The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-14
THE HALL OF FAME
North Cardinals State Museum Has Added This In
tereSting Feature to Her Already Full
Line of Exhibits
Especial Sunday Correspondence

N0pcCldl sunday
North Cardinals state museum is one
of the finest in all the United States
and nothing elsewhere in the south be-
gins to approach it. 1t is a great build
ing two stories in height and occupying
@ space of 22O feet on three sides OF
q square n 80 feet on the remain
ing side. It is a very practical museum
and contains a collection Illustrative Of
the states resources, which It has cost
more than 100000 to make.
The newest feature of this great mu-
U is what IS known as the Hall of
History" a noble room, one hundred
feet Icy forty-fve feet in size, with
roof forty-fve feet in height, all the
f~fnisEings being of polished native pine.
For d number of years the writer has
had in view the establishment OF such
4 hall of history and the museum au-
thorities having placed this hall at his
disposal. ne began last winter the work
of making a collection to fill it; a col
lectf On which will illustrate every pc
Rod of the states history, from the old
InGian days down to the very latest
TGdI anu tESll- 1uc ali dIScAIcL4 i
therefore chronological. The exhibits
are IN handsome cases, mad of native
woods.
\ n first cases are devoted to Indian
dife and they show what the Indians
used in war and in peace, weapons,
implements of all kinds, household
utensils, articles used in ceremonies
and ira games, etc. The development Of
+ho - no va md tho IA wk- dOWn
to the time when those of iron super
seeded thoEx of stone is shown with
great care. There are stones used in
games for I polishing, the ~leaf-shaped
ones Ehos,f use is yet rather mysteri-
GUS. ceremonial stones, knives, spear
and arrOwIheads, mortars and pestles,
pots and jars of pottery and soapstone,
Skeletons, engraved shells, beads, and
the Indian money which was variously
known by them as wampum, peak n
ronock.
The coming of the white man TO
North Carolina, where the English first
made their landing, in 1884, is illus
trated by ballast feft at R'anok Isl
and ny Amidas and Barlowe. and by
the first map ever made of the state.
this being dated 159t and being based
upon the drawings Prepared by John
White. whom Sir Walter Raleigh made
the governor of his colony at Roanoke
Island. the territory being named by
Raleigh virginia. in compliment 10
his beloved queen, EIizabrfth. Arms and
armor of the period 1854 = now being
procured, TO be placed in}the hail.
The next period Illustrated is that
When the state was owned by the Lords
ProprietOrs, Craven, C2rteret. Granville
and others. There is a will dated IN
the province of Albemarle, 1852: grants
of lands by the King 70 the Lords Pro-
prietorS. covering North and south
Carolina and Tennessee: grants by the
Lords PrOprietOTs. on parSnIient, >u-
pertiv executed. one of these neinS 10
Mr.. burlington for the North caro-
lima fisheries for the period "i seven
years: royal seals: q cory OF lle
Charleston Gazette dated June u. Loo
containing the resolutions adopted At
Charlotte by the people OF
burg county. May 81, 1II3. hul contain
ing no mention of the resolutions OF
Nav %. 1TI5. known az the 'MeckIeh-
burg Declaration of Independence II
IS uDOr this paper that the persons who
disEeIieve the resolutions OF May ~
found their faith. The copy of the
Gazette III question HIS u
OF the resolutions of May
81 marked by the royal governor. VINO
INT the paper to England III order that
the king and his ministers might see it.
The rule of the Lords Proprietors and
that Of the king are blended so far in
the collection, out later there will be a
distinct separation. All of the Lords
Promoters except Earl Granville sur
rendered their rights in the land to
the king. but Granville declined to do
so and so his lands were SCI apart, an
enormous area. TO which he granted
deeds upon which these n are now
held, covering a good deal OF North
Carolina and Tennessee. The royal
regime is further illustrated by relics
from the battle ground OF Alamance'
which was a sort OF prelude to the
revolutionary war, and in which balIle
the regulators as they were termed,
were overwhelmed by the royal troops,
aided bv the militia. There are ad-
dresses letters prOclamations by
Governor Tryon, in the king behalf.
and also royal prOclamations. very
quaint in style. there are a great NUM-
Der OF valuable autograph letters ana
also the finest collection eNtant OF por-
traits (etchings) of North CaroIIna 5
great men of the colonial period so
many of whom also achieved greatness
as revoIutionists. rebels. If You Will.
The revolutionary period IS ilustrat-
ed by a fine collection Of arms OF al
kinds. pictures. autographs. househoIo
utensils. etc. Among the letters Is one
from that great hero OF the sea, fdul
Jones and John Paul Jones. since he
was thus variously known. There are
letters from the leading re~VOlutionar4
generals. and two OF these, lately Cd
tanned. settle the question as 10 the
name of General Davidson Some nave
claimed that it was merely Willlan
while others said il was William Lee
h,,+ these letters how that he wrote II
18th WAYS. There is a commission OF
evolutionary general which shows
~ which the authorize: