Annual report of the mayor and officers of the city of Raleigh, N.C.

              ANNUAL REPORT
Mayor ano Okkicers
CITY OF RALEIGH,
Fiscal Year Ending February 28, 1891,
RALEIGH, N. C:
Edwards & Broughton, Printers and Hinders.
1S91.
INDEX.
PAGE.
City Officers — - . - — 3
Aldermen and Committees, 1889 to 1 891 . 4
Report of Mayor ... — 5
City Clerk. -.- 15
Commissioner Sinking Fund 20
Finance Committee 21
Street Committee . 23
Street Commissioner .. 25
Police Committee 30
Chief of Police 32
Committee on Fire Department 39
Chief of Fire Department 40
Water Committee 55
Market Committee 56
Committee on Parks 57
Cemetery Committee 59
School Committee 60
Rex Hospital 61
Board of Health , 66
Graded Schools .. 78
LIST OF OFFICERS,
1889-1891.
Alf. a. Thompson Mayor.
C. W. Lambeth ... Clerk.
C. B. Root Tax Collector.
C. D. Heartt Chief of Police.
J. G. Brown Treasurer.
H.F.Smith Auditor.
W. Z. Blake . Street Commissioner.
B. S. Jerman Commissioner of Sinking t"und.
J. N. Holding City Attorney.
E. B. Engelhard Chief Fire Department.
John R. Ferrall Assistant Chief Fire Department.
Dr. James McKee Superintendent of Health.
T. W, Blake Keeper of Cily Clock.
W. H. Weatherspoon Keeper of Market.
James H. Marshall ._ Janitor.
S. A. Jones Sexton City Cemetery.
S. Anderson Sexton Mt. Hope Cemetery.
ALDERMEN AND COMMITTEES,
1889-1891.
ALDERMEN.
FIRST WARD.
C. C. Latta, W. N. Swelling, W. W. Parrish.
SECOND WARD.
W. R. WoMBLE, S. V. House, L. C. Bagwell.
THIRD WARD.
Pulaski Cowper, Ed. H. Lee, H. W. Jackson,
John Ward, Wm. Grimes.
FOURTH WARD.
M. Bowes, E. McK. Goodwin, B J. Robinson.
FIFTH WARD.
G. E. Leach, J. W. Horton, R. E. Lumsden
COMMITTEES.
FINANCE.
Alderman Ward, Chairman; Womble, Lumsden, Parrish.
STREET.
Alderman Leach, Chairman; Latta, Womble, Lee, Bowes.
POLICE
Alderman Jackson, Chairman; Cowper, Bagwell, Snelling, Mayor.
CEMETERY.
Alderman House, Chairnun; Horton, IUgwell.
LIGHTS.
Alderman Lee, Chairman; Grimes, Parrish.
MARKET.
Alderman Snelling, Chairman; Leach, Goodwin.
BUILDINGS.
Alderman Lu.msden, Chairman; Bagwell, House.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Alderman Parrish, Chairman; Grimes, Goodwin.
PARKS.
Alderman Horton, Chairman; Lumsden, Robinson.
WATER.
Alderman Grimes, Chairman; Snelling, Parrish.
SEWERS.
Alderman Latta, Chairman; Jackson, Womble, Leach, Bowes, Mayor,
City Attorney, Dr. James McKee.
FIRE.
Alderman Womble, Chairman; Leach, Parrish, Holding.
MAYOR'S REPORT.
Raleigh, N. C, March i, 1890.
To the Honorable Board of Aldermen
of the City of Raleigh.
Gentlemen:—In presenting a report of the closing
year of this administration, it will hardly be necessary to
review the work projected and partially completed during
the first year, as a very full account of these various
enterprises was contained in the reports issued last March.
The more important improvements inaugurated and
established by this Board have been very extensive, and
will be of great and permanent value. The following
are worthy of special mention :
1. Complete system of sewerage with twenty-two
miles of pipe.
2. Paving the principal business streets.
3. Funding city debt, bearing a lower rate of interest.
4. Reduction of city taxes for general purposes in
1889—ten (10) per cent.
5. Reduction of city taxes for general purposes in
1890—eleven (11) per cent.
6. Establishment of a Local Board of Health.
7. Thoroughly reorganizing and equipping Fire Depart-ment.
8. City Charter amended, and the Board given authority
to appoint a board of equalization to revise the tax-lists.
It is certainly worthy of special mention that, notwith-standing
the increased expenses incident to the introduc-tion
of the several improvements referred to above, that
city taxes are materially lower than when you assumed
control of city affairs.
MAYOR S REPORT.
STREETS.
The permanent improvement of the business streets
has progressed satisfactorily, and the only projected pav-ing
yet to be done is the roadway to the Passenger and
the Richmond & Danville Freight Depots. Work on
this will be commenced as soon as the weather becomes
favorable, and will probably be completed by September
1st, 1891.
It is to be regretted that lack of proper machinery for
macadamizing has prevented the free use of crushed stone
on certain portions of our streets that become almost
impassable in such winters as the past has been. I would
strongly recommend the purchase of a ten thousand
pound roller, which can be drawn by horses. In addition
to this, a stone crusher, unless, upon inquiry, refuse stone
from Henderson or elsewhere could be secured to better
advantage. With these appliances and material, and with
well-directed, energetic work, taking the most frequented
streets first, it would require but a few years to materially
change them for the better.
The report of the Commissioner gives in detail the
total amount of all kinds of work accomplished during the
year, and is Vv-orthy of your careful consideration. If
supplied with the latest improved implements for the
prosecution of street work, the benefit derived from the
same annual outlay would be increased a hundred per
cent. As early as practicable, the Commissioners should
run the boundary lines of the city as prescribed in the
amended Charter, erecting monuments at the four corners,
and at all points due north, south, east and west from the
centre of the Capitol, so that the City Clerk and Tax-collector
may be able to make up the tax-lists correctly.
SIDEWALKS.
Having completed the several enterprises previously
referred to, except the paving of the roadway to the
North Carolina Depot, delayed in consequence of failure
MAYOR S REPORT. 7
of the railroad companies to build a joint passenger
depot, your especial attention is called to the imperative
necessity of doing something to improve our sidewalks.
Without exception, good sidewalks are of more impor-tance
to our whole people than any one of the public
works previously undertaken by the city government, and
yet no systematic work has ever been done looking to
permanent improvement in this direction. Probably the
plan most easily attainable and productive of the great-est
good would be to require the Street Commissioner
to prescribe a grade for all sidewalks, giving his attention
first to those most in need of it. As soon as this is done
he should furnish the property-owner with the grade,
specifying at same time in his report to the Board the
material best suited for improving it. The Board should
then require the owner to make the repairs within the
time prescribed by law, and subject to the approval of
the Street Commissioner.
OPERA-HOUSE AND AUDITORIUM.
The Amended Charter, Section 107, gives you the
entire control and management of Moore and Nash
Squares, authorizing you to beautify and ornament them.
You could discharge this trust, and at the same time
erect a structure that would be an ornament to the city,
by building an auditorium of beautiful design on one of
these squares. The completion of this much-needed
hall would enable you to utilize Metropolitan Hall for
city purposes. The Mayor's ofifice and court-room can
be used by the City Clerk and Tax-collector; the hall can
be converted into a court-room and ofifices for the Mayor
and Chief of Police, while the eastern end of the build-ing
could be fitted up for a station house, and be head-quarters
for the police force.
The station house now in use has long since been
voted a nuisance, and is a disgrace to the city. As pre-
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viously urged by the Chief of Police, it should be dis-continued,
and comfortable and decent quarters secured.
The changes above suggested will enable you to rent
the east and west basements of the market house, and
the revenue thus derived, added to the income from the
new opera-house, will rapidly repay the money invested
in the enterprise.
MARKET HOUSE.
Plans for remodeling this structure are now in the
hands of the Market Committee, and a contract for the
work will be submitted to the Board at an early day.
REX HOSPITAL.
Those conversant with the condition of the poorest
people of Raleigh know that we are in pressing need of a
public hospital.
The Rex Fund now amounts to $27,332.62. If to this
the city would add an appropriation yearly of $2,000, a
vast amount of suffering would be alleviated, many valu-ble
lives would be saved, and untold good accomplished.
A dispensary in connection with the hospital should also
be established, and this would reduce very materially the
amount now expended for charity prescriptions. I trust
that a committee of three Aldermen may be appointed to
confer with the trustees of the Rex fund and the man-agers
of St. John's Hospital with the hope that the
field of hospital work may be enlarged, and the combined
efforts of our whole people may be directed to securing
a hospital capable of succoring the sick and afflicted
who are without money and without friends.
BONDS DUE IN 1897.
Some action should be taken by the Board, looking to
the exchange of the consolidated debt bonds bearing
MAYOR S REPORT. 9
5 per cent, interest for city sixes due in 1897. The fol-lowing
section of the act of the Legislature explains the
powers of the Board with reference to these bonds
:
" Sfx. 2. That none of the bonds authorized in the
first section hereof shall be issued or disposed of, either
by sale, exchange, hypothecation or otherwise, for any
purpose whatever other than the payment, taking up,
retiring or cancellation of a corresponding and equivalent
amount of bonds issued under the provisions of chapter
forty-four of the Laws of North Carolina, passed at the
session of the General Assembly of one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight and one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-nine, and of chapter eight of the Laws of
North Carolina, passed at the session of the General
Assembly of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four
and one thousand eight liundred and seventy-five,
and of chapter thirty-five of the Private Acts of General
Assembly, session of one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-five, and any ofificer of the City of Raleigh viola-ting
this section, or aiding or abetting any person in
the violation of this section, shall be guilty of a misde-meanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less
than five hundred dollars and be imprisoned not less than
six months, and shall moreover be liable to pay the City
of Raleigh a sum equal to the par value of the bonds so
misapplied: Provided, however, that the Board of Alder-men
may, as an inducement to the holders of the out-standing
six per cent, bonds to surrender the same in
exchange for the bonds authorized by this act, pay a
premium on said six per cent, bonds, not exceeding one-fourth
of one per cent, for every year elapsing between
the time of such surrender and the maturity of the bonds,
if such surrender and exchange be made as much as
six years before such maturity."
lO MAYOR S REPORT.
SINKING FUND.
The Commissioner of the Sinking Fund reports a cash
balance in excess of the July interest of $4,000.
The attention of the Finance Committee is directed to
the advisability of investing this fund either in the securi-ties
of the city or in some other equally safe paper.
STREET LIGHTING.
The dif^culties existing between the contractors for
lighting the city and this Board were submitted, as pro-vided
for in the contract, to a Board of Arbitration. The
claim made by the city, that the light furnished was not
the power contracted for, was sustained by the Commit-tee,
but the contractors have not yet signified their inten-tion
of accepting a settlement upon what the Board con-ceived
to be the award of the Committee ; hence no
payments for street lighting have been made since Novem-ber,
1889.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
As indicated by a decline of 196 in the number of arrests
during the past year, we have more than maintained our
reputation for being a law-abiding people.
The Police Force, as to efficiency, is all that could be
desired, but numerically is too weak for night service.
The large extent of territory to be covered by five men
renders the commission of petty theft during the night
very easy, and I therefore endorse the suggestion of the
Chief of Police that two new men be added to the night
relief.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The very superior Fire Department now owned by the
city is a creation of which this Board may well feel proud,
and an investment in which every citizen has an interest,
MAYOR S REPORT. II
not only in the saving of property, which every year will
repay the outlay tenfold, but in the sense of security
which everyone must feel when its admirable equipment
and first-class membership is taken into consideration.
Too much praise cannot be awarded the Committee, the
Chief of this Department and the several companies for
bringing it to such a state of perfection.
STREET RAILWAY COMPLICATIONS.
The Board at its December meeting, upon application
of the Street Car Company, granted the privilege of dis-continuing
the horse cars ninety days to enable the Com-pany
to change the system for an electric car service.
Owing to difificulties which have arisen between the
Edison Company and the owners of the railway, the ninety
days expired before the completion of the work. The
Board at its meeting in March granted an extension of
sixty days, in which time, it was stated, all difficulties
would probably be adjusted. I would suggest that the
parties at interest be notified that unless the cars are
running by the time this extension expires, that the char-ter
from the city will be forfeited.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Your attention is directed to the reports of the several
committees, giving a complete review of work under the
especial direction of each of them. Especial attention is
directed to the recommendation of the Finance Commit-tee
in regard to the stock owned by the City in the
Raleigh and Augusta Railroad. Formerly this stock was
of little value. It is now probably worth $10,000, and I
think will further increase in value. The City, in my
opinion, could not do better than hold it as a permanent
investment.
t2 MAYOR S REPORT.
REPORTS OF OFFICERS.
For a full and accurate account of receipts and disburse-ments,
operations of the Sinking Fund, Police, Fire and
Street Departments, you are respectfully referred to the
reports of the officers in charge. I take pleasure in avail-ing
myself of this opportunity of certifying that their
qualifications are first-class, and that the Board made no
mistake in the selection of any of them.
APPROPRIATIONS.
A committee was appointed by the Board at the begin-ning
of the last fiscal year for the purpose of considering
the needs of the various departments, and awarding to
them the necessary funds for prosecuting their work. This
committee should, by all means, be permanent, because,
in the first place, no department is overlooked or slighted,
and in the second place all extravagances and reckless
expenditures are avoided.
The habit of applying to the Board of Aldermen for
appropriations for the purpose of securing institutions of
great value to our citizens, but not, strictly speaking, of
a public natuie, is growing upon our people. This Board,
acting under the law, as clearly interpreted by the City
Attorney, refused to make any appropriations for such
purposes. His report to the Board on this subject is
well worth preserving, and the precedent established
should be uniformly adhered to :
To the Honorable Mayor and Board of Aldermen oj the City of Raleigh.
Gentlemen:—The question as to the legality, or, rather, the constitution-ality,
of an appropriation by the city to aid in establishing the Southern
Exposition at Raleigh, which has been referred to me by the Mayor, is one
which I have carefully considered in all its phases.
