20105. Woodside National Bank (Greenville, SC)

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To the City Council, Chamber of Commerce And Merchants Association: A well-known citizen of a neighboring town recently remarked: "Charlotte has about everything a visitor wants but a place to get a drink of water." Thousands of people come to Charlotte from the rural districts of Mecklenburg county and other towns and counties in both the Carolinas, spend a few hours here on business and return home without registering at a hotel. Where can one of them get a drink of water in the business district without having to ask for It? Drug stores are the places of resort for the thirsty. and one fountain clerk reported. not by way of complaint but as information, that he handed out as many as a hundred glasses of water in a day to those who ask for It. Many people do not like to ask such a small favor even, and will go thirsty before they will. There is need for either public drinking fountains or comfort stations where cool water for drinking can be had at any time by visitors who are not hotel guests. Such conveniences have been provided by cities smaller and less progressive than Charlotte GENERAL MECKLENBURG. Mr. John T. Woodside, President, Woodside National Bank. Greenville, S. C. My Dear Mr. Woodside: By all means the culprits who started and spread the false rumor the other day which caused a run on your bank should be identified and made to suffer for such a grave offense against the Institution and the community. When a person circulates a false rumor calculated to frighten people into n run on a bank which Is in good condition he deserves very severe punishment and if the law does not provide heavy penalties then some legislation In that direction Is needed. This appleis in North Carolina as well as in South Carolina. GENERAL MECKLENBURG. Mr. R. Neal Hood, Chairman, Mecklenburg County Commissioners. My Dear Mr. Hood: My attention has been called to the apparent neglect of the grass on the lawn at the handsome new county courthouse. Some of the lawn has been mowed but very large sections of It have been allowed to grow and the appearance is rather unsightly. Inquiry elicited the explanation that the mower had been broken or was out of order. The new courthouse is a beautiful and costly edifice and the lot surrounding It is magnificent, and the attractiveness of the premises ought not to be marred by neglect, not even to save the price of lawn mower. It is presumed that the matter has escaped your attention but will be looked after promptly. GENERAL MECKLENBURG. Mr. R. W. Rigsby, City Manager. My Dear Mr. Rigsby: Perhaps you can tell the police department here how It is done in Durham, where you served as city manager for many years. The papers of a day or two ago carried a dispatch from the tobacco city telling of the arrest and conviction of a person for turning in false fire alarms. He was fined $25. False alarms are mothing unusual in Charlotte but somehow nobody ever is caught and fined for such an offense here GENERAL MECKLENBURG. Mr. H. W. Miller, Vice President, Southern Railway Company. My Dear Mr. Miller The announcement made last week that you are to come to Char. lotte in the next few days for a conference with the city officials. on the proposed straightening and widening of the underpass which your main line crosses North Tryon street, is very gratifying to the people of this city. It is hoped that you and the council will be able to get together promptly on a plan of co-operation for this necessary improvement And while you are here, Mr. Miller, of course you will avail yourself of the opportunity to observe carefully the situation at your passenger station, a view to taking necessary steps In the very near future to make the so much needed there for the protection of your patrons from bad weather. Should It be raining when you start back to Washington, you would experience the discomfort of getting wet in reaching your private car If 11 should be to the rear end of a long train GENERAL MECKLENBURG. Mr. E.C. Griffith, President, Charlotte Airport Corporation. My Dear Mr. Griffith It In exceedingly gratifying that the money necessary to put the air. port In condition for the regular use of the airmall service seems to be practically in eight. This is one of the most important civic achievements of the year Charlotte's need of a completed airport is demonstrated not only in the fact that the lack of it thus far has been the only bar to making it regular stop on the air mail route but also in such instances as that of the past week when 50 airplanes In group making a pioneering flight through this section skipped Charlotte and stopped at Winston-Salem and Greenville, S. GENERAL MECKLENBURG. Mr. Frank Gregson, New York City. My Dear Mr. Gregson: Your many friends In Charlotte join with others in North Carolina in offering congratulations upon the very complimentary demonstra. tion of esteem and popularity accorded you the other night when dinner in your honor was staged by a committee of New York news paper men and attended by 200 or more persons prominent in the newspaper, magazine and theatrical fields. as reported in a letter sent The Observer by Mr. Emerson D. Owen. Many in Charlotte remember pleasantly the time a few years ago when you were the manager of one of the hotels here and a popular member of one of the civic clubs It is recalled also that your departure from Charlotte was marked by unusual expressions of regret on the part of your friends. GENERAL MECKLENBURG. Mr. R. B. Babington, President, Board of Trustees, N. C. Orthopaedic Hospital, Gastonia, N. C. My Dear Mr. Babington: I have just looked over your latest Biennial Report and Hospital Bulletin which tells very graphically in word and picture of the wonderful work being done by the splendid state Institution of which you are justly regarded as the father. In the acientific treatment and healing of crippled children. the Orthopaedic Hospital is rendering service to hundreds of unfortunate ones and to the commonwealth-such service as ought to bind It close to the heart the people of the state. 1 note that you point out four ways in which people can help the hospital and the crippled children: Remembering the institution in the will; insuring one's life in favor of the hospital; putting the Institution In the annual charity budget: saying a good word for it at every opportunity and encouraging the treatment of crippled children wherever found. It gives most of us a chance to help. Again I congratulate you. GENERAL MECKLENBURG. To the Taxpayers of Charlotte: While one cent difference in the tax rate does not amount to SO much, the fact that the city council has wrestled with the problem of municipal financing. a large part of which It inherited when it went into office, until it has found a way to cut the rate from the expected and accepted $1.28 to $1.27, is another evidence that the governing body is a business organization that figures closely and has an eye to strict economy all the while. GENERAL MECKLENBURG. Parker-Gardner Company, City. Gentlemen: It is a notable contribution you are making to the cultural life of Charlotte and this section in bringing the world-renowned Padereswski, Fritz Kreisler and Geraldine Farrar to the city this fall and winter for concerts in the new Armory Auditorium. The community should and doubtless will. in a gratifying measure, show its appreciation by liberal patronage of these events, which may be expected to attract many people from other Carolina communities. GENERAL MECKLENBURG. Mr. John L. Wilkinson, General Chairman, Salvation Army Maintenance Appeal, My Dear Mr. Wilkinson: As you and your splendid organization begin one week from tomorrow the annual campaign for the Salvation Army's maintenance fund for the ensuing year, I bespeak for you the sympathetic co-operation and liberal support of all Charlotte citizens, to the end that the goal