Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-02-20
WILL ERECT HOME FOR THOSE
WHO SHARED THE STRUGGLES
OF THE WAR BETWEEN
THE STATES.
Mr.. PAHON'S BILL WILL
GIVE JUDGE PACE RELIEF
Jackson County Matter Hanging Fire
While Mountain Contingent Remains
in the State Capital Tenth District
Legislation and Movements Of the
Lawmakers. 49,
Ry Noah NJ. HolIOweII.l

1
ate what North Carolina is doing for
its dependent and INDECENT Confederate
veterans, one has to visit the Soldiers
Home at Raleigh, where 130 gray-cIad
veterans can be seen moving about in
an air of reasonable contentment.
1t was the pleasure of Senator T. B.
Allen and the writer to visit this in
stitution recently in making a call on
the formers acquaintance, M f. Kim
sey, Of the Mills River section of Hem
Iderson county. Mr.. Kimsey has been
! in the Home for about four months and
says that he is fairly contented with
his surroundings. A remarkable fea-
! ture of this institution is that there
are only three men there from
beyond the Blue Ridge, according to-
Mr.. Kimsey, these being Tom d. Clay
ton, of TransyiVania county, and Mr..
| Snlder of Buncombe county The
friends of Mr.. Clayton will be glad to
] learn that he is rapidly recovering
! from troubles of one of the lower
! limbs. Mr.. Kimsey is just about the
most active and robust man IN the
Home. He took pleasure in showing.
/ his guests over the Institution in or
der that they might properly appreci-
ate his comfortable surroundings. 1t
was on Sunday afternoon and tina
sSboys were Occupying their tinTR III
various ways. Some we7e sitting cut
In the sunshine, others reading from
the volume of books in the library
while others were grouped about thee
FIRE telling wartime stories. There
were various specimens of humanisE
the strong and robust being abssat;
those who had suffered the loss of a.
limb or had received IIfe-iimA MoEpd
in the struggles of the civil s9aT, Some
were rolling themselves around in
ichairs, others supported themselves
with a stick or cruthches and there
i were others so unfortunate as to have
to be confined 10 the bed while the
shadows Of the death angel were gath
ering over them and dimming their Vi
sion as did the smoke of battle in the
days when they .braved the horrors of
war for the Southern cause. There
were long rows of single beds while
here and there were men confined
probably never to rise to their feet
] ..lagain. Already seven have crossed
the Great Divide since the new year
was ushered in and sixty-three died
during the past year. Out of the SS6
inmates received in the Home since
been Ala to cross the Bar, soon to be
followed by the fast1y thinning gray
line. The time of physician and
our trained nurses is occupied in look
ing after the needs and caring for the
Iold soldiers.
/ TO Have More Pin Money.
4 The inmates of the Home are very
much interested in bill now pending
to provide for each of them $1.50 in
stead of fifty cents each month as pin
or spending money. They are proTid-
ed with a new gray suit once a year,
though sufficient clothing of other
kinds is furnished them at all times.
History of Home.
Believing that the readersSof this
article will be interested in the history
of the Institution. the writer viii en-
deaVor to outline the same briefly. So
far as can be ascertained from the re-
cords on file at the Home, home for
the INDECENT Confederate soldiers was
first established in a rented house,
4 with five inmates, on October 15, 1890.
The General Assembly of 1891 incor-
pcrated the Soldiers Home Associa-
ton, giving the same lot in East Ra-
leigh. The same act appropriated
So, 900. In 1891, the number OF inmates
having increased TO nine, they were
moved from the rented Home to the
new one created by the Legislature.
The number of inmates gradually In
creased and it became necessary to
erect additional buildings to accommo-
date the number of soldiers who were
seeking the Home. The Institution
4 contracted debt of $4,000.
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superintendent was elected in 1910.
The Legislature Of 1911 made an ap-
preparation Of $4,000 for the support
of the Home and further appropria-
ton of $500 for the construction of
an additional building Of ten rooms
which has been completed and is now
occupied. The Home is out of debt;
ten or twelve buildings bright with
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