The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-08-14
MANY VISITORS IN MOUNTAINS
Western:SectIon Attracting People
From aIIs0ver the South. L
Striking Carpenters leaving Town.
Charters by the State-Intense Heat
Affecting the Crops-TO Get Rid of
Dangerous Grade Crossings.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., August 10


The number Of state convicts is now
625 of whom 100 are in the central
prison here. OF the latter 81 are white
males, Z females; SIS are colored males
and Il females. The number of CON
victs on the Raleigh and Pamlico
Sound railway is SO, On the Raleigh
and Southport Railway ~, at the
camp on the WilkesborO jefferson
Turnpike II, near Wilmington 80, and
on the W state farms, which are
known as Caledonia, No. ! and No. 2
there are 2S7. Last year there were
"a escapes of convicts and u Of these
were recaptured. Strange 10 say last
year there was not a single escape af-
ter the first Of August. AS a general
thing about half the ~convicts who get
away are retaken.
More OF the striking carpenters left
town today. Building work is much
hampered by the strike. On the large
new public school on the east side Of
the cit only two carpenters are at
work
Insurance Commissioner Young to-
day paid into the state treasury the
amount Of receipts for his office for
July. $31, 254.36, this being about the
same as for the corresponding month
last year.
Persons here nave received letters
from the Eighth congressional district.
saying that Dick Hackett the demo-
cratic nominee here is drawing great
crowds and is arOusing much interest.
Farmers who came in today stated
that the intense heat was beginning to
affect the crops injuriously, notably
cotton, which is shedding in some
places pretty badly. The weather has
been extremely warm for six days and
ain is now needed.
a charter is granted the Steele Soap
Manufacturing Co, at High Point with
100000 capital stock, Aaron Lickstein
of St. Louis being the principal stock
holder. Another charter is granted
the BrOcktOn Trading Co, at John Sta
ton. Scotland county to do a general
merchandise business and to manu-
facture anything, capital stock $780,
006, J. T. John and others being the
stockholders.
4 telegram this morning from Gov
Glenn to Private secretary ar
rin2tOn, dated at Salisbury, stated that
the governor would return this after
noon, though he had not been expect
ed back until tomorrow.
The brick masons have not partici-
uated in the strike here. They have
no union. Work in their line is pro-
crossing in a number of buildings, in
Guiding the new state printery, the
N-hyrv a,I OHcorror h,i11inr J|ir-+
Baptist church, etc.
The county commissioners are at
work on plans to get rid of some Of the
dangerous grade crossing in the vicin-
tiles of Raleigh. At some of these,
lives are lost every year and as a rule
there are damage suits resulting from
these killings.
The contractor who is laying cement
walks in the capital square has finish
cd the east side and is now beginning
sOn the west. One of the walks will De
from the Confederate monument to the
pOTtico of the capital. There will be
q considerable Encouragement Of the
grounds and there will be much more
grass than heretofore.
The weather report which will be is
sued for this week will very probably
be more favorable than any in some
time. as the much needed sunshine has
generally prevailed. Complaint Of too
much cloudy weather has been general
in this state.
Gentlemen here today from the
mountain regions say they never knew
so many visitors to the mountains.
These are scattered everywhere, and in
all sorts of fashions from swell hotels
to tents. Thousands of them are from
Louisiana. Alabama, Mississippi, GeOr-
gia and South Carolina. A little later,
namely on the 18th inst, there will he
an immense addition to the crowd
when the excursion rates go on from
lower South Carolina to the mountains
these continuing two weeks. The vel
low fever refugees. who were in the
mountains last year advertised that
locality ~splendidly.