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(Hjr Statttberg ifrralit Thursday, Nov. 7, 1907. Our New York Letter. Thomas A. Edison says "The poor man need no longer livejn a box for a house. He can own a palace." "Before next summer I will build a three-story,indestructible concrete house that a laboring man earning $1.50 a day can buy and run. It will be as artistic and comfortable as any Fifth avenue mansion, and all will be built in half a day. Come up ' and see it." Had any one else made these I statements you would have said that he was a dreamer. But when Edison had led you through the balconies of his study, packed with charts, diagrams, and models of his successful inventions,.vou begin to believe him. Then, when he had reached the top floor of the building, thrown open t the door of a spacious room fitted - with a quarter size model of the house, and pointed #ut of the window to a huge concrete building in the distance, where he was making machinery to build not only one but thousands of houses like it, you knew that he meant business. "There it is," he said briefly, though with a bit of pride brightening his clear gray eyes. The model was a three-story, Queen Anne house, with a high peaked tiled o-rifl o Kqu fmnf uprv sinrcfstive IWlj (W1U U WWJ MVU<f -w-,7 ?-00? _ of the houses on Riverside Drive. The eleven rooms were high studded and well lighted. The walls within and without were frescoed simple. "You hardly think we can put that up in half a day?" the inventor questioned, in his shrill, high-pitched voice. "'Well, we can, and for less 4han $1,000, too. This is how we'll do it: Over in that factory you i just looked at we are moulding cast iron forms. The inside facings of these forms are nickle plated and are fashioned exactly like the outside of the model. When these are done we are ready to build any number of houses. "At 6 in the morning we take the I moveable steel castings to a vacant lot. These are clamped together with bolts, and you have before you a house of iron, with hollow wils. Meantime we are mixing our concrete, one part cement, three parts sand, and three parts quarter-inch crushed stones. The machinery to raise this soft concrete to the top of this iron frame work, a big mould, you. understand, is already on the ; spot# By 6 o'clock at night there is / your house inside your iron work. Everything except the doors and windows are in place. In six days the iron frame is unbolted and Temoved. - ' 1 it - In another eignt aays me concrete is completely hardened and the house ! ready to live in. Fifteen days from start to,finish. "The only wood used are the strips ' around the edges of the floors on , which to tack down a carpet, and thbse around the wall for the picture 1 moulding/ All this is put in place in 1 , the iron work before the concrete 1 has been poured in. The tiling * around the fireplaces and in the chimneys, the gas and water pipes, J are also stuck in the same wUy in the concrete walls. The furnaces, the ] heating pipes, the bath tubs, water ? closets, are all cast with the walls. } "There will be no plumbing bills; 1 there is no plumbing to be done. 1 There will be no insurance; there's nothing to burn. Rome wasn't built } in a day, they say, but New York ? can be. < "I've done this for the working- 1 man who is doing his best to bring 1 up a family. I woij't make a cent 1 on it. One day I went through the 1 East Side. You know it. Nothing * but a mess of brick boxes. I got the < idea of this at the time. 1 "In a few years all this will be -1 J ..-rill rr<\ mifcn/ln rvf I 1 CfiailgWl. IUU Will gv vutoiuy vx , Manhattan and see rows of health- * ful, beautiful concrete houses, one for each family. The expense of i , making them will be less than that ' of the dirtiest tenement on Riving- 1 < ton street. 1 "These houses won't be all alike. I am leaving the patent open to every- < one^ Competing companies will < spring up, each making a different < style of house. J "No, the architecture will not be '< monotonous. In fact, the architects 1 never had their chance till now. Be- 1 fore they had to rush out something cheap, never anything Beautiful. 1 Now they won't have to worry about 1 expense. The most artistic house is 3 as cheap as the crudest. Why its * going to mean a revival in architec- '< tur?. 3 "Turner's Rome will not be in it 1 with New York ten years from now. Of course I have patented the house, < it is necessary. I shall give anyone L the rights for nothing, provided he < uses the right kind of concrete, enforces it properly with twisted iron rods, and makes an artistic product. The laboring man is going to get a < square deal on this improvement." ) TT TTT TT_ ^. | 1 n. w. r iNLAisuiN, j 450 Broadway, New York. ] Chinese Raise Cotton. ? Several bales of cotton were sold in 1 Sumter last week that were grown on <a fifty-acre farm in that county own- ( ed by Chinese who run a laundry in e Sumter. These slant eyed celestial J immigrants are helping to develop } our resources and build up our waste , places.?Barnwell People. It is not amiss to call the attention of the hunters to the fact that the ( game season does not open until No- s vember 15. 