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Section Two CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1920. NUMBER U VOLUME XXXII jgED AT ROCK HILL Young Was Nallve of Ker shaw County, , r , W.nder A Young, pioneer eitlaen the bwh?eM8, social and religious K>f Fort Miu, 8. a, diod afu* an ^ ^ several year* early Sunday tlM. fcoine here of bis sou, Dr. A, Youug. TlM funeral was conducted I R>ro this |^riuH?ii and the burial ?ervleto>,' nn . tin- Maputo rltoa, wiil tfe (held the family burying ground at Fort] U. The honorary qtallbearett were! ft'. Khubrcll, W, 1*. Meacham, K. iquoUi A. <>. Jones, B. F. Ofler, J. Halle. Col, T. 11. Spratt and I,. A. rls of Fort Mill. Hf# youug was 70 years of ago, ring been born In Kervhaw, 8. C? 1881. On November 20. 180ft, be I marrk-d to \llss Rlbdabetb Kaskhis, dug shortly afterwards to FWt MiH, Here be was Identified with the beat (ere-it of the town for nearly bait ?ntury. Me was one of the found i of tbe Baptist church there and 9 ? mmber amd deacon for 40 years, addition to being a. faithful and jrgetle member of the Mtasonic or ?, be was affiliated With the Wood >n of the World. He was tin? Invent of several successful farm imple K and labor savlug uiacbluety do <*# which have* l>eon universally j 1*1 for years. In addition to his wife he is sur* red by one slater, Mrs. James Price lucaster, S. C., and one brother, Wll 0.' Young, St; /Augustine, PU. following child reiA. also survive : rs. J. E. Bruce, Wlmidboro, S. C? j. J. B. Mills, Fort Mill, 8. O., Mrs. V. Macon, Macon, Ga., Mm. K. K. iker, Rome, Go., J. T. Young, Fort 111, Dr. A. E. Young, Bock Hill, and H & Young Concord. Twenty-sir fcndcbfklron and one great-grand lid also survive. Among the grand Idren are Misses LouUe and Arthur ie Young, Richard Young, Mrs, J, Martin, with her Infant? -Hook HW1 ?word. . , '? '? - ? SfssS TO CROSS NATION (envoy to Visit South Carolina on Long Trip . Washington, June 12.? (Final plans fere completed for the start Monday the army motor tran?i>ort%4jnv;oy tbo Pacific coast over the Bamkhead tioual Highway. J.. A. Rounxltree ^rector general of the Bankhead Hlgh y, will he master of the ccremonies ghlch will precede departure of the ivoyfrom the Rllpse, near the White o ? , Speakers will include Secretary Ra* Secretary Daniels, Governor Hard of the Federal Reserve BoaW } Skelton WllHam4 Comptroller the Treasury ; Major (jten. H. L |og? ts. Quartermaster flen., and Ool. nehen Cameron, of North Carolina, ?esldent of the Rankhea<d Highway ?Moeiatiou |Tbe convoy will consist of 54 dlffer types of vehicles, with 20 officers 100 men under Col^ John A. Rank from Washington. to go to Rich land and then to North Carolina, Buth Carolina, Alabama, Tenftesse^j ptnsas, Texas, and then to the PH> Plo coast, raiding at Los Angeles Pwt the middle fo September. Makfs Handsome Contribution |0c>l. bcroy Springs of I^ancaster has i*?n *50.<X)0 to the $1,000,000 endow knt campaign 1>elng conducted by. the ?wfoyterian synod of South Carolina, Is is th?> (largest. Individual oon Nation to date except that of J.M. ?afcam of Greenville, who gave the Ptfnal $100,000 to -the fund. ?Colonel Sprlngfc recently gave $25, ?p to the fund and a few days ago pk It $.-10,000 by giving the additional f>Q00 to this very worthy caAise. pbe million dollar endowment Is for Institutions under the South Oaro ? ?ynod. One half of the money goes Presbyterian College of South Caro ? one fourth to Chlcora college and remainder Is dfylded' ?QtiaUy be Columbia Theological seminary ?J Thorn woli orphanage. K^mbers of smaHer contributions are PPK recoiveti ttnd there is every in ?*"On that the campaign will 'be a ?Pr*'*V- -Tuesday** State. J^ttle Fxina. who bad coad the ad ?*****?*. ,"SAy Tl wfei flowers," P* *?ently bumped Into ?