The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, November 22, 1899, Page 3, Image 3
BILL A RP'
Bill -?Lrp Tells of Hih
zer,
.limnfa Ct
A few days ago I received a letter
fr.un a friend and it was post-marked !
I'elzcr. Ile said I was wanted there j
to talk to thc people, aud he ventured
(.. ?ix the day and the compensation
lor loss of time and waste of tongue, j
I had never heard of Pelzcr, nor could
i lind it on my antiquated map. But
I did lind it on one of later date, and i
-.imposed it was some little village that ;
lind a cotton mill and dam on thc Sa- ?
lu.ia and some tenement houses. *
Nevertheless, I accepted the call, for ;
the oiFer was liberal. The next mail j
brought a similar invitation from ;
Piedmont, another mill town, only six
miles from Pelzer.
So I journeyed from Atlanta to
Greenville, and there changed cars for
my destination, which ls only twenty
miles away. It was night when I
roached the place. My good friend,
Mr. Padgett, who is the democratic
postmaster,' took mc to his house. I
had not seen the town, for it was quite
dark. "What is the prospect for an
audience?" I inquired. "Verygood,"
he said. "I think you will have sev
ei il hundred people out to hear you."
I ' Why, how large is your town? What
j js your population'/*' "About 7,000,"
I he said. I was amazed. A town
fl twice as large as Carterville and 1
I never beard of it, and it is not on my
1 map. He explained by saying it was
? only twelve years old, and had four
H large cotton mills that empl >yod over
? 2,000 operatives, and consumed nearly
I 100,000 bales of cotton, and the com
t pauy owned some 3,000 acres of land,
fl aad all the houses und stores and
j I churches and several miles of the riv
I er. "Did you advertise me pretty
H well?'' I inquired. "Oh yes," he
I said. "We church folks told it toev
I erybody we met, both in the town and
I in the country, and they all said they
I were coming." "Publish it in thc
H papers?" said I. "No, no. We have
H no papers here, aud no printing office,
ja We didn't have a poster or a hand j
I bill, but wc talked it a good deal." |
H Well, I listened und wondered, and j
5 ay confidence was shaken. After a
R bountiful supper and a little mixing
I up with the children, we went to the
? large church where I was to hold
? forth, and found it already pretty well
I filled. In a brief time I stood before
? more than 500 people, and was in
I spired to make my best effort, for I
I had an orderly and attentive congre
ga gat ion, aud wo all fell in love with
?g one another. I have never had a
more gratifying lecture occasion.
Next morning was spent in viewing
the city and the mills and library.
The merchants carried immense stocks
in large stores, and there were many
nice residences for the managers and
the heads of the various departments,
but they were all built and are owned
and leased by the mill company. This
company owns and controls every foot
of land and everything that is on it.
Captain Smythe, of Charleston, is the
king, tho czar, a big hearted and
brainy man, and everybody respects
and loves him. His the son of that
celebrated Presbyterian miuister of
Charleston, who during his ministeri
al life was a notable man in religious
!circles. I remember that ho was one
of my father's friends. "Who is your
mayor?*' said I. We have none; no
mayor nor aldermen, no municipal
corporation, no marshal or police.
Captain Smythe runs the town. Ev
erybody who comes here for employ
merit is investigated carefully. His j
antecedents must bc good or he can't |
stay. Wo have no lawyers nor edi
tors; don't need any. We allow them
toc?me in and look around." Bid
R you know that I was a lawyear?'' said
* 1- "Oh, yes; but wo learned that
nt you had quit the practice and reform
ed, and so we invited you."
hf "I don't see any negroes about
,ni here," said I. "No, we don't want
b them. They are a few, but they live
jc outside. Some of them cook and wash
a for us, but Captain Smythe don't want
) us to mix with them or depend upon
them. He wants everybody to depend
upon themselves as much, as possi
ble." "And 80 you have ruled out
lawyers, editors and negroes ?"
"Ves," said he, ,fand there are no sa
ja loons or blind tigers or cigarettes."
