The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 17, 1911, Image 3
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BIG WORKS BURN
SMtkera WhI PniidiCiam Plaal
R . al Caaway Deatrayri.
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|a spectacdur blaze
I Without Warning, Explosion Fol
lowed by Ilapid Spread of Flames
I Results in Serious .Burning of
I Several Employees and Total Re|
structlon of Valuable Property.
A special dispatch from Conway to
I The News and Courier says as a rep
suit of a serious fire, the causes of
R which are unknown, which suddenly
Jfcfoke out Thursday night in the
I plant of the Southern Wood Products
h; Company, the day foeman, M. David
| W. Tisdale, lies in a critical condiI
tion, several other employees are inI
jured and the large new plant of the
Eg company is a complete mass of charR
red ruins.
v- All of the employees were at their
I posts and the work was proceeding,
| seemingly, in perfect order when
I there was a slight explosion and the
I flames flashed and spread over the
| ^tfhole building; all materials . contained
therein being highly inflaml
rimnhlfi nnrl There was DO hone of saV
ing the factory.
^In the explosion and first breath
or the fire, Mr. Tisdale was comOPletely
enveloped In the gas-laden
flames. A negro workman, near at
hand, received serious burns and other
minor lnjudles. Except for the
coolness of other employees, who,
recognizing their danger and the necessity
for prompt action, seized
those who had .been most seriously
burned and plunged them Into a
tank of water, the results would
have been far more serious.
Mr. Tisdale, who was almost
crazed by his .burns, broke from his
friends, and closely followed by a
burning negro employee ran all the
way to Conway, a distance of nearly
\ a mile where he was given medical
| attention. His condition is now considered
critical, while the others who
were burned are out of danger.
?^The fire was very spectacular, the
^rnvH nf the flames being accentuated
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Tby rapid explosions of tanks of benzine,
oils and other explosives, the
products of the company, that shot
upwards immense columns of fire
and smoke, which were visible miles
away. The heat was so intense that
nothing could be saved from the factory,
although by neroic efforts
the old factory nearby, the office
^."ildinjg' and the residence of Mr.
(Magrath were saved. A number of
railroad cars on a nearby siding
were burned.
Mr. L. D. Magrath the superintendent
and general manager of the
works, when seen, stated that his
loss would probably exceed $40,000
with no insurance to cover, as the in"""""""
fnmnaniflH have, on account
&f the nature of the business, refused
the risk. Mr. Magrath had no
statement to make relative to the
pi ans for rebuilding nor of the probabilities,
as up to this time no advices
had been received by him from
the New York offices.
The company's lightwood timber
holdings were extensive, sufficient
to run the plant for twenty
years, and they were continually adding
to their possessions. This company
the oly thoroughly successful
process for the extraction of
tupentine, rosin and other prod^
nets from ltghtwood, and the burn
"^ed plant was in? pioneer mcn/ij operating
under the new process
invented and perfected by Mr. Geo.
Walker, of New York City, president
of the company. It was reviving
a rapidly declining Industry of
this section of the State, that of turpentine
distillation.
The first plant built by Mr. Walker
and his associates was erected here
six years ago. After a few months
of successful operation it was burn<^<1,
but was immediately rebuilt,
fcpoe that time an entirely new process
having been discovered the operation
of the plant already in existence
has been discontinued. Work
was begun on the new factory a 11^
tie over a year ago, and the factory
* has just been completed, although
portions of It have been In operation
for several months.
Will Sell It to City.
Authority is given the secretary
of the treasury to sell the old postoffice
and courthouse at Charleston,
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senate bill pasBed Friday In the
house. For sentimental reasons the
people of Charleston objected to the
depnituinei's plan to tear down the
old building.
Blazing Whiskey Flowed.
In New York on Friday blazing
whiskey flowed all over the block
i and the police reserves were sum^
moned to beat back a mob Intent
on rescuing some of the liquor for
personal consumption when an automobile
truck loaded with spirits
caught lire on Fighth avenue. The
whole truck load, worth about $1,000.
was destroyed. *
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At wood Starts Final Flight.
