The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-29
FOR A NEW HOTEL
Big Committee of Citizens
Appointed Last Night.
ASpecial Meeting Of Board of Aldermen Dis
cusses the Proposition With Promin.
ent Citizens.

Last night at special meeting of the
board of aldermen and citizens to discuss
plans for securing another hotel for Raj
eigh, committee of about one hundred
and forty of the city's leading business
and professional men was appointed by
= the mayor to take charge of all details
OF the work looking toward securing ad-
ditional hotel facilities. The plan pro-
Losed is TO get as many subscriptions as
possible for a nucleus fund, with board
of commissioners or trustees, and hold
this fund thus collected until it becames
practicable to build the new hotel.
Brief addresses were made by Messrs.
J. G. Drewry, H. E. Litchford, Sherwood
Higgs, Ed. Chambers Smith, L. t. Hay,
and A. B. Andrews Jr.
The following gentlemen compose the
central committee:
G. S. Wynne H. f. Litchford. j. G..
Drewry, A. l.. Baker, A. A. Thompson,
w E. Mayncr, DIR. ID. E. Everett, II. l..
Ward j. c.. Brown, C. II. Belvin, c. G..
Latta, John It Pullen, 1. NJ Proctor, A.
b. Andrews, Jr., c. b. Barbee. N. w.
West, f. K. Ellington, ]. F. Ferrall, W.
B. Mann, Sherwood Higgs, w. B. Hutch
ings, j. w. Bailey, w. ]. Andrews. j. r.
Chamberlain, w. N. Jones, W. H. Viii
hanson, J. j. Thomas, V. G. Register, ii.
M. Faucet, F. b. Arendell, +. w Ha-
bel, c. NJ. Bnsbee, II. B. Greason, w.
w Richards, j. B. Timberlake, Rawley
Galloway, A Dughi, F. o. Morng, S. w.
Brewer. w. NJ Russ, Dr. ]. NJ. Fleming,
E. l. Harris, B. P. Williamson. Walter
w ~ 4
wood, T. 8. Moseley, j. ]. Bernard, ].
K. Marshall, A. z. Stronach, N. A. Dunn,
w. II. King, s. It. Smith, G. E. Hunter,
j. l. Johnson, ]. A. Briggs, James Boy
Ian, n. b. Broughton. B. f. Montague,
Ernest Martin, ]. III. Robbitt, T. Il. Wo-
mack, Charles Root, E. C. Smith, DR.. V.
E. Turner, DR.. ]. r. Rogers, DIR. James
McGee, Jr., r. T. Gray, S. C. Pool, Dan
Allen, l.. A. Mailer, Walters Durham,
S. Berwanger, ]. j. Toler, NJ. Rosen-
thai, E. p. Maynard, ]. e. Pogue, Il. II.
Lacy, Julius Lewis, DR.. r. H. Lewis,
w. w. Wynne, F F. Brown, DR.. X. P.
Battle, Jr, H. G. Brown, DR.. d. H. ABB
bott Franklin McNeill, c. w. New
comb. DR.. H. A. Rcyster, H. A. Bland,
DIR. E. w. Goodwin. w. r. Crawford.
M. w. Wocdard, j. r. A. Powers, w. G.
Riddick, c. E. Johnson, w. II. Hughes,
VIII Robbins. Josephus Daniels r. NJ.
Furman, Willis G.. Briggs, ]. w. Har-
den, Jr., b. S. Jerman, ]. A. Saunders,
Frank Stronach, J. w. Lee, t. b. Crow
der, j. K. Ferrall Alexander Webb.
Henry T. Hicks. H. W. Miller, Charles
II. Gattis, n. NJ. Rand, Herbert w.
Jackson, A. r. ID. Johnson, B. W. Ba-
ker, j. P. Wyatt, w. w. Vass, D. T.
Johnson, H. S. Robinson, Col. A. r. An
dreWs, T.. B. Barbee, c. M. Bretsch, Il.
w Mcdaniel, G. Rosenthal j. l.. Pearce,
r. c.. Strong, C. B. Crowell, Alfred Will
lans, James IL. Pou, DR.. 7. E. Skinner,
Fabius III. Busbee, j. d. Stronach. DIR.
Geo. r. Winston, F. H Phillips, Bene-
han Cameron, G. n. Walters, \. d.
Zachary, S. w. Whiting, C. B. Ray, Ed.
V. Denton, Ed. II. Lee, d. Fl. Barger,
]. N. Holding, DR.. A. w. Knox, r. E.
Lumsden, S. E. Linton, w. j. Young,
Jr., Henry Smith, j. G.. Ball, ]. b. Green,
p. R. Albright, f. A. Olds, w. H.
Broughton, Lynn Wilder, S. A. Ashe,
Jr., and c. 3. Parks.