The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09

| ndtlVe stones VIII reach $lUU,UUO per
| annum. We have not attempted TO
estimate the, amount Of business done
by the other small Industries men
toned, but the aggregate will add
| very much to the figures given.
| Another very important factor in
| the growth and prosperity of Ashe-
vile is the schools. The combined at
tendance at the Bingham School, the
| Asheville School, the Normal and Col
legiate, the Home Industrial and the
| Farm School is IVl. From the prime
ipals of these we learn that they pay
| out in ASheville each year about $110,-
| 900 for supplies, livery, etc. An Of
| ficer of one of these institutions told
us of having recently placed an or
| der with a local merchant for $1,000
worth of suits to be made up here.
1.-THE Southern Railway company
pays out here annually for salaries to
it's officers and employees living in
! Asheville about $264,U0O and the
Asheville Street Railway company
about $4,000.
| 1.-The salaries received here from the
United States government by it's Off
GERS and employees in the judicial.
| army, navy, post office and treasury
departments amounts to about $7S,-
| 600 annually.
| "Asheville has become one of the
most popular convention cities in this
country. and from the report of the
committee We find that during the
past three months we have had four
| teen conventions, with a total attend
ance of nearly 5000, and lasting from
| enc to ten days. conservative esti-
mate of the amount left here by these
| conventions would be $4,000.
| Baskerville is gaining the reputation
| of being the most delightful and easily
accessible pleasure and health resort
east Of the Mississippi. We do not
! think any one will say that the COM
mittee has exaggerated In giving out
/ annual income from this source t
$661,O 900. Most people will say that
| this estimate is too low. 1t is based
| on about one-fourth of the hotel and
boarding house capacity. 1t is esti-
mated that during the four summer
| months we have about 10000 excur-
sonists, in addition to the regular
| transient visitors.
From the report of the committee
on real estate and building we learn
| that much capital is now being in
vested here in new buildings, and that
| the total amount of buildings erected
during the past year. additions and
| work now under construction amounts
| to $519,550 1t will be interesting to
| note the large number of houses cost
| ing from $500 to $4,000. The real
year amount to 1878, S62.
"The statistics committee gives the
| total wholesale and retail business or
the city at about $4,000,0OO."
I would like for the business men
| of Raleigh and New Bern and other
! progressive cities in Eastern North
| Carolina to read the above extracts
| from President Powelps report, and
| to emulate the good example of the
| Asheville Board Of Trade. OF course
| neither of these cities can rival Ashe-
vile in securing conventions and the
hosts of visitors who throng the
| during this season. But if the people
of Raleigh and New Bern would use
as much energy in letting the world
| know of their winter climate, both
cities would be crowded with visitors
| in the winter who now flock to Florida
| because they do not know what these
cities have to offer.
| One of the lessons that all munich
palities can learn from Ashevilie is
| not to be content with having a pro-
gressive and delightful city, but to 50
advertise it's advantages as to induce
| the right sort of visitors and new set
tiers. And the lesson that editors can
| learn from Asheville papers is 10
talk up your town." tell the world
| of it's opportunities for mOney-mak-
| ing and it's attractions as place or
| residence. In this connection, every
editor will join with me in thanking
| the editors of Asheville for their
many courtesies The people of Ashe-
Vile placed the editors under ob!i-
cations for such generous and delight
| full hospitality that every editor whose
good fortune it was to be present will
always look back to the past three
days as among the happiest and
| pleasantest in his life.
Upon the adjournment of the con-
vention, the editors were taken on a
special train over the Southern Rail-
! way to Waynesville where they spent
the day. Col S. A. Jones, who has
faith in waynesville that will literally
remove mountains, and Attorney-G Gen
eral Gilmer, whose beautiful home in
Waynesville is poem, came here to
escort the party to their home town
which is called ''the gem of the noun
tains." The special train was in
charge of Mr. James H. Wood, VINO
holds an important position with the
Southern Railway. His courtesy and
his cleverness and his efficiency quite
won the editors who presented him
with a diamond studded emblem OF
the Elks fraternity, of which Mr.
Wood is a leading and an active men,
Der.
The day in Waynesville ana the
view at Eagles Nest--"but that's an
other story"
J. d.