The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 23, 1914, Image 2
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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
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Work Called For and Delivered.
JIMMIE LEE,
539 Eait DeKalb Street.
CAMDEN, SO. CAR.
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These adjectives convey
but inadequately the ex
quisite beauty of the ?
Fall
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YOU WILL FIND "
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