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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-27

is scattered over forty-eight counties of
this State.
Should this development continue for
the next ten years as 1T has been going
on during the past twenty, North Caro-
lima will lead all other States In the man
ufacture of cotton goods. While the grow
ing of our 600, 900 bales of cotton annual
ly and the manufacture of 100000 bales
into cotton goods enters very largely
into the Industrial life of North Caro-
lima it is only one of many which by
careful fostering has become source
of untold wealth to this great State.
Take for instance the furniture indus
try. In 1850 there were IN the whole
State only 4,601 persons engaged in me-
chanical Industries of jail sorts. In 1900
there were 70,570, an increase of 1888
heard one say that he has been made Wors
per cent. In the last decade the num-
Der OF establishments increased 81 per
cent, the average number of wage earn
ers 1899 per cent; the cost OF material
used 1929 per cent: the value OF produc
ton 1876 per cent The value OF manutae
tIred products increased in the last ten
years from SAC, 1916, 450 to $94,919,663 North
Carolina is the greatest market IN the
world today for the manufacture of the
cheap and medium grades, and the distrl-
button OF her product has become reg
ular and general in almost every foreign
country
Our clay industry yielded IN brick and
tile 1907, 1922 for the year 1900. The
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period snow coming power per spindle
OF 57.7 pounds per year.
This shows clearly the increase and
fineness of the yarn spun in each section
and In more marked degree, In the
goods OF the newer manufacturing Sec
ton.
At the present time it requires n
spindles in the northern cotton mills to
dispose of a bale of cotton in twelve
months, while the same size bale is con-
verted into yarn at the same time by sc
southern spindles This difference in the
consuming power is due to the larger
size of the yarn spun in the cotton mills
of the newly awakened south. The in
crease in the value of the bale of cotton
spun into fine yarn in much greater than
that spun into coarse yarn. More money
is expended for labor and consequently
more people are supported by the work
ing of one bale in the one case than in
the other.
Thus we see the statement is strictly
accurate, that the southern mills show
in twenty years an increase of us per
cent. in the amount OF cotton consumed,
while the northern mills show an increase
of but % 2-3 per cent. in the same time,
this will convey some idea of the power
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melons, and the large number Of manufac
turing plants which go to make up the
wealth of the State. Of these there are
81 furniture factories. factories for the
manufacture of agricultural implements,
81 wagon and buggy factories, show
case factories, 13 oil and fertilizer mills,
III roller and grist mills, machine
shops, IS lumber mills, II shirt and over
ali factories, q sash, door and blind fac
tories, 43 brick and tile establishments.
with hundreds of smaller manufacturing
institutions. No better estimate can be
had of the progress of North Carolina
than is shown in the advance made by the
railroads, which now operate thousands
of miles of track, and yet their facilities
are totally inadequate to handle either
the passenger or freight traffic in its ir-
resstible and continuous flow. Nature
has destined that our natural advantages
should be developed and our raw material
manufactured upon the soil that gave it
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birth Thus from our villages are build
ed cities. with thousands of inhabitants,
rulsating with industrial and commercial
life, where byways have become elegant
streets, traversed by many miles of street
car lines. Our cities and towns are not
alone in their development. In the coun.
try we find our farmers waking up to the
great need of higher education and that
determination that knows no rebuff, to
secure it at any cost, and to obliteratc
from the pages of history the stigma of
illiteracy, which has stood as a menace
in the past to our achievements and flu
ture prosperity.
Our farmers have determined that our
farms shall become richer and more pro-
ductive, and that they must be bought
in closer proximity to our cities ley
have declared themselves for good roads
and plenty Of them, and are backing up
their declaration by voting bond issues
throughout the State for the purpose of
building these roads.
The prosperity of a State is not based
upon the success of one or of few OF
conservative management by her citl-
zens of her every agricultural and indus
trial enterprise, and the capacity of her
young men to grasp opportunity as it is
offered today in the grand New North
State that stands with open arms wait
ing to welcome to her bosom in parental
love, the sons and daughters, who shall
return to her borders to renew the bonds
OF fellowship which have ever bound us
to each other.
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born and raised in. A man who has lived
in North Carolina % years is thereby
qualified to be Governor of any other
State. If to % years in North Carolina Is
added 25 years in Tennessee, there IS no
limit to the power of such IA man. Only
three men ever did it. and each of them
became President; Jackson, Polk, and
Johnson. The Old North State is a Nur-
sery of Men.
People have moved from North Caro-
lima to every other State in the UniC.
But few have moved to North Carolina
1T is not easy for man to break into
the Old North State 1t takes him
year to find out who to write to for in
formation. Then the correspondence lasts
a year. Then the newspapers announce
that he is coming, and the people discuss
it, Finally he starts and all the trains
miss connection as soon as they enter the
State. Unless a prospective immigrant
starts for North Carolina before he is
grown, he will be an old man on his ar
rival North Carolinians are mighty par
ticular about receiving strangers; they
wish to know with whom they associate.
Anybody can get out of North Carolina,
but it requires a great deal of talent and
character to get into the State" Less
than one-half of one per cent. of our popu-
lation is foreign born, not one person in
200. We are the purest bred Anglo-Saxon
community on the globe
THE Old North State has made won
derful progress during the past 80 years.
She is now leading the South in rate of
progress. She is learning the secret of
community power Formerly the individ-
ual was everything; it was CASTOR,
Badger, Margum, Graham, or Morehead
Now the community is supreme-one hears
no longer of individuals, but of communi-
ties; OF Durham, Charlotte, Asheville, High
Point, Winston Salem, Greensboro. The
whole is greater than any of its parts The
community is greater than any individual.
The New North State is a State of Com
munity Powers; of public schools, public
| libraries, public roads, all for public use
supported by public taxation. This is
government OF the people, by the people,
for the people; this is genuine Democra-
cy. In the coming years the North State
will combine the strong character of in
diviualism which marked the Old North
State, with the strong power of communi-
ty action, which is making the New North
! State"
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goods Taking the past decade for illus
tration, as we have for this period,
the statistics of spindles as well as the
cotton consumed north and south, we
find that in 1890 the southern spindles
numbering LAO. 453 were using $4,000
bales of cotton each year. or 1873 pounds
per spindle, while the northern spindles
numbering 12,900O00 were disposing Of
1,7O1 900 bales of cotton, or 65.S pounds
per spindle. which was but AZ per cent
of the average weight of cotton required
for each southern spindle. At The pres
ent time, ten years later we find that the
northern spindles numbering 15110,072 are
disposing OF 100000 bales of cotton per
year, or $40 pounds per spindle. Slight
ly less than the per spindle consumption
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I. e. EMERSON

