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THE ANDERSON DAILY INTELLIGENCER VOL. 1, NO. 38. w^lx, E.U?ia*? 18t?, L*0" Jam. II. lill ANDERSON. S. C WEDNESD** MORNING. FEBRUARY *5. 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. $5.00 PER ANfiUlii I i l.n.tiii - . ?-r SUCH IS THE PLEDGE OF JAS THE EXECUAIVE COMMIT! COMMERCE AT THE ME In this, the first annual meeting of the reorganised Chamber of (Com merce of Anderson, wc come together, I trust, aa a body, looking on the past with pride and looking to the future with happy expectations of great and good thing? to come. Tour board, of directors have given of their tlm^rwnd energy wi tho Mt com plaint and with the asalstanct >f your efllcleut secretory, Mr. Porter A. Whalcy, have instilled new iife into the community and haye caused An derson to be better and more favora bly known. The Chamber of Com merce has entered upon its most use ful period, for'the larger part of tin year just ended has of necessity. been one of reorganization and Keating in touch with those things which aro most useful'to the material and In tellectual welfare of the community ag a whole. Mr. Whaley will present to you a synopsis of the year's work and I only wish to urge upon you that the Cham ber of Commerce, is your organiza tion, that it beloogn boldly t? the cit izenship of this community and that wi thor . the sympathy and support of the entire ccnusunuy its uBerulness will be seriously impaired. . The board' bas acted In all cases as they, aa a board, and aa individuals, felt v was for the beat, for the entire com munity and while errors of Judg ment may have been in evidence and wll continue to bc in evidence so long . aa the Chmber ls an active one, yet sympathy and support Is due from ev ery loyal citizen of the community and I trust bountiful support will be giv en. - Guests Welcomed. If ls with peculiar pleasure that we have with us tonight the representa tive? of the three great transporta tiOft cP?pe*Jiea that enter our bor . dew. Gentlemen, -we greet you aa a ^?^^111^^ w lahes^^a^a^p to vefrnkh ihm memory of tbn?<? WS? de know 1 wish to call the following to your attention. Anderson county Is situated be tween those two great streams, the . Saluda oh the east and the Savannah on the west, the county of Picken:; with lofty mountains, pure air and pure Aurtlo-Saxon citizenship on the, / north, sud With Abbeville, the home' of ?t?*'yb*e? snd Jurists tc th? -.en th of us. The county bas an area or 75S ?tjuare m?lee and a population ac cording to the. lest census ot 69,000. fte soil is fertile and its plantation . managers intelligent and energetic. Anderson' county cannot boast ot any very rich S?S? ss the world, knows men to be rich ,but on the other hand T believe you can count the paupers, ol the county on the fingers of your hftnd. There, ia abundant soi) whose fertility cannot be questioned, and men. ready: and willing to do that which most appeals to an honest etti? * sushi p. ' . .''.<?$*? What Aaiersoa Needs. Willie we have the men and the soil, and sra grateful for tho trans . por tut lon facilities we now have, 1 say wiib ait candor and earnestness that Anderson feels the need of a through trunk line of railroad or rail roads, and Stands ready'and will io maka nay. reasonable sacrifice to en courage the building of such lines. Da not understand that lt Is my pur pose to iiti?rraa you by urging at thia time questions that you perhaps are not prepared to answer and that you do not wieh to answer. Simply understand that wo stand ready with a willing band to do that which our ability permits to assist in showing to ? the great Southefn Rail way company that it is more economi cal to build Its road from Gainesville, Ga., to Oteen vii ie. 8. C., via Anderson, thea would be the oaae to double track its main line between those two points, besides the new route would open up ' one or the most fertile section? of the South and shorten the running time between Greenville and Atlanta by IVO ?. . . : - ' ' . . pleOea ef tae Btae Ridge & weet abd to' tte coal mise? jot eist ready-, at? fm* tte bead ef welcome aad tttsttfaited to tb? great A tia*tic Coast Lise bad Ra fester caf!