The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, July 06, 1917, Page Six, Image 6
WHAT THE EDITORS SAW
AM) HEARD AT BEAl'FORT
A31 Report* of Remarkable Truck
Vieids Abundantly Verified and
Wonderful Possibilities o f South
Carolina's Garden Spot Realized
After Personal Investigation
by State's Newspaper
Men?Interesting Faets.
News and Courier.
The South Carolina city that will
he most discussed, especially in the
.press of the State, for some time io
^come is "Beaufort, Fair Isle of th?
Sea," where for two days iast week,
Thursday and Friday, the newspaper
men of the Palmetto State were as-j
sembled in their annual convention.'
Yery few of those at this meeting |
knew anything about Beaufort, and i
fewer of them had ever been there.
As it was expressed by some, Beaufort
seemed a place far away, all by
itself and it was hard to think of it
as a part of South Carolina. Not so j
now, for the editors, the majority olj
them, at least, have seen Beaufort
and enjoyed its splendid hospitality,
and although somehow isolated for
the time being, this community of
-wonderful achievements and progressi?e
tendencies has made , an impres-1
sion upon its recent guests that will
dissipate any thought that the fair
5s:and city is not a part and parcel, m i
spirit and in acticns, of this great,
commonwealth.
A great story can be told about
Beaufort and perhaps some day it will
he told in its entirety, but for the
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give here some facts about the city!
as enumerated on the program arranged
for the meeting of the State;
Press Association, and they're all truej
?faets usually are. Here are some
cf the things those who were in Beau- ,
fort last week found out and which!
thousands of people in South Carolina |
who have not yet been fortunate i
enough to visit Beaufort, will sees
3earn:
*GIad to See You *
We are mighty pleased to have you
with us. We hope you will be too
v busy enjoying your visit to read this
now. Just put it in your pocket and
glan-ce it over on the train so that j
yo-j can tell the home folks about us.!
Beaufort is located on the finest j
"~^tjeep water harbor of the South At- j
iaiitic coast. We are in the heart of j
the" famous sea inlands, renowned for
fertility of soil and healthful all-theyear-around
climate. Though it often
ra:rs at convention and picnic times.
IVe. are all more interested in making
history than in readmg it. But;
here are a few "current events." j
7/hen the war broke out, Beaufort
adopted the slogan: "Fight, Finance
/ / g Non Stoj
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Atlantic (
The Standard Rail)
SPECIAL OCCASIONS; ^
June
Ticket[and Passenger Agents and C
As information we wish to a<
tions'have been booked up to date
during'the month of June:
t o?ndrv Aof the Carolir
Independent Order of Red Men of ]
North*Carolina Bankers Associatic
Hardware Association of North anc
SouthernJTextile Association
N.C. Baptist Chautauqua, or Assen
We'take pleasure in advising
and rumors to tne contrary, that W
seasonjas in former years; that the j
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tnctions wnatsoever as iu auummat,
"Lumina" will be open to the pul
improvements have been made in ho
and in many respects the beach sea;
than heretofore.
W.J. CRAIG,
Passenger Traffic Manaj
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or Farm."
Eight per cent of oar white popu-j
lation has volunteered for activo military
servise. Many of our boys are,
now on boats or in training camps. j
On June 5, when we registered at j
the request of Uncle Sam, Beaufort I
county is the only one in the State1
in which a majority of those regis- J
tering did not claim exemption from |
active service.
Our apportionment of "Liberty
Bonds" was $.">.000. We subscribed j
$200,000, or 400 per cent of our quota.
In addition to this over $90,000 was
subscribed by officers and men of the
marine station, making nearly $300,000
for this district.
We were asked for $5,000 for the;
Rta Cr-Without any preliminary
campaign, a nanaiui or citizens msi,
on a rainy night and pledged over;
$2,400 to start things off. As we go!
to press, the total amount is $6,250. )
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But it's at farming that we feel j
most at home. Over $1,250,000 worth j
of potatoes were shipped from 3,000 j
acres right around Beaufort within
thirty days. Our trucking industry
though still in infancy, is getting us
into trouble. People won't believe the
facts we tell.
as to the Past.
Once upon a time, 355 years ago,
on May 27, 1652, Jeane flibault's party
of French Huguenots sailed into our
harbor, settled here and built a fort.
