The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21
That Will EnChant Visitors to
the Atlantic Hotel.
]. NJ. Arthur and His Growing Business he
STANDING Of the Vera Cruz Knocks So
briefly Endwise.
(Staff correspondence

MOfcncaQ City, Ne C's Nhoy Hu'--DuG
ten more days and the doors of the At
lantic Hotel will be thrown wide open to
guests Yes, though published otherwise
June LIST is opening day. All is activity
at the hotel and rush orders are issued
daily that everything shall be in readi-
ness by June LIST. Old visitors will be- en-
chanted with the many improvements
since last season Already many rooms
have been engaged and the season bids
fair to excel in all respects any previocs
one The hotel has been thoroughly reno
waited and oyerhauled and the touch of the
artist is everywhere present. The dance
hall and the dining room will be things
of beauty dazzling to the eye In tie
dance hall SIS electric lights have been
provided The1e'll be white lights and
red lights and blue lights and green lights
and the effect will be scenic and brilliant
The dining hall is likewise provided for.
In this hall are 10S incandescents. Walk
ways clear round the building to the new
piers erected in the sound have been
built and on this thoroughfare so arches
are being erected. Each arch will have
20 incandescent lights. There will be 6
arc lights on the grounds and 6 ON the
building. When the cars come in 800 IN
candescent lights will be flashed from the
hotel front. Across the way is the power
house From the cupola OF this building
will be flash light and a series OF vari.
colored beams. Fresh arrivals will think
they have struck gloryland. The interior
of the power house will be Illuminated
with 20 incandescent lights. To wire the
has taken $4,000 feet of wire anu
the work has been done In a Workman
like manner. AS previously announced
the hotel is now the pet property Of the
Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad.
They have secured FOR its management,
Mr. Turner, an experienced resort hoteLst,
and no pains or expense will be spared to-
make the service second to none on the
Atlantic coast. Double daily passenger
trains will be operated by the Atlantic
and North Carolina during the entire
season, The opportunities for sound trips
now exceed that of any previous year.
Besides skiffs and sharpies number of
naptha launches have been added to the
sea craft.
The fishing season is opening up inI
good shape. Visiting today the fish pack
mig houses of Chas S. Wallace, r. w.
Taylor, D. B. Wade & Son, e. D. Arthur
& Bro, w. l.. Arcndell and j. M. Arthur
most beautiful specimen of the following
species were found in sabundance: TheI
butter fish, the hog fish, the croaker, the
trout and last, but by no means least inI
esteem and value the Spanish Mackcrel
The catch of mackerel bids fair to be one
Of great voslme this season. The mack
orel is the delight of the fisherman's eye
They make his bosom heave with JOY and
his pocket swell with filthy lucre.
Prominent among the fish packing es-
adjustment is that of Mr. ]. NJ Arthur
On his own account he permanently es-
tablished himself in the fresh and salt fish
business, also oysters, CLAIMS, escallops and
soft Craps-in season-on May 4th instant
For twenty years however, he has been
packing and shipping these products toI
the trade whose firm names are famiIiarI
to him. Fourteen years o. the twenty
years experience Mr.. Arthur was asso-
ciated with Thos. Daniels and Company
which firm name was widely known and
was a guarantee of fair and upright deal
and sound judgment. Shall I attempt al
eulogy at Mr.. Arthur? Methinks not
None IS necessary.
The stranding of the barkentiue Vera
Cruz, near Portsmouth and Ocracoke re
Gently has been the occasion of more
at Ocracoke within the time
than for an age past. When the officers
visited the barkentine they. it seems, did
not make so thorough an examination att
the ships load as they should, contenting
themselves with a scanning of the mani
fest which showed the ships load to bel
sperm oil and water. After the departureI
the sperm oil and water turned out to be
a cheap grade Of rum. This was sold toll
any and all visitors and the drunkenness
followed. Information here today is that|
the Government having smelt a mouse OF
rum telegraphed orders for the arrest of
the two mates aboard and the seizure oil
the wrecked barkentine.
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