The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-13
N. B. Broughton to Cham :
Der of Commerce.
THE SH0O-FLY TRAIN
Banquet to be Held at Reopening of
Marlborough Hotel---Dr. Hubert A.
Royster Will Address the
Meeting Next
Month.

The Chamber of Commerce held an in
teresting session last evening in the may
ors Office. Quite a number Of Raleigh's
leading citizens We're present. Judge T.
B. Womack presided and Mr. George AL
len acted as secretary.
reeommitted to the executive committee
with the view of holding this affair as
soon as the Marlborough House is re-
opened.
The matter of endeavoring to get the
Seeboard Air Line to put on a shoo-fy
train was discussed and the executive
committee was directed to renew their
efforts to secure this train.
1t was announced that DR.. Hubert A.
Register had accepted the invitation to
make en- address before the Chamber at
its February meeting:
On motion Of Mr. R. H. Battle the
executive committee was instructed to
take steps TO prepare a souvenir publica-
ton of Raleigh. This is intended to be
something handsome and free from the
advertising feature which has been part
O. these publications heretofore gotten
IN by the city.
The principal event of the evening was
the splendid address of Mr.. N. 3.
Broughton On Raleigh as an Advertising
Centre. The address was as follows:
what ere the opportunities for in
forming those living outside our city of
the business we are doing, and the ad
vantages we possess? This, take it, Mr..
President, is what is desired 1 should
present tonight.
First of all, then, let US look at TIE
advantages given us by our splendid ar
ray of newspapers. Taking n. w. Aver
e Sons Directory for 1903 as the latest
and most reliable guide that l could Sc
cure, l find there is sent out from this
city each week to regular subscribers, at
least 1852 papers. or a daily average of
1854. These. papers, or some of them.
reach every court house and practically
every important place in our. State, every
day.
''Of the secular weeklies there are 49,
700 that go to the country homes, stores,
mills. factories, etc., every week.
"Of the religious weekiies there arc
Is, Ala copies issued each week, and to this
number is to be added once month $500
OF another like publication. 1t is safe
to say that the religious weekly finds the
home where no other paper goes.
with the daily, weekly and monthly
publications and their many readers, be-
SIDES the regular subscribers, we may
safely calculate that over 100000 persons
read some one of the papers published
in Raleigh at least once in every seven
days.
i II.
CT the papers referred to many thous-
aids more may safely be calculated.
Il really feel it is no exaggeration Tor
US to say that from this city the people
OF our whole State are reached every
,rcek, and if It was desired to reach them
in half that length of time and the news
could be given to the press on Monday
ut noon, it would be known from one
end OF the State to the other III city,
town, village hamlet and rural home be-
fore Thursday following at noon.
Put as great as are the advantages Of
our newspaper publications to Raleigh.
as an advertising center, they form only
part OF them.
Here the State government is located
and IRON every county every year, and
oiten several times d year, comes the
sheriff or mis- deputy, and this officer is
always a man with his eyes wide open,
ard through him We carry the news OF
what's going on in Raleigh to the court
house ring, and you may rest assured ii
IL is worth repeating it goes to all the
PEOPLE of that county, for it is expected
al the county officer more than any one
else that he shall keep the people in
Cormed-and. by the way, there is netn-
ing he likes quite so well as telling the
news to his constituents.
THE two terms OF the Supreme court
had here bring 20 us once and often
twice in the year, many of the most
prom nent lawyers of each county, and
surely if the sheriff fails to get the news
from Raleigh not so with the lawyer. He
must have it whether anybody else gets
it or not. And when he has given 1t out
i. Is received and accepted.
Add 20 these influences the great
schools and colleges and the charitable
institutions in our midst. Think of the
more than one thousand students thai