full progress made in this great industry.
IL this section of our country and that
North Carolina stands foremost of the
southern States in the manufacture of
cotton goods, and is only excelled in the
north by Massachusetts, and Rhode Is
land. This is most gratifying and
wonderful growth, when in 1880 we see
by statistics that she ranked thirteenth.
The first cotton mill in North Carolina
was established IN 1872 and several Others
from 1880 to 1887, though the greater
development took place from 1896 to
1902. AS result we find in North Caro-
lima 2S3 cotton mills, 81 knitting mills.
16 wooden mills, 2 jute mills, carpet
mill, 2 bag mills, making a total of 264
cotton and knitting mills, representing
$26, S76,336 invested in this industry, which
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forty years ago was barren of life, are
found ideal resorts, where our people
may rest from their labors and the great
est fisheries and oyster beds in the south
ern States, and our ports, from whence
upon our vessels are borne to almost
every foreign country, the products of
our manufacturing institutions. Varied
and diversified are the resources of CUR
State, therein lies her permanent
strength in the future) and with all the
resources there is none on which greater
stress should be laid and to which our
citizens are more indebted than to the
daily newspapers, which are ever alert to
the needs of the people, and have been a
ncwerful factor in the progress of the
State.
Greater attention is now being directed
to agriculture than for many years past.
Every commodity necessary to sustain
life raised on the farm is 25 to 80 per
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per year. Today this amount has grown
to 2.5OO, 900 bales, an increase of $40 per
cent. for the southern mills, while mills
in the rest of the country show an IN
crease of but 31h per cent. as compared
with their cotton consumption of thirty
years ago. This method of comparison
by percentage is, however, misleading
and does not convey clear idea of the
lines on which the development of the
cotton industry in this country since 1880
has taken place.
Two decades ago the south was slowly
recovering from the effects of war. Since
then her people have made a small be-
ginning in. the development of the i'm
mense natural resources of this great
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cent higher than it was five years ago,
and the purchasing power of dollar no
o,eator tbis advance being the result of
4te uonrecadented strides of our man
nfoct1,rinq institutions, which have in
~ nost ron wears made thriving cities
from o,,r former country villages.
MOI witbsts nding the plea that the, great
t,.,,sts ooo+rol the tobacco situation in
his state North Carolina has in opera
tinn 70 tobacco factories. whose annual
products aggregate hundred OF thousands
of dollars. ,e
The peanut crop aggregates nan mil
lion dollars each year TO say noShlng of
our more substantial anu staple
products, corn, meat, nce' potatoes oats,
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section. Her people were left very poor
by the war. Her white population, young
and old, male and female, poured INTO
the cotton mills, and they sprang up IKE
mushrooms.
The. work of these unframed operators
was necessarily confined to the production
of the cheaper grades of goods made of
coarse yarn. This fact is clearly shown
by comparing the grades of cotton man
ufactured in the south with that in the
rest of the country, where the industry
is older and where the operators OF 1880
had already become skilled by generations
of experience in the manufacture of fine
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with a steady tread has grown INTO a
sweeping volume that flows out into all
parts of the commercial world.
1 shall not endeavor to enter into
general outlining of the numerous INDUS
tries which have become great sources
of wealth to this State, but to the few
most important ones.
While every American may we'll be
proud of the remarkable development OF
cotton manufacturing in the United
States during the past decades. we can
lot overlook the fact that the greater
portion of this development has taken
place in the Southern States, and par
ticularly in the Carolinas. Twenty years
ego our cotton mills consumed 1,694,OOO
bales of cotton. Now they are using cot
ton at the rate of 3,435, 900 bales per year.
An increase of 1,741, 900 bales Of 102 per
cent in the twenty years.
n per cent of this increase. or i, 339 900
bales is credited to our southern mills.
Twenty years ago southern cotton factor
les were using beggarly $4,000 bales
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1t is seldom that we have an occasion
big enough to command the presence of
every State official in the Executive, Judi
clal and Legislative Departments. and all
of our members of Congress. They will
all be at the Reunion at Greensboro on
the 18th and 18th of October
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North Carolinians know the kind of a
welcome that awaits them. 1t can't be
described, but it can be felt.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-10

