Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-06
RALEIGH IS EMERGING
FROM EASTER STORM
Lighting System Partially Restored
and Communication With Outside
World Rc-EStabiished
Telegraph Wires Are Being Strung
Along Ground for Sake of Speed,
Fallen Poles to BE Erected Later.
Telephone Lines Hard Hit.
Especial to The Times-Dlspatch. ]

RALEIGH. y. c. April 5.--Easter
Monday morning in Raleigh found
large numbers Of carts hauling snow
from the curbS in the business section
or the city as large squads of laborers
shoveicd it up. In order that there
might be an end to the disagrccable
and. in some instances, almost i'm
passa bic slush.
The business section of the city en-
Joycd electric lights during the Night
'or the first time since Friday might.
the power and light company prom
used TO have practically the whole city
system Of wires cleared by Tonight,
so that lights could be turned on ex-
ccpt in cases where whole sections OF
wiring went down with the polls The
management OF the company finds that
this city has not suffered as severely
as IT was at first feared. and the dam
axe is not so great as was wrought In
numbers Of other places in the storm
swept belt.
The Southern Bell Telephone Com
panE mas Loo stations out of COM
mission. There We're only fifty tclc-
phone poles down in the city in con-
sequence OF the storm. The line from
Raleigh TO Hamlet was badly damaged
II is expected that the line to Selma
VIII be restored within "A few hours
Reports from Selma to the office here
showed l35 telephone stations out OF
boro. Selma had forty polls down and
Go!dsDoro twenty.
The Western Union Is doing speedy
work in re-cstablishing lines out OF
Raleigh. y temporary line from Ra-
leigh to Greensboro is being stretched
along the top of the ground. with
out the additional delay that would
come in permanently stringing the
wires and resettinS the broken poles.
All this work will be done later
The Postal Telegraph Company suf-
fcred heavily In every directions. cspe-
cially between Raleigh and Hillsboro
and Raleigh and Wilmington. 1t has
large forces OF iincmen at work in an
effort to rc-cstablish communica ton.
Not being along railroad rights Of way.
the repairing of these lines is more
difficult and necessarily slower. Fully
three fourths Of the telephone stations
OF the Raleigh Telephone Company
were put out Of commission, and an
especially large number OF the poles
Of this company were broken down
This repair work is being pushed as
rapidly as possible.
Charters Issued.
Charters We're issued to-day as fol-
lows:
Wilmington Steam Laundry Com
pany, Of Wilmington: capital. $4,000
authorized and $4,000 subscribed by
Charles 7. Harper. w \. French and
Jessie Price.
The Rockingham Storage Warehouse
Company. OF Reidsville: capital. $780,
eco authorized and $1,000 subscribed by
w. y. Turner and fifty others, for gen
cral bonded storage warehouse bus!-
ness. including tobacco in all forms.
cotton. building material and numbers
OF other classes OF commercial pro-
ducts.
The Eiird Mercantile Company OF
Durham; capital. $40. 900 authorized and
$4,000 subscribed by W. l.. card, Win
ston- SALEM: j. j.. Efrd. j. w. Enrd
and w. 9. Wilkinson, Charlotte, for
general mercantile business. and with
authority to establish branch stores
elsewhere in this state.
Tho Kiversid. Brick Company, Of