COMMENCEMENT To Be Held tbe 19th, of This Month. Hon. Locke Craig to Deliver the Address. The Commencement Exercises of the Oak Ridge Institute will occur on the 19th to the 21st inst., inclusive. The program is an interesting one and is reproduced : May 19, 11 a. m. Annual Sermon Rev. J. W. Bailey, Editor Biblical Re corder. May 19, 8:30 p. m. Address before Young Men's Christian Association- Rev. H. J. Hartsell May 20, 3 p. m. Class-Day Exer cises May 20, 8:30 p. m. Junior Contest May 21, 10:30 a. m. Commencment Exercises. May 21, 2 p. m. Annual Address Hon Locke Craig, Ashevllle, N. C. ' May 21, 9 p. m. Faculty Reception. PROGRESSIVE AUTHOR CLUB Entertained Last Night by Miss Dot Thacker Club Disbands for the Summer, The Progressive Author Club was delightfully entertained last evening by Miss Dot Thacker at her home on West Gaston street. This was the last meeting the- Club .will have until next fall, and knowing it to be the last one, the young folks crowded all the fun possible in the few short hours. The prize, a pretty book, was won by Miss Pauline Pretzfelder, and Mr. Wistar Stockard was. awarded the boo by, a "dummy" watch. Those present were Misses Bonnie Bishop, Pauline Pretzfelder, Mamie Walker, Bessie Grissom, Carrie Wood, Louise Brad shaw, Margaret Merrimon, Lillian Adams, Lena Lee, Mabel Leak. Mess rs. Archer Dalton, Rowland Hill, Jes se Mebane, Fred Crawford, Wistar Stockard, Clyde Lyon, Meredith Tur ner, Wade Stockard, Irving Eldridge, Worth Ross, Jules Llndau, and Char lie Alderman. A Pleasant Occasion. Misses Lelia and Lillian Pitts enter tained a few of their friends at their home on West Lee street last night from 8:30 to 11:30. Music, pleasant conversation and delightful refresh ments served to make the evening a most pleasant one to those who were fortunate enough .to be present. Minstrel Show at Quitor d Col lege. w The Atheletic Association of Guil ford College gave a minstrel perform ance at the College last night. A number of Greensboro people attend ed, and report the entertainment to have been a very creditable one for amateur talent After the perform- jance, refreshments were served. . : . "Mr. P. G. Welsh ryrne last night rfrom the eastern part 'of ftheSt&te. FIFTEEN MILLIONS GO UP fit FLAMES, JACKSONVILLE HOW III RUINS THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FIRE EVER IN THE SOUTH. Loss Estimated to be $15,000,000 Over 130 City Blocks Buried, Destroying 1300 Buildings Seven Fine Hotels, Many Churches, Schools and Residences Wiped Out Mayor Says no Lawlessness Exists Burned District Patroledby Militia. The most destructive fire that ever raged over a Southern city swept over Jacksonville, Florida, yesterday. The fire originated in the American Fibre i Company's factory between twelve and one o'clock, and was caused by an in significant looking piece of wire be coming displaced. By Wire to The Telegram. Jacksonville, Fla., May 4. A report was circulated this morning that a par ty oftwenty persons had been driven by the fire to the docks along the St. Johns river and forced into the water All attempts to rescue them by boats were futile. The river is being search ed. . w -igj'- Military companies from four cities came by special trains to Jacksonville to relieve the local militia which has been on duty since midnight. Many extra policemen have been sworn in. Every able bodied man not doing duty in some capacity in the, fire swept dis trict has been pressed into service. Negroes are hudled in groups in vari ous parts of the city. FJre companies from Savannah, Oscala ana other ci ties, worked like heroes. The losses will not be known for weeks. Street car service is at a standstill. Electric light circuits and gas olant are des troyed. A conservative estimate plac es the number of homeless at tenthous and. Most ofthem spent the night in parks, on barges and some slept along side the few belongings that had been ) saved, The board of tradeheld a re- lief meeting this morning. LATER An appeal to the people of the United States will be issued ;this af ternoon. Mayor Bowden said at noon "Sayto the world that the loss in Jacksonville is greater than has ever before been inflfcted upon a Southern city by fire, but Jacksonville's best wealth still survives in her people. I estimate our property loss to be fif teen millions. Not a hint of lawless ness. Our people of every race and condition showed a most helpful spirit I cannot