The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 18, 1913, Page 2, Image 2
CANALS IN UNITED STATES.
Four Great. Artificial Waterways to
be Opened in 1914.
The year of 1914 might appropriately
be termed the year of canals,
writes Holland in the Philadelphia
Ledger. Within twenty-four after
the official announcement from Massachusetts
reported that the canal
which will cut oft' the forearm of
Massachusetts Cape Cod. at the shoulder
will be completed early in the
year 1914 and opened to navigation
within the year, there came also authoritative
information from Texas
1 1 L 1 Q 1 4
stating tnat eany m me ?>cai
the canalizing which has been in progress
at and near Houston would be
completed. .When this work is done
there will be a ship channel to Houston
with an average depth of 25 feet
of water. The Cape Cod canal will
have a depth sufficient for any but
the very largest steamships.
In the year 1914. in all probability,
the greater part of the work for the
improvement of the Erie canal will
have been completed and if the
great terminal basin which is to be
established at the west end of Long
Island fronting New York harbor
were also then finished, this stupendous
canal proposition, which is to
cost about two-thirds as much as the
Panama canal, will also be ready to
float barges of a thousand tons capacity.
In the year 1914 the Panama
canal will be made ready for the com
xnerce that will be offered, so that in
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the early winter of 1915 this greatest
public work of modern times, at
least in its influence, will also add
its achievments to that of the other
canal builders.
Of these canals the one now under
construction at Cape Cod to connect
Buzzards' Bav with Massachusetts
*
Bay is the only one which represents
the investment of private capital.
The Cape Cod canal represents the
initial portion of the proposition laid
down nearly 100 years ago by John
C. Calhoun, when he was secretary
?
of war in the administration of President
Monroe. The canal, which
would shorten the distance from Boston
to New York, and would also
make possible practically safe navigation
by avoiding Cape Cod, was
outlined by Calhoun as the beginning
of artificial intercoastal canal
systems stretching from Massachusetts
Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.
A pan 01 1,11 at system is uu?* m ui/ciation
and the initial part will be completed
next year.
At the remote southwest, as compared
with Cope Cod, Houston is to
celebrate the construction of an artificial
ship channel by means of
which ocean going vessels will be
able to dock at Houston. The government
of the United States is sponsoring
this canal with the abundant
assistance of Houston herself, and
the government's engineers are perfecting
this artificial channel. There
is to be a turning basin at the upper
end of this channel and the city of
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Houston will build as perfect a system
of wharfage as is to be found in
the United States upon the front of
this basin. The government, however,
exacts from the city a guarantee
that commerce will be free and Houston
did not grudgingly accept this
provision of the contract, since the
enterprising citizens of that flourishing
city had a keen understanding of
what free wharfage and a free water
front would mean in the way of
tempting commerce to utilize the
new ocean front at Houston.
Whatever may be the commercial
influence consequent upon the opening
of four waterways to navigation
the fact that these artificial navigable
waters will be completed in the year
1914 is of itself enough to authorize
the designation of that date as the
great American canal year.
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I*ureltv for Amusement.
John Kendrick Bangs was moving
his goods and chattels from his home
at Yonkers, X. Y. It was a rainy
day, and before the house stood three
large moving vans and the lawn was
covered with furniture of all sorts.
Mr. Bangs stood in the downpour expediting
the movers, when a lady, a
neighbor with whom he was acquainted,
passed and smilling, asked:
"Dh aro vnn mnvin? "\Tr Bane's0"
"No, indeed, Mrs.?," replied the
humorist. "You see, it is such a
beautiful day that I thought I would
get all the furniture out of my house
and take it out for a ride."
At the Top Notch.
"Does he look respectable?" said J
the eminently proper head of the I
eminently proper tirm to the man j
who had recommended an unfortunate
acquaintance for a clerkship. j
"Look respectable?" was the rePly.
"Good heavens! yes. He looks sot
respectable that all the spooning
couples in the park stop spooning j
when he walks bv. Can respectabil-1
i
ity go further?"
The eminently proper head thought
it could not, and gladly dispensed
patronage.
RICH IX IKOX ORE BEDS.
America's
Dei>osits Make It Leader in j M
Iron Production.
