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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-07

The building will be constructed of
white pressed brick and will consist of
three stories, exclusive of a spacious
basement. where a splendid laundry
plant will be installed. The building
will accommodate to the extent of
thirty sleeping rooms. 1t will also con-
tain dining rooms, reception rooms.
parlors, and all other rooms necessary
for the success of a large and elegant,
metropolitan boarding house. The
building will front on Market street 40
feet and will have a depth of 100 feet.
1t will cost $1,000.
LARGE FACTORY STRUCTURE.
The march of progress is also reach
ing Water street and oon upon this
always busy thoroughfare will be
erected a handsome building for the
better accommodation of the greatly
increased business of the Willard Bag
and Manufacturing Company. The
building will not only include the site
now occupied by the company, but an
adjacent site as well. which was re-
Gently purchased from Mrs. E. Vollers.
In all the building, which is to of brick
and three stories in height, will cover
a space 66X132. 1t will be situated on
the east side of Water street, between
Market and Dock. The building will
be we'll appointed and will not only
contain the elaborate machinery now
possessed by the enterprising company,
but great additions as we'll. The cost
of this new building will be fully So, 900.
THE TOBACCO WAREHOUSE.
AS to the Wilmington tobacco ware
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that the building will be occupied by
Mr.. \. F. Parker.
Nj. Gaylord speaks in high terms Of
the durability n attractivcness Of the
brick of the home company. He says
he has closely inspected them M is
fully satisfied thai they are far SUI
perioC 10 the clay brick. The truth
OF what Mr.. Gaylord says is certainly
eXamplified by the fact hat he has de-
cided to use this brick i'll his hand
some building.
METROPOLITAN BOARDING
HOUSE.
Another mark of WiImington's rapid
and substantial progress is found in
the proposed up-to-date boarding house
which is to be erected on the northeast
corner of Third and Market streets.
Workmen are now tearing down the old
landmark, which has stood for many
years. and oOn the more modern and
needful structure will be in course of
| erection. The boarding house will be
owned by Mrs. Oscar Pearsan and it
has already been rented to a most de-
sirable tenant, Mrs. W. H. Northrop.
ST., whowill conduct the establish
ment on the most improved style.
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Another Example of Assininity,
Charlotte News.O

