Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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S POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Under this head will bo run abort announcements of candidates. The rates for tbese are as follows: For tounty offices in both dally and Bemi-weekly, till election $7.60; in either alone, $5.00, cash in advance strictly. For city offices: in daily only:! Mayor, $5.00; aldermen $3.00. FOB .MAYON. I hereby announce myself a candi la to for Mayor of Anderson, subject to tho rules of the Democratic pri mary t tV" ; J. M: PAYNE. E. E. Elmore is hereby announced as candidate for mayor, subject to the rules of the etty democratic pri mary election. Dr. W. F. Ashmore Is hereby an nounced as a candidate for mayor, subject to tlie rules of tbo city demo cratic primary election. J. H. Godfrey is hereby announced cs candidate for Mayor, subject to the rules of* the City Democratic Pri mary election. FOR* ALDERMAN WA BB ONE J. L. E. Jones is hereby announced as a candidate for . alderman from Ward 1, subject to the rules of the city democratic primary elections. E. H, Ballentine is hereby an nounced as a candidate for Alderman from Ward 1, subject to the rules of the city democratic primary election. FOB ALDEN AN j WAK? TWO Voters of Ward 2 announce Walter Dobbins as a candidate for Alderman from that ward. B. F. Johnson ls hereby announced a candidate for Alderman from Ward 3, subject to the rules of the demo cratic primary. ll. H. Acker is hereby announced as candidate for alderman of ward 3, subject to the rules of the city demo cratic primary. I hereby announce myself a candl Ward 3, subject to the ruleB of the dato for re-election as alderman from democratic party. Chas. F. Spearman. FQB ALDERMAN WARD FIVE I hereby announce myself as a can didat? for alderman from ward 5,- sub ject to the rules of tho democratic primary. BOB KING. ALDERMAN WABB SIX R. L. Carter Ja hereby announced as candidate for'r?-et?ctlo? as etiler mau for* Ward 6, subject o the rules of democratic primary. ...... ,. ? o o o oop boo o o o o o o o Candidates For o o County Offices ? o '. o OOOOOO?OOOOOOO FOR AUDITOB I hereby announce myself a candi date for County Auditor, subject to the ruleB of the democratic primary. . ? R. A. Abrams. FOB COUNTY SUPERVISOR I hereby announce myself a candi date for County Supervisor of Ander son county, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. . THOS. B. KAY. FOR COUNTY SUPERVISOR I hereby announce ..myself, a can didate for the' office of county super visor of- Anderstmreounty,- subject 'to the rules governing .the democratic primary. >--, \? .-.* T^, M.1 ?ANDI VER. _ >.? v " j >.? " .':"'''FOB S%AWSfc!vATi?B I hereby announce myself a candi dato for the State S?3aj%;from Ander son County, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. Clint Summers, Jr. FOB COMMISSION EB 1 hereby announce mysolf a candi date for commissioner from District No. 2, comprising Pendleton, Rock Mills, Fork and Cen tor vii lo townships, subject tb the rules of th? democratic primary. 'D. S. HOBSON. FOB COMMISSIONER R. A. Sullivan of Fork township ls hereby announced for commissioner for Section One, comprising 'Fork, Rock? Mills, Pendleton and Conterviiie townships. y j. ?ff j f - - t' -' ? ' ' -: ,*i " ?J FOB COMMISSIONER. ? I hareby annou?cb -myself- ? candi-' datojror re-eloct??nN??l(ftm73!toloner for District No. 4., comprising Hones sstai??ft?Mi? D?mocratie primary} > .< r. '.'?-. .- >*t L J. M. Dunlap. -L-^_-,-^ Thf friends pf R. A. Miillinax hpre - by announce bh?f\as a<??nafd?te fdr county Commissioner from district composing Hopewell. Brushy Creek, Garvin and Williams ton. Subject to ' . the roles and government of the Dem ocratic Primary. For Comity Supervisor I hereby announce myself a candi date tor county supo;visor, subject to the Democratic primary.) J. MACK RING. J Interurban El System (Hy Albert Phenis, in Muuufucturtrs' Record) The Dukes of Durham and their associates have in operation an elec tric railroad in North Carolina and South Carolina that In many of UH foulures lu a-strikingly unique inno vation iq'thy railroad world. It 1B not only aScnrrler of passenger traf fic. OQ. familia* Interurban lin- 'ut is, built. acqtiip'ped and upurteu^uce.1 for hea,vy ?rolght trafile, and will, In deed, make /freight handling as Im portant a pain of its business as it is of any standard steam road. Heavy electric