*>d howl by b*?r uncle. ? ^Vd?ar? I am i&jjMaerr" he to which Edna, picking h^p V replied : T It With WORLDS FIR8T KAII KOU) The Line IMw?ni liwibuix and CVtarifwton Built In 1838 A. W. fiellQUtet writes the following; interesting history of the first Aiut^l ooa railrouifH to (ho Augusta Chroni cle of a recent date : <>no October morning in 1838 ? flower looking contrivance rolled into the town of Hamburg, South Carolina, opposite Augusta. it constated of an upright iron boiler and ^moke-stuck form, and chained behind It wci? a ?H?ple of wagon coaches filled with pftiwwijjers, A crowd of aroaeed sjvs' tafcors looked oft with mingled feelings of eredulity and humour. There art* many politH about this invent of special significance to a stu dent of history. Here was the begin nig of a now epoch in the industrial progress of the nation. 'The plotoeer trip over, the first long railroad In the world had been successfully made. As jwrly as the year 1822, a patent railway was JtfoUjgfot to CT)farlestdi% hut from the hick of a suitable motive po*ver, It was nevor uml. The eager ness of the south for a. solution <?f the tra Usporttat Lou problem Is well explain ed by Mr. Rdward C. Dhrand, TV 5*. Director of Census : "The existing equipraont of diitroads *ui<l the narrow, rapid, shallow, ami ob structed riverx made both the market ing- rrf crops fltVd the seourt''>? of supplies heavily expensive and distressingly burdensome in the competition with the more ifortanmte ,'sc^^tlvwest. A'o cordlogly the ipoople of the wont beast were on the alert for some" Invontto? ?which would solve the transportation problem and bring them economic sal vation." Jta 1827, shortly after George Steiv henson in England had successfully ap plied steam power to railroads, Alex ander Black of Charleston and his as sociates petitioned the South Carolina legislature for a charter "to organize a railroad oompauy. The charter was not obtained until the following yettr, and' the Soutib Oarolina railroad company was forma'My organised at the Char Jeptoa ,cl$y hall on tbe l^th of itay. 1828. The work was promptly started and one year, ten months* and 'twenty-one days laterttte road was opened for pub lic travel as far as to BranChville, a distance of fdxty-two miles. In Octo ber, 1833, "the trains ran to Hamjburg, on the Savannah river about 135 miles from Charleston*. The total cos? of tlw> enterprise amounted to $051,148.89. The first looomtlvc cuu?t meted In the I Stales for regular servtce ou u railroad wum built ill New York for the far t ho South tWollna it til Road aud arrived in OhtrKjlftoa in October, 1NK0. It was christened "Heat Friend," weighed four tons, ami moved pn four wheels with strokes. M<v#t of my read ers will recall the incident related In their schpo^ histories about tho tragic fa to of tho "Host Friend"? how the ne #ro fireman became annoyed by tho noise of the cac&pllng steam, and sat upon the mtc ty^vaive, iwhlrti nctioti caused tho "Best Friend" explode, ami the uulnoky fireman was burled heavenward. Following this accident the patrons of the road liecame alarm ed at the prospects of another explo sion ; and to allay their skepticism the directors oauaed a flat-e^r ipaded with hales of cotton to be Interposed between the enfifltae and the passenger coaches, With the introduction of thin 'Hmrrler car" the popularity of railro&d travel soon revived. The sveond locomotive received for this road was <tho "West POiut," which reached Charleston In June, 1831, ankl was the lurft -locomotive (canatrncted on the principle^ of George Stephenson's "Rocket." Tbo rail rod "between Charleston and Hamburg enjoyed <hoi distinction of being the first continuous one hundred miles of railroad In the world; the first road tn the word -to be construct ed from the very beginning for the use uivnu iul uny^a Mtnv*^ v* ^m.v ? ? ? <vl tribute to the founders of this road. The following paragraph selected at random from *the early new*fp?!per?, may here bo of interest: "Oij the 2nd Instant. 