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GET THE GLINGHFIELD ROAD HERE Hon. W. N. Graydon Writes The Intelligencer of the Interest That is Taken in the "Ser en-Hilled" City Over the Pr oject Editor The Intelligencer: In these days of railroad and "tu inors of railroads" it seem* tu nie that very little has been seid or pos sibly thought of tin Caroll.i i, Clinch* Held ft Ohio Railroad. This railroad, as we all know, is possibly the bent equipped railroad in the South for Freigut business. It is not conceiv able that it was the inteutlon of the original builders of this line to stop at Spartanburg' In fact, it is very well known that it was the intention of the promoters of the Carolina, Clinchlleld ft Ohio to make Srunu wlck, Ga., the deep water terminus and with this intention carried out roe railroad would touch Oreonvllle and Anderson, thus reaching the most prosperous and wealthiest section of this state. A glance at the Inter-State Com merce Commission bulletin or Rev per 1 ci enue and Expenses of steam roads in the t'ulted States fur month of Sop* temper, 1913, shqw? the following net revenue per mile foY the Atluntie Const Line, the Seaboard Air Line, the Southern and the Carolina, Clinchfleld ft Ohio railroads: Atlantic Coast Une?$32.00 mile. Seaboard Air Line - $178.00 mile. Southern?$-47.00 per mile. Carolina. Clinchfleld ft Ohio? ?533.00 per mile. With a railroad making euch a magnlflicent showing within 60 miles of us it would hretuir thr aomf ohr of us would it not be well to see if anything could be done towards ex tending this line', at least to Ander son. I).A. HENNING. Anderson, 8. C, Jan. 12, 1914. DEATH OF MIBft COLLINS Bad Been a Resident of Anderson For 82 Tears Mii;:; Mamie Collins, who hoe made her. home with her niece. Mrs. C. M. McClure, or Arlington avenue, died Wednesday morning after a brief ill ness. Her death was a great shock to the family as at 6 o'clock she seem ed much better. She had lived in An derson 22 years and had many friends here. The funeral services will be at. St. Joseph's Catholic church Thursday morning. Announcements in a later WIDE AW AUW. PEOPLE SAVE MONEY BY READING THE ADS. IN THIS PAPER. WATCH THEM FOR BARGAINS ssews?I I'lHliilisii .IHSaiJISW? um Between .Anderson Greenville, S. C. December 7tn. 1913, arrive Q. S. & A., nal. LEAV?. No. TJfn?. 80 6.30 IC hi. , Greenwood and Effective Sunday, Trains leave and Main street tenni 34 36 38 40 42 io.30 ?. m 12.05. p. m. 2.15 p. m. 4.55,^ m. 8.00 p. m. No. 31. 55 35 37 39 41 42 C. 8. ARRIVE. Time. 7.35 a. m. 9.30 a. m. 11.45 a. m. 1.20 p. m. 3.25 p. m. 6.05 #p. m, 0.05 p. m. ALLEN. Uli McCUEN ON THE SQUARE VAnnrl l? k?.t. ?-, vaum ??a V?OU 611 S 1 8 6ft Iii -*?Giye Everybody a Square Deal" Mo Ttomas McGtuieffii Dry Goods and Notions. Ladies' and ' ..* ??* ' li?f Children's Fine Shoes. BELTON, S. C. - Money Saved Here a Ttr_A.*.:_ ... vv c me nuw getting m uui... SPRING GOODS and are prepared to supply yo%;Wants% in all FARMING IMPLEMENTS A? EXTREMELY LOW PRICES. We hare one of the bes?^lines of GRO CERIES in town. Be t to see us before buy ing your supply, of FLOUR. We^can save you money. OUR PRY GOODS AHE ?HOE STOCK ALWAYS COMPLETE. BElTOtt, SO JTH CAROLINA. ilADMENlSTRATION Ii ISjpiNG j; Old Order Is Chantf ]| ing In Railway t Management. ? ?# +? ? -? ?< THE old order Is changing in re gard to tup administration of r:: il roads throughout the Unit ed States and is yielding to a new order more in adjustment with the spirit of the times. Individualism nnd the K'ratiilcatlou of personal nm bit Ion fur empire making are rapidly uecout lug things of the past in the railroad business. A few years ago financiers like E. H. Oarrtmaa were Itattiing With each other for possession of strategic lines In order to choke n competitor and build up their own power. Today ruil roud men are coming Into authority who are operating their roads with the Idea that they will get their reward if they serve the people. Instead of trying to see how much money tii?y ran m?fje with ;:;.