They called it "Carolina" in honor oJ1
Charles IX.
For a century the Indians and Span-;
iards debated possession with France.!
The first English colonists landed
April 19, 1660, followed by Governor
Sayles in 1670. But the Governor and
his friends moved north to the Ash-,
ley river and set stakes. Thus Beaufort
gave birth to Charleston. j
Our next misfortune came in 1715,'
when the Yemassee Indians, by a
most wicked and devilish conspiracy,'*,
drove our settlers from the island, j
They returned soon, however, and we.
have lived more or less happily ever*
since. I
In 1861 the fedearl fleet entered!
Port Royal harbor and for four years j
Beaufort gave a house party to its j
guests from the North, who made
themselves very much at home. The
Beaufort National Cemetery was! ,
founded about this time. Orer 10,- ,
000 are enrolled in this institution
at present. x
The Beaufort Volunteer Artillery1.
antedates the Declaration of Inde-:
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pendence. Records show that Co!.'
Hardin took command on February j
23, 1776. The visit of Gen. Lafayette
and the attending ceremonies are recorded
in the campany annals. The ,
''Arsenal" is some sixty years old
and embodies its predecessor which
was built in the eighteenth century, j
In 1874 the entire lUnited States
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Mrightsville Beach, N. C.
1917
lonnections:ivise
that the following conven-j
to be held at Wrightsville Beach
las June i ith-i2th!
tforth Carolina " 13th- 15th
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1 South Carolina.. . i9th-2istj
" 22nd-23rdj
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further, notwithstanding the report
rightsville Beach will be open this !
government has not made any res- j
ing the beach; that the hotels andj
Dlic as heretofoie; that material;
>tel accommodations and attractions, I
son promises to be more attractive !
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T.C. WHITE j
jer. General passenge Agen
fleet anchored in our harbor. The
government was so favorably impressed
by its natural advantages that
a navy yard was established and a dry
dock built at a cost oJ a million
and a half dollars. Shortly after thi3
we presented our navy yard to our
"firct.hnm" mi the Ashlev. The har
bor was fastened down.
Saint Helena Episcopal church was
established in 1712. In 1917 Beaufort
County headed the list of nine- "Gold
Star Banner" Sunday school counties
of the State.
The town of Beaufort was chartered
in 1S03. In 1915 it adopted the
commission-manager form of govern
ment. Its city affairs are conducted
on a strict business 'basis with most
satisfactory results. A bond election
to make possible a $20,000 paving project
carried this spring with but sixteen
negative votes. How's that?
Thank you.
Hard to Believe, but True.
Some crops are failures. One farmer
lost his cabbage crop, just as it was
ready to ship, on account of the big
spring freeze. He planted potatoes
on the same spot. They yielded 100
barrels per acre. They were so iarge
that it took but ninety potatoes to
fill a barrel. The barrels sold at $11.50
each, netting 12 1-2 cents for each potato.
This same man is clearing over
$100,000.00 on his 300-acre potato crop.
Whipple Bros, hold the world's
record for largest gross receipts from
s\p f o rm nrn/lnnto Rotu,'DAn
UI1C aui c Ui lax m yiuuuvtk>. ?. w**
$5,000 and $6,000 in one year from
five crops with one of them a failure.
This was on the little eighteen-acre
tract at the depot. The land was
bought for $25 an acre. Lots more
like it.
Last year W. R. Eve, Jr., a young
man without farming experience,
bought a farm for $30,500. Within
ninety days his eignteen-acre lettuce
crop paid far the farm.
The same land yielded twenty-seven
carloads of lettuce this year.
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If one crop fails at Beaufort there
are four more chances left to make
good the same year. ;
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One young lady, Miss Lillian Rice,
cleared over $8,000 from less than
seven acres of lettuce last year.
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Several Beaufort potato growers will
realize from $25,000 to $50,000 this
pear. i
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The Department of Agriculture re
ports Beautort county sons 10 De iris
most fertile in the whole United
States. '
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J. Pope Matthews, president erf the
Pa l met to National Bank. Columbia; '
Capt. Sam Rice and Mr. A. L. Murphy,
bought a farm across the river this
February. By June 15 they had: shipped
enough potatoes from a fewacres
to pay for th.e farm nearly three
times over. A fine crop of cotton is
now started on the same ground.
