The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-09
NORTH C~ARrllNlANS IN
THE METROPOLIS

New York. Feb s.-The
ment Of the -gageme OF Angler
Buchanan Duke. son Of Benjamin y.
Duke, of Durham, n. C. and New
York. n Miss Cordesia Biddle. deb
utante daughter of Anthony Drexel
Biddle. Of Philadelphia. participated
quite a lot Of surprise among society
circles in New York his week. Mr..
Duke, who is a nephew or James l..
Duke, president OF the British-Amer-
lean Tobacco was born in
Durham thirty years ago, and was
graduated from Trinity College in
that city in 1905. He began his bus
mess career as treasurer OF The Dur
nam & southern railroad. but during
the past several years has spent most
OF his dime in New York where he
has been interested in the
Pure Food Stores. Mr.. Duke is also
interested With his father in several
other commercial enterprises in New
York and in North Carolina and is a
airector of the Erwin Cotton Mills
company and the Fidelity Bank Of
Durham and the Durham & Southern
railroad. Cross country idins mo-
torlng and tennis are the sports with
which he has been most identified. He
is u member of the Calumet Club, the
Automobile club of America, the
Ardsley club, the Rumson Country
club and the Sleepy Hollow Country
club.
No plans for the wedding have vet
been made, as Miss Biddle is oniy
seventeen, and was to have spent a
year abroad but the European war
halted the plans of her parents. Miss
: Biddle made her debut January Z.
She is a niece Of Craig Biddle. John
: K. DreXel and Anthony j.. Drexel.
: Besides being q splendid rider, she ia
an accomplished musician and tennis
player.
n Mr.. Frank II. Stedrnan, president
q Of the Cumberland Savings and Trust
n Company of Fayetteville, and MIR. G.
e NJ. Watson, well known Fayetteville
merchant. spent several days in New
e York during the week, dividing their
time between business and pleasure.
Mr.. says that there is al
ready noticeable a decided change for
e the better in conditions in North
Carolina and states that he expects
a within a few months business will be
far beyond normal stages. He went
d so far as to predict that by the frs
s. of e year the country will enter
d q period Of prosperity and comfnercia
activity such as has never before beer
equaled.
es Tired of chasing bulls and bears
IN A. Il. Gwathmey. Jr., nj of tn,
lg noted old North Carolina family o
re that name, and Levin Bell LeDuc
ne two prominent members of the cot
<e ton exchange, are willing to take
chance lodging bullets while helpin
the wounded on the battlefields. The
u have filed applications with the Re
a Cross for service at the front in Ecu
ie rOpe, and are prepared to furnis
III their own ambulance and equipmen
Ell Mr.. Gwathmey is a partner in A. I
+. Gwathmey & Co, one of the thre
lie l;o-roct o1tfor n,,C in thn ~ ~,
OF He is a brother Of J. Temple Gwatf
mey, at one time president Of til
Cotton Exchange. He has riddle
bucking bronchos and is an expel
skater. His family halls original
from Wilmington, n. c.
az Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Fariss. Miss
lClapp and Miss M. Rankin compose
a party of Greensboro people WI
nd were at the Hotel ~Collingwood f
to several days of this week.
Mrs. E. L. Dunn and Mrs. A.
,ex Dunn. OF Asheville, are in Gotham
town for a few days stay at the Ma
~ thai Washington Hotel.
Miss A. C. Quinlan, Miss ]. A. r;
and Miss M. N. Wallis. Of Wayne
- Vile, were in New York for a visit
the Collingwood.
Miss N. F. OBrien, Of Asheville, h
&c been passing the last few days i'll t
" metropolis on a pleasure visit.
hey
10 upon New York this week and Nor
Carolina sent a godly delegate
49, Among the Tar Heels business m
'ur- L. e." o, IT
nth 49,, = - JH;n.n 80 T. Or
fer 20 she,;11a
nee o"o
ar caareIw
men Visitors in the city from the {
VI North State during the present we
10 including the following:
AK York;. .. Craven, Charlotte.
,av- Grand-E. L. Hind, Winston; W.
SO Price, Snow Hill; j. H. Harris. {
ford, and NJ. Littman, Asheville.
ST Denis-E. c. Westall, Hickory
Alberto. Mackenzie, GreeEsbo
and L. Levin, GoldSboro.
Marlborough. Schad, WilInil