Realizing that the establishment of the Exposition here might be of great
benefit, not only to the State at large, but locally to our city, by bringing an
influx of citizens and capital within their borders, I felt called upon to give
mayor's report. 13
the question careful investigation before advising that an appropriation for
said purpose would be unconstitutional. However, after a thorough investi-gation,
I am forced to conclude that the Board of Aldermen cannot legally
make such appropriation, and in order that the members of the Board and
those of our citizens who so greatly desire the Exposition to be established
here may know the grounds of my opinion, I herewith submit my views
and the sections of the Constitution which led me to the conclusion I have
reached.
I take it as true, nothing being known to the contrary, that the only fund
that now is, or will be, in the city treasury out of which the appropriation
could be paid is that arising through the medium of taxation.
Taxation is the system by which the revenue of a governnieni is collected.
It is an act of sovereignty by which burdens or charges are imposed on per-sons
and property for the support of government, and the right to impose
these burdens or charges, in the opinion of the best writers on constitutional
law, is restricted to defraying the general expenses of government in the
form prescribed in the Constitution, the general expenses being ordinarily
understood to be
—
1st. Expenses of defending the government,
2d. Expenses of the administration of justice.
3d. Expenses of public works and Institutions.
4th. Expenses of supporting the dignity of the State.
The proposed Exposition being the outgrowth and partly under the super-vision
of the Bureau of Immigration, and for the purpose of inducing immi-gration,
the appropriation would be allowable under the third division above
named, it being a public purpose recognized and endorsed by Section 17 of
Article III of the Constitution : Provided, such an appropriation was not
prohibited \n some other section of the Constitution.
But by Section 7, Article VII of the Constitution, such an appropriation
by a city or town, or other municipal corporation is positively prohibited
unless by a vote of the majority of the qualified voters therein.
The provisions of said Section 7 are as follows : "No county, city, town,
or other municipal corporation shall contract any debt, pledge its faith, or
loan its credit; nor shall any tax be levied or collected by any officers of the
same, except for the necessary expenses thereof, unless by a vote of the majority
of the qualified voters therein."
And to make it more certain that the Legislature should have no authority
to interfere with the prohibitory provisions of said Section 7, the framers of
the Constitution in Section 14 of said Article VII provided that "the Gen-eral
Assembly shall have full power by statute to modify, change or abrogate
any and all of the provisions of this Article, and substitute others in their
place, except Sections 7, 9 and 13."
This last section clearly shows that the framers of the Constitution did
not intend that the prohibition of cities, towns, &c., from spending money
arising from taxation for any other than the necessary expenses, as provided
in said Section 7, should be abrogated, except by a vote of the people.
14 MAYOR S REPORT.
But again, there is another view fatal to such an appropriation. The City
Charter, Section 36, provides * * * "and the Board shall contract no
debt of any kind unless the money is in the treasury for its payment, except
for the necessary expenses of the city government, until the taxes for the
payment thereof can be collected."
I am informed that there is no money at present in the city treasury for
the payment of the appropriation, if made.
Construing the Constitution as I do, and from the construction of similar
sections of other State Constitutions by the Supreme Court of the United
States in several cases involving similar questions to the one now under con-sideration,
I have been unable to reach any other conclusion than that
announced above, to-wit, the Board cannot legally make the appropriation
asked for the establishment of the Southern Exposition at Raleigh, however
great the benefit might be to the city and State.
In considering these questions the Board must be guided by the principles
of the Constitution as much so as the higher legislative and judicial branches
of the Government, and not by the results of making or not making appro-priations
which apparently would be of great benefit if made.
Respectfully submitted, J. N. HOLDING,
January 20th, 1 891. City Attorney.
INVENTORY OF CITY PROPERTY.
An inventory of city property should be taken annually,
but this is especially important at the expiration of the
term of each administration.
This inventory will probably develop the fact that the
actual value of property owned by the city is fully equal
to her indebtedness. This list of property should be
carefully revised and filed with the City Clerk.
In conclusion, let me thank you for two years of faithful
work, rendered without compensation and without hope
of reward, other than the thanks of an appreciative
public, and the satisfaction of having efficiently dis-charged
a public trust.
Raleigh is to-day, so far as permanent public works
are concerned, the leader in the State, and for this exalted
position she is indebted to the wise, progressive and
careful management of this Board of Aldermen, as well
as to the enterprising spirit of her people.
Very respectfully,
ALF. A. THOMPSON, Mayor.
REPORT OF CITY CLERK.
Raleigh, N. C, February 28, 1891.
To the Mayor and Board of Alderman
of the City of Raleigh.
Gentlemen:—I have the honor to submit statements
of the accounts of the collecting and disbursing officers of
the city, together with a statement of the receipts and
expenditures for the fiscal year ending February 28, 1891 :
C. B. ROOT, Tax-collector,
In Account with the City of Raleigh ,
Dr.
To amount collected from Taxes 1878.
1S79----
1880
1881
1882
18S3
18S4
18S5
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
Southern Ex. Co.
Telephone " .
Costs from Taxes
Rent of Market .
Cr.
By amount paid J. G. Brown, Treasurer
" " " W. E. Anderson, Commissioner
" " " B. S. Jerman, Commissioner
2 60
13 27
13 27
10 67
21 60
52 38;
106 30
235 50
183 96
117 25
1,15s 52
3.383 13
46,967 89
80 00
88 00
656 70
2.703 10
55.794 I4;i
$ 40,616 25
675 99
14,501 90
i6 BEPORT OF CITY CLERK.
C. D. HEARTT, Chief of Police,
In Account with the City of Raleigh :
Dr.
To amount collected :
Fines
Licenses—Dray
" Liquor
" Dogs
" Peddlers
" Omnibus, carriage and buggy.
" Theatres
" Billiards
" Miscellaneous
Rent of Metropolitan Hall
Colored Cemetery
Miscellaneous Receipts
Cr.
By amount paid J. G. Brown, Treasurer.
777 50
156 00
5-350 00
302 00
25 00
205 00
120 00
225 00
162 00
1,057 80
81 30
2,665 74
11,127 34
11,127 34if 11,127 34
/. G. BROWN, Treasurer,
In Account with the City of Raleigh .
Dr.
To Cash—Balance March ist, 1890
From C. B. Root, Collector :
Taxes
Costs from Taxes
Rent of Market
From C. D. Heartt, Chief of Police :
Fines
Licenses
Rent of Metropolitan Hall
Colored Cemetery
Miscellaneous Receipts
Dividends State National Bank
Cr.
By warrants—paid and canceled by Finance Com-mittee
By balance
$ 24,813 59
!
. 37-256 45i
1' 656 70J
2,703 10
I'
;i 777 50!
! 6,545 00
: 1-057 So
: 81 30
2,665 74,
106 16
lis 76,663 34
$ 60,457 8r
16,205 53
$ 76,663 34
REPORT OF CITY CLERK. 17
If. E. ANDERSON, Commissioner,
In Account with the Sinking Fund:
Dr.
To balance March ist, 1890.
" cash from Tax-collector.
.
Cr.
By interest paid on bonds
'
' commissions paid Collector
'
' Commissioner's salary
" amount paid B. S. Jerman, Commissioner
I 3,085 00
20 27
100 00
12,934 14
i$ 16,139 4' i$ 16.139 41
B. S. JERMAN, Commissioner,
In Account with the Sinking Fund
.
Dr.
_
1
To amount received from W. E. Anderson, Com'r
'
' cash from Tax-collector
" cash—interest from loans
$ 12,934 14
14,501 90
99 84
18 93 " " State National Banlc dividend
CR. 1
By interest paid on 5 per cent, bonds
" " 6 " " " --f
$ 7,150 00
4,854 00
435 00
150 00
14,965 81
" Commissioner's salary to March 1st, 1891 _..
" balance
1 % 27.554 81 $ 27,554 81
WARRANT A CCO UN T.
Warrants outstanding March ist, 1890
Warrants issued from March 1st, 1890, to Feb-ruary
28th, 1 891 - -
Warrants paid by Treasurer from March ist, 1890,
to February 28th, 1891
Balance warrants outstanding March ist, 1891..
t 60,457 81
734 95
!
$ 61.192 76
$ 1,848 84
59.343 92
S 61,192 76
REPORT OF CITY CLERK.
STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
From March i, 1890, to February 28, 1891,
Receipts :
From C. B. Root, Collector :
Taxes
Costs from Taxes
Rent of Market
From C. D. Heartt, Chief of Police :
Licenses—Dray
" Liquor
" Dogs
'
Peddlers
'
Omnibus, Carriage and buggy
'
Theatre
Billiard
'
'
Miscellaneous
Fines
Rent of Metropolitan Hall
Colored Cemetery
Miscellaneous Receipts
Dividend State National Bank
Disbursements :
Salaried Officers and Police duty
Street expenses
Smith work
Provender
Lights
Lumber
Fire Department
Medicines
Printing and advertising
Fuel
Miscellaneous
Commissions
Sewers
Pumps
Water
Parks
W. E. Anderson, Com'r Sinking Fund, Taxes
B. S. Jerman, Com'r Sinking Fund, Taxes
Balance, excess of disbursements
% S'i'A'iA 34
656 70
'V
2,703 10
\ 156 00
5,350 00
302 00
25 00
1 205 00
120 00
1 225 00
162 00
' in 50
1,057 80
81 30
2,665 74
106 16
% 13,051 04
23,240 58
352 14
1,566 82
816 00
278 II
5,231 63
930 35
393 90
120 80
2,809 57
1,643 17
2,497 87
431 77
4,661 00
1,119 17
675 99
14,501 90
% 7.494 17
% 74,521 81 % 74,5.21 81
REPORT OF CITY CLERK. 19
STATEMENT OF INDEBTEDNESS OF THE CITY.
Liabilities :
Six per cent. Funded Debt Bonds, $30,300 due
July, 1897; $50,850 due July, 1907
Five per cent. Consolidated Debt Bonds, due
July, 1919
Five per cent. Street Improvement Bonds, due
July, 1919
Five per cent. Public Improvement Bonds, due
July 1st, 1929
Warrants outstanding
Assets :
Cash in hands of Commissioner Sinking Fund.
Notes and mortgages in hands of Commissioner
of Sinking Fund
Cash in hands of Treasurer
Balance net indebtedness
$ 81,150 00
43,000 00
25,000 00
75,000 00
734 95
% 224,884 95
$ 10,165 Si
4,800 00
16,205 53
193.713 61
$ 224,884 95
Very respectfully,
C. W. LAMBETH,
City Clerk.
REPORT COMMISSIONER SINKING FUND.
Raleigh, N. C, March 12th, 1891.
To the Honorable the Mayor and Board of Aldermen
of the City of Raleigh.
Gentlemen:—I have the honor of submitting the fol-lowing
statement of receipts and disbursements on account
of the Sinking Fund :
1890. ' Receipts:
June 1st 'Received from the former Commissioner.
to
March i6,
i8qi.
C. B. Root, Collector.
Interest on Loans
State Bank Dividend.
State Bank Dividend.
Total receipts.
Disbursements :
Paid 5 per cent, coupons
" 6 " "
" C. B. Root, Collector, 3 percent, commissions
" Commissioner's salary to March ist, i8gi
Total Disbursements
Leaving a balance on hand in cash.
8,134 14
14,501 90
99 84
3 63
15 30
22,754 81
7,150 00
4,854 00
435 00
150 00
12,589 00
10.165 81
I also hold for account of the Sinking Fund, received
from W. E. Anderson, former Commissioner
:
Loans on Notes and Mortgages on real estate. % 4,800 00
Respectfully,
B. S. JERMAN,
Commissioner.
REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE.
To the Mayor and Board of Aldermen
of the City of Raleigh:
The Finance Committee beg leave to submit tlie fol-lowing
report of the financial transactions of the city for
the fiscal year ending March 1st, 1891 :
The receipts have been as follows:
From C. B. Root, Tax-collector % 55,794 14
" CD. Heart t, Chief of police 1 1,127 34
" Dividend State National Bank 106 16
$ 67,027 64
The disbursements have been:
For general expenses % 59,343 92
" Commissioner pf Sinking Fund 15,177 89
$ 74.521 81
Excess of disbursements over receipts 7,494 17
By reference to the report of the City Clerk, detailed
statements will be found.
On March 1st, 1890, the Treasurer had a balance on
hand of $24,813.59: at the close of the fiscal year he had
on hand $16,205.53, against which there are warrants out-standing
of $734.95.
The large balance on hand March, 1890, was on account
of unexpended balances from the sale of street and sewer
bonds, which amount has been reduced this year on account
of paving and sewers, and $1,113.89 of outstanding war-rants
paid.
There is also a debt due the Raleigh Light, Heat and
Power Company for electric lights from December 1st,
2
22 REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE.
1889, to the present time, the city claiming they owe tW(7
of the contract price for these lights under award of the
arbitrators. This debt will approximate about $3,800.
As shown by the report of the City Clerk, the
bonded debt of the city amounts to $224,150 00
Less assets in hands of Commissioner of Sink-ing
Fund 14-965 81
$209,184 19
The special deposit of $48,700 Raleigh & Augusta stock
in the hands of the City Treasurer is gradually appreciat-ing
in value, and is now worth probabl}^ ten thousand dol-lars
($10,000). The completion of the Georgia & Northern
Railroad will no doubt greatly increase the traffic of the
Raleigh & Augusta Railroad, and your Committee would
strongly recommend that this stock be held as an invest-ment
until it approaches its par value.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN WARD,
W. VV. PARISH,
R. E. LUMSDEN,
W. R. WOMBLE,
Finojicc Coviviittee.
REPORT OF STREET COMMITTEE.
Raleigh, N. C, March i, 1891.
To the Hono7-ablc the Mayor and Board of Aldermen:
We submit herewith the report of the Street Commis-sioner,
showing in detail the operations of the Street
Department for the fiscal year just closed.
We also offer, in obedience to a recent order of the
Board, an inventory of all property belonging to the
Department.
We have added during the year a two-horse Chapman
& O'Neill Street Sweeper, which, if freely used at night,
in connection with the two street sprinklers, all the paved
streets can be kept clean at a very slight cost.
