Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r ;=== 1 lie V : ^ One of nature s raos urnnflarAil nnrohra uro rvuiiucuifi tuiauyc via ters, bottled in a mod | ern, sanitary plant Deep down in the heart < announcement of the wond( I there has been a ieeung 01 thousands hroug'.iout the ce ever have felt that the wo*:d be developed in a broad, coi fore the war, when the Sou Luxury, w.ien the stately i &. with gaiety and laughter an * fiict threw i.s cloud over th was the favorite Watering P "* ? ? ~ -W J f V\ AT r ly equipages uuu v>uu lucii throughout this and adjoini summers in enjoyment of t and dancing, feasting and fr from business cares, and gr< the all-healing water. The ' -February firs:, "Chick Sprin; days will soon ocme back in under the same da'e: "A d State is the plan to revive < ^ Chick Springs resort." A MODERN HO In the designing o: :his 1 comfort and safety, was inci throughout with the "Grinr: it practical1 y fireproof?tele Stance connexion?runnicg v ynnm Mrwcf all nnnm S hfl.VP 1 V/V/Ul* i'ivcw v The first floor has lobby, pool rooms and private and vice to the roof garden. T1 and ballroom with a s age, suite. All bedrooms are ou1 up with bedrooms. Both win way in the cen:er. (The lol orchestra serves dining rcon CHICI ADDRESS BEFORE THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2.) fail to understand, or to apply or to succeed, or to profit. For while Luther Burbank, judged "by his results, has been called a wizard there is no wizardy in the way he works. His methods are the simplest kind of spade and shovel methods. They can be applied as well in N South Car:lina ?or Abyssinia?as in J ~ 1:~ ?.v, C illliUi 11 let. Th \v will produce results for the ; woman who has but >. kitchen 'ATadr: j or a frontyard flower pot, or i'or the j man with a thousa r\ aer* tract. They can be put into practical us. ; by fcae owner of a a ^0 acre farm?to make it yield 160 acre crops. They require neither genius : comprehend nor investment to carry cut, and through their broad spread dissemination, the world will c me to enjoy and profit by the creations or' a thousand new Luther Eurbanks. each producing now r >*-. tl ?w ; ?. ; veg.-rabies. grains, rr s and for crops, o: which even L ::hei" Fur bar:!. himself has never dreamed. Kindred lo t':e si.bjeet f agricul-: t iutq is the control of :he fiow o' our ' st"earns. The water annually carried vo the sea nuts.. be conserved by us Instead o? permitting t>.e yearly rain -in : .-now fall to rush into ur river ' valleys, overflowing r/.ie banks of ou? streams and carrying destruction in their wake?destruction which loses js millions of proper y every year, j we must learn t> control our floods, j prevent soil erosion, and store the | v>' 3tor cnroarlin or if nvPf rvlir fiolds as i needed. -This effort will 'eave us infinite j power for the water c-au be convered j into electricity and from electricity .produce light, heat and power in uni ; if Wb J win*, s I Below is a ? ; * i i Hi I > I >a'? v'.>' r r- J ' j hi-: V: ;: : !'V (', i I ' ' : ? v .. .v, || ' | if ' * I . pm j L . "5." : /li ;; >:% ' j r'; I ,;-r '.-!= : |Jfl|y? i ' ': i .' ". : :?***>$ fill $. r :i ' . \. s )f nearly every ne who has read the ?rful developm^ii' at Chick Springs, annv/vvsii ami sliidiiess. Tlier^ are ntral State? cf the S-jiith tia" do, and tri'ul resources oi' his property should liprehensive way. In the old days belli was in the Glory of Aristocra ic nansions and broad plan ations rang d no -.bought -cf the approaching conie hearts of the people, Chick Springs lace of all this sec iou. In their stateretinues of servants, the best familits ng Stages gathered to spend their be delightful climate, and wLh music olic, while away the Hours of freedom dw strong and hearty with the help of 'News and Courier" said under date of gs, a resort well known in antebellum to its own." The Columbia State said evelopment which is welcomed