*, the (V aad W* C? RsIIwar. aa* to oh? Usai we are yesir friends, aad that -when yea attempt quit* aad safe service to tat cassi and elsewhere that we are /Toj/iths new electric development km>VD ^ th? Piedmont it Northern; welcome to you with tokens ot es teem to- say to you, when yon wish to reach Abe gateway to the great weet that no Way mest ba considered than through tb? fertile and prosperous county, and should yon wish to teach t!;rCr? A tl ?JJ tic . voasi no better route could be <had than through tbbs county and down the wost beak of the savannah where rich vlrain soli la to be daveloroxi ?mi where original forest* await sound IS READY P. HAMMETT, CHAIRMAN OP EE OF THE CHAMBER OF ETTING LAST NIGHT of tlie railroad before the axeman can develop lila ?nergie?. Anderson County's Greatness. ' . This eounty produced last year In excess of 7o,ooo bales of cotton, which, with the value of thc Beed ad? ded, netted our farmers the sum of $5,285.000. Besides this our farmers raised the I urger portion cf their sup ply of corn, grain .und to largo ex tent than usual his meat. Time la teaching us the wisdom of living at home and the day is not far distant when this will be a great cattle rola mg county. . I hare not the time or the ability to go into the statistics of all the indus tries of the county but wish to speak briefly of two. Anderson county haB a banking cap ital of $1.846.071.96.and this capital la managed by one of the ablest and .mst conservative groups ot men th*i can be found in any territory. The cotton mill industry of! the county, with which I, per-j haps am more familiar titan with any other industry occupies a large share | of the importance of the county's In terest. The cotton mitts of the county hare an aggregate ex pended capital of $13,51 V.S01 and have 594,452 spindles and 13,610 looms. The milla spin annually 128,250 hales! of cotton and ship approximately 55 320,000 pounds of yarna and viol valued at - approximately $13,276,600.1 They use 76,200 tons-of coal besides great quantities of electrical energy purchased from power companies.] The mills employ 7,095 people and ex pend annually in wages approximately! $2,208.264. Those living tn the mill villages total 18.122 souls which ls) about 25 per cent of the total popula tion of the county and almost half! the white population of the county. Local Securities yjirket. le on Iv one mw* Idea to be' ii I bell.?ve it ta best for tbs corporations and best for the. peQDle' tfcat a-T^bpoHmn :'oT.^?^''.*tb?k-?^R?lF corporations be owned near the.works. So long as the railroads Sell their Se curities through tho exchanges it will be difficult to interest tho rank and nie in those securities ano while i do noi join in the abuse of tlie, exchang es that is indulged tn by a certain type-of politician whose Ignorance' or. socialistic tendencies cause him often MR. JAS. if. HAM?TETT Chairman of the Board of ' Directors | ('hamber of Commerce to mislead his constituents, yet I be lieve it would bc much In the interest | of the railroads and atop in tho Inter est or the people, lt securities, not marginal securities, but th? actual certificates could be placed In the banda of brokers of the Carolinas and Georgia with a view to establishing a local market for securities. It would be slow and perhaps disappoint ing at first but ? believe the en* would Justify all of the time and en ergy expended in that direction. Gentlemen .please, permit me to' say again that you have? done us great' honor by coming to ua tonight and we thank you most sincerely for having done so. ? TAFT MAY $ELL CLUB. ' - iMnfinn.ii "n pvH ?M.. -Thc prc_ bil i ty that the majority of the stock of the Chicago National League club ?Hi not long remain tnthe possession of Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati capitalist, who last Saturday, purchased it -from' Charles VA Murphy, today was nidi-' rated here vwheu it waa announced that Mr. Taft has received numerous offers for the ?tock and was not dis inclined to tiaften ta propositions look ing toward the ?ale of bis interests, j The average pay fo* every man, wa- ! I man and child In the United State* | . who works for wages or % salary '$610 last year. In 1*00 the a nav e*l" $41?. uni -???-*?? y?dfore then only $37?. ?ANDERSON IS ?|Y TOWN" WE ALL LOVE II KR. WILL WOltK FPU HKR, WILL PULL TOGETHER FOB Ht.it CY OF SOUTHERN RAILWAY ECLARED BY PRES. HARRISON] ?4 at Railway System Recognizes That Blue Ridge Should Be Completed, But Will Proceed Conservatively Anderson und Anderson county typ- advantages, and I confidently predict Knoxville and the West, has not been ify the Progressive Bouth. Here ag- that the ftturo will witness the con- abandoned. 