The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-04

attorneys against 1t appeared before the
House committee and it was the peo-
pie who wanted the limits extended.
Mr. Webb: Would you like to let the
people outside settle this?"
Mr.. Arendell: II am in the same posi-
ton as the Senator on his proposition
about Asheville. l think all the people
should settle it," Continuing he said:
"The time has come when the city
should be extended. 1t is not our city.
1t is the city of all the people of the
State. We have here 5000 people to the
square vile. 1t is time to let us ex-
pand.
81 now occupy different position from
that l held few days ago. ] am
stakeholder in the Raleigh Cotton Mills,
and l come here as a stakeholder and
ask to be treated as citizen as Wei.
l ask as a stockholder that the mill be
put on the same footing as the citizen,
and that it have no lines about which it
can say sThus far and no farther.
I'VE have here in this beautiful city
one and three-fourths miles of territory.
with $4,000 people. Find another city
in the State so densely populated and
/ will take my seat"
The Raleigh Cotton Mill has fire
alarm boxes almost at its doors. 1t
gets the benefit of all the city has. Here
Mr. Arendell declared that he was au-
thorized to buy at once at par any or
all of the stock of the mill and he said:
IF there is single stockholedr now
who desires to sell let him speak No
one spoke.
The debt of $346,o00, he declared, was
small one. Il am not old" he said,
"but some years ago l cast the deciding
vote as a member of the city council
by which there was put off our streets
the COWS and geese and hogs, which
paraded these worse than l do now. In
that board / cast the deciding vote for
the first paved streets, and now we have
many of them.
I'm my recollection l have seen geese
swimming on Fayetteville street and
have heard a member of the Legisla-
ture ask that Fayetteville street be
made navigable so that he could use
boat to come and go from the capitol
But we have improved all this and we
now ask you to allow us to continue to
grow and to extend our limits. Give
us your aid and let us make your capt.
tai city great and good and more beauti-
full
Mr.. James H Pou spoke next and be-
gan by agreeing entirely with Mr. Habel
and Mr.. Arendell. but said that the city
had become beautiful because of its COM
pactness, and declared it would be
mistake to nave the corporate limits ex-
tended. and thus take in whole town
ship of old pine fields. Its growth and
beauty, he held, was because of its COM
pactness and the growth of it's banking
and educational interests had nothing to
do with its limits.
The correct way was for the city to be
compact and after it improved in all
parts and beautified these it might be
best to extend The extension of the
limits now. he said, would be a fatal
blunder. for manufactures would fail
to settle near the city for fear that in
few years they would be taken in and
then taxes increased. The policy which
has made this beautiful city. with a
small debt, should not be changed.
DR.. Dinwiddie, president OF Peace Insti-
tute. spoke against the bill. He stated
that everything he had or owned was
here, and that Peace Institute was of
value to the city, giving far more than
it received. He said that he brought
here by means OF the girls who came
s35. 900 or, $40. 900 every year The good
streets were rather a disadvantage as the
girls wanted to shop too much. AS to
lights, sewerage, and water he paid for
these and got them from private corpora
tions, and the tax to him would be that
much spent without any benefit. The
city. he held, had nothing to do with the
water supply.
Mr.. Arendell: "The people of the city
pay So 900 a year for water.
DR.. Dinwiddie: "And $1,000 is paid by
Il 900 people and l pay s25 to $40 a
month" Continuing he said that the fire
companies did not go beyond the city
limits.
Peace Institute DR. Dinwiddie said
would be crippled by taking it into the
city. eff you tax me" he said, will
fly away at the first opportunity. / am
not married TO Raleigh"
Mr. Arendell stated that by authority
of the mayor he stated that one engine
was always ready to go beyond the limits
and that as far as the hose would reach
that this was used.
Mr. N B. Broughton stated, as chair
man of a citizens committee, he adj
dressed the committee. Here he was in
terrupted by Mr.. Ed. Chambers Smith,
who inquired what committee it was,
and if it was not one of men all in favor
of extension. To this Mr.. Broughton
said: 81 know that the body you repre-
scented was a packed committee The
Chamber of Commerce was packed
against the extension movement.
Mr.. Smith: "You were invited to at
tend, and did not come"
Brougbton: Eyes, but there were peo-
PIE there who had not attended meet
ing in two years. Thirty of them went
and paid dues in order TO vote"
Continuing. Mr.. Broughton urged that
as to size Raleigh was handicapped by
Charlotte. Wilmington, Asheville and
others and that it should be extended.
Gentlemen come here, he said, and
representing special intekests have urged
against extension. For fourteen years
the Raleigh Cotton Mills have enjoyed
exemption from city taxation and have
prospered AS to Peace Institute he
felt that DR.. Dinwiddie could not afford
to do without the protection of Raleigh.
He has all the things we have and does