in this and conduct upon a broad scale ihe TEL IX EVERY DETAIL lotel every facility for convenience, 3rpora:ed. T.hi Horel is equipped lell Sprinkler System/' which makes phone in every room with long tfisva-ier, both hot and cold, in every bath connection. parlors, card and smoking rooms, main dining rooms, with elevator serle second floor has a fine auditorium All fron: rooms on this floor are en:side rooms. The third floor is taken gs have stairways, with a grand stairbby has a mezzaine floor, where :he l and lob'by. A tiled terrace on each c sPRir* diminishing quantity forever. In nearly every Sta:e there is daily flowing to waste power enough, if arrested and utilized on its way to the sea, to turn every wheel of industry and to move the traffic of commerce and furnish light and heat for every city. It is said that the wheel does not turn with warer that is passed, but other wheels farther down the stream do, and the power is used again and again and finally pumped back by the sun to the mountains and the plains, o forever repeat the process of service to mankind. O-e of tue first essentia s for kcontrol or' stream flnw i- *ho pro; tion ( :* ;!r water:-\?oiN 1.y growing fores s. As a preventative of soil rosiou :ul floor's o :r timbered ureas are beyond compare. We eonstantl} hear of r. :e denuding of our :orests and iite"ally a timber famine is imminent t'.'.roushout the world. This reduction of :ho visible supply o: merchantable woods is the result of various causes. The standin? tir.V.er in the United St.ites as :-tim:r.-:i y tl. Fort = t Service i - two thou^M-d bitlion :'ee . The an at: a i or. The- wrehcnt ungual com: lio.i is in * te noizh:-- rhood oi 0:10 hundred billion :v- F'om ::ese figures you see 1:1:1 sixty billion iY-e: Oi lumber is taken irom the :"ore:'t.s e&CQ year in excess o: uie auiuuu. : -vror.-.i '</ growth. Ir the Forest Service esti:,::i * of timber > ;-or:,cct. figures show t'.iat 'he visible supply wiil be exhausted within >0 years. Say in round number- "?) yoars 01' timber in sight, considering the natural increment by growth. This certainly should be an outside figure whei we consider o^ier losses of timber in au1,1' x /\?if nr If Vi ^ c (Jllion itutuai l UlUUg. II aa.-, said tha: more than fifty millions acres of forests are burned annually. To my mind this estimate is lar.gfv y-: we cannot dispute that many millions rp f Cut of the New Beai w\nm ^.|| J ; 5 \ %l; fh ' -: f ~ ;v "T'*^ J *%?<:*> ;* X.< :r.:. f* *rM'Kpi rW ' 9- ' PU J* M &r%it H Y- M p >iMfe - ? 1 "c Jp & P &/ M II - .?,? : ,: ?-V '< "'' H; }>' ' *?&> ' U4 .a ?<-> ^ " >v> *? *r, t ^ ~ fe- -:> . --: r~~~~-? " :;v' ^r - 'fujcfc .- r:t.*os KST ?.:<?. ?~ J "" ~ side of the dini. g roo:n. which h< allowing guests to dine on the t< od o he i-ub'ic on or about .June F1KST HOTEL EST T..e first hotel was built at CI co-ovooooooooooooowsr shrdlu o that time the springs have enjoy 1 - - ? T t 1t* r li in piP Ol tile y~aru.it is lug m make "be service of this hotel :1 being given o the cuisine, and t chestra will be a feature. Eve: 3 equip the hotel, to furnish it atti comfortable and homelike resort The former hotel has been retain a capacity cf 350. Guests will he: right surroundings. THE CURATIVE POWERS OF 1 RE PUT For more than sixty years tl water of Chick Springs has been < experiences of literally thousands tacks of indigestion, in fact in al and the organs of elimination, ] satisfactory results. Invalids ha1 acutely ill have spedilv recovere icallv sick have gone forth from restored health, while all have b< itarium, but for the rundown mj new health among pleasant asso( ters thereNis no superior place in The water used in this hotel i if io o l i or hi t mintpra' lb AO CI UV-liQUv,*. w4*^7" V drink. I: has rightfully been said eat anything you want." OUTSIDE A3 utside amusements will ccnsis jr.c m 4 (of feet are so lost. It this statement of burning is