Having exhausted the peculiar pleas
ure they found in toasting monkeys
and in feasting poodle dogs, the New
York society folks heavy purse a.d
light head have arranged a new diver
sion, known as the Equestrian din
ner.' G. K. @. Billings, Of New York
and Chicago, was the protector and he
dlnner was held, not in Mr.. Billings
new stable as was originally intended,
but in the ball room of Sherry's. which
was transformed into a rural scene by
the introduction of grassy lawns. thick
foliage and beds of flowers. Here the
guests found thirty-tWo richly ca par
lsoned horses bearing on their saddle
BOWS, small tables two feet in length
by eighteen inches wide, covered with
cloths. The Steeds remained notion
less, while attendants in hunting ccs-
Tunes served he various courses to
the riders.
What a spectacle; two-legged dom
keys dining from the backs of respec-
table four-legged horses. With what
new outhrust Of a~Ssininity will these
li~ght-headed 1ops bore the public next?
Appropos this fool dinner "a commuri-
cation in the New York World of yes
terday is highly amusing and fits the
case like a glove.
To the Editor of the World:
L once heard a nan near my stall
telling about a human who had "cone
down in the world" and was found by
a former acquaintance serving as
waiter in a cheap restaurant. What!
o here?" asked the patron. Il wait
hear. I do not eat here SAID the re-
duced a~ristocrat, drawing himself up
TO his full Height.
Something like this / felt when. hob
nobbing in front of Sherry's on a re-
cent night with an acquaintance 1
saw to my establishment horses Of re-
spectacle appearance entering the
building. The fellow / was with whIn-
ed Indignantly that they were being
periliously hoisted into the air to eat
dinner With their masters in a man
stable.
This is going too far, It's all yery
well to work for any one who pays I'M
ion wages in hay, oats and shelter. But
to he compelled to eat in such COM
pany, to associate with it in a social
waY-it's too much!
THOMAS EQUINUS.
New York. March 29th.
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south. Among the messages of sym
pathy were kilograms from Mr.. NJ. j.
O'Brien, of New York, president OF
the Southern Express Company; Mr.
E. NJ. Williams, of New York. assis-
tant to the president. Mr.. George H.
Tilley. of New York, secretary and
treasurer; MI. T. W. Leary. of Allan
ia, general manager; Mr.. H. H. Hurl-
pert. district superintendent at At
lanta, Ga; Mr.. V. Spaulding. superin-
tendent at Lynchburg, Va, n Mr..
Oscar NJ. Sadler. district superintend-
ent at Charlotte, n. c., and numerous
others.
The remains were sent to Greenville,
S. c., for interment and left here
Yesterday evening at Z p. m. over
the Atlantic Coast Line. They were
accompanied by the family who went
in private car No. SOC, kindly rendered
by Mr.. w. n. Royal, general superin-
tendent of the Coast Line.
Before the remains We're taken
away funeral services were held yes
terday afternoon at 5:45 o'clock at the
residence. The services were impress
lively conducted by the Rev. J. NJ.
| Wells, Phi. D., pastor of the First
Presbyterian church. and the hymnS
were beautifully and ~tOuchingly sang
by the choir of that church. Hun
dreds of handsome floral tributes were
sent to the residence and besides the
designs taken in carriages, one of the
large wagons of the company took a
great many to the station * b sent
away with the remains.
Those who acted as pallbearers here
yesterday were as follows
Honorary-Dr. w. J.. Love, DR.. L. H.
Love. and Messrs. Marsden Bellatny.
James H. Chadbourn, James Sorunt.
and Captain J. R. Williams, agent of
the Southern Express Company at
Wilmington.
Active-Mr. w. n. Royal, Mr.. r.
w Hicks. Mr.. E.. Borden, Captain T.
c. James, Col. Walker Taylor. and Mr..
K. G. Barrett, route agent of the ex-
press company at Rocky Mount.
In respect to the memory of Col.
Crosswell. the express office here and
the delivery wagons have been draped
in mourning.
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ton. 1t is to be erected by Mr.. Geo.. o.
Gaylord, just south of the building now
occupied by his enormous business on
he east side of Front street, between
Chestnut and Grace. 1t will not cost
a cent less than $4,000 and will greatly
ornament Front street, to say nothing
about the increase it will give the city
commercially The plans for the build
ing have already been drawn and ac-
ceptad. They show that the building is
to be exceedingly commodious, modern
ly appointed n magnificent in ap-
peaTance. 1t will be three-stories high
and 6 basement. Like hat of the How
ard Relief COmpany's building, it will
be constructed of our HON white
white brick. The front will be eX-
tremely attractive nj will be fitted UP
with costly plate glass windows. The
entrance will be a center one, and con-
seQuently this will give a divided glass
front, which Will enhance the appear
ance. One of the cardinal appoint
ments will be a passenger elevator.
which will run from the basement to
the top floor, a distance Of 40 feet. The
space occupied by the building will be
120X35. 1t is about definitely decided
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Letter to E. s. Martin.
Of Wilmington, n. c.,

Dear Sir: James Ackley's house in
Cairo (Catskill Mountains), \. Y, a
conspicuous one in the midst of the vii
lage, was painted Ii a ago with
Devoe; has not been painted since; and
the paint is in good condition today
He is going to paint; but there's really
no necessity Of it.
Devoe has been sold in Cairo Is years
Our agent is CASTOR Wynkoop. House
owners there want Devoe, and painters
there paint Devoe. It would be n harC
Job to persuade a Cairo man to paint
lead and oil-of course a painter paints
whatever his customer wants, even il
it's buttermilk.
Marian Van Hoesen, a Cairo painter
has painted Devoe for Is years. There
are two or three others; all for Devoe
we are told-don't know their m
It's the same wherever e get:
into a town; it stay there and owns
the whole business.
Yours truly.
F. w. DEVOE & CO.
P. S.-M. W. Divine & Co., sell o u
paint.
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bd-cIl4CllI All IL j Dc Il very Spacious
and we'll constructed one.
ANOTHER FINE BUILDING.
Not content Gor all of which Will
mIngton is duly thankful for) with
the erection Of this handsome building
Mrs. Vollers will pursue her progress
siyeness with the erection of q large
and elegant mercantile building on the
lot owned by her on the southeast cor
ner of Walnut and Mutt streets. This
building will be made entirely Of press
ed brick and will be devoted to the ex-
tensive business of Messrs. McNair &
Pearsall. 1t is safely estimated that the
building will be finished by the first
Of September and when completed It
will be n Of the very handsomest IN
this Dr. any other state used for the
wholesale grocery business. 1t will
nave n frontage on Mutt street Of 66
feet and will have a depth on Walnut
street OF So feet. The cost Of the build
ing will be $4,000. The erection Of this
building will certainly grace this large
site which has been vacant so many
years. And rumOr says that it is not
to end there as one of our foremost
business men is now negotiating for
the cart of the lot hat on
Front and Walnut streets for the erec-
ton of another "swell' commercial
house.
GIANT STORE BUILDING.
1t is only a matter of days now be-
fore ground will be broken for the sec
ond largest store building in Whining
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For Bravery in the Philippines.

