The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-07
Program of the Convention at
WrightsvilIe.
MANY SOCIAL FEATURES
There win be Addresses by Co. Waddell, Col
F. H. Fries, Mr.. Caldwell Hardy, Mr..
J. ElWcod Cox and

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! Wilmington, ". c., June 6.-Mr c. n.
Evans, secretary and treasurer OF the
North Carolina Bankers Association, ar
rived today from Charlotte, and at a
conference this afternoon with the local
committee of the Chamber of Commerce
of Wilmington, programme was arranged
for the annual convention Of the associa.
tion at the Sea shore Hotel, Wrightsville
Beach, June 23rd, oath and 25th. The
programme is most excellent one, and
embraces a number of attractive social
features. Addresses viii be made during
the sessions by prominent men Of finance
fthis and other States
There viii be a reception at the hotel
Tuesday evening, June 23rd rendered By
the mayor of Wilmington and other
prominent citizens at which an address
of welcome will delivered by Col Allied
M. Waddell and esponded to by Col f. II.
Fies, president Of the Wachovia Loan and
Trust Company, Winston, in behalf OF the
association. On Wednesday following
there viii be an excursion on the steamer
Wilmington to Forts Fisher and Caswell
also other prominent points, embracing
a trip Of twelve miles to sea. Returning
from this excursion, the bankers viii be
met at the dock by special chartered
cars and conveyed over electric lines to
various points of interest in Wilmington,
returning to the Seashore Hotel in time
or a business session at $50.
Features of this meeting will be prayer
by Rev. Richard w. Hoge, rector of 81.
James church, Wilmington, and addresses
and routine work Of the association inter.
spersed with music by the Seashore Hotel
orchestra. After adjournment Of this
meeting, there will be social features in
the hotel ball room.
The convention will reassemble on
Thursday, June 25th to listen to some ex-
celent addresses, among them being the
following:
Organization among banks and the
benefits incident thereto by Mr. Caldwell
Hardy, president of the Norfolk National
Bank, Norfolk, Va, and also president of
the American Bankers Association.
other addresses. Competition among
banks" by Messrs. Walter L. Parsons,
cashier Bank OF Pee Dee, Rockingham,
and Mr.. ]. Elwood Cox, president Com
mercial National Bank of High Point
Exchange and Collections" viii be treat
ed by Messrs. T. w. Dewey, cashier OF
the Farmers and Merchants Bank, New
Bern, and L. Y. Jenkins, president Of the
First National Rank of Gastonia.
The morning session will conclude with
an addess, "a Southern Depository" by
Mr.. S. T. Peace. secretary and treasurer
of the Oxford Savings Bank.
During the afternoon session Hon.
Franklin Mcneil, Of Raleigh, chairman of
the Corporation Commission, viii deliver
an address upon "The Work of the North
Carolina Corporation Commission"
The concluding address for this meeting
will be The Bank and It's Depositors;
their duty to each other" by Lee II.
Battle, cashier of the City National Bank,
of Greensboro.
In addition to the above, the last day
Of the convention will be especially in
teresting, in view Of the fact that there
will be short talks of an extemporaneous
nature from various bankers present.
Arrangements have been made with all
North Carolina railways for special rates
to and from the convention. naddition
thereto the Chamber of Commerce has
secured rates at the seashore Hotel from
$3.50 to $500 per day to delegates and
their families.