The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-28
Board Of Internal Improvements Mil
Visit All State Institutions
Report Will Then be Made to the Gov.
mountaineering Sites for Perma.
nent Encampment Ground-Pro-
lessor Massey Leaves for the North.
Work on Extension of the Street Car
Line-Other Raleigh News Notes.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, N. c., November 22.

December and January and perhaps
part of February to visiting other in
situations, aided by the state, there be-
ing in all about Is of these. Thu 1e-
port will not be made to the COVER
nor by the two members of the board
who inspect until all the work is
completed. The governor has full
power to adopt all such recommen-
dations as are made by the board. as
under the new law he has authority
to do what it recommends. 1t is M
der this law that the governor has
power to order the completion and
equipment for the new building For
the insane at Raleigh. The interests
OF the state in this direction are in
keeping of the board, and the cover.
nor has full rover to protect the
states interest. The board is going
to make a very thorough inspection
of all institutions, in a systematic
way, and a do SO in the freest
manner, having no connection with
any of these. 1t has no hostility, OF
course, to any institution. The state
ment is that there are about 5000 IN
san in the state, and the making OF
provisions for these is one of the
graVest questions. The governor to-
day gave to the press a letter t the
people of the state in which he goes
fully into this very important matter
The state national guard board of
officers met at Goldsboro today and
went to Morehead City TO inspect the
site offered there for the permanent
encamRment grounds, and then goes
to WrightsvilIe to make similar IN
spection OF the land there offered
Among the members of the board G,ie'
Generals Armfeld, Robertson and Ma
con, and Colonies Ludlow, Craig, Bra
gaW and others The work vii Da
finished this week. Adjutant Genera!
Robertson says the bid of AsheGiIlo
came in too late and will not be On,
sidered on this account.
The state historical commission has
begun the work of copying the letter
books of the governors. The oldest
letter book is private property, being
that of Governor Pollock, from l7O8
to 1926. Part of this has been copied,
and printed, buf only a very small
part. The writing is very quaint in,
deed, and very hard to decipher, owl
ing to the difference of the shape OF.
several of the letters.
Mention has ben made of the fact
that General earle A. Woodruff, U. S.
A, retired, retires from his position
at military headquarters. 1t is a
pleasure to know that he will cOntin-
ue to reside at Raleigh.
Governor Glenn has cancelled his
engagement to speak 1t Wake Forest
College Sunday to the class Of Pro-
fessor Carlyle, owing to the fact that
Professor Carlyle is quite sick.
Colonel and Mrs. Charles Earl John
son of Raleigh have issued invita-
tions to the wedding Of their daugh-
ter, Miss Mary Wilson Johnson, to
Mr.. Frank Masten Kimbark, of AZ
BrevoOt Place, New York city. The
date is December 9th, at $50 p. IN.
at Christ Church here. Colonel and
Mrs. Johnson will receive from 10
o'clock until midnight that evening
at their residence. Mr.. and Mrs
Kimbark will be at home in New York
after January LIST.
In the course of an interview with
Grand Secretary John G. Drewry, OF
the grand lodge of Masons, he s2id
that arrangements were in progress
for the laying of the corner stone of
the Masonic Temple here about May
1st. It had been expected until some
months ago that in January, when the
grand lodge meets regularly, 1t would
lay the corner stone, but at that time
the proposed building was expected
to cost only 800. 900 Then it was
found that it could not be constructed
for that sum and now the decision
is made that 1t shall cost $4,000. 1t
is this change which delayed the
date of the corner stone laying.
Tomorrow Professor W. F. Massey
and all the members of his family ex-
cept two, will leave for Philadelphia,
where he will devote himsef entire
y to editorial work, of which during
the past few years he has done a
great deal. One daughter will remain
here, as the stenOgrapher to Secretary
Richard H. Lewis of the state board
of health and a son is a cadet of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
The walls of the burned building at
the Roman Catholic Orphanage here
are falling. Father Price, who has
charge of the o:phanage, is making a
Sbuuy VI plans III q hC" ~
and he is very much pleased with the
design of the old state school for the
white blind here, when it was two
stories high. 1t is probable that a
structure Of thai kind, in the form OF
an E will replace the burned one, be-
ing only two stories in height while
the one destroyed was four stories.
The editors of the North Carolina
Booklet have for sale some copies of
volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4, OF this ex-
tremely valuable publication. which.
as a matter of fact, ought to be in all
the public and private schools in the
state. Now that there is so much ac-
tivity in a historical way in North
Carolina, such a publication Is this
becomes of the highest value.
For two years of more very little
attention has been paid to the con-
serVatory at the Agricultural and Me
ehanical College. in which there used
to be a number of attractive plants