blow kept him to the floor beyond the limit and Referee J. B. Byne of Bel lows Falls gave the decision to Sulii' van.
 Before the Criterion club at Boston Thursday night Tommy Daly knocked out Dick Grant in eight rounds. Patsy McKenna of Boston and Grin Jones of Philadelphia furnished the most inter esting bout of the evening. They boxed ten fast and furious rounds, and the local lad, weighing only STA pounds, won a well earned decision over his heavier opponent McKenna's peculiar, awkward style bewildered Jones from the outset, and the wiry little fellow always managed to be GOV cred up when Jones's attack became too dangerous. Jones tried hard in the last two rounds to even matters up. but the handicap was too great to ov- ercome and Referee Eugene Buckley awarded the bout to McKenna-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-10
A FILIPINO M0kKEY
The Troubles of an Army Office,
 with the Little Beast.
iaae Was & Nuisance, But Native Cus. tom Prevented the Officer from Refusing a Present-Am Un-
 timely Fate.

The American soldier serving in ou1 East Indian possessions has had abundant reason, doubtless, to regard the Filipinos as treacherous and vim dictive But. the somewhat general im- precision entertained in the United States that those vicious qualities are characteristic of the Filipinos as peo. pie is not fully sustained by the exper1- ences of Europeans who have resided for many years among them.
 Strong ties of friendship exist, and ex. hibitions of gratitude are as zealously, and probably as frequently shown, as among the Christian peoples of other lands.
 ! Possibly a good illustration Of the last named trait of character may De found in the case of a poor Filipino who came one day to Lieut.. sutton, staff officer on duty at the time at the headquarters of the army in Manila, and urged upon the astonished officer the acceptance of pet monkey as a slight recompense, he said, for some act of done for him.
 The officer kindly, but firmly, refused the gift, and after thanking his visitor, sent him away.
 But the Filipino was not to be gotten rid of so easily. He conceived that he and debt of gratitude to discharge, and accustomed to duplicity of speech, dis believed the assurances of the officer that he did not want the monkey, and lhastening to the quarters of the lieuten- ant, fastened the creature by rope to the bars of an open window.
 When the officer reached his quarters. late in the day, he was surprised and ex- tremely annoyed to find the monkey tied to his window. But his annoyance was feebly compared with the righteous vexation he felt when he discovered that the animal had forced it's way be- tween the bars of the window into the
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-10
MRS sELBY wBDs coxswA1N2
Ralph Thompson, for Three Years in Yale Boat. Got Marriage License.

Yale Boat, Got Marriage License.
 New Haven, Oct 10.--Mrs Julia Salby, the recently divorced wife of Kid Mccoy, the prize fighter, arrived in town Wednesday in company with Ralph Thompson. Yale, go, of Schenec- tady, N. r., son of the late Colonel Robert M Thompson.
 The couple went directly to the City hall, where Thompson asked for a marriage license. To the questions of the clerk he answered that he had been divorced and he also gave the details of the divorce of Mrs Selby. He gave lis age as 33 and Mrs Selby's as 29
 Shortly after this the couple ap- peared at local hotel and registered as Ralph Thompson and wife, Sarato- ga, N. Y. They remained here until yesterday morning, when they left town, presumably for New York.
 At the City hall last night it was said that no return of the marriage li- cense, as is required by law when a ceremony is performed, had been made as yet Whether they were mar ried by a minister or justice of the peace will not be known until a return is made to Registrar of Vital Statistics James J. Carr.
 Thompson was coxswain of the Yale crew in the years 'S8, 'S9 and go. He weighed only about 106 pounds when down to lowest weight.
 Thompson's father, on his death re- gently, left him $300,o00.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-10
GAMBLERS RAIDED.