Harry N. Atwood will start on his
flight to the Atlantle Ocean from St,
t. Louis Monday morning.
BOY BROUGHT BACH
PAID KIDNAPPERS RANSOM AND
GOT THE CHILD.
TXie Police Were Notified and
Twelve of the Gang Were Arrested
and Locked Up.
At Chicago. Angelo I Ware no, six
years old. who was returned Friday
evening after a ransom of $500 in
marked .bills had (been paid the kidnapers
Js closely guarded by his parents.
"I will never let my" darling get
out of my sight again until he is old
enough to take care of himself,"
sobbed the mother as she wept with
joy at the child's return after being
held prisoners by kidnappers for almost
five days.
The boy sat on his mothers lap
Saturday mornlrngi and greeted his
playmates and neighbors who called
and seemed unable to realize the
grief his absence had caused his parents.
He said he was well treated
by the kidnappers. They bought new
cljbthes and gave him c|andy and
caKe.
There was rejoicing in the North
Side Italian colony over the boy's
safe return and hundreds of neighbors
and friends called at the Mareno
home to congratulate the parents.
Nine men and three women are
under arrest for the kidnapping and
the police expect to make- additional
arrests before long. Search is being
made for the woman who guarded
and cared for the boy in the West
division house An efor't will be
made also by the police to recover |
the $500 paid as ransom.
The father of the boy received a
special delivery letter Friday. He
turned it over to the police It Is believed
to have threatened ihim with
death for having cooperated with the
police in search of the child. *
WOLFE FISH WILL 1HTE.
Visitors to the Maine Coast Warned
Against Them.
Summer visitors on the coast of
Maine, especially in the neighbor
hood oi iuasiport, are auviaeu iu ue
cautious in wading at low tide near
the rock-pools along the shore. If
not on their guard they may he attacked
and severely bitten byawolfflsh.
ThLs, according to Dr. Theo. Gill,
i<? one of the most remarkable of
finny creatures. Though rarely exceeding
three feet in length, it seems
to be much more ferocious than the
average shark, promptly attacking
anybody whom it may suspect of trying
to> meddle with It.
Anatomically, its most striking
feature is its larg6 and powerful
teeth, which must render it a formidable
antagonist in a fight with any
other denizen of the ocean. Apparently,
however, it does not feed
on fishes, but prefers such delicacies
as lobsters, crabs and whelks.
In the stomach of one individual,
caught at Eastport, four quarts of
sea urchins were fo|und, most of
them whole and with the spines on?
an uncomfortable article of diet one
might imagine.
Barge numbers of wolf?fishes are
taken by fishermen on cod and haddock
lines, but usually they are
thrown away, notwithstanding the
fact that they are exceedingly igjood
to eat. Their appearance is the reverse
of attractive and they have an
offensive odor which renders them
unmarketable.
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WANTS SAJ*BATK OBSERVED.
Governor Blease Orders Sunday
Amusements Stopped.
Governor Blease has addressed to
Sheriff Colffeian, of Richland County,
a letter directing him to abate
alleged nuisances at Ridgewood, in
respect to violations of th eSabbath
observance laws; the letter follows:
W. H. Ooleman, Sheriff Richland
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UOUHty, L-UUIIllUm. urui oil. x am
informed that there is a shooting
gallery, which is operated on the
Sabbath, at Ridgewood, and I am also
informed that there Is a game,
commonly described as "throwing the
babies," which is also operated on
the Sabbajth at that place.
You will please go there and make
an investigation and if you find this
is the ease, close up these places and
arrest the operators. Please give this
matter your prompt attention, as in
my opinion there is nothing more
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IlUg 1 till 111 11/ tli^J in vi mo vi vuv pw
i pie than the desecration of the Sabi
bath day. Very respectfully,
i Cole L Blease, Governor.
New Cotton Pest
A new cotton pest discovered near
; tVTaoon Ge., is puzzling the cotton
; experts. It made its appearance flrsl
on the farm of C. J. Langston aboul
. six day ago and has destroyed aboul
15 acres of cotton. The bug is a
brilliant red in color and attacks the
i stalk and leaves of the plant. 4
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Many Are Killed.