engines, able to pull 1,000 tons, or a train .of :<0 to 40 loaded cars, have beeny installed and are at work, and although the lines In oper ation are only .a portion of the full system to be built, the operations aro on a very robust commercial scale now, and give delinito indication of the important factor the line will be In the transportation Held of the Pied mont section. intimately the system will be about .1120 miles long, and will extend from Durham, N. C.. to Greenwood, S. C. At present lt is operated in two sec tions under the nam-; of the Pied mont & Northern lines. One section of '?'A 1-2 miles, extending from Char lotte to Gautonia, ls at present called the Piedmont Traction company: tho other, from Spartanburg to Green wood, S. C., a length of 83.5 miles, with a branch from Kelton to Ander son of 10.5 miles, This section is called the Greenville, Spartanburg & Anderson railway. After July 1 both companies will consolidate and oper I at's under a South Carolina charter ! with thc hame of the Piedmont & Northern raliway. . The gap between Gastoula and Spartanburg is Ti4 miles. From Char lotte to Durham is 148 miles. Willie ' no definite plans for the construction | of the Gastonla-Spartanhurg gap and the Durham extension have been ln nounced. thc map? put out by the company indicate these as projected lines, and their early completion is manifestly Inevitable. They are need- ( ed to unify the system. There Is no talk of further extensions beyond these lines, and, in fact, the linc be tween Durham and Greenwood makes a very compact unit of itself. It con nects with all the railroads of the South Atlantic coast, and serves the section of greatest southern industrial development. Up to the present time the con struction expenditures have been financed ' by the company., and no bonds have been Issued. With the incorporation of the new company, with a capital stock of $50.000.000, arrangements for funding thc enter prise will be made. There have been spent in construction, terminals and equipment some $10,000,'000. It will probably require on towards an addi tional SlO^OTT^rro TdTjiill?r tne remain ing 200 odd miles . 10 .complete thc .system, and $2,000,000 for the equip ment, of these extensions. The road is due to the enterprise of J..B. Duke, who also ie rcsncnslMe for thc Southern Power company, with its network of transmission lines and numerous hydro-elSctric developments in the Piedmont-section. A company was orgaatred with Sir-.uno.(iou cap ital, and while the Du U M and asso ciates were always heavIly^lntereBted and took the Initiative In " financing the enterprise, the co-operation of the people along the line was desired' and was freely and liberally given.- There are stockholders in every town on the road in both North and South Caro lina, and even people outside of America voluntarily took stook on hearing about the enterprise. The officers of the company are: J. B. Duke, president. New York; W. ?S. Lee, vice president; B. Thomason, treasurer and general manager; W. A. Cooke, secretary; T. I,. Black, au ditor; all these of Charlotte. The di rectors, in addition to the officer, named, are, all local men. The gen eral offices'are at Charlotte, ? so that the enterprise ls given a distinctly lo cal coloring. .-.The first section of the road, from Charlotte to G?stenla;, was.. finished "-nd opened for traffic J/uly 3,\1912. The next section wat? v-bu1lt. from Greenwood tb BeUon, njrtkfroru there ' o Anderson, and- wits Opened ?trr^No -ember, 1,913.. Therine from Belton ,Vbv Greenville' . was * . completed . and ,Spoh?d-:for 'traffic "?naontlr later, and tho extension from Greenville tb Spar enburg was opened up a few weeks ago. March 23, 1914. ? Standard construction wak adopted throughout, and tho road, was built to \ maximum 1 per cent, grade. Eighty pound rails were laid, and the track is to be entirely rock-ballasted. All thc trestles and bridges, are of steel, built to Southern railway specifica tions, so that any engine on the Southern,' Pennsylvania or other Uanda rd rend'may run over tho Hue. A striking feature of th? -enterprise IS tho system ot terminals provided, in the larger cities on the. linc oxten-> **dve sites have beer\",sccujt'0ti, and in the very heart of uu? wSf?yt Ssrvi?b' and convenience rirj?'.the*-?''dominant factors in proparutts.n?.j$adn for han-, tiling trafile. Froui ?"