A year or so after the late William
H. Barnum retired from active poli- E
tics lie occupied himself in a study of m
the iron ore resources of that part of oi
the United States with which he was 11
familiar, says a New York letter, tc
Senator Barnum possessed great tt
furnaces in the northwest corner of is
Connecticut. 1-ie was iaimueii wilii \i
the iron ore resources of the uoper fa
Harlem valley and also of north- lc
western Connecticut and the adjacent w
country. His investigation justified
him in saying that he believed that ti
the iron ore mines of upper New ri
York and the upper Harlem valley rt
were practically inexhaustible. He w
meant to convey the idea that at the Ir
rate of increase in American iron ore s2
production it would be many years ol
before these mines would be exhaust- 01
ed. w
The governmental agitation to pre- th
vent monopolistic control of the iron tl:
ore of the United States has been of tl:
great educational benefit. It has serv- Ir
ed to teach the people what the mag- el
nitude of the iron ore deposit of the tl:
United States really is. A govern- as
ment commission recently reported to
that in New York state alone there ea
probably lie beneath the surface iron th
mines of almost inconceivable great ifi
extent and richness. Some of them fa
would require a great deal of surface w
excavation to reach. These are in tl:
the central part of the state. The
Adirondack ores, which can be con- d(
veniently shipped by means of Lake st
Champlain, are of such magnitude th
that it has sometimes been said that, jn
notwithstanding the long continued
wuiiving ui mcsc imnco, uoti
they have not begun to yield a tithe tj
of their crude wealth. of
Among the other very great devel- w,
opments in the South of the natural
resources that of the exploitation of a jn
richness in iron is among the great- v.-<
est. The experts and the governmen- c0
tal authorities are inclined to the p
opinion that, even if there were ex- w]
haustion of the mines in the north- c0
ern part of the United States, within th
the next 25 or 30 years, the iron ore th
resources of the south are capable of w
such utilization as will enable these e\
mines to make good what is lost in ai
the north. co
Nearly thirty years ago the late er
Abram S. Hewitt ventured to predict th
to a great group of iron and steel
manufacturers of Great Britain that Wi
the United States was bound within a in
generation's time to leap ahead of
Great Britain in iron and steel pro- ej(
duction, and would be enabled to do ]3e
that because of the almost exhaust- ^i
less amohnt of iron ore, both of high e(j
grade and of low quality, which lay se
beneath the soil of the United States. sa
Convenience of transportation, neigh- ur
boring mines of limestone and other jts
ingredients used in iron and steel pi
production, together with the rapid- ps
lv increasing domestic demand for m
iron and steel products, would make efl
it inevitable that the United States e(j
would acmeve pre-eminent position
among the nations of the world as a v;,
producer of iron and steel in quanti- a
ties and a miner of iron ore. Recent tr;
statistics prove Mr. Hewitt to have th
been an accurate prophet.
In 1909 nearly $75,000,000 represented
the cost of operation and de- re
velopment of American iron mines, th
and about $4 0,000,000 represented sa
payment of salaries and wages. The in
miners and the wage earners in that ni
year produced nearly 52,000,000 w<
tons of crude iron ore. ei
We get some idea of the magni- er
tude of this branch of American in-*'
dustry from the recent report of the ^
bureau of statistics of the American
iron and steel institute. America, in
the fiscal year which ended on June le
30, produced a little over 32,000,000 ai
tons of pig iron. This, too, in a year
which many persons have spoken of 01
i ; J : ^ 111
as one 01 uusiness uepiessiuu aau
business anxieties. .Moreover it was in
in a year it was certain that there ^
would be a new tariff law containing 1)1
the schedules which radically reduce fe
the rates from those fixed by the pres- ^1
ent tariff law.
i of
A New Kind of Graft. aI
w
The other day a man and his ten- P1
year-old son boarded a southbound Ti
Rock Island train at Weston. The rh
father placed the boy in a seat just r
behind him. When the conductor **
came through the car the boy told sc
him he had neither ticket nor money.
He said he had run off from his home
in Weston and was going to visit his t0
grandmother in Kansas City, whereupon
the father of the boy jumped |
up, took off his hat and placed a |
dollar in it. after which he passed it j 1:J
among the other men passengers in j Ic
the car. When several dollars were ! l'1
collected the father gave the money j c(
to the boy. Presumably there was j
another division later.?Rushville,! ^
Kas.. Xews. ai
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PROHIBITION A STATE ISSUE.
[r. Harley Heady for State to be
Entirely Wet or Entirely Dry.
