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pite to nie:e. up-v:. c pro 'anufacturing Nan: in the country. It r resents the type of Whaley mills, all of which are successful. It is without doubt the largest cotton mill under a single roof in the entire South ern States, and competent judges announce that it is the most complete mill plant in this country, and no nation is ahead of this country in the cottor mill business. People hear and know that the O:tmpia MI:. is the largest in the South, but they may not know, nor do they think, of what co:mbinations go to make th: - lagnificent s:r::cture what it iS. Think of a sing.A cotton mili consuming 25," hales of cotton. It will e:p.oy, wen a: machinery is in sa:ed and : Joptin more than 1,> a be-bodd op.-a s. - " 4 - r yr; - - - - cet 2 mnhes long and 151 feet 2 incite wide, and contains four floors and a base ment, each story being 1S feet high. There are two towers about 24 by 2 feet and 139 feet 6 inches high, containing the stairways and the tanks for the sprinkler system.Adjoining the rear wall of the mill at the middle is a machine shop and in the rear of th:, is the engine and boiler rooms. The engine room being 12' by 50 feet, and the boiler house 140 by 40 feet in plan. In the rear of the latter is the building for the mechanical draft plan:. The first floor of :he bu:lding is devoted to opening bales and weaving; the second foor to weaving, siashin;. spooing and warping: the third to card:r0, draw rg and lapping, and the " r" PLENTY OF PURE WATER. The water supply for the mill comes from a spring-fed reservoir of some 800,000 gallons' capacity, which also sup'plies the mill village with its drinking water. The mill is heated by two 14-foot electri cally driven Sturtevant fans, blowing air through horizontal ducts along the front and rear walls of the mill, as shown in the half plan and section of the mill build mng. The mill architecture is imposing and the structure is beautiful. Considerable money was expended in beautifying th. building and every possible convenience is provided in and around the mil. The closets and wash rooms are finished in marble and mosaics, and elevators are at hand for the operatives. A 5.000-pound Schane bell is in one of the towers and with beautiful tone strikes the hours, and in the second tower there is a standard time clock. The officers of the mill company are: Presider.t, W. B. Smi:: V.::aley. Vice presidenf, \V. A. Clark. Gen.ral manager. J. S. Moore. Secretary and trcasurer, W. H. Rose. Superintt::dent, F. S. Barnes. SUBJECT OF PRIDE. The mill was constructed on the plans C-f W'. B. Smith Whaley & Co. the most c:ssful mill engineers in the Souti. Tf:s irm has left its deep imprint on the ::dttsr:a! deve:o,ment of the South, and es;icia:iy in South Carolina. In a recent r - it was stated that: "The record of th" firm is that of 539,676 spindles. 1,5 al ,. capital in a workin, "r f vcn yotrs, unapproached by -gfneering irm in the South. -'J o-,hi be a subject of pride to South i to Columbia, as well as to :- 2 m ::nbr- of the firm.", 'b :: : r'o.:nsder that in ISSO the entire '' r h::il t'arolina contained only ' m . with IS1.;33 spindles, 13.41S - .o capit:. against this r. _-: 2 nt:.'z South Carolira S1,.Jind6s, .~60 looms and '*7-s.IJr ;pncly an .. t,tea 137i h loomhz. ; m t :he smaller ni. in 1880. becaus o. L great.' economlt4 postsible now in building the best miils. It is proper to add that Mr Whaley is the president of all but the smallest of these four' Columbia mills which he has planned, and which, with 191,000 spindles, 4,620 looms and $3.000,000 capital, represents the largest cotton manufacturing invest ment in the South and one of the largest in the United States. An example of his far-sightedness and quick business 'perception may be noted in connection with the electrical installa tion of the Olympia Milh'. As soon as the electrical transmiasion of power had been definitely determined upon for that mill and its ilocation determined, he at once purchased the existing electric car lines of the city, also the electrical lighting business, and will furnish the power and current from the Olympia; also provide electricity for the other mills. The re sultant economies will not only be factors in the net earnings of the railway and light!ng systems, but will also add an appreciable net income to cr"d. of the mill. OLYMPIA'S GREATNESS ACKNOWL EDGED. Last April, when the great Olympia Mill was started up, it was examined by a number of the leading cotton mill officers in the country, men who lead in the cotton industrial movement. One of these was Capt Manning. of the Amoskeag Company. who said: "The Olympia was the finest structure of the sort he had ever seen. He was glad the Olympia was not a com petitor of the Amoskeag Company. ir Richardson, of Massachusetts, said that the Olympia Mill was, in his opinion, the finest cotton mill in the world-the finest in architecture and equipment-and he said this with a full realization of what he was saying, as he was connected with New England mills. Not long ago Mr H. E. C. Bryant made a trip through the mill territory and made disinterested and impartial in quiries and wrote a series of articles on the result of his inquiries in the various mills in this State and North Carolina, ONE OF THE OLYMPIA HOMES. ..m"1 m tne mill. He lives in a slx '" c flv children. but they are in the mill.' Entering the house from the rear we went through the dining room Into a bed room, and then into. the parlor. The old gentleman was proud of the parlor. He threw back the window curtains and pointed to the large pictures on the wall. They were paintings from photographs of his children. The floor of the room was carpetc. and in one corner was an organ. From kitchen to garret the house was clean. When mine host had seen me to the door he said: 'I farmed on rented land before I came here, but I could not feed my family there now. I like the lifa here. I like my employers. They treat us well if we behave in like manner to ward them. If we misbehave they turn us out and get others in our stead. When I moved here the superintendent warned