The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-17
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., April 10.

IAa1elSu, y. u, April III.
In the Office of State Insurance Com
missioner Young are three photographs
which he has specially taken 10 illus
trate a most remarkable case OF ignor-
ance and c~arelessness in hOuse-build-
ing. a ship captain at Wilmington
was constructing a house, a dwelling
and built in this a chimney triangular
in shape designated to heat three
rooms. There was only one thickness
of brick, these being on edge. The own
er said that he had read in some for
eign paper of such a mode of cOnStruc-
ton and had translated the descrip-
ton. 1t was his plan 20 build along
side of each Of the three sides Of the
chimney doors which could be opened
50 as to let out the neat int the rooms
as desired, SO as TO utilize not only the
neat from the fire itself, but also that
stored in the bricks above. The ends
Of the beams came out flush with the
inner part of the chimney. Commits
SiOner Young inspected this queer con-
StruCtiOn and when Il fire was made in
one Of the tire places it was found that
water had to he quickly used TO keep
the building from being burned. The
photographs illustrate all the sides OF
the chimney, and show the one TO
which the fire was applied. This house
stands i'll the center of Il row Of aS-
tractive cottages built with building
and loan association money. COM
missioner Young is pressing the work
and having very careful inspections
made Of buildings everywhere, all the
places i'll the state of over one thou
sand population being now under the
provisions Of the excellent fire waste
law.
Insurance Commissioner Young has
paid into the state treasury as the col
lections for March 5000, making the
total for the year ended March 81 reach
the large figure of $205, 124, this being
an increase Of 81, 721 over the previous
year. This increase is in spite Of the
insurance disturbances. Of curse a
great deal of insurance which has been
in companies from other states, has
since the investigation in New York
been placed i'll home companies which
pay less to The state than do those
from other parts of the country. favors
of course being shown to home organi-
cations.
Grand Secretary Drewry of the
grand lodge of Masons says the growth
of that order since the annual COM
munication of the grand lodge last an
uary is very remarkable. No less thai
five lodges having been granted dis
~pensation, these being at Zephyr, Surry
county; Blowing Rock; Elise, Moore
county; Aurora and StOneville. An ap-
pIication was received today for Il
lodge at Carriker, Cabarrus county.
Major H. l.. Grant, the clerk of tho
United States court here, says that last
year the number of cases in bank
ruptcy were larger than at any time
since the law went into effect, lumber
ing thirty six but that already this
wear there are twenty i've cases.
Major Grant is a very large maker OF
brick, his yards being at G~oldsboro.
He has taken a contract to furnish Two
millions of brick to the American COM
pany for use at Durham, where, facing
the entrance to Trinity college, that
company is building a leaf tobacco
warehouse, 2OOx1OOO feet. Next year
the company will erect a duplicate
warehouse by the side of this one. A
great deal of building is going on IN
the state and Major Grant had to de-
cline orders for the immediate del1V-
cry of 2,oOO,OO0 Of brick.
The AGRICULTURAL department has
been sent cotton seed which fetch 500
4 bushel, these being known as the
Drake. These seed will be planted at
the test farm in Iredell and Edgecombe
counties.
While farmers in North Carolina are
thinking about planting cotton your
correspondent saw large areas or cot
ton we'll above the ground in southern
Texas in mid March, in the vicinity or
San Antonio, Flatonia and other points
along the Southern Pacific Railway.
There is a good deal of cotton yet held
in Texas, but it does not seem that
farmers there held nea so tenaciously
as they did in this state this season. IL
will perhaps interest people to know
hat there are more cotton mills IN Ia
leigh than there are in the whole state
of Texas.
The cornerstone of the Masonic
Temple here was expected to have been
laid in May of this year. but it does
not now seem at all probable that 1t
will he done before the meeting OF the
grand lodge next January, it having
been decided to raise $4,000 for the
construction and the equipment of the
great building.
One of the most attractive structures
in Raleigh is the new building OF the
Evening Times, the very live after
noon paper. The exterior o. IS al
most completed.
Work is soon to begin on the new
dormitory which is TO take the place
of the one burned at the Catholic Or
phanage at Nazarath at Raleigh. Inc
building burned was a regular ire trap,
but the new n will be only two stories
in height. Improvements at the Meth
odist orphanage continues. Many
smaller trees have been removed from
the large grove in front Of the build
ing and the view is now very open and
49, :o-oo,r Dox,in hY1il6inC ran he