The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-17
COLONY OF N~ORTHERNERS.
Several IIlinoisFamilies Will Prob
ably Settle in GuilfOrd-Greens-
bOrO Notes of Progress.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Especial to The MeSSenger.)
Greensboro, N. c., November IA
Mention was made last week Of two Illi-
nois farmers who were on a tour of in
spection in the south, having visited
five points in this and other states look
ing for a suitable location for thirty
families of farmers. These men went
from here to a point in Virginia, but
came back in two days. and spent near
ly a week in this county, thoroughly
Investigating conditions as well as lands
and prices. They left yesterday direct
investigation. They will return in a
month, and will probably close a bar
gain for several tracts in the county
which they partially optioned. If these
settlers approve the recommendation
mad by their agents, the main thing
that will bring them here will be the
report about the country schools, local
taxation for them; the numerous col
leges convenient; the churches in every
neighborhCod; the prospect of a COM
plete system of macadamized roads,;
the contiguity to excellent markets for
country produce; and last but not least
as one of the agents expressed it; the
public spirit and good fellowship WHICH
all these things denoted"
Work on the new SIS 900 annex to the
Government building here is progress
ing rapidly now. When completed
Greensboro will have the most up-to-
date postoffice in the State. There is
one thing the building will have that
no other office in the State has, and
that is a tower in the poStoffice for the
use Of postoffice inspectors or detec-
tives. This tower is about ten feet
square and will have openings SO that
a person who is in the tower can see
over the entire postoftice without the Oc-
cupant being observed. The entrance
to the tower will be from the basement
and neither the employees in the post
office nor the postmaster will know
when an inspector is In this tower look
ing down upon them and seeing that
their work is being lone correctly. AL
the keys to the lookout tower will be
kept in Washington and no one here
will be able to enter the tower. and
a poStoffice inspector can go in the
basemen unObserved, enter the tower
and urvey the workings of the Office
without any one knowing Of his pres
ence. To prevent the retOrt by en-
viOus or carping. critics, that Green's
bOro needs this detective bomb proof
worse than any other town IN the State,
this is vouchsafed by the
supervising architect, that all new post
flee buildings are similarly equipped,
and that all old Government buildings
have some kind of a secret cuddy hole,
where an inspector can stand and
watch unObserVed, the movements Of
employees in distribution and dispatch
ing mail. Many postoftice thieves have
been caught in the act of rifiing letters
in this way, but the detective rarely
comes. except to fix the identity Of i.
suspected thief IN that particular office
Greensboro's City Hall is really new
but even two years ago, the city faith
ers did not realize how large a town
this would be. or the City court room
have had thrice its present dimensions.
The Court room now being used should
be abandoned or enlarged. 1t is diff
calt for attorney, reporters, witnesses
CT even policemen TO wedge their way
into the crowded room, if a case Of any
kind of importance is being tried, and
frequently of late the room would not
iiioAe (lldll O4l1C Nobly dSCOlllllOudlN
the defendants. The city jail also is
entirely inadequate to the demands
made upon it and twice within the past
week has room III the county Jail been
borrowed.
A lady in this city, Mrs. c. C. Cor
rell has in her possession a pastel por-
trait of unusual interest. 1t is that Of
her grandfather Colonel Daniel Giles
pie, of revolutionary fame. This work.
so successfully done by Greensboro's
gifted artist, Miss Isabella Swain, is
u splendid likeness and truly a product
of genius. 1t was copied from a very
quaint water color original, made by a
Mr.. Oliver in the year 1927.