All the block paving proposed in our last report has
been completed except West Martin and Harrington
streets, and this work is now fairly under way, and with
seasonable weather will be completed to the new Union
Passenger Depot by the time that building is ready for use.
The streets occupied by the street car lines are not in
proper condition. The company has recently changed
hands, and an electric road is under consideration by Balti-more
parties, with every assurance that the lines will be
equipped with electric cars during the coming summer.
We recommend that in granting any new franchise the
maintenance of the streets be carefully guarded.
Nothing has been done on the work of widening North
Salisbury street, the difficulty beingto satisfactorily adjust
the damages to land proposed to be condeinned. An
amendment to the charter, secured from the last Legisla-ture,
compels assessors appointed for the purpose of con-demning
land to perform their duty. With the law thus
amended, it i^ hoped that this street will soon be widened
to Johnston street.
24 REPORT OF STREET COMMITTEE.
The Board has ordered the widening of South Fayette-ville
street from South street to the city Hmits, which
should be done during the coming summer.
The extension of West Morgan street across the Raleigh
& Gaston Railroad to the city limits was also ordered, but
the work has been stopped by the appeal of property
owners from the allowance of the assessors for land con-demned.
The Raleigh & Gaston Railroad is under con-tract
with tiie city to build, free of cost to the city, a
bridge across their cut whenever this street shall be
extended. Another western outlet to the city is much
needed, and this work should be pushed forward without
delay.
The condition of many of our streets during the past
winter emphasizes the former recommendation of this
Committee that work of a more permanent character
should be done on them, which will necessitate the pur-chase
of a stone crusher and road roller.
We call attention to the danger of unprotected grade
crossings of railroads in the city limits, and recommend
the passage of an ordinance requiring gates or flagmen at
all grade crossings.
Respectfully submitted,
G. E. LEACH, Chairman
Street Coinmittee.
REPORT OF STREET COMMISSIONER.
To the Street Coniniittee.
Gentlemen:—I herewith submit through you to the
Board of Aldermen the following report of the work of
the Street Department under my supervision during the
fiscal year ending February 28th, 1891 :
STONE PAVING
There have been laid 11,360 square yards of stone pav-ing,
and \,\^6\ linear feet of dressed and 5,346^ of rough
curbing on the following streets: On Martin street from
Wilmington to Blount, on Wilmington from Martin to
Davie, on Wilmington from Morgan to Jones, on Jones
from W^ilmington to Halifax, on Halifax from Jones to
the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad freight depot, and on Mar-tin
from Fayetteville to Salisbury streets. Of this 3,656tV(j
square yards at $1.20 per yard, amounting to $4,388.08,
has been done for abutting property-owners, and 7,70370^
square yards on account of the city.
In addition to the paving already ordered by the Board
of Aldermen to be done during the next current year,
to-wit, Martin street to the new depot, and Harrington
street from Martin to the North Carolina freight depot,
I would recommend the paving, as soon as practicable, of
Hargett street from Fayetteville to Salisbury, and from
Wilmington to Blount streets. Davie from Fayetteville to
Salisbury, and Morgan from Salisbury to Wilmington.
MACADAM.
On Hillsboro street, from Saunders street to the cor-poration
line, 2,948 square yards of macadamized roadway
have been laid, and 1,444 linear feet of curbing. This
26 REPORT OF STREET COMMISSIONER.
work is very unsatisfactory, although attention was given
to make a good, smooth road bed. This was the first
attempt at this kind of road-bed, and I would recommend
that it be the last until we have all the necessary appli-ances
for doing this kind of work. To make this class of
roadway serviceable and permanent it is necessary to have
a suitable stone crusher and sufficiently heavy rollers to
set the stone at the several stages of the work; and future
attempts to do this work under present unfavorable con-ditions
will be a failure. The conditions under which this
work was done were such that I could not keep an exact
account of its cost. I can only say that it so closely
approximates the cost of our rubble block pavements
($1.20) per square yard, including curbing, and the quality
of the work so inferior to the block pavement, that the
city cannot afford to do such work under the same con-ditions
as this was done.
CULVERTS.
The stone work on culverts has been as follows:
New culverts 3^327 cubic feet.
Paving culvert bottoms 412 square yards.
Covering culverts 888 " "
In addition to the above, 483 feet of terra-cotta pipe
have been laid for culverts at various points; 102 feet of
lO-inch pipe, 193 feet of 12-inch pipe, 62 feet of 15-inch
pipe, 126 feet of 18 inch pipe.
The order of the Board of Aldermen extending North
street from West to Saunders streets necessitated the con-struction
of a culvert seventy-three feet long, three feet
wide and three and a half feet deep in the clear, with walls
two feet thick. This, with the necessary retaining walls,
required 2,606 cubic feet of stone.
STONE WALLS.
Four hundred and sixty-three cubic feet of new retain-ing
walls have been built, and all required repairs made
to the old ones.
REPORT OF STREET COMMISSIONER. 27
STONE CROSSINGS.
Thirty-six new stone crossings, aggregating 1,148 linear
feet, have been laid, and ten old ones taken up and relaid.
BRIDGES AND TRUNKS.
Thirteen new foot-bridges and one new wagon bridge
have been put down, and one hundred and thirty-three
foot and twenty wagon-bridges repaired.
Sixteen new wood trunks have been laid and twenty-one
old ones repaired. These wooden trunks are being
supplanted by terra-cotta pipes wherever practicable.
PUMPS.
The number of pumps in the city is sixty-eight, all in
good condition. Eight new pump platforms have been
made and thirteen repaired. Thirteen wells have been
cleaned, and 248 feet of new pump-stock put in. The
cost of keeping up the pumps this year has been $431.77.
QUARRY.
No stone has been quarried during this year. The
stone which has been used for culverts, crossings, walks,
&c., has been that which we had on hand at the beginning
of the year. The work of this year has exhausted this
supply, and it becomes a necessity to resume work at the
quarry, or to purchase stone elsewhere. To work the
quarry economically, it is necessary that a steam pump
be used for keeping it clear of water.
PARKS.
Moore and Nash Squares are being gradually improved.
Both have been well stocked with trees and evergreens of
different kinds. Moore Square, since it was graded, has
been well set in clover and other grasses, furnishing a
large supply of forage for the city. In a few years the
28 REPORT OF STREET COMMISSIONER.
trees will have attained sufficient growth to afford abun-dance
of shade, and the land will be in splendid condition
to be converted into lawns. It is with regret that I must
report that many of the trees and shrubbery are constantly
being destroyed by boys by cutting and otherwise
STREETS.
Other than the paved streets, our thoroughfares have
been in as bad if not worse condition than for many years.
In my last report I stated that the then good condition
of the streets was not due to my work, but to the phe-nomenally
dry winter. During this past winter, from Jan-uary
to March, therainfall has been almost unprecedented,
and the consequence is that the twenty or more miles of
streets that were dug up for water and sewer lines and
service connections therewith have been much of the time
barely open for travel. But even this temporary incon-venience
has had its good results. The very thorough
wetting which these streets have had has settled the dirt
so that in future they can be kept in better condition.
With the street scrapers I will be able in a very few days
to have them all in good order.
The disbursements on account of streets for the fiscal
year have been $23,340.58. Of this amount $13,632 was
expended on account of paving, of which $4,388.08 will
be returned to the treasury by owners of abutting prop-erty
for whom paving was done.
We started the year with cash on hand to credit of pav-ing
account $11,380.90 and $6,096.80 owing by property-owners,
with $1,800 worth of blocks and curbing on hand
that had been paid for. This year $13,632 has been
expended for paving, leaving a balance to the credit of
street account of $7,839 owing by citizens for whom pav-ing
was done.
The object and method of working and improving steets
at this time difTer so greatly from the "good old ways,"
REPORT OF STREET COMMISSIONER. 2g
and our citizens, keeping pace with the improvements, are
demanding in the way of streets very much more than
the city can give without the aid of improved machinery.
For instance, with a quarry at hand almost inexhaustible,
it is only available for small work, owing to the expense
of keeping the water down and moving the stone solely
by hand. To get out large quantities of rock for mac-adamizing
road-beds, we must have steam for running
pumps and power for moving the stone, a steam crusher
for reducing the stone and a heavy roller for setting the
work when put down upon the streets. For working dirt
streets the scraper purchased several years ago is indis-pensable.
With four horses and two men it will do the
work of fifty men, and do it better. The one we have is
insufficient for the demar.d. I recommend that another
be purchased, which, with the one we have, will enable
me to put this class of streets in good condition early in
the spring and keep them so all the time at a very small
expense as compared to work done by pick and shovel.
The constant rains of the past winter have permitted
but few opportunities to test and appreciate the good
work of the street sweeper. With it I hope to have, at
all tirnes, our paved streets free as possible from dust and
all offensive matter.
Thanking you, gentlemen of the Committee, for the
many courtesies extended me, I am.
Very respectfully,
W. Z. BLAKE,
Street Commissioner.
REPORT OF POLICE COMMITTEE.
Headquarters Police Department,
Office of Police Committee,
Raleigh, N. C, February 28, 1891.
To the Honorable the May07- and Board of A Ldermen
of the City of Raleigh.
Gentlemen:—We have the pleasure of laying before
you the full and comprehensive report of our ef^cient
Chief of Police, and invite your careful attention to the
same. In his report he makes one suggestion especially
which should, at an early day, be carried into effect, namely,
the appointment of two more night patrolmen. For the
better protection of the city, the preservation of the
peace, &c., two more men are needed, and we join with
the Chief of Police in recommending the appointment of
these men for night duty at once.
At the last meeting of the Board of Aldermen the chair-nian
of each Committee was requested to take an inven-tory
of all property owned by the city which was under
the control of said Committee. The Police Committee,
after careful investigation, find that $5 will more than
cover the value of all property within its jurisdiction.
During the past year there have been 196 arrests less
than in the previous year.
The revenue collected by the Police Department for the
last fiscal year ending February 28th, 1891, was $1 1,127.34.
From an examination of the reports for the last five years
we find that the receipts in this Department are steadily
increasing. Rent from Metropolitan Hall has yielded a
net income of $1,057.80 for the past year.
REPORT OF POLICE COMMITTEE. 3
1
This Committee would be neglecting its duty did it not
say a few words in regard to the splendid police force we
have at the present time. The entire police force is com-posed
of gentlemen who hold and deserve the confidence
and esteem of the entire community. They are, at all
times, courteous and considerate in enforcing the laws.
They are vigilant and faithful ofBcers, one and all. The
Chief is universally regarded the best that can be had.
In conclusion, it gives your Committee pleasure to state
that the equipment and general appearance of the force
reflects credit upon the city and police force.
Respectfully submitted,
H. W. JACKSON, Chairman
Police Cofnviittee.
REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE.
Headquarters Police Department,
Office of Chief of Police,
Raleigh, N. C, February 20, 1891.
To the Police Coniniittee of the Board of Aldermen
of the City of Raleigh.
Gentlemen:—In accordance with requirements! here-with
submit my report of the Police Department of the
city for the fiscal year ending February 28th, 1891.
With two exceptions the organization of your police
force remains as at last report. By resignation, ofificers
Hogue and Jones retired, and their places have been filled
by the election of ofificers Alderson and Upchurch. The
force at this time consists of the following: Sergeant C. H.
Llewellyn, Sergeant J. D. Thompson, Patrolmen T. B.
Alderson, J. A. Bashford, J. W. Beasley, F. A. Belvin,
G. M. McCullers, G. A. Strickland, M. Thompson, G. C.
Upchurch, W. W. Willis, W. A. Woodall. And though
our force is small in numbers it can well be said it stands
in the front rank of efificiency and vigilance. With the
territory to patrol and the many and various duties they
are called upon to perform, it would be a hard matter to
select a better force.
The limited number of the patrol force, particularly for
night service, is rapidly becoming more apparent to our
more thoughtful citizens. While there are few, if any,
cities of the size of Raleigh covering so great an area that
are more quiet and orderly, still it is but just that every
portion of the city should have equal protection at all
times. This cannot be done with so small a night force.
Organized bands of sneak-thieves and house-breakers are
REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE. 33
ever on the lookout for growing cities with small night
patroling police forces, and one raid by such would be
sorely felt in our city with but five officers doing night
duty. With our present population and thirty-seven miles
of streets, each police officer of the night- force is the cus-todian
of the peace and quietness of 3,000 citizens, and,
as such, must patrol seven and two-fifths miles of street.
In addition to the regular and ordinary police duties,
more strictly speaking his criminal business, he is expected
to look after the city's interest in regard to street lights,
keep a sharp lookout for violations of sanitary laws (many
of which are committed aftet night), taking up straying
animals, watching unknown and suspicious characters, and
ever on the lookout for the first indication of a fire. All
these demand an increase of the police force of your city,
and I therefore respectfully recommend that two more
men be appointed for night duty.
The good order of the city during the past year has
been unheard of, as is evidenced by the arrests which your
police have made. As against the 1,196 arrests made the
year ending February, 28th, 1890, this report shows but
1,000 for all causes, as follows:
34 REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE-TOTAL
NUMBER OF ARRESTS DURING THE YEAR ENDING
FEBRUARY 28, i8qi.
March, 189O
April, iSgo
May, 1890
June, 1S90
July, 1890
August, 1890
September, 1S9O _
October, 1S90
November, iSgo_
December, iSgo,
January, 1891
February, 1891 _.
Total.
WHITE. 1
MALE. FEMALE 1
38 I
27 2
25
31 5
31 2
30 I
39 I
57 I
39 I
42 5
31 !
38 1 4 ^
428 23
MALE. ! FEMALE
25
17
28
28
43
30
46
40
39
59
42
45
442 107
71
54
62
77
90
66
92
102
86
103
83
104
1,000
White Males..
" Females
Colored Males...
" Females.
438
23 451
442
107 549
Total. 1,000
REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE. 15
The following statement shows the various causes of
arrests made each month during the year:
CAUSE OF ARREST.
CO
u a
2
5
a;
c3
10
5
3
17
I
I
3
3
<
2
-
V
a.
<U X
10
I
X:
O
uo
5
6
I
I
II
15
22
1
21
1
Z
E
>
Z
ID
5
1
I
i8
7
9
I
17
E
01 o
u
a
lO
7
I
3
21
17
7
3
15
I
I
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;
ca
1—
>
14
3
I
I
I
..
