The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-02-12
THE ROAD CONGRESS
OPENS HERE TODAY
Delegates and Visitors Pour
Into the City.
SWATCH THE WORK
The Grader and Elevator Work Please
a All the People.
CROWDS WATCH THE WORK
EXERCISES IN METROPOLITAN HALL
G ovtracr Aycock Speaks the First Words Of
Welcome and Then Day Of Great
Speeches viii Begin.

gress" has begun.
At Ii O'Clock this morning in Metro
politan Hall in the midst of a great crowd
Mayor Powell will say The Convention
Will please come to order"
Following this there will be the ex-
ercises OF the day as follows:
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
Call to order at IL a. m by A NJ.
Powell, mayor of Raleigh
Prayer-Rev. a. A. Marshall, D. ..
Naming or temporary chairman and
secretary,
Address CT welcome in behalf 'of State
of North Carolina-His Excellency, Gov
Charles 3. Aycock.
Address OF welcome in behalf of Wake
county and city of Raleigh--W. b. Snow.
RespOnses--W. H. Moore. president Ma
tional Good Roads Association; NJ. A.
Hays, Southern Railway Good Roads
SLecial Train.
Permanent organization.
Address Hon. Martin Dodge, director,
Public Road Inquiries, T. S. Department
o. Agriculture.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
Rolonvenes at O'Clock.
Addresses:
dfss.sS ; p Alexander, Charlotte, y. c.
zssfIistory of Good Roads in Mecklenburg
County"
Prof. w. c, Riddick, Agricultural and
Mechanical College Economical Roads
for Rural Districts
j. w Bailey. editor of Biblical Re-
corier--"Good Roads and Their Relation
TO Sunday Schools"
r. r. Parker. Hillsboro, y. C.-"Good
Roads and Their Relation to the Farm
err"
Gen. w R. Cox, Edgecomte county
Good Roads and Their Relation to
Country Life"
Discussion on road question-open for
five minute speeches.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
Session begins at 8 o'clock.
Aadress<-Prof. j. A. Holmes, State
Advantages Of Goo, Roads. .
illustrated with steropitcon vieNsD.
Yesterday there we're more arrivals in
the city, following those who came in on
Monday The hotels are filing up with
The arrivals. but there win be room for
} all in Raleigh, city which knows how
10 take care of a big crowd.
1t is impossible TO note all the arri-
walls in the city yesterday for as they
left the depot they were going here and
there, some to hotels. some TO boarding
houses, come the guests of friends.
Gathered from various sources here are
some OF the delegates and visitors to
the city for the Good Roads Congress-:
Hon S. B. Alexander, Charlptte State
Senator S. j. Calvert, Jackson; Major T.
l.. Enry Weldon; Ex- Senator Thomas
NJ Cheek Mebane; Editor Henry King.
Greenville; Wiley =. Fort, Director of
State Hospital. Pikeville Capt. r. r.
Cotton, Cottondale; e. l.. Daughtridge,
State Board of Agriculture and the Leg
islature. Rocky Mount; DR.. C. L. Kille-
brew and w T. Braswell Board County
Commissioners, Rocky Mount; r. f.
Cherry. Road Superintendent, Rocky
Mount: Jno. Burton Weldon; H. w
Burton, REGISTER of Deeds of Johnston,
Smithfield; DR.. J. F. Miller, Superinten-
dent Eastern Hospital, Goldsboro; w L.
Thorpe. Mayor of Rocky Mount; Dr. p.
L. Murphy, Superintendent. State Hos
pital. Morganton w II. Shearen, Castle
Haynes; u. ID. Elliott, Hickory; John L.
Worth, Mt Airy; d. NJ. Boyd, Maiden;
r. Y. Elliott, Durham; w. 5. Wilkerson,
and ]. c. Braswell, Rocky Mount; Geo
l. Mardre. Windsor, ]. S. Grant, mayor
or Jackson; 4. j. Parker, Wfnton; w. j.
Sutton and s. M King, Elizabe thtown; :;
-James-M Allen, Goldsboro; j. A. Best
and Roy Jackson, Louisburg; II. H.
Kicks, Rocky Mount; d. Nj. McEachern,
Chairman Board OF County Commission
ers of New Hanover: Arthur b. VIII
liams, Chairman Board of County Com
nissioners Of Cumberland; Mr.. 5 A.
I.asslter, Johnson Mr. st. Leon Sculi,
mayor of Windsor; r. c. Patrick, OF
Wake; Col. Benehan Cameron, of Stag
Vile; Eugene Holt, of Burlington; Paul
Garrett, Of Weldon; Judge T. n. Hill,
of Halifax Col d. Worthington, George
H. Wainwright and c. B. Ruffin, or
Wilson; Judge Winbourne. Senator
George Cowper and d. c. Barnes, of
Hertford: David Bell, of Halifax; Judge
Fred Philips of Edgecombe.
r. II. Sykes, Chapel Hill; p. C. Carlton
Statesville a. l.. Mcdonald. Rocking
ham; Gen b. S. Royster, Oxford; j. S.
Scott. Burlington; r. A. Bryan. Carthage;
+. W. Harris. Greensboro; 7. B. Brown,
Kinstou, C. z. Johnson, Winston.
WAKE COUNTY DELEGATES