At San Jose, C. R., the government
powder magazine exploded
from an unknown cause. Several
i persons were kill >1 and many otheri
, wounded. A !arto a umber of housei
1. were blown down. 4
ROBBER GOADED
By His Cssscicicc ud Csaftsses Is Police
That He H.ld Up Mas.
SAYS HE CANNOT SLEET
He Told the Officers That He Had
Robbed the Manager of a Broadway
Restaurant at the Point of a
Pistol and He Wanted to Be Locked
Up.
"1 want to see the man In charge
here." said a well dressed voting
man as he approached Lieut. Manian's
desk in police headquarters at
11 o'clock in New York Wednesday
night.
"I happen to be in charge of part
of Police Headquarters," replied
Manlan. "I'll attend to anything
you want."
"Well," the man answered, "1
want to be arrested for a robbery I
committed three years ago. I have
never known a good night's sleep
since, and my conscience has driven
me to the police. I should be sent
to prison for what I did and am willing
to go."
Manian thought the man was
crazy and looked him over carefully.
Then he motioned to a policeman to
come forward.
"What robbery did you commit?"
asKea tne lieutenant.
"I went into a Broadway restaurant
three years ago?I think it was
In September, 1908. I held up the
manager at the point of a revolver
and rifled the cash drawer of $30.
Is not that a prison offense?"
"It certainly is," Manian replied.
"Now, tell us who you are."
The man said that he is Frederick
J. Hall, twenty-eight years old,
married, and that he lived at No.
160 West Thirty-sixth street.
"I am willing to take my medicine
in any sort of dose. My conscience
i3 killing me," he continued. "In
prison I can learn a trade and when
I come out I will be able to earn a
living for myself and wife."
"Have you no trade now?" Manian
asked.
"No; but I'm a clerk and a good
one," was the quick answer. I
could earn a fine living were it not
for this conscience."
He refused to tell where he was
employed and Manian began to look
up the records of 1908. He found
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that on tne nagnc 01 oepi.. i, mai
year, a young man had entered a
restaurant at No. 2245 Broadway,
and after holding up Antonio Cassara,
the manager, at the point of a
revolver, 'had taken $30 from the
cash drawer.
"Is that the trick you pulled off?"
Manian asked.
"I suppose dt is," Hall replied.
Hall was locked up charged with
robbery.
VERY QUEER ACCIDENT.
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Huge Turkey Buzzard Causes Two
Cars to Reave Track,
At Los Angeles, Cal., the lives of
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a score 01 iJuaiHyii&vi 0 uu i, v? w tu,uuu?u
beach cars were placed in jeopardy
late Friday night by a huge turkey
buzzard. Just as a Venice flyer and
a Del Rey car were approaching a
switch the tbuzzard charged the brilliant
head lights of the flyer. He
missed his aim and crashed through
the igilasB door, knocking the motorman
back into the aisle just as he
was applying the air brakes to bring
his car to a stop. The Del Rey oar
was already on the switch and the
cars crashed, both being derailed.
None of the passengers were injured.
*
Negro Kills a Negro.
At a negro barbecue just beyond
the city limits of Abbeville, Josn
Peterson, a negro, wfas ?hot and
hilled by Burton Fuller, another negro
Fuller claims that Peterson was
.beating him with a stick when he
shot. Fuller is in jail.
Pays up the (lost.
A check for $42,395.69 was received
Friday at Washington by the
department of justice from the Stani
dard Oil Company in payment of
i costs in the dissolution suit brought
by the government under the Sher
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i man anti-trust. taw.
, Powder Magazine Exploded.
The government powder magazine
magazine at "San Jose California, exploded
Frday from an unknown
cause. Several persons were killed
and many others wounded. A large
number of "houses were blown down.*
a a a
i Aviator Injured in Flight.
; Bud Weinberg, an aviator, while
i trying to qualify for a pilot's license
: at Mineola, L. !., Friday, fell 250
I feet with his machine. He was only
> badly bruised although his machine
' was wrecked. .
Hurled to the Ground.
