Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-09-22
Prospects Bright for Magnificent
Exhibition in October.
ENTRIES WILL BE LARGE.
Mr.. w. F. Old, Chief Marshal. and is Select
ing His Corps of Assistants a Popular
Young Couple Married in washington
City Appointed General Manager of
the senbonrd Air Lines Live Stock De-
partment-C Completion of the Tax Books
ofwayno County.

Toici6ii, IN. W Oept. lz.--Mr. Joseph
E. Pogue, secretary of the North Caro-
lima State Fair, to be held in this city
October % to 81, has assurances from
the officials of the Seaboard Air Line
the Southern and other railroads that
q special rate, as low, IL not lower,
than last year, will be put on during
fair week. He thinks a penny per- mile
rate will be granted for at least three
or four days of the week. Mr.. Pogue
returned yesterday from Richmond,
Portsmouth and other points, where he
went to confer with railroad officials
regarding the rate. Official announce
ment will be made within few days.
prospects were never brighter MIR.
rogue says, for the success of n North
Carolina State Fair, from either at
tendance or exhibit and attraction
viewpoint, than now.
The fair grounds present q scene OF
activity, the most noticeable work now
In progress being the construction of a
pavilion for the Raleigh Electric Com
pany. MIR. w. j. Andrews, president.
On this pavilion is to be arranged an
elaborate exhibit of electric machinery.
There will be motors, fans and other
machinery of the latest patent Bril-
liant electric dislays will be features
OF each evening that the fair is opened.
In all parts of the fair grounds car
penters are busy putting in thorough
repair the grounds. buildings. etc.
Painters and whitewashers are prepar-
Ing to give all buildings and fences
bright, new dress. and the place never
appeared to better advantage than 1t
VIII for the approaching fair
About 1000 feet of the fence adjacent
to the race track is being moved back
about twenty-five feet, so as to give
more room for the midway attroctto,,
which Will this year eclipse all pre-
vious records of this feature of the fair
This change Will afford ample space for
the vast throngs of people who Will
pass around the grandstand and up
and down the midway.
Mr. Pogue reports that space for ex-
hibits Is being taken very rapidly. an
pllcatlons and acceptanceS being re-
ceived by every mall. large number
OF carpenters are busy now arranging
platforms and making other arrange.
ments FOR the numerous exhibitors
The program for the races. issued
some time ago. seems to be meeting
with general approval among those
Interested In this important feature of
the fair, as not Il single complaint has
yet been received by Mr.. Pogue or
others connected with the fair.
The entries this year will be very
much larger than ever and, withal, the
horses will be of n more speedy class
IMAM ever before.
President Andrews, of the Raleigh
Electric Company. Is making ample ar
engagements to provide n street car SER
vice which will be in every way ade-
quate to accommodate the immense
throngs who will pour into Raleigh
from every quarter.
MIR. w T. Old, whose appointment to
the chief marshaIship of the fair was
announced several days ago. has ac-
cepted. his formal letter to this effect
having been received by Secretary
Pogue yesterday. In his letter of ac-
ceptance Mr.. Old states that he is now
selecting n corps of assistants from
amongst the foremost young men in
every part of the State. The social
features will be by odds the most bril-
liant in the history of North Carolina
State Fairs.
MARRIED IN WASHINGTON.
A dispatch from Washington, d. c.,
says:
Miss Emma Scott Marshall, of Win.
chester, Va. and Mr.. William II.
Tyree. of Lynchburg. Va, were mar
ried in this city on Monday evening by
the Rev. DIR. Pitzer at his parsonage
The only guests present We're Mr. and
Mrs. James McKincher. uncle and aunt
OF the bride; DR.. p. ]. Affieck. Miss
Nina TAFT and little Marian TAFT, of
this city,and Mr.. Alexander McI<incher
and family, of Glenwood. D. C. The
bride was becomingly attired in q
going-away gown of cadet gray CLOTH
with hat to match. Directly after the
ceremony the bride and groom, accom-
Sixth street depot, where Mr.. and Mrs
Tyree took the train for Hillsboro, NJ
c., where the groom is in business"
A GOOD APPOINTMENT.
Col. Robert L. Abernethy. of CASTOR
county, has been appointed general
manager of the live stock department
connected with the Industrial move
ment of the Seaboard Air Line, and
yesterday accepted the position. He
will make n tour of the system deliver
ing lectures on the breeding of fine
stock and will aid all who may wish
to do so to secure fine stock on reason
able terms. His large experience in the
management of the noted Open View
Stock and Poultry farm, at Manhattan
Island. peculiarly fits him for this posi-
ton. and the department is to be con-
graduated upon it's acquisition.
WAKE COUNTY TAX BOOKS.
The tax books We're completed and
turned over to the Register of Deeds
yesterday, and the sheriff is now ready
to collect the taxes.
The aggregate value of all real and
personal property in Wake county is
S12.251 ,916. divided as follows: Owned
by the whites, sl1. 692,O64: by negroes,
s55a.002; by Indians. $3.50.
The number OF white polls In Wake
county Is 1853; the number Of negro
polls. 2,954-a total of 1881.
There are in the county 475103 acres
of land. valued at $3599731. and 1900
acres of mineral lands, valued at So, $40.
The number of town lots is 472 and
their value is $3.907,546.
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