Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WHY 'TIS GREATEST CITY. New York Has 38,000 Factories and Roes Stui>endous Business. The greatness of New York city is not usually appreciated until represented in figures. Borough President Marks of .Manhattan in his address before the Real Estate association of the State of New York at its convention last week gave statistics which indicate that New York is the foremost city perhaps in the world. , The purpose of these statistics was to substantiate Borough President *i i.? - ? Ti;n tlmr Vow York 1\?> ill II IO UpiXiiV/H ' v city real estate is the most stable investment and that values here are substantially based. He said. "New York city has 3S.000 factories, with almost $2,000,000,000 of capital, turning out annually products valued at $3,000,000,000 and employing SI0.000 persons receiving $540,000,000 annually in salaries and wages. Few people know that onetenth of the manufactures of the ^United States are made-in New York city. "It may be fairly called the terminal of every American railroad: 290,000 persons enter and depart from this city every day; a new building is erected every 50 minutes; as a port it receives and sends out 27,000,000 tons of freight annually; it has a foreign commerce amounting to $2,772,000,000, which is more than 74 per cent, of the * country's total commerce. "The constant and steady increase n-Vi in \'p\V Ynrk Ill pupuiouuu, ,? uivu ... - - ~ city has been at the rate of 100,000 persons annually during the past ten years, is a most important factor. The constantly increasing facilities of transportation between the boroughs have increased values. New York is literally the greatest city in the world, with wonderful opportunities for further development and great increases in real estate values in ev, ery borough. / "New York in reality is five great cities. Manhattan is larger than Chicago, Brooklyn is larger than Philadelphia, The Bronx is as large as Detroit, Queens is larger than Minneapolis and Richmond is larger than Salt Lake City."?New York Sun. ^ How to Leave Your Mark. V j .'V*"I think I have put more pure-bred liogs into my county in the last two years than had been put into it in fifty years before," said a farmer in our office the other day. And as our friend said this, the \ thought at once occurred to us: Here is a real community builder, civilization promoter, champion of progress! That man has lived; thb world is ^ better for his having lived; and the y simple statement of what he has done for agricultural progress is a more worthy epitaph than would be the statement that he had been sheriff of his county, had a string of college degrees, or had accumulated a fortune?unless he had used office, fortune, or education for publicspirited rather than for selfish purposes. And you yourself, kind reader, " may we not suggest that you as well as every other farmer should so live as to have to your credit some one distinctive achievement in communi ty development? Can't you have it said of you these next ten years that you have done more than anybody else in your county?or at least more than any body else in your neighborhood?to ^ introduce pure-bred hogs? Or to introduce pure-bred beef cattle? W . Or pure-bred dairy cattle? Or to improve the breed of horses? Or tq get everybody to sowing clover? 1 Or to popularize improved farm machinery? Or to enrich the farm lands? Or to develop cooperative buying and selling? Or to improve the schools? Or to improve the roads? Or to enrich the social life of the community? Or to beautify the homes? It doesn't matter so much what you choose. It may be that you want to make your neighborhood famous for Berkshires or Jerseys or Angus, or for painted houses, or for its green fields in winter, or for its fine school, or for its farmers' club or for its crape myrtles and -pecans in the front yard. But we do hope that you wil! choose some one thing, make it a hobby, study everything you can reac or hear about it; make yourself noted as being enthusiastic, informed and public-spirited about it, so thai years afterward when you have gone men and women will speak of youi one distinctive contribution to com munity progress and developmem and say, "Well, he left his mark foi good on this neighborhood." Here indeed is a field for education am cooperation?for education because it will take education to arouse youi neighbors, and for cooperation be cause only with their cooperation wil you be able to get results.?Progres sive Farmer. | RECORD SMASHED, LIVES LOST. Aitken Wins Grand Prize in Tragic Race.?Car Leaves Course. Santa Monica. Cal., Nov. IS.?Driver Lewis Jackson and three other persons were killed today in the seventh annual international grand prize automobile race, which was won in record breaking time on the Santa Monica course by Johnny Aitken driving as relief for Howard Wilcox. The dead, besides Jackson, are: Harold Edgerton. Los