At Meneola, L?. I., Bud Weinberg,
I an aviator, while trying to qualify
I for a pilot's license, Friday fell 250
i feet with his machine. He was only
i badly bruised. The machine was
1 wrecked.
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BRYAN IS A POWER
WILL HAVE HIS SAY ABOUT THE
NEXT CANDIDATE.
Some of His Enemies Says He Is
Dead, but He Is a Very Lively
Political Corpse,
The Washington correspondent of
The Spartanbnrg Herald says every
newspaper reader is familiar with
the fact that Bryan is a "dead one/'
for all the big papers say so, and the
Utile papers, most of them, necessarily
get hold of a lot of the same
kind of stuff, all sent out from the
nffiron of fho hi? onon If hfln hPAn
three times and out for Bryan. He
is now to stand aside according to
the advisers of his party, and let
someone else have a chance to take
the lead and bear the party's standard.
'
This view is pretty general?that
Bryan will never again be a candidate
for the presidency on the Democratic
ticket, and of course he will
not on any other ticket. The fact
that ho will not say so, however, as
Roosevelt old, has never ceased to
trouble the anti-Bryanites. If he
would only put t down in black and
white over his own signature that
he would not under any circumstances
again consent to be a candidate,
there would be joy in fthe
camp of the anti-Bd*yanites.
I3iut, according to those who know
him best, Mr. Bryan has a different
view of such things from that
held by most leaders. He believes
that a candidate is his party's choice.
In other words, he believes that if
his party should see fit to nominate
1dm again, even though he felt sure
of his own defeat, and even though
he knew that in accepting the nomination,
he would bo doing his own
fortunes a positive injury, he would
consider it his duty to obey the will
of a majority of his party delegates.
That is the kind of Democrat the
Nebraskan is.
If he should, therefore, declare
that "under 110 circumstances"
would he again be a candidate, and
the convention should see fit to nominate
him, he would have difficulty
in squaring his conduct with his previous
declaration. Therefore, Mr.
Bryan will not make the much desired
declaration, but prefers to do
as his party commands. But the
word that Bryan is a "dead one"
is gone out in all the land, and in
many instances the wish is father
to the thought. And in many instances,
although there is a firm belief
that he is dead, there is a graveyard
fear that his ghost may yet
be abroad in the land.
The ridiculous part of it Is, according
to some Washington political
observers, that the people who
are surest of 'Bryan's deadness are
the first and the loudest to protest
if the Nebraskan even expresses an
opinion. Almost any other man may
express preferences in political matters,
but it seems to be felt that Mr.
Bryan must not say a word. When
he dares to speak out?this one who
has no influence now according to
his enemies?there is a howl from
one end of the country to the other.
Leading editorials are written in
condemnation of his efforts to "boss"
his party, when all that he has done
has been to give his personal opinions.
Cartoons all over the land |
express the idea that this man?who 1
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is a nas-.ueiin, oe il lemtjmucicu?
is interfering with the destinies of
the party that he has thrice led to
defeat and disaster.
"Why is it," said a strong admirer
of Mr. Bryan to this correspondent,
a man who admires Bryan
but believes that he will never again
be the Democracy's standard bearer
?"why is it, if Bryan is so dead, so
utterly devoid of influence that there
should be much oposition raised,
fiom one end of the nountry to the
other, when Mr. Bryan has simply
expressed an opinion?something
that all of us in America claim the
right to do? Why can't he say
whom he prefers for the presidency,
or whom he does not prefer, without
being accused of trying to "boss"
his party?"
Cowliided by i Woman.
Because, it is alleged, ho circulated
reports detrimental to the charac
ter of "Mrs. H. G. snorrui, wire or a
well known citizen of Spencer, N. C.
George L. We?bb, a machinist in the
Southern railway shops there, was
cowhided by Mrs. Sherrill, who Immediately
afterwards went to police
headquarters and submitted to a
charge of assault. *
Killed In Mine Disaster.
At Bochum, Prussia, fifty men
were killed in a disaster at the Hannibal
coal mine Friday. Sixty miners
were entering the pit to begin
their day's work when the cable of
the cage In which they were being
lowered broke, dropping the party
to the bottom of the shaft. *
Two Amercians Drown.
