The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-18


has in having two independent systems
of railroads. but none of them can adG
two additional independent lines as d.
rect feeders. We are on the mann llne
of the Seaboard Air Line. with It's rap
idly increasing number of trains, both
passenger and freight. We are on the
Southern and but few hours travel
to its main line. Besides we nave the
Raleigh & Southport which is now
nearing Fayetteville and is pushing TO
the seashore below Wilmington, and
the Raleigh & Pamliso Sound Rail-
way, now in the course of erection that
will give US in a very short time TWO
independent lines to the Atlantic COAST
Line. No other city in the State has
so great railroad facilities. me new
chamber should make the most OF TINS
vantage ground.
Insurance and Corporate Home.
The city of Raleigh now mas TWO
handsome office buildings. and in the
very near future the Masonic Temple,
a seven story structure with steer
frame and most modern in all OF It's
appointments, will be added. SO Ral-
eigh will have more first class office
room than any OF our sister cities. Be
inc within twenty miles OF the geo
graphical centre of the State at the
seal of government. with railroads In
room, and its delight as q residence
city there is every reason why Ralelyh
should not be the home OF the gene "a
office of every insurance company 40
| ing business in the State, botn lie ana
| fire Already large number or com
| panies realize these advantages ano
have their Home office here. Others
will undoubtedly follow suit II Ral-
| eigh's advantages are properly pre-
| RI in
Land Companies.
There is now being undertaken an
| enterprise that will add greatly IL
| Raleigh's advantages. The Greenwood
Land Company is opening up large
number of most desirable residence
| lots northwest of the city, and with the
street cars running to it, supplied with
water, lights and sewerage as is prom
ised the present advantages OF Raleigh
/ as a residential city will be materially
added to- other somewhat similar
schemes are being agitated, and will
no doubt sooner or later materialize.
| Education.
| Raleigh is peculiarly the educational
| centre of the State, and the continued
| prosperity of all of our educational in
/ situations is an earnest of it's continu-
| ing to accuDy the vantage ground ln
this respect. The new chamber can
not do better than to appoint intelligen'
| committees to consider how its ad-
| vantages in this respect can he enlarg-
ed. The University of North Carolina
has established its medical school in
the city. By all means the law schoo
| of the same institution, OF
that of some other college should be
located here There is hardly day il
the year some court is not in session
from the court of the Police
Justice to that of the Supreme court
and Federal courts. We have one o.
the best law libraries in the whole
South, and by all odds the best ar
ranged. We have a strong bar, anG
with the number of judges who are
compelled to reside here nearly al
of their time, the advantages of out
side lecturers coulf be secured here
to a degree not obtainable elsewhere
The large number OF active practition
ers here, who would gladly give office
room and compensation to deserving
law students, creates a condition inn
possible of achievement at Chape
HILL Wake Forest or. Davidson. BY
proper effort no doubt at least one
and possible more of these institu
tons would establish law schoo
here. Many of the same reason woult
make Raleigh an ideal place for thu
latter portion of a course in pharmacy
A pharmaceutical school OF high grade
can and should be added to our 9th
. er educational institutions.
There is much that can be done to-
wards the upbuildtngs of our city ant
/ earnestly beseech r. successor ant
the newly elected officers of tn
Chamber of Commerce to take advan
tage of Raleigh pre-eminence an(
present advantages, and of the presen
temper of our people, and work while
the iron is hot, and every citizen O
our capital city will honor and praise
you.