correct enough timber is so destroyed each year to supply the needs of all our people three months out of every 12. Turpentining in the yellow pine dis:rict ruins millions o: feet constantly. Then other j rATfA^ V\ T* fll A HQT*lr I IIHIUUUO aic UCOHV/JCU UJ tuvz uuin beetle and other insects. -The real cause of the denuda ion of our forests is the constant demand for lumber. You must remember that timber ranks fourth in the value of its produc to j all industries in the United States. | j The people are using more and more ! o forest products ear-Ii year and this j also win have is feffects on the vis- T ; : e i ippiy. 'I e annual consumption. [ i ( !' ir:n!)or l.;.s .loubloit p r C ti>Ita sinco ! ! . _ . . _ > i! >ie w.'.si is terrinc. Oi t^vrv ; ! ; rr.oiisan'.l f " oi li::Vir>er which stands , ! in the forests, one fourth is left i.1 { i he woods by the locraers. The loss i ! - .... . , ... , { ; in i ni:i:s is one tmra or tr.e iuiiuer I : -aw-.*<!. Th-1 loss after manufacture in : . seasoning and fitting is one fifth. ' . . . , , . ' | c.i o: very tnousand boaru feet of"''standing timber only*320 feet} : :\re ir.;t into actual u.~e. i : K .v cons id ring iSese things tiie . I witli as : coircmy a- tfe public rouM r !!y 1?. \ ie'.nanded :Yotn , th ni. but ':.ave gone beyond that point j r?n?.l .iv;, to heir own hindrance, to :i iarue ext nt c" ?i-n'jer rhrtc. wonM have put rporu-y i*:to their pocke ty ! -a.i 2: In he woods. Ir* all txiis continues what will become of our: stream flow and *',.e wants of our posi terity in the timber lino. The answer is conservation and reforestation. We ; must stop destructive forest fires, and this protection must be had coilecively to be effective. It would be per; fectly practical to stamp out all forest . ! i fires in the United States at ilie cost ; : of 20 per cent, of the amount annually : lost by burning. Through *he eonser- ' ratios agita ion the States are a*vak! ' I - , I I Ml I t g itiful Hotel Nearing ST \ * * v. * ' ' ' ' ' *-i,' ' ^ ; ' * ff f TH ^ **'*&Vb. >m.Jt ^ ^ '? ; ? . ^ % d *~~' .A . ' -;~y~\: > <* <> < * x'S''''..,. -.-... '"f' :-''s&. "' ">. A r ' -> A i|4^ ? ?, ? < < :io,<>',. f > H" V m ** .'fV f?? > ? f? ^ r % * " l&.r f: xj:. * : \r ~ * H : : . - I - :< ; - . 4 - * ? :~: .* :? . <. p ?|jp W <>* ?. ' ; ?2~" ^ ^ r-v ?r?> rffwrwf ,ys?s > ?RS7SS& ?*!* <&*?%'/? $? ? * T: i ft > .' ;.$ j ; : :; '. ? ' ; M? i * > ; ' ?<$ .,< ? ' ' > ^ r?^r .. k\^hi>: x sn;,\os. & c /-T -< A- ,-r II II I ! ? ? ? HIMIIII ? "i I Mil H I \s glass walls that may be folded, irraces. This hotel will be open< 2."th. ABIJSHKD IN lick Springs in 1S40, and since nfvyp ed the patronage of the best peotenticn of the management to le best possible special attention he comfort of guests. A fine oreffort has been made to fully actively and to make it a most for refined and cultured people. ed as an annex, and the two have re meet congenial people amid the PHE WATER OF SIXTY YEARS \YTIO> le heal:h-giviag qualities of the established. The analysis and the have shown that this water in at1 iroulbles of the ailmentary tract aas been followed by more than ve regained their strength; ;he d, and in many cases the chronihis spring in the full vigor of sen benefited. This is not a san >-w-k ?-? mc* f A T*Cl ? til ur vv uiiian w uv uconvo 1.1/ i nations and in comfortable quarAmerica. s from the famous Chick Spring. I water, one that is pleasant to , "Drink Chick Springs water and tllSEMENTS ;t of Golf, Tennis, Bowling, Row , Chick ing to this fact and are passing laws nnH vntirie- monev to nrotect the for ests. Af er fire protection has "been accomplished then the question of taxation of lands reproducing forests must be settled and only then can the reproduction of timber be profitably entered upon. Tihe great waste will be stopped by a closer utilization of forest products. There is a plant in South Carolina, connected with a saw mill which makes alcohol from the waste material from the timber sawed. My company are in Oregon manufacturing paper from saw mill waste and ot:er methods will be found which; v.