The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-16
LADEN W|THHONEY
THE BEES RETURN
Thus the Workers Bring
Their Memories.
GIFTED PETE WILSON
He and Kingsbury, Jordan and Ashe
and Whitaker Refresh the Mem
ory and Stir imagination
Gray Expresses Appreciation
of Anniversary Edition.

To the Editor--I wish to commend
ana thank you for the Anniversary
Edition of The News and Observer
yesterday. Every body enjoyed and is
praising it.
1t was a compendium of most in
teresting and instructive facts that
many of your readers already knew,
it is true, but were scattered about on
the shelves of their memories, COW
cred with the dust of many years, and
needed to be gathered together and
brushed off and frightened up. 1t was
4 most delightful symposium of rem
niscenes furnished by the men who
have been and are of your newspaper
family. Like bees returning from an
excursion into apple orchards ana
flower gardens in the spring time, their
legs laden down With honey, your con-
tributorS brought to the birthday ban
quet, toothsome and refreshing recol-
lections extracted from the scenes, in
cidents and friendships of the past
nearly all of which | knew, recognized
and welcomed.
1t would be difficult and / would not
undertake to say which of the purvey-
ors brought the best to the feast but
/ especially enjoyed the contents OF
the hampers of DR.. Kingsbury, DIR.
Whitaker and my friends Peter Viii
son and George Jordan AS to the
first he always writes instructivey.
learnedly and with literary polish and
your readers are often treated TO the
lucubrations of his well-stored mind
and facile pen; as to DIR. Whitaker his
"reminiscences are delightful and his
style pleasing and he also has for
some months regularly, ON Sunday
morning, entertained your readers;
but as TO Peter Wilson. SO infrequently
does he write that many do not know
what wealth of "Reminiscences, classic
learning, refined humor and grace of
style he possesses. | used to think and
have never seen fit to change my opiO-
ion that he is the best furnished writer
any newspaper in this State ever had1
When he quit journalism the loss was
irreparable except by his return to it.
What a charming letter Mr.. Wilson
wrote to your paper yesterday. For
simplicity and ease of style, purity
of English, quiet humor, pathetic ref
erence to the scenes and friends of
former years, accurate analysis of the
character and mental and moral
equipment of those about whom he
wrote and interesting narrative of
facts constituting the history of the
ObservA, it is unsurpassable. How
tender and beautiful was his tribute
to his friend and competitor for news
poor Dick Fulghum--and the al
fusion to his passing away! And /
have neVertread in any writing of any
author anything surprising in good
taste and delicacv the paragraph in
which he disclosed his relationship to
Major Hale, about whom he was writ
ing, and the purpose and result of his
visits to THE Pines" the beauty.
graces and virtues of whose mistress
were inherited by her daughter, Miss
Ellen Hale, and have made beautiful
and happy the home and life of Mr.
Wilson. The paragraph alluded to will
bear reproduction and re-reading:
''When / took a day off, as ! did
sometimes, because somehow all paths
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