The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 02, 1935, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
I NICARAGUA
Nlcaraguan Boy* Robbing an Alligator'* N**t.
by National Oeographto Society
VfMhln/ton. D. C.>?WNU Service.
PI5ACK has been promised to
Nicaragua with the signing of a
pact recently between the rebels
who have cuused turmoil for sevirtl
years, and the central govemuent.
Next to peace, Nicaragua's greatest
uf,is are improved means 6f transportation
and communication. At
present the national railway system
consists of a line, some 1150 miles long,
rsonlng from the principal Pacific
<oast port of Corlnto, via Leon, to the
cspital city, Managua, and on to Gragids
and Dirlamba. A 24-ralle line
Unking Lake Nicaragua with San Juan
jei Sur, a few private lines, and a
three-mile at earn tramway swell the
republic's total railway mileage to 196
siles. In wet weather most of the
roids of the country are traversable
?nly by ox cart, but some 3,000 miles
g surfaced .highways have been completed
or are under construction.
Although Nicaragua Is the largest
gate of Central America?about equal
I area to New York state?Its popuhtlon
is only equal to that of Pittsburgh,
Pa. Three-fourths of the inhbitants
live in the mountainous and
ipiand western half of the country.
The history of the republic Is a
chronicle of the sufferings of the
masses, principally of mixed Spanish
and Indian descent, under kaleidoscopic
changes of government. It is recorded
that in one period of 10 years
396 persons in succession exercised supreme
power?an average period of
control of hardly more than two weeks
per ruler!
Among the most dramatic Incidents
of Nicaragua's past was the William
Walker episode, which in a measure
paralleled the Maximilian tragedy in
Mexico.' During five years of his tempestuous
career this young American
\irenturer became in turn "liberator,"
toal dictator, president, and a refi/sfrom
Nicaragua. Twice arrested
ud deported by United States forces,
bwaa finally made a prisoner by an
ficer of the British navy and was
wrrendered to Honduran authorities,
fho tried and condemned him to be
Aot He was executed September 12,
1880.
Twice has Nicaragua felt the punKre
force of European powers?in
1875, when Germany blockaded the republic's
principal ports to force the
piyraent of an Indemnity of $30,000
for an alleged Insult to a German conRl,
and In 1S05, when Great Britain
collected $15,000 damages for the ar'wt
and expulsion of one of Its conwlar
officers at Blueflelds, who had
ten charged by Nicaragua with con piracy
against the government.
Should Prosper With Peace.
The United States has repeatedly
sideavored to bring peace out of the
N'icaragiian chaos, and United States
marines were stationed in the republic
Intermittently for many years.
When Mean u's political parties
frontua;;\ permit, or are coerced Into
perm;ttthe populace to settle down
k cult.-...ting tliQ country's rich halana
lia.N, l or </MTec plantations, her
teau g: i\t's, and her Cotton fields,
flit-re is : . reason why tills largest of
tot Central Ajneriean republics should
tot bec< > one of the most prosperous.
The agricultural wealth of Nicnrafla
constitutes only a part of her nat *al
res.. ;r('es. for there is a nmgnltent
growth of mahogany and of othw
cabinet woods In her forests, and
?r hilh are rich in gold and silver,
*hile on the upland plains there is
Ocellent p;isturage for thousands of
tittle.
The tiii st striking physical features
of Nicaragua are her chain of volcnlying
parallel to the Pacific sealed,
and her two great lakes, Manifta
and Nicaragua, the latter bethe
largest sheet of fresh water
? the Americas south of Lake Michifin
and north of. Lake Tltlcaca In the
thlands of Bolivia and Peru.
Nicaragua enjoys the ndvnntnge of
Ttog almost at her door an eager
tomer for all her agricultural prod***
The United States buys twofas
of nil the republic's exports, and
feturn the latter purchases three?orths
of lier imports from us.
Ikree of Nicaragua's cities have
jjeQuently hnsked in the news spot*
t~-Manngua. the present cApltai,
Leon and Granada, each of which
? aspired to become the first clty,culariy
since the devastating
^ Quake which nearly wiped out
**Bagua in 1931.
.jknagua has a population of apu.
ma,ehv 60.000. but Its Importance
"W.r political. It Is the ulslrlb
. CPntof for coffee I nun the hills
A- j* \*&?V yy
to the south, which constitute the leading
coffee section of the republic.
