The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-28
NORTH C~AROLlNIANS
IN THE METROPOLIS
CBy r. :. CARRAWAY.)

iioHl pretty girls and prosperous
young men dancing the make in
the ballroom OF the new Hotel Bit
more to mountaineers in remote
cabins in the Appalachian Range: but
human sympathy brought the two ex-
lre1nes together Saturday afternoon.
as IL does at least once "A year. II
was at the annual benent Of the New
York Auxiliary Of the southern In
ouStrlal Educational Association,
when took the form OF a dansant.
mere were general dancing and card
Playing, and then followed the con-
test dances. The prizes. including
two silver loving cups. were presented
by the Judges-Edward simmons Hall,
Minturn Post and Emlen Littell.
The proceeds of the danSant viii
go TO help the little cabin schools
scattered through the mountain coun-
try of North Carolina, South Carolina
and Virginia The association has
lately had a donation of SIS. 900 a year
for three years to maintain field sec
retarieS.
Prominent among the Tar Heels in
the Metropolis this week was Colonel
William r. Beasley. of Plymouth.
knOWn from one end of the State To
the other. who spent most Of the
week at the Herald Square Hotel for
the purpose of seeking financial back
iiS " q vi " ~ Manufacture
a new-style automobile tire which
Colonel Beaslcy has invented. The
Colonel says that the new tires Will
cause a revelation to automobile own
ers when put on the market.
Colonel BeaSley is seventy years old
and a Civil War veteran. Il am all
ready to enlist and so to the front
down in Mexico he told The News
n Observer correspondent. and in
making this statement | earnestly be
lieve / am the only Civil Wal veteran
: in the country willing and eager Ia
: again enter the ranks for actual war
z fare" Colonel Beasley stated that
: North Ca~rolinlanS are standing solidiy
back Of the president in both the
Mexican crisis and in the Panama
tolls question.
o Gaylord G.. Hall gave an interest
ing lecture before the New York En-.
d tomological Society Tuesday evening
On butterflies Caught in the BLACK
Mountains of North Carolina" Mr.
e Hall, who is an entomolOgist of repute
spent several years in the countr
about Asheville collecting and study
IS ing butterflies.
re It will be interesting to the base
a fans Of New Bern TO learn tina
st Arthur Devlin, at n time capital
~ Of the New Bern team in the old East
es ern Carolina League, and for seve
tS years star third baseman Of the Ne'
"a York National Leaguers, has decide
10 to retire from the national game, thu
ut is, in a playing capacity. DeVlln
now manager Of the Oakland team
- the Pacific CoaS league, having bee
awarded this position the latter pa
~ Of last season. Il find | am Gettin
too Old Devlin says in a commun
cation to a friend here. When
o. play I feel sick and not myself.
Il L - J, tho r n 1-. ,aon 2a h IL,
H. better by sticking to the bench.
or have been in the game fourteen year
and most of that time was spent
the big leagues, where you go at t6
speed. 1t certainly wears a fellow OF
and l find that | cannot stand Il
pace like / could a couple of yea
a ago"
The Stonewall jackson Chapter,
m, Nj. Bruce. Children Of the Confcde
SO acy held a meeting this afterno'
with Mrs. Rupert Burdick at her hon
ID in the Bronx. Mrs. +. a. Lau. dire
tor general, gave a talk on the schc
ng arShips in the mountain districts
ger Virginia and North Carolina, wits
Ia the chapter is maintaining. and pia
at for next seasons WORK were OF
ng lined.
Among the passengers on board t
IN liner Columbia when she sailed Ss
are urday for Glasgow were the Rev. r
an gar A. Holton. Rev. J. Kenneth Pfc
OF and the Right Rev. Edward Roun
thaler. all of Winston-Salem.
art -
the North ~aro1nionc at tho x,r.c
.Sovr ynri( hostnIr,es dnriny t,o nr.
70 ent week included the following:
. Grand Cnion-I. c.. Ellis, Oxfo
'er. and f.. f.. Korn. Durham.
zen Fofiman Eouse-E. l.. Hord
NE GoldsbOro, ard &. W. Doughe-ty, w
mingtOn.
'e'r TIermita1e-N. f~!ollowell, Cot
, d zorro.
pa Alponouir- p Harvey Wilmir
ton.
Martha Washington-Miss Kath
inc Rollins. ASheEi;ie.
ms S,ratf,rd House-c"F F}aip On
lOttc.
avs Imperial. D. Sargent, MOI
SHY Airy. and w. II. Woodbury.. AS