Spartanburg, S. C., Sept. 11, 1913.
ditor The Bamberg Herald: As so
uch has been written for the papers
our State in regard to the recent
quor elections, and as there seems
> be an impression in the minds of
ie people that prohibition sentiment
on the wane, I am asking space in
)ur paper for a plain statement of
:cts which seem to have been over>oked
by all those wno have been
riting.
First: There were seventeen counes
in South Carolina which had the
ght, under the law, to vote for the
^-establishment of the dispensary
hich was voted out four years ago.
t eight of these counties the dispeniryites
failed to secure the names
,f one-third of the qualified voters
1 their petitions and no elections
ere ordered. In Abbeville county
ie vote was overwhelmingly against
ie dispensary. This leaves nine of
ie seventeen safe for prohibition,
i the other eight counties where
ections were held only about onelird
of the vote was polled for or
gainst the dispensary, and according
i the returns, it was almost a tie in
tch of these counties. This means
iat only about one-sixth of the qualed
voters expressed themselves in
vor of the return of the dispensary,
hile the other one-sixth expressed
lemselves against its return.
This raises the question: "Where
>es the four-sixths who did not vote
anH?" t nrr> frep to sav. knowins:
e facts as possibly no other man
the State knows them, that a
rge majority of these non-voters
and for State-wide prohibition,
ley are disgusted with the county>tion
plan and refuse to vote unless
3 make a state issue.
The argument in counties like Lexgton,
Barnwell, and Sumter, with
et counties adjoining, was "The wet
unties are selling the liquor to our
;ople and are getting the revenue
hile we are getting the drunks and
>urt expenses." Everybody knows
at this i^true and has such weight
at this is true and has such weight
*
ith a number of men that they
ther vote wrong or do not vote at
1. Nevertheless, even in the eight
iunties now under discussion, tricky
had to be practiced to even call
e election in some instances.
In Dorchester county, negro men
ere put in the field with petitions
order that a sufficient number of
imes might be secured to call the
ection. . When this petition had
sen filed it was examined by four
spensary men, the election order1,
and the petition was sealed with
aling wax and locked up in an iron
fe. In order that that famous docnent
might be brought to light and
5 contents be made known to the
iblic, the anti-saloon league had to
.v a lawyer $50 to secure a writ of
andamus from the court to that
feet. When the petition was openI
before our committee it was found
contain the names of many who
/
Bre not Democratic voters. I have
certificate from the board of reglsation
of Dorchester county stating
at on one page aloife they found
e names of forty-eight negroes.
I am stating these facts that the
sople of South Carolina may know
at the superintendent of the antlloon
league knew what he was talkg
about when he stated a few
ontlis ago that the liquor people
ere appealing to negroes and forgners
in their desperation to recovlost
territory.
In Lexington, Sumter, and Wilzmsburg
prohibition won and
lould be put down as dry territory,
lese three counties now have consts
before the State board. There
e other reasons which might be
ven why prohibition seems to be
i the wane. One is that a large
imber of voters claim tnat it is
mossible to enforce the law under
e present state administration, that
ind tigers have no fear because they
el sure of pardons, if convicted,
he governor refuses to appoint probition
men on the dispensary board
control in Orangeburg county, but
ipoints men who are in sympathy
ith the liquor element to enforce
ohibition laws in dry counties,
bus our hands are virtually tied,
le people are disgusted, the voters
(fuse to vote until they can see, or
link they can see. that it means
>mething. Prohibition sentiment
is not waned in the least, and all
le voters of South Carolina want is
i express themselves at the ballot
)x on this question as a State issue.
1 do not agree with Rev. X. X.
urton in regard to a prohibition
my. We do not need a new party
> settle this question. We need the
r>l> i 1 \i r ir?n i cr a nf Qmif'n P" n r r? i i n n rn
V-i |
mie together in a Staie conven-1
on about the seventh and eight of
erober, as they will be asked to do,
id launch a movement for Stateide
prohibition. If we can get this
aestion submitted to the people of
le State in an election to be held
*xt spring, it can be settled and out
WOMAN KILLED BY STREET CAR.
Stepped in Front of Interurban Car
in Greenville Mill Village.
Greenville, Sept. 11.?As she stepped
upon the street car track in the
Brandon .Mill village to-day, Mrs. Isabella
Batson, an aged resident of the
village, was struck by a fast moving
street car and received injuries from
which she died a short while later.