An ancient Indian vllluge existed on
the site of Managua when the Spanlards
arrived. The town wsh of little
Importance until 1858 when the filibustering
expedition of William Walker
strangely Improved its lot. The rival
cities of Leon and Granada had
been capitals alternately. Walker's invasion
united the factions and Managua
became the compromise capital.
Making Managua Better.
The town is laid out in squares. Except
for the National palace (the
Capitol building)- and the president's
residence, most of the buildings Is
Managua were small and low. They
were constructed for the most part of
a soft volcanic stone or of mud bricks
(adobe). These large, crude bricks
are laid in a wooden frame and are
plastered inside and out These buildings
were not highly Inflammable when
standing and fires have been confined
usually to single structures.
Until recently Managua has had dirt
streets?alternately dusty and muddy
?and has lacked sanitary conveniences.
During the last few years a
mlllion-dollar-lmprovement campaign
has been carried out under the supervision
of American contractors and engineers.
The town has been furnished
with electric lights, waterworks, sewers,
and paving. Approximately onethird
of the streets have been paved.
There is a good sized American colony
in Managua, probably several hundred
civilians. A modern airport built
by the United States marine forces
has helped Managua to become one
of the leading air terminals in Latin
America. Here passengers en routs
t^^r from South America must change
piles.
Leon and Granada are centuries-old
rivals for the distinction of being Nicaragua's
capital. Each city was founded
in 1523, and in the succeeding two
and a half centuries the seat of government
alternated between them.
, Leon has been second in population
In Nicaragua since Managua's rise to j
pow^r. Located on the railroad that
connects Managua and Granada with
Corinto, the country's principal seaport,
Leon has enjoyed a consistent
flow of trade and has become one of
the transportation centers of Central
America. In the fertile mountain
country surrounding Leon corn, sugar
cane, cattle and dairy products are
the principal sources of wealth.
The town itself is typical of many
small cities in Latin America. Low
houses of adobe, covered with red
tiles, line the cobblestone streets.
Leon's cathedral, started in 1010, is
one of the show places of Nicaragua.
The city shows the effect of numerous
revolutions, but its plaza is still one
of the handsomest in the country.
Leon Makes' Lots of Soap.
Leon's manufacturing establishments
include a large soap factory,
which is said to supply 80 per cent of
the laundry soap used on the west
nnait o. ejtntUft-faytety. lu'll luiLtltnoc
works, three tanneries, and a waterpower
electric light plant.
Granada, the oldest, by a few
months, and perhaps the wealthiest
city in Nicaragua, was founded by
Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba as
an inland port at the western end of
Lake Nicaragua. During Spanish Colonial
days boats from the Caribbean
sea came up the San Juan river and
across Lake Nicaragua directly to the
docks of Granada. While this accessibility
made Granada an important
trading center, it also left it a target
for early pirate attacks, and It was
several times sacked, but always rebuilt.
Granada Is the terminus of the Pacific
railroad, which connects the city
with Managua, Leon, and Corinto, a
distance of 171 miles. The railroad
operates a small steamer on Lake
Nicaragua connecting Grannda twice a
week with the other towns on the lake.
Granada's principal trade is in coffee,
sugar cane, cattle and dairy products.
It Is the smallest of the three principal
cities, having only 22,000 population.
Grannda has always supported
the so-called "conservative" ideas in
government, while Leon has favored
the "liberal" side.
Electrical Wind Indicator
An electrical wind indicator at the
National Academy of Sciences in
Washington will (ell you which way
the wind is blowing. This interesting
little gadget Is connected above the
building with an anemometer and a
wind vane. By pressing on a button
lights flicker Indicating the velocity
of the wind and the direction the wind
Is blowing.?Pathfinder Magazine. ^
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| Sketch Of Career |
| Col. I^eroy Springs
j W, P. Jacobs of Clinton is the uuthor
of u book just off the press ontitled
"The Pioneer" in which tin account
of the life of Captain Kllison
Adger Hinyth is given together with
a sketch of other prominent cotton
mill executives of this state. While
the book dculs largely with the life
of Cuptuin Suiyth it tells of the development
of the cotton mill industry
in this state. One chapter is devoted
to Colonel L?*roy Springs and Ills
remarks concerning Mr. Springs ure
as follow: j
Colonel Leroy Springs, one of the
foremost pioneers in the cotton manufacturing
Held, and equally us prominent
in the banking, cotton oil, rail-'
road, and insurance iields, was for
many years perhups the industry's
busiest executive. j
He wus possessed with an unusual
determination, which enuhled him to
successfully carry through his avowed
intention of forcing each enterprise
into which he entered into successful
operation. It can be said to
the Credit of Colonel Springs that
he probably enjoyed more business
success than most other prominent
business men of the South. Anyone
i-can start an enterprise, but it takes
hard work, self sacrifice, determination,
common sense, and u never-giveup
spirit to succeed us signally as did
Colonel Springs. j
He was born on Springfield Plantation,
near Fort Mill, on November
12, 1861, the son of A. Baxter and
Julia Blandina (Baxter) Springs. His
father was educated at law, but also
farmed on an extensive scale; was
president of a railroad; was director
of two. other railroads, and extensively
interested in banking as well.
