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BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER M. 1128.
BARNWELL COUNTTS
A MOST POPULAJt
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TO BUILD WORLDS HIGHEST
SKYSCRAPER IN NEW YORK
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HUGE TOWER OF SIMPLE BEAU
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Structure Will Rise to Height of
1.208 Feet ad Its Cost Will Be
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110 Stories High
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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