find words strong enough to express my appreciation of their work." Jacksonville, Fla., May 3 At 12:45 today Jacksonville experienced the most disastrous fire of her existence. The entire length of Beaver street from Davis street to the creek on Liberty street, has been totally destroyed. This is 14 solid blocks of residences. For the same distance Ashley and Church streets have both been blotted out. When the fire reached Bridge street in its eastward course it enveloped in flames three-iildcks, Duval, Monroe.and the north aide of Adams, burning up that entire section of the city,and run ning 14 blocks to the Duval street bridge. How much further in that di rection the city is burned It is impos sible to learn, the street being impas sable, but It is feared that St Luke's -Hospital 'was burned, a report reach ing, the city that the Presbyterian church in 1Sast Jacksonville is ablaze. If this is correct the fire must 4iaye extended five blocks further east The conflagration has burned as far as-ls definitely known over a distance of two and one half miles, by; a half-mile wide. W&en the fire reached fvW. 43treet It was a roaring furnace jrith but anr prospect of being put. under ilctaby: keeps BAckcwjaS 5 The local military companies wlre c 4 'VI ( . I " v -.' , called out. to keep back the crowds, and the fire department began to use dyna mite to blow up the houses a block from the fire and thus prevent the fire from spreading. So fierce was the blaze, however, and so strong had be come the wind that millions of sparks and flying, burning shingles spread over five or six blocks, setting the' roofs ot the houses on fire in advance of the department. Soon Senator Taliaferro's residence, then the adjoining houses on the block, were ablaze and in spite of all efforts to save the Windsor and the St James Hotels both buildings were quickly enveloped in flames. For about an hour the guests in the Wind sor had been busily packing their trunks and went away loaded with trunks and grips, some, unfortunately, to the United States Hotel, but most to Riverside. BURNING OF THE ELKS' HOME. Leaping madly across the street from the Windsor the fire attacked the Seilis House and then the Methodist parson age, and in a few moments Trinity Me thodist church was a mass of flames. The opera house block followed, and the Richards and Livingstone boarding houses. A desperate effort was made to save the Baldwin mansion, which was recently purchased by the Elks for $18,000. No earthly power could save this building and that entire block and the one west was auickly a mass of flames. Once the fire got started on Main street, the closely adjoining buildings went one after another, Paints with barrels of oil were plenti ful in this dictrict, and as they caught on fire oneafter the other the blaze, rose hundreds of feet high and quickly set the other buildings across the street on fire. DYNAMITE AND POWDER EX PLODE. Then the Hubbard Hardware Store caught, and the. people scattered when they saw what had happened. Hun dreds of pounds of powder, and a great deal of dynamite was stored in this building; Ten minutes passed when suddenly there was a roar and the building collapsed like an egg shell. The dynamite and powder had explod ed. Here again there was much danger to the firemen. Cartridges began to ex plode and bullets began to fly around, and the effort to fight the fire at this point had for a time to be abandoned. This was only the start of the most in ense part of the fire. The new. Furclli gott building was soon ablaze,and;the.i ;-.:'..''fcy also (: ardiner building was a ja?s o fin met. Down the street' en, fir" -spread with rppidity ana the entire :trrl- u of Bay stieet froa Market to Main street, and extending for five blocks back, was burning all at once.;: MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS WIPED OUT. The city building went, the fire de partment building, the .armory, the county court house, the clerk's office, with the co iiity records, the Criminal court house, the city jail and the grad ed schools and the Catholic church and orphanage, St. John's Episcopal church and he convent. The entire city of magnificent buildings all burned up in less than four hours. The scene was one that beggars description. At 8:30 the fire was checked at the inter section of Laura and Bay streets where the Commercial Bank, which went up in flames, was located, the Western Union