The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-03
They Are Within Our Gates and
Welcome They Are.
RECEPTION AT MANSION
ROYALTY ENTERTAINED AT THE
MARLBOROUGH
YT4E CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
viii be Taken to Points of lnsere s.
Around the City This Morning.
and Will leave on the
Noon Train,
Noon Train.

\ eSterday n5rn7hg at ten o'clock, O.
special train bearing representative citi-
zens Of Raleigh, steamed out of Raleigh
on the Seaboard Airline railroad, bound
for Southern Pines to meet the delega-
ton of New Jersey editors en- route for
Raleigh. Capt. Hogan was the conductor
in charge of the train, and Mr.. Thos.
Allen was the engineer that carried the
party, which was composed of the follow
ing ladies and gentlemen:
n. w. West, Jno. Y. MacRae, Carey
j. Huater, A. NJ. Powell, J. l.. Ramsey,
r. f.. Crawford, George Allen, w. II,
Overton, e. L. Moffitt, G. G. Mcdonald,
Frank /. Ward, Jno. B. Kenny, w. w.
Hayward, David Berwanger, ii. s.
Leard, II. w. Smith, Josephus Daniels,
Mrs. j. NJ. Turner. Mrs. A. w. Knox, Mrs.
]. E. Shepherd, Mrs. VIM. Smith, Mrs.
VIM. Moncure, Mrs. A. ]. Cooke, Mrs.
e. Il. Moffitt, Mrs. Josephus Daniels.
The train arrived at Southern Pines
shortly after noon, and part of the COM
mittee took the electric train for Pine
hurst and dined at the Holly Inn, and
the others remained at Southern Pines
and took dinner at the Piney Woods Inn.
The editorial party had reached South
ern Pines the previous day, and been
welcomed by the residents and visitors
of that charming and delightful resort.
Among others who extended them cour-
teSies were DIR. X. ,G. s. McNeille, who
more than three years ago made a home
and planted a vineyard near Southern
| Pines. He is a congregational minister
from Bridgeport Conn. and is popular
and hospital bic host. Some of the editors
found friends from the North at Southern
Pines, The meeting with them and the
trip TO Pinehurst, to the vineyards and
the orchards added TO the pleasures OF
/ the trip to this growing health resort.
Leaving Southern Pines shortly after
3 O'clock, the party sped onward to Raj
eigh, the time being spent in pleasant
conversat tion by the New Jersey editors
and the ladies from Raleigh and the Raj
eigh reception committee,
AT THE STATE MUSEUM.
Reaching the city al o'clock, the party
proceeded to the State Museum, having
been met at the train by Mayor Russ,
Mr.. Jos. E. POgue, president of the Cham
Der of Commerce, Mr.. JuliuS Lewis,
Mr.. II. B. Raney and other prominent
citizens who composed the escort. They
were greeted by Commissioner Patterson
Secretary Bruner and Curator Brimley,
who took pleasure in showing the visitors
all the objects of interest in the most at
tractive and unique museum in the coun-
| try. To say that the party was aston
ished and pleased at the magnificent and
varied exhibit most attractively arranged,
| is to state it mildly. There were excla-
nations Of surprise and delight from
| the moment their eyes rested on the man.
| moth whale caught at Beaufort in 1874,
| until Mr. Brimley took them into his
sanctorum to give them q sight of his
newly mounted family of opossums that
looked so natural that one of the ladies
was afraid to go near them for fear they
would bite. They were shown specimens
of minerals, woods, fishes, crops, tobacco,
silks, tea and everything else that is
found or grown in North Carolina. The
object lesson arrangement was pro-
nounced by all of them as not only novel
but pleasing and beautiful, making an
| impression that no mere mammoth ex-
hibit could produce. Upon leaving the
department, each visitor was presented
with copy Of the handsome and elegant
book recently published by the Board Of
Agriculture which they will take to their
homes as souvenirs of the visit they
made to the most attractive place in the
whole South.
1t was almost dark when the last of
the editorial party finished the examina-
ton Of the exhibits and displays in the
Museum, and wended their way to the
Marlborough House where rooms had
been engaged for them. Between this
hour and nine o'clock, many of the bank
ers, manufacturers and business men
dropped in the Marlborough to meet them
informally.
RECEPTION AT THE GOVERN
OR'S MANSION.
AT nine O'Clock, accompanied by the
members of the Reception committee, the
party repaired to the Governors Man
sion where "a most delightful evening
was spent.The visitors were met by Mayor
Russ, Mr.. Joseph E. Pogue, President
or the Chamber of Commerce, Mr.
Josephus Daniels, chairman of the Re
ception committee, and Mrs. Daniels, and
presented by President Pogue to Gov
ernor and Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Craighill-
wife of Prof Craighill, OF the A. and M.
College, Mrs. Darby, of Wilmington,
and Misses Cornie and Ella
Petty, of Carthage, who extend
ed gave them a warm welcome. The
mansion was brilliantly Illuminated, and
never seen to better advantage.
The portraits of the Governors
of the past looked down
from the walls, showing a long line OF
great men who have filled the Executive
chair, and the interior arrangements and
decorations were tasteful and striking.
Most of the members of the Reception
committee and other prominent citizens
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