^f?lf td av whole' block ?:i -ground h-U-foten'-'Secured lia each cafe. A very bande?me> .?ta^dairn type of building hajajSeJaj^ freight* depot? and ^HKflfff^ffM^T0^ wuVchouses that t^^fm-^yMfir: termina.) equlprnenti'^r^^ are of buff brick,. Mfe f0<^('i I, hereby announce- myself a candi dato for thfeV office of probate Judge of Anderson county, subject to the rules and to the result of the D?mocratie primary. VICTOR B. CHESHIRE. ---1-;-??te? '.-i-: W. P. Nicholson io hereby announc ed as a candidate if or re-election to the office of Probate Judge, subject to the rules of the democratic pri mary.. lectric i In Carolinas and even the stations of Ide smaller towns conform to the general type. Numerous tracks are built into the terminals-serving the depots at door high platforms, and switch tracks serve the warehouses all through. The iand> and buiidiugs of thc Char lotte terminals cost 1500,000. Tho terminals at Greenville and Spartan burg cost practically the same amount, und those at Anderson about $400. 000, At Greenwood the company has a Joint arrangement for terminals with thc Seaboard Air Line. The buildings at Charlotte are of concrete construction. Those in the Soutli Carolina cities are of mil] construc tion. The main company shops ar? at .Greenville. The building is of brick, conforming to the stundard type of other buildings of the roud. lt is completely and most modernly equip ped. Suildlng and land cost $150, 000; equipment. $250,000. There is another shop at I'inoca, near Char lotte, which has cost about $150,000. The freight equipment consists of 12 freight carrying electric locomo tives, eight box type locomotives ana a freight car equipment of all steel standard type cars, such as steam railroads use. Six big new locomo tives, designed and built by the Gen eral Electric company, have Just been, put in use. These engines weigh 63 1-2 tons, and are rated to haul a train of 1,000 tons gruss weight. Each locomotive is driven by foul motors, geared to an axle, so that all ! the axles are driving axles. The I technical description of this type ot I engine ls as follows. I Length of inside knuckles, 37 feet i ? inches; length over cab. 27 feet; I height to trolley base. 13 feet; width lover all, il feet 8 inches; rigid wheei I base, 7 fet: 2 inches; track gauge, 4, feet 8 1-2 .. heB; tractive effort at 25 per cent. "o-efficient, 30,000 pounds; tra.Mv. ' at one hour n?''ng, 17,000 pout**.*; rtlve effort at conllnjiouft mtlug, 11,200 pounds; I weight per driving axle, 31.750 pounds; weight electrical equipment 37,500 pounds; weight mechanical equipment, 89,500 pounds; total weight on drivers, 127.000 pounds. The smaller type of engine used is not essentially different in principle. Its rating, however, ls for *n haulage of 800 tons gross. Inatcad ol Loot?. The line is operated ion higa voltage. 1,500 volts direct current. Tlie passeng r equipment now '?in sista of 23 motor driven trolly oars, made by thc Jewell Car Company, ot Newark, Ohio. They arc 65 feet long, of highest standard construc tion and luxurious tlnUhctl, and are comfortable riding at their capacity speed of 60 miles an hour. They are operated in service at a maximum schedule speed of 48 miles an hour. There have been ordered, delivery to begin in June, ten new all steel pas senger cans, to be used as trailers. Also, two iteol parlor cars, with ob servation end-as fine as any steam I road has-to be used as trailers. Ail I the parsenger cars are electric llglit ; cd and heated, and have the maxi mum of comfort and convenience to be found in modern passenger cars. The earnings of th' road, both freight and passenger, are stated to be very satisfactory for a new roan. There were 7,000 people handled by the 23 1-2 mlle North Carolina divis ion on Mecklenburg Day, May 20. and the road handles an average of 3,000 every day. \ Beginning May 31, a sleeping car service will be inaugurated between Spartanburg and Atlanta. The car will bo delivered to the Seaboard Air Line at Greenwood. It ls not diffi cult to foresee a time When through bleeping cara from northern and eastern cities will bo routed over this line, with the completion of the rom; to Durham and the opening of the Clinchneid route to the north on the completion or the Elkhorn City ex tension. A recent event on thc in terurban was the gathering up of a trainload of excursionists along tho line between Greenwood and Spartan burg bound for a day at Altapass. The. electric road hauling it with one of the