His father was also state senator,
and a member of the South Carolina
t Convention which formed the ordinance
of Secession.
The ancestors of Leroy Springs
came to this country from Holland
and settled in New York in 1700,
Leroy Springs was a student at the
| University of North Carolina from
j 1878 to 1880. -He married Grace Allison,
daughter of Samuel 10. White
of Fort Mill, on December 28, 1892,
whb died in 1907. He was married
a second time to-Lena Jones, daughter
of T. M. Jones of Pulaski, Tenn.,
on November 29, 1913. Iveaving the
University, Colonel Springs entered
the mercantile business: and became
a salesman for the firm of Springs
and Burwell, wholesale grocers, of
| Charlotte, N. C., in 1880, and there
began a long, successful and most
useful business career. The wide diversity
of his interests; the great
number of successful enterprises
which he founded and headed, offer
an unusual record. How one man
could so successfully found and operate
so many varied interests is
easily a mystery to the average man,
but Colonel Springs possessed unus-i
uul business ability und keen Judg- |
went which enabled him to enjoy exceptional
accomplishments.
\
lie founded I^oroy Springs und
Company, wholesale and retail mer- j
chandiso In Lancaster, S. t\, in 1 s84; j
later operated us the Lancaster Mer-j
cantile Company. He was president
of this company for sixteen years. j
He organized the firm of Springs and '
Shannon at Camden, S. C., in 1X85; ;
the Kershaw Mercantile und Hunkiug j
(Company in 1888, ut Kershaw, S, C.;
the Heath Springs Hanking und Mercantile
Company at Heath Springs, S.
C? in 1889; the Hunk of Lancaster,
S. C., in 1889; the Hank of Kershaw,
in Kershaw, S. C? in 1904.. He organized
lite Luncaster Cotton Mills, uue
of the largest In the South, in 1890
at Lancaster, S. C.; the Kureka Cotton
Mills and the Sprlngstein Mills at
Chester, S. C., in 1899, tlie Kershaw
Cotton Mills at Kershaw, S. C., in
1913. He reorganized the two mills
of the Fort Mill Manufacturing Comapny.
Fort Mill, S. C., in 1904, They
were built in 1884 and 1889 respectively.
In 1928 Colonel Springs was the
president of seven cotton mill companies,
president of the Hunk of luncaster,
the Lancaster and Chester
Railway, the Landsford . Water und
Power Company of Lancaster; Vice
President of the Hunk of Kershaw,
S. CV, Director of the Catawba Fertilizer
Company, the l^uneaster Cotton
Oil Company, First National Hank of
Camden, National Exchange Hank of
KerBhuw, Savings Hank of Fort Mill,
the Southern Home Fire Insurance
Company of Charleston, the Prudential
Fire Insurance Company of Greenville.
Trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York; Director
of the American Trust Company
of Charlotte; Vice President of
the Columbia, S. C., National Hank.
He was director of the Charleston,
Columbia and Augusta Railway at the
time it was merged with the Southern
Railway.
Colonel Springs was a member of
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, member of the American
Manufacturers Association, of the
American Hankers Association, of the
South Carolina Hankers, of the N. E.
Manufacturers Association, of the
New York and New Orleans Cotton
Exchange, of the Southern Manufacturers
Club of Charlotte, and of the
Cotton Manufacturers Association of
South Carolina, of which for a time
he was vice president.
He served as Colonel on the staff
of Coventor John P. Richardson from
1886 until 1890. He was Chairman
of tlie Hoard of Trustees of the Lancaster
Graded Schools for a period.