Angeles, spectator: J. B. Jenkins, motion picture camera operator: unidentified woman, lemonade vender. The injured: John Ghianda. Los Angeles, Jackson's mechanician: J. S. Hannigan, Los Angeles, spectator. Jackson, a Los Angeles driver, on his loth lap swerved into one of the Dalm trees lining the course. The car uprooted the tree it struck, overturned a lemonade stand, killing the woman in charge, crushed Jenkins against a second palm which was broken off short and wrapped itself around a third tree. In this wreckage Jackson was crushed. Ghianda was thrown out and escaped dangerous injuries. Edgerton was struck by flying parts of the wrecked car. He and Jenkins died an hour after they were taken to a hospital. Hannigan also was struck by parts, of the wrecked car. He will recover. Wilsox was declared the official winner of the race and the new speed record of 85.55 miles an hour for the 403.248 miles of the course will stand in Wilcox's name. Aitken's time,! credited to Wilcox, was 4:42:47. The winners of the -first, second and third places all averaged better time than the former grand prize record of Y i.zz maae iwu .^eais asu on the same course by Eddie Pullen. Others finishing were: Cooper/second 4:48:49, an average of 83.72; Patterson, third 5:09:38, an average of 78.13; Roads, fourth, time not announced. Eighteen drivers started but only six survived. Mechanical troubles caused most of the withdrawals. Eddie Pullen, holder of the former grand prize record, turned over on the second lap but was uninjured. Dario Resta, winner of the Vanderbilt cup race Thursday and of last year's grand prize race, withdrew on the 18 th lap on account of mechanicI al trouble. Playing With Matches. If one could imagine all the buildings destroyed by fire in the United States in a year arranged along one highway, each building occupying a lot\sixty-five feet wide, the highway would extend from New York to Chicago, and the buildings would line it on each side. Such is the calculation of the department of interior. Furthermore, a person traveling I this scene of desolation would pass in ?very thousand feet a ruin from which an injured person had been taken. At every three-quarters of a mile he would encounter the remains of a human being who had been burned to death. It is such facts as these, repeated year after year, that led to the establishment of fire prevention day in the United States?a day on which the thoughts of the American people are turned to the fearful waste of life and property due to the national habit of building flimsily and then playing with matches. The Chicago fire of 1S71 still ranks as America's most destructive conflagration, and the anniversary of that event, October 9, is now generally accepted as the day for centering the thought of the nation on the needlessness of such sacrifices. By official proclamation fire prevention day is called to the popular attention and its general observance in some fitting fashioned recommended/ For years, it -is estimated, the amount of actual property annually consumed by fire in this country > reaches $250,000,000 and another sum of about like'proportions is spent for the maintenance of fire departments, waterworks, insurance premi urns, etc., 10 prevent sun greater [ losses. It is a fearful penalty to pay for carelessness, but the American i people keep on paying it year after ; year without serious complaint. The more widespread the observ> ance of fire prevention day the better the augury for a future freed from I the incubus of this tremendous ani nual drain on the economic resources I of the country. Playing with match es as a national pastime has con, tinued so long and so disastrously t that the desirability of stopping it } should need no further demonstrar tion.?Cleveland Plain Dealer. t Risky. r . ? "So Mike Brown is dead! I under1 stand his life was insured for $50,3 000. That will provide for his widr ow very nicely, provided she invests - it wisely." 1 "Yes, but the indications are thai - she is thinking of investing it in another husband."?Chicago Tribune. SHOT AT DOOR OF CHURCH. Mystery Veils Wounding of Greenville Man. Greenville, Nov. 19.?Ward Davis, formerly connected with the raiding forces of the United States revenue department, and brother of Superintendent of Education J. B. Davis, was shot in the back and seriously wounded as he was entering Berea church, about seven miles from Greenville this morning. Troy Burdine. aged eighteen, is accused of doing the shooting. Burdine fled to his home two miles away, where he was ar -a. ? j tr rt?Slt?u uj outi iu nci iui. Xo words were exchanged between j Burdine and Davis1 just previous to the shooting, and the small crowd on the outside of the church could offer no explanation as to the cause of the trouble. Mild excitement prevailed. At the jail tonight Burdine evaded all questions, saying: "I'm like Roosevelt, who told the reporters after it developed that Wilson was the winner, instead of Hughes, 'excuse me please.' " The Buzzard. In farmers' bulletin Xo. 755, United States department of agriculture, W. L. McAtee makes a plea for the protection of the buzzard?a disease scattering, filthy, destructive bird for whose existence in a modern, civilized community there is no shadow- of an excuse. The buzzard specializes in feeding on carrion, or the decaying carcasses of dead animals.. The only excuse we have heard for the existence of the u..