The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-03
ESPECIALLY IN WOOD, IRON AND
NEEDLE WORK AND POULTRY
SPEECH OF JOHN C. DANCY YESTERDAY
Full of Sound Sense and Good Advice to His
PeopIe--What the Negro is Doing Ia-
dustray--The Racing and Other
Events of Yesterday and Today,
Events Of Yesterday and Today.

been good. Yesterday a large crowd of
colored people were ont and the Fair
officials say that financially they will do
very well this year.
This is the last day of the fair and
the programme will be much the same
as on the previous days, with racing a>
usual in the afternoon. The colored
people of Raleigh have turned out wei!
this year and numbers from a distance
have been i'll attendance.
The North Carolina Industrial AssO-
citation under whose auspices the fair is
held met last night and elected the fol
lowing officers for 1900:
Thos Donaldson, of Raleigh, Presi-
dent.
c. C. Roach, of Newbern, Vice Presi-
dent.
Jno. II. Williamson, of Lewisburg,
Secretary.
c. w. Hoover, of Raleigh, Treasurer
ii. s. Smith, of Raleigh, Assistant
Secretary.
A committee of three was appointed
to draft resolutions in memory of Nortlet
Jeffries and Steward Ellison all mem
bers of the association.
Il. III. Leak who has served the asso-
ciatEon efficiently as secretary for a
number of years declined a reelection to
the regret of its members.
The exhibits this year occupy only the
Eastern section of Floral hall, but the
displays are very good. The needle work
exhibit particularly is excellent and is
more extensive than any of the others.
The Pickford Sanitarium, of Southern
Pines. has a neat hospital room as an
exhibit and it attracts mach attention ia
the excellent work DIR. Scruggs is doing
for the consumptives of his race.
The colored A. & NJ. college of Green's
boro shows Il fine display of wood and
iron work. architectural drawings and
designs, needlework, &C. "A smal steam
engine made by the students is a feature
of the exhibits.
st. Augustine's school has one of the
most attractive exhibits in the hall. con,
siSting Of cloth and rugs woven at the
school, products of the field, paintings
&c.
The poultry exhibit is fine this year
especially that of G.. w. Hoover, Jr, OF
Raleigh. and that of Nelson Kelly, each
of which contains birds that would be
creditable TO any poultry show.
THE RACES.
The entries and the winning horses in
yesterdays races We're as follows:
Billy Wiggin, by Pamlico owned by
Johnson Il Martin. Entered by w. A
Nixon.
Tytainger, bay mare by Oberlin. Enter
ed by Moye.
Jaborick, bay stud by Pamlico. Enter
ed by c. l.. Woodall
Tytainger wins the heat and race
Time 2:34.
Billy Wiggin, second; Jaborick, third
Byclcle race was won by Will Mitchell
Time 40 seconds.
The feature of yesterday was the an
nual address to the Industrial Society
and visitors by Collector John G.. Dancy
Of Wilmington. Collector Dancy gave
his race some excellent advice. Speak.
ing of the advancement of the negro il
the 20 years since the first fair was
held he sEaid:
I'VE have made wonderful strides in
the State and nation since that time
strides which would do credit to any
race or people. AT that time we had'n
single negro physician practicing in
the State, now we have ~; we had
three lawyers. now we have IS; we had
no college with a negro president, nov
we hake five; we had no thought Of q
cottontmill, by which we could turn out
the finished product of this textile: We
have one now manned and controlled by
ourselves: no means of learning anything
about silk culture, and certainly nc
idea of ever being an operative in q
silk mill, but now we are furnishing
operatives for one with the early pros
pect of running another. We had no in
dustrial school then, whereas nearly all
our best equipped schools have an indus
trial feature now. Then we had only
about a dozen ministers who were col
lege graduates in our State churches OF
the different denominations; now we
have over hundred, each scattering
light and knowledge and lifting the
nightmare of ignorance, vice and super
stition. Nor have we stood still along
the other avenues of life. We have
about kept pace with the progress of the
State. Twenty years ago we held a
property in the State at a valuation of
about six million dollars; today we pay
taxes on twelve million dollars. In nearly
all the State Building and Loan Asso-
Citations, and in most of the banks of the
State we carry stock and have to our
credit wealthy deposits. As we were adj
vised by Senator Vance, Mr.. Elliott. Gov
ernor Jarvis, Col. l.. l.. Polk and Bishop
Hood We have been making sacrifices in
L. 10 fr,,. a
bic home or small farm, and add to these
as our limited income would allow until
we reach circumstances which would
make us feed at case in our declining
years."
The following facts may not be with
out interest to both races in this connec-
ton:
We constitute a third of the population