1 v A HORAL QUESTION. Masons Will Refuse to Receive Any Han Engaged in Selling Liquor. By a vote of 430 to 72, the grand lodge of Masons of Kentucky has adopted an amendment to the constitution of the order in that state prohibiting entrance to the order of any person engaged in the liquor business. Any man who makes his livelihood from the sale of liquor, except persons employed in clerical , capacity at distilleries, who are not actively engaged in selling the product, are barred by the amendment, so that the great distiller, as well as the insignificant bartender, is under the tongue of evil report with the Masons of Kentucky. This is only one of the many evidences of the growth of prohibition sentiment in the south, but it is a particularly striking instance. The Masonic order is the most liberal of all great fraternities. Its only requirements of any man for membership are belief in a supreme being and a good moral character. No man is rejected because of his political or religious opinions, nor is any specific employment proscribed to members of the order. When, therefore, the Kentucky grand lodge outlaws from Masonry all those who gain their support from the manufacture or sale of liquor, it defines the business of selling or manufacturing liquor as an immoral employment. Only on the ground of immorality could traffic in liquor be proscribed to the engagement of Masons. There is, therefore, peculiar force in the action of the Kentucky grand lodge, aside from the fact that it is the recorded belief of a gathering of representative Kentuckians, the home and spring of good whiskey, that- no man should manufacture or sell alcoholic liquors. The liquor traffic is condemned out of hand as an immoral practice, not merely as a pursuit to be restricted for economic or political reasons.?Charleston Evening Post., HOTHER SEES HER SON SLAIN. Laurens Man Strikes His Brother Two Fatal "Blows. Laurens, Oct. 31?A most regret-, table fraticide has occurred in this county. Today at 10 o'clock Frank Jerry died at his father's home, near Madden's, as the result of two blows on his head inflicted by his younger brother, John C. Jerry, in a fight between the two yesterday* afternoon in the backyard at the home of their father, Joseph Jerry, a weii-to-ao farmer. The fatal encounter was witnessed by the aged mother and Andrew Jerry, another brother. According' to Andrew's statement he and Frank were in the garden at work when John Jerry rode up in the yard and asked Frank to come out, that he had a letter containing some I statements which he (John) wanted explained. John then proceeded to read the , letter, whereupon Frank broke in with the remark that the objection able language was a lie, a fabrica- , fcion concocted by John himself, and ' started at his brother with a hoe. , Andrew caught Frank and pre- j rented him from striking John. i rearing himself away from Andrew, 1 Frank made at John again, when ] John drew his pistol and struck his } brother two blows on the head knock- . ng him down. John then mounted lis horse and rode off. Recovering from the stunning ( jlows, Frank arose and followed 1 John, coming in the direction of the ( rity. A mile from home Frank was ( found in a ditch by a passerby,, and ] jvas placed in a wagon and carried ] jack to his father's. He was in a weakened condition and lost con- < jciousness shortly after nightfall. A j ioctor was summoned and the man < ingered until this morning. The inquest was held late this af- ( :ernoon and a verdict returned in accordance with the above facts. j John Jerry, his brother's slayer, is ^ in the county jail tonight, having ( been arrested this afternoon at his 1 home, five miles below the city, by { the deputy sheriff. When arrested he claimed that he | iid not know that his brother was iead. He stated to the correspon- ] ient of the News and Courier tonight that he greatly regretted the ] affair, but he simply had to defend limself and had no idea that it vould result so seriously. j He says the letter was not written jy Frank Jerry, but by a citizen of j -.his citv. The letter was received ^ yesterday and purported tx> place in lohn Jerry's possession some derogitory statement made by his brother. He declined to say what the charac;er of the alleged statement was. John Jerry is 33, and has a wife md one child. The dead man was 17, a widower, with two grown ihildren. Scored Senator Tillman. News comes from Charlotte that Senator Tillman was warmly delounced by the Rev. E. E. Bomar in lis sermon there last Sunday. Dr. Bomar was discussing the evil influjnces of the recent Mecklenburg fair, md plead for an awakening of the noral spirit of the city. < "The nrofanit.v of the Hon. B. R. J rillman last year aroused the public jonscience everywhere in the city," aid the speaker, "and the people mitediy demanded that we have no nore such attractions. So I understand. I was not there. I had an dea what it would be like." It is estimated in Newberry that me- third of the cotton crop has been sold in that county. Farmers are lolding to the other two-thirds. - , A COL. R. W. HUNT