me against drinking. He said that he would have none but sober help. He meant what he said, for I have not seen a drunken man on the hill since I came here two years ago. My children are in good health and seem satisfied. We are all contented. All of us belong to the Church and attend regularly.' "I went from house to house and heard the same story. Indeed, there is no prob lem at the best mills between capital and labor, for the mill owners and operatilves dwell in harmony. The various religious denomfinationr in the mill sections are doing a great deal for the factory element in the South. Preachers call on the operatives and their families at their homes. Churches are built and preaching and Sunday-school conducted at nearly every mill. Within the last five years in the South much has been done for the betterment of the condition of the cotton will help. The work is till going on. "No one who knows the facts, as any one can learn by going to the mills, car doubt that the people who work in the coton mills of the South are far better of in every way than ever before. "Such are the conditions in all the Caro lina mills." Mr E. G. Dunnell, an experienced news J, say. among ther thin Su L t 'While the t zs and sto o atives or new industries calle- forth be . of the coming of a laboring pop'leticii. Stfre have been obliged to carry large and more varied stocks. There is more travelling by rail. It is a matter of daily occurrence that among the r ,ssengeie who overcrowd the trains of the Southern Railway there are Inquirers arriving at various points to look over the land with the view of set tling, either as persons already concerned in cotton manufacturing or hoping to be, or tradesmen seeking a new market. "The country is beautiful. It is charm ing to the eye; it is naturally healthful, and in the towns will be more healthful with a little criticism and sanitation. The summers are long and the winters brief and unusually mild. HOME OFFERED C "But it is not alone in the coming of the' trolley, the expansion of the -hops. the paving of streets in towns, the sanitation of all places of large population. the sen sation of earning money with a regularity and certainty never before enjoyed in the section, that occasion for rejoicing is found in South Carolina. Attention was directed by a thoughtful and observant citizen to a sociological phase of the in- ! dustrial development that is most satis factory, and that it seems a piy "oula not be extended in some way to the State of Kentucky. "When Columbia began to nuild mills. and the operation of the mills had made a perceptible drain upon the most conven ient and willing class of the population that was fitted to work in the mills, that{ drain was felt a little at points more or less remote from Columbia. Men and wo men who had yearned sor opportunity to get money witnout digging or hoeing for it. moved from the foothills into town. first into places vacated by the people who I moved earliest. and afterward, as the mills began to rise nearer to the hills, into the manufactories elsewhere. . EFFECT OF PROSPERITY. "Most of these people were of the real hardy mountaineer sort, with the same sof'. deliberate cour:cous address that is; characteristic of all the mountaineers in the Virginias. the Carolinas. Tenneesee or. Kentucky. They brought with them stal wart frames. simple appetites and fgno rance of letters. But they were not al together at fault for that. They had not been treated as wards of the State. There was a moving down from the mountain districts into a region where there were schools and stores and churches of a proud but eainest ar.. ambitious multi Jv-:e n aourn aro-mna wno are wor!ng in the m: :m-. i w r,. ar lieghted that hey ca Fm who had been mere :rr.; and eked out an exi nce are : month by month and year by y., :y abandoned farm ing and the :et. bass., and went into the mills with their grown chi:dren and soon enjoyed comfortable and regular incomes. It is the constanc aim of such corpora tIons as the Olympia to have competent and happy help, and to have a healthy and satisfied community. and to that end ev erything possibie has been, and is being. done for the health and pleasure of the operatives. There is no healthier community than that at the O:ympia Mill. The company has an excepti,al sewerage and drainage sys:emt ail garbage is carted away by the garbage carts owned by the mill. The company has employed a compe known ph:ysk 1.3 wiwG ;b1: LYMPIA'S HELP. p;casure it is to attnord to every medical want of the operatives at the expense of the m!! com,any. The mana. -ment is desirious of having the very nest class of operatives to live in their village and to work in the mill. As the mill is just starting up this enormous pian:, the company will require several hundred famili., to give it the full nu:m b,r of operaives. The mill, therefore, is oaering to recnie "green" help and to teach them to vork in the fa'era. Anyone desiring to vIeszgate with a view of acceptilu this offer. can get all the mnformation, :uch as regards to wages of the different kinis of wo:k. etc. by writ ing to the su;crat-uert of the OlympIa Mills. or any of the mill officials, at Colum bia. S. C. Cliumbia offers a great many advantages to people moving into the city. Its fine churches and tine schools give to those persons living in Columbia advantages not possessed by a good many otlcr localities. The mills are all located on the street car linc. making them viry accessible to any part of the city. A good many familie. In the past have moved in from their .arms to work In the facrories here. The: s-m to be perfectly satisfied and in many ii.-tances have bet tered their condition considerably. The mill ,+ icia's will be glad to commu nicate with ,ny parties desiring to come to the m!:s for the purpose of working in rtem. and are satiaied that the opportunli ties are s.ch as to satisfy them. The story of the O:ympia Cotton Mill is one of intense int,- rest to every Carolinian, and when one thinks It will be realized how very Intimately the cotton mills of the State are asVciated with the industrial development of the State...