The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, January 29, 1904, Image 3
ORDERE IM OUT OF RIS HOTEL.
"All Coons Look Alike" to Proprietor S.
F. Wheeler, of The Columbia Ho-el,
In Columbia.
The Columbia State.
Proprietor S. F. Wheeler of the
Columbia hotel here is one Southern
hotel man who will not tolerate
even the semblance of color in his
business, a fact illustrated in his
hotel a few days ago when he had
occasion peremptorily to order ex
Congressman Srmalls from his lobby.
Smalls, who is collector of tbe
port of Beaufort and very black,
came into the lobby when Mr.!
Wheeler was behind the desk. As
the negro politician floated in with I
his silk hat on Mr. Wheeler called
out sternly across the register.
"Take that hat off."
"You have yours on," replied 1
Smalls, who generally has shown
sense enough to know and keep his 1
place in South Carolina.
"Get out of here quick," Mr.
Wheeler called out, adding some j
stronger language, which Smalls
did not fail promptly to appreciate.
The estimates of time Smalls re- 1
quired to reach the pavement vary <
between three and five seconds. The I
clerk's estimate is less than five
seconds.
The next day one of the white
republicans who had learned from
Smalls that he had been excluded
from the hotel called Mr. Wheeler
aside and apologized for causing him
any inconvenience. He suggested s
that possibly it might be well for
him to transfer his patronage.
Mr. Wheeler is not the sort of a
man to be stampeded by fear. He
told the white republican that he t
was welcome to receive whatever c
negroes it gave him pleasure to en- t
tertain, but that they must be re- t
ceived as other negroes who came t
into the hotel, and that if he wished
to transfer his patronage with this
understanding he might do so. He t
wished the politician to understand
that he would not be responsible for
promiscuous negroes coming into t
the hotel and would not allow any a
general conference in his lobbies t
between black and tan and lily white
guests; that if a negro caller wished
to see any of his white guests be
would insist upon his being accom- .
panied to the roon by one of the .
hotel's representatives.
The lily white has not yet trans
ferred his patronage.
Another lily white, who is quite
a wheel horse with the republicans.
promptly sent for the clerk on hear
ing of Small's exclusion. When the
clerk arrived he demanded an ex
planation for the treatment of
Smalls.
The clerk told him that Mr.i
Wheeler himself had ordered Smalls
from the lobby and that he would
have to see Mr. Wheeler.
Tbis last lily white has not yet
asked to see Mr. Wheeler.
AdmonihA
-
February Smart Set.<
Lownscads (despondently) - I- t
might just as well be dead. What
good amI, anyway ? Why, I be-.
lieve that Irve been refused by every ]
girl in town!
Henpekke (excitedly) - Touch<
wood! touch wood, quick, or your<
luck will change!
A Prisonerin Her Own House.
Mrs. W. H. Lavha. of 1001 Agnes
Ave., Kansas City.'Mo., has for several
yea-s been troubled with severe hoarse-.
ness and at times a hard coutgh, which
she says. "Would keep me in doors for
davs I was prescribed for by physicians:
with' rc noticeable rest9ts A friend
gave ire ; art of a bota' of Chamber
leir.'s Ccugh Remedv wi h i"ntructions
te c!sely follow the~ dicect'ons and I
einl to state that af'er the fi'st day I
<< ud notice a decided change for the
better, and at this time af.er using it
for two weeks, have no hesitat'on in
saying I realize that I am entirely
cured." This remedy is for sale by
Smith Drug Co., Newberry, Prosperity
TWO MINE DISASTERS.
Both Are Accompanied With a Fearful
Loss of Huiran Life - Work
of Rescue.
Pittsburg, Pa. January 25.-An
explosion in the Harwick mine, of
the Allegh-:iy Coal Company, at
Cheswick, sixteen miles from Pitts
burg, promises to add one of the
greatest tragedies of years to the
already long list of mine fatalities
Even the officials of the Allegheny
Coal Company, the owners of the
mine, do nc* know at this time
the number of men entombed in the
:hambers of the mine, 220 feet be
low the surface, but a conservative
stimate places the number at 184.
