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~r~r * CP’ TH* OFFICIAL IVICB—a< AinrocAam NT Ym* Cky 1* lt25. LUME « M«mbT of thm Family** BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER M. 1128. BARNWELL COUNTTS A MOST POPULAJt Bowrinr. TO BUILD WORLDS HIGHEST SKYSCRAPER IN NEW YORK O * S'it >■ * - ■ v HUGE TOWER OF SIMPLE BEAU tY IS DESIGNED. Structure Will Rise to Height of 1.208 Feet ad Its Cost Will Be * $22,500,000. 110 Stories High \v & to Visitors to New York will soon have an added sight to see, for construc tion work on a lift-story office build ing will begin in the next few weeks. The super-skyscraper' will tower 1,208 feet above the sea level. It is to rise from the Times Square section, and will front on Forty-second street between Eighth and Nineh Avenues, only a few blocks from the “Cross roads of the world,” a s Broadway and Forty-second street has been termed. This huge office structure, to be known as the Larken Tower Building, together with the 50,000 square feet of ground it will occupy, is estimated to cost $22,500,000. The value of the ground was aaid to be $4,500,000. From rentals the builders expect to obtain about $3,000,000 yearly. It to b« ready for Use In 1928. This sky-piercing tower is designed to show the stern and simple beauty of ths American skyscraper. It will be of steel, limestone and brick, with a granite base, Vermont marble for the first story and Indiana limestone for the second and third stories of the Forty-second Street facade. At present the highest buildirg^ia the world is the new 85-«tory Book Tower in Detroit, but the Larkin Tower Building will be raarly 300 feet higher. It will be 416 faet high er than the 60-story Woolworth Build ing, now the tallest in New York. Sixty high-speed elevators will serve this new suplr-skyscraper. Two of these will be expresses ascending without a stop to the eighty-second story, from which four cars will take pavsengera to the 110th story. The three upper stories of the im mense structure will be given over en tirely for sight-seeing purposes. From these the visitor to New York can see the busy streets of America’s me- tro 'oils spread out below him. Excavations for the foundation will be in the rock forty-eight feet below the street level. The building will rest on a heavy grillage embedded in an eighterti-foot reinforced concrete slab, estimated to bear a load of thirty-flve tons to the square foot. Designers of the building say less than 60 per cent of this capacity load will be used. No attempt was made to design the builcUrg as the tallest in the world, declares John A. Larkin, of Larkin Brothers, builders. “We simply endeavored to provide the greatest smour.t of permanent light and air to the greatest possible portion of floor area with a sur- s for elevator service,” he said, e projected building came natural ly out of these conditions.” The site will front 226.1 feet on the south side of Forty-second Street gnd will run through the block to a front age of 250 feet on Forty-firjt Street Of the 1,450,000 square feet the new structure will contain, 950,000 will be rentable. In this respect it will be surpassed by only three others, the new Graybar Building under con struction in New York, the Equitable Building, also in New York, and the General Motors Building in Detroit. Thousands will visit the new build ing daily on its completion, it is said, and will marvel at it A visitors once did at the Flatiron Building, now al- ** most a “back number.” The wonder of this new Larkin Tower Building may pass\too, but for the time, it will be one of the “sights to be seen” in New York. REVEWING 1926 By A. B. CHAPIN J VAlFMAU* ‘PWMM John A. Larkin, is the prospective builder of the new monarch of New York’s skyline—a 110 story office building. It will he the bigget thing made by man «r.d will rise 1208 feet, overtopping the Woolworth Building by 416 feet and will cost $22,500,000. Christmas |n Barnwell. o' COURT 7* Coal stww wmJK>. OUtCOUUTKrt tSto*AiMNCO£ARY A yack IM 441$ OtfAlO. R uc ibae a OUkmeo tae & im SSfeL r/jftnauat aP TOLL IN SOUIlf ALSO 4 i- -/a r^lC'Z' Patted tubm mr— I Cot tm» Atooic Jo LUST LOip *K)QOOO ( i c*>se»r AMO mtn Some wgw OiAMSt Ip** TMU QMB.w.aiwevT * OmOlMAL (Coi. JOW.C coouoaa * waetet, SmtfraQ* mikmlcy Wonderful Opportunity Is in Store for This Section Mr 1 Christmas Day passed very quietly In Barnwell, except for the noise made by the popping of firecrackers, etc. The weather was balmy and Spiinglike in warmth and numbers of people enjoyed automobile rides during the day. So far as can be learned, most of the kiddies were re membered very generously by Santa Claus, who gave very little indication of having been seriously hurt by Gen eral Hard Times. The older folks also