The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-12

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Greensboro, N. c., August 9.
Mrs. w. H. Blaylock, Of Raleigh, who
has been visiting her brother Mr.. L. A.
White here, went home today.
The m-acadamizing has been complet-
ed On Washington street except the
block where the Scott buildings are 60
ing up. The force is now at work on
Spring Garden street; it has been grad
ed on one side from Mendenhal1 street
to DR.. McIver's residence, but work has
been suspended on matchmaking until
the crusher can be repaired, the force
taking a vacation in the meanwhile.
Mr.. T. A. Lyon today closed a deal
with the Cones for the property owned
by them on the south side of Summit
avenue, between the railroad and Lind
say street. 1t is vacant property and
Mr.. Lyon will at once proceed to i'm
prove it with modern residences. Mr..
Isaac Prosser sai today that IF we
have good luck repairing the railroad
track, the Empire Iron and Steel Works
will begin operations on September 1St.'
The brick laying at the works has been
completed n the workmen left for
their homes in Tennessee today. He
also says hat North Carolina SURPRISES
Alabama in the richness of it's iron
ores.
Judge Boyd, Clerk Trogden and Dis
trict Attorney Holton returned last
night from holding the federal court at
IAsheville.
In the same car going to Winston this
morning were District Attorney Holton
and Mr.. N. Glenn Williams, whose
recent cow-hiding Of the district attor-
|ney and the subsequent trial produced
such a sensation. No new casualties
have thus far been reported. Mr.. Will
|liams was returning home from atten-
dance on the funeral of his kinsman,
the late Judge John Gray Bynum.
Greensboro has been in a stew for
months over what is known as the
baggage ordinance" This ordinance
gave certain transfer lines here, it was
said, a monopoly on carrying passen-
gers. trunks, ETC., to and from the depot
and was repealed some months ago.
each meeting of the city council to re-
enact it. 1t was defeated once by
Mayor Osborne giving a casting vote
against it, he claimed it to be the en-
.couragement of a trust and monopoly,
which he was against in every shape
or form. At a subsequent meeting, the
ordinance was re-enacted, but on advice
OF ClIy AllOIISy SSdlCS, LIN fONS ~
which it was carried did not come up
to requirements of charter in that it
was not a majority of all members. At
that meeting a committee, composed
of City Attorney Scales, and Messrs.
.Glascock, Sherwood and Balm was ap-
pointed to fix and report an ordinance
that would stick. LAST night this COM
mittee reported a modified ordinance
requiring a bond of 800 instead Of 5000,
as in the old ordinance, for applicants
for license, giving the privilege to run
one Or more wagons instead Of not less
than three, allowing anybody to carry
a grip or valise, and providing that not
more than % cents could be charged
for one trunk, 40 cents for two and so
cents for three trunks. There was a
lively contest over the adoption of this
last night. The vote was 4 to 4, Ayes:
Phipps, Ward, Elm and Denny. Noes:
Helm, Balm, Ellington and Lewis.
lin the absence of Mayor Osborn,
had killed it once, acting Mayor
Glascock broke the tie by voting aye,
and the baggage ordinance as modi-
fed again became a law. That 1t will
cut a big figure in local politics goes
without saying. The council authori-
lied the board of education and the ed
ucation committee to purchase a COM
plete steam heating plant for the Cen
trail Graded school building, at a cost
not to exceed $4,000.