The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-23
NORTH CAROLINA AT ST. LOUIS.
An Interview With Mr.. Bruner-Ap-
plicatiOns for Charters-Death of
n Fair
Begins TOday.
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, n. c., October 10.
Thomas K. Bruner, who is doing
admirable work for the St. Louis ex-
position all over the United States. is
here for a few days, and in an inter-
View he informed your correspondent
that everything at the exposition is in
a very fine state OF preparation. Mr..
Bruner said 4 will give you an idea
Of the size of the buildings and of
great offerings Of exhibit by saying
that the palace of agriculture covers
20 acres and that the exhibits it is
desired to install in il Will cover 80
acres, so that here is the problem be-
fore \ management-to get 50 acres
OF exhibits il 20 acres OF space. This
building is nearly finished. 1t is not
able that England, Russia and Japan
VIII nave each a large space in it.
North Carolina will not only have a
regular space, but also special eX-
hlbitS in the way of cotton, tobacco,
corn, etc. There will be enough North
Carolina machinery to Illustrate the
making of textile fabrics and our cot
ton cloths Will be specially shown,
perhaps they will be the only ones SO
exhibited. In the agricultural build
ing We Will have 4 continuous show of
apples from cold storage, this build
ing covers g acres. The apples Will be
shown in an aisle, 200 feet wide, in
flat places and on plaLes. There are
already offered to the fair anage
ment 80 carloads of apples each of $50
barrels. Professor Joseph a. Holmes
has set apart excellent space for North
Carolina in the department of mines
and mining. Here all the metalIifer-
Gus ores, economic minerals, gems,
etc, will be shown George X. kunZ,
the WeIl-knoWn gem expert, informs
Prof. Holmes that Tiffay of New York
has recently bought six gold nuggets
from Stanly county, North Carolina,
weighing from 10 to u pounds each.
Mr.. Bruner is very DESTROYS that
Governor Aycock should purchase
these as Tiffany offers them to the
state authorities and nib them at
st. Louis II afterwards in the state
museum here. In the latter there
are now only plaster casts of gold
nuggets found in this state. the larg-
est ones weighing IS pounds, which
was taken from the Reed mine in
Cabarrus county. 1t was in the same
mine. strange to say that the first
gold nugget found in this state was
discovered, about one hundred years
ago. Mr.. KunZ says the nuggets
Tiffany now has are the finest he has
seen anywhere from the south. One
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exposition Will be the display of flow
ers in the landscape at the Agricul-
tural and Horticultural building. this
being made by Mr.. Newberry of Mag
nOlia, North Carolina, who will send
a carload of bulbs for planting 10
acres, these including Cannas, Glad
iOli, Tube roses. DahliaS. etc. Two of
the North Carolina Institutions will
have special exhibits these being the
Western Hospital for the Insane and
the State School for the Blind at Raj
eigh.
Prof. w. A.. Wlthers of Raleigh has
placed in the Hall Of History in the
State Museum the autographs of sew
eral OF the singers of the Mecklenburg
Declaration of Independence. 1nclud-
ing those of Joseph McKnitt Alexan-
der and Ephriam Brevard.
The state fair begins tomorrow and
will be formally opened by Governor
Aycock. 1t will be equal to the best
fair ever held in North Carolina along
products is large and meritOrious. The
racing feature will be better than
usual. All the races are full.
The Confederate veterans, who will
hold their annual reunion here We'd
nesday and Thursday of this week
will be banqueted in the spacious din
ing hall at the Agricultural and Me
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Confederacy and the local camp Of
veterans providing for food.
The first frost of the season occur
red here this morning. but did not do
any damage. Cotton continues to Open
very rapidly, and h crop is about
half gathered, farmers say. Of course
in some localities, on high sandy land,
the crop is practically all gathered.
The supreme court will devote this
week to the docket Of appeals from,
the eighth district.
The secretary Of state has received
applications for four very large char-
ters for corporations, all from Sails
bury-one with So, 1000, 900. one with 81
900, 900 a third with $50, 900 capital
stock. The largest is for an electric
power company and the second for a
copper mining company. The total
fees to the state on the four charters
Will be 81, 500.
J. G.. Banks of EdgecOmbe county,
an inmate of the soldiers home here
was found dead in a bath room there
yesterday morning. Death being due
to heart disease, from which he nearly
died last Thursday. His first military
service was in the EdgecOmbe guards,
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