The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-05-14
PLACE OF PUBLIC
COMFORT FOR MEN AND
REPAIRiNG.
DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH
Doinas and Happenings That Mark
the Progress of North Carolina Peo-
ole Gathered Around the State
Capitol.
Raleigh.

Extensive improvements are now
heino made at the state fair grounds,
and ARRANGEMENTS are being mace
for the holding of the next great state
fair. which is expected to be the very
hest in the history of the institution.
considerable amount of money IS
being expended, and more Will Dc
added to the improvement fund as
the time draws near for the opening
Of the big annual show In OCTOBER or
this year.
A place of public comfort for men,
which is something new, Is no" De-
ing erected near the east entrance.
This is to be 40 by IL feet, and will
be fitted up in style in keeping with
the way in which the officers or the
association generally transact their
business affairs.
The main exhibit building il being
repaired and perhaps more Is being
done here than anywhere else on the
fair grounds. The old partitions are
being torn out and will be rearranged
so as to afford more space and better
facilities for displaying the various
exhibits that will be placed in 1t this
year. It is the plan of the fair assocl-
alton to use this building one more
year, and then it will be torn away to
make room for larger and more spa
cious exhibit sections. If 1t were torn
away at this time, another could not
be erected by the time the fair opens
I'D In the fall, and it has been decided
to spend some money on It and patch
it I'D to be used for this season.
Though the race track will be i'm
proved more later on, it is not at es-
Gaping the notice of those working
on the grounds. It will be dragged
later in the summer, and will be put
into first class condition.
It has been stated that the street
car line will be doubletracked all
the way from Capitol Square to the
fair grounds by the time the fair
opens this year, and this will greatly
facilitate the handling Of the crowds
that are expected to be here for the
occasion. Preparations are now being
made for this extension, and no time
will be lost in beginning the work.
Wants NJ. c. Fish Commission.
DR.. Joseph Hyde Pratt, state geolo-
gist, here recently en- route to Allan
tic City to attend the annual meeting
of the National Association of Shell
Fish Commissioners in session there.
He will be joined by State Oyster
Commissioner Gobbs of Oriental and
State Commissioner J. H. Leroy OF
Elizabeth ity, and the three will seek
TO ascertain at the convention just
what is best to be done to build up the
fish and oyster industry in this state
so that the oyster interests of North
arolina may get out of the condition
of being almost a negligible quantity
in the grand total of the oyster indus
; try for the whole Atlantic coast.
DR.. Pratt says that Virginia, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jer
, sey and all the states OF the New Eng
land coast have fish and oyster laws
far superior to North Carolina and
that what he is striving for is the es
tablishment of a state fish commission
to have absolute control of the fish
. an doyster interests of the state anC
conserve them so that there will be
a steady increase in supply and quail
ity instead of decentralization and de
terioration all the time.
| Clarence Poe Busy Lecturer.
| Clarence Poe has accepted an invi
tation to deliver an address befor'
| the Southern Sociological Conference
l at Memphis, Tenn, in a few days OF
4 developing the Community Spirit il
Rural Sections" He will also make
I number of commencement addresse
this month as follows: Ellington
May II; Smithfeld, May Is; Wake
lonf1 May 81; Winston-Salem, May 2e
North Carolina Men Sign Memorial.
II A Washington special says Senate
Overman introduced bill for the re
lief of the heirs of Castor S. Wilder
of Wake, who was robbed of abou
$4,000 worth Of property during tn
l Civil War by Union soldiers. The me-
meorial sent from Galveston, Texas
to Senator Stone of the committee O
foreign relations by $50 refugees fro1
the Tampico territory of Mexico shor
/ ly after the American forces took po'
session of Vera Cruz was signed. b
John e. Eads and William H. Eads {
| North Carolina.
Fire Insurance Hearing July II.
1t is learned that the investigate
\ of the conduct Of fire insurance con
panies in this state will be resumed j
this city July II by the commissic
appointed for. the purpose and thu
the expectation is that the task I