Washington, April 4.-Ffrst Lieuten-
ants Boss Reese and Frank Nickerson,
Philippine scouts, have been recon-
mended by the commanding general Of
the division Of the Philippines for COM
missions in the regular army, in recog-
n1tloi Of their participation in the
fight with San Miguels forces last
month, IN which the Filipino leader
was killed. Second Lieutenant John l.
Finlayson, another Philippine scout,
who also took part in the fight has
been recommended for promotion and
Otto Heiter, who shot i've of San
Miguel's men, losing his arm, has been
recommended for a medal of honor.
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MARBLE BUILDING
There will be no more imposing build
ing on Front street than The n Mrs.
f. NoIlers is now having erected on the
site OF the building recently burned
n which was occupied by the large
dry goods business of Mr.. A. D. Brown.
This building will cost $500 and will
be ready for occupancy in all proba-
bility by the first of next August. It
viii be three-stories in size and made
cf marble n white pressed brick. So
!, car readily be seen that the building
will present a magnificent appearance.
TIE marble front will extend UP to the
second story, from where the front will
be of the very finest Washington brick,
and this will be handsomely trimmed
with attractive terra-cotta. The ceiling
of the building will be entirely OF
metal. As for up-to-dateness, the
building will not have a superior any
where. Throughout there will be steam
heat and it will contain one of the
most modern passenger elevator plants.
Of course, the building will possess a
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-07

Washington, April 4.-Rear Admiral
Albert S. Barker, who is to relieve Rear
Admiral Higginson Of the North At
lantic squadron about May 1st was at
the navy department today in consulta
ton with officials preparatory to as
Stunning his new m Admiral
Barker is giving much to the
plans for the summer manoeuvres i'm
which his squadron will participate
during their trip TO the Azores. Anoth-
er problem in which Admiral Barker is
deeply interested is the matter Of de-
sertions of enlisted men on the North
Atlantic squadron. Admiral Rarker is
here on temporary duty with the gen.
era1 board.
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COL. w. j.. CROSSWELL.

Death of This Valuable Citizen Yes
terday MOrninE-The Was
superintendent of the Southern
Express IN for the Atlantic
D~ivision-The Remains Sent TO
GreenvilIe. :. c.. for Interment-
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Intellectually in women is said to
have made such progress hat the Eas-
ter hat will o o be obsolete. It should
DE stated, however, hat this bit of in
formation was not culled from the mil
linery advertisements. Washington
! Post.
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CAROLINA BEACH TO OPEN MAY
18TH.

Captain John w. Harper expects to
open the season at Carolina Beach
May 18th, when he will commence the
regular summer schedule of the steam
er Wilmington. After having been
thoroughly she came off the ways yes
terday and will make her trip to
Southport today and out to sea if the
weather permits.
The season at Carolina Beach will
be the biggest in it's history. 1t is bet
ter equipped to handle excursion par
ties in view of the completion Of the
large pavilion and cafe which Captain
iIarper had built this winter. Excur-
sionists will have an admirable place
to stop. such as can be found no.
where on our sea coast this
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basement and IL win be a very spacious
and we'll constructed one.
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GIANT STORE BUILDING.