17
S
7
I
I
n
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tt,
9
5
I
14
10
6
I
to
<
H
Abduction 2
Affray
Assault and battery
lO
3
2
I
4
102
47
8
2
Assault with deadly weapon
Carrying concealed weapon
Cruelty to animals _
I --
I
21
1
13
9
I
22
7
5
2
9
7
8
I
i6
is
5
13
I
9
1
20
12
II
2
21
7
r
Disorderly conduct
Drunk and disordeily -. -
13
6
3
I
13
7
4
4
9
19S
99
Drunk and down 1 10
Drunk in market ._ 15
156
4
2
Drunk on street ._ . -_
Drunk on Sunday
Drunk in Park
Escape I
I
I
Fast driving .- I
I
2 2
I
I
--
2 2 --- 1 3
33
14
35
I
Fornication and adultery I 2
3
3
I
5
4
2
4
I
1
5
Gambling on Sunday . S -- -- -- -- 8
Indecent exposure 4
24
2
Keeping disorderly house.
Keeping gaming house -
-- 3
2
7
_
3 --
5
4 3
I
4
4
--
I
3
I
Karceny I I 34
Passing counterfeit money 2
-- --- --
I
I
--
--
I
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--
Retailing liquor without license -- -- .--
1
I
17
I
6 4
Trespass . -- I -- --
I
5
3
2
77
I
12
qo
I
6
--
66
---
.
2
.4
90
12
Violating city ordinances
Violating sanitary ordinances
9
7
4 4
I
3
1
92
II 9
1—
I02
I
86
3
Total . 71 S4 62 m 1000 s-^ 104
36 REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE.
The occupation of those arrested, as given by them-selves
at time of arrest, is set forth in the following:
OCCUPATION.
Artivt^
Agents
Har- keepers .
Bootblacks
Blacksmiths
Book-bindc-rs
Banker
Barbers
Book-keepers
Butchers
Brickmasons
Coppersmith
Cattle-drivers
Contractor
Chemist
Clerks
Cooks
Caipenters
Drivers
Drummers
Doctors
Draymen
Deputy Sheriff
Editors
Engineers
Farmers
Fish dealer
Factory hands
Hackmen
House-servants __
Hucksters
Horse traders
Hotel-keeper
Ice dealer
Insurance agents.
Junk dealers
Jeweler
Linemen
No.
I
33
26
36
4
4
5
ID
I
4
5
122
I
9
40
10
5
1
1
I
3
2
OCCUPATION
Laborers
Lawyers
Merchants
Millwright
Machinists
Mail-carrier
Musicians
Miller
Moulders
Office-boys
Peddleis
Porters
Photographers
Printers
Painters
Pressman
Plumbers
Prostitutes
Railroad employees .
Restaurant keepers,.
School-boys
Salesmen
Student
Seamstresses
Steel-workers
Stone-cutters
Showmen
Shoemakers
Telegraph operators .
Tobacconists
Tinners
Tailors
Washwomen
Wheelwrights
Waiters
Watchmen
No occupation given.
Total 1,000
No,
270
3
15
I
4
I
5
15
4
29
5
27
6
I
3
37
5
5
II
7
I
4
2
6
2
2
5
4
46
3
7
3
28
The social condition of those arrested is shown as follows:
Wkiie—Married 218
Single 266
Widowers 7 45^
Colored—Married 212
Single 330
Widowers 5
Widows 2 549
Total. 1,000
REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE. IJ
By ordinance it is made my duty to collect and account
for certain privilege taxes, hall rent, fines, &c. From these
various sources I have collected $i 1,127.34, for which
amount I hold the City Treasurer's receipts. A detailed
report of these collections are as follows:
Fines % 777 50
License—Dray . _ . . 156 00
Liquor ... 5,35000
Dogs 30200
Peddlers ..._.. . 25 00
Omnibus, buggy and carriage 205 00
Theatres . 120 00
Billiards ... 225 00
Miscellaneous 162 00
Rent of Metropolitan Hall '>057 80
Colored Cemetery 8r 30
Miscellaneous receipts 2,665 74
Total . . ...$i 1,127 34
This department has issued during the year the fol-lowing:
Notices to repair sidewalks. 38
Notices to pave streets .... — 23
Notices for removal of street obstructions, and sani-tary
notices... 21
Burial permits 334
Storage permits. ... — 12
Permits for sewer connections . 95
The station house has long been a source of much com-plaint,
and this matter I had intended to dwell upon in
this report to some extent, but the Mayor in his report
has so tully covered the ground that I leave such sugges-tions
as he has made to your consideration, hoping that
some suitable place will soon be provided.
38 REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE. ,
The subordinate officers of the Police Department are
each of them well worthy of the position he holds, and
have, in the discharge of their every duty, proven them-selves,
able, efficient, true, cautious and good officers.
In closing my report I must say that during my term
of office my relations with your Committee, the various
city officials, and the members of the police directly under
my charge, has been pleasant and satisfactory, and to each
I return my thanks for many courtesies.
Respectfully submitted,
CHAS. D. HEARTT,
Chief of Police.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FIRE
DEPARTMENT.
Raleigh, N. C, March i, 1891.
To the Honorable the Mayor and Board of Alderjnen
of the City of Raleigh.
Gentlemen:—I herewith hand you the full and care-fully
prepared report of the Chief of Fire Department for
the fiscal year ending February 28th, 1891, read before
this Committee and adopted.
The efificiency of the Fire Department has been gradu-ally
increased. New apparatus, hose, horses, &c , have
been purchased. The discipline has been much improved,
and, as a whole, this department reflects credit on our city.
I beg to call your careful attention to the suggestions
of the Chief as contained in his report, all of which have
been considered and reported favorably by this Com-mittee.
Respectfully,
W. R. WOMBLE, Chairman
Committee on Fire Department.
REPORT OF CHIEF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Fire Department Headquarters,
Raleigh, N. C, March i, 1891.
To the Honorable the Mayor and the Committee on
Fire Department of the Ctty of Raleigh.
Gentlemen:—In compliance with Chapter 5, Section
5, I herewith respectfully submit for your consideration
my third annual report of the department under my
charge for the fiscal year ending February 28th, 1891 :
ORGANIZATION OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
committee on fire department.
W. R. WoMBLE, Chairman.
Mayor A. A, Thompson. G. E. Leach.
W. W. Parish. H. W. Jackson.
CHIEF.
E. B. ENGELHARD.
ASSISTANT CHIEF.
J. R. FERRALL.
SUPERINTENDENT FIRE-ALARM TELEGRAPH.
E. B. ENGELHARD.
COMPANY OFFICERS.
Hook and Ladder Company.
W. A. Wynne, Foreman. Miles Goodwin, Assistant Foreman.
\V. W. Parish, Secretar}.
Rescue Steam Fire-Engine Company.
R. E. Lumsden, Foreman. John S Riddle, Assistant Foreman.
W. A. Faucett, Secretary.
Capital Hose Company.
W. Wooli.cott, Foreman. L. A. Mahler, Assistant Foreman.
F. WoOLLCOTT, Secretary.
Victor Engine Company.
S. J. Hawkins, Jr., Foreman. T. B Burgess, Assistant Foreman.
S. P. Mallett, Secretary.
Bucket and Ladder Company.
W. P. Snow, Foreman. Theo. Henly, Assistant Foreman.
Frank Milligan, Secretary.
REPORT OF CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT. 4I
WORKING FORCE OF DEPARTMENT.
Rescue Co., No. i—Membership 33
WOMBLE Hook and Ladder, No. i—Membership, 18
Capital Hose, No. 3—Membership 19
Victor Co., No. 2—Membership 33
Bucket AND Ladder Co., No. i—Membership... 20
Total . 123
LOCATION OF COMPANIES.
Rescue Co., Fayetteville street; Court-house Square.
WoMBLE Hook and Ladder Co., West Morgan street,
between Salisbury and McDowell streets.
Capital Hose, West Morgan street, between Salisbury
and McDowell streets.
Victor Co., corner Salisbury and Davie streets.
Bucket and Ladder Co., South Wilmington street,
east end of Market-house.
EQUIPMENT OF DEPARTMENT.
One wagon, horse, drop harness, &c., for Chief, (personal
property).
Rescue Co.—One one horse four-wheeled wagon; one
two-horse four-wheeled reel; three horses; 1,500 feet hose;
one Gould Steamer (Rescue).
WoMBLE Hook and Ladder Co.—One two-horse steel-frame
city-service truck, thoroughly equipped; two horses;
2 [5 feet ladders and thirty-five feet pompier ladders.
Capital Hose.—One two-horse four-wheeled wagon ;
two horses: i,000 feet hose.
Victor Co.—One two-wheeled hand-reel ; 650 feet of
hose; one Rumsey hand-engine (reserve).
Bucket and Ladder Co.—One four-wheeled truck;
buckets, 18; fifty feet of ladders.
Reserve Force—One Gould Steamer; one hand-engine;
two hand-reels; 750 feet of hose.
42 REPORT OF CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
WATER SUPPLY,
The system of water-works supplying the city has a
daily capacity of 4.000,000 gallons. The pressure is from
fifty to seventy-five pounds, according to location of
hydrants. In case of emergency, the pressure can be
increased from eighty-five to one hundred and fifteen
pounds. There are one hundred and twenty-five public
and four private double fire hydrants, two and one-half
inch openings.
Location.
Ward. Streets.
ilThird.
Fifth.
Fourth.
Fifth.
Second.
First.
First.
Third.
Third.
jintersection of Fayetteville and Davie
Intersection of Hillsboro and Harrington..
'intersection of Lenoir and Salisbury
jintersection of Davie and Dawson
Intersection of Davie and Person ,.
jintersection of Newbern Avenue and Bloodworth.
jintersection of Blount and North
jCapitol Square, east side
Capitol Square, vilest side
>.0
O
40,000
30,000
30,000
40,000
30,000
30,000
30,000
50,000
50,000
•- Q^ ^O
Besides these there are a few private cisterns to which
our apparatus can get access in case of necessity, but they
are small and will do but little good.
FIRE-ALARM TELEGRAPH.
There are eighteen Gamewell non-interfering boxes,
located as follows:
No. 13, Johnson and Halifax streets.
" 14, North and Person streets.
" 15, Edenton and East streets.
" 21, Morgan and Blount streets.
" 23, Martin and Wilmington streets.
" 24, Davie and Bloodworth streets.
" 25, South and Wilmington streets.
" 26, East and Hargett streets.
REPORT OF CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT. 43
No. 27, Cabarrus and Blount streets.
2 12, Hargett and Fayetteville streets.
31, Davie and Dawson streets.
32, Hillsboro and West streets.
34, Lenoir and McDowell streets.
35, Hargett and Dawson streets.
4, West Morgan street at Water-tower.
41, North Dawson street, between Lane and Jones
streets.
42, Edenton and Halifax streets.
47, West North street, near Salisbury street.
In each Company's house is an electro-mechanical gong,
and tap-bells are in the houses of the Chief and Assistant
Chief, the Foremen of Rescue and Capital Companies and
several members of this department The alarm signal
is given on Market-house bell by an electro-mechanical
striker.
LIST OF FIRES FROM MARCH [, 189O, TO MARCH I, 189I.
March 12th, 8:16 P. M., box 4; Hillsboro street, between
McDowell and Dawson ; two-story brick building, occu-pied
by Mrs. R. W. Smith as boarding-house; owned by
Mrs. Elizabeth Grimes. Cause of fire: From kerosene
lamp. Loss, $10; insurance, nothing.
March i6th, 9:10 P. M., box 21; Hargett street, between
Blount and Person ; two story frame dwelling, occupied
and owned by D. L. Royster. Cause of fire: Chimney
on fire. Loss, nothing. Hose Companies 3 and 4.
March 28th, 2:03 P. M., box 35 ; corner Hargett and West
;
two-story frame dwelling, owned and occupied by Mrs.
O. E. Macy. Cause of fire: Spark on roof. Loss, $1.50;
insurance, nothing. Hose 3.
March 31st, 5:47 P. M., box 34; 726 S. Dawson street;
two story frame dwelling, owned and occupied by Madi-son
Lewis, (col.) Cause of fire: Spark on roof. Loss,
25 cents; insurance, nothing.
44 REPORT OF CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
April 6th, 3:12 P. M., box 32 ; Hilisboro road ; two-story
frame dwelling, owned and occupied by Miss Sallie Carter.
Cause of fire: Spark in leaves on roof. Loss, nothing.
April nth, 9:05 A. M., box 21; No. 210 East Morgan
street; two-story frame dwelling, owned by W. R. Wom-ble
and occupied by T. Blalock. Cause of fire: Spark on
roof. Loss, 50 cents; insurance, $[,250. Hose Com-panies
3 and 5.
April 1 2th, 3:25 P. M., still alarm ; Morgan and McDowell
streets; two-story frame tenement-house, ov/ned by Mrs.
Elizabeth Grimes and occupied by colored families. Cause
of fire: Spark from burning chimney caught roof. Loss,
$5; insurance, nothing. Hose Company 3.
June 23d, 10:45 P. M., box 24; No. 312 South Person
street; two-story frame dwelling, owned and occupied by
Jos. R. Ball. Cause of fire : Lightning. Loss, $25 ; insur-ance,
$1,000. Hose Company 5.
July I ith, 12:25 P. M., box 26; East Hargett street, near
Swain ; two story frame dwelling, owned by Mrs. Wyatt
Holleman and occupied by Z. T. Broughton. Cause of
fire: Stove-pipe flue. Loss, $10. Hose 3 and Hook and
Ladder Company.
August 2d, 9:03 P. M., box 24 ; East and Martin streets;
two-story frame dwelling, owned and occupied by Harriet
Winters, (col.) Cause of fire: Lamp exploded. Loss, $5 ;
insurance, nothing.
September 3d, 8 :42 P. M., box 21; No. 3 South Wilming-ton
street; one story frame kitchen, owned by Dr. W. J.
Hawkins and occupied by Mrs. C. Hutchings. Cause of
fire: Unknown.
