The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-18

OPINION mat there was charge OF
25 cents for admission to the grand
stand AS an excellent view Of the
races was to be obtained by standing
along the track embankment, they
did not care to pay what they thought
was the price. There is no charge "
admission to the grand stand, al
Raleigh is about the only place in the
United States where the grand stand
is free. At Roanoke, Va. the grand
stand realized over $1,000, and at
Lynchburg, Va, over $1,000.
Railway Facilities.
The Raleigh Electric Railway Com
pany handled the crowds extremely
well. superintendent ID. A. Scanlon
gave the movement of the cars on the
Fair Ground division his personal at
tention, and the schedule was so ar
ranged that there was no delay at the
turn-outs, the cars meeting and pass
ing each other regularly. The full
number of cars assigned to the State
Fair service were in use, and there
was no wearisome waiting.
The Ladies' are Pleased.
The ladies in the Manufacturers
Building, in charge of the restaurants
of the Kings Daughters, the Phiathea
Glass of the Tabernacle Baptist
church, and of the Brooklyn M. e.
church, did exceedingly Well. All had
excellent oyster steWs and fried oys-
ters; besides sandwiches of all kinds
Cham, chicken, beef tongue, cheese,
etc.), ice cream of different 1avors
and delicious coffee. Milk was also
served Having made a good begin
ning, it is to be hoped that these
cs,aurants VIII be as well patronized
during the remainder of the week.
implements and Machinery.
In the Department of Implements
and Machinery there are very good
exhibits. The Rawlings Implement
| Company, Of Baltimore. Nd, have q
fine display, which is under the per-
sonal charge of Mr.. j. S. Rawlings
Jr., a member Of the firm, and his
assistant, f. w. Whitman, both of
| Baltimore. Among their exhibits are
| Hooking Valley feed cutters, cider and
| wine presses; w. r. Harrison q Co. S
| Tornado feed cutters, and hay, straw
and corn stalk cutters; Oliver chilled
| ploWs, manufactured in South Bend,
| md; the Deere Company tooth and
disc harrows seed drills, potato plant
| erS, etc; Deere hay leaders, and the
| Deere double row corn planter, which
| plants two rows OF corn at one time,
and is shown in this part Of the coun-
| Try for the first time. There is also
a full line Of Moline wagons, and of
| the Root and Vandevoort gasoline en-
gines j. p. Wyatt & Bro, are the
| Raleigh representatives of the Raw
| lings implement Company, and MEM
| bers OF this firm are also in attend
| ance.
| Other large exhibitors in this de-
partment are: W. A. Wyatt, OF Raj
eigh, with pfows, pea hullers, guano
| distributors, corn planters, cotton
planters, etc; the Young Hardware
Company, with a general line of ma
chinery and Implements; and the j.
l. Case Threshing Machinery Com
| pany, of Racine, Wis, who have
/ threshing machines and threshng out
fits, traction engines, portable engines,
| hay and straw carriers, etc. This dis
play is in charge of the general agent
| for Virginia and North Carolina, Mr..
j. d. Hicks.
j. w. Barber & Son, of Raleigh, ex-
| hibit Studebaker wagons, Babcock
| Company carriages, Tyson 81 Jones
carriages and buggies, and coaches,
phaetons, buggies and carriages from
the Rockhill Buggy Company, and
Anchor Buggy Company.
Fertilizer Exhibits.
Mr. b. f. Keith, of Wilmington, ~
c., is making an interesting display
| Of cotton ana peanuts, grown on his
| plantation along tie Cape Fear River
about six miles from the city men
Itioned The cotton is long in fibre
| and the peanuts are large and very
! fine. The land was ferIiliZed With
| ground phosphate lime rock, which is
| quarried on Mr.. Keith'S premises
samples of this phosphate lime, as it
! is called, manufactured by Mr.. Keith,
are also on exhibition.
| The exhibition of fertilizers is very
| he,
the Caraleigh Company, of this city,
who occupy a conspicuous space in
| the Manufacturers Building.
An Ex- Congressman.
| Hon. S. e. Ancona, of Pennsylvania,
who is now at the Virginia Hot
Springs, had expected TO attend the
| fair today, at the personal request
of Cyrus L. Fox, his neighbor and
friend, both being residents of the
city of Reading. the former having
| been the president for a number of
years of the board of trade, of that
city, and the latter serving for six
years as secretary. Mr.. Ancona, who
| is in his S1st year, is a remarkably
Well-preSerVed man, but he contracted
a severe cold last Thursday night at
| the Virginia resort where his sojourn-
| ing, and where there was heavy
frost that night, the altitude of Fyot
level. He, therefore, wrote to his
friend that he would, much to his
regret. be unable to attend the North
Carolina State Fair.
Mr.. Ancona is an EX-C Congressman
of the Berks District of Pennsyiva
MIA. and served throughout the civil
War and during a portion of The
Reconstruction Period" as a Demo-
crat. He was elected to Congress i'm
1860 when thirty-tve years of age
For several terms in Congress his
name, being among the AS, was the
first of the Democratic members to
be called, in taking the vote on inn
pending measures. and, thus, he be-
came the Democratic leader For
this reason he was rarely absent from
lbs seat, and his vote Will be found
recorded among the Democrats, dur
ing the trying period of the Civil
War, on every important question
Mr. Ancona is a capitalist, and has
extensive investments in the West and
South. but has retired from active
business. He was the organizer of the
Reading Fire Insurance Company
having many risks in the South, and
of the Reading Trust Company capt.
talized at $1,000,0 900, of both of which
he was secretary and treasurer for