The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-17
CAPE FEAR POWER COMPANY.
lis Success seems As~ured-The Rail-
eigh and Cape Fear R.R Extension.
Tic Last Surviving Scotchman-
News and Personal NoseS.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Fayetteville. March 1f.-Cant. r. L.
Gray, OF Greensboro. secretary and
treasurer of the Cape Fear Electric
Power Company. has BEEN here for
the last past two or three days on the
business of the company. He and Mr.
W. n Morgan. of this city. a stock
holder and very jealous promoter Of
this great enterprise, expect to ap-
this evening. when they hope TO make
such a satisfactory showing OF the
advanced condition OF their work as
TO induce the city government TO wait
for the coming of their power. instead
of enlargiEg the city electric light
plant, From the present condition OF
that in go or 40 days the Cape Fea
Electric Power Company will be ready
to furnish its power by electric trans
mission to all the industries of Fay
etteville and tributary sections. The
great concrete dam will have been
furnished, the wives will have been
strung, and the substation at Fayette-
vile is already built and equipped
with machinery and apparatus. The
company will begin on a basis OF 900
horse power though expert say that
they could begin on 5000 horse power,
and expect to develop from 1000 to
5000. Most important Of all, Mr..
Harry Walters, of Baltimore, the we'll
known official Of the Atlantic Coast
Line r. r. Co. is now associated with
and backing the Cape Fear Electric
Power Company, which is q very sub
stantial guarantee Of it's success.
A called meeting Of the chamber of
commerce was held last evening to
consider the matter OF the extension
Of the Raleigh and Cape Fear r. r.
to this point. Introduced by Capt. j.
d. Mcneil. president of the chamber.
Mr.. j. A. Mills. of Raleigh, president
of the road, addressed the meeting.
stating frankly that it was The desire
Of his company to build the o t.
Fayetteville, if met in 4 liberal spirit
in the way of franchises, terminals,
etc. A committee vas appointed to
take into consideration said franchises
n terminals. and report at a sub
Sequent meeting The correspondent
has already set forth in The Messen-
ger the desirability Of this extension,
both to Fayetteville and the road. The
interest in the matter was shown by
the large attendance of business men.
~ n wv ~ 1v,orp forcih1v a66rpcSo6 thu
meeting on the Importance of the en-
terprise.
Mr.. E. L.. Clark is having a large
addition made to the handsome At
lantic hotel on upper Hay street, of
which Mr.. A. A. Harrington, Jr., is
proprietor. This addition is demand
ed by the enlarged patronage, and is
a gratifying indication of the increase
of travel to this city. The numerous
daily arrivals at the elegant Hotel
Lafayette point to the same fact.
Mr.. HI o. Sedberry. the popular
manager of the Fayetteville drug store
on Market Square, has been quite
sick for some days at his home On
Cool Spring street.
Mr.. A.. A. Butler is at the home of
his family on the east side Of Cape
Fear, after four years service in he
Philippines as a member Of the 1871
regiment United States infantry. He
does not complain CT any great hard
ships, but he does not consider the
position of an enlisted man in the
Philippines a place to be hankered
after.
Mr.. n. G.. Wade, a prominent Flor
ida business man. formerly Of this
county, is here on a visit. He has
been very successful, and is now n
of the wealthiest North Carolinians
settling in Florida and Georgia.
Hon. and Mrs C. M. Rose have been
making a visit to Rev. DR.. J. NJ. Rose
al Laurinburg.
MI. J, a. Steel, senior member of
the Care Fear Dry Goods Company,
Who has been very Ill, IS now vel! On
the way to recovery.
A citizen of Cumberland POINTS out
to the Fayetteville Observer the fact
| that Capt \. D. McCill, Of ~seventy-first
township representative in the last
legislature. is the only ~native-born
| Scotchman surviving in the county.
| This is remarkable because Cumber-
land has beer for more than a CEN
| fury prominently a Scotch settlement,
| and when the civil war closed there
were probably hundreds born in tht.
mother country. but all we'll on in
years. who have passed away in due
| course. Capt. NcGill came to Ameri-
| ca when a mere youth, and it could
| not have been very long before the
war, for he is yet probably under 65
years of age. He is a typical Gale
DOMAIN, with the strong face and prom
inent check bones; modest as to his
own points, but as brave as a lion. He
closely resembles Gen. Wheeler, the
noted cavalry leader-so much so that
Col. Cunningham, Of Person county.
called him Gen Wheeler all dur
ing the session of the legislature.
Sheriff Marsh has received one or