The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-13
Distinguished Party En-
Route For Beaufort.
TO INSPECT HARBOR
GoIdsboro Warmly Greets the Guests
Under the Escort of Mr.. R. S. How.
land. Address by Col. Robin.
son. Distinguished Caro-
Iinians With Party.
Especial to News and Observer

Goldsboro. n. c.. Nov. 12.-Our dis
tinguished visitors. Senator Aldrich
and party We're given an informal but
cordial reception between trains
Senator Aldrich. of Rhode Island.
Chairman of the Finance Committee
of the United States Senate accom-
panied b a large party of distinguished
statesmen and capitalists under the
escort of Mr.. II. S. Rowland lessee
of the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad arrived in the city this af
ternoon at Ais in the special car
Magnet" on the train from the
North. EN- route To Morehead City Off
cially to inspect the waters of Beau
fort harbor,. relative to the proposed
inland waterway that it is hoped to
induce the government to establish
there.
On the arrival of the train here the
distinguished party was met by the
reception committee appointed by the
Goldsboro Chamber of Commerce and
escorted TO the narl/rs of the Hotel
Kennon, where large number OF
representative citizens werein waiting
to receive them and where a brief
speech Of welcome TO Goldsboro was
made them by Col. Joseph h. Robin
son, s"eaking as follows:
Senator Aldrich. ii is a very great
pleasure to the citizens of Goldsboro
to greet you and your distinguished
party of gentlemen in Our midst and
i'm behalf OF my fellow citizens / have
the honor TO bid you welcome. Ana
not only Is it the spirit of Southern
hospitality that gives us pleasure at
your visit but also is IL, pardonabie
pride that springs naturally among
people self-conscious of their POSSIBLE
tiles that gives us hope that your visit
will result I'm the yet great develop
ment of the fertile and marevlously
inviting section lying hence to the
ocean, whose whitecapDed waves since
creations dawn have broken in con-
tinuous thunder on our shores, en-
deavoring to- tell all the story of our
wonderous wealth of sea and land and
die in muisc with the tale untold.
I'VE fell, sir, that your travelled eye
will readily take in all the possibilities
of the situation and that your states
manship and patriotism will suggest
and achieve such public measures as
will rebound to the betterment Of our
own people and the glory of our COM
mon country And after all, sir, the
abiding glory CT any countryA in the
citizenship; and herein lies for your
personally, sir, an opportunity that sell
dom comes to men in the piping days
of peace, of carving your name high
upon the face of flames enduring pin
nacle-not an anthroywubkaaMf NV
when through your fundamentally the
government of our common country
reaches its arm down to this struggling
people and through its power gives
them opportunity of development
hitherto unenjoyed you create within
their hearts a new love of country and
pride of citizenship and upon these
at least rests and depends the peroet-
uity of our Republican institutions.
And in this distinguished presence
and on this occasion l feel that j
would not be true to the sentiment
and wish of my fellow citizens who
have honored me as their spokesman
If / did not express to Mr. r. S. How
land our deep appreciation of the man
ner of man he has proved himself
since coming into control of the At
lantic a. North Carolina Railroad. and
our earnest solicitude to aid him IN
ever way possible in the great work
that lies before him.
Again gentlemen / bid you a COR
dial welcome to the best town in the
State"
A general Introduction and cordial
handshaking followed and light re-
freshments were served while the
special car was being shifted to the
Atlantic q North Carolina special
train on which the visitors departed
for their destination, apparently glad
to have met our people in a social
way, as we were RlaQ 10 nave them
among US.
The names of the distinguished Wis
itors are as follows: Nelson NJ AL
drich. United States Senator from
Rhode Island; Marsden J. Perry, pres
ident OF the Union Trust Company and
OF the Naragansett Electric Light
Comnan~ Providence: Col Samuel p
Colt, President of The Industrial Trust
CO., and of The United States Rubber
Company; Benjamin A. Jackson
President of The Providence Banking
Company: George H. Robinson. Presf-
dent OF the Gorham Manufacturing
Co.. the greatest silver manufacturing
concern in the world. Frank S Can
non, Vice-President of The Metropoli-
tan Street Railway Company, New
York; j. Edwards Studley President
of the Manufacturing Trust COMPANY.
Providence; Col. A. H. Walton. Presr-
dent of the Narapansett Bay Steam
boat Company: Col. Samuel M Nichol-
son, President of The Providence File
Company. the largest file concern In
the world; Cornelius S. Sweetland
Treasurer of the Rhode Island Com
pany and other corporations: J. r.
Rosenfield. City Editor OF The Prov
idence Journal.
The following distinguished GENTLE
men Joined the party and left with
them for Morehead City:
Senator's Simmons and Ovarnan
Representatives Small and Thomas