September 3d, 10:53 P. AL, box 21. Same as above.
Cause of fire: From first fire. Loss, $50; insurance, $1 50.
Hose Companies 3, 2 and 5.
September 20th, 8: 46 P. M.,box 31; No. 531 S. McDowell
street; one-story frame dwelling, owned and occupied by
T. F. Brockwell. Cause of fire: Lamp Icnocked over in'
trunk. Loss, $10; insurance, $400. Hose Company 5.
REPORT OF CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT. 45
October 7th, 10:10 P. M., still alarm; E. Morgan street,
between Wilmington and Blount ; brick building, occu-pied
by Ed. Saintsing as blacksmith-shop. Cause of fire:
From coals in forge. Loss, nothing.
October 9th, 9:39 A. M., box 24; No. 415 South Person
street ; two story frame owelling, owned by J. W. Barbour
and occupied by D. H. Upchurch. Cause of fire: Wind
blowing smoke down chimney in unoccupied room. Loss,
nothing.
October 31st, 9:40 P. M , box 35; No. 130 South West
street; two-story brick foundry, owned and occupied by
Allen & Cram. Cause of fire: Unknown. Loss, $30;
insurance, $500. Hose Companies 3 and 5, and Hook
and Ladder Company.
November 7th, 2:49 A. M., box 32; No. 323 West Mor-gan
street ; one-story frame stable and kitchen, &c., owned
and occupied by Dr. W. L Royster. Cause of fire: ash-barrel.
Loss, $400; insurance, nothing.
November 26th, 9:59 P. M., box 26; No. 506 East Har-gett
street; two story frame dwelling, owned by estate of
D. T. Sledge and occupied by John Collins. Cause of fire :
Chimney on fire. Loss, nothing. Hook and Ladder
Company.
November 27th, 7 :45 P. M., box 35; No. 228 West Davie
street ; three-story frame building used as tenement-house
;
owned by estate of B. F. Moore. Cause of fire: Chimney
on fire. Loss, nothing.
November 29th, 8 : 29 P. M., box 23; No. 9 East Martin
street ; three-story brick store, owned by Mrs. George T.
Stronach and occupied by A. G. Rhodes & Co. Cause of
fire: Lamp caught ceiling and burnt furniture. Loss,
$100; insurance, $3,000.
December 2d, 6: 15 P. M., box 26; No. 1 17 South Blood-worth
street ; one-story frame dwelling, owned by W. R.
Blake and occupied by J. R. O'Neil, Cause of fire: Chim-ney
on fire. Loss, nothing; insurance, $i,000. Bucket
and Ladder Company.
46 REPORT OF CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
December 6th, 10: 20 P. M., box 32; No. 130 South West
street; two story brick foundry, owned and occupied by
Allen & Cram. Cause of fire: From blast-chimney. Loss,
nothing; insurance, $500. Hook and Ladder Company.
December 12th, 10:43 A. M., box 47; No. 209 W. North
street; one-story frame dwelling, owned by E. F. Wyatt
and occupied by Alonzo Williams. Cause of fire: Spark
on roof. Loss, $10: insurance, $600. Hose Companies 3
and 5, and Hook and Ladder Company.
December 28th, 2:17 A. M., box 47; Raleigh & Gaston
Railroad Round-house and seventeen engines on W.John-son
street; one-story brick building, owned by Raleigh &
Gaston Railroad Company. Cause of fire: Burning waste
thrown in tender of engine filled with wood. Loss, $17,500;
insurance, nothing. Hose Companies 3, 2, i and 5, steamer
I, Hook and Ladder Company.
[Note.—Location of building at extreme north-western
city limits. Only one working hydrant. Required 2,850
feet of hose for three streams. Total amount at risk,
$150,000]
December 29th, 4: 55 A. M., box 34; No. 40 West North
street ; two one-story frame dwellings and kitchens, owned
by Jas. H. Young, col., and occupied by Chas. Holland
and others, colored. Cause of fire: Caught inside from
lamp, or fire falling from fire-place. Occupant absent.
Loss, $255; insurance, $200 Hose Companies 3 and 5.
During the year this department answered twenty-five
alarms of fire, the same number as during the previous
year.
Total loss ._. $ 18,412 25
Loss by Raleigh & Gaston Railroad fire 17,500 00
Total loss for twenty four fires $ 912 25
Amount of insurance on property on which
there was any loss . $ 9,600 00
Valuation of property at risk on which there
was any loss $177,400 00
REPORT OF CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT. 47
[Note.—While the number of fires were the same as for
the previous twelve months, it is worthy of notice that
many of the alarms occurred between eleven o'clock, P. M.
and day, during which hours a volunteer department is
least effective. The property at risk during the past year
(only such as was damaged has been estimated) was much
more valuable than for the previous year. Deducting the
loss at Raleigh & Gaston Railroad Round-house, at which
this department was handicapped by the scarcity of
hydrants, the total loss for twenty-four fires amounted to
only $912.25.]
In the above record of fires, Hose Company, No. i,
refers to Rescue two-horse reel; No. 2 to Victor; No. 3,
to Capital ; No 4, to Independent (disbanded during the
year); No. 5. to Rescue one-horse wagon.
DEPARTMENT EXPENSES IN DETAIL.
SALARIES.
Chief Fire Department and Supt. fire-alarm $ 300 00
Engineer Rescue Steamer .... 100 00
Hose Companies, drivers 75000
Janitor, &c. 240 00
Call men—night duty 180 00
Extra driver -- --- 3° 65
$1,600 65
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.
Six Gamewell fire alarm boxes.- $ 753 75
One fire-alarm bell -. 33 3°
Stoves, &c - 27 80
Building for Hook and Ladder Truck, &c 356 36
Door springs for above 12 00
Hook and Ladder Truck—part payment 787 50
One wagon for Rescue Company (temporary).. 35 00
Track rails , 20 75
48 REPORT OF CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Five hundred feet of hose.. . $ 350 00
Fifty feet of small hose, play-pipes, &c 30 00
Electric gas-lighting burners, &c 1643
Two shut off nozzles _. 40 00
One set of double fire-harness . 84 70
Two horses 340 00
>7.59
MISCELLANEOUS.
Wood, &C.
Freight and express .
.
Rent Company houses
Horse-shoei-^g, &c
Repairing harness, &c,
Repairing apparatus..
Oil, &c
Medicine, &c .
Hose couplings. . .
.
Halters
Rubber coats
Miscellaneous
FIRE-ALARM TELEGRAPH.
Maintenance
1
1
35
23 98
128 25
38 60
14 30
45 80
27 41
19 45
49 13
9 00
8 00
190 57
565 84
177 55
TOTAL EXPENSES.
Salaries . $1,600 65
Permanent improvements 2,887 59
Miscellaneous 565 84
Fire-alarm telegraph 'J'J 155
$5,231 63
Balance unexpended — 8 87
$5,240 50
REPORT OF CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT, 49
Brought forward. $5,240 50
Appropriation $4,900 50
Appropriation for horses 340 00
$5,240 50 $5,240 50
RECEIPTS.
Sale of Hook and Ladder Truck—half paid $100 00
Saleof Mule .... 37 00
Sale of Manure 12 00
$149 00
Paid for one relief valve ... 60 00
Cash on hand $ 89 00
RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS.
1. That 1,000 feet of hose be purchased. Some now in
service is unfit for duty; in many localities long lines of
hose will be required to reach from nearest hydrant to fire.
2. That Section 8, Chapter 4, City Ordinances, regulat-ing
fire-escapes, be enforced or repealed.
3. That each hose company be supplied with shut-ofY
nozzles and some serviceable device for holding play pipes.
There should be two for each company.
4. That the Hook and Ladder Company be supplied
with fire-harness. This is necessary, and should not be
delayed.
5. That each hose company be supplied with fifty feet
of i^ inch hose and small play pipes to prevent loss from
water.
6. That the Rescue steamer be overhauled and equipped
with new suction pipe, valves, &c.; not now in fit condi-tion
for good work.
7. That a sufficient number of tap-bells be purchased
and placed in houses of a few members of each company
50 REPORT OF CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT,
living near the fire-alarm lines. The result would undoubt-edly
be to increase attendance and to save time at night
fires.
8. That a key be attached to each fire-alarm box. This
is an important chan;,;c, and should receive the Commit-tee's
prompt attention.
9. That a three or four circuit repeater be placed in the
fire-alarm system. This will divide the circuit into three
or four separate systems, and in case of accident to one
the other two will be ready for service.
10. That four fire-alarm boxes are neetled to be placed
in certain localities now without this protection.
I I. That a fire-alarm box be placed at police headquar-ters,
and so arranged as to ring the number of any box in
the city.
GENERAL REMARKS.
The past year has illustrated that the success of our
department must be attributed to quick work. The appa-ratus
is as light as is consistent with safety; the harness
and mode of hanging is of the latest; the horses are good;
the drivers more expert ; the members of the department
use better judgment, and as a whole, quick action governs
everybody and everything.
It is to continue this work, and even better it, where
possible, that I suggest that keys be placed on each fire-alarm
box and tap bells be put in the houses of a few
members of each compan}'.
I have carefully considered and investigated what good
and bad virtues the placing of keys on boxes has in it,
and I am firmly convinced that this change should be
made. One trouble only can present itself, that of "false
alarms." A strict law, rigidly enforced, will put a stop to
such offences The great benefit to be derived will be
saving time in getting the key and turning in an alarm.
Volunteer fire departments, as a rule, are much slower
in getting to work after bed-time than during the day.
REPORT OF CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT. 5 I
Our apparatus is always promptly on hand, but sometimes
it happens at night that not enough men are present to
properly perform required duties. Therefore the sugges-tion
to put tap-bells in the houses of members of compa-nies,
which will result in great good. A few members at
their own expense have put these bells in their houses,
and they are invariably the first to respond to an alarm of
fire at night. Every possible means should be used, every
device employed, that will save time in arriving at a fire
and getting to work—hence these suggestions, which, if
agreed to and ordered, while costing little, will accom-plish
much. The other suggestions mentioned are each
worthy of your careful consideration.
The fire-alarm telegraph should be improved by putting
in a three or four circuit repeater, thereby decreasing the
possible chance of the alarm system becoming disabled.
Alarm boxes should be added to each year. The more
boxes the quicker an alarm can be sent in. The first
investment is all the cost. There are many localities
needing this protection, one which every citizen appre-ciates.
The new hook and ladder truck, named " W. R. Wom-ble,"
after the zealous chairman of your Committee, was
put in commission July ist, 1890. It is a steel frame city-service
truck, first class in every particular, fully equipped
with 215 feet of ladders, including one sixty-five foot
Bangor extension ladder; also two pompier scaling lad-ders,
two fire-extinguishers, and a complete assortment
of valuable fire fighting tools. It is a handsome piece of
apparatus, and the ofificers and men of the company com-manding
it are intelligent and hard working firemen.
There has been ordered for the Rescue Company a two-horse
wagon with all the best of modern improvements,
which will make it quick and easy to operate. It is
expected to be ready for service about the 15th of May
next. This company has been using an ordinary one-
52 REPORT OF CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
horse wagon since their reel broke, and has worked under
disadvantages. The new wagon will carry r,ooo feet of
hose, and thus equipped, this old and always reliable com-pany
will be in first-class shape to battle against fires.
Always good firemen and hard-working, this new piece of
apparatus will only add to their efficiency.
The wagon of the Capital Hose has been changed from
one to'twohorse ; carries i,ooo feet of 2^ inch hose and
50 feet of I J inch hose; has two first class horses, and is
otherwise thoroughly equipped. This company of young
firemen are active and quick, taking much interest in their
organization, and are always on hand when called for duty.
On March ist, by order of your committee, I transferred
the two-horse reel from the Rescue Company to the Vic-tor
Company, and located the company at the corner of
Davie and Salisbury streets. Tiiis reel carries 1,000 feet
of hose, and is a serviceable piece of apparatus. The
Victor Company is composed of colored men. They are
under fine discipline; are hard and effective workers, and
deserve at the hands of the city every encouragement
possible to give them. I expect much good work from
this company, now that it has horse apparatus.
The members of the Bucket and Ladder Company (col-ored)
have little to do. Their truck is useless for fire
service, and it is not possible for them to render the
department any considerable a'd. The members are will-ing
and anxious to be piaced in condition to perform effi-cient
duty. They are as capable of good work as they
are willing to perforn:: it.
This department thus equipped—one hook and ladder
truck, two two-horse wagon'^, one two-horse reel, each with
1,000 feet of hose, and two hand reels with 500 feet of
hose each (kept in reserve with steamer and hand-engine),
and properly supplied with fire fighting tools, with a com-plete
and reliable system of fire-alarm— needs only your
encouragement, the support from the Board of Aldermen
REPORT 01 CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT. 53
that it deserves, and the good will of the citizens to make
it more efficient.
During the past year the Independent Reel Company,
using a hand reel, was disbanded. There was no necessity
for the company.
To the Mayor and Board of Aldtrmen our thanks are
due for the liberal support given this department, and
also to the Committee on Fire Department for their inter-est
in our success and desire to aid us.
I desire personally, to extend my thanks to Assistant
Chief J. R. Ferrall, whose faithful and intelligent discharge
of duty made easier the performance of mine.
To Foremen Lumsden and Woolicott I am under obli-gations
for taking charge of this department during the
absence of the Chief and Assistant Chief.
To the of^cers and members of the Fire Department
for their active interest, obedience to orders and prompt
response to alarms, are my thanks most heartily extended.
Respectfully submitted,
E. B ENGELHARD.
Chief Fire Department and Sitpt. Fire-alarm Telegraph.
54 REPORT OF CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT,
INVENTORY OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT,
MARCH 1ST, 1891.
consolidated statment.
Rescue Company, No. i :
Total value apparatus and appliances $ 4.133 75
W. R. Womele Hook and Ladder Co., No. i :
Total value apparatus and appliances $ 2,295 00
Capital Hose, No. 3
:
Total value apparatus and appliances $ 2,412 00
Bucket and Ladder Company, No. i :
Total value apparatus and appliances .$ 160 00
Victor Company, No. 2:
Total value apparatus and appliances $ 3>264 00
Fire-alarm Telegraph :
Total valuation of plant .-^. . $ 2,360 00
Miscellaneous Articles:
Total valuation $ 2,175 00
Total Si 9,799 75
Respectfully submitted,
E. B. ENGELHARD,
Chief Fire Department.