-ill gradually bettor existing condir:ci?s. From loving side of each wo eel the forests of America -1: <:i :i ' conserved. Out in Califor ia w have the most wonderful !! - growth existing in Ue world. . J The redwoods of the Pacific coast, f';e><--rvr> particular mention as an ex<.;f what nature does in the con- i sorvution of vc^r-tabl? life. The geaus Sequoia represented br : iivi:i z ;?ates back :o the 5 foundation of the world. Originally i. Cretaceous age; I* is freqn mk in the upper Cre aceous and Miocea be ing "v distributed ov :v X >r;: \ .1 r:'-a. .."urope a d Asia. Evidences o:' ^t ure found in the srv>;o~ 'i records of Spitzbergen and Greenland.: Betw-vn Greenland wij-i is fo~--i! spoc ;.'S many intermedia:-.- fossil ua ion$ bave l.ani discovered. 'rh> "\vo livin;: species are not kno?vn as fossils pre"i"'i5or t,'i nanr Ojimrr'?!*T)arv nn:1 must be regarded as the direct descendants of these ge -logical species, ! These living Sequoia range in size from seedlings just bursting from the 1 ground to extreme sizes of -J5 feet in diameter by 'i'A) feet high. Indeed j ther^ is ;i living specimen thai meas-! ures f( 1 ' in di.ime rr \n<i xv,;.--ri *n i I fl* 1_ t UUCK Completion. I I *9 . - -, - tiBL.,,,,, ' 'I ;33 ' i ". rf ' / W&i&S* t -ik '< S3 v:?fi t :.';? ? '1? # ?** ..>'?! > v ^ v rt n y ' " * r >. i ' N ' A V# SSy ^'*'.> ( %P^^^\WiWK lilciMI '*" 'if Jp?!|g .; Trr.rrxr.^ -?- - _ . v- v ' ~: y ;; '*-3t . . ;V : %V% V i- >,#* ; r-X;"-, " ? " \,r^ ^ . *<4mn% K,^:*-\ I ing, Bathing, Dancing, Driving, Moto: will be one of the chief pleasures. } best, orchestras in 'he South, Mr. Har cliestra will consist of five pieces a ai'Urno n concepts, which will be give park. r>.>IATCHABLE TUASSPOK We make the sta:emen: -with-cui fe; is pot another mineral spring resort Line" that has th transportation faci T f i c* r?1* f 11 n I a rl an f a * * /vrtf Di J rv? i It 10 Oliuaicu ULL IUC A1UVV IT ICUillUilt eighteen daily trains, nine north and distance, say ten city blocks from Line of Southern Railway from New and New Orleans. It is also on the 3 from New York to Atlanta. I: is ui:< resort in the suu h. Passengers fi can use the "Carolina Special" to Spa mont Northern which lands you at tfc made to Southern local, ge ting off a1 A SOVEREIGN CURE FOR S* The greates: of all the many virtui its vaiue in the treatment and cure < ?the twin curses that claim mere vie er diseases combined. T.he record c chronic cases of these diseases whic' of the water ar.d have been permanen tion its power to relieve. Many cases have been known whe teen recommended to pecple in such stomach iroubles that they were able tain life. Almost immediately upon t ter they began to feel its (beneficial ef enjoying the exhilaraiing sense of r case where the water was taken ii* ] months, the cure was complete and sufferer gradually returned ;o superb Springs, its prime must have reached a height of 400 feet. A thought always present and Hiore of;en discussed than any otber is the age of the larger of these trees. With i more or less study?or lack of it?they | are counted all the way from 200C to , 10,000 years old. We are certain,! however, that many of ihe.se living j trees had their infancy when Solon | directed the legislation of Athens and : Cyrus the great carried on 'bis con-; ques s. Their sapling growth was ' rassed dining the time of Periclcs, J Socrates and Alexander. Taey wore i little more than youths when Christ J was born and their young manhood saw the time of Attilr. and C'lovis. Full maturity l.:; l only ',ecn attained during the Cr;i?adc?.s. Today, hoary wiih age, they are still vigorous in growth i as \.e yoiiuge- generations of trees about them. ,So fa:* a observation shows, they | have ;;o I> 'inul o: life, no span beyond I which tlit v- i-;innoz go. Xearlv all oth- : er species nave outward and visible ! WHICH uuiru .vcai uj J-JO.