The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-31
Mr.. YERKES" VISIT
Sort of a Social Call" il
is Said, But the Curious
Continue to Gossip.

What brought Commissioner of
nounced Yerlz-es to Raleigh is ques-
ton that will remain unanswered eX-
I cept by the reason given by the
gentleman himself, to-wit: that being
in Asheville and having promised
Collector Duncan several times to
stop by and visit him in Raleigh, he
had concluded to do so.
Mr.. Yerkes lis said to be clever
gentleman and he is certainly
clever-spoken one. He drove over
the city, admired the capitol, the
streets with their green foliage, the
rolling hills of the suburbs; he spent
an interested hour in the museum and
the hall of history and showed that
he knew something of North Caro-
lima history and was pleased to learn
more; and he finally departed yes
terday afternoon for Washington ex-
pressing himself as delighted with
the State and hoping to come again.
That is the view of the matter
taken by the department officials here
and given by Mr.. Yerkes. But the
popular suspicion is that there was
business as we'll as pleasure in the
tripLbusiness in connection with q
thorough investigation into the de-
partment here by the chief of the
department on account of the stamp
frauds which were discovered at
Greensboro and for which two clerks
under Collector Duncan have been in
ldicted.
This assumption is strengthened by
the fact that when Mr.. Yerkes reach
ed Raleigh Wednesday night he found
here Inspector Bolin and Col. w. II.
Chapman, of Greensboro, who is an
Iagent of the department and particu-
ft.n1t &c
above referred to. Coincidence,
say the department clerks; remark
able" says the curious.
Raleigh is q pretty place, say the
latter, place that it would delight
any one to visit, but the fashionable
summer resorts are not in the rolling
hills of the central part of the State,
but in the mountains of the west and
the waves of the East. Collector
Duncan comes from the East, where
he is known and liked even better
thar he is hCre-Where he has the
use OF boats and fishing tackle and is
ION to the ropes" of seaside sport
as is scarcely any other man III the
State"--and what the curious would
like to know is why-these things be-
ing so-Collector Duncan should have
asked his guest to Raleigh, instead
of the Scashore.
All of which is perhaps lmpertln-
ent but interesting-and Collector
Duncan is smiling and doing nothing
to relieve the strain.
Nothing to say" says he very
pleasantly, and that it all
1t is said in the department that
Mr.. Yerkes spent comparatively little
time in the offices and that's while he
looked around through the depart
ment, he did not take part in Exam
iner Bolin's regular quarterly eHami-
nation. Col. Chapman, it is SAID, is
brought by his business to Raleigh
frequently and his presence here mad
nothing to do either with Mr. Yerkes
visit or Mr., Bolin's inspection.
Yet despite all this there are those
who refused to be convinced, saying
that the coincidence of the first de-
Dartment head coming to Ralelgh
for pleasure and meeting, quite by
chance, with two of his inspectors is
a 'little too TALL
| While in the city Mr.. Yerkes was
lentertained by his old friends captain
land Mrs. ]. NJ. Turner at dinner. and
afterwards attended the first OF the
Festival Chorus Concerts at the a.
and nj. College.