The semi-weekly messenger., 1905-09-19
A BELT TROLLEY LINE
An Expert Engineer Goes Over the
Route-PossioiIity of Repair Shops.
Live News in Short Paragraphs.
Personal Notes.
Especial to The Messenger. J

pert engineer IEUu AoTlueTu COLk u
ny, accompanied by Major E. J. Hale
and Messrs II. r. Horne and T. r.
Rose, committee from the chamber
Of commerce, has just gone carefully
over the route from the steamDoa.
wharves, through the city, the south
ern manufacturing suburbs on to Hclt-
Morgan village and Hope Mills, the
last two important mill centres, with
a view to the laying of belt trolley
line, encircling the city, and taking
in outlaying villages, factories, foun-
dries, etc. The line would make cir
cult of about 15 miles The engineer
considers Fayetteville ideal ground for
an electric car system, and will re-
turn for a more detailed survey with
in ten days.
1t is said here, though, nothing has
come from the officials of the company
that the Atlantic Coast Line Railro ad
company may soon build machine re-
pair Shops at this point, erecting The
plant near the new freight depot nov
in process of construction
Messrs. G. S. Russell and F. c. New
lin, committee from the chamber Of
commerce, accompanied by Mr. W. D.
MCNEIL, the well-known expert mill
superintendent, went up to the plant
OF the Cape Fear Electric Power COM
pany yesterday to examine into the
u te& ~f %h+
terprise.
The Cumberland County Medical So
ciety meets at o'clock this afternoon
at "Ardlussa," his country home, by
invitation of DR.. }. w. McNeill a
member of the society. The will com
bine pleasure with business at this
meeting, for 'Ardlussa" is delightful
sojourning place.
Mr.. E. J. Humphrey, master archi-
tect, has received the contract for
building the new First Baptist church,
and will. begin work on Monday, 18th
instant. The church will be a hand
some brick structure, to cost proDa-
bly, $4,000, and is advantageously sit
uated on the corner of Old and Ander-
son streets, about the center of the
city.
A new rural free delivery route will
soon be established, a little over Is
miles in length, running out from Fay
etteville to Woodland" the beauti-
full Evans homestead in Gray's Creek
township, and taking in Sherwood and
other country settlements.
Mr.. J. o. Ellington, vice president
of the Bank of Fayetteville, is nav-
ing Autographed what might be called
an historical bank draft. The Wig
nette is a finely executed picture Of
Marquis de La Fayette, and has a
story When the great Frenchman Wis
tied America in 1924 the August Basch
Bank Note company, which is prepar-
ing this draft for Mr. Ellington, in
duced Lafayette to allow his picture
to be taken, for which the company
paid the daguerreotypist $3.50. Strange
ly enough, Mr.. Ellington finds in Fay
etteyille a means of verifying the cor
rectness of the portrait of Lafayette
in stature, features, dress and all,
from a picture on an old map of Fay
etteville, prepared 20 or more years
ago by the late Colonel John MacRae,
former postmaster, and grandfather
of Messrs. J. G. and c. F. MacRae, Of
Wilmington.
Mr.. F. r. Rose, secretary, acting un
der the instructions of the chamber of
commerce is making strong effort to
secure mail facilities on the extra
''Shoo fly trains running out from
this city. The department at Wash
ington has taken no action yet, but
the Atlantic Coast Line has issued
orders that no passengers be taken Oh
the local freight traina after the 18th,
instant, which looks as if the mail
service was coming.
Nat Mcpherson, negro, has been
arrested, charged with selling liquor at
different times and places in Seventy
First township, and among them in
Savannah colored church, while servi-
ces were going on This is defying
the law with a vengeance.
Miss Kate Sutton is speeding few
weeks at Black Mountain.
Mrs. Paul Slocomb, of Jacksonville,
Fla, is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. A. H.
Slocomb on Dick street.
His many friends are glad to see
City Tax Collector J. D. Brown able
to be out after several weeks of Sc
we're illness.
DR.. S. Highsmith, of Hope Mills,
who has been patient in the High
smith hospital, was able to be out
yesterday.
M. c. W. Bidgood, of Wilmington,
was a Fayetteville visitor yesterday.
Mrs. Minnie Robson. of Bla1en
county, Mrs Thomas Purdie, Of Cod
win, are the guests of Major and Mrs.
A. A. McKethan on Person street.
Unless the report is exaggerated
which was brought here yesterday by
a farmer named Royal, bad condi-
ton Of affairs prevails in the eastern
and southeastern part of Sampson
county. Negro desperadoes have been
rowing over the country, burning, rob-
bing and terrorizing the people, ami
the other night they murdered a COL
ored man in his house, and burned the
roof over his body. They sent word
to leading farmer that they would be
at his home to kill him and his wife,
and a negro ureacher in the neighbOr