1 The advantages to be de ricultural, progreas and manufactur- tinued industrial'growth of Anderdon,' rived from ita construction are fully lng development are advancing Hide by not only In the'textile industry, fyi* ' ealieed. > All that restrain?, tnt frets Bide. In, whjJ^s, to many respects, ?long the line of wider diversification entering upon the Work ls the evident the leading agricultural county In of manufacturing, respcnsibllty of our making our exist South Carelin?>abd in the entire Pied- tJrcat Natural Advantages lng railroads better railroads before mont section yob have one of the most The splendid -industrial devol- we imdert*ke new railroads. Important. manufacturing develop- 0pment ot Anderson and Anderson Under present conditions surround menrs t? the .South. Anderson coun- c?itoty ta ftrnndad upon the natural lng the raising of new capital for rall ty la f?r fro?Acing the largest in advantages of .this locality, but great waV enterprises it is neCeaaatjr that South OaroHttSijE land area, but the ft8 thes?'advao?s?es are they wouM railway managers shall consider, most census ot 1910 ishowed that the value have been of lUUeavall w'?t--'?ut trans- carefully what ts the vital relative o? iBtPU?$**My; 10 *thia co?nty ex- portati?u. But for a mean? of concen- importance of Uve many proiecta catl c"dr lM^'(^0, ?n*amo.unted,to trallon bf raw cotton at the mills and lng for the expenditure Of money, about one-Sixteenth of the tptal value the carriage-pi' manufactured goods Anderson is at present supplied with ofJP*!fi'9fs&t?Z lD the 8tate- to tlio markets ot the world there raliway facilities In every direction. Taking the dVerage for a series of. would nfiver ll4ve been a cotton mM as I?have already pointed put. Your year* Andeneph ls the leading county bui!t lo Andorsott county, abd but for continued progress ts.dependent upon *Nfljffirtf?c+frlP aTftttllo nrfa1Pfe= y apeada of^ajHi?aar tee cotton crop the ability of tho raUw/^p. carry to [ rion7^ff*HHts bfth in the production of 'the ?aunty tolbeibarket it would market your tneroaatat diurne Of lof cereals and forage crops and ls be abi?lMtely wBb^fcval^ ' traffic, which Important as lt is, ls the first county in the State In the The p^eotagricnlturui end indust- only a small part of the great and I value of live stock. itUA psoBpWfity of Anders?? county constantly growing traffic of tho Anderson a tirent County? bas thaewaaen made possible by rall South. ' Your agricultural development alone transpcsaailan. and yo?o;i continued 1 Tho volume of Southern traffic ?3 in woutd make this a prosperous com? progresa edil depend upon the ability creasing at a more rapid rate than the munity, but in addition to your agri- of yoursnHwaya effie k??t^r to handle railroads of the south have been able cultural wealth, Anderson , county the Incrssaed tonnage ?Weh you will to add to their facilities. Under these ranks second among all of the counties produce. circumstances, I believe that it's more of the state In textile manufactaring. Anderson has the advantage of important to the people of Anderson ,The economic advantage of the lo- "?B transportationfdnpe- th* oomple- that,1 for the Immediate future, the est?os ci s cc--?ion ci??? in proximity- ti'-n.of as linc of t?i? iifrwiviiie and railways by. which "they -are served to a cotton field was early appreciated Columbia railroad to this place. in shalt devote their resources to to by the people of thia county; and, in 1853- " . creasing abd Improving facilities on the relatively few yeera since the con- i?sy FSalsii Bloc lii?g? ti?cir' existing line*-rather than con struction o? the first mill at Pelter in The Greenville and Columbia railroad ?'der new. construction. With your the early 80's. yon have built 18 mills comnanv proposed tn tafce ov*r the larae and constantly growing business. IC>|bS county-ll bf them In the city ambitious nroiect abandoned In 1884 you are Interested In Ute efflctency of o? Anderson-and the annual value by the Louisville. Cincinnati and rail transport?t ion'over the entire of their product is In excei* of $14.- CharleatonRall road Company, to com- South. 