seemed to have fared quite well at his hands, judging from the num ber of new bar pins, bracelets, Tings, ties, socks, etc., that were in evidence. One gentleman remarked that he saw a number of well and beautifully filled Christmas stockings on Christ mas Day. In spite of the. depressed financial condition of the State, local merch ants seem to have enjoyed a very good holiday trade the last few days before Christmas. Does Advertising Pay? Mammoth Porker. What is thought to Be the largest hog ever raised in Barnwell County wag killed and .butchered here on Tuesday. The hog was grown by “Prof.” J. S. M. Carter, colored, of this city. It was about two years old and its net weight was 500 pounds. It was pot in a small pen about a year ago and since that time baa the personal attention of “Prof.*' he having taken considerable tor gee that the “pig” was fed regularly and proper attention given it Can anyone in the county pro duce n larger one? year i ggfOth As “Bill* Manning, Barnwell County’s popular Auditor, is wont to say when he thinks some one is trying to “draw.Jum out” with an ulteriqr motive in view and doesn’t want to commit himself, “Some say it do and some say it don’t.” But “Bill” to the contrary notwithstanding, it is safe to say that advertising “do pay.” Last week, Fred Douglas Snelling, a young negro just returned from Florida, lost his suitcase. Being one of those who believe that advertising “do pay," he promptly sought-The People-Sentinel office and had* a small “Lost Ad.” inserted. Saturday he was notified by jJ a subecriber of this paper who lives at Dunbarton that he had found the suit case. Fred's belief in the value of advertising was justified and R is the confident and expressed belief of the writer that “BBT can safely assure The seven counties compris ing the Edisto-Savannsh River section have a wonderful oppor tunity in the electrical develop ment planned on the Savannah River near Clark’s Hill in Edge- field county. The company is going right ahead with pre liminary werk, and it is pos sible that the first unit will be rehdy to furnish power one year from now. develop ment is especially interesting to a number of counties and towns in this section which are being supplied with hydro-electric power by the Edisto Public Ser vice Co. which has transmission lines connecting with the super power system of the South at Augusta, and it is closely al lied with the South-eastern • Power Co., the latter being the parent company in charge of the development alluded to above. This means that in a few years there should be a tremendous increase in the in dustrial enterprises of this sec : tion if our people have the in itiative and energy to take ad vantage of their opportunity, aa no section of the state will have better sources of power supply at cheap rates. The details of the transfer of the power companies in Char leston were completed last week, and the company is already en gaged in the 'preliminary work at the site of the dam. Quan tities of material have been placed and giant diamond drills are already at work in order to ascertain the formations where the huge dam is to be located. This work is in charge of Nis- bet Wingfield, former city en gineer of Augusta. The dam will be 90 feet high and 3,500 feet long including the appro aches, and will generate 120,000 horse power, making it the lar gest power development in the South aitd one of the largest in the United States. The cost of this plant will be $20,000,000 and it is only one of the several dams contemplated a long the same river, the ultimate outlay of the company to be at least $50,000,000, all the developments to bo located in the same section. The construction of the ‘hu ▼e dam will employ four or five thousand people for a year or two, which will be equivalent to the establishment of a big in dustry and bring large pay rolls to this part of South CaCrolinfi.' Local Merchant Has “Tax Dodging Sale” A rather unususl sale la announced in a quarter-page advertisement on the 8th page of this issue—a “Tax Dodging Sale” that is beirg staged by The Best Pharmacy. Rather that re turn their stock of toilet goods for taxation, this concern has decided to offer practically their entire line at cost and below-cost prices. The ar ticles a rv nationally advertised good* such as are used daily for milady's toilet. Readers of The People-Senti nel are urged to read the list of bar gains and profit accordingly. A Yuletide Party. - CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES HAVE TRAGEDIBS. >-3M Forty-eik Dead. — Firearms M«re Deadly Than Pyroieehafcs in Exaction of Life. The South’s celebration df Christ mas was not without its tragedies, ft was shown recently in reports receiv ed by the Associated Press of 46 