The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-09-24
A Patched UP Auditorium
Not Wanted
MATERIAL is UNFIT
The Proposition to spend 100000 On
a Makeshift Little Auditorium and
a Market House in Some IN
known Place should Be.
Defeated.
Defeated.

The more tina the people OF Raj
eigh study the proposition 10 convert
the present market house into a
makeshift auditorium. narrow and
noisy. that would seat about 1000
people, the more they are convinced
that it is not what Raleigh wants
In addition to this proposition there
is mixed up with it a plan to re-
move the market house from its pres
ent CENTRAL location to some place the
location of which is kept as a grave
yard secret. Raleigh people want to
vote for something hat they know
about. not for a grab in the dark
proposition thai may bring forth a
place that is utterly unsuitable for the
needs of the city.
Above all things the people want a
bona fide auditorium, not a make be-
lieve one hat would be paying out
$1,000 O without doing what is want
ed, and that is TO restore Raleigh to
its place as the convention city of
North Carolina. Here comes Char
lOtte now getting ready to build an
auditorium to seat $500 while the
people here are asked to vote $780,
600 to get a narrow noisy makeshift
that will seat less thar. 1000 people
on the first floor.
M. Joseph CT. Brown, the retiring
president of the Chamber of Com
merce, in his annual address to the
Chamber this month let it be known
that he did not favor the pres
proposition, and has since that time
made the direct statement thai he
does not favor. The retiring Board
of Directors Of the Chamber of Com
merce did not favor it, and the Cham
Der Of Commerce as a body has not
favored it. as It's represen-
tatives antagonized the present plans,
and numbers of its mem
bers have expressed themselves
as being absolutely opposed to the
plan to be voted on next Thursday.
Some Of the new Board of Directors
of the Chamber Of Commerce haxe
expressed themselves in favor of it,
but expressly state hat they do not
bind he Chamber of Commerce by
their action. The proposition should
be defeated by an overwhelming ma
jority.
Major A. b. Stronach's Views.
In reference to this matter the fol-
lowing communication was yesterday
received from Major A. B. ~Stronach:
TIC the Editor: The market house
for the convenience of the public,
be centrally located. 1t is
a pig in q poke" to vote to
turn the market house into an audi
forum with no knowledge as to
where the market mouse IS TO De 10
Gated. The entire business of Fay
etteville. Wilmington, Hargett and
Martin streets will be more or less eff
fected by a removal of the market
house, every person passing to and
from the market being a possible
Do the architects who say that the
market house can be made into an
auditorium know that when the mar
ket house was built it was considered
"a JOB" "a bad job" poorly con-
structed, to a large extent of salmon
brick and bats, that the building for
was considered unsafe, and that
while now that it is settled it may
stand Indefinitely in its present con-
dition, the proposed alterations may
mean the destruction of the entire
building, or an unsafe auditorium?
If the tax payer is to pay for the
auditorium he should nave one that is
a credit to the city of Raleigh, not
the market house patched up to be
the laughing stock of the State.
A. b. STRONACH.