000,000.00. plete a trunk line front Charleston It is natural that'the people tn any Thus far the Industrial development to the west by way of Rabun Oap, locality shalt fully appreciate the lul of Anedrson has beep very largely to making Anderson the point of depar- portance and desirability of railroad connection with the textile Industry, ture for new construction at the east- disbursements und improvements In Mark Twain once reversed the old ern end. Work waa undertaker and their own immediate neighborhood, adage about not putting all your eggs the road was completed abd put In The railroad manager must take a In one basket by saying something to operation from Anderson to Walhalla broader view. Ne must consider the the effect that it was the best policy In 1801, when the war between the system as a whole in relation tc avlal to put your eggs in one basket and states put an end to further conntruc- able ) resources and give precedence wateh thftt basket. Without disputing tlon. Since then the people of Ander- to tho?e bettements that Will most the wisdom of this, as applied to the son have very properly, desired the re- facilitate the movement of Its traffic lfidie|itnai, ? do set think that lt ls sumption' of work Alca? the lice' of as a whole.'' !n taktog this broad view thb best policy for a community, for this original project and the-construe- he -may, at times, In tho true and lar th? reason that lt makes community tlon that would make the Blue Ridge ger interest of the people of a com prosperity depend upon the VICISBI- Road a part of a through line from munity, run counter to looa! option, tades cf a Bingie Industry. . the Atlantic Seaboard to the West. The ability of your railroads to do I -believe therefore, that lt should bo. In the meantime, however, you have what, you woni? Mk'e to have them do .th*- alto of comme?*??? organisations achieved the real purpose of your and to do what their man??-**? would In . our southern cltie? and towns to plan for you to have direct line to the most assuredly like to do. to your In eacpurage as far aa practicable the di- Weet along subntantlalty the line of terest as Well as their own, is depen vatmtbatlon of industries. Conditions tbe original project of the Louisville, de:it very largely upon tbs support at Anderson are favorable for a di- Cincinnati and Charleston. I have they receive from the people of the versified Industrial development You Just come from Cincinnati to Anderson South. They are operating under a have hard wood forests near at hand over that line in three days and have system of public regulation which haa and are not far distant from supplies spent 24 hours st Asheville en route, send further toto deulS of absolute ot iron and steel. You are soon to have another line to statute tow titan any system of public Yod have cheap power and a climate the west in ttfn northern extension of regulation, even of the activities of Which, by reason of ita mild winters the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio. government Itself, which the world has and Its freedom from the excessive Anderson thus baa efficient rail ever known. summer beat of many more northern transportation to the West but other Thus far regulation haa been eon? locaUltles. la conducive to the efflci- lines are still desirable, and old plans cerned principally with the correction ency of labor. I know that the mern are generally good plana. The eaten- of abuses which had grown up to fer bers of this Chamber of Commerce sion of the Blue Ridge Road, so aa to -? -?.-... ?-? .. are alive to the Importance of these make lt a part of a through line to (Continued on laet paye.) ' .^Jj?HaaaBHaBaB - HOW WOULD THIS LOOK ROLLING INTO ATLANTA HLLED WITH BOOSTERS FOR AN. IBa^a^^BHa^^aBB .PERSWiT CAPT. ULBERT W. TALKS oy -m ADDRESS AT THE ANNUAL Ml COMMERE BY GENERAL M/ TON AND WE? Mr. Toastmaster und Gentlemen: I tnu^t thaak your committee for tho j privilege o$,'&?