-:;r serv ice and skillful finance Juggling, tbey I'hqto t.y American Proie Association. ; of "to date Bxrntiss thaw. are making their money by good man sgeinent nnd a study of the needs of the pecplu. Ose of the men belonging to the new order 1? Hownrd Elliott, chief execu tive oOlccV of the New York. New Ha ven nnd Hartford aud New England Transportation lines. The pew railroad men know more about railroads than they do about j Wall street. They began down In'the tnv.lz r...;l worked up to leadership without favoritism. Howard Elliott was a rod man when ho entered the railroad service lu 1SS0. Front that time to the present he has been closely identified v.iiii i?itj r?tls niiu n?ei??u whistle. Now. as a president after thirty-three- yenrs. there Isn't asythtajg about a railroad that his subordinates can tell him. After years or hard work the Van ilorbiWs found it easier to let others mannge their uffuirs. nnd, as a result, a live executive like \V. C Brown came to the helm of the New York Central, aud be Instituted a hew era In the life of that road. Brown rose from the ranks and Mas vice president nnd general mannger of ? 1313. by American ' Press Association. HOW4IID KtiLlQTT. ?n BRIDEN I OF XBW YOIIK, KBW JIAVE.N AND UAltTSORD. V the Jjtke Shore aud Michigan South ern railroad when he was selected as president of the Now York Central. U? t.rovji.t !frH*i b???; Alfred RL Smith, who had served an gotten! snpetlu tendent of the Lake Shorn .lust re cently Brown, retired and tonlth sue ceeded him as president of the New Yofk Central. smith ?artod bis r^Vrczf. career ?1 tfa? iw t to m-, first as a r."e**enger boy then a? a workman op a coustrootk? gang. He is another of the practical railroad mro who nrc taking the con trol Lt Anifc.-lena r.iIlm.-?.la frnm tl>. Wall financier*. Most ct tht fcrerit w/stoms have enthroned thi wo'ke' ami the hustler. The way ti the presidency ?if n railway formerlj la,' iuruHgt) Wail ?tr?.et; now It t* vis OF BI1IS From thje Ranks Have Risen New Officials. the construction gang, overalls and practical exp?rience. One of the railroads that has shown the effect of the dawn of the new era Is the Southern Pacifie, with its allied lines. When Harri man wr.3 still ailve he maintained his offices in New York und from there manipulated his rail iouds in a mighty battle with James J. IIIII of the Northern Pacific lines. flarrimnn was not a railroad builder Railroads ?.? him were so many stocks on the market and so many lines on the urn p. Others built the roads. He ujqulivd them in Wall, street. He bought them because he was able to buy when others had to sell. He had imagination und could picture red line upon ml line on a map of the United States, showing the ever growing Har rltsah :;yi:tc:::. Then hu died. t?ud the heirs and oth er stockholders put in new men to take his place. .Men were chosen from the railroad's own territory to take up the management, lu Portland. Ore.. J. D. Fnrrcll was placed In charge of the Oregon Short Une in Omaha A. h Mokier 'took ehar;e of the Union Pa Sfl". in Tex.. \v. 11, Scott nji cIhn'i ?hlcf of thv- Uarrunah lines. K. Iluidolph was given n chance to run the Southern Pacific of Mexico, operating from Tucson, Ariz. At San Francisco William Sproulle controls the Southern Pacific. Still greater directing heads hind the lines together, but the Individual ?> ti^iii nw oper ated from the terrl: >rjr 'he railroad serves nud for the peopj? it serves. Family ties formerly played nn Im portant part in keeping iucompeteut j men nt the head of great railroads. They cut little figure now. Ability counts. Every new bend of the Hnrri man lino*-, is a man who has come from "the 'rurkfl. I Some learned their rall rond aljTlTObet throwing switches aud Mcfelr? Vdesgfoph !lieys. Some learned It throwing coal into a firebox. Hohler-tHar-fed Asa rnte^elerk on the Nb^thv-oste ri, Sproulh? was n trotlic man tinder the old Southern Puclfic At,FnEl> U. Slit TU, PltESIOENT Or -VH? TORS ?aKTKAXi. regime und wns Inter chief of trans portation for . th'? UuKgeuhclin inter eats. Ho eame to b's present position frotu the presidency of the Wolht-Far KO Express company. When It - P. Iltudi became head of the .Missouri Ptteltle the road had hewn d< feriirratint: for years. Op to a few years ago Itush was practically nnkimw? in tlie railroad world, but ids wonderful ability as n rnllriuiil ?!