per sons dead from accidents and shoot- ngs and equally as many more jgured. Deaths and injuries attending' the dischargeof pyrotechnicswers reported to be at a medium, although exacted a heavy toll. Sewll per four white and three shot to death in Florida while two men drowned, a young girl burned to death when her clothing becstee Ig nited by matches with which she was playing and a negro man erne bed to death brought the Peninsala State’s death toll to 1U Alabama’s death list mounted to 1ft, five fatalities being reported by Mo bile, four by Birmingham and Montf gornery ones while many injured to varying ptate. South Carolina reported five deaths five injuries attributable to Christmas celdbratiooa. Four at those injured in this State wees vic tims of a bomb explosion, had five persona killed, her sister State, Ten four deaths each, while Virginia had three each. North Caro lina sod Mississippi rspsetsd am fatality each, although the latter bad 1$ persona injured. . 1 Ginning* in Connty Nnniijr 30t000 Bnkn There were 29,116 balsa of ginned la 443 hales to the saas according to e report the Department of comber 20th. This Is the largest cfpg’ made in this county in a number ai years, being even larger than that ai 1920, when the total produced ex ceeded 28,000 baW Other counties in this section also show large gta- nings, but those in the upper part'd the State are smaller thaa last year, Oconee having ginned only 6,028 as compared with 15,222; Spartanburg less than half as mock*aa a year age; Greenville only about 10 per coat at last year's productiea, and so ea. The total for the State was placad at 570 this year and 90ft,7ftS in 1929. The estimated .prop for is a little store than n milliei Ginnings by coarAiee la this are as follows * 1926 190 Aiken — 36,276 29J99 Allendale 16*499 14JB4 Bamberg 21,869 19*798 Barnwell 29,199 ffflf Hampton 7*999 1L998 Orangeburg 74,428 98*679 Denmark Stare Is Rabbad. Entertains Bridge Clab. Mrs. Charlie Brown, Sr., was host ess to the members of the Bridge Club Tuesday afternoon. The high score prise was won by Miss Virginia Moseley and the consolation was cut by Mrs. Charlie Brown, Jr. After the games delightful refreshments, 4oa- sistfhg of chicken salad and hot cof fees were served. Ouft-d-town guests were Mrs. E JL. Patterson, of Spar- Unburg, Mrs. JJ>. lohissu, d Abba- villa, Mrs. Herman Brown, of Black Provide for Needy. One of the most enjoyable of the Yuletide festivities was the party given on Mdrdxy evening at the home of Mrs. Lloyd Plexico by the Mary G. Harley Class of the Baptist Sunday School in honor of Mrs. G. M. Greene, teacher of the class. The entire lower floor of this love ly home was thrown en suite and •beautifully decoihted in Christmas greens. Upon entering the living room a lovely tree with vari-colored lights met the eye, in the top of which shone a brilliant ster. After several spirited contests Mr. Lloyd Plaxico, acting as old Santa, appeared and distributed the gifts, which proved to be a veriUble shower I Ik A. Goolsby. They then weat in and for the surprised teacher, each gueet I turned on the lights but the robbers present as wall as those unable to had departed. be present having placed on the tree Mr. Goolsby says that while It is a gift for her. almost impossible at this time ter Delicious vefresnments, consisting check up on the loss, he believes that of froeen fruit salad, crackers and I the thieves confined thMMdvae^ to The personal service committee of the various churches of the town did some excellent work during the Christmas season by way of shedding a little sunshine into the live*’ of those families wnose little ones would have gone without a visit from old Santa. Each department of the Sun day school adopted a family, furnish ing much needed clothing,'fn^ts aed toys, as well as substantiate for the Christmas dimer. Daring the oee tag year a Good Fellows Club will be Denmark, Dee. 28.—On night burglars entered the store ai Goolsby and Son Co. here and car ried away, several hundred dellare worth of clothing. Night Officer J^L. Hanberry noticed the back door of tho store open about 2:80 o'clock in the morning and promptly notified several people, who surrounded the store until the arrival of tho manager. Russian tea, were served. Twenty- five members of the class ware pres- j ent on this occasion. Church The members «f the Treadway Bap tist Church, near Wlfiteton, suffered a great loei by the burning of their building Saturday. The fire was dia- iring the eight ip Mar mi- hat it waa tea late to aava the Treadway Is one of eeantry churches ht that men’s clothing. He teas salts of clothing and overcoats. The heavy Wooden tear I effected [has been robbed oaMfiai he past three years. No ho identity of thhfuRfy