"How shout'doctors?" I asked. "Oh,
of course, we have doctors; yes, we
? have'two dociors'and bue dentist and
four preachers, all select, and one
photographer." The company has a
good pablio library and.pays a man to
keep it,
> I visited mill No. 4, an up to dato
^ mill in all respects. It is operated by
electricity that is generated two miles
' distant at some falls of the Saluda
* Ri ver This mill amazed me. No
Vcoal nor no steam. It is 128 feet wide
??land 528 feet long and is fonr stories
(Jflhigh. In one groat room I raw 60,
?000 spindles turning. In two others
DtSthere were 2,400 looms. . IC requires
?1,100 operatives to attend to this mill,
pitad it takes 56,000 bales of cotton for
9 Hayer r's supply. Just think of it.
S LETTER.
; Heceiit Visit to IJel
S. C.
institution.
The superintendent. Mr. Guy, had the
elevator stop about half way up be
tween Hours so that 1 might have a
good view of thc machinery and busy
boys and girls in this spinning room.
This room he called bis children's
roeta; not the children's room, but
iuy c lildren's room, he said. Seores
of little chaps, not more than ten
years old, who looked their love fur him.
They were the brightest and healthiest
children I ever saw in a mill, and earn
from 2.") cents to CO cents a day.
Many of the grown girls carn from GO
ceuts to $1.23 a day, and the average
pay of them all is 02 cents. This is
good wages, for their work is easy and
healthful. The rooms are never too
hot or too cold; for the temperature
is kept uniform by fans and heaters
in the basement. No grease or fatty
matter is used on the machinery
nothing but pure mineral oil. These
children are required to leave the mill
at certain periods aud go to their pub
lic schools, which are supported by
the company. I visited the school
and found 300 of thc pupils gathered
in the large room to receive mo and
listen to a brief talk about my old
school days and some words of encour
agement to cheer them up. Mr. Guy,
the efficient superintendent of mill
No. 4, is an Augusta man, and has
been in the mill service for forty-four
years. In the packing room I ob
served that all the bales are marked
to Shanghai, China, and I heard that
China is the best customer of South
ern mills. That government used to
buy from Mew England and old Eng
land, but they bought their goods by
weight and not by the yard, and in
course of time John Bull and the yan
kee got to mixing white clay with the
starch to make the cloth weigh heavy,
and so they turned their trade down
South, where people didn't adulterate
everything they make to sell. Said
Mr. Guy to me: ' There is no sizing
in these goods except that made of
pure boiled cora starch.''
Nearly all the capital iu these great
mills is from the South; and there's
millions in them, for Piedmont is on
the same river and is only five miles
away and has two large mills and an
other is going up at Belton, a few
miles below. In fact, the traveler
through upper Carolina is hardly ever
out of sight of a smokestack. In a
few years that State will consume all
the cotton that is grown in it. What
a glorious prospect.
AU around Pelzer and Piedmont the
farmers are prosperous; for they have
a regular, eager market for anything
they grow, and I saw their wagons
coming in on every road. I visited
Piedmont and stayed a day and night.
It is a duplicate of Pelzer, though not
so large; having about 5,000 people.
It is most efficiently managed by Mr.
James L. Orr, Jr., a son of the gov
ernor and statesman. Ile, too, is a
king and a czar, and his word is law
about everything. He is respected
and loved by every man, woman and
child iu Piedmont; and the stockhold
ers have nothing to do but look on
and receive their dividends semi-an
nually. Piedmont is more elevated
than Pelzer, and thc views from her
hills are charming. Aud . then her
flowers; oh', the beauty of them. Out
door chrysanthemums -and roses were
in all their glory, Mrs. Richardson
sent my wife a box full by yesterday's
express that excelled anything that I
ever saw in a conservatory. She gave
a caution to the expressman in theso
lines on thc box:
"If you desire to climb tho golden
stair,
Handle these flowers with exceeding
care,
If you expect to play tho golden harp,
Speed them with safety to Mistress
Arp."
The lyceum and public library at
Piedmont ia an interesting place to
visit and is liberally patronized by the
workers in the mills. Connected with
it is a home-made insurance or benefit
association, a kind of savings bank,
where for a deposit of ten cents a
week the family of the depositor gets
forty dollars whenever a death occurs
This is of course to provide for funer
al expenses and a decent burial. In
this library is the finest collection of
Indian relics that I ever saw anywhere.
Fortunate peoplo to have such phil
anthropic guardians. Old Father
Pelzer does not live there, but he is
near enough to keep a fatherly eye on
these numerous children. He is a
Charleston millionaire, but lives at
his up country home, not far from the
beautiful Mill City which he founded
and which bears his name. Just
think of it, my Georgia friends; 60,
000 spiudles turning in one room, and
1,400 looms weaving in two others!