Men Escaping from Officers Jumped lsst.z From Roof or Fell Into River.
 Danbury, Oct 1O.-The biggest raid ever made on a gambling house in this city took place at II o'clock Thursday 1 night, when a squad of ten policemen
 descended upon the rooms on the sec ond floors of Nos and 9 White street and arrested twenty-two men and con-
 iscated wagon load of gambling par aphernalia. The raid was planned with 1 the greatest secrecy and the people in the place had no warning of the conn ing of the police until the officers en- tered the saloon underneath. Then the alarm was given by means of an electric gong and there was wild scramble on the part of the gamblers
 to escape. How many got away is not
 definitely known, but the police believe
 that there were at least 100 men in the
 house when they reached there. Many
 of the people leaped from roof in the
 rear of the building to the yard back
 of an Italian fruit store adjoining,
 distance of at least twenty-five feet
 and some of them must have been bad- 1y shaken up and bruised even if they
 escaped without broken limbs. Scores of men plunged down the back stairs in the darkness and rain and scrambled across a ladder that had been placed
 across Still river, which runs back of
 the building. This ladder was covered with blanks and i'll the darkness and rush to get away many of the men fell
 into the river, which was sEIIlen from the rain, and were helped out by their acomrades who were more successful;
 in reaching the shore.
 The men were released on cash
 bonds of S15 each. Only sixteen of them appeared in court in the morning.
 They pleaded not guilty. Only two of the lot were local men and they were
 walters. They were fined :. S1O ana
 costs each and appealed. The others
 were fined $5 and costs of S6.4S each
 and paid. A total of $229.60 was taken
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-10

room, and had made sad havoc with the contents of his private desk that stood within it's reach.
 A hasty survey of the wreck disclosed the fact that the creature had torn up many Of his letters, destroyed some val- ilabIe papers, had drank bottle of mucilage, upset his ink, and broken a paper knife.
 The officer stood, weapon in hand, gaz- ing fixedly at the animal for moment, actuated by conflicting emotions, and then at last discarding the weapon, hastily severed che rope with which the creature was tied, and hurried it in no gentle manner out of the house and into an adjoining yard, where he presented it to Filipino neighbor.
 The Filipino tethered the animal to a mango tree that grew in the yard ad- joining the officers quarters. The creature had evidently been accustomed to unrestrained liberty in the family of its former Filipino master, and pro- tested now vigorously and often, against its confinement.
 But at last the protests suddenly ceased, and the morning cries of the ani- nal were heard no more.
 "And what has become of the mon- .key?" inquired the lieutenant of his neighbor one day.
 "Oh, senor." replied the Filipino, smiling broadly, as he spoke, 'tthe fel- low was fat, and we ate him."
 "Heavens!" exclaimed the officer. !''That was next to cannibalism. You can't tell, he repeated, t'just what rela- tionship the thing may have been to you"
 He was very fat" persisted the Fili- pino, unconscious of the cause of the officers anxiety. tSincet the war began, D he continued, "the fat ones have been scarce"
 "And-you-eat-monkeys?" exclaimed the officer slowly and impressively.
 "Fat ones," answered the man. ''Lean ones are tough "The Lord save us!" murmured the mortified officer. .sr think know now why dog howled at an eating house station upon the Dag upan railroad the other day when man came out and pounded on gong"
 "The dog howled!" said the Filipino. fnquiringly, unable to comprehend the connection between bowling dog and the subject in Sand.
 ~sYes," said the officer continuing his apocryphal story, "the dog howled pite- ously until the man told him he did not have to eat it, and sent him away with kick. I'm afraid now we had lean monkey for dinrer, and the dog knew it"
 H. R. BRINKERHOFF,
 Lieut.. Col U. s. A., Retired.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-10

The high school boy is carried home and gently laid to rest. While here and there a crowded stand collapses meath its weight. And forty people get more than they paid for at the gate Oh, brave, oh. happy. careless days! How deep the mothers joy What time she thinks of all the things they're doing to her boy! How proud she is to know that he is csn the team! How sweet His face appears to her since it is only bloody meat! With honest pride she lays away his am- putated ear And puts his eye in alcohol to be a sou- venir
 Chicago Record-Herald.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-10
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