It is only a matter of days now be-
fore ground will be broken for the sec
ond largest store building in Whining
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
WHY MISS ASTOR COULD
NOT WE'D THE ROUMANIAN

From the New York Mail and Express.
Is impossible to believe the report
that the daughter of the laird of
Clveden, who is understood to have
bought, with that famous English estate,
all the ancestors that go with it, is be-
trothed to one Jonel Bratiano of Rou-
mania. M. Bratlano is certainly nobody
in particular. His father, indeed, was a
statesman of some consequence in Rou-
mania, and he himself is a member of
the cabinet of King Carol. But what is
Roumania? An upstart kingdom in the
southeastern corner of Europe, with no
nobility except one in process of manu-
facture, can hardly provide a suitable
consort for the daughter of the house of
Aston of Waldorf and Cliveden.
There are no Roumanian dukes, nor vet
courts, In the Almanach de Gothas list
The marshals. chamberlains and lords
and ladies-in-waiting of the royal court
of Bucharest are made up of plain mon
sieurs and mesdames with Enthusiastically
vulgar patronymics The boyars who
are expected to furnish the material for
a future Roumanian nobility WERE but
a generation ago, mere boss farmers in
the country, cracking their whips, per-
chance, over their own cattle.
1t is certainly not meet for the Lord of
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THE GLARS AND THE JEWS.

From the Boston Globe.
The car is not always to be trusted,
much less understood, and it is feared
that his late manifesto. If not a pretense,
is very imperfect in its significance. The
Jewish News has been at the pains to as
certain of the famous Jewish advocate,
Baron Horace Guenzburg or st. Peters,
burg. just how the manifesto will affect
the Jews and the Jewish question I'm
fortunately the replies received Indicate
that the real status of the Jews will not
be changed and that the more obnoxious
of the special laws affecting them will
not be abrogated. 1t is not so much that
tho ear is not to be trusted as that the
car does not trust himself In attempting
reforms In such country as Russia. The
true significance of the cars manifesto
is not liable to be known for some time
publicity has no meaning In Russia.
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Mrs. Wards Profits.

ut is said that Mrs Humphrey Ward
received $4,000 for the serial rights of
Lady Roses Daughter, not to speak of
the royalties, which are already estimated
at $150,0O0" said a literary man. while
other writer's have made an occasional
big strike, there is no other living
novelist who earns so much money, and
the reason for Mrs. Wards tremedous
success goes back to Robert Elsmere,'
which introduced her to that great pub
lie which does not as a rule read novels.
Probably none of her later novels has
had such a vogue as that much-discussed
book, but they have all been of a big,
serious nature, dealing for the most part
with serious problems, and of char
acter to retain the class of readers first
won.
while not a hasty writer, Mrs. Ward
works steadily and industriously, and
probably strikes the happy mean be-
tween satiating the public and allowing
it to forget, which is an important ele-
ment In financial success. But while she
has had extraordinary luck in getting al
most from the start an audience ten
times as great as even very able novel
list can count upon, 1t must be allowed
that she has held her place by sheer
merit, and that the appearance of new
novel from her pen is a real literary
event 1t will be interesting to see how
Lady Roses Daughter which deals with
no problem whatever, will please an au-
dience which has become accustomed to
the discussion of religious and social
topics in her book"
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From the Kansas City Star.


M NE of the most comfortable con-
aVOJ venient and economical devices
- ever invented in the way of
womans apparel is the shirtwaist It is
ominous, therefore, to learn that con-
vention of dressmakers, held in Chicago,
where all the reforms come from. has de-
creed that the waist must go. The dele
gates to this convention have been in
etructed to urge their customers TO dis
continue its use And why? Because it is
running our business" say the dress
makers Now the cutters and sewers of
women's fabrics have a right to live
but they are probably exaggeratlng the
Importance of the shirtwaist as a DESTROY
er of their business. But to whatever
extent this modern invention may lessen
the dressmakers' bills, to the same extent
or nearly, 1t saves the pocket money of
the average woman. The fact that most
shirtwaists are ready made is one great
thing In their favor for they obviate the
wear and tear of being fitted by a dress
maker, a process that is accountable for
weakened nerves. tart tempers and do
nestle gloom In many household. But
another thing in SAVIOR of the waist is
tnat 1t is cheap In this particular 1t ap-
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GERMANS IN SOUTH AMERICA.