REPORT OF WATER COMMITTEE.
Raleigh, N. C, March 19, 1891.
To the Mayor and Board of A Idernieii
of the City of Raleigh :
The Water Committee beg leave to submit the follow-ing
report:
The engines, pumps and water-mains of the Raleigh
Water Company are all in first-class condition, and have
at all times during the past year done serviceable and
efificient work whenever needed.
The improvements spoken of in our last report have all
been completed, and much credit is due the Superinten-dent
and officers of the company for the energetic and
able work they have done in the past year.
The filtering capacity has been materially increased by
changes in filtering plant, and our city now enjoys proba-bly
the purest and most wholesome water of any city in
the South.
Respectfully submitted,
W. B. GRIMES,
Chairman,
REPORT OF MARKET COMMITTEE.
Raleigh, N. C, April i, 1891.
To the Honorable the Jllayor and Board of Aldeniien
of the City of Raleigh.
Gentlemen:—Your Committee, in making the annual
report for the year 1891, beg leave to submit the following:
Since our meeting one year ago no marked changes or
improvements have been made.
We feel glad to say that thelong and much needed repairs
to our market that have been recommended for some years
past have reached a definite shape, and we now state that
the plans for remodeling our market have been adopted
by your Committee, and we are now awaiting the plans and
specifications of the architect, after which we wish to put
out said contract, and earnestly hope that the same will
not be stopped until completed.
The rents of the market for the past year amounted to
$2,703.10, a small sum less than last year in consequence
of the Board refusing to rent two restaurants in the base-ment
on account of the offensive odor above.
The value of our market building isestimated at$42,ooo,
and when the repairs are completed as per plans, &c., we
will have an elegant market in looks and convenience.
The management of our market, under the control of
our ver}' competent and efficient keeper, Mr, Weather-spoon,
has been good and very gratifying to your Com-mittee.
Respectfully submitted,
W. N. SNELLIiNG,
G. E. LEACH,
E. McK. GOODWIN,
Committee.
REPORT OF PARK COMMITTEE.
To the Honorable Board of Aldermen
of the City of Raleigh :
Since our last report of Pullen Park, we have been
improving it as our small amount of money would allow.
The grass that we seeded was almost a failure, owing to
the severe cold weather following causing the seed to be
frozen out.
Mr. R. S. Pullen has built on the hill above the fountain
a large pavilion, forty-eight feet across, which adds greatly
to the looks of the park, at a cost of $346.50
The fountain is kept supplied with water from the pond
below.
Through our most worthy Congressman, the Hon. B. H.
Bunn, we received a nice lot of Japanese carp for the pond
and fountain, which adds to its beauty.
We built a nice small house on the Avent Ferry road
in the park ground, where the keeper lives. It is a three-room
house with porch in front and piazza on the back;
the whole, painted, at a cost of $350, which your Com-mittee
think was very cheap.
We have also placed in the park seven (7) new wooden
and six (6) new iron benches for the accommodation of
visitors.
A lady friend, Mrs. Moffat, presented the park with a
nice lot of lilies and shrubbery, which are growing finely.
We have also, a nice lot of choice pond lilies of all varieties
from our worthy friend, from Franklin County, Mr. Ben.
Perry.
We have had the park plowed over; set out about 250
nice trees and shrubs of different kinds, and had about
one-half of the trees manured.
On January 5th, we purchased a fine five-year old mule
for use at the park at a cost of $145.
58 REPORT OF PARK COMMITTEE.
We want during this spring to have about two hundred
yards of ditching done to drain sonae low ground near the
branch, which will give a nice meadow from which enough
feed can be saved to supply team employed during the
entire year, as well as add greatly to the appearance of
the park. •
Nash Square is leased out to Mr. Steinmetz for a term
of years. During the year we have placed eighteen nice
iron seats in the square, which is a great convenience to
its visitors.
Moore Square is under the control of the Street Com-missioner.
It is in a fine condition.
Yours respectfully,
J. W. HORTON,
For Coniinittee.
REPORT OF CEMETERY COMMITTEE.
Raleigh, N. C, February 28, 1891.
To the Mayor and Board of A Idermen
of the City of Raleigh.
Gentlemen:—Your Cemetery Committee respectfully
submit their report for the fiscal year ending February
28th, 1891
:
The City Cemetery for whites and Mount Hope Ceme-tery
for the colored, under our supervision in general, are
in as good condition as the means at our command will
permit.
In regard to the City Cemetery, we have had the fence
on the Hargett street and East street sides painted, and
the sidewalks put in good condition.
We would suggest and advise that the dividing fence
on the east and also on the north-west part of the grounds
be repaired and put in a serviceable condition as early as
possible.
Mount Hope Cemetery for the colored is rapidly becom-ing
a beautiful cemetery. We have had it connected with
the Raleigh Water-works system as a means of watering
the flowers and grass plots.
During the fiscal year there were fifty seven interments
made in the City Cemetery, and one hundred and forty-six
at Mount Hope Cemetery.
In the City Cemetery is the tomb of the late John Rex,
which was in a very bad condition. We have had it
rebricked and the marble slab nicely cleaned. The tomb
is now in a reasonably good condition.
The sextons of both cemeteries keep the grounds in
excellent condition, and, in all particulars, have performed
their duties in the most satisfactory manner.
Most respectfully submitted,
S. V. HOUSE,
For Coinmittee.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SCHOOLS.
To the Honorable the Ulayo?' and Board of Aldermen
of the City of Raleigh :
I have the honor to report that I have taken an inven-tory
of the school property owned by the city, and find as
follows :
Centennial Graded School building and fixtures
valued at $30,000
The furniture in the Washington School (colored)
valued at 300
Making a total of $30,300
Respectfully,
W. W. PARISH, Chairman
Committee on Schools.
REPORT OF TRUSTEES REX HOSPITAL.
Raleigh, N. C, March 19, 1891.
To the Honorable the Mayor and Board of Aldermen
of the City of Raleigh:
We, the Trustees of Rex Hospital, herewith submit our
annual statement of the receipts and disbursements of the
fund in our charge, with a schedule of the assets, to March
2d, 1891.
It will be seen that the fund has increased from $24,-
41 5.87, the balance on hand March ist, 1890, to $27,332.62;
and it is believed that these latter figures about represent
the present value of the assets, as the uncollected interest
due on some of the mortgage securities, of which the fund
largely consists, is quite equal to the amount of small
notes for rent of land now and heretofore reported in the
list of securities, and which are believed to be uncol-lectible.
The legitimate increase of the fund is now nearly
$2,000 annually. It was larger last year in consequence
of payment of arrears of interest, which was greater than
usual at last report on account of the partial failure of the
cotton crop of 1889. Among the assets is to be found an
item of $3,180, representing the price bid by the Trustees
for a tract of 212 acres of land near Raleigh, sold on fore-closure
of the mortgage of W. J. W. Crowder and wife
under a judgment of court. The land is now rented to a
good tenant for one-fourth of the crop, and will be. sold
as soon as practicable. *
As heretofore, the securities are on deposit in the Citi-zens
National Bank, and can be inspected by a committee
of your body, which may be appointed for the purpose
at any time.
62 REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF REX HOSPITAL.
While it is apparent that the fund is not yet large enough
to build and maintain a hospital such as was probably con-templated
by Mr. Rex, it may be worth while for your
honorable body to consider whether it is not expedient
for the city to supplement it by an annual appropriation,
so as to make it available for the purpose for which that
benefactor intended it.
Respectfully submitted,
R. H. BATTLE.
JAMES McKEE.
R. T. GRAY.
W. G. UPCHURCH.
JULIUS LEWIS.
REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF REX HOSPITAL. 63
Trustees of Rex Hospital in Account with the Fund :
"
, 4
"
* *
4
"
* * 14
"
" 22 "
April 7
"
" 7' "
30
"
May 5TC
1890. I Dr.
March i To balance as per acct. rendered this date._
amt. from D. F. Fort, on acct. of interest
note and mortgage of D. B. Harrison __
aniount from B. Campbell, on interest. .
amt. from ! R. Fleming, int. to Apr. , 'go
" " H. M. Johnson, on interest..
" " Colin Campbell, on interest. _
" " D. T. Tiilinghait, interest to
April, 1890
To amount W. J . W. Crowder's land bought
at sale for debt
To amount W. J. W. Crowder's land bought
at sale for interest
To amount balance judgment against Crow-der,
interest unpaid
2i|Toamt. from D. F. Massey, interest
" 21 " " " " " principal of debt
June 7 " " R. W. Jeffreys, int. to June, '90
9 " " " D F. Fort, on interest
" gi " " ' C. Campbell, on interest .
171 " " " W. H. J. Goodwin, rent
July S! " " " Colin Campbell, on interest..
" 28 " " " L. T. Buchanan, interest to
August, 1890
Sept. 4 To amt. from W. H. J. Goodwin, on rent
" 9: ' ' " C. Campbell, On interest
" II " " " rent Crowder land
" 17 " " " D. F. Fort, on interest
22 ' " " E. A. and J. A. Stevens, inter-est
to September, i8go
" 23 To amt. from Colin Campbell, on interest..
" 24 " I bond Raleigh Cotton-mill, face $1,000,
interest, $3.70
" 26 Toamt. from J. C. Burns, int. to Jan., 1890
" 26I " " " rent Crowder land
27i
' C. Campbell, $40.71; Sept. 30,
135.34
Oct. 7 To amount from D. B. Harrison, interest to
March, 1891
" 8, 13 Toamt. from H. M. Johnson, in full of int.,
"8,13! " " " " in full of principal
" 13 " " " rent of Crowder land, $34.05;
I
October 29th, $23 69
" i4!Toamt. from D. F. Fort, on interest
"
22J
" " " C. Campbell, on interest
Nov. il " '• " D. T. Tillinghast, interest to
October, iSgo...
" 10 Toamt. from W. T. Lane, on interest
" III" " " rent of Crowder land
21 " " " C. Campbell, on interest
22 " I bond Raleigh Cotton-mill, face |i,ooo;
interest, $13
Amount carried forward.
'$24,415 87
25 00
8 ooj
46 75I
20 00
12 00
40 00
600 00
2,600 00
500
129
40
32
00
75
25
00
500 00
25
16
00
00
25 00
20 00
40
25
00
00
10
30
100
00
60
00
Si 60
45 31
12 00
1,003 70
31 79
76 05
48
18
00
32
532 78
57
100
42
74
00
06
40
94
21
27
00
50
90
60
1. 013 00
I 934 22 $30,665 15
64 REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF REX HOSPITAL.
Trustees of Rex Hospital in Account with the Fund
.
1890. Dr.
Amount brought forward $ 1,934 22 $30,665 35
Dec. 2 To amount from R W. Jeffreys, interest to
December, 1890 _ . 32 on
A To amount from S. H. Scarboro, interest to
December, 1890 220 00
9 Toamt. from B. Casey, interest to Feb , '91 40 00
"10,13 " " " C. Campbell, balance interest
to januaiy 2, 1S91 20 8.5
"10,13 Toamt. from C Campbell, on principal 56 44
" 13 " " " W. J. W. (joodwni, rent 25 00
22 " " " S. Faison, interest 10 Dec , '90 60 00
" 22 " " " S. Faison, on principal 400 00
" 23 " " " rent Crow'der land II 7.S
1891.
Jan. 2 " " " S. Faison, on principal cf note 100 00
6 " " " D. F Forr, on interest 150 00
" 19 " " " W. S. Wood<, on interest 25 00
" 27 " " " S H. Holleman, interest to
October. 1890 63 05
Feb. 7 Toamt. from T. H. Atkinson, on interesi__ 100 00
7 N. G. Williamson, on interest- 40 80
12 " " " B. H. Whitley, int. to Dec ,'90 85 76
March 2 " " " W. C. Stronach, interest on
Nixon note to Dec, 1890.. 84 00
2 To amount premium paid for Raleigh Cot-ton-
mill bonds, refunded 16 70
" 2 To amount interest on Raleigh Cotton-mill
bonds - 43 30
2 Toamt. from T. H. Atkinson, on interest.. 50 00
Total interest and rents . % 2,985 73 % 2,985 73
Total debits $34,224 22
March 2 To balance forward $27,332 62
Trustees of Rex Hospital in Account with the Fund
:
1890.
I March 4'
May 2
Sept. 24
Oct. 13
Nov. 22
Dec. 13
22
1891.
Jan. 2
" 30
March 2
Cr.
By amount loaned to D. B. Harrison
By amount costs paid foreclosure suit against VV. J. W.
Crowder .
By amt. principal Crowder debt, paid by purchase of land
" of D. F. Massey's note, paid and surrendered.,
" paid for I bond Raleigh Cotton-mill, 6 per cent. _
" of H. M. Johnson's note, paid and surrendered.
.
" paid for i bond Raleigh Cotton-mill, 6 per cent.
" credited on principal of C. Campbell's $300 note
" credited on principal of S. Faison's note ^
" credited on principal of S. Faison's note
" paid J. R. Rogers, Sheriff, State and county taxes
" premium on Raleigh Cotton-mill bonds, paid and
charged off
$ 600 00
56 85
2 ,6co 00
500 00
I ,003 70
532 78
I ,013 00
56 44
400 00
100 00
12 13
By amount to balance.
16 70
S 6,891 60
27,332 62
$34,224 22
REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF REX HOSPITAL. 65
SCHEDULE OF ASSETS REPRESENTING FOREGOING BALANCE.
Note of W. Z. Blake and John C. Blake
Note of T. F. Nixon and NV. C. Sironach. interest (laid to Decem-ber
1 5 til, iSgc
Note of A. Magmii and W. W White
Note of W. N. Andievvs, Jos. H. Cjreen and C. S Ailfen
Bond and mortgage of \V. K. Jeffreys, interest paid to Dec, '90.