smaller type engines, turned thu several coach train over to the C. c. & O. at Spartanburg and received :L thors on the return trip. Arrangements have been made by tbe 'new road Tor all kinds of pas senger businest. Including the issu ance of mileage irooks. Plans have been pertectea with all connecting roads-Seaboard, Southern, Atlantic Coast Line, Carolina, CHochheid & Ohio-and also with all the railroads In the country, for the Interchange of business at steam road rates. > The Piedmont & Northern can thus bill freight anywhere that steam- rail roads go, and can issue bills of lad ing for foreign shipments anywhere in the World and at the same rates any other road can offer, .v. Local-dally package cars have been put on for service to and from Port?, mouth and Richmond and all pointb foti the electric road. These cars car ry eastern freight, from steamers ana ; railroads, -with an average time from New York and eastern points to.points on this line of four days. The elec tric road Introduced this service, ma terially shortening the time former ly taken- for shipments; whtch was ;from six to seven days. *&? It is interesting to note the present day development in this territory. Along the lines of the electric road aa ' now operated there are 94 cotton mills,-with 2,202,506 spindles, and 49,667 looma.' Thirty-six ot tDesc mills are located On the 23 t-2 ru lieu of road in North Carolina. Altogether the 84 mills '.iave capital stock of $51,000,000, and make print eloth, sheeting -and drills to tbe amount of 199,000,000 pounds annually, with 1 a value of $52,000,000. Cotton r rod U. S. Court Martial Borrd Trying Suspjcteo Mexican Sniper Photo copyright, 1914. by American Press Association. HEBB ls a very timely photo from Vern Cruz. It shows the conrt mar tial board of the United States army trying a Mexican ncensed of sniping Americttn soldiers In the streets. Those who are convicted are Immediately placed In the prison of Sun Juun du Ulua. long used aa a fort and juli by the Mexican government ...TAKE YOUR CHOICE... You can pay $275.00 for a lot or you can pay $250.00 - take your choice. We are talking about those beautiful lots on Tribble Street. At $275.00 you pay no interest and no taxes - at $250.00 you pay interest and taxes. For $275.00 you can pay $10 down and $10 per month - this way is without interest and with out taxes. For $250.00 you pay $10 clown and $5 per month with interest and taxes. J. FURMAN EVANS CO. Evans Building :: Anderson S C. Across the If exl Between the Battle Lines of the Federal and Revolutionary Troops The Land of Broken Promises By DANE COOLIDGE Author of "The Fightin? Fool," "Hidden Water," "The Toxican," Etc WE feel that we are indeed fortunate in being able to announce this truly remark" able story for serial publication in this paper. It is a stirring story of the Mexican revolution in which this portrayer of western character has painted vivid pictures of the scenes of carnage in war-infested Mevico; the plight of American refugees in border towns; the wantonness of both the Mexican federal and revolutionary troops, and in fact gives a graphic and truthful description of present conditions and all through the medium of a powerful story. Mixed wu h the hair raising adventures of two Americans is a passionate love story. - it h the Type of Story Every Reader Will Appr?ciait B^^^^^^^^ ^"jifl B Smokeless, Sootless, MB Mm'?'"-'\\r 'or "Tubes , and Cas JfjraB Bair ???Wi?r *ns8* -BP-' :: REPAIR TOURIOWN TIRES Todd Auto Shop Phone 226 : : . Anderson, 5. C. I ucts will bc the largo-it il- iii in Hie ' outbound trafile o? the electric rond,; 'but In thc aggregate.or in mid out-j , bound shipments gem ral merchun ? ?lise will take tho lead. Tho popula tion in the towns and cities ulong the line is computed ul ?l??.0):?. lt la , figured that in ;?.hp. ?.ntirc territory which ia tributary Jp h li" 'ines of tho j electric road now ?tr operation liiere I are about 1180,000. It is commented j that, based simply on uossihie paarten - ; ger business? the \tneiwouVl net be a ; feasible vtu^derta|i\iv:. ?t ^>7?. i'''?(!?-. sary t<f go after* freight: Audacious and precedent breaking as tho move hat; been in the nugmltido. and .-cope of tile endeavor.*, Pelt ll is h dd to be u manifest fact tliai,thu indus'.! lui development in this kootioii 'oday is a mere forerunner Of that willett :s to come. The eo.mpu:: ?u i'y lav? ?.?hie chume '? th" I" '?. .1 s: ' .li. willi all t e other advo .