The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-25

| fectly natural that the gentlemen living
| outside should oppose it. All measures
of this kind weer opposed.
If it was good for other cities to ex
tend their limits, it would be good for
Raleigh
As for the farmers, they would have
| practically no value if ii were not that
the city ran up to them
AS for the fire protection, the outside
districts already had fire protection. A
| short while ago, st. Mary's School would
perhaps have had all her buildings de-
stroyed, had not the Raleigh Fire De-
partment saved them.
Ihere were now forty-five water con-
nections outside of the city.
The city pays 95 to 90 per cent. of the
road tax. and it passes by the doors of
these gentlemen We get back only 2
per cent. of it from them"
If majority of the people of Raj
eigh say it ought to be done. it ought to
be done
Mr.. Broughton laid great stress upon
the narrow limits of the city only ia
square miles, and Raleigh had less bond
ed Indebtedness than any other city of
her size.
1t has been said it would take several
years to pave these streets. 1t has taken
us hundred years to get where we are
now, and why not go on.
Raleigh was not asking as much as
other cities had, and she ought to have
more, as the capital city
Mr. Pou said if he had been employed.
and he was not sure whether he had
been not, it was because years ago
he had made a speech against extension,
before anyone had said anything to him
about =.
He feared very much that the gentle
men on the other side had misread the
science of city building. He thought the
present stagnation of our city was ac-
countable for by the fact that it was con-
sidered dangerous for a mill to locate
near Raleigh. and that an attach upon
such an enterprise was applauded by
members of the Board of Aldermen
Had the gentlemen taken into consider
alton the fact that not mill near Raj
eigh ran a company store, that they did
not have tenement houses, that they
would be just as we'll off anywhere be-
tween urban and Clayton as near Raj
eigh, that they did not need Raleigh, and
needed Raleigh.
He asked if a mill had ever moved to
any town whose tax rate was 2.35.
Mr. Habel said Charlotte had five.
Mr. Pou replied that the Highland
Park mill that was going to move to
Charlotte a short while ago had gone to
South Carolina, and taken 100000 OF
Charlotte money to South Carolina.
AS for the argument that the city had
better refut if it had better census re-
port, Mr. Habel forgot that Raleigh
would not get the benefit of that until
1911. Why not wait until 1909, and then
petition the LEGISLATURE
Mr.. Habel: would you be willing for
it them"
Mr.. Pou: ooh, yes, if you give US un-
til then to develop"
AS for the fire at st. Marys the other
day, Mr.. Pou said the fire department
had done it's best. but could not get
stream 1t was the A. and NJ boys that
put out the fire.
Mr.. Broughton: Il was referring to
fire before that"
Mr.. Pou: ancient history"
Mr.. Pou then went on to say that not
until the city was prepared to have
another bond issue for the benefit of the
outside territory, could that territory
be taken it. But it would be unfair to
make the outside property holders pay
old city debts that had been pilling up
for Ill years.
Mr. DreWry, of the Committee, said
that when he was on the Board of Alder
men he had never taken any part in this
matter He honestly thought the corpor-
ate limits ought to be extended, but he
thought the proposition ought to be sub
mitted, to every person in the city and in
the outside territory The outside people
would certainly be benefited, perhaps
not at once.
Raleigh had less bonded indebtedness
han any other city of it's size. One ~-~"-
tleman had said that the work of i'm
provement had not covered the last ex-
tension but that very gentleman had
fought the bond issue at that time And
when it was submitted to vote of the
people the negroes had been bought to
'ote against it, and it had been defeated
Mr.. Drewry then sent forward an
amendment to the bill that the question
be submitted to the qualified voters of
al the territory concerned.
The amendment was adopted, and the
bill as amended will be reported favor
ably, upon motion of Mr.. Drewry.