The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1910-08-04


ciation to Consider the Mat
ter of a State Memorial to
Bill Nye, Decides in Favor
of a Building at the Jackson
Training School for Errant
Boys, at Concord, to Cost
Not Less Than $4,000.
AS heretofore announced the propo-
sitiOn to erect a suitable memOrialt to
Bill Nye, the gentle humorist who
spent the last years of his life at his
home in Western North Carolina,
who did much of his best literary
work in this State, and whose dust
repOses within her borders near Ashe-
vile, took definite shape at the recent
meeting of the North Carolina Press
Association in Wrightsville Beach.
The committee appointed to consider
the matter desiring that the humorist
be hOnOred i'll a practical manner, has
decided that the memorial shall take
the form of building at the Jackson
Training School at Concord, to cost
not less than $1,000, and the work
of carrying this idea through has
been actively entered upon. The
newspapers of the State have been
delegated to receive subscriptions to
the cause, and all persons who wish
to contribute toward honoring the
memory of the humorist and at the
same time do something in worthy
cause to help the living, are invited to
do so.
A printed circular prepared by the
Bill Nye Memorial Committee, COM
posed of James H. Caine, AsheviIIe
Citizen, chairman, John NJ. Julian,
Salisbury Post, treasurer, Robert W.
Vincent, Charlotte Observer, secre-
tary, Robert NJ. Philips, Greensboro
News, Hon. Archibald H. Boyden,
Salisbury, has been sent out to the
newspapers of the State, the same
being the official report of the
proceedings of the recent meeting of
said committee. Accompanying the
report is a circular letter to the edi-
tors from Secretary Vincent, which
S1yS:
PLEASE OPEN A SUBSCRIPTION
LIST IN YOUR EDITORIAL COLUMNS
AT ONCE, transmitting, as convenient,
whatever funds you may receive to the
daily newspaper nearest you named in
the accompanying statement. These
newspapers were designated merely es
a matter of convenience in the handling
and auditing of the fund-it is under
stood that every newspaper in North
Carolina is an agent for this fund to re-
ceive and acknowledge contributions.
Let us show the world what the news
paper men of North Carolina can do in
brief space of time for the man whose
memory they delight to honor. 1t is our
common cause, and the glory of the
undertaking belongs to all OF us.
The official report OF the memorial
committee, to which attention is di-
rected, is as follows:
The committee appointed at the recent
meeting of the North Carolina Press as
sociation to take in the matter of state
memorial to Bill Nye met in Salisbury,
Wednesday, July in formal session,
and after hearing all the propositions be-
fore it unanimously decided:
THAT the memorial to the lamented
humorist shall take the form of a me-
mortal building, to be one of the group
and a part of the Stonewall Jackson
Training school, known as the state re-
formatory, in Cabarrus county, near Con-
cord.
2-That the building, furnished and
equipped as the trustees OF the institu-
tion may direct, to the best advantage
for the rescue of errant boys. shall cost
not less than $1,000, and shall be known
as the BILL NYE MEMORIAL BULL
ING"
3-That the following newspapers be
designated to receive and acknowledge
subscriptions to the fund for this build
ing said funds to us transmitted
promptly to the treasurer, John NJ. Ju-
lian, editor of the Salisbury Post:
The Observer, Charlotte,
The Evening Post, Salisbury,
The Citizen, Asheville,
The News and Observer, Raleigh,
The News, Greensboro,
The Star, Wilmington,
The Uplift, Concord.
THAT while the committee believes
that this memorial should be distinctive
ly North CarOlina's tribute to the la
mented man of letters, it deems it wise,
in order to secure the prompt success OF
the movement. and further permit the
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opportunity to contribute to this move
ment, that contributions from outside
the state should be gratefully received
and ackno wledged, while not solicited.
The committee believes further that it
made a wise and happy selection in the
!. form of this memorial; that nothing 1T
might have conceived would have
brought greater Joy to that gifted, kind
ly man whose memory it is designed to
perpetuate, than the great work OF max
[ ing useful citizens OF wayward boys, and
that were he present with US in the flesh
today it would have the stamp OF his ap-
proval. furthermore, the committee be-
speaks the hearty cooperation OF the
brethren of the press especially, and all
| good citizens generallyein this undertak-
!: ing. 1t is labor of love-one that has
already been long neglected to the shame
of North Carolina. Let US put our shoul-
ders to the wheel and show to the world
what North Carolina can do for the man
} it delights to honor.
(Signed)
JAMES N. GAME, Chairman,
JOHN NJ. JULIAN, Treasurer,
r. W. VINCENT, Secretary,
ROBERT NJ. PHILIPS,
ARCHIBALD II. BOYDEN,
Committee.