The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-26
FLAMES DESTROY
TEXTILE BUILDING
Heavy Loss Is Inflicted on Col
lego OF Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts.
SMALL INSURANCE CARRIED
Students Work Heroically, but
Are Unable to Stay
Flames.
SMALL INSURANCE CARR
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equipped textile building ut the North
Carolina College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts early this morning. The
building was valued ut $4,000 and the
equipment at $4,000, and all that re-
mains or the structure and equipment
Is section of the east wing of the
building and it's machinery contents
I principally ono of the Openers" tho
utmost value Of the remnant OF the
building and equipment being prob
ably $4,000.
In the insurance schedule for the
college property. only 35 per cent OF
the valuation IL covered by insurance,
owing to lack OF sufficient appripria-
ton to carry full Insurance.. The en-
tire college plant is valued at SSOS,5
! for insurance. and - per cent OF this
is protected by insurance. The textile
building burned was valued AT $50. 600
$4,000 for building and $4,000 for
Icontents-and the insurance ~ompanies
arc liable for - per cent of this, tho
remaining 60 per cent of the total dam
age by the fire comes as loss to the
/ college and to the State because Of in
sufficient insurance
The fire was discovered by students
about 2:30 o'clock this morning, and
was already we'll developed, so that
within an hour the building was al
most burned down, in spite of the most
Ihcroic effort to subduc the flames. The
students worked bravcly. and the city
fire department was summoned it's ef-
forts being. however hanpcrcd by low
water pressure in the small and e'o-
Waited water mains OF West Raleigh.
The building was already wrapped
in flames before the Raleigh depart
lment could be gotten to the scene. The
building was erected in 1901. and tho
greater part OF the equipment was
given by textile machinery manufact-
lurcrs.
This is the second fire the college
has had. the former one having ncen
the burning of Watausa Hall dormi-
tory twelve years ago.
President ID. H. Hill says that the
work of the textile department will 60
| forward without interruption. other
class being used aa6 arrange
ments being made with cotton mills
here for the students to get the ncCes-
snry factory experience until the tex
tile building can be rebuilt. Tho fire
seemed TO have Originated on the third
floor Of tho building in n small Office
used by Professor Is. Moore Parker.
RaEsdnie Very Ill.
State Superintendent of Publlc In
struction J. Y. Joyner is especially con-
oerned on account of the very critical
condition OF Professor w. II. Rags
dale, Of Pitt County. for twenty years
superintendent OF the public schools of
the county. His death Is expected at
any time. and there is believed to be
no possibility for his recovery. Pro-
Especially active and useful in the edu
cational work Of the State. He Is
about sixty years Of aye.
An amendment to the charter of The
Spray Cotton Mills Company changes
the principal Office from Spray to Ashc-
VILE. William Schoenfelt is president
and ]. Ct. Terrell is secretary.
! Charters for new corporations have
been Issued as follows
! Farmers Tobacco Company, OF Louis
4 4 H..
and others. for leaf-tobacco business.
Che Chautauqua Mineral Springs
Company. of New Bern: capital, $50
600 authorized and s5,75o subscribed
by ID. T.. Henderson and others.
The Central supply Company of Lum-
her Bridge; capital, $4,000 authorized
and $4,000 subscribed by r. J. Jones
and others for mercantile business.
| Tho Z. w Lyon Company. Oxford;
capital. $4,000 authorized and $4,000
subscribed by q. w. Lyon and others
! for 4 tobacco business.
! Harrison In Raleigh.
| President Fairfax Harrison Of tho
Southern Railway Company. spent sew
eral hours In the city to-day with Vice
President a. b. Andrews, and was
caller at the executive office or Gov
ernor Craig and the Offices of the Cor
poration Commission with whom no
discussed number OF matters In
| formally.
| Governor Craig has offered n reward
| OF sos for the capture of Alfred Lynch.
colored. slayer OF Manley Hatch. com
missary keeper at Richards, last
week Rewards aggregating $500 are
offered for the fugitive.
Hospitals Heirs to Liquor.
Tho hospitals of Raleigh to-day fell
heir to quantities of the best OF the
liquors conhscated from the tive negro
drug stores In the settlement OF the
cases against them for selling whis-
key without prescriptions. There were
200 bottles OF the liquors, good, bad
and Indifferent. and the good--that in
Guided some of the best-known brands
of whiskeys and wincs-were donated
to the hospitals before the remainder
was conveyed to the corner of Fayette-
Vile and Martin Streets and emptied
into the sewer as n sort Of public eX-
ccution' for the blind tiger business
In Raleigh
The executive committee of tho
State Board OF Agriculture will meet
here tomorrow to make some arrange
ment for additional Office room for
workers in the Department of Agri
culture. made necessary by the COM
ing of n number of Federal government
workers cooperating with the State
department. especially the Department
lof Animal Industry. with ID. 7. Gray,
OF the department at WashinGto ton, in
charge, and the demonstration depart
ncnt. Win Z. X. hudson IN charge
There are really about twenty depart
ment workers TO be provided with Of
flee or desk room, and with very little
available space The workers from tho
Federal government are provided at
the expense OF the government, tho
state department having only TO pro-
vide office quarters for them.
Decrense In Cotton Crop.
Tho United States Department of !
Agriculture report OF cotton ginned |
and marketed to date was received at |
the state Department or Agriculture |
this morning, and shows that the |
NORTH Carolina crop to date is S35,435 |
oa!eS, compared with 906.3jl for the !
previous year. Robson led, ~ usual |
with $4,000 bales. compared with g.
QUO last year MecklcnburE has 81 ,053 |
bales. compared with 2S.17S tho year |
previous l'itt County has only 81 900 !
baies. compared with $1,000 tbs year
In hr,gst Ton,