The news & observer., 1905-12-12
Rollins Silent in Seven Ian
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militia is given as follows: General
officers and general staff, As; artillery,
60; infantry, 1852, hospital corps, SO;
aggregate, 1879. At the general in
spection required by the War Depart
ment Is officers and 213 enlisted men
were absent. The per cent of absentees
was 1884 per cent as compared with
11.03 in 1904
There was a good balance available
for North Carolina River and Harbor
improvements July 1st, 1905, aggre-
eating a total of 1917, ,226.27. These
sums follow: Waterway between New
Bern and Beaufort, $500; waterway
between Beaufort harbor and New
River, $1,000; Beaufort Inlet, $4,000;
Fishing Creek, $500; Cape Fear River,
$190,500; Contentnea Creek, $1,000;
$10,750; Roanoke River, $4,000;
Scuppernong SRiver, $4,000; Pamlico
and Tar Rivers, $1,000; Neuse and
Trent Rivers, $38,000; North East,
Black and Cape Fear Rivers, $4,000;
Waccamaw and Pee Dee Rivers, North
Carolina and South Carolina, $4,000;
Norfolk to the Sounds of North Caro-
lima. $4,000; Norfolk to Albemarle
Sound, $21,600; New River and Swans
boro, $4,176.27.
Discussing the compilation of the
roster of officers and enlisted men
of the Union and Confederate armies
required by law, Secretary Taft says
the work has been continued. con-
siderable number of additional origi-
nal Confederate records received from
State officials, historical associations,
and private individuals has been
copied and returned but even with
these additions the War Department
collection of Confederate records of
military service is far from complete.
1t is hoped however, that with the
assistance of the governors of the sew
eral States from which organized
bodies of troops entered the Confed-
crate service the departments incom-
plete collection of Confederate records
will be further augmented in the near
future by additional loans of original
records.
Such service records of Confederate
troops from Alabama, Arkansas, Flor
ida, Georgia, and Kentucky as one
on file in this department. have been
reproduced by the system previously
applied to the records of the Union
volunteers, and work is now progress
ing on the records of the Louisiana
troops.
on January 2S. 1904. a resolution
was adopted by the Senate directing
the Secretary of War "to transmit TO
the Provisional and the First and
Second Congresses of the Confederate
States of America, now in the custody
of the War Department
In compliance with this resolution
the Secretary of War on January 80,
1904, transmitted to the Senate a copy
of said Journal the original Of which
had come into the possession of the
department at the close Of the Civil
ha hot IL hn
printed, and this work, begun in
March, 1904, has been steadily carried
forward and is now rapidly approach
ing completion; the proof reading and
indexing being done under the super
vision of the Military Secretary.
The publication comprises seven
volumes, six of which are already fin
ished. and the seventh, including a
general index to the whole will be
completed in a few days.
The total n, mber of immigrants re-
ceiVed in North Carolina last year was
1873, which was less than the number
that located in any other State. South
Carolina was a close second with
total of 32S alien arrivals. Florida led
the Southern States with a total of
8,972 immigrants, but this number
is small as compared with New Yorks
315,510 and Pennsylvania's 210, 708.
annual report of the Commission Gen
eral of immigration. which shows the
race and people who settled in the
various States. For instance the aliens
who settled in North Carolina last
year are classified as follows: English,
Sc; Cubans, IL; French, i; Germans,
13; Greeks 8; Hebrews. %; Irish, 4
italian (north), 6. Italians {South).
i3 The occupations of these alien
Grated as follows: Teachers six; one
each. electrician engineer, lawyer,
scientific person, musician, physician;
blackSmiths. 2; carpenters, 6; clerks,
2; dressmaker 1; stationary engineers,
5; gardeners, 2; mariners, q machin
lists, 2; lock smith, L; miners 3; plas-
terers 2; plumbers. 3, seamstress, 1
shoemaker, /; tailors 4; weavers, /;
wood workers, l. These figures are
of interest, for the reason that they
show what the foreign immigrants,
who arrive in the State are doing.
With reference to the subject of
diverting immigration from the cities
TO the farms of the South, Mr.. Sargent
has little to say. His brief remarks
on this subject follow:
'As affording reasonable assurance
Of check upon the continued growth
Of this evil too much encouragement
can not De given 10 the reported ell
forts of certain railway companies to
divert a portion of the tide of immi-
grafton to the Southern States.
1T is impossible, in the opinion of
the bureau. to overestimate the i'm
portance of this subject as bearing
upon the effect Of immigration on the
future welfare of this country"
At the instance of Senator Simmons
the Director of Public Roads has
agreed to send an expert road builder
to Duplin county to superntend the
construction of a sand-clay road be-
tween Magnolia and Kenansville, a dis
tance of seven miles. 1t is very prob
able that machinery will be sent with
which to build the road, though this
has not been definitely decided upon
Several of these sand clay roads have
been constructed in eastern counties
and have proved highly satisfactory
In certain sections they are regarded
better than macadam roads. The road
that is to be constructed to Kenans-
vile will result largely from private
subscriptions. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Henry M. FIagIer is one of the
largest contributors. The road will be
construction under the direction of the
county authorities.