Bond and mortgage of D. F. Kort. interest paid to
Bond and mortgage of Henry Poole, interest paid to Dec, '89..
Bond and mortgage of J. C. Burns, interest paid to January, '90,
Bond and mortgage of J. A. Morgan, interest paid to May, 18S9
Bond and mortgage of W. S. Woods, interest paid to 1
Bond and mortgage of B. Casey, interest paid to February, 189I'
Bond and mortgage of W. T. Lane, interest paid to
Bond and mortgage of N. G. Williimson, interL-st paid to
Bond and mortgage of B. H. Whitley, inteiest paid to Dee . '90
Balance judgment against W. J. W. Crovvder, interest from April
24th, 1890
Crovvder land, 212 acres, purchase-price at sale
Bond and mortgage of D. V. Tillingha^r, interest paid to Oct., 'go
Bond and mortgage of S. H. Scarboro, interest paid to Dec, '90
Bond and mortgage of S. H. Scarboio, interest paid to Dec, '90
Bond and mortgage of Jno. A. and E. A. Stevens, interest paid
to September, 1S9J
Bond and mortgage of J. R. Flemiug. interest paid to April. '90
Bond and mortgage of Colin Campbell, interest paid to January
2d, 1 891
Bond and mortgage of T. H. Atkinson, interest paid to
Bond and mortgage of T. H. Atkinson, interest paid to
Bond and mortgage of (1. Hiiley, interest from Noveinber 20, '88
Bond and mortgage of S. Faison, intere-t paid to Df^cember, '90
Bond and rnortgage of L. T. Buchanan, interest paid to Aug., '90
Bond and mortgage of S. H. HoUeman. intere,-.t paid to Oct , '90
Bond and mortgage of D. B. Harrison, interest paid to Mch. 4, '91
Two tirst mortgage bonds Raleigh Cotton-mill, si.x per cent.,
each $1 .000
Cash in Citizens National Bank March 2d, 1891
$ 150 00
300 00
103 77
87 48
800 00
3.700 00
400 00
150 00
800 uo
900 00
500 00
1,100 00
500 00
500 00
129 75
3.180 00
1,000 00
1,850 00
850 00
1,000 00
575 00
r.243 50
1,000 00
150 00
500 00
250 00
500 00
750 00
600 00
2.000 00
1,763 06
«27,332 62
Correct
:
R. H. BATTLE, Chairman.
R. T. GRAY.
JAMES McKEE.
W. G. UPCHURCH.
JULIUS LEWTS.
REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH.
Headquarters Health Department,
Office Superintendent of Health,
Raleigh, N. C, February 28, 1891.
To the Mayor and Board of Aldermen
of the City of Raleigh.
Gentlemen:—With much gratification and pride the
Local Board of Health of the city of Raleigh submits its
second annual report, covering its work for the fiscal year
ending February 28th, i89[.
This Board of Health is gratified at the good which has
been accomplished during this the second year of its
existence, and proud of having accomplished so much,
and in so satisfactory a manner, at so little expense, the
only expense attached to the Local Board of Health hav-ing
been an allowance of two hundred dollars made to the
Superintendent of Health and the nominal salary of fifteen
dollars a month allowed the Clerk of the Board.
WHAT WE NEED.
The experience of the past year teaches us that it is
high time we were falling into line with the sanitary work
of other progressive cities, and have turned over to this
Board of HealtJi all sanitary work which at present is dis-tributed
and devolves upon separate and different branches
of the city government and others, viz., the removal from
the city of the night-soil from surface privies, and the
garbage from the streets and store-houses. It is at present
ineffectually done by reason of the multifarious duties of
the Street Commissioner, and from the want of proper
transportation for its removal.
REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH. 67
No vaults or cess-pools are permitted within the city
limits, and but very few of the surface-privies are required
by ordinance to be provided with proper receptacles for
the excrement (the tub system being mostly in use) in
which the abundant use of dry earth or fine coal ashes is
made obligatory. The present method of removing night-soil
consists of private contract with public draymen, no
fees being fixed by law, and parties only availing them-selves
of this means when compelled to do so by notifica-tion
from the police force.
THE MARKET.
Under ordinance, this Board has a general supervision
over the market, and during the year four separate lots of
meats have been condemned as unfit for food, the sale of
which was promptly prohibited by the Mayor.
I would suggest that an ordinance be enacted to pro-hibit
the sale of milk and butter from establishments
which are not properly maintained and conducted under
the best of sanitary protection.
OUR WATER SUPPLY
is both adequate for all domestic purposes and a purely
potable water. It is under the surveillance of the Board
of Health, whose authority is sufficient under statutory
law of the State to abate any nuisance upon the water-shed
of the supplying stream or any of its tributaries.
OUR SEWER SYSTEM
marks an important era in the sanitary history of our city,
to say nothirig of the comfort afforded our citizens by its
construction. As an evidence of its appreciation ninety-nine
service connections were made during the past year.
(See Exhibit M, report of the Clerk.) No complaints have
been lodged in this department touching the inefficiency
of the ventilation of our sewer system.
68 REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH.
VITAL STATISTICS.
For full information regarding our losses and gains from
mortality and births, carefully tabulated statistics are
hereto appended in th? report of H. H. Roberts, Clerk to
this Local Board of Health.
An epidemic of measles visited the city during the
winter. While it was very general, it was not at all latal.
The record of deaths shows that the ordinary causes of
mortality alone have been active. Over half of the deaths
for the year have been from four groups, viz., consump-tion,
acute lung diseases, diarrhoeal diseases, and typhoid
fever. Of this latter disease we had sixteen deaths during
the last year against twelve the preceding year, and twenty-four
the year before.
In the registration of births the number reported is
inaccurate, for the reason that it is the first year that effort
has been made to collect such statistics as an ofTset to our
losses by mortality, and it has been very difficult to get
the physicians, who are more or less always busy, to make
prompt returns, and it being an entirely new thing to the
midwives, who are mostly uneducated colored women, who
fail to appreciate the importance of such registration. As
time advances, both physicians and midwives, realizing
the importance of the collection and registration of such
statistics, are making more prompt returns, and at the
close of the next fiscal year I feel convinced we can ofTer
you an accurate statement of our human income.
Our statement of mortality is absolutely accurate and
has been for some time, and our annual death rate com-pares
favorably with any other city in the Union, This
is a matter of congratulation, speaking volumes in favor
of our climate, and to induce us to return thanks to the
All wise dispenser for immunity from the ravages of fatal
epidemics, for be it rem.embered that Raleigh has not
suffered from any epidemic disease of a fatal character for
the past quarter of a century.
REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH. 69
I would suggest that, as the mortality in our crowded
cities has been notably lessened by the increased number
of hospitals and other charitable institutions for the care
of their sick, I believe with the city hospital properly con-structed
and managed, as contemplated by the suggestions
of our Mayor in his annual message, our death-rate would
be diminished thirty-three per cent, if not more, for our
exhibit shows that the greatest number of deaths come
from among the colored people whose habitations are any-thing
else but healthy, and whose crowded rooms preclude
proper care and nursing.
To our Clerk and Registrar, whose services have always
been available and prompt, and whose work has been done
in a neat, business like and comprehensive a manner, we
heartily return our thanks.
Most respectfully submitted,
JAMES McKEE, M. D.,
Stiperintciident of Health.
Headquarters Health Department,
Office Superintendent of Health,
Raleigh, N. C, February 28, 189:.
To James McKee, M. D.,
Superintendent of Health, City of Raleigh.
Dear Sir:—In conformity with my duties as Clerk of
the Local Board of Health of the city of Raleigh, I have
the honor of submitting the following tabulated report of
the mortuary and vital statistics for the fiscal year ending
February 28th, 1891.
Having to rely upon the reports from physicians for a
large portion of the most important information desired
by your Board, and these reports coming at irregular
times, and often in a very incomplete manner, I have had
great trouble and much hard work in preparing even as
satisfactory a report as I present.
5
JO REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH.
Hoping some means will be provided in the future for
more prompt and complete reports, by which means we
may more fully cover the objects of this Board, I most
respectfully submit this report. I am, sir, most truly.
Your obedient servant,
H. H ROBERTS,
Clerk.
WHAT THE FOLLOWING EXHIBITS SHOW.
Exhibit I —Shows deaths by months, white and colored,
male and female, which occurred in the city limits.
Exhibit II—Shows deaths by months, white and colored.
male and female, which occurring elsewhere obtained
burial permits.
Exhibit III— Shows cause of deaths occurring in the city
by classification.
Exhibit A—Shows the number of deaths which occurred
in each ward of the city during each month of the
fiscal year among the whites.
Exhibit B—Shows the same among the colored.
Exhibit C—Shows total number of interment permits
issued during the fiscal year.
Exhibit D—Shows deaths by months, white and colored,
male and female, occurring among children under five
years of age.
Exhibit E—Shows classification as to ages of deaths which
occurred within city limits.
Exhibit F—Shows place of burial for all permits issued
during the year.
Exhibit G—Shows deaths among the whites which occurred
at ages over seventy years of age.
Exhibit H—Shows same among the colored race.
Exhibit I—Shows births, white and colored, and by sex.
REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH. 71
EXHIBIT I.
Deaths by Months, White and Colored, in the City Limits.
March, i8go
April, 1890
May, 1890
June, 1890
July, 1890
August, 1890
September, i8go.
October, 189O
November, 1890.
December, iSgo,
January, 1891
February. 189T __
Totals.
WHITE. COLORED.
MALE. FEMALE. MALE. FEMALE.
7 3 3 8
2 5 4 4
5 4 5 14
4 4 8 14
3 5 II
7 6 9 6
6 8 5 4
I 7 10 2
5 5 3
5 4 3 8
! 3 4 9 5
6 2 3 4
1 49 52 72 S3
21
15
28
30
22
28
23
20
13
20
21
15
256
EXHIBIT II.
Deaths by Months, White and Colored, Occurring Elsewhere.
March, 1890
April, T890
May, 1890
June, i8gO
July, 1890
August. 1890
September, 1890-
October, i8go
November, 1890.
December. i8go_
January, i8gi
Februaiy, 1891..
Totak X. 16 13
colored.
MALE. FEMALE,
I
I
I
I I
2 I
./.. I
I 2
I
I 2
I I
10 8
5
3
4
5
7
2
3
6
2
3
3
4
47
Total deaths in the city limits
Total deaths from elsewhere..
Total number of still-births ..
256
47
31
Total interment permits 334
72 REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH.
EXHIBIT III.
Causes of Death in the City During the Year.
CAUSE OF death.
f Compression of brain.
'^ Burning
^ I
Internal hemorrhage .
^ ^ Gun-shot wound
'o
I
Smothered
-^ I Shock from R. R. hurt
[ Shock and collapse
Acute Nephritis
Alcoholism
Asthenia
Apoplexy
Bright's disease
Bronchitis
Bowel complaint
Bronchitis, chronic
Brain fever .- —
Brain complications
Brairi, congestion of
Brain, softening of
Cancer of face
Catarrhal Pneumonia
Carcinonia Uteri
Cancer of liver
Cirrhosis of liver
Cerebral hemorrhage
Cerebral Meningitis
Child-birth
Cholera Infantum
Consumption
Convulsions
Congestion of lungs
Croup
Diarrhoea, acute
Diarrhoea, chronic
Dropsy
Dysentery, acute
Dysentery, chronic
Diphtheria
Debility, nervous
Eutero Colitis
Erysipelas
Exhaustion
Fever, Bilious
Fever, Catarrhal
Fever, Malarial
NO.
124
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Fever, Relapsing
Fever, Remittent
Fever, Scarlet
Fever, Typhoid
General debility
Gastro Euteritis
Grippe
Heart failure
Heart disease
Heart, valvular disease of_.
Heart, organic disease of
Heart, Congenital disease of
Hives
Intestinal Catarrh
Intestinal inflamation
Myelitis
Meningitis
Measles
Miscarriage
Neuralgia
Old age
Paralysis
Pericarditis
Pectoral abscess
Peritonitis
Peritonitis Puerperal
Puerperal Septicaemia
Puerperal Eclampsia
Pneumonia
Pneumonia, Typhoid
Poison, opium
Senile exhaustion
Scrofula
Spinal disease
Thrash
Trasmus Nascention
Teething
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, Intestinal
Tuberculosis, Pulmonalis ._
Uremia
Uremic poison
Unknown
Total deaths
REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH. 73
EXHIBIT A.
WHITES.
Number of Deaths Occurring in the City During the Fiscal Year.
oo
CO I- u J*
t-t
!^
<D o
WARDS.
J3
a.
<
I 3
1)
s
3
I
3
I
3
3
S
p.
D
I
o
oo
2
g
>O
2
J2
s
1) o
Q
1
CO
c
3
«
3
4
4<
o
First Ward 22
Second Ward _ 9. 9 3
I
9 4
I
3 T ? 6 ? T 27
Third Ward 3 I I 8
Fourth Ward 3 2 I 2 ._ 3 5 I .. I .. ._ i8
Fifth Ward 1 /\ r T ?, s 4
8
3
5
? 3
8
?(S
Totals 10 7 ^ 8 3 13 14 9 7 lOI
EXHIBIT B.
COLORED.
Deaths Occurring in the City During the Fiscal Year.
o
CT-r
«i b M
XI ..
OJ o; f^
WARDS. JZ
o
I
2
O-
<
4
6^
I
6
1)
aa
I
8
1—1
3
3
3
I
3
E
<u
D.
0)
I
4
O
O
a
o
2
2
2
£
ou
Q
2
1—
>
4
3
fa
6
ho
First Ward . 12
Second Ward m
Third Ward I
2
I
'8
4
10
3
I
9
I
2
7
2
3
I
I
4
2
I
3
5
4
6
2
I
•=,
Fourth Ward 6
2
62
Fifth Ward 22
Totals II 8 iq 22 iq 15 9 12 S II 14 7 155
Total white deaths in corporate limits loi
Total colored deaths in corporate limits 155
Total deaths in city 256
Deaths occurring elsewhere 47
Still-births 3^
Total number burial permits issued - 334
74 REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH.
EXHIBIT C.
Total Deaths for which Interment Permits were Issued.
