The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-02-16
AFFAIRS or HOu
IN GOOD CONDITION.
Very Gratifying Reports Made to
Directors of North Caroline
Confederate Home. Il
GREAT WORK FOR BIRDS
Effort of the Audubon Society
Have Been Prose-
cutting Incendiaries.
GREAT WORK FOR BIRDS
cutting Incendiaries.
Special to The Richmond virgintan., j.

Especial to The Richmond virginfan.(
RALEIGH, n. c., Feb. 1s.--Th0
board of directors Of the North Caro-
lima Confederate Home mere had their
first annual meeting, and found every@S
thing in very satisfactory conditions
except that more room Is needed, -
there are many applications for au-s
mission. The directors are Julian D.
Carr, A. B. Andrews, A. b. Stronaeh.
b. F. Dixon, j. J. Thomas and IL. ~.
Kelly The Legislature makes an arl-5
nual appropriation OF $4,000 for the
home, and under new law furnishes
uniforms to l42 inmates, of whom
over forty are now in the hospital.
there having been many cases of grip
this winter,
The Tarboro Cotton Mills Company
is authorized to double dts capital
stock. making it $500. o0Q.--~------- --4....-
Secretary Robert ID. W. Common, OF
the North Carolina Teachers Assem-
bly,. expects the attendance at Its an
nual meeting next June at Asheviile to-
be up to the highest record. He has
arranged with w. ]. Spilman, of the
United States Agricultural Departs
ment, to deliver an address before the
assembly on the teaching of agrfcul-s
ture in the public schools. which mat
ter is receiving more attention now
than ever before.
Mrs. w. n. HUT, of the State Agrf-
cultural Department, goes to the Luz
theran College at Hickory next week.,
to conduct a short course in domestic
science. She was in that vicinity last
summer and conducted such coursa
at large farm house. hundreds VI
women and girls attending it. and this
ii he OFF nj
buildings, SO as to give the benefit q
the instruction to its own students, a.
well as to the general public.
Last night Company b, of the Third
Regiment Infantry, Of the North Car
DINA National Guard, was inspected
by Lieutenant G.. NJ. Butler. OF th0
Seventeenth Regular Infantry. from
Atlanta. The band of the Third MAsa
inspected the same time. Both Ases
very fine organizations. and have no
superfors IN the state.
A great work has been done for tina
birds, both game and song, In North
Carolina by Gilbert Pearson, the gift
ed secretary of the State Audubons
Society, and the remark was made ~
DIR. George w. Field, of Boston, who
was here to-day. that North Carolina
could not keep Mr.. Pearson long. be-
cause he has become a national ngure.
. r. -
saehusetts fish and game commission
Pearson Is now the head of the great
national organization which hukas
after the game of the country.
The North Carolina Insurance. D4-s
partment is very active in the worhs
Of discovering and prosecuting tncensl
diary, and Deputy Insurance Commtsss
sioner Scott says this has been presaAd
so actively that a wonderful Checking
of this crime has been brought about
Thus last winter there was q Erea1
deal of it, and he was kept on the
go nearly all the time, as he Is this
detective of the department. while
this winter there have been remarks
ably few suspected fires. and he has
had an easy season OF it. In ten years
some two hundred cases have been
prosecuted. and about tenth have
resulted In conviction. some of tbs
convicts getting long terms. Deputy
Commissioner Scott has been up In
the high mountain country In CherO-
kee and Graham counties along the
Tennessee line looking into the burn-
ing of some saw mills and lumber.
the evidence being of character to-
show incendiarism in order to secure
the insurance.
The large dry goods firm Of Boy.
Ian, Pearce and Company, Raleigh
have purchased from the Grimes
Really company a STORE ]iu ny -,
feet. and will remove this and erect
a building. the full size of the prop
erty, three stories high. to cost about
100000, and will occupy this.
To-day President Guy /. Buell. and
Chief Engineer Coon. of the Montgorn~
cry Lumber Company. were here IN
conference in regard to the survey Of
the route from Bum to Raleigh,
which is about two-thirds completed.
1t is proposed to make Bum quite u
lively little manufacturing town, Pres
eral factories. One Of the latter Ii IL.
ready practically arranged for.