>.?.. .i . f gi -jgr;ti?:i ic, |. cation, pr.v.m") cf ruyt ' ma te . r thc advui' i ; . . .! stait und the recently lidded conveni ence and economy of abundant hyJro electfic power, all tlieso factors art. predicted with confidence to bring to this section an Industrial develop ment that will more than duplicate what is found here today. It ls recognized that thc construc tion or the electric road is a mos! extraordinary enterprise. A sugges tion wus made that perhaps Mr. Duke being so heavily interested In tin Southern Water Pow ?r company, wat moved by a consideration of provid ing a new customer for electric pow er. The answer was that the powei tile roa ' consumes is a matter of in ferior Importance. "One big cottoi mill will usc a &rcat deal moro pow er than thc entire electric lino," i was declared. The explanation scorn cd to be that. with Duke it was th? passion to achieve something big something that would not be dom unless it was done by lilia-logetbei with a pride in the development o his native state and section. It I: known that the energy the people o the Piedmont section have shown li rehabilitating themselves and thei country after the complete d?Eolntioi of tbe war has always strongly ap pealed to J. H. Duke. In his ad miration for their character am achievements, he has long exprcssei a desire to do something that woub be helpful,, and this ls held to he th underlying motive in ail that he ha done down here. Power for tho operation of th traction company is brought from th Southern Power company, which lin developments of over 100,000 horse power on thc Catawba, Dread rive and Saluda. The Southern Powe company also buys 10.000 horsepowc from the Georgia Railway & Powe company's development at! Tallula Falls. Ga. A vory Interesting fea- ure in cor ncctlon with the ope ration of th electric road is th's r.afety plan evolved. In' the system or train' di spatchlng there has been worked ot the highest development of tele phone, semaphone and automatl surety devices and*appliances, that ai known to the service. Hero is th first installation of a system gotte out by tho Union Switch & Slgm company, bf Swiss vale, Pa., In conns* tlon .with .tho Western Electric con puny. Tho-.dispatcher has complet control of the entire system. an even at stations where there ls n agent he can regulate the signa through his centrafcohtroh . . The stations are about five milt apart, at each of . which there is semaphore, protected .by a lock,' tl ' key for which the conductor- carrie Tho dispatcher can display a danmor signal from his desk, dropping tIi. - board at any station, tin* sum > as on operator may do under tho block sys tem on a steam road, lue dispatcher cannot return the board lo safety. Tbls must be done by the conductor who is halted by lin" danger signal. On restoring tho board to safety an auto matic Morse code signal registers in the dispatcher's office, indicating tho train has gone by. If lt should be !,?.c cssary for a train to meet at passing tracks where Jib ore is no operator, tho red board eau be thrown by the dis patcher as an prevention against n misunderstanding of orders, anil thus serves for what is knowti as tim midd I?; order. Whenever stopped the con ductor can gt in touche by telephone with the dispatcher and receive his or ders, so that a dispatcher may stop a train and give orders ut auy stution along the road. In case nf misunderstanding or ovcr I looked orders, if a train gets past u i stution whre it Bim',ld have stopped, the failure to signal ls noted at the dispatcher's desk. In ordinary dis patching, when a train gets by and an other train in in the block, tlmrc is usually nothing that can he donut ?x ' cpi to rush a relief train with doet'irs and nurses to the scone of tho inevita ble wreck. In the case of tho fleetr??: road, the. dispacher has control of thc pow or current, and if a collision is impending he simply reaches over, throws a switch, and ovary train otu the road is dead. The Situation toen i? of easy adjustment hy tcla-ttuvs-u from any nearby nemnphore hov. Fur added safety and convenience, every car and every engine carrie:? a portable telephone set, ivhieli can be booked onto the wire anywhere, estab lishing t dephone communication s-.t once with any place desired. "A Word To the Wise Is Sufficient" By MOSS. S^JBG** "APPOI?T?NI. vfXg/ \? 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