C. F. Harvey reports record yield
of potatoes per acre this year: 165
barrels, selling for $10 a barrel, or
$1,650 from one acre, mis was on
the Belleview farm.
On the automobile tour we visited
Belleview farm, near Old Fort and
farms of Whipple Bros., Peter L. Lea.
W. R. Eve, Jr., Miss Lillian Rice, J.
Yv' Vorn iinrl J. W. Grav. manv of
whom are mentioned above.
For additional information write to
W. R. Eve, Jr., vice president. Beaufort
County Branch, Southern Carolina
Association. Peoples' Bank, Beaufort,
S. C.
This beautiful poem also graced the
program:
Hail to the country that Nature ha3
blessed,
Beaufort, fair isle of the sea:
We come from the east, from the north
and from the west
To offer our homage to thee.
Turquoise thy skies, o'er acres of
green;
Sparkling thy waters, the jewels of a
queen,
Fairest of all neath the moon's silvery
sheen:
Beaufort, "air isle of the esa.
Loved by the Indiaas who roamed o'er
the land.
Beaufort, fair isle of tne sea:
Held bv the French under Ribault's
command.
Ere the dawn of the nation-to-be.
Bathed by the tide as it rises and falls.
Barnacle-clad, its rough tabby wails.
Centuries passed thy old fort recalls.
Beaufort, fair isle of the sea.
Children shall thrill as thy story is
told;
Beaufort, fair isle of the sea;
Their forefathers fought with Britons
of old
TiP Marior.V men were free.
ear:.<!^ the call o~ our dear Dixie
land,
Their fathers marched forth, a brave-:
hearted band, 1
Leaving their homes, 'neath the new '
Hag to stand,
' For Iieaufort. fair isle of the sea.
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j 'Tis the land of the oak with its moss- j
laden bough,
i Where palmetto nods to the sea. |
'Tis the land of the Present, the Godgiven
Now!
Hail opportunity!
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! We come from tlie east, from the
north and the west,
Down to the land we learn to love
i best; j
Hail to the country by Nature so blest,
! Beaufort, fair isle of the sea!
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L. H. Wannamaker, Jr. j
! CAPTAIN AND LIEUTENANT ~~~ j
OF CHRLESTON DRAGOONSi
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! Election Confirmed by Special Order;
of Adjutant General?Capt. Schay- |
er's Resignation.
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I Columbia, July 1. ? The following
special' order was issued by the adjutant
general's office today, confirm-i
ing the elections for captain and lieutenant
recently held by the Charles
ton Light Dragoons, and announcing
the resignation of Capt. Isadore
Schayer, of the sanitary detachment,.
Second regiment, South Carolina in'
fantrv, accepted yesterday afternoon
by the governor:
i . Columbia, July 1, 1917. j
Special Order, No. 44.
Tn with cnprial r>rdf*r
No. 40, A. G. 0., Columbia, S. C., an
election was held in the armory of(
Troop A. S. C. Cav., June 25, 1917.;
. for captain and first lieutenant of said
| troop. - j
"2. Lieut. H. P. Porcher having re-1
ceived a majority of the votes, is
hereby elected captain, Troop A. S. C.
Cav., and A. F. Littlejohn having re.
ceived the majirity of votes cast, is
hereby (declared elected first lieut- j
, enant, Troop A. S. C. Cav., commis- j
j sions to take effect June 25, 1917.
"3. The resignation of Captain Isa-j
Ont,ovo? oonitart' Hotanhmprit. 2nd!
1U1 C uv>ua/ ^>1 J OUU1WI**; V*vwv.^u
S. C. Inf., is hereby accepted to take
: eectff June 30, 1917, or as soon thereafter
as section 68, with regard to the
property of said unit has been turned j
over and receipted for by his suc-^
cessor.
"4. Pvt. H. H. Sturgeon, Co. I, 2nd;
S. C. Inf., is hereby transferred :o;
Company C. S. C. Eng. Bn., this trans-:
fer having been approved by bothj
company commanders, June 23, 1917,
and approved by the governor on said
date.
"By order of the governor and com
mander-in-chief.
"W. W. MOORE,
^ "The Adjutant General."