Telegraph office being just across the street and not damaged. THREE HOTELS GONE. Among the prominent hotels burned were the St James, the United States, the Placide an the Windsor. It is im possible at-this hour to ascertain the losses, but it is said by insurance agents that it will be between $8,000, )00 arid $9,000,000. Six lives are re ported lost iri the conflagration. The mayor has called a meeting of the city council for tomorrow to consider ways and means fdjr relieyeing the sufferers. some;of thb-losses. A partial lijst of IsUmated losses up to 1:30 th$ (Saj&rday) morning, are as v follows : ceyeland manufac- ""(ContSue on flfth page.) 2P DR. M'lVER AT RICHMOND. HIS SPEECH THE FEATURE OF THE OC CASION- The Graduation Exercises of the University College of Medicine Attended by a Vast Concourse of People Many North Caro lina Boys Among: the Graduates, who for the First Time in History of the Institu tion Wear Caps and Gowns. Dr. Charles D. Mclver returned last night from Richmond, Va., where he delivered on Thursday night an able address before the graduating class of the University College of Medicine on the occasion the eighth annual com mencement of that institution. Speak ing of his visit, Dr. Mclver says he never spoke, to a larger and more en thusiastic audience than on this oc casion. In the graduating class of eighty-one students, nineteen were from North Carolina, and .at the con clusion of the exercises the North Caro lina students crowded around Dr. Mc Iver, and to the Doctor's surprise and gratification newfound that three of the nineteen graduates had sisters under his care at the State Normal College. The commencement was a brilliant .one, and the graduating class, for the ' first time in the history of the institu- .tton, appeared in caps and gowns. In speaking of the commencement address the Richmond Dispatch says: Professor Charles D. Mclver, L. D., president of the State Normal and In dustrial Coltige, Greensboro, N. C w;is introduced, and spoke for an hotr upon "'The best Field for Investment in lii-i South." Dr. Mclver's speech was .lor:g educational lines, and was at once instnicihe and highly entertain ing. The subject was treated in an original maanrr, and gave facts anl tatvft'.i.-3 of sutling importance. Ip beginning his speech Dr. Mclu "In NTth Carolina we are pron yo;;r college. Eivery true soutnorne is prjud of Virginia and of 4 RictiiK-nd. and rejoices in whatever adds to I he prosperity an! glory of either. 'Wo ; claim almost any. equal f.liie witli you in tho name of Stonewall Jackson and of his great surgeon, Hun ter McGuire., In addition to our inter est in your college, because of our ven eration for the name and work of its great founder, and because of its pn--nd&ienal growth and prestige, gained in less than a decade, we feel1 a thbcu-? liar pride that at its head, worthily succeeding; the great president you have lost is one of the many gifted sons North Carolina has had the fortuneand misfortune tejjjive to oth er States. The career of Dr. Hodges in his native State as teacher, physici an, lecturer, and citizen, was such that no surprise Will be icaused there by any success he may achieve or any honor that may come to him in. his adopted home. "I have accepted the invitation to speak to you tonight for two- reasons first, because I was asked to Choose some subject connected with education, and second,because you .are 'going to be physicians, and will influence- the thinking and acting of . more people in the next quarter of a century than t- any other hundred men whom. I will hav. the oportunity to address this year. INFLUENCE OF DOCTORS. 'While not forgetting that I belong to the most influential of all profes sions, if all future results are counted, yet I recognize the fact that no pro fession equals yours in the influence exerted upon the generation in which it labors. Airworthy professions have the respect and support of intelligent peoplevbnV yours is the ,mly profes sion that has the absolute confidence and affection of the ignorant. "This respect on the part of the ig .norant may be due in part .to the uni versal dread of sickness, pain, and death; partly to the awe-inspiring si lence and dignity ofthe typical pnyr sician, and partly tQ thet fact when (Continued on sixth r page. 7 1 v-Ct f - f r - - J - r- i " v v - : i 4 s - S. -f . .... '.V jr 1 1 ,3 -4' r - 9
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