The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-04
A GOOD IDEA,

rr Iadiesr are magazines for the Ia
dies to read while they are WANG
for their husbands, fathers anu ~
ers 10 get through with their Duslhea9.
Hhe Rest Room is free 10 an 49, hnia
ard thew are privileged to carry tnelI
lunches to the room and have d MT
quiet in-tovn picnic dlihiel '>'
time they come to town
There will be a number OF d%llS "iu
weekly papers sent TO the rooil-
ery day and the visiting ladleS are
quested to carry these -nng
homes n distribute mem Inc, mn6
their n~eighbOrs. All the business ilon
and citizens of Wadesboro Wheh
through with their papers ana 1ndsa-
zines are requested to send tnem "
the Rest Room so they may be gwen
to the farmers families.
The above is from The Ansonlan OF
uodaehoro The business men Of the
town have made a good in he
establishment of the rest room for
ladies'" 1t will work a two-fold good.
pt will help the bushes Of the town
and the merchants who contribute TO
it's maintenance will reap ~pecun'ary
advantage therefrom, and it will be
the means of giving pleasant recrea-
ZION to MANY q farmers wife or daugn-
ter who has grown weary with the
daily routine of household work on the
farm. It will make going to TOWN.
a nleasant break in the monotony or
farm life when the farmers wife or
daughter knows that h VIII nave d
nleasant place for spending the hours
not devoted to shopping, where she
can pass the time in pleasant inter-
course with other ladies or i'm reading
wholesome literature in the magazines,
or the news of the day in the newspa-
p&s.
Wilminsten might learn a lesson
from those Wadesboro
During the summer months hundreds
of peonle come to our city on excur-
sions. Day after day women and chill
dren can be seen standing on the
streets. They look tired and depress"
ed. There is nowhere for them to go
to rest or even get a drink of water,
except through courtesy of the pro-
nrietors of the business houses. IN
all the city there is not a single seat
where a weary woman or a tired Gallo
who has come to the city sightseeing
can rest for a few moments.
1t is nothing unusual in the excur-
sion season to see the doWn-tlWn
stores, during a rain, so roWde WITH
excursionists that persons wishing to
make purchases can hardly get in the
stores. This is a hardship on the mer-
chants. Their good nature should rot
he imnosed on to the extent that it is
dav after day during the excursion
season. These merchants have not
the heart to refuse shelter and tue
co~nveniences of their stores to the
strangers: at the same time, 1t Often
amounts to a great imposition on
them.
These conditions exist chiefly in the
neighborhood of the terminal Of the
suburban electric line at the corner OF
Front and Princess streets. The Con
solidated Company dumps its loads Of
women and children-strangers in thS
city-at that point. They must gel
out Of the cars-nO matter what the
weather-and shift for themselves
Rain or shine they must go into lhe
streets and take the weather as they
find it, unless the Droprietors Of the
nearby stores open their hearts anc
doors to them.
This is not right. The Consolidate:
makes money out of those people
These excursions are worth much t
the business of the city. The comfor
of the people who come on them SHOULD
be looked after by somebody-by tn
Consolidated Company which dump
them out of its cars ONO h street re
CARELESS of whether 4 ralDSIorm
raging or the sur is making ct21>3H:
on the street almost untaaraDle, or D.
the city which through its reputation
az a pleasure resort induces those PEG
pie to come here.
We hope something viii be done il
this matter before the excursion Sea