Advices received from the Congo
Free State say that two Americans,
Messrs. Del forge and Black, managers
of the Amerioan Roma company
travelling on the river Boch off Lis pa.
The ;bodies have not been recovered.
WILL NOT DOWN
(mmr Blew Ague Denes He linked
Ike Yeng Ladr
IN SPEECH TO RED MEN
Says His Enemies Concocted the
Scheme to Injure Him, and that
They as Well as His Friends Know
Why it Was Done, Hut He Didn't
Tell His Hearers.
Governor Blease's first address to
the people of his home county, since
his inauguration was delivered at a
Red Men's Rally, at Young's Grove,
near Prosperity, Friday, which was
attended by about two thousand people.
Governor Blease was enthusiastically
received and made what was
regarded by those who heard it as
one of the best adresses which he
has ever delivered in that county. He
spoke on the "Principles of lted
Manshlp," but he branched off once
or twice to discuss matters connected
with Ivis administration and personal
attacks which had been made
upon him.
Near the close of his address he
said that he felt he ought, before the
people of his home, who knew him,
to refer to the Helton incident, the
acueation that he had insulted
a woman.
"I shall say nothing about her,"
he said. "She may be a spure and as
spotless as an angel, but the man or
the woman who was present on that
occasion and heard what took place
and tells the truth will tell you that
I did not insult her."
He said ho wanted to tell the good
women present, many of whom had
Known him since his boyhood days,
that he had said nothing on earth
to hurt her feelings or to offend her.
"Why they concocted that scheme
is plain," he said, "to my enemies
and will be understood by my
friends. They have fought me with
evdry kind of abuse, vituperation
and slander and could not hurt me
and they went to that extreme, to
which all dirty, unscrupulous hounds
like them will go, thinking 'how we
will strike him with a woman, we
will bring him into controversy with
a woman.' "
Continuing, he said: "Ladies,
those of you who have known me all
your lives, if there is one of you in
that crowd that believes I would insult
a woman without cause or without
provocation I will thank you
from the bottom of my heart if you
will stand up or raise your hand."
There being no standing or lifting
of hands on the part of the ladies,
he said, "Men, you who have known
me all my life, If one of yoil', whether
you be my political friend or not,
believes that Cole Blease would insult
a woman without clause or
provocation, be man enough to hold
up your hand, if you please. I want
you to do it, if you believe that."
The only response was in the nature
of remarks to the effect that he
ought to know the people of Newberry
did not believe any such thing,
n n/1
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Governor R-lease said: "My friends
j I thank you, God knows I do."
That charge, he said, had hurt
him when none of the others could,
"because," he said, "I had as ;g,ood
a mother as any hoy ever had and I
had as good a step mother as God
ever gave to a family of children,
and whenever I stoop so low or get
so cowardly as to Insult a woman, I
hope God will paralyze my tongue."
Governor Blease defended his pardon
record, taking up several cases
and going into detail and requesting
his hearer3 if there were any other
pardons in regard to which they
would like to hear the reasons which
actuated him or any other matters
connected with his administration
which they would like to hear from
him upon, to ask him. He said he
had spoken to between 30,000 and
35,000 people this year, more than
had attended all the campaign meetings
last summer, and he was trying
to get among the people and find
out their wishes nrd the policies
which were for their best interests.
Jn congratulating the Red Men
upon the fact that there were no
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ed to secret lodges among the negroes
and, among other things, says
he had positive proof that there were
a man and his wife living in a distant
State trying to perfect organiations
throughout the Southern
States among the negroes, claiming
the societies formed would pay bener
fits in cases of sickness or death or
distress, but .before any negro could
become a member of the society he
had to sign an oath that he would
not work but eight hours a day and
would obey the mandates of superior
officers and he was being taught
that he was a social equal of the
white man.
He said it was not true that he
was unfriendly to the negro when
the negro was in his place, but he
wants to sound a word of warning.
