The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-08-03
LOOKING OVER PENSION LISTS
Increase in Number of AppIica-
tions is Large.
PittsbOro Branch Investigated by Cor
pOratiOn Commission-Sewerage for
n A. and NJ. COllege-Park System
for Raleigh-Other Raleigh News
Notes.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., July 80.

Raleigh, n. c.. July 80.
On Wednesday Auditor Dixon goes
to Shelby, taking with him the great
mass OF applications for pensions and
will spend the week looking over these.
Heretofore he has been doing this
work every year at Fuquay Springs,
this county. He says that while there
are a great many new applications yet
that the number of deaths Of pen
sloners has been SO large that he does
not now expect n increase in the
number Of pensioners. The annual
penion to fourth class and widows is
now SIS and he says it is his hope to
increase this to $50 this year.
The corporation commission will in
a day or two it's finding in
regard to the condition of the track Of
the PittsDOIO branch of the SeabOard
Air Line Railway. It is understood
that it did not find the conditions to
be good at the examination which it
made last Friday.
1t IS the purpose to make the band
OF the Third regimenc mere the finest
in the STATE and a very capable instruc-
tor is to De here September LIST, for
this purpose, to remain during the
winter Il spring.
The executive committee Ofthe board
OF agriculture and the council Of state
meet Thursday and rrange for INSTALL
ing a sewerage system at the college
which has all these years had none at
all, but has bad only the most primi-
tive methods. Engineer Riddick es-
Inmates the cost of the connection with
tie CITY sewerage system at 5000,
but it may amount to double that sum-.
In any event it is felt tO be an impera-
tive necessity to have the work done
at once. There was a plan for having
the college, the penitentiary and the
hospital Tor the insane unite in a joint
system Of sewerage, but the peniten-
tiary objected. as upon it would have
naturally fallen the greater part of the
expense. The sewerage Of the peni-
Tertiary is now discharged into a little
branch and the same is the case in re-
gard ID the sewerage Of the hospital
for the insane. The city sewerage, on
that side, is emptied into Walnut
creek.
Postmaster Bailey has returned from
Hot Springs, Ark, where he has been
iEcr a month and seems to be entirely
restored to health. Hhis successor,
Willis G.. Briggs is expected to take
charge Of the office in a few days,
though possibly it may be as late as
1.-The middle Of August.
The heavy rains continue in this sec
ton and there is quite a lot of com
plant. The growth of grass is very
vigorous.
BY the end of August it is expected
that the tracks in the new yards Of the
Seaboard Air Line here will be finish
ed. There will be about a mile Of
new track. The work began six
months ago.
Mr.. n. B. BroughtOn, the president
of the Wake county Sunday school as
sOciatiOn. returned yesterday afternoon
from Burlington where he spoke at
The Alamance county Sunday school
convention in which SO schools were
represented. He a y it was a very
notable meeting.
The two men here whose stores were
%plundered by the passing national
guardsmen from Virginia last week,
have sent on their claims to the wal
department. 1t is understood that the
men who did the stealing will be de-
tected and Of course severely punished.
The grading of the athletic grounds
at the A. & NJ. college is nearly COM
pleted. They are in a valley along side
the railways and the location is very
good. The grounds have been nder-
drained.
The sales of melons here this season
is very large and the quality of the
crop is good. A good many cante-
loupes are being shipped. mainly to the
Virginia resorts in the mountains.
A Boston expert is here to confer
with the chamber of commerce in re-
gard to a park system for Raleigh, the
parks to be in a great ring around the
city. taking in the grounds of the hos
pital for the insane, Agricultural and
Mechanical college, fair grounds, eX-
pertinent farm, both the O~rphanages,
and a number of other properties, in
Guiding the cemeteries, h soldiers
home. etc. The expert says he has
never seen lands lend itself so we'll to
such a purpose. He discussed the
matter tonight at a special meeting or
the chamber of commerce.
This morning there was a cave-in Of
a lot of earth adjoining the basement
of the Capital club, e~ndangering he
east wall of that building, a deep cell
lar having been eXcavated on that side
of lit. and the heavy rains causing the
trouble.