*, \Jt i :ige by nze. toil us of ho probable] Li-Irnin-, storn. fire, the slow . ; : -co-; o" u:i lernrining. and o tit or entirely o::i-i:!o of their vital :notions, bring :om down; but un: and supplied with nourish \v c.111 conceive ot meir ::vui'4 power. The.se trees, the oldes: 'ivinz or^anisims on earth, have a most wonderful i ality. They reproduce easily from seed but better still after the lumberman has cut them down t) be made useful for man, immediately a new grow h starts out of the old stump and this ring of saplings around the ;1 parent tree within fifty years again : ' :tre of a size permitting them to be : manufactured into lumber. Is not; ' fViof ; j sucn vitality a sumcein t;viucutc waj. they were intended for use. , 1 By all menn? <-onserve our forks'* 1 only by use. Replant denuded ' i Nestling at the foot of fhp RIiip Rifijp H'lic in iuv i/mv iuu^ v iiiuu iu the Famous Piedmont section of the Carolinas ?1,200 feet elevation ring, Etc. Of course dancing Iusic furnished by one of the ry P. Sut on, leader. The or-d supplemented ofr Sunday m every Sunday in the Spring TATION FACILITIES ar of contradiction that there south of "Mason and Dixon lities :hat Chick Springs has. Northern Electric Line, with nine south and just a short Taylors on the main Trunk York to Atlanta, Birmingham National Automobile Highway icubtedly the most accessible om the west or southwest rianburg and change to Piedie door. Or a change can be : Taylors, S. C. rOMACn TROUBLES es of Chick Springs water is of Indigestion and Dyspepsia tims in America :han all nth )f hundreds of long-sjtanding h have yielded to the effects :ly cured, prove 'beyond ques;re Chick Springs water has terrible condition with these to eat barely enough to sus>eginning the use o? this waPor>tc: anrl in o few Have woro L\/VVU) UUU iu U IV " UUJ <J ft v* V eturning appeti e. In every reasonable quantity for some permanent and the former physical condition. > s. c. f > areas but always utilize the matura material provided by nature for man. Our government through the Forest Service con rols the major portion of the standing timber today. Let them permit the manufacture of the mature trees or these great racts as otherwise much of it will be wasted through natural decay. Forest preservation as practiced has retarded rather than advanced tte economic use of :he tree growth, but we are not so pessimistic but what we feel that conditions will adjust themselves and hat our people will in the end be the best judges of how heir patrimony shall be adminis/ tired. I.; general tli true. . ving features of orestry are becoming better understood and better applied; and we will save onr ? rests, and will grow trees wherever necessary and profitable, the same as any other crop, and here will be no timber famine in the" near or dist::at future. uur :oresie:s aro studying the experience of Germany, franco. Austria and Italy, coupled with o;:r own experience, and we are making successi'ul progress. T.e director of t ie United States Pur : n' M r. < :n illi - trating the v. . \ ; r :s .ys that . ./ "in i mi'ViV.n fAti j r\"' r-rtn' \VA I ? U'ii iClw- ' ' * = w*. V. as* or ! 'vp 'i!i"ler?rcun:i -23 mil]:o ; rons. And then only 11 per cent, o~ th;* energy in coal i.~ utilize;]; nearly : 0 cent, is lo<r through tl^e. in-ifi"i'Ti'-y of :> iiers. engines and dynamos. In t'"e field of our mineral profil es th"re is gr*at opportunity For the conservationis*. By modern, methods the tailings of mines, heretofore discarded as wo/thless. are now being worked over with profit. Without dcjbt, new discoveries will be .s*a nca fr?F minpral hv-nrf)- s tuct-uc* auu uov/ w r. iucts will be multiplied so that in Lhe future as in the past, they will often be found to be of greater use (CONTINUED ON PAGE 0). .i- .