"So long as you can get white
women and white men to go into
the school houses of this country and
teach negroes and associate wtih
them side by side, so long will these
secret orders flourish among thjat
class, and so long will the white
people have trouble, and it will he
BUND MAN CORED .
pHES SIGHT RESTORED BY HYPNOTIC
TREATMENT.
Former Policeman Retired m Hopelessly
Sightless from Atrophy of
Eyes, Reads Large Print.
Ralph Swineston, who was retired
from the New York police force
with a pension in July, 1903, as
hopelessly .blind, was able to read
ordinary print after Dr. Alfred J.
Fox had hypnotized him in the Hotel
Frederick. Fiftv-sixth street, rear
Broadway, New York.
The World says Dr. Fox three
months ago treated Melchior Luysterberg
In St. Mark's hospital and
demonstrated that he could make
the man walk though Luysterburg
had been a hopeless paralytic for
three years.
Dr. Fox, naturally delighted after
the experiment said he believed it
was the fdrst time atrophy of the
eye had responded to any treatment.
The former policeaiian has had two
treatments. He lives at No. 418
West Fortieth street.
One unusual feature of the experiment
lies in the fact that liypno
nam generally aepenas upon a concentrated
look into the eyes of the
hypnotist Swineston could give no
such glance and the physician exexperimented
with ihm in a mild way
for several days before definitely
putting the six-footer into the hypnotic
state.
"I fidst went to the doctor a week
ago, said Swineston to a World reporter
for the World Thursday. "I'd
heard of what he told a man in St.
Mark's and I thought he might be
able to do something for me.
v "When I left the force I could
stand on the curb of a street and not
see a car pasing. I could not see
any person's full face. By looking
sideways I could get a hazy view. I
could not read anything. I could not
see an electric lamp if it shone in
front.
"After I was retired with a small
pension for total disability I went to
making little toys. Then I got a job
in a paper box factory cutting corners.
That doesn't need eight. Two
of the men working with me were
blind.
"I could just see a general blur of
light. That was disappearing when
a friend read me about the hypnotist
making the paralyzed man walk.
I said, "If he can do that why can't
he make me see again?" So I came to
him."
After explaining the case, Swineston
droped his head on the back of
an admchair and Dr. Fox talked to
him in a low voice, making passes
before his eyes. There was nothing
spectacular about the performance.
Swineston went into a sleep that
lasted nearly an hour. In Its course
the physician whispered to him
many times:
"The arteries that supply your
eyes are getting stronger. The
nerves are growing stronger. The
can see. You can see letters. Your
eyes are much stronger. They will
soon be allright."
The big fellow, breaithlng heavily
was brought out of his sleep. Ho
looked the reporter squarely in tho
eye. He read an advertlsemnt In
large type. He failed on smaller
type.
"But my eyes are getting stronger,
sure," he said. "Wouldn't it be fine
if they got so good that I could go
on the force again." *
PUT NUGENT OUT.
Jersey Democrats Resent Insult to
*
Governor Wilson.
JT
At Asbury Park, N. J., fourteen
members of the Democratic state
committee, the exact number necessary
for a quorum, voted Friday afternoon
to declare recant the chairmanship
of the organization, occupied
by James, R. Nugent, who was
recently asked to resign because of
his aleged reference to Gov. Woodrow
Wilson as "an ingjrate" and in
other opprobious terms. This action
followed rioting, which the police
were called upon to quell, and was
taken after Nuigjent and a supporter
had left the rom and the quorum
had been reestablished by otl^er
members of the committee.
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come serious."
"Not long since, he said, he had
passed by an Institution in South
Carolina and had seen a handsome
white woman walking across the
campus of a negro school, with one
arm around a negro boy and another
arm around a negro girl. That happened,
he said in the city of Columbia.
He said he expected to recommend
at the next session of the Legislature
the passage of an act prohibiting
anyone from teaching in the
schools of this State who has not
received a certificate from the State
Superintendent of Education and the
Governor.
The greatest portion of Govcernor
Blease's speech was a fine effort along
fraternal lines, only the few diversions
of a political nature being here
given. He was frequently interrupted
by applause and he said that the
v.airo reception which he had received
at the hands of the people
ol Ms native county made hie heart
glad. *