March, 1890
April, i8go
May, 1890
June, 1890
July, 1890
August, 1890
September, 1890..
October, 1890
November, iSgO-.
December, iSgo_.
January, 1S91
February, 1891
IN THE city limits.
Totals 49 52 72I 83 256 16! 13 10
3 8
4i 4
5l 14
s: 14
8|
II
9] 6
5i
ID
5
3,
9i
3!
deaths OCCURRING
ELSEWHERE.
WHITE. COL.
W
X
<u
s
JJ
S
<;
J
w <
s
4
s
I
P^ g
.._ 5 2
2 I 3 I
3 — I 4 2
I 2 I I 5 2
4 — 2 I 7 2
I T ? 3
I I ... I 3 4
2 I I 2 6 2
I I 2 3
I ? 3
3
4
6
?. T I
I I I I 3
16 8 47 31
28
19
34
37
31
33
30
28
18
29
25
22
EXHIBIT D.
Number of Deaths of Children Under Five Years of Age.
March, 1S90
April, 1890 ^
May, 1890
June, 1890
July, 1890
August, 1890
September, 1890.
October, 1890
November, 1890.
December, 1890 .
January, 1891
February, 1891.. 5
5
2
6
8
10
5
4
5
6
2
5
7
7
5
10
II
II
ID
II
6
6
2
6
5
Totals '1 17 29 37 24 61 90
REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH. 75
EXHIBIT E.
Classification as to Ages of all Deaths in the City Limits.
AGES OF DEATHS OCCURRING IN
Under i year of age
From I to 2 years of age
From 2 to 3 years of age
From 3 to 4 years of age
From 4 to 5 years of age
From 5 to 10 years of age
From 10 to 20 years of age..
From 20 to 30 ytars of age..
From 30 to 40 years of age__
From 40 to 50 years of age_-
From 50 to 60 years of age..
From 60 to 70 years of age..
From 70 to So years of age__
From 80 to QO years of age._
From 90 to 100 years of age.
Totals 21 15 28 3022128 23 20
4 8
o «=
13
I
—
,iPh II H
2 5 4
I -- I
li.. I
_-l li.-
2021 15
64
10
6
6
4
10
21
34
23
20
17
16
13
II
I
256
EXHIBIT F.
Place of Burial for all Permits Issued During Fiscal Year.
PLACE OF interment.
0^'0• O
C~O O '^ 00 00
O' o
'< C/J
Oakwood Cemetery
City Cemetery
Mt. Hope (colored)
Sent elsewhere
Totals
5! 3 5 4] 3i 7 7
7 2 5I
5i 41 6 7
8i5j22|i8i2 8
6'
9! 6 6 8 8
I
5 5
51 4
612
2! 8
28 iq 34 37:31 33 302818292522,1 334
3 4
4 4
57
57
146
74
76 REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH.
EXHIBIT G.
LONGEVITY.
Whites who Died at Ages of 70 Years and Over During the Year.
WHITES.
1890
Mar.
Mar.
April
May
Aug.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Oct.
Thomas J. Holt
Annie Turner
Mary S. Royster _.
Susan W. Graham.
Talbot Ligon
James Jolly
4lAnn Eliza Moore..
Hixie Clark
Mary Sugg
William Baker
1890.
Oct. 10
!Oct. 15
Oct. 26
Nov.
Dec.
Dec.
Dec.
189
[an.
Feb.
Patsey Cheek
Helen Litchford
John J. Christophers
12 Eliza H. Knox
I Jordan Womble
5 W. M. C. Teiry
28 Mary Wagstsff
8 Daniel Culbreth.
2 Britton Sugg
85
80
87
83
85
70
77
83
76
EXHIBIT H.
Colored who Died at Ages of 70 Years and Over During the Year.
1890.
April 25
May 5
May 16
July 13
Aug. 21
Henry Jett
Rhoda Parker
Mary E. Wyche...
Hannah Fouschee_
Tabitha Alford . .
.
105
84
70
75
86
1890.
Dec. 13 Maria Jones.
Jan.
Feb.
8 Moses Hughes.
14 Ollie Jones
73
83
90
REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH. 77
EXHIBIT I.
Births by Months, White and Colored, Male and Female, which
WERE Reported During Fiscal Year.
March, 1890
April, 1890
May, 1890
June, 1890
July, 1890
August, 1890
September, iSgo,
October, 1890...
November, 1890.
December, 1890.
January, 1891
February, 1891..
Totals 77
WHITE. COL.
u 4J
s
01
E
5 4 4 7
4 7 7 2
7 7 6 5
4 5 4 3
b 4 4 5
10 II - 7 7
9 7 4 9
7 6 3 3
7 8 7 8
6 4 Q II
8 3 II 8
4 4 7 3
70 73 71 1
20
25
16
19
35
29
19
30
30
50
18
291
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
Raleigh, N. C, March 20, 1891.
To the School Committee.
Gentlemen:—I herewith submit a report of your
schools for the year ending March 6th, 1891 :
Number of white children from 6to2i 1,972
Number of colored children from 6 to 21 2,576
Total enumeration 1 4,548
Number of white pupils enrolled ^ 1, 035
Number of colored pupils enrolled 1,394
Total enrollment 2,429
Average number of white pupils belonging 787
Average number of colored pupils belonging 918
Average number belonging 1,707
Average number of white pupils attending daily 646
Average number of colored pupils attending daily 792
Average daily attendance - 1,438
Per cent, of enrollment on enumeration 53
Per cent, of attendance on enumeration 31
Per cent, of attendance on enrollment 59
Total number of days present 242,414
Total number of days absent 44,839
Number of days in session 180
Number of days taught 169
The enrollment in the white schools is about the same
as last year, being 1,035 against 1,043 ! a decrease of eight.
The enrollment in the colored schools is 1,394 against
1,375 ' an increase of nineteen.
The schools have suffered greatly during the session by
reason of irregular attendance, there being a falling off of
about twelve per cent, from last year in the white schools.
This is to be accounted for from the fact that we have
suffered from the worst epidemic of measles, it is said,
that has ever been known in this city, otherwise the daily
attendance would probably have been what it was the
REPORT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 79
previous year. Making all due allowance for sickness,
however, the attendance is not now and never has been
what it should be. The best results can never be secured
as long as there are any pupils who are careless about this
matter. Irregular attendance on the part of any child
not only injures that child, but also, to a greater or less
extent interferes with the progress of the whole class.
The disciphne of the schools has steadily improved, and,
as a general rule, is now good throughout the schools of
the township.
For several years past there has been a strong plea for
a breaking away from the strict grading that has been a
leading feature in graded schools, thereby abolishing the
strongly marked divisions between the grades, anci giving
the very widest latitude to every teacher. The plan
appeared to possess much merit, and seemed to promise
much for the improvement of the schools. After careful
and patient trial, however, I am satisfied that a closely
graded course, assigning a certain definite amount of work
to the pupils in each grade, year by year, is the very best
thing that can be devised for our public schools. I think
that the teachers like this plan better and do more work
and better work in a given time when they know just what
will be required. I have devoted much time and atten-tion
to a thorough revision of our course of study, and
expect to be able to complete the work in a short time.
With a course of study plainly mapped out, the measure
of success of each teacher should be determined by the
results of the examination of their pupils. Promotion at
the end of the year can also be made with much more
safety than when a fixed standard is wanting.
Any system of schools is open to much criticism, and
to much just criticism, because it is merely the result of
the labors of men and women whose judgment is very
often at fault, and whose best endeavors toward the goal
of a high ideal not infrequently produce results that are
80 REPORT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
far from satisfactory. I presume that this is the experi-ence
of almost every teacher. Perhaps the greatest pos-sible
mistake is for teachers to attempt to make use of a
method which they do not heartily endorse. A poor
method followed faithfully and enthusiastically is far
preferable to a much better one unappreciated and mis-applied.
As you are aware, the public school funds will be some-what
increased by the recent action of the Legislature.
From present indications there will not probably be any
material increase in the enrollment in the schools in the
near future. I suggest, therefore, that, after our present
indebtedness is paid, you create a sinking fund with
what money can be spared by this increased State tax for
the purchase of the Murphey school, for which you now
pay an annual rental of nine hundred dollars. It is unfor-tunate
that our schools receive but twenty-six per cent,
of the county common school fund, although the tax-able
property of Raleigh township is fifty-eight per cent,
of the taxable property of the whole county. There is,
however, I presume, no remedy for this state of things,
and no blame to be attached to anyone therefor.
I respectfully recommend a reduction in the number of
holidays. Our schools are not yet open a sufficient num-ber
of days in the year.
In conclusion, I desire to return my thanks to the teach-ers
for their faithful and self-sacrificing labors, and to the
members of the Committee for their uniform kindness
and courtesy.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD P. MOSES,
Superintendejit.
REPORT OF SECRETARY OF RALEIGH
GRADED SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Raleigh, N. C, March 21, 1891.
Hon. A. A. TJiovipson, Mayor and Cliairnian
of the Raleigh Graded School Committee.
Dear Sir :—I beg leave to submit the following report
for the year ending March 21st, 1891 :
DISBURSEMENTS.
Salaries and wages. $14,288 44
Rent .... 908 00
Fuel, supplies and incidentals 853 03
Building 65000
Furniture 163 08
Interest 127 30
Insurance . 121 25
Repairs 43 40
Printing and advertising __ 42 'jj
Cash in hands of Secretary from amt. borrowed, i 85
Treasurer's commissions 226 31
Total disbursements $17,425 43
Amount received from tuition fees 93 88
At the expiration of their term of office, JDr. R. H.
Lewis and Mr. N. B. Broughton were re-elected Commit-teemen
for a term of six years.
Respectfully submitted,
D. S. WAITT,
Secretary.
REPORT OF TREASURER OF RALEIGH
TOWNSHIP SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Office of Treasurer Wake County,
Raleigh, N. C, March 21, 1891.
Alf. a. Thompson, Esq.,
Chairvian School Couiinittec Raleigh Tozvnship.
Sir :—I respectfully submit my report, as Treasurer of
the Raleigh Township School Committee, of the funds
received and disbursed from March 20th, 1890, to March
2ist, 1891, for your consideration.
Very respectfully,
L. O. LOUGEE,
Treasurer ex officio School Co7nmittec Raleigh Township.
1890. Dr.
Mar. 20 Cash balance on hand % 4.575 12
April .3 From J . R. Rogers, Sheriff, tuxes of iSSg.. 500 00
May 7
" " " " 356 46
May 27 " D. S. Waitt, Secretary for tuition 116 35
Oct. 15 "
J. R. Rogers, Sheriff, taxes of 1890.. 333 83
Oct. 31 415 27
Nov. 7
.1 » I > . . . i, 1
.
365 30
Nov. 14 •' " " " " 1,500 00
Nov. 24 4 ( i i . i ( ( 4 1 4 4 971 37
Nov. 29 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 . 1.475 38
Dec. 15 4 4 .4 4 , .4 4 4 .4 96S 05
Dec. 20 4. 4, 4 , 4. 44 167 34
189
Jan. 5 first apportionment for 1S91 3,904 00
|an. 20 !• I^. Rogers, Sheriff, taxes cf iSgo.. 400 00
Jan. 31 44 .4 .4 4. 4 . 4
.
4S3 00
Feb. 2 " second apportionment for 1S91 682 20
Feb. 10 "
J. R. Rogers, Sheriff, taxes of l8go.. 500 00
Feb. 16
Cr.
V\'arrants paid $17,197 27
226 31
790 09
$18,213 67
500 00
Balance due >chools -.
Si 8.213 67
Mar. 21 Cash balance on hand % 790 09
ALDERMEN AND COMMITTEES,
1891-1893.
FIRST WARD.
Frank Stronach, M. A. Parker, J. R. Terrell, R. C. Redford.
SECOND WARD.
W. R. Womble, S. V. House, F. W. Honeycutt.
THIRD WARD.
C. R. Lee, J. E. Pogue. Thomas Pescud.
FOURTH WARD.
M. Bowes, "
B. J, Robinson, Alfred Tate.
FIFTH WARD.
Julius Lewis, R. E. Lumsden, D. M. King, L. B. Pegram.
CONI Nl ITTii: ES.
FINANCE.
Alderman Lewis, Chairman; Womble, Pogue, Terrell.
STREET.
Alderman Stronach, Chairman; Honeycutt, Pogue, Bowes, Lewis.
POLICE.
Alderman PoGUE, Chairman; Womble, Lumsden, Parker, Mayor.
LIGHT.
Alderman Lumsden, Chairman; Womble, Redford.
MARKET.
Alderman Terrell, Chairman; Honeycutt, Pegram.
BUILDING.
Alderman Honeycutt, Chairman; Pegram, Lee.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Alderman Pescud, Chairman; Womble, Lumsden.
PARK,
Alderman House, Chairman; King, Parker.
WATER.
Alderman King, Chairman; Bowes, Lee
SEWERS.
Alderman Pegram, Chairman; Pogue, Lee, Redford, Honeycutt.
FIRE.
Alderman Womble, Chairman; Parker, Pogue, Pescud, ^LA.YOR.
CEMETERY.
Alderman Redford, Chairman; Pescud, Lee.
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION.
N. B. Broughton, Esq.; J. C. S. Lumsden, Esq.; W. R. Bl.ake, Esq.
LIST OF OFFICERS,
1891-1893.
Thomas Badger Mayor.
C. W. Lambeth , Clerk.
C. B. Root Tax Collector.
C. D. Heartt Chief of Police.
E. B. Engelhard Chief Fire Department.
J. R. Ferrall Assistant Chief Fire Department.
W. Z. Blake Street Commissioner.
J. G. Brown Treasurer.
B. S. Jerman .Commissioner Sinking Fund.
H. F. Smith Auditor.
J. N. Holding ...City Attorney.
Dr. James McKee Superintendent of Health.
T. W. Blake.. Keeper of Clock.
W. H. Weatherspoon Keeper of Market.
J. H. Marshall Janitor.
S. A. Jones Sexton City Cemetery.
Sampson Anderson Sexton Mt. Hope Cemetery
Worth Carelinw Sfate Library