The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-09
The Good Roads Congress
ArouSeS Enthusiasm.
STRONGADDRESStSM MADE
The Necessity for God Roads Shown by Emf
nent Speak rS-.- he People Of laksview
Prove Admirable Hos..---Pl.aS-
ures Of the Day.,
ures Of the Day,
(Staff Correspondence.1

Lakeview, N. c., Sept. labor Days
Good Roads Congress held here to-
day was great success and was attended
by probably twenty-five hundred people
from Moore and adjoining counties and
goodly number from the various cities of
the State, all coming to hear the force
full and practical addresses delivered by
Dr. Geo. T. Winston, president of the A
and NJ. College, Raleigh; Hon. Duncan
McIver, of Sanford; Hon. w. ]. Adams,
of Carthage Hon. Robert N Page, Con
gresham from this district; Hon. w. L.
Spoon, of the United States Department
of Agriculture Mr. r. H. Sykes, of the
University of North Carolina; and Mr.. z.
p Smith, of the Seaboard Air Line.
Early in the morning the crowd began
to pour in from the various sections, and
Especial train over the Seaboard Air Line
from Raleigh brought large number Then
a second special from Sanford brought ad-
ditional parties interested in the great
meeting President Holleman and Gen
eral Manager Gardner, of the Lakeview
Townsite Company, had arranged every
detail for the proper reception of the WISH
tors and all were well cared for. From
early in the morning until dusk the lake
was a scene of great gaiety, the numerous
boats carrying jolly parties of those who
had come for pleasure.
Shortly after noon Hon. w. j. Adams,
OF Carthage, who presided over the meet
ing, announced the program of the day
and introduced in fitting terms Hon. Dun
can McIver of Sanford, as the first speak
er of the day
l have visited Moore county annually
for about fifteen years and have always
felt that | knew these people well, though
1 have never before found them so enthus-
iastic as individuals over one subject as
they are at this time over the Good Roads
proposition that has been laid before them.
The assemblage of men and women who
listened to the strong speeches today
would be difficult to duplicate elsewhere.
Mr.. McIver said that he knew of no
county in North Carolina where knowledge
of good road building is more important
than in his own county. The eighth in
dependent systems of railways that ira
verse the country have accomplished
miracles for that county. With one or two
possible exceptions, there is no county in
the State with so many miles of railways
The railroads build up the towns along
their lines. The better the road the bet
ter the towns improvement and the quick
er transportation facilities afforded the
more prosperous the people. Mr.. McIver
brought forcibly to the minds of the peo-
pie the necessity for outside aid in >the
development of this section He called
their attention to the fact that 10000
Northerners annually visit this county,
and said that the reason is that Northern
ers had come down and made valuable dis
coveries under the very eyes of the ma
tives. Speaking of these people he said
that after they have lived in the South
few years they become as good South
erners as are to be found, and that the
truth of the matter is that after our own
people have lived in the North for awhile
they get a streak of blue in them He
called attention to Mr.. Holleman, presi-
dent of the company making such sue
cess of Lakeview. Mr.. Holleman is ma
tive North Carolinian, but lived in Boston
long enough to gain the confidence OF peo-
pie of means and to get their assistance
in the work of building up this section in
his native State. Money, said Mr.. Nc
liver, is necessary for the construction of
good roads and how to secure it is the
problem that confronts the people urging
good roads on a community. OF the two
methods to levy tax for this purpose and
pay as you go, improving a little at time
and the method of issuing bonds, making
permanent improvements and Gquidating
the debt as time goes by, he urged the
latter, saying that this generation would
have passed away before any appreciable
work had been accomplished by the pay