The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-08

MARKET HOUSE COMING,
We take pleasure in announcing to our
friends and customers that on and after
March Isl the market house ON wheels
will be in front of our place of bust
ness for three days only. Don't forger
the date and come one, come all.
BLANK Il BRO.
''As the market house is TO be located
for the especial benefit OF the merchants
OH Fayetteville street. we could all by
that arrangement get equal advantage OF
1t and likewise vacate the present site
for an auditorium. an opera house. a
Masonic temple or something else that
would improve the city and thereby in
crease the value Of its property.
If anybody has Il better solution to
the tangle I'd like To hear from him.
concluded Mr.. West.
Mr.. f. II. Busbee suggested that Mr..
West get IA patent on his idea and call
II VESTS Rotary Market House
Somebody else favored calling ii the
.Automabile Market" and suggested
that the city's road roller be used in
drawing the house from store to store.
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the newspapers would have TO publish
every morning, along with the weather
prediction. the location Of the market
house for the day. And if YOU We're not
able to subscribe for Il paper, why you'd
just simply have TO get some good Sa
marian or kindly disposed policeman
To show YOU to it,
Mr.. c. b. Edwards, who IS bitterly op-
posed to the sale of the present market.
has this scheme for an auditorium;
Take the $4,000 year that has been
spent on the streets before the bonds
were voted and build an auditorium. For
three years, he says, only bond money
has been spent on the streets and there
ought therefore to now be 100000 in
the treasury. This he thinks. ought
to be sufficient for an auditorium.
The only trouble with this scheme is
that there is no $50, 600 in the city treas
ury.
Major Spicr Whitaker is in favor of
selling the market house for a reasonable
price and taking up such parts of the
two side streets as may be necessary for
a modcrn opera house to be built by
whoever buys the property. The city
OWLS every foot of these side streets and
they We're left open simply for the CON
venience OF wagons rs long as the build
ing was used for market.
Mr. w. Il. Jones. who has one Of the
largest stores ON Fayetteville street, just
across from the market. said he favor
ed the sale Of tine market house for the
reason that he considered it to the best
interest Of Raleigh.
This market house was erected here
half a century ago. when Raleigh had
only 5000 Inhabitants. 1t was large
enough then. its not now. The city has
outgroWn it.
1T may not be moved now. added
Mr.. W. b. Snow, but it will have II
go sooner or later. We'd all rs well make
up our minds To that. The market ought
to be large enough TO accommodate every
butcher. huckster ana fish dealer ana
nobody ought TO he allowed 10 sell these
articles except in the market. Thereby
the cleanliness OF the cfty would be in
crea sed there woald be better superys-
ion Of the fresh meat business and the
revenue to the city would he abouJ
doubled.
City Clerk Ham Smith said the net
revenue to the city now from the market
house was about $1,000. He thought II
al the butchers and fish dellers in the
city could get stalls in il the income
would be increased TO some $1,000 or
more.
Mayor Powell says he's in favor Of
selling the market house if fair price
can he obtained for it. He's not in ia
yor of selling for $4,000.
Mr.. Bunch. superintendent of the
Union Station. supplements the reminis
cences OF Mr. Edgar Leach about the
old market that stood III Hargett street
some sixty years ago. by saying that the
new market cost 100000, though the
work could have been done for $4,000
It's erection. he adds was Il piece of Re
publican jobbery. The broken and refuse
brick left over. Mr. Bunch Says. were
used i'll the erection Of the old Prairie
building on Wilmington street. Mr.
Bunch is opposed 10 the sale Of the mar
ket house