University of South Carolina Libraries
m ? Mtemorlam? William Wilson The Board of Director* of Southern Railway Company having aaeembled In epaclal meatlng thle first day of Da* cembar, 1911, and baing advised of tha daath, at his homa In Waehington o o Novao^bar 2ft, 1W13, of William Wllaon Klnley, for th# pa?< aavan yaara Preeldent of Southern Railway Company, adopt* tha following minute to ba spread on the recorde of the Company and to bt published In the newepapara of the South. W I I.I.I AM WII40N PI VI .FY wax born at Pass Christian, Mississippi, on September 2, INft?, and en tered railway wrvice In New Orleans in 1H78. During the succeeding twenty-two years he had a varied expe rience. earning steady promotion and a growing repu? tali on, in the traffic department* of several railroads and in charge of traffic associations, in the west aud southwest In 1H96, toon after the organisation of South<rn Kaiiway Company, lie i>egnii. as Third Vice Pr*.*id<iit in charge of truffle, hi* service for this Com* panr m which, with an interval of a few months in 1S9S, he continued until hi* death eighteen years later. He became President of this Company in December, 190U. at a moment when the work of gnthcring in and welding together its linen Into u consolidated system had been dorte. The map had been made, Ther?j are no more miles of railroad included in the system today than there were when he became President. His task was, therefore, complementary to the work already done pnd the history of the development of the property during the pa/it seven years is the history of how he conceived and accomplished that task of conservation and progressive development. During his administra tion the revenues of the Company increased 20.08 per cent, (comparing !tl8 with 1907), but what is even more bin achievement, the balance of Income available for dividend (but Urgely put back Into the property) Increased 209.07 per cent. This record of material success Is in no small meas ure the result of Mr. Kinley's policy and practice of building and strengthening a working organisation of the Company so far as concerns personnel. He inaug urated and ateadfastly enforced a rule of promotion to (ill vacancies within the. organization, by recognition of demonstrated merit, with the result that he secured an ! conserved that loyal Identification with the Inter est of the South and of the Company, and that sense of personal responsibility In all ranks of the service, which Is one of the most valuable assets the Company has today. On the public side of his responsibility Mr. Pinley developed largely during the past seven years. Con vinced of the duty of stccepting the changed conditions In rrjpect of the administration of Industry incident to the governmental policy of regulation of the rail ways by public authority, he was nevertheless keenly Im pressed with the apparent lack of understanding on the part of the public of the problems of railway man agement. He. therefore, devoted much of his time to the discussion of suc^ questions before representative audiences in all parts of the country, but chiefly in the South, and the effect upon public opinion of his frank, straight forward and manly utterance* and pa tirntly iterated doctrine ha* been long recognleed, but wu remarkably demonst rated by the expression* which have l?ern received since his death from public bodle* throughout the South. He did rnuchr in thli way to correct a ?entlmrnt from which ail railway property ban suffered in recent years a sentiment which ha* found it* expression in an erroneous belief that a rail way take* from the public more than it gives, and his effort in word and deed was to restore a Just balance of understanding -of the economic necessity, to every citizen In his daily life, of a well maintained, honestly administered and prosperous transportation system. In other ways also he gave expression to a broad view of the Indentity of Interest between the welfare of the railways and that of the public. He lent active co-operation to the chief educational, industrial and commercial Interests of the South, and a moral support ? o every movement which if making for the welfare of the South, but perhaps h'* greatest service of this na ture was his successful campaign for the promotion of better agriculture, fJently born and gently bred, It was Mr. Finley's fortune to In? thrown upon his own resources at an early age and without the advantages of a university (raining and experience usually enjoyed by his asso ciates: It was, therefore, a peculiar satisfaction to him and to his friends that in 1910 he received, with the assurance that it was no mere decoration, a degree of Doctor of Laws from Tulane University at New Or leans, the principal seat of learning in the community where he had spent his youth. On the personal side, Mr. Flnley was essentially a gentleman; he demonstrated on many occasions the combination In his character of those qualities which may be expressed by the words modesty and courage. He was fair and just in all his dealings, courteous to all men, slow to anger, but fierce In hi* resentment of injustice In others. Partisan In his love for and belief in the vSouth and its future and in the Southern Rail way as an important factor in that community, he con vinced his associates that he never allowed partisan feeling to colour his judgment to such an extent that he could not always see the other sldei but a policy oncft determined he set about its accomplishment with a characteristic belief In the potency of persistence and an unhesitating use of all the power at his command. He had at all times the confidence, the respect and the good will of this Board and of every member of it, and In his death the Board and every member of It feels the loss of a friend of charming personal qualities as well as an official associate of commanding ability. The 8ecretary Is directed to express to tha surviving members of Mr. Finley's family the respectful sympathy of this Board and to transmit to them a suitably en grossed and attested transcript of this minute. AUGUSTA J. EVANS "MACARIA" MACARIA OF OLD Macaria was a woman of ancient Greece who, when Eurystheus threatened Athens, in order to save the city and the land from invasion and sub jugation, willingly offered herself as a sacrifice upon the altar of the Gods. THE MACARIA OF '61 Was the woman of the South who could not, by self immolation, redeem her country, yet she yield ed up her all, ? father, husband, brothers and sons, upon the great altar of sacrifice ? the battle fields; and