The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-06

good health"
Mr. Herman Heller, shoe merchant:
Things look bright. The indications arc
for most prosperous year
Mr.. w. l.. Dorsett, of Hotel Dorsctt:
Yes, Raleigh is going to do business
this year as never before. It's in the
air. and there's a feeling among all the
people that the year 1903 is to be marked
by great degree of progress and pros
perity.'
Mr.. l.. T. Brown, manager of the Var
borough House: Every indication points
to a prosperous year and my opinion is
that 1903 will be marked by a greater
advance for Raleigh than is ever realized.
The skies are bright and Raleigh is in
the full sunshine"
Mr.. c. r. Barbee, of Barbee e. Co:
1.-THE prospects for material progress and
growth il Raleigh have never been as
bright. The new tobacco market has
done much and will do more for the city.
Other Industries are on foot which VIII
mean as much as the tobacco market,
and / am sure that the year will be
record breaker
Mr.. James H. Pou: Raleigh has her
future in her own hands. She can make
a great city of herself if she tries, and
| hope that this year we will all get
together and show that we realize our
possibilities and will develop them. The
outlook is bright for our best interests,
Mr. Will Wynne, manager Raleigh Tele-
pone Company I'VE expect the coming
wear to be a record breaker for Raleigh.
We have the only enterprise of its kind
in Raleigh and we fully appreciate our
large patronage. Our growth means that
the city is growing, for the two necessar-
lily go together"
Mr.. Geo Allen secretary of the Cham
Der of Commerce: There is certainly
every prospect of financial success. The
affairs Of our merchants, banks and far
mers are all in fine condition. and the
outlook is rosy for 1903"
Prof. D. H. Hill, of the A. and NJ. Col
lego: There are three things to be
done by Raleigh this year Cd Get more
smaller industries. (2.) mill to weave
fine goods. 60 To continue the street
improvements and make this the most at
.ractive reidcnce city in the State
Mr. G. Rosenthal, secretary and treas
urer of the JUanita Mills: Il think the
prospects for business are good. Cotton
ana tobacco have brought good prices,
md there is general condition of pros
1erity, in which Raleigh will fully share.
Mr. William Boylan, local superintcn-
lent Interstate Telephone Company:
Everything points to the most prosperous
year of the past ten. Raleigh is on
steady rise, and real estate is increasing
II value. The Interstate is. doing a
pig business and it keeps increasing, this
being q good index to the city's growth.
Editor j. w. Bailey, of the Biblical
Recorder: 1.-The State is going to grow
'apidly in the next twenty years, and
)ur city will grow with it, and many for
unes will be made My desire is that
Raleigh shall be city of residences and
schools, not factories. and that it shall
aspire to social and intellectual and polit-
caI and religious leadership. rather than
commercial"
Mr. C. J. Parker secretary of the
Summer School: with the establish
nents of a great Summer School for
teachers this year, in addition to our
other educational enterprises worth more
han million dollars, all Of which are
unusually progressive and prosperous,
Raleigh must stand out eminently
rs an educational city, exerting greater
Efforts and exercising a wider influence
than ever before throughout the entire
State"
Mr.. w. p Rose, architect: "The outlook
tor buildings for the present year is ex-
ceedingly bright A number of applications
have already been made for plans OF
various buildings for Raleigh which will
come up in the early spring and the out
look throughout the State, is good. in fact
better than of any previous year since
[ haze lived in Raleigh"