The news & observer., 1902-01-16
GOOD ROADS AND
TOBACCO MARKET
important Meeting of the
Chamber Of Commerce.
PLANS TO AID RALEIGH
President w. H. Moore of National
Good Road a ss ociation Speaks.
CAPT. {. N. PACE ONA TOBACCO MARKET
Both Subjects Discussed and Committees Ap
pointed to Garry Forward the Ideas
Expressed Last
PLANS TO AID RALEIGH
President w. H. Moore Of National
Good Road Ass ociation Speaks.
CAPT. {. N. PACE 0NA TOBACCO MARKET

NSW,
The Chamber of Commerce last night
considered the two most Important mat
ters that concern the city of Raleigh and
the county of Wake. They are:
l. Good Roads.
>. A Tobacco Market
There were sensible and wise speeches
made by men who knew what they were
talking about and it is pity that every
business man in Raleigh was not Drrs-
ent.
A committee composed of Mayor Pow
ell, Mr.. Andrew H. Green, chairman of
the Board of County Commissioners,
and Mr. Frank Ward, president of the
Chamber of Commerce. was appointed
TO take charge of the Good Roads Con-
vention and Road Building in Raleigh
in February.
After a discussion with references 10
tobacco, and a market for tobacco in
Raleigh, committee composed OF
Messrs Joseph F. Pogue, T.. L. Love, {.
b. Hart Frank Stronach and c. b. Bar
bee was appointed to take the matter in
hand
The meeting was called to order by
President Ward at o'clock, and the
first business attended to was report
from Mr.. A. j. Field. of the visit of the
committee to the Board of Alderman
with ia request for an appropriation for
the Raney Library, which had been
granfed and stated that the thanks of
the Raney Library trustees had been ex
tended to the Chamber of Commerce for
its action
At this time President w. II. Moore,
of the National Good Roads Association,
entered the hall with Mr.. A. b. Andrews,
Jr. Immediately following Mr.. Fields
remarks Col Moore was presented and
proceeded to make a sound, sensible,
straight from the shoulder talk about
the prospective coming of the Good
Roads Train to Raleigh on February
10-15
He presented the plan of work done by
the train sent out by the Southern Rail
way on which were twenty-five men,
skilled upon all questions affected by
the idea of good roads. Every expense
except their salary was borne by the
Southern, and ii was costing 500 day
to employ the men with him. 1T was for
this amount, or $500 for one week, that
the train could be secured in Raleigh.
Seven or eight States were on their
route, and in North Carolina these stop
ping places We're arranged at winston.
at Asheville, and now Raleigh was the
next. if the force was invited here and
the conditions met. Three hundred and
thirty-two places had asked for the
train, yet but twenty stops could
be made. In this State Greensboro,
Goldsboro and Wilkesboro were asking
and urging a visit but it was thought
best to have a final grand meeting at the
capital, where the whole State might
gather to witness the good work.
The expense, Col. Moore said, must be
met by the city and county as he did not
believe in harrassng merchants and
passing around the hat. Besides this
strong committees must be appointed,
delegates selected from various coun-
ties, . Good Roads Convention held
and a general wake up movement De
inaugurated.
He proposed for the train to reach
here Oh the 9Th Of February, and for two
days to work on the roads, then to have
a great convention, where men from all
sections could meet and speak. He said
that the Postmast ster General of the Unit
cd States. the Secretary of Agriculture
and other national figures in good roads
work should be invited, county commits
sioners and road overseers from all over
the State, the postmasters and others
likewise.
This would aid Rural Free Deliver
les, he declared, and demonstrated. For
this reason he wanted the postmaster on
an invitation committee, as he did the
Governor, the Mayor the President of
the Chamber Of Commerce and news
paper man.
! Here Col Moore paid handsome COM
pliment to the papers of Raleigh. saying
that they cqualled those in places OF
thirty to fourty thousand people, and
that there was nothing like newspa-
per for setting the pace for progress"
aud that the newspapers of Raleigh were
splendid examples of this.
The Southern Railway would, he said,
give n one fare rate from all points in
the State and he judged the other roads
would also AS the Southern was push
ing this work he thought an invitation
should be extended to President Spencer
and other officials of the road TO be pres
cnt and speak.
The itenerary of the train was, he said,
this week in Macon next in Augusta,
then in Charleston, s. G., january eth
to February /, lin Columbia February
to and in Raleigh February 10 TO 10
Col Moore discussed the question of
good roads as affecting the railroads, the
cities and the farmers, and it's value
TO all He said that the work the train
force was now doing was bringing in
duirias from all parts ri, the world. anG
that Raleigh would advertise itself
greatly by bringing the train here.
His business proposition was that thu
city pay $780, furnish twenty laborers
aud necessary teams, appoint commit
tees. advertise the convention, and use
every energy to make il a great siiecess
Following him Mr.. A. E. Andrews fol
the Street Committee pledged every as
sistance possible from the city and saic
that the necessary money would bs
raised, and all steps be taken to max,