The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-09
NORTH CAROLINIANS
IN THE NE

NORTH CAROLlNlANS
IN THE METROPOLIS
New York. June Colonel Tom
Pence. the Tar Heel who had a great
de-. to do with the nomination and
election of President Wilson. for hs
was the top card Of the Wilson Pub
licity Bureau. had a field day at Bel
mont Park on Tuesday. After gath
ering all the possible inside Informal
ton from stable and paddock on each
race that day the Colonel would con-
suit George Washington Alarm. who
for years on the tracks controlled by
the Jockey Club, has had charge OF
the renting and akinG care of the
field glasses Mr.. Alarm has long
been noted as a great guesSer OF
winning horses-that is, a great guess-
er for others than himself. He hands
his information out freely To all in
curing acquaintance who invariably
back his opinion. Colonel Pence has
been taking G.. Washinston's steer.
and in consequence he had the winner
in each of the six races Tuesday. And
he came away from Belmont with 4
basket full of the long green. Col
onel Pence was for some years Wash
ington correspondent of The News
and Observer. and is a fuli-ledged
North Carolinian.
MI. and Mrs. Charles J. Mckee, OF
Dayton. Ohio. have announced the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss Jan
ct Stuart Mckee. to Franklin H.
Gates, Of Montclair. N. j.. son of
Frederick L. Gates. almoner for John
be graduated from Yale in 1912, and
at present is engaged in scientific
farming in North Carolina. Miss Nc
Kee is an accomplished musician, hav-
ing spent the last winter studying in
the Institute of Musical Art in this
city. The couple will make their
home on Mr.. Gates place in the Old
North State.
Thomas M. Robinson. who served
for two terms as president of the New
York Cotton Exchange. and who was
a native Tar Heel and one of the most
prominent financial figures in the
metropolis for some years past pass
de away at the Long Island College
Hospital Monday. Mr.. Robinson was
born and reared in Washington, N. c..
and served in the Civil War as a
captain in the Sixty-seventh North
Carolina Infantry, receiving a COM
mission as Major in a Virginia regi-
ment just before the close of the
war. He had been a member Of tho
New York Cotton Exchange since
1876. and had held all the principal
offices in it. Mrs. Robinson. who with
five children survive him, was Miss
Mary Hoyt Of North Carolina.
Walton H. Marshall. managing di.
rector of the Hotel Vanderbilt. re.
turned to New York this week from 4
business trip through the South and
reported that everywhere business was
booming. with no Indications in sight
that anyobdy knew there was dullness
anywhere. Mr.. Marshall visited sew
I nrn1 nyylC in - ~
municipality which most impressed
him in that Commonwealth was High
Point, which he says is the coming
furniture manufacturing locality OF
the country.
High Point seems to have devotion.
ed INTO a great furniture manufacture.
ing center, and the residents say that
they are o~vertaking Grand Rapids
M1ch. IN the Importance of their pro-
duct said Mr.. Marshall. High
Point is certainly a live little place
and its residents are boosting it all
the way. If the people in the
could see what is going on in the
South there would be less talk about
the country going to the dogs and a
decidedly optimistic frame of mind
would result"
with the arrival of June and real
summer weather travel toward New
York improved, and the Old North
soy was amply represented in the
norde OF visitors during the week
Among those here were.
Grand. T. Hedrick. Lexington.
W. A. West, New Bern: J.. H. West.
fayetteville. G.. T. Clapp, Burlington.
ana Mrs. 5. Nj. Smith. Asheville.
HermltaSe-H. Men. Pateat. Il. r.
PoWers, w. {. Smith and E. w. Tim
oerlake. Jr.. Wake Forest.
Herald Square-E. w. Shedd. Car
image. and y. NJ. Chivers, New Bern
tumbertand-Mr. and Mrs. J. r.
MinniSS. Charlotte.
Imperlal-E. L. Cable. Raleigh.
HoHman House-R. T. Stedman.
WinSton-Salem.
McAlpin-W. H. Wood. Charlotte.
X. w. Askew. Windsor: Mr.. and Mrs,
), H. Rehder. Wilmington: w. q
r K Chapel Hill: J. r. Griffith NJ