The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-04
A MAGNIFICENT PROGRAM
Addresses to be Delivered by Cele.
brated Maestros.
WORK OF THE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
Progress Of Durham County 10 Building Good
Roads. New Tribe Of Red Men. Wake
forest Plays Trinity Friday
Handsome Drug Sore.
Handsome Drug Sore.
Especial to News and observer.)

Durham, N. c., April 3.--Next Monday
the State Musical Association meets here
in the Southern Conservatory of Music and
the meeting promises to be big one. The
president of the organization is Mr.. Geo.
p Mccoy, Director of Music in Elizabeth
College, at Charlotte, and the secretary
rs Mr. Geo. d. Meares, of Raleigh. The
exercises will open Monday night
with concert by Wm H.
Sherwood, the noted pianist of Chicago
This takes place in the handsome audi
forum of the Southern Conservatory of
Music, as does the meetings during the
day on Tuesday. The first session begins
at o'clock that day, when Prof A. K.
Virgil, of New York, will lecture on 1.-The
Science and Art of Piano Playing" and
Prof. S. A. Wolff, of Dallas, N. c., will
address the music teachers on THE In
fluence of Music" Among other things
at the morning session will be an en-
joyable violin solo by Mr. Findlay, of Dur
ham.
Tuesday afternoon Prof. Virgil will lee
ture on the subject What Can l Do to
by an address by Prof. John Simpson, of
Raleigh, on Mind in Technique and Elk
preston, " and the cultivated and charm
ing voice of Mrs. G. w. Bryant, of Dur
ham, will be heard in a vocal solo, During
the afternoon the officers will be elected
and the next place of meeting determined
upon. At night the session will close with
a grand organ recital in the Presbyterian
church. This will be given by Prof.
Ferdinand Dunkley of Ashevlle. who is
a fellow of the Royal College of Organ
lists. Durham will entertain without cost
all the members of the association who
attend this meeting, and homes are now
being arranged for them.
visit to the Southern Conservatory
of Music, of which Prof. Geo. w. Bryant
is the president, is the only way to
obtain an idea of the Importance of this
institution It's home is a handsome one,
and inside there is found to be one of
the best arranged buildings for a music
school in the world. The success of the
Conservatory has been phenomenal. At
present there are over one hundred pupils
taking music, twenty-four of these being
boarders, coming from number Of
States.
Mr.. J. W. Allen, chairman of the board
of county commissioners of Durham coun-
ty, is a Good Roads" enthusiast. His
policy has been not alone to talk about
good roads, but also to see that they are
built in Durham county. In this work he
has had the active aid of the other coun-
ty commissioners. Thus far work, and ex-
cellent work has been done on four roads
leading out of this city. West of Dur
ham, on the Hillsboro road, five miles
have been macadamized Ito the southwest,
leading to Chapel Hill there are three
miles of macadamiZed road to the north,
passing through Bragtown and to the
County Home there are three and a half
miles of the same kind of road. On
the east, headed towards the Wake coun-
ty line and Raleigh there are two miles
of road graded and ready for the layer
of stone. BY this road it is eight miles
to the Wake county line on what is
known as the Leesville road, and the
Durham county commissioners propose
to macadamiZe this eight miles, if the
Wake commissioners will macadamize to
the line from Raleigh, thus providing a
first-class roadway between Durham and
Raleigh. The work on the roads is being
done now by forty-six convicts, under
the supervision of Mr.. John Pollard, who
evidently knows his business. Previous
to session of the Legislature the MAX
ing of these roads was a township ques-
ton, but under a new law the commits
sioners of the county are enabled to ex
tend the macadamizing to the county
line
The very handsomest drug store in the
State is in Durham. 1t is Yearby's newly
fitted up store just opened this week and
is a centre of attraction.
Marriages were not a failure here last
month. Eleven white and four colored
couples was the record. In the matter
of deaths the city is complimenting itself
as a health resort, as only three deaths
are reported last month-two white and
one colored.
Elk Policeman j. P. Cults, who lately
lost his position. being charged with dis
orderly conduct, has asked for an fnves-
LEGATION into the matter by the board or
aldermen, and it is reported that this VIII
be held. The chief of police and Mr..
Cults are the parties concerned in the
matter.
Wake Forest is booked to play ball
here on Friday against Trinity. while
the ball team from the University of
Georgia is slated for April Goth.
two-inch gun not toy, but the real
thing, is the property of r. ID. Whit
ley here. 1t is said to be the smallest
gun in the United States and was made
by the Remington Company.
Mtlatoka Tribe of Red Men is to be
instituted here on the 10th with one
hundred and forty charter members. The
degree work is to be given by the red
hued members of the Raleigh branch of
the order, while Chief Sachem Liddell, of
Charlotte, will preside.
Col. A. Hatchett, we'll known over the
State as newspaper man, is in a-critcal
condition at the Watts Hospital. He'was
suddenly taken sick on the streets here
lately. He is in an unconscious condi-
tion part of the time and death is
feared.
The public library here is exceedingly