The accident occurred a few minutes i
after noon. Mrs. Batson was about
to cross the suburban street car
track, and apparently did not see the
car, which was approaching at a fast
speed. She stepped upon the track
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just in front of it, and in spite of the
efforts of the motorman, was struck
and fatally injured.
ATTACKED BY BROTHER.
May Not Survive Wounds Inflicted by
Gun and Knife.
Spartanburg, Sept. 11.?Bud Henley,
a young white man of East
Spartanburg, lies probably fatally injured
in a local hospital as the result
of gunshot and knife wounds inflicted
by his brother, Walter Henley, tonight
about 7 o'clock in the home of
their father, E. A. Henley, at East
Spartanburg.
It is alleged the two young men
had been drinking and a quarrel
arose. Walter Henley got his shotgun
and shot his brother. Bud, the entire
load taking effect under the left armpit
and the wall of the chest, fracturing
the shoulder joint. Walter
Henley then 'threw awav the gun,
drew his pocket knife and cut his
brother across the lower part of the
neck, narrowly missing the jugular
vein. Four incisions were made
across the abdomen and his right
hand was cut. Bud Henley was immediately
rushed to Spartanburg and
placed in a hospital, where his
wounds were given immediate treatment.
His chances of recovery are
said to be very slim.
Walter Henley was arrested tonight
by Sheriff Y/hite and lodged
in the county jail to await the result
of his brother's injuries.
of the way of the State campaign,
and at the sajne time be free from
politics. I for one am ready to say
let the State go entirely wet, or entirely
dry.
J. L. HARLEY,
Supt. Anti-Saloon League.
MRS. M. H. RIDGEWAY
DRESSMAKING, ALTERING
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Upstairs in Telephone Building
BAMBERG, S. C.
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This is a prescription prepared especially
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if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
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TRESSPASS NOTICE.
All persons are hereby warned not
to tresspass in any way upon my
Cedar Springs place. Anyone violating
this notice will be prosecuted to
full extent of the law. Public is welcome
to get water from springs.
W. A. RILEY.
E. H. HENDERSON
Attorney-at-Law
BAMBERG, S. C.
General Practice. Loans Negotiated.
For Weakness and Loss of Appetite
The Old Standard general strengthening tonic
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And Many Are the Voices of Bamberg
Dannl m
r vvf/* v*
Thirty thousand voices?What a
grand chorus! And that's the number
of American men and women who
axe publicly praising Doan's Kidney
Pills for relief from backache, kidney
and bladder ills. They say it to
friends. They tell it in the home papers.
Bamberg people are in this
chorus. Here's a Bamberg case.
Mrs. R. A. Delk, E. Church St., Bam- j
berg, S. C., says: "I have been greatly !
benefited by Doan's Kidney Pills, j
which I procured from the People's :
Drug Store. I took them for backache
and pains in my loins and they also j
removed trouble that existed with my i
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The above statement must carry
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member tihe Name."
LODGE MEETING.
Bamberg, Lodge, No. 38, Knights
of Pythias meets first and fourth
Monday nights at 7:30 p. m. Visiting
brethren cordially invited.
GEO. F. HAIR,
Chancellor Commander.
A. M. DENBOW,
Keeper of Records and Seal.
J. F. Carter B. D. Carter
CARTER & CARTER
Attorneys-at-Law
BAMBERG, S. C.
Special attention given to settlement
of estates and investigation
of land titles.
FRANCIS F. CARROLL
Attorney-at-Law
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Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works,
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AUGUSTA. GA.
GRAHAM & BLACK
Attorneys-at-Law
Will practice in the United States and
State Courts in any County
in the State.
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A ? If- M j
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Plumbing, Heating, Roofing
i
Modern and Sanitary Plumbing.
Private Water Systems Installed.
Sanitary Septic Tanks Installed.
Bamberg Parties Inquire
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AIKEN, S. C.
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Fine Railroad and Complicated Repairing
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Key Fittings, and General
Repair Shop. Firsts Glass
Workmen.
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V . II
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appointment, and give you
any information on our corsets
with no obligation on
your part. Telephone or
send postcard to . '
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BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE. *
118 acres fine land partly in town of
Ehrhardt.
38 fine building lots in town of Ehrhardt.
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16 choice building lots in town of
Bamberg. ' 1
1 store house and lot next to post
office on Main street, Ehrhardt.
295 acres fine farm lands two miles
nf Fhrhnrdt.
Apply to f
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Bamberg, S. C. *
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BAMBERG, S. C.
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practice and the winding up of estates
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