The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-02
RALEIGH ARMY POST
The Committee Meets and
Reports Gratifying
Progress,
LAND OPTIONS WANTED
AT REASONABLE PRICES WITHIN
THREE MILES OF CITY.
SUBSCRIPTIONS VERY ENCOURAGING
The Members Of the Committee will Continue
to Exert Themselves Towards Secur-
ing this Valuable Acqu stion
to RaIeigh's Progress.

The committee appointed by the Cham
Der of Commerce to take in hand the
matters pertaining TO the securing of an
army post for Raleigh met yesterday
morning at the office of Barbee & Com
pany. Mr.. f. b. Barbee, the chairman,
and every member of the committee
was present.
Reports were made by the different
subcommittee and these reports showed
that very gratifying progress had been
made in subscriptions to the fund with
which to buy site for the establishment
of a post.
The members of the committee feel en-
couraged over the progress SO far; SO
much so that they feel justified in
asking for options from parties
owning tracts of land within radius
of three miles from the city so that
when sufficient sum is pledged the COM
mittee may be in u position to offer the
War Department one or more available
sites on which to establish the post.
While ii great number of the business
men and citizens Of Raleigh, generally
have signiied their willingness to contri-
butte towards securing this very valuable
acquisition to the commercial interest of
the city and have pledged the amounts
many others who have not yet sub
scribed to the fund There are a num-
Der also who have signified their willing
ness to contribute but who have not
stated the amounts they would give. If
all will unite and each do his part, there
is but little doubt that the post will be
secured for Raleigh, and there is scarce
~ Il man or woman III the city who
does not know what this would mean
for Raleigh. There is hardly Il man
or business in Raleigh that would not
be benefited by the establishment of
an army post here.
The benefits would come in ten thou
sand ways. The money spent here
would find its way through every avenue
of commerce aud trade and every class
OF our people would reap direct benefits.
Mr. Barbee and his associates on the
committee are working vigorously, with
out hope of reward except the reward
that may come to them as citizens of
Raleigh, and their solicitations should
receive the most careful consideration
from every citizen of the city.
There is one other important ques-
ton that has got to be solved, and that
is the question of a site for the post. No
site has yet been decided upon: indeed
the matter Of raising a fund sufficient
TO buy Il site has engaged the attention
of the committee since its appointment.
Ii the pledges of subscriptions are
augmented as they should be during the
next few days, the committee can then be
thinking seriously about u location, and
therefore they ask that parties having
tracts Of land of sufficient size near
Raleigh, or if several persons owning
adjoining tracts which may be combined
into one tract of sufficient size for the
post, the committee asks that they be
appraised Of such lands. and that short
options be given to the committee at
reasonable prices.
Let everybody unite their energies aud
do all possible for the securing Of this
post. and there is little doubt but what
we will get it.