141 passengers went up by the steam -oar 'William Aiken, yielding $007.88. "A free ?hoy of color was killed on tho railroad near Ifamburp on the 10th iiDSt." . -"Sunday tHfw anV discontinued on the South CarCllnn Jtull it<>;ul." One editor to Illustrate (the ,4suc cepsof tho rallnoad^xpejrlmorBt in t$outh Carolina" >cltes the fcW owing date : "In the month of January 1834, t he receipts of the South OaroWna 'Rail road company amounted to $4,220; the paf^t January (1830) tho receipts to talled $13,290. The number orable wind at the rate of nine dr ten miles an hour." On MarcJh 20th, 1830, one of the cars was actually rigged with sails In the |wvM-mv of a large gathering near Charleston. With fifteen men ou board tlw car was shoved off, and luaintalmHi ? ><peod of flfteew miles un hour un til suddenly the mast and rigglug col tapwod and fell overboard together with ?overal of the crew. After this unfor tunate mishap was passed, the car was hOou under way again aud '^Charleston Courier" assures us that tho experiment-1 "afforded* high *f>ort." In a letter written two years after after the completion of tho railroad a promlneut Charleston lady deserltoes her first ride to Augusta: "Wfc rose at drum-heat to .depart in the rail- -road car for Augusta. Those who travel -with the desire of seeing so cial life, will of course toe disappointed here, Opr plantation residences are rarely stationed on the pufclte road, tout if time could toe spared to cross that field and penetrate toeyond those woods, many a chaste building, blushing cor don and family, wouH be n 6 longer like a stranger. But the car darts on like, a rockot, atad wo leave Woodstock.' We hurry our breakfast; and wo have Just 'time to gather a pretty snowdrop from tljo garden wall, and away. We a few cotton fields and riee plan tations. Aiken, at tho inclined plane. ( Is a roman-jle Spot. Several Charleston , children In the oar were quite wild at the prospect of a real hill. We not oirty had no accident tout no tendency to "oiief In <&ur 18ft mile flight betweeu sunrise aud sunset; and it was like magic to be seated with a dear circle of frionds at Augusta^ sipping a quiet cup ^>f tea at twilight .-^Fhere was but ctoe Thing 'to make us sad on the way. and thatN^as the numerous temptation to intemperance, tho sickening 'display of gin and brandy dedanters In the heart of a wilderness. Mbrtt it toe so?" The earliest roads of rattor are track ed back to the latter part of the eight eenth century, when they were use to ^ta^eoal fir tbe mining jliBtrlctg of Eng land. The first In America appears to .have been sonstructed in the Lehigh coal districts of Pennsylvania not later j than 1836." Of course horsepower Was used to draw the cars. j" in 1826 another toorsS^fattWrtd I was opened at Quiacy, Massachusetts and hauled granite from the qua tries to the seashore. This road was probably used to carry the granite for the oon | st ruction of the Bunkftr Hill monument In 1829 an English locomotive was run over the Cartoon dale and Honesdalo j route in Pemosyflvnnia toy Mr. Iforatio A lion. j When the Baltlu^p and Ohio rail i -'Jul began nui l..n on the fourth | of July lKi!8, stone crows tie* wore em ployed, and wooden rails <<hHhh1 with heavy straps of Iron. TMKwu utiles was oiKtned for traffic in 1830, ami 1901 miles li? I8.H6. The Haiti more uihI Ohio railroad continued to toe worked by tvorse- power until 1833, although expet iiuontal frjps haU previously heeu ina<le W 1th locomotives on that road. The advance of mouhanieal science have been constructed in tbo l^chigh <?oh4 districts of Pennsylvania uot la tor that 1825. Of course ftorao jpower may In- likened to magic. Today tthc United Watts U ejhbraced by a net" work of .shining stool; end b-ugo lotsv motives ru?h across the eontlnont at a spood of sixty onlles au hour. The value of Amorican railroad properties may be reckoned iu billions. Touched by ?tbe wind of modem progress, towns, el tics, and