The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-26

iirst complete and successful installa-
| hon or the wireless telegraphy system
| mao peen made at Manteo and Hatteras.
| these Two stations being the first to send
regular daily messages back and forth.
and now the only ones, with the ex-
| ception of those at Nantucket and Mar
| tha's Vineyard.
Next he put the question: Has the
weather service found a place in your
great agricultural and commercial in
dustrles? Has it justified the expense of
| its maintenance"
| On the West coast, he said, they had
peen able to furnish rain warnings to
the great raisin drying industry which
alone saved countless thousands of dol
| us, and likewise with the orange
growers. Stations through Nevada and
Utah give warnings of the great cold
waves that push over the hills into the
valleys OF California. East of the
ROCKIES, the sheep especially among
live stock suffer from the cold blasts
BY actual inquiry it had been learned
that S3,4O0O 600 worth of the product of
farms had been saved in a year by
means of these warnings.
The loss in the Ohio Valley from
floods, said the speaker, went above the
fifteen million mark in 1SS1'82. Now
this is all changed, by a close cal
eulation of the rain precipitations, taken
along with the experience of former
floods. He told graphically of how New
Orleans had been saved in 1894 by a
warning to raise the levees. Moreover,
nearly six thousand transatlantic
steamers. and about the same number of
transatlantic sailing vessels, with their
intellectually valuable cargoes, are
warned of the approach of storms
Our greatest element of error" con-
tfnued Col Moore, lis in the daily pre-
dfctions which you see. The great West
Indian hurricanes and other storms
come with we'll defined signs. The Gal
weston hurricane was plotted eight days
before it arrived, and the warnings
were so well placed that not one vessel
was caught in the gulf, generally so
crowded with traffic.
He then went on to describe the mo-
dus operandi of giving the frost warn
ings to the farmers of the
cotton region. In each station
there are from 10 to 20 farm
ers living near telegraph stations, who
take observations for the local station,
which in turn transmits them to the
central station, and thence they go out
to other States. 1t was expected, he
said, that the farmers would be reach
ed more efficiently in the near future
by means of the rural mail delivery.
Each carrier leaves little slip at each
farm house, containing the daily fore
cast. 1t may be relied upon that this
is right four times out of five.
Col. Moore closed with this tribute to
North Carolina Il want to see you
become as rich and powerful as your
grand natural resources make it posi-
BILE for you to be. But you ought not
TO disparage yourselves. l have trav-
eled great deal, and 1 see as much
general prosperity here as in most 9TH
er States. / come here often, and /
like you better each time / come. l
trust that the new industrial conditions
will not make your men lose any of
their grand Southern characteristics of
honor and chivalry, or your women
aught of their virtue and their beau
ty."
A burst of applause greeted the
speaker as he closed an address that
had been genuine treat.
Mr.. r. III. Battle moved the thanks of
the audience to both the speakers of the
evening.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
The order of business was the cleo
tion of officers for the coming year. Mr..
Battle placed in nomination Gen. w. r.
xrip In
ate that several predecessors had brok-
en- the time honored custom of the pres
ident serving more than one term. He
put the motion and it was carried, but
General Cox, when he could make him
self heard stated that he would be
compelled to decline the honor, as it
was impossible for him to serve anoth-
err term.
Messrs F. H. Busbee, Frank Stron-
ach. Falk Arendall and General. Roberts
united in urging Gen. Cox to serve at
least one more term, and finally the
meeting expressed it's wish by rising
vote.
Gen Cox said this expression of the
meeting made it all the more painful
for him to decline. He was deeply
moved and unable to say more.
Then Mr.. Busbee nominated Mr.. L.
Banks Holt, of Alamance. This NOM
ination was warmly seconded, and on
motion of Mr.. Stronach, Mr.. Holt was
elected by a rising vote.
Mr. Holt is a representative man of
all that is best in the State. Prominent
as a manufacturer and stock-raiser, he
is one of the best known men in North
Carolina. A farmer himself, he has the
interests of the farmer at heart, and
will be tower of strength for the
State Fair.
Mr.. Joseph E. Pogue, the present Sec
rotary, was unanimously reelected to
that office, upon nomination by Mr..
Falk Arendell
Capt. c.. B. benson was reelected by
reclamation to the office of assistant
secretary and treasurer, on motion of
Mr. Battle.
The re-apportionment of the Congress
sional districts by the last Legislature
necessitated some change in the list of
vice presidents, who are chosen one