>fin wS!? SOts?? dtSCOTSTcd S??d bis ?dvaiieement "was fast. Few meu have risen n? rapidly as he bus. The first |h>*ition he held In t!?e railroad world wuh rod ma ii on the Northern Pacific. After a row years he became i?coiiiic? w?i?i vxm? <<>ui panics au? soon became an authority on fuel. He was Urns thoroughly equipped for his first position In the ?ottHI. system, whlcli was as fuel agent When Oeorge Coohl bought the- Western Maryland Push tva* elected prof i-jUt of that rvmil. After his executive abll Itt had plnm' this rond on n good earn ing l>nti\ti he was placed In-charge of the Missouri Pocltle, where bis excel j lent administration Is being felt. Another man who has learned the railroad Imsim-SH frotn tlur-jiruuml up. is Cnrl It. Gray, who stnrted ?s ? tele graph operator, and Is now the presi dent of the lid! Inter. A eo usj ilt- lieux e.s?mple of the change from the rule of finance to that of railroad e-.i-e;ieitee is shown in rho t?ew management of the .Son board Air l.hm to the ?lection or Wil liam .1. ffnralmn to It* presidency. Ho Is a hum<m|i'roa?t man. und the story in fold of hl-ni that lut learned hi* slv phatH't rr.im a time table. The rl*e of the n-t men to the lead ership of great raLraad* u due to their uttifhlc t?ov:ii>l thv road and toward tli?? ymnilc. They consider themseiviK trustees c-r public proper' ty pnr? i?ivj?' ?ir-?n^-JK? accord ingly. OptKiVHd to nie notion? of per aonnl ownership and ambitions Sunn ejtit dlcintorsidp. they take the par? or a man hired to run a railroad. and they have Itevfc euccengftii. [ The Romantic History Of Panama Road, Built by Americans \\ SIXTY-FIVE years ago three America tin secured a concession f-om the Colombian govern meut for a railroad across the Isthmus. In 1817 n Frenchman hud succeeded In getting a concession, but lie could not raise the money to even make .1 survey, uud wheu be dropped bis rights the Americans went arter I hem, und in December. 1848, Colom bia granted permission for the road to William II. Asplnwall, John /* Stephens uud Henry Chuuucey. The three Americans had in view the handling of the immigrants bound for the recently opened California coun try, and A^ipniWHll already hud start ed a steaashlp line between Panama nud Suu Francisco. The discovery of gold In California paved the way fur the raising of the necessary money for a start But railroad hulldlug in ISM) was far from ?hat it Is today, and con structing fifty miles across a country which had the reputation of being the most unhealthy in the wo-Id was easy t-?*?k AO?r a year's work, when the line had bec-u run only seven miles Inland to Catuu. the money gave out altogether, nud the promoters did not know which way to turu. Then a bad wind uud good luck came to the enterprise. _A Hailing ship bound for the mouth of the Chagres river, where it Was customary to hind liaxsoiigers for a canoe trip up the river to within eighteen miles of the i-uc'.llc. was unable on~ account of storms to put In there and instead landed its cargo and human freight ut Coicu. the starting point of the rall roo'X The seven miles of railroad became popular nt once, and one may be suro that tho rates charged were high enough to suit even n railroad rate maker of today. But. despite the high rates, the seven mile road wusso much better and faster than the Chagres river route to tho same point that the co m pan y prospered, and money poured In again. From that day to this the Panama rail rond never has passed a dividend nnd has paid from 3 to 01 per cent yearly. It was In 1850 that the work wus begun on the road, ahd five years later, un Jnn. 2S. the first railroad train was run across tho continent. AM BXCCKSION TUAI M OB TUB W.mA ' BOAD. The road was a trlno.orer.f-jrty-seven miles long and reached a height of European trade for the orient went by way of the Isthmus, nnd Um am was ouee more n land of plenty. -The roadbed followed exactly the trail of tin* old" Spanish mule trallis. Hut now. Instead of carting trous tire" In tho shape or looted gold and Jewels, the treasure train carried manufactured goods for far away countries. tu 1SO0 the first railroad, across the United States was completed, and much of the freight tnulb und most of the pusseugeiH were diverted from the Panama route, but util?