industries have sprung tip wherever the railroads have pushed the way. The "Rocket" aud the "Beat Friend'" have been replaced by the Twentieth; Century limited, but let us not for K<'t that <l?'bt of gratitude wo owe to tho^o far-seeing men of the thirties, pioneers in the march of elvliliaatlon by w6o?o faith and perseverance trains were first placed upon tlve raUs. In #nH>te o# that opposition -*itb ?which society always meets a new Idea, thoso men tolled on; and with their fortune, brain, ami- labor laid the foundation for a hope fuMMcd 'and a vision reali sed. Killed In Boxing Beut LV. Charleston, June 11. ? Harold K. Smart, u young boxer of this cltjr, who was bactty Injured ta?t night, Ina bout with Johnny Ray of Washington died early this imorning at Roper hos pital, and Ray IS lielng detained with his manager, Tommy . Ix?we, aWo of Washington, hi the custody of Coroner Man sfleML- tOf the lhQUest Of tomorrow afternoon. A jwst mortem will be held to determine the cause of death. The boxers were in their second round -when bkwH to Smartf* liWpe iflelled him. He arose but collapsed and was unconscious ' several hours before his death. Smart "had appeared In several bouts here this spring, and was a popu lar fighter. His death Is generally de plored. ?Cecil Salmon, aged seventeen, of Con way, was drowned at Myrtle Reach, Saturday morning where be had gone on a camping trip With a party of friend*. The young lad was burled at Clio Sitoday. KMTOKM AT K4H'K*NllX (leorielomi and SpartanburK Kxlrml Invitation For Next MM ftcero, parage v>f a resolution sympa thlalng with President Wilson in hi* litmus aud wishing hi ui u speedy ne <"Overy, the delivery of a number of well prc*>arojl addresses and a pnisteul to night featured the last tkiy's session of tbo Son 1 1) Ca roll n u l'mss A**i>ola tlon. 1 A. U. Joniou, of Dillon, was reelected president; II. H, Osteon, of Sumter, first vloe president; J. Iilon MeKlssaok of Greenville, second vice president; II. 0, llookor, of Columbia, secretary, ami August Koluv, Jr., of Columbia, treasurer. The . executive committee consists of Mason <1 Bruneon, of Flor? ohm; H. IT. Peace, of Greenville ; O. K. wtfltams, of Rock Hill, and W. W. Smoak, of Walterbor. The resolution sympathising with ?the illness of President Wilson was Introduced t?y William Hanks, of Co lumbia, and was onamanimously adopt ed by a rising vote. It d^lareejhat St 1a the wish of the members tfiat the Kxecutlve 1m> soon reetpred to foil health and affirms the belief that 'he will be * -numbered among the Immor fralii" by the historians of tlie future, A eopy of t lie resolution was wired the President in the name of the asso ciation. The association received two Invita tions to hold It* 1021 nrtmial meeting, one from Georgetown And the other from Spartanburg. The selection was left to the executive committee. Jewett, Tex., June 8. ? Women who now hold the rolns of government In Jewett have mapped out an energetic program for their administration. They came into power at the spring election. - Mrs. Hftttle Adkisslon Is mayor aind She has five sister a ItSermen. The only man remaining in office -Is the town marshal!. Re used to be supported by fees but the hew regime put bin on a ed a cleanup campaign. They are con sidering street improvements attd the collection of l??ok taxes, or new taxes If necessary* t'o pay for theih. Re vision of tho traffic laws and enforce mont^of the stock law are also pro- ;? Jeeted. The women came into office by slight majorities, 20 votes In sev eral instances bein#snffic!ent to over turn traditions, Hock Hill, Juno 10. -Wlootion Oif of Some Speectf' Let a irosted bottle of spaffcfing Elm-Eali JBBBBHBBBBBr Wv-7v j ^ i, - * ' ... * 1 . ?;^g/ *'. 'f 5 :,'v -K V .V '. , ? Jij ... ? ^ v '.? * . ran circles around that thirsty feeling, leav ing a long trail of smiles and contentment* . ~ *Jvf^ t v k- ' -v . With no bad after effect.