Why should qot every cotton growing
oonnty iu Georgia, yea, in South Car
olina, do likewise. Our Conaty pro
duces ten thousand bales annually,
and sorely our farmers can build a
mill large enough to manufacture it
and double its value. BILL ARP.
ACROSS THE (?ltKAT DIVIDE.
UV WILLIAM BITTKNIIOI sr.
j Which of us does not remember thc
i celebrated drop of water which, fall
ing on thc very summit ul'tho great
continental divide, eau take its choice
of going cither to tho Atlantic or the
Pacific Ocean, and which has served
to point au obvious moral ever
since the geography of America has
been known? The Great Divide is
??tamete figure of speech, either,
but a very imposing reality, as all thc
transcontinental railroads have found;
and its interest is not ut all confined
toits watcrshedding qualities. The
story of the advance of the railroads
across its crest is one of the romances
of history, and would require a volume
to do it justice.
It was in 1841 that Asa Whitney, a
New York merchant, first began to
dream of making a road across thc
American Divide, lie had been in
China a few years before, and became
convinced that thc trade of China,
India, and Japan could all he gained
for the 1'nitcd States by a transcon
tinental line. He proposed to con
gress to build, at his own expense, a
railway from Lake Superior to Puget
Spund if he were granted a strip of
land sixty miles wide all along the
route. For twenty years he strove to
push his plan, but thc government
considered it a fantastic dream, and
Whituey died, poor and disappointed.
Not until 1804 was a bill finally pass
ed, through President Lincoln's influ
ence, which authorized thc building
of the Union and Central Pacific Rail
roads. The Central waa to lay its
rails eastward from the Golden Gate,
and the Union to commence at
the Missouri and advance westward.
Wherever the rails met, between thc
river and coast, they were to join.
As there was a heavy subsidy, how
ever, granted for every mile of road
forty eight thousand dollars a mile
across the Rockies, for example
each road was anxious to outstrip the
other, and thc garders, working like
ants, passed each other, and still kept
on until two hundred parallel miles
of roadbed (but without a rail) were
finished. The tracklayers, of course,
had to stop as soon as they met, which
wa? at Promontory, Utah, where, on
May 10. 1800, the last tie was laid.
It was made of highly-polished Cali
fornia laurel, bearing a silver piate
with the names of the olficers aud
directors of each company, and the
rails fastened with four spikes, two
of gold, from California and Idaho,
and two of silver from Nevada and
Montana.
The original idea of a line across
the continent was that of trade with
the East, as has been paid. For
many years, indeed, it never entered
men's minds that the land between
the Missouri and the Sierras was
worth anything at all. It was con
sidered a barren, rainless desert, fit
ODly for the buffalo and the Indian.
"Money invested in the Great Amer
ican Desert will never come back,"
was the phrase of one cautious capi
talist. Yet nowr.days exactly ninety
five per cent, of the earnings of these
roads comes from local traffic, and only
five from that through trade from
which Whitney hoped so much. It
is even an actual fact, that "with
the advent of? the railroad upon the
western plateaus the climate has be
come milder, the cold less destructive,
and the rainfall greater," for the
planting of trees aud ploughing of
fields everywhere has broken the
force of thc wind and increased tic
evaporation.
All this, of course, has not been
done without' infinite toil and sacri
fice. Many "pathfinders" of the
engineering force lie in forgotten
graves along each mighty track across
thc continent. Thc ludian, painted,
feathered, and treacherous, has hung
about the camps of the surveyors, the
garders, and the track layers, as they
havo followed each other steadily into
the wilderness, and has left a bloody
record of massacre behind him.
Grasshoppers have clogged the wheels
and stopped the locomotives, and
snow has buried the crews to starve.
This problem of snow, indeed, has
been one of the vital questions upon
all the transcontinental routes. For
two and three years before each one
was laid out the engineers have lived
in winter camps along the proposed
route, observing every summit, slope,
and valley, learning from the currents
where the snow would drift deep and
where the ground would be blown bare.
They had to study the secrets of the
avalanche and the "flurry" or local
hurricane produced by the passing of
the soowslide. The result of it all
was thc snowshed, a purely American
invention, of whose interior construc
tion our picture gives an idea, but of
whioh the outside is really the impor
tant part.