- tho road con tinued to ttiako money. In 1881 the Prehcb -Glmil company, preparing to *tnrt work n 'nve water way, needed the railroad. Tho French men, found it absolutely nc-ce.ssary. in fact, to carry out their plans, mid so they purchased C3.8S7 of the 70.000 thafAi .if vtt-w-i fiii* S901 u ahura ami assumed charge of the road. lu 1004. when the United States bought over all the rights to the canal, it obtained this stock and also bought up by private purchase- the remaining shares, flo that today the Panama rail road is owned by the Culled States, as Is the steamship branch of the service: Tho road Is today one of the most compl?te In tbe world. The old rails have been replaced with eighty pound ones, uud it Is double tracked most of! tho wa;r. One hundred ton oil burning locomotives are nscd. and the passen ger and freight cam are tbe beat made. As tbo Panama ehnnl. like the'rail road. 1* following the original trulls ut tbe erst adventurers. It has tHxm nec essary to relocate some of the lim.-, that today it is running partly through a new .'ountry. The route over which the Panama-railrend was' built was known In the oid days as the gold rond, for It was tmverwed by gold seek ers of nil kinds from the earliest days to the time er the Cnftf'trnls excite-, ment in *4?. This llrnt railroad Owned by the Cnlteif Statt? pays dividends ami Is run strictly on business principles. Goionei ?eorge- YV. limitais, tb* canal bu?der, la tbe president, and tberenev* er"fcea been a suspicion of any of tho graft or the playing of political r?vor IteS that evary one aald would mark a government owned system. Window is Glass Keep the cold out of your HOUSE by putting in new Glass in place of the broken ones. We have a large stock of diff?rent sizes. If your winder **ame is of an odd size. . ?s will cut the glass to fit without extra charge. Frierson's Pharmacy (THE LEADING DRUG STORE) BELTON, - SOUTH CAROLINA } VIR. MERCHANT Did you ever notice bur Elec trie Sien? No doubt you have. Moat everybody has noticed it. H as most everybody noticed your sign? And are there a great man y people wtp can positively re member to have seen your sign at all? Why not make it attractive enough to be remembered^?attrac tivs enough to draw trpde?atrac tive enough to indicate your desir e to be progressive?attractive enough to show people that you wish to attract them?that you want their attention and trade. We would like to Talk Electri c Signs with you. SOUTHERN PUBLIC UTILITIES GC, WEST POIHT APPOINTMENT. In addition to the vacancies in An napolis there js alco a vacancy in West Point Military Academy. I have set January 24, 1914, at An derson in tho courthouse to select nominees for the Annapolis appoint ments, and applicants for West [?&&t w)ll be selected at the same time and place. All applicants must reside in the Third Congressional district. Applicants for Annnpolia must be between the ages of Id and 20 years. Applicants for West Point must be between the ages of 17 and 21 years. Applicants can select either place by notifying the examining board on the day of the examination, prior to taking tho .examination. (. The same.-qu-?tions will be given applicants for both positions. All applicants must be free' from serious physical defects. The mental examination will em brace arithmetic, algebra, geometry through plane geometry, geography, Jung?Bn grammer, united states his tory and general history. Persons desiring to take this exam ination should prepare themselves thoroughly for the, successful, candi dates will have less than two months in which to prepare io enter the insti intlcns named. , Wyatt Aiken, M. C. Bright, attractive show w indows act as a magnet to.draw pros pective customers to your sior c. These windows, if properly SI?od with a display of your goods,? and if this display is properly lighted, should pay the rent every mon th. Nationa) X-ray reflectors p lace the light on the goods, not on the sidewalk pr In your custom er'a- eyea. There is one for every size window. Ask about 'em. F*. S. . IVIauidio9 Electrical Contractor. THREE CARS ?of? TENNESSEE and KENTUCKY HORSES and MULES Mr. J? S. Fowler has returned from purchas ing same and is offer ing them at BARGAIN PRICES ?at? Jo S. Fowler's Stable W. Benson St. MMntMraM nm\ iii'Hihimm,';