The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-31

| turbed by the numbering trains of pig
| iron, lumber, etc, and the ministers
| often have to stop preaching until the
| train passes.
| Suppose some individual should dis
| turb services half as much or a
| factory should be run under your
church door. Somebody would be in
| Jail and that quick.
You will observe last Sunday that
one great roalroad passing through
Raleigh only run two through freignts
and last month the average was seven
and month before eight
Why? Simply 20 fool the folks.
Since this bill has been agitated they
are getting good and want to pose as
only occasionally running a freight on
Sunday.
| have known two and three sections
of freight trims following each other
on Sunday and if the railroads want
ed to be so good to North Caro-. ina
truckers why in the name of heavens
don't they put all the perishable
freight in the first section? No, no.
They will hold part out and delay it
purposely in order to get crate Of
cabbage, or car of perishable in an
other train of empties, or pig iron so
theyscan defy law.
Its a fact they frequently cut out
car containing some perishables and
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train of dead freight.
There is no more reason for running
these freights on Sunday than for a
watermelon raiser TO gather up
melons on Sunday and haul them To
Raleigh market.
The railroads fight every town that
puts a limit, on speed of the trains
that run through it. They hght amy
thing that the people want. In the
name of every employee on the rail-
roads in North Carolina and every
Christian man. woman and child l
hope that the General Assembly VIII
remedy this matter
A gentleman who travels much in
a private letter says:
!tVitb the present increase of trave!
think two and half cent is ample
CONDENSATION especially in view of the
messenger coaches furnished the pup
lie In this connection l want TO
thank YOU for your insistancesot bet
ter service on the Southern Railway
between Goldsboro and Greensboro
Ithere has been a marked Improvement
and YOU are to be congratulated. NOW
if YOU will take up the service ana
messenger accommodations furnished
The neople of Eastern North Caro-
lima bv the Atlantic Coast Line you Will
nerform a service that will be most
highly appreciated. The passenger
COACHES on some of the branches of
the A. c. L. are unfit for habitation-
little removed from shanty cars on
work trains" These cars have been
i'm use for years and should be With
drawn. instead of reducing schedules
60 as sto minimize the danger point
for instance on the line from Plymouth
TO Tarboro, a distance of thirty-six
miles recurring three hours time.
Please agitate this matter and see If
YOU can't do something for a patient
and long-suffering public
Representatives of the state Fire
mems Association and others were III
Raleigh last week urging the Fire
Waste Bill. Speaking of the impor-
lance of the measure a gentleman who
mas given much thought TO the mat
ter said yesterday:
Its purpose is simply TO secure the
carrying out of laws which we al
ready have in reference 10 inspections
i'm cities and towns looking to the pre-
Vention of fire.
1T applies only to towns of 1000
inhabitants or over; that such cities
and towns Shall appoint a Chief Of
Fire Department or Building Inspec-
tor whose duty it; shall be to inspect
new buildingS ana see that they are
safely constructed. The local insTec-
tor shall once each quarter inspect
each building within the first limits
of a city or town and that once in
each year he shall inspect every build
ing within the corporate limits. and
that either he or a special inspector
appointed for the purpose shall make
an inspection of the electrical wiring
of every building wired for electricity;
that the local inspectors are cOmpen-
stated for the inspection of new build
ings by small inspection fee paid by
the owner of the property Who will
cheerfully pay such fee for the sake
of inspection and that the only com
pnesation which the cities and towns
will have to provide will be for the
single annual inspection referred toI
above and the quarterly inspections
in the fire limits; that the local build
ing inspectors will make periodical
reports to the Insurance Commissions
er and that the Insurance Commits
sioner or his deputy can require any
local inspector to make his inspections
if he is found to be neglecting his
duty.
1.-The rules of construction provided
in the bill are that within the fire
limits. that is the business section oil
cities and towns of 1000 inhabitants
or over no frame building shall be
erected: that the walls of brick build
ings. shall be of standard. thickness,
that chimneys and fiues in all build
ings shall be constructed in accord
ance with the standards which eXper-
fence has shown to be safe. that stoves
and stove pipes shall be safely arrang
ed. That no stove pipe shall pass
through any roof, window or weather
boarding. etc. All records printed
forms. etc, needed by local inspectors
shall be provided by the Insurance
Commissioner
In a word, if the bill becomes q
law. we shall have a State building law
with uniform laws of construction for
the largest cities and towns and the
administration of the law will he In
the hands of a State officer, namely,
the Insurance Commissioner, and with
out invading the rights of any one
the proper execution of this law will
give to property in North Carolina
as complete protection as it has in
any State of the Union, and will work
an immense annual saving to the peo-
pie of the State. The bill has been
prepared with the greatest care and
in its present shape has the unqualified
endorsement of the Insurance Commits
sioner."