In building a snowshed the engi
neer first considers the slope on which
it is built. Sometimes, when this is
too abrupt, he banks his shed on the
upper side with a cedar orib filled
with rock, and above and round that
is placed a baoking of earth and rocks,
until the whole hillside is a smooth
and even grade. Sometimes, on the
other hand, he hollows out a eurve
farther up the mountainside to turn
the snowslide when it comes, <T ho
surrounds his shed with trestlcwork.
Generally an open summer track runs
outside thc sheds, as th?' traveler
likes to sec the scenery. Along tho
top of the sheds a trough is often
i nih, through which thc water of thc
mountain springs run. to housed in
ease of tire. (Jpen breathing spaces
are left here and lhere between the
shed>. as othcrwi.se the smoke from
the locomotives lilis them, making
them dark and dangerous for the
train-LOU, und hiding Menais. These
open places must ho especially pro
tected from the avalanche, and
the engineer build-a . split"' -a i.?an
gular pon, like au inverted " V,' lilied
with stone, above the gap. This will
cause thc slide, if it comos, to pan
and pass harmlessly over the tops of
tho sheds.
Thc Great Divido is not an even
one by any means. Thc Colorado
Midland road crosses it ten thousand
feet above sea level, the Union Pa
cific at eight thousand, and the Can
adian Pacific at only about five thous
and. But suow falls every month in
the year on thc northern divide,
while in Colorado, at very high eleva
tions, the valleys arc steeped in sun
shine for half the year. Yet thc Cen
tral Pacific has sixty miles of snow
sheds to the six miles of them on the
Canadian road. This seems hard to
explain, unless by the superior deter
mination of the American road to pre
vent possible delay, and the fact that
where the passes are so much higher
avalanches arc more frequent.
Thc Canadian Pacific road, though
built after ours, was built under even
greater difficulty. It runs through
magnificently rugged mountains-the
Selkirks, the Gold, and tho Cost
Ranges-and has, besides, to deal
with "Jumbo," a mountain quicksand
that oozes out of thc cuts and covers
the track, and with boggy "muskegs,"
on whose elastic surface tho track
"creeps" or follows the cars, some
times moving two feet forward during
the passage of one train. It is esti
mated that the road was twenty per
cent moro difficult to build than any
of our transcontinental lines; but, like
them, it has been worth far more than
it cost. America and Canada, us one
writer puts it, may have made thc
railroads in the beginning; but nowa
days it is truer to say that the rail
roads have made Canada and America.
- Forward.
- A well known cleric was address
ing a congregation of seamen at a
waterfront mission. Thinking to be
impressive, he pictured a ship trying
to enter a harbor against a head
wind. Unfortunately for the success
of the metaphor, his ignorance of
seamanship placed thc ship in several
singular positions. "What shall we
do next?" he cried. "Come down
off the bridge," cried an old tar in
disgust, "an* lemme take command,
or ye'll 'ave us all on the rocks in
another 'alf second 1"
The Words of a Famous Mission Worker.
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u visitor declining to >it at thc table
.it which he or she would have made
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- The central West is threatened
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- Thc little a man wants her 1 below
is a little more.
Thc amateur detective is as humorous
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S h a k c s p e a r e' s
clowns, or even old
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fi n (1 s the
most aston- 0\
ishing clues,
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?well may IK:. Hut
the specialist in thc
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It's much thc same way in the detec
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8alnsdav, December 4, 189U, before the
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Tanned Leather, "Soft, Elastic amt hlronjr." Nothing equals it for wear, and that ia
what you want. Try one pair and .von will buy thom again. Ruy our best quality.
$4.00 and $5.00 Shoas for $3.00 and $3.50.
With $6.75 !
LET'S SEE I
Yon odin fifo toi-.
OSBORNE & OSBORN'S
And got a good COOKING STOVE with <V1 pieces ol' nice, smooth and use
ful ware, guaranteed to give satisfaction. Wo also have tito IRON KING,
ELMO, LIBERTY STEEL RANGES, and other good makes of Stoves.
The biggest Stove House .in thc City.
Chinaware, Glassware, Tinware and Crockery.
tiff' PRICES RIGHT. Come and see for yourself, nml let us show you
through.
Your-; trulv,
OSBORNE & OSBORNE.
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