*M With you thin evettr lng and for Hits opportunity of a few, minutes.' talk to au many or my old. friends. I In assigning roe to tho subject "Our Iluflroads " your committee no doubt lind in mind loy tendency to discuss railroading upon (be sllghteit provo cation. If I should indulge rather freely In saying goop (?lings about "Our Rail roads" you UHtiH patiently bear lt and I am sure you will for you have a new arrival who pp doubt deserves your hearty coiumynfltttlo? as much as lt seem? to enjoy your business. , fl| Men are alive today who were boro? before there was a mile of railroad In the world and yet there are today in our country alone over 236,000 miles of railroad train .line costing approxi mately 18 billion dollars, earning gross eneh year over 3 billions and paying out for wages, fuel, supplies and otner expenses over 2 billions. Frequently we hear 'Our Railroads" condemned for lack of progress and yat within tba life time, as I hate said, of some wan we have progressed from tho locomotive of a few tons' capacity to tad .Mallet compound hauling many thousands of tons,' and from a locomotive haul ing its passsajags at a then mar velled at rate #t'fan miles per hour' to the scheduled train or 50 miles per hour, and from the coach scatting 6 or 8 to the luxurious car seating, com fortably 60 to ."IO passengers, to say .nothing of dinjysjf^nd sleeping them, with as much comfort ad In their own homes. "Our Railroads" handled In 1912 a billion passenger*, of which number only 114 were .k?*ed. or one out ot ev ery 9 million. Tukd lt occurred to you that you oopld have ipaured the live? of each ttdaj^^^faaaVv genB for tho sos* bf $10,000 ior the va?ue pt a.portal.card and after paying $10,000 each for the lit passengers! killed you could have, In a year's time had a profit of 9 millions of. dollars? Again, do you know that during 1912 "Our Railroads" hauled a passenger 294 million miles before they killed him. In other words you could ride oe au average 25 miles per hour'for ?arory hour in the day and every day; ia the year tor the next 1,343 years before "Our Rallroadf*' 'would kill yo?? And yet I thin* ?.\v--- Ss.nrd somewhere that If is dangerous to ride on railroads, and tho suggestion made, fallowing every, newspaper ac count Of death no lilt) result Of Byline railroad accident, that more regula ticas and more ls wa pasted tu- put a ?top to the G?tr?s<H/?? carelessness of "Our Railroads. It ts true that marvellous progress baa made in ail lines of human en deavor but no progress has been so marvellous as that cf "Our Rail roads;' 'not only, mark you, in the densely populated sections, but in tho sparsely settled parts of our coun try. v Th? Chase of Progress, ' Our Railroads" are not onl* >ro gmastve, but they are tho greatest cause of progress. From1 tho ' .?ox I c?rt to tho carriage; from tho car riage to the stage coach and then thc world rested for centuries In ita art v?acement. Apparently it ; had reached the end of progress on land transportation, but with the discovery i of the steam eoglBS and the Invention I of. the locomotive the very ends of i the earth, as it were,, haye been brought together. ? In considering tba marvels of "Our ? Railroads" iae public usually think' only ot the increased speed of trans portation, tho rapidity of motion, whereby we bave progressed from ten miles per hour by tao ole ?tage coach to the vestibule train of its mlle a minute. i . We think pf the Railroads as anni hilating time ead distance, but right ly considerad speed ls only one of the elements of ita value in the work of progress. Its great advantage is not in the rate at which the cars j\ but in the vastness of the comm - which | they handle; in the coun multi tudes of men and women they safely transport, and the billions of tons of good things of the earth which they so cheaply distribute. The coach sag six could carry a doren passsngeoi; abe beat teamas on th*? rryaA ??M ^& but BU toe coaches and alt the horses la the! country and alt the horses and all the j wagone in the world could not handle the passengers ajid the freight that ard dally handled U> and from the ein- ' gie city ot Niw "Kork. men we think ot tba billion pas sengers and the billions of tons of, freight, worth topra than the acca- < mutated treasurlas-af the world befor 1800. which are stoved by the rall-. fv??? o? ibis country tn a single year '1 And compare |jgf cbe-pness with w*lch the servios ts rehderd with the 1 enormous priopA ?aarge d tOO years ?co toe an inferior service, we must 1 staad aroused before the spirit of hos- : tuny toward Tmgt Railroad*-" not-? withstanding artney have done to Ifni miT-irnT BETING OF CHAMBER OF ONAGER OF THE CHARLES* | ?TERN CAROLINA ward tim civilization of the world and tho comfort and luxury ot our own Icountry. , Peep!