The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-03

tprday. Caesars tf1unlnfliS an ItGHie
and Frances welcome to Ma
poleon on his return from Austcrlitz
were great events-7great demonstra-
tions-but neither of Them compared with
the magnificent ovation now being given
to Dewey in New York.
s.What do you think of cotton?' | ask
ed Mr.. Ed. Ill. Lee yesterday.
'Wen. i hardly know" he replied.
shouldn't be surprised mt most anytlllhS
now. | expect. though, that 1t Will go
higher vet. This air feels like frost to-
night, and a heavy frost now would cut
the crop short many bales.
I'm afraid the repairs at tine Dear,
Dumb and Blind Institution will not be
completed by October 18th, our day OF
opening," said Supt Ray yesterday, "bu'
we'll open just the same. If the WORK Is
not finished Wei have it in such shape
that we cam proceed with it while the
school ds in progress
"What in your opinion would enhance
the price of cotton. more mills?" was
asked Secretary Bruner yesterday.
Ulll1lk dfOt. WIS uit dtl,'' ~
step further and say that / think North
Carolina has enough cotton mills OF the
grade now iil existence and under con-
strglction. There is but one mill IN the
State-the Steele Mills near Rocking
ham--which is making goods of fine
enough quality to be used as calico anu
print cloth The New England mill men
are pushing ont the yarn, plaid and sheet
ing mills into the South and filling theif
places with higher grade machinery
1nat means that they viii turn out
product worth from 20 to Do cents the
pound, while our Southern mills are
turning out a product which brings only
one half as much; the price OF the raw
material being about the same to each.
.sWhen in Chicago I'M '93 1 made
special examination of the product of
the German Gotten mills ON exhibition
there. They included cotton 'damask
of beautiful designs, bed tickings so
tightly woven as to resemble b1lckskin in
terghness and sateen i'm the lllstre of ITS
finish; no such goods are made in this
country. They We're worth from % to
80 cents the yard 1t was then that the
conviction was forced upon me that we
were only entering the domain of manu-
featuring and with the improved machin-
ery cotton would continue for years IFS
reign as king in the South.
II contend that as long as the South
ern Mills confine their weaves to the
warns. plaids and sheetings, NO material
advance in the price of the staple viii
he made to the planter. The New Eng
land weaver with his high grade machin-
cry will continue to make his bigger
nroft while the Southern mills Will aid
him In holding down the price OF the raw
naaterial to a point where his product
win Weld "a profit. 1t Dis the future Ut
| cotton milling i'm the South which invites
| this comment: from that standpoint our
| hone is i'm the present introduction OF
| machinery for the conversion or iK2 cenE
| cotton into Il 30 cent product. Inc ell
| Matte conditions are right, hut little
-compar atively-artificial heating. and
no artificial humidity are required IN the
SRouth during the entire year.
.Do YOU think you'll get your pro-
poSed railroad between Nandemere
and Washington DIR. Abbott was ask
ed yesterday.
Eyes. we'll get it sometime, / hope
building of only about forty miles of
road and will open up one of the finest
agricultural and timber sections in
North Carolina. The production of
truck in this section is already some
thing enormous. but it would be very
much greater with better transporta-
ton facilities. If we get the road it
will have to be built by the Atlantic
I ayfn nsin Af
from Washington.
1.-THE negroes of the North will not
support Mckinley" said Capt. James
Hamlin (colored) y. S. A., yesterday.
why! I'm sure / don't know, but
| they are certainly against him and they
don't hesitate to say that if It's choice
| in the next campaign between McAln-
| ley and Bryan they'll take Bryan"
81 notice that the burning of the
| Southern Railways warehouse at Pin
ner's Point is estimated at Sl,000,OO0,
| There is always Il disposition to exag-
| gerate the loss from fires. They look
So terrible while they are licking up
property. the sense of loss is so com
plete and the blackened ruins are so
helpless looking. I've been an in
surance adjuster for a long time and
can't recall single instance in which
the loss was not over-esrlmated. Do
you remember the St Vincent Hospital
fire in Norfolk a week ago? The loss,
you know, was placed by the Norfolk
papers at 100000. What do you
suppose we found it tos really be? Only
$50, 900 on the building and $4,000 ON
the furniture. Again we had little
fire in Durham. / went up to adjust
the loss. The fellow said it was 5000.
| told him we'd itemize the loss. We
did so and he could not get above the
ridiculous sum of $4S90. And yet he
| was perfectly honest when he said he
| believed his loss was 5000"
| A California paper records the death
| of Judge John A. Stanly, famous as the
| only surviving trustee under the Garce-
Ion will and leader at the bar of that
State. Or his life and career the paper
| says:
Judge Stanly had been a resident of
| this city [Oakland] and of San Fran
cisco for more than thirty years, and
| during that time was prominent in his
profession, in the church and in social
life. He was born in North Carolina