The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-11
AGAINST THE LEASE.
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY OUR
COMMERCIAL BODIES.
Request Made ofOur Representatives
in General Acknowledgements State
Telephone Endorsed - Mr..
Jones' Resolution Adopted.


At a joint meeting OF the Chamber
of Commerce, Merchants and Traders
Union and Tobacco Board, held in
the Chamber of Commerce rooms,
Friday night. Mr..J. M. Rogers was
called to the chair. A bout fifty nentle-
mt we're present.
The Secretary Of the Chamber read
a request for the body to act on the
Loud Bill" On motion of Mr.. Eller
these bodies favored the bill and:the
Secretary was ordered to communi-
cate at once with the committee on l
cent letter postage and our Represen-
tatives in Congress requesting the
cent postage.
The telephone question was then
fully discuss ID. The representatives
OF the two companies were request ed
to retire during the discussion, which
was engaged in by Messrs. Frank
Brown, r j. Reynolds, j. w. Hanes,
E. E. Gray w. B. Pollard, T. L
Vaughn, E. B. JoUes, w. L Hill, B.
B. Owens and others.
Mr.; Hogan, the representative of
the Bell Company, was then intro
duced and spoke for his company.
Mr. Edgar Miller also made talk
for his company, the Interstate.
On motion of T. l. Vaughn, the
Telehrap and Express companies
were requested to put in Interstate
phones for the convenience of patrons
and the Secretary was ordered to
make the request, which was done
today.
Mr. E B Jones introduced the fol
,lI1fi /, iok, nd
ted:
Resolved, That it is the sense of
this meeting that the citizens of Win
ston-Salem should patronize the in
ter-StaGe Telephone Company so long
as they maintain the present rates as
their maximum charges and SO long
as hey give good service.
The lease of the North Carolina
Railroad was discussed by Messrs. E.
B. Jones. E E. Gray, r j. Reynolds,
A FL Eiler, Frank Brown, Ell. E
Fries, G. w. Hinshaw and others.
After lengthy discussion the fol-
lowing resolution, introduced by E F.
Gray, was adopted
"Whereas, we believe that the re-
cent lease of the North Carolina Rail
road to the Southern Railroad Com
pany is greatly detrimental to the
best interests of the State as whole
and the General Assembly of North
Carolina now in session should do all
in It's power to annual said lease here
tOfore made.
Be it resolved by the Chamber Of
Commerce, Merchants and Traders
Union, Tobacco Board OF Trade and
other citizens of the City of Winston,
in meeting assembled, that we do
hereby request and strongly urge our
representatives and all other mem
bers of the General Assembly to OBJ
tain and secure the enactment of such
law as will result IN a cancellation
of said lease.
Resolved, further that a copy of
these resolutions be transmitted to
our Representatives in the General
Assembly at Raleigh.
Mr.. E. b. Jones reported that Dis
trict Attorney eileen said the
Attorney General must pass on
the question OF our public building
On motion of Mr.. Jones, Messrs. A.
e. Holton and r B. Glenn were ap-
pointed committee to see the Attor
ney General and work for the build
ing.
The Secretary reported the need of
a new circular about the Twin-City.
On motion of Mr. Eller the Presidents
of the three Boards were requested to
name man from each body on the
committee to prepare handbook;
the cost of getting out same to be
equally divided between the three
bodies.
On motion of r. ]. Reynolds, COM
mittee of two was appointed to wire
our representatives in the Legislature
the resolution adopted regarding the
lease of the North Carolina road. B.
j. Reynolds and e E Gray were ap.
pointed.
The resolutions were teIegraphed to
Raleigh today.
The members Of these bodies were
requested to consult with the COM
mIttee of the Winston Aldermen in
regard to a change in the town char
ter.
The Secretary reported large num-
Der of letters of inquiry concerning
the town and prospect OF new in
duStrieS here.
1t was after IL o'clock when the
meeting adjourned.