The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-19

| disappears. 1t is claimed that the ma
chine will pick as high as $500 pounds
of cotton a day, and this represents
| the work of 20 men picking by hand,
ii being done by four pickers and the
driver, the man who guides the ma
| chineery this moved on the plan of
| the automobile. This shohws that the
| proportion in favor of the machine is
| four or five to one. and this means a
great deal when the scarcity of labor
| is considered.
The test here is as yet hardly a fair
| one, for the transplanted cotton is ON
| dry stalks which are wobbly in posi-
| ton. To see the real merit of the
| machine it must do it's work in the
cotton field itself. and if there are de-
| fects those will surely be eliminated by
| proctical experience. A man here
yesterday who had seen many so-called
| cotton picking machines" said that
this was the best he had ever seen,
and that it seemed to him that the
| right principle had been reached. If
| this is so, the Cotton Picker at the
State Fair is going to revolutioniZe the
| cotton industry. and that the inventors
and hackers of the machine believe in
| it is shown by the money they are
spending. The impression about the
machine is decidedly in it's favor, for
while minar defects are pointed out
| there is to the layman's mind a belief
| that the machine has i'm it real merit
and that it is built on the right prin-
| ciples.
In the Fair Buildings.
| But back to "our mutton if you
| please, and this being served just now
i'm the FAIR Buildings, where the
crowds increase daily and are pleased
| with the exhibits made, these repre-
senting many lines of activities and in
| duStry.
Entering from the east entrance the
| A. and NJ. dairy exhibit catches the
eye, for here are earnest-eyed young
| men working up milk into butter and
| cheese. The butter is good to look
upon and the methods are scientific.
| on the walls to the left are seen eX-
hibitS of the textile work, with hand
some designs in cotton and wool,
| There is also wood working and work
in metals shown, all going to prove
| that the A. and NJ. boys are boys who
know how to use their Nlnds-plus
| their brains.
| In the same section is the magnili-
cent exhibit of the White Furniture
| Company, of Mebane, which shows
| handsome suits of furniture that
| would adorn the daintiest of boudours,
artistic in design and finish. The
| Continental Chair Company Of Meb
ane, has an exhibit of chairs that at
tracts attention, as does also the Meb-
ane Bedding Company, with its exhibit
of mattresses and bed springs. These
| industries show that Mebane is forg-
| ing rapidly to the front
| There is an exhibit of shoes in the
main section of the building which is
n worthy one, this that of the Battle
Axe Shoes. of the Stephen Putney
| shoe Company, Of Richmond. In the
centre of this section is the splendid
| industrial exhibit of the Blind Institu-
ton, while in one corner the painting
! department looks tempting. In the
other the Raleigh Electric Company
have good display, while in a prom
nent place is the Mecklenburg Springs
waters. the chloride-calcium of which
/ has made Chase City famous as
| headth resort. is an exhibit that at
| tracts and the free samples of the
splendid waters are eagerly quoted.
| In the next section the pretty and
stylish exhibit of Sherwood Higgs &
| Company attracts all the ladies. for il
| is an exhibit in which ladies delight
! The music house of Darnell &
| Thomas has pianos and organs and
beyond it the Raleigh Milling Com
pany has flour in sacks the North
|
| Near this the Ladies of the Macca-
bees have a booth from which litera-
| ture is distributed, this next to the
| booth of the News and Observer
| where copies of the widest circulated
| most read and newsiest daily paper in
! the State, the only one that has over
10000 subscribers, exceeding any
other by over 40 per cent, are dis
! tributed freely. In the News and OBJ
server is telephone service to the city
| free to all who desire to use it. At the
| end of the section is the w. c. r. T.
/ booth where temperance literature is
| to be had, and to one side is the beau
| tiful display of flowers and ferns made
by Steinmetz, the florist.
In the next section the eye feasts on
the lovely furniture and mattresses
exhibited by Royal & Borden. Beau
| tiful designs are these and the man
who is going to make a home or add
| to one already made should see this.
| Near this is the attractive Stief plane
exhibit. while across the hall is the
magnificent display. of the resources of
| Johnston county, the products of the
| field and farm, the artistic work of
| its men and women, being Splendldly
shown Beyond this the Hart-Ward
| Hardware Company have a stove eX-
hibit that is of 1Nerit and next the
| Melrose Mills show specimens OF men
and women's underwear The exhibit
of the Singer Sewing Machine Com
pany and that of r. l.. Green with the
New Home the Wheeler q Wilson,
and the Domestic. all attract attention.
| The designs shown by c. w. Barrett,
the architect are worth studying and
| examining
Before reaching the machinery eX-
| hibit the lunch rooms of various or
CARNATIONS invite one to eat. The
' Kings Daughters the Brooklyn