General Manager George
3cheetze, of the coal company, who
s in charge of the mine, gives little
aope that many of the men will be
)rought to the surface. The first
.ay of hope that any of the men had
!scaped the tremendous concussion
)f the explosion came at 6 o'clock
ast night, when Adolph Gorgie was
yrought to the surface still living.
'he explosion occurred at 8.20 yes
:erday morning. at the bottom of
>ne ot the shafts, and was presuma
)ly caused by fire damp. It was 4
)'clock in the afternoon before it
ras possible to make the first at
empt at rescue. Robert North and
ack McCann, one of the engineers
mployed by the Allegheny, Coal
2ompany, tried to get into the mine
>y way of the stairs through the air
haft. They managed to grope their
vay some distance, but were finally
[riven back by the foul air.
The main shaft into the mine,
20 feet deep, was made useless by
he explosion, which hurled both
ages, one of which was within
hirty feet of the bottom of the shaft,
hrough the tipple, thirty feet above
he surface.
WORK OF RESCUE.
Pittsburg, Pa, January 26.--Even
he elements seem conspiring to
revent the work of rescue at the
larwick mines. Almost zero wea
her and a bitter wind late in the
.fternoon, swept down over the lit
le valley where the mine is located
nd nearly added another list of
lead to the long black table already
easured off. Not only was the
vork of search for the dead and liv
ng, if any are still alive, rudely
aterrupted, but cold aad ice and
vind combined nearly cost the lives
if sixteen more good men.
ANOTHER MINE HORROR
Victor, Colo., Jan. 26.-By the
aling of a cage today in the Strat
on Independence mine, located near
he centre of this city, 15 men are
ead and one other severely injured
n the main shaft x6 men were be
ug hoisted in a cage from the sixth,
eventh and eighth levels. When
he cage reached the surface the
ugineer, for some unexplained rea
on, was unable to stop the engine
nd the cage with its load of human
reight was drawn up into the gal
ows frame where it became lodged
emporarily. The strain on the
able finally caused it to part, and
he cage released, shot down the
~haft with terrific speed. Two of
he occupants, L. P. Jackson and
ames Bullbek, had become entang
ed in the timber rods near the top
>f the gallows frame. Jackson was
:rushed to death by the sheave
heel, while Bullbek hadl a mar
elous escape from death, but re
:eived painful injaries and~ was res
:ued from his p,'i ous position.
re othler [4 men w.r: huriedo to.
ieth down the :,500 foot shafit
('otton Mcker A Success.
A .\ l)pis man, h.- has f *r
omie y ars been at work .n a pe
matic cotton picker, hais irngrn
ed patents on several imnprovemnen%
on his machine.
The invention of a machine that
will pic1k cottn, ne that can rdo
the work the negroes are called up
on to do, has been the goal of many
an inventor for a half century. Many
thousands of dollars have been spent
in trying to give to the cotton states
a picker that would pick. This
machine was tried last season, minus
several of the improvements for
which the inventor has just been
granted a patent and did good work.
The picker tried during the present
season had most of these improve
ments and did work highly satis
factory to the inventor and the capi
talists who are backing hii.,.
The machine is called a pneuma
tic cotton picker. It is mounted on
a high arched frame, something
like a wagon. This wagon cove.rs
one row. Hoes attached to different
parts of the machine allow the men
operating it to pick two rows on;
each side of the machine, which
with the row under the picker ma
chine give a total of five rows that
can be picked at one trip.
The expense of operating is small
and thus it will be much cheaper in
the long run to pick cotton by ma
chinery. All of the cotton handled
is much cleaner than the product
picked by hand. The ends of the
hose are so constructed as to catch
nearly all the leaves attached to the
open bolls, but will not pull the
bolls to pieces.
A company has been organized
under the laws of this state for the
manufacture of the pickers. If the
machine is as much of a success as
it has proved during the numerous
trials that have been given it it will
revolutionize the cotton picking in
dustry of the South.
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