The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 10, 1902, Image 7
T)R TALMAGIfS SERMON
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Sobject: The Splendors and Glories of
Heavenly Life ? A Glimpse of the
Kinc's falace?An Impressive HalfHour
in Eternity.
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discourse, prepared by Dr. Talmngc befort
his illness, a vivid glimpse of the splendors
and glories of heavenly life is presented;
text, Revelation vhi, 1, "There
was silence in heaven about the space of
half an hour."
The busiest place in the universe is
heaven. It is the centre from which all
good influences start; it is the goal at
which all good results arrive. The Bible
represents it as active with wheels and
wings and orchestras and processions
mounted or charioted. But my text de?
scribes a space when the wheels ceased to
roll and the trumpets to sound and the
voices to chant. Ihe riders on the white
horses reined in their