The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-16
NEW HOTEL TO BE BUILT
THIS DISPENSARY is NOT DOING
A RUSHING BUSINESS.
A GOOD SNAKE JOKE TOLD AT KELLY
The Charming Environments and the Pleasant
Social Life Of a Splendid Institution.
Resemblance TO Coun-
try Club.

resDondence. Said Il man at the Nc
Adoo last night: I'VE need but two
things to make this the biggest town i'll
the countryside Atlantic Oceaii-and Il
morning newspaper. We are thinking
too. of making Greensboro the capital
of the State, but there is no hurry about
this. Talk about central location. why,
we are within few hours of everywhere.
The News and Observer gets here before
we get ND in the morning. We have
the Charlotte Observer at our breakfast
tables, the Wilmington papers at DINNER,
and the New York morning and Wash
ington afternoon papers at supper. we
can take our Sundays bath at More
head or Old Point and not get locked
for being away from our office.
Speaking of growth. The directory
Just gotten out gives Us 1o.00O-and that
is low estimate. Look at the big ana
diversified manufactures and enterprises
that are constantly springing up. There
is the big steel manufactory, wood work
ing factories, tobacco factories.
terra-cotta works. canning factories.
magnificent. buildings. Look at our
schools and the Keely Institute. You
can just say that this is going to be the
city of the South. Atlanta has got to
hustle to keep her laurels."
And many other people say the same
thing about Greensboro. There is nc
doubt about its growth. But under the
new order of things the people remain
the same chivarous, hospitable folk that
has made Greensboro noted throughout
the South. This fact is very charmingly
state in an article in the recent Industrial
Edition of the Patriot, as follows:
at is often the case that city whose
past is famous can have no glory in
store.
4 community that revels in a splendid
history is apt to be listless in the present
and dead as to the future. a populace
sprung from an heroic and famed ances-
try is liable to dwell so lovingly on their
fathers deeds and luxllriate so enthusi-
astically in their record that they forget
to live the present and reck not of what
is to come. 1t is not so with Greensboro.
Though the tale of her origin and devel-
opment is unique, though here have been
fostered in years long gone, high ideas
and noble purposes that left their inn
print on the history of State and Nation
yet Greensboro's glory has not dimmed
with the closing days of the nineteenth
century.
II fact, each succeeding year of the
last decade has added to her renown.
She is to-day such am intermixture of
educational, commercial and industrial
enterprise as no town of like size in
this broad nation can excel, and few
equal"
GALA WEEK.
Big preparations are being made Just
now for gala week which occurs the first
part of August. The business men and
citizens are deeply interested. They arc
all pulling together to make it a big sue
cess. 1t would seem that the hotel ac-
commodation are inadequate to take care
D fthe crowd. but l am reliably informed
that every visitor will be comfortably
quartered
The owners of the magnificent build
ing. the Normandie, have been con
sidering the advisability Of converting
this building into hotel, but have
finally decided to use it for offices as
originally intended A splendid hotel
will be erected shortly on the site of the
old Benbow House.
THE DISPENSARY LAW.
The dispensary law is now in full
force. Its success cannot be determined
upon as yet. The dspensary has not
been doing Il rushing business thus far.
This. as explained by the porter ut
the McAdoo, is because ''de gemmen
has done laid in er good supply fore de
bars closed up
a saloon keeper on Elm street got in
a parting sally ut the authorities by the
following sign posted constantly in his
front windows:
''This place closed during 1.-THE present
dispensation.''
The new law has it's staunch friends
and its hitter enemies. Some of the
citizens think that the sale of LIQUOR
should be prohibited altogether, others
that the dispensary system is fair
compromise, while many are violently
opposed to both prohibition and dispen-
sary laws.
A KELLEY STORY.