* Should he Patient. I O*' ycB: there aro delayed passen? ger trains .delayed freight trains- and delayed shipments. Kpeed has not prevented dohtys, butitoythore great er speed in any other.ra|Bl| tto other people pa? disputed' claTniH any quick er? Are there no collection agencies? Aro there 'no. bu I ta against'other peo ple? Hoes the tailor, tho emanu rac latter onan^&i^tl W roTeu'aa we? us do "Our Railroads*" tvvv? mnromis aiia? UB;;??I m?iifl. inlnk you teat tho past was'the fily Blan days.of its travelers? Think you that no stage coach wea ever late? That no freight wagon ever failed to arrive on time, or never loit my lady'a trunk or parcel? Think you that no coachman or teamster waa ever ' courteous? Think you that slow vice was perfect service, and that tea cents per mlle for passengers and tl** cents per mlle per hundred freight meant satisfied and uncomplaining' patrons? Nay, verily. Indeed, I have "no hesi tancy in saying that the- cheapness bf transportation, the rapidity of tra ?a uo rta t lon and all the other material elements In transportation progress have been kept pace with by the spir it of accommodation, courtesy and at tention to the wants of passengers and shippers, and that, wherever the'/a IB an impolite ticket age.it, or a crabbed freight agent, or an Irritating delay in collecting a Claim, lt la matty tithes over-balanced by the millions of courteous and efficient act? by < nia thousands ot railroad employes, wbOi day.hv day perform their,quasi-Phbllc aervtco In a spirit ot gentlemanly ra. gard for the rights of the public and the.company alike.. ^ Kmploye* Ar? At^ommodattia^. No man hus spoken for the railroad, employe. Sod'yet I venture the asser tion thst from president to track walker they may challenge compari son with the spirit and conduct of their patrons, and we believe railroad men hail the. faint dawn of apprecia tion, of our work and : services, mani fested on occasions like thia, not only ?ea.an appreciation of the progress, which *? partly duft irs ifefc v^srk zt "Our Railroads," but also aa an evi dence of a higher progress of our country. When we use the term ?"tur Vz.'.\ roads" we state Tittle '"..e than a fact Before, a puh'ic service cor poration can ii wusi get a char ter. Chartering a railroad gives lt the one unusual right, that or eminent domain; that ls, thc right ot coh demnation. For that right the people rota.n the right to regulate it. Wa prescribe Ita duties, outline Hs facil ities and name ita rates-we restrict its methods, in fact we do nearly ev erything save paylta bills, and yet how little we do lo help them perform the exacting service which we require br them. Vf alt Mason says: "tr yo? build a-lis? of ~ctir e ii ill a and barren lands, giving ln ratlve employment to about a mil lion hands; if yon cause a'score of cities by your right ot way to rise, where there wa? formerly nothing bot me rattlesnakes and files; if when bringing kale to others, you aixj ut re a little kale Ahen you've surely robbed the peepul and yon ought to be in Jail." Petr Criticism la Courted. Just here I wish to say that "Pair d just criticism ls a . proper func i?n of a free people, but criticism of the agencies which pr?vido tho transportation facilities ot the com munity ehoulch take account of the economic conditions under which those agencies must work and abould aim. in respect to a factor so essen tial to community development, to bo helpful and educational rather than being along lines tending to create unreasoning prejudice." submit as a.perltet sound prop? m that ,ir?;u*ipeople made aa mined au effort to belp ratlroade ^dtt^WAbelihihvaiaeas aloa? prop aa Usy .ao, to seguiste them? let thnnn. that wo would in en railroad servies and fa t woaW W. a' ?redit to the cation. ., .g?^ '^IsaL Your Chamber cf Commerce baa done much for the city of Ande?a4e* for Anderson county and for Seatt* Parolina, but if you ?Ul from, tonigfet on mako up year minda, instead ott under any circumstance*. Interfering with the conduct of "Our Ratlroade.^ to aid them in every way ia tba rea* sonable conduct ot their business jori Will not only bein ia art**? t?e imi t?t ?tendard of. efficiency, but >vr w|U also enable "Our RailroAda" la the end to do their work at Uss rc?ft to th? pu'w?'e ^nr example '%?<. bs contiglous and the eltlsensblp ef your fair etty would das?WA. ?? -.-r?, (Continued on last page.) ,-.?1