PROMOTED. Will Become Assistant General Passenger Agent of Southern. It is announced that Col. R. W. .Hunt has been appointed assistant general passenger agent of the Southern Railway with headquarters at Atlanta to succeed Mr. George B. Allen, resigned. The appointment was announced from Washington last week. , Col. Hunt is at present division passenger agent of the Southern with headquarters at Charleston and in charge of the South Carolina territory. Before being sent to Charleston he held the similar position with headquarters at Augusta. He is now to take the position made vacant seven months ago by the resig nation of Mr. George B. Allen, who retired to go into private business. The appointment will become effective at once, and it is stated that the appointment is dictated by the desire on the part of the Southern's management to promote a faithful official and to keep in touch with the people of this territory by putting into an executive position a manl who is familiar with the needs of the service. Col. Hunt began his titular career in Augusta, where he was "Alderman Hunt." Later by appointment of Gov. Heyward he became "Col. Hunt," and now he goes to Atlanta, where he will be "Gen. Hunt."?The State. . THE HETHODIST LAYMEN. Resolution Passed Calling for. Ho re Representation. A meeting of the laymen of the Methodist church of South Carolina was held last Wednesday night at the Y. M. C. A. hall, in Columbia there being a large number present in response to the call issued several days before. After the meeting it was. given out by the secretary, Mr. W. W. Watson of Batesburg, that the following resolution had been passed: "Resolved, That the chairman appoint one or more men as representatives to meet the presiding elder of each district, looking to the organization of the laymen of the South Carolina conference." At the meeting Col. R. W. Simpson ol Pendleton was elected chairman and there was some discussion on the object of the call. It was the sense of the meeting that the lay members of the church should be more generally represented at the annual conference and for that reason the resolution referred to was passed. The chairman will announce the Appointment of the committees in a few days and the entire matter will be passed on at the next annual conference which meets next month. NEW COUNTY REPORT. Branchville Scheme Rejected and Wagdner Before Gov. Ansel. The commissioners appointed for the survey of the proposed county of Branchville made its report yesterday to Gov. Ansel, finding that the area was 338 square miles and that the line of the proposed new county was within seven miles of the court house building at St. Georges in Dorchester county. The returns showed that the boundary lines were in violation of the constitutional requirements and therefore the comission reported that it was not necessary to proceed with the investigation. There is a proposition for another county with Wagener as county seat, to be formed out of parts of Aiken, Orangeburg and Lexington. Yesterday the following commissioners who lave had charge of the survey of the lines met here: Orangeburg, I. W: Bowman, Russel Poole; D. K. Gantt, R. B. Carter, Aiken; Lexington, W. 0. Jackson, Paul E. Hutto. There are three large towns in this county; the towns }f Sallev. Wagener and Perry. The surveyors report that the area is proper and the property is sufficient and all is right but there is a discussion as to whether the population is to be based on actual count or in the census of 1900 ?The State. Darlington Citizen Roughly Handled. Darlington, October 30.?Tolly Bozeman, a white man living about sight miles from Darlington, was deaten nearly to death by two negroes this morning. The two negroes, whose names are Abraham hooper and Abraham Evan6, were employed to water the stock of Mr. Bozeman. Failing in this last night, they were told of it by Mr.' Bozenan's son. They cursed the boy and fired a pistol at him. The boy told lis father of it, and when called to iccount this morning by Mr. Bozenan the negroes cursed him and :hreatened to beat him. While in ;he act of picking up a piece of x)ard from the ground the negroes >et upon Mr. Bozeman, beating him vith boards, and crushing his skull. Be is not yet dead, but is pronounced jo be fatally hurt. TH - ?_ r\ I; i ne negroes are m jan at l^arimg;on. Both are young negroes, neither being 20 years of age. Election Ordered. Gov. Ansel has issued an order for in election for Calhoun county, with 3t. Matthews as the county seat, to beheld on December 17. The territory unbraced in the proposed new coun:y takes in part of Lexington and Orangeburg counties and there have :>een several legal objections raised :o the election. However, Gov. An>el decided last Thursday to order an ilection after a report of the survey>rs had been filed. The people in the :ounties affected are taking much in;erest in the election and there will irobably be a very close contest. |a^tbrabham| @ OLD LINE 1 I FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE 1 liLADIEsJ a? < 3? Si J < > ~ s ? ? :: r nn^BnnnramHi ? 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