From the New York World.
Twenty years ago, according to r.. A.
Ogg. writing in the Worlds Work. Ger
many had not an acre of land outside
of Europe. Now she has 1900 600 square
miles, besides as much more where her
trade control is paramount
Among the latter regions are several
in South America, notably In Brazil. The
Germans are the only European colonists
who retain their national allegiance.
Italians and Portuguese readily assimi-
late with the Spansh-speaking natives;
Germans, no.
In Brazil the colonists occupy certain
sections almost exclusively and owe no
more than nominal allegiance to Brazil.
Practically they govern themselves.
In ten years German trade with South
America has increased faster than that
of any other people. The German Bra
lillian banks capital of 100000 and the
German Transatlantic bank of Buenos
Ayres' 100000 are larger than the re-
sources of most of the great national
banks of this city.
The total value of German Investments
In South America is reckoned at S15O-
000000. The railways are in many in
stances owned by German capital.
German settlers in South America
number perhaps 100000. There may be
twice as many Italians. But the former
still look to the old country as home;
the latter do not.
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BREEDING and USAGE.

Miss Marion Burdlck, who is only 10
years of age, showed wonderful mental
poise and self-possession before the cor
oner at Buffalo the other day, but
notice that her curt, incisive replies,
yes, no.. and L don't know are caus-
ing some interesting discussion said
a man interested in good breeding.
1.-THE New York Sun says that her re-
plies were constrained and terse, almost
impolite, and that she never added sir
to them, and her tone was often de-
faint.
Another good authority says that her
failure to add the sir is most excellent
testimony to the child's good breeding
to the care with which her mother. and
grandmother have reared and instructed
her.
1.-The New York Commercial quotes a
matron of the University club on the
subject as follows:
~ was not little amused to read
those references TO the child's testimony.
1t hasn't for a score of years been good
form for children to say sir and
ma M to their parents or elders. l was
taught to. and did 1t almost up to the
time l was married. When his two
cousins wers on here from Indiana last
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Cliveden, whose ambitions are known to
be directly connected with the highest
British nobility, to ally himself with mere
canaille of this sort. Nothing short of
a dukedom would be the proper social
goal for young woman of such birth
and such expectations as Miss Astor's
1t is well known that the descent of
the Astors themselves is not from a Ger
man peasant at Waldorf, as certain cap
tious American critics have claimed, but
from the Chevalier Jean Jacques de
Wastorg, a French nobleman, who some
how strayed into the grand duchy of
Baden a few centuries ago. That his
descendant, John Jacob Astor, had lost
his aristocratic particle and two letters
of his name, and was constrained to
emigrate to New York and set up a
little business in coonsklns and old fddles
here, was no fault of the Chevalier de
Wastorg. His descendants resumption of
aristocratic connections was only rever-
sion to what was his by right.
With these facts in mind, and in full
confidence that no daughter of Cliveden
will ever marry anything less than an
Irish earl, we take the liberty to dis
credit this Roumanian report
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DECREE THAT MEANS THE
SHIRT WAIST MUST GO

plies to much larger class than the
dressmakers who complain that their bus
iness is being injured.
II don't see why women want to wear
Them" says one of the Chicago reform
ers. ''They have no fit, they are not
pretty, and the attempt to give them any
sort of style is ridiculous Rest as
sured that this is jaundced view. There
are very pretty shirtwaists, and there are
makers who give them a good deal OF
style Like every other article that
comes into very general use. It is abused
in some cases. The waist makes the fat
woman look fatter, and some of the fac
tories make hideous selections of goods
in filling up their stocks. But the same
thing is true of millinery and every 9TH
er article of raiment that is subject to
radical changes of style. If the shirt
waist has had its day. it is not because
the dressmakers have declared against
it, but because it has run its course, and
the feminine fancy demands something
different. Women are not going to make
a crusade on behalf of the dressmakers.
Whether just or unjust, there is con-
sensus of opinion that dressmakers are
a necessary evil and that while they
must be tolerated. they should not be
conciliated at the expense of economy
and comfort