"Official: f
"JOHN D. FROST, Maj. Insp. Gen."
Capt, Schayer's Resignation
T'iio resignation of Capt. Schayef:
ea^es the sanitary aerachmen,. of the
Second regiment -*vhout an officer.!
! except Lieutenant Harrison who is.
njw at the medical officers' Valuing,
camp at Fort Oglethorpe. While Capt.
Schayer has made no public state-'
1 ment. it is konwn that his resignation.
. is the result of the playing of politics
in the appointment of officers, j
which began when the national guard i
was mobilized last summer prior to
being sent to the border.
It will be recalled that the public
first began to take notice when Capt. j
i J. Frost Walker of Union was made
I the scapegoat in the promotion of of-',
ficers over Ms head. Several have
since then been promoted over him.
Capt. Walker is an efficient officer,
but he was aligned with the Reform
| party of South Carolina and it seems
that punishment continues to be meted
out to him. Prior to going to the
I i-.v .lor be had represented Union
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countv in the legislature. Discrimi
nation against him has been so marked
that even the local afternoon paper
recently called attention editoi
rially to his efficiency. Other instanc3
: of promotion of officers over the heads
of other officers and of going out of
| companies to secure omuers, uatc
constantly been noted. The AnderI
son Tribune, in its issue of Friday,
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said:
i ."Although Anderson has more men
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in the national guard of South Carolina
than any other county in the
j state, this (referring to recent, ap-j
j pointments), is the fourth time that
j Governor Manning has gone outside
of the companies and selected men
I from other companies to be officers
| over our boys, when there were plen-j
ty of capable men in the Anderson'
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| companies who would have been glad .
to nave utjcu mtiuc uiuv? o. ,
Your correspondent does not know
! how Capt. Schayer votes, but he has
had considerable service in the nai
tional guard and his ability as a phy-,
sician and his efficiency as an officer
are generally recognized throughout !
i the State. He served with the troops
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i on the border last summer and winter,'
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w-i".made j. s pi end. J record. "When
Major Allen .iervey. of t'ue sanii
t&ry department, resigned, the natural'
expectation was that Capt. Sehayeri
would be promoted to the position. It
v\. ? learned, however, that such was'
t
n; i ro be the case and it was generally
noised around that the posi-i
tion had been offered to a civilian
physician. Capt. Schayer tendered hii !
resignation several weeks ago. and it'
was formally accepted yesterday afternrnn
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That such things as these few instances
which have been called attention
to, among many, account, to
some extent, at least, for the failure j
of the national guard to recruit to war!
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strength by voluntary enlistment,
there seems to be no doubt. South
Carolinians have always been ready
to do their full duty to their state, in
peace or in war?bat in a war emerg-i
ency they want politics laid aside inj
an issue involving life and death.!
F'gures compiled by the adjutant gen
eral's office today, to be sent to the
!
War Department, in order that South;
Carolina's allotment of the national
army may be fixed, show that the Sec-j
ond regiment has remained practically j
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stationary in number of men since!
June 1, and still needs about 1,000
men. There has been some gains, but:
they have been offset by discharges of
those with dependent families.
Governor Obstinate.
It was urged with great force some
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time since that if the organization o?
a third regiment were permitted, giv- 1
ing South Carolina a brigade, permit- fl
ting the South Carolina troops to see
service as a unit, under their own
brigadier general, in accordance with
the published plans of the War De- J
n?rrmpnr for the enlargement of the
national guard, that enlistments would
be greatly stimulated, and that not
only could the third regiment be secured,
but thai the /anks of the two
other regiments would be filled. The
governor, however, :efused to authorize
a third regiment, lack of funds
r'cr its equipment until it was mustered
into federal service being stated
as one of the excuses. It now develops
that South Carolina had to
her credit of the federal apportion- j$p
ment $20,500, which has actually been
expended during the past week for
equipment?and the equipment pur- -M1
chased, with the 2,000 Springfield rifles
in the State army, now idle, would
have fitted out a third regiment and
left a considerable amount of equipment
to be distributed among the existing
units?one of the regiments being
in the federal service, and the
other being equipped as far as recruited.
The time during which enlistments
would have been credited ^flj
to South Carolina against the number ^
which she raust furnish under the selective
draft, however, expired yes- I
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