whose nimble fingers, prayerful hearts and unflincing courage, endured hardships and sacri fices that have won for the women of the South a glorious page in the world's history. Macaria is a play of the old davs, with a beauti ful story of love, heroism and devotion, the whole fabric being interwoven with a thread of pure, de licious comedy, so that you may enjoy an evening of laughter, tears, thrills and thoughts. Macaria is a Wonderful Play ? Made From a Wonderful Story You Have Read the Book, Now See the Play. AT Camden Opera House Saturday, January 31st ALL TOOK A SECOND OUNCE j And 0ucc*Mful Ltv?r Thought It Wu Became of the Happiness That 8hone in Hit Face. You have read in novel* bow a great emition will transform a man's couu- i tenance; how a poet's face. In the hour of Inspiration, seta the sparrows on the housetops; how that of a man suddenly ruined causes unemo tional horses to stagger. My own features are of the commonplace type ? nobody thinks of regarding them twice ? yet 1, too. have had my ex- 1 perlences, declares a contributor to Punch. They occurred on the morning when I received a letter from Phyllis, which said briefly, "Yes, 1 think so." Not much In that, you may say, but when I tell you It was the delayed answer to a proposal of marriage, you will understand. Shortly after reading it I stepped out Into the stereet to walk to the office. What a walk that was! The light in my eyes seemed to brighten the very sun; the song In my heart was echoed from a hundred motor-busses. Never have the winds of May wooed so wlnningly a February morning. Every man T met t,urned his head as if loath to take his eyes from my. Ir radiated countenance. Every girl seemed to take the keenest pleasure in my happiness, and smiled at me prettily as If Infected by its conta gion. "'Tin well," I thought (in blank verse), "that Phyllis now Is pledged to me, or toy my troth, these flattering glances shot from beauty's eyes might make my heart unfaith ful." It was only when I reached the of fice and looked In the glass that I dis covered the large black smudge on the end of my nose. TAKING VOLTAGE OF CURRENT Electricians Experimenting to Deters mine How Far the 8park Can Jump. By measuring how far . an electric current can jump through the air from one piece of metal to another electricians can determine the volt age of a current; and it is by setting a current to making broad jumps and then scoring the feat with a tape measure that the very high voltages used nowadays are ordinarily meas ured. But the judges of these ath letic feats have recently determined that the electricity jumps much more surely from some sparks than from others, Just as a man is not likely to jump so well from a mud spot as from firm ground. Spark gaps, as these jump measures are called because of the great elec tric spark that jumps across the gap, have been made of needlepoints, says the Saturday Evening Post. Now it has been found that if metal spheres are used, and the electricity made to jump from one to the othei1; tho re sult Is more accurate; and sphere spark, gaps are replacing tHe needle point Jumps. Even with spheres to jump from the athletic electricity is not entirety satisfied unless each sphere Is as big in dameter as tho jump tho current expected to make. With such spheres the spark of a current of 500,000 volt age will break down when the spheres are a little more than 15 inches apart. Ugly and Prosperous. It is said that Oldham, in Lanca shire, England, is the ugliest town on earth and the most prosperous town in Britain, says the Indianapolis News. In and about this place there are 250,000 people, about as many as are now claimed for IndianapollB, but compared with this city few there are the world 'round who ever heard of Oldham, which has more spindles go ing than France and Germany togeth er. "Ugly as It is," says a correspon dent, "there is no town In the world where so many of the workers own the houses In which they live." In this town they have 17,750,000 cotton spindles. One works employs 12,000 men and boys. But, though thrifty and money-savers, tho Inhabitants are the saddest looking people in Lanca shire, and the public houses are quite too liberally patronized. Hare Enjoyed the Singing. The late Kev. R. Eastcrote of Exo ter, England, once told tho story of five choristers who, one Sunday eve ning, were walking along the banks Of the Morsoy in Cheshire. After a time they sat down on tho grass and began to sing an anthem. A hare pass ing with great swifrtiess toward tho place where they were sitting stopped at about 20 yards' distance from them. She appeared to be highly delighted with tho music, and as soon as tho singing censed returned slowly to tho wood. When she had nearly reached tho end of the field the choristers be gan to sing again. The, hare stoppod, turned round and came swiftly to the same place, and remained listening in seeming rapture and delight until tho singing ceased, when sho returned to tho wood. Truly a Venerable Person. The maiden lady of uncertain age became Indignant when the census taker asked her age. "Did you see the girls next door?" She asked; "the Hill twins?" "Certainly," replied the census man "And did they tell you their age?1'* "Yes." "Well," she snapped as she shut the door in his face, "I'm Just as old as they are!" "Oh. very well." said the census man to himself, and he wrote down In his hock: "Jane Johnson? as old as the Hills." A New Fancy Hand LAUNDRY - , ' < ' .. < My work is guaranteed to give perfect sat isfaction ? am prepared to do your work promptly apd at reasonable prices. All domestic finish. I wish kind friends to help me out and give me a trial order and be convinced, Work Called For and Delivered. JIMMIE LEE, 539 Eait DeKalb Street. CAMDEN, SO. CAR. Funerals Pirected We supply the best of burial goods, con ( duct funerals and relieve families and o friends of many unpleasant duties ince dent to death. We are always prepared' 7 to serve those who need our service. *afcr B. R. McCREIGHT, CAMDEN, S. C. OXYGEN CARBON CLEANER | ... ' '.. . t : ? W e have installed an Oxygen Carbon Cleaner and can make your motor new like it was when first bought. ASK US ABOUT IT f " ' U- '?? ' ? ^ - ~ Camden Motor Co. Chic, Becoming, Exclusive, Ultra Smart, Fashionable These adjectives convey but inadequately the ex quisite beauty of the ? Fall 7 on display here. YOU WILL FIND " that this establishment's reputation for the finest millin ery is splendidly upheld by this Fall showing. , ? - i ? . . v VrT - . * Very reasonable prices. MISS MATTIE GERALD