~+Vio+ Vi/-, ie -I cMvoncor Hp UU^^dl U lllai lie lO U> CVM T VUQN/A , is, but such a scavenger as ought not to be tolerated in any community. .We have passed the day when buzzards should be depended upon or allowed to eat and spread broadcast over the land the decaying, germladen and disease-conveying carcasses of animals dying on our farms. There is no sort qf doubt but that a bird which feeds on the decaying carcasses of animals dead of an infectious or contagious disease may be and actually is a common means of i j spreading the infection. That the j buzzard hpreads anthrax (charbon), ; hog cholera and other diseases there ! can be no doubt, and the fact that it 1 is not the chief means by which these j diseases are spread is no reason why the buzzard should be spared, for even if only a minor agent in the spreading of disease, this is sufficient to far outweigh any good he does, j Good and useful birds, even harm1 less and useless birds if they have beauty alone, should be preserved; but when the bird enthusiast "permits ! his sentiment to run away with his I judgment and tries to justify the ex istence of the buzzard in a modern, civilized community, it is time to draw the line. The author of this bulletin, for instance, in his extremity to find some v , excuse for the continued existence of ' the buzzard, gives as a proof that it : is not an important means of spread; ing hog cholera, "the fact that hog > cholera at times is virulent and seriously destructive in regions where there are few or no turkey buzzards, as in certain Northern States #nd Cai nadian provinces." We submit that I hog cholera is not seriously destrucj tive in the Canadian provinces, and ! the fact that outbreaks occasionally occur where there are no buzzards proves nothing, except that the buzzard is not the only means of spreadj ing cholera, which is known by everyi body. The carcasses Qf dead animals should be disposed of in some more sanitary way than by being devoured and scattered by buzzards. MoreI ! over, a single pig or lamb, which is i u-iilod hv this filthv Dirate of the feathered tribe, is worth 'morel than a thousand of these germ and vermin infested so-ealled scavengers. ?Progressive Farmer. SYSTEMATIC REFORESTING. Urged That Waste Lands of United Kingdom Be Planted. The natural forest planting scheme of E. P. Stebbing, lecture in forestry at Edinburgh university, is urged for immediate adoption as a step toward remedying the present appalling waste of timber. In 1913 the timber imports into the United Kingdom were not less than $215,000,000, but the war has greatly increased the demand, while reducing the importa1 J 1 J 1 ^ lion, anu iiume wuuuiaiius aic uciug rapidly cleared. The plan would include the immediate replanting by the land owner of all woods sold and ' felled. Besides this waste land would be taken up and 5,000,000 acres would be planted in 32 years," or about 200,000 acres per year. A preliminary map should be made of the waste lands available in each county. Some land might be acquired by lease or purchase, and arrangements for planting of other areas 5 might be made through some partnership between the government and the ' owners. Xmas gifts at Herald Book Store. Flour will se per bar sum \ t Plant1 Now and b the hig] ^ A AVA AT4. A^A AT4. A^A A^A ATA ATA ATA AT4. /TA ATA AT4. y y T^" 1y y || FRESH C 1=?=__ T > T I Horses a i X ! ARRIVED LAST WEEK. ?? sonallv selected bv a membe] A f ! to see them, even if you are ] ?? now. We can suit you; thes ? JONES High Standard for q ?? mals were received by expres <? dition. We also have an exti X | BUGGIES, CARR I HARNESS, LAP R( t T ? We have a number of styles feel sure that we can suit y how exacting they may be. $ II THE PRICES i| $ COMETO SEE US; YOU A JONES VI f BAMBERG, SOI t yl t t I I I \ ll f d>on aa ii ror q>?u.uu ^ rel next mer X" *" ' $ ;; i Wheat ] /V ' ' f e ready for ; ' ' v V " , I i pnces A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A ARLOAD | nd Mules f This shipment was per- > : of our firm. We want you not needing an animal just & e measure fully up to the & uality and style. These ani- * ? s, and are in the pink of con- & *a nice lot of ^ IAGES, WAGONS, I )BES, WHIPS, ETC. | in "Rnnrnrinc ?>r?r1 TTpmPSS. ATld J.JJ. UUVA ^ our requirements, no -matter IT ARE RIGHT ! i lRe always welcome 1:1 i IBROsJ' x JTH CAROLINA f J$ " t " V: %f ] . ' >...-'" . - ^.U''.r . . . ; . .*** -