Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
Campaigns Against Fires.

opoeioi agents ana lnSpoctOY0 Of
virtually all fire insurance
dong business in North Carolina met
mere today in the office of Insurance
commissioner Young to discuss plans
TO aid in the nationwide campaign to
assist the national government in do
ing away with things tina tcause fires
ana destroy foodstuffs and wearing
appar after costly labor has been
in their production. S. Y.
ripper, Southern Manager of the
queen Insurance Company and A. M.
ochoon, engineer for the National
Board Of Fire Underwriters, composed
a committee sen here to explain the
ulans of the campaign and enlist the
support OF the field insurance men.
Present at the conference were Gov
ernor Beckett, Commission Young, J.
Broughton, Jr., president and A. T.
bowler, secretary of the Raleigh
chamber of Commerce; Prof. w. A,
Wlthers, president of the Raleigh Ro.
fary Club, and about forty insurance
held men, members of inspection
Goards and other insurance field
workers.
Cordial support of the state admin
lstratlve departments were pledged to
the campaign by Governor Beckett and
Commissioner Young.
The visiting committee expressed
itself as highly pleased with the ia
miliarity with the national campaign
shown by the North Carolina workers
and declared this the best meeting of
the kind it had held. The committee
has recently held similar conferences
in Richmond and Columbia.
At a second conference held in the
afternoon the field men arranged de-
tails of the work to be done. North
Carolina is to be divided into dis
tricts which will be under the super
vision of these men, trained in inspec-
on of buildings and the detection and
correction of fire hazards, and regular
inspections will be made by them
throughout the state and every effort
will be made to prevent fires and espe-
cially fires which may destroy food
stuffs in storage during the war emer-
gency.
The work undertaken by the insur-
ance men is general in its scope and
without bearing on the business of the
companies they represent. The work
is a voluntary and patriotic work I'M
dertaken by the men and their com
panies as a part in the National De-
Tense Campaign. Inspections will be
made of all classes of buildings and
crops without regard to insurance.
carried or anticipated.
Valuable Historical Collection.
The collections of the North Caro-
lima Historical Commission are be-
coming widely recognized as among
the best collections of historical mate
rial in the United States. The use of
this material by mail has been extern
sive for some time, but now historical
students are finding it worth their
while to come to Raleigh in order to
pursue their Investigations in person.
The latest visitor is Prof. Chas. w.
Ramsdell, of the department of history
of the University of Texas, who is at
work on a history of the civil admin
istration of the Confederate States
government. Another recent visitor
who made extensive researches in
the collections of the Historical Com
mission was DR.. Charles M. Andrews
of Yale University who is writing a
history of the American colonies. Miss
Mary Shannon Smith of Meredith Col.
lege is spending her vacation in the
rooms of the commission at work on
a history of Union sentiment in North
Carolina during the Civil War; and DR..
D. H. Hill has now permanent quar-
tiers with the Historical Commission
where he is engaged in his history OF
North Carolina in the Civil War.
Last week Mr. Reaves of the Interior
Department at Washington spent sew
eral days among the commissions col
lections investigating the claims OF
the Tuscarora Indians to lands form
erly belonging to their tribe in North
Carolina Another historical student
now at work in Raleigh is Miss Hat.
tie b Burch of Columbia University.
Every historical student who comes TO
Raleigh is greatly impressed with the
extern tand value of the Historical
Commissions collections and espresso
Commissions collections and ex'
nresses delight with the excellent
quarters provided by the state for the
Historical Commission
Movies for Guardsmen.
Special from Camp Sewer, Green
willie g C-National guardsmen OF