Twenty-five business men met in Raleigh this week, Col. Albert Cox presiding, and launched a movement for the erection of a million-dollar hotel here. A committee will be appointed to consider several propositions, and if present plans work out, the structure will be begun during the present year. Colonel Cox, following the meeting, stated that men operating hotels here at present will not be antagonized. As a matter of fact, some of them may be let in on the project.
City Attorney John Hinsdale Resigns
City Attorney John W. Hinsdale has resigned his position with the city. Mr. Hinsdale has been city attorney since the establishment of the commission form of government in 1913, and his resignation, it is said, is due to press of private business since he has assumed the extensive law practice of his father, the late Col. John W. Hinsdale, in addition to his own practice. So far there has been no appointment by the commissioners of a successor to Willis G. Briggs, who has resigned as city solicitor to become assistant United States district attorney. There have been seven or eight applications for the position. The consolidation of the two offices, city attorney and city solicitor, is being considered.
Raleigh Y.M.C.A. Annual Meeting
At the annual meeting of the Raleigh Y.M.C.A. held Monday night, directors were made in the constitution. The directors will meet Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock to elect officers for the year. Rev. M.A. Barber, W.D. Briggs, Josephus Daniels, W.T. Joyner, Dr. Hubert A. Royster, E.B. Crow and Howard White were the directors elected. At the meeting on Thursday the finance committee will present a budget for 1922. There is $32,000 still due from the “clean-up” campaign, Secretary Allen reported. The organization, he reported, has just concluded a most successful year, and is looking forward to an even better one in 1922. There were 19 men present Monday night at the meeting of the Dormitory Men’s Bible Class, caught by Rev. A.M. Huffman. The two Hi-Y Bible classes meet Tuesday night at 6:30.
Erwins May Move From Durham to Raleigh
Rumors that William A. Erwin, wealthy textile manufacturer of Durham, will remove his residence to Raleigh were put into circulation yesterday when it became known that a deed transferring title of the A.B. Hawkins home on Blount Street to Mrs. Erwin has been recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County. The deed, which was given by Miss Martha Bailey for the consideration of approximately $40,000, conveys the handsome brick residence sitting alone on the east side of Blount Street in the block north of the Governor’s Mansion, but reserves 70 feet on Blount Street on the corner adjoining the mansion. It is understood that Mrs. Erwin will not obtain possession of the property for several months, and that she has not made any definite plans to move here.
Free Employment Bureaus Help People Find Work
The free employment bureaus of North Carolina found jobs for 4,138 during the past quarter, according to reports filed with State Director M.L. Shipman this week. Of this number, 777 were women who applied to the bureaus for aid in finding jobs, and the remaining 3,361 were men. The unskilled laborer continues to be in biggest demand on the part of employers. The six bureaus operating in the state found jobs for 1,962 unskilled or common laborers during the three months; 1,074 skilled workers, 556 clerical and professional people, 409 domestic and 113 industrial workers. Wilmington is the only city in the state whose employment office found jobs for a larger number of skilled workers than for any other class, 580 people qualifying as skilled laborers were placed there. Incidentally, Wilmington led the state in the number of placements for the quarter. The Raleigh office led in finding jobs for clerical and professional people and for domestic help. The Raleigh folks are using the local office more largely in getting this type of help than are the people of other cities in the state. The standing of cities in placements follows: Asheville, 358; Charlotte, 802; Greensboro, 399; Raleigh, 953; Wilmington, 1,078; Winston-Salem, 524.
Governor Refuses Pardon, Citing Excess Personal Influence
Gov. Morrison has announced that he would grant no more pardons where the applicants seek to influence him through close personal or political friends, and for the first time refused a pardon recommended by both the judge and the solicitor who tried the case. The refusal was in the case of Reuben Hagwood of Wake, serving five years for house breaking and larceny, while a large family of dependents are in destitute circumstances during his imprisonment. The Governor’s resentment against the activities of those who would capitalize political or personal friendship came to a climax this week. The growing practice of getting the Governor’s ear through members of the state administration who are close to him, or through campaign managers in several of the counties, or through other personal friends, moved the Governor to issue his ultimatum. “I know of no other way to stop the practice,” he said. “I just won’t consider a pardon hereafter where the party seeking it undertakes to influence me through close personal or political friends. To my mind that is mighty close to corruption.” This, explained the Governor, does not apply to attorneys who, in the regular and orderly way appear before him as regularly employed representatives of their clients, or to friends who really know something about the case in which they are appearing, and are seeking merely to give him facts in the case. “I do not propose to have campaigns run to influence me in the administration of justice.”
From The Union Herald, Raleigh, Thursday, January 12, 1922
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