He was a delegate to the Democratic
National Convention four successive
times up to 1920, and a delegate-atlarge
in 1924. He was actively interested
In many other enterprises.
Indeed, the enterprise and energy
of Colonel Springs was most out
standing- ^< the time of hie death, In
19111, ho was probably officially vpnnected
with more separate corporations
than any one business mun thut
the elate of South Carolina bus produced.
Few men ever enjoyed such
Kreal success; few South Carolinians
ever occupied such a prominent position
of leadership as did Lcroy
Springs.
He believed that busines success
should be founded on sound ideals,
on good habits, strict attention to
business responsibilities, good associates,
strict integrity, honest dealing,
and t hot setting of business persistently
beforh pleasure.
Colonel Springs a Presbyterian and
u Democrat, and one of South Curo
Una's greatest benefactors. His contributions,
iiuancially and otherwise,
to the development of commerce, industry,
finance, agriculture, religion
and education in the state were enormous.
To Colonel Springs should go the
lion's sharo of the credit for much'
of the progress in these fields which
South Carollnu has made during tho
last half century.
The mills which Colonel Springs
founded, and many of his other Interests
are, since his death, under the
capable management of his son and
successor, Captain Klliot Whtto
Springs. Captain Springs Is already,'
following in his father's footsteps, a
successful manufacturer In his own
right. He was one of America's greatest
aceH during the World Wur, and
is also a writer of note.
j
Heart Disease Takes Heavy Toll
New York, July 29.?Out of a total
of 20,570 people who died in New
York the llrst three months of this
year, only eight died of "old age" the
department of health reported tonight.
A partial list follows:
Heart disease f*,581; cancer 2,419;
pneumonia 2,185; tuberculosis 1,032;
suicide 287; auto accidents 225;
syphilis 189; homicides 109; old age
8.
Agriculture
"Imagine the indignity of being a
cornstalk and having your ears pulled
by a farmer!"
"But think of the discomfort of a
potato, wltli its eyes full of dirt."
Squirrels are being charged with
gnawing lead telephone cables at
Monroe, Ga., and doing damage to the
1 extent of $1,000.
I After 45 Years of Service ??
I am beginning to serve the 5th generation. In celebration
of this I will give Friday and Saturday, August
2nd and 3rd
HAIR CUT, SHAVE and TONIC FOR 50 CENTS I
Old and New Friends Invited I
EUREKA BARBER SHOP
I. B. ENGLISH, Proprietor j
Two Murderers Die
In Electric Chair
Columbia, July lit).?Two negroes,
one a youth ami the other an old man,
were electrocuted for murder today
at the South Carolina penitentiary.
The double execution took approximately
half an hour although there
wus a delay when one of the wltnessea
fainted and ho vera 1 othorH left the
death chamber.
Hansome Emanuel, 66, waa electrocuted
shortly after 6 a. m. for futally
assaulting u 91-year-old white womun
of Florence county.
Monroe Stewart, 22-year-old Calhoun
county negro, paid the penalty
u few minutes later for killing Ed
Huynes, a St. Matthews pool room
operator.
Emanuel told the Uev. 8. K. Phillips,
penitentiary chaplain, that "I
was drunk and don't know what happened"
In the Florence case, reiterating
that he did not remember attacking
the woman.
He said he had dreamed laBt night
of the hearse carrying his body to
the grave. He was pronounced dead
three minutes after the current
struck him.
Stewart, who had confessed his
crime, followed the older negro neri
vously to the death chair.
Sobbing, he turned to three young
Calhoun county uegrooB who were
nmong the witnesses with u warning
to "stay out of bad company."
"Lord Jesus, have mercy on my
bouI," he shouted as the current
struck him.
Ur L. li. Jennings, the prison physician,
said Stewart's heart action
and pulse were absolutely halted by
the electricity, whore ordinarily the
shock stimulates the heart for some
seconds after death. He was pronounced
dead In two minutes, 23 seconds,
in all.
Sam Cannon, state electrician for
the paBt 17 years, said the incident
was the first he could recall in which
the heart had been Instantly stilled.
It was attributed to Stewart's nervousness
upon entering the chair. Witnesses
from Florence and Calhoun
counties attended the electrocutions.
The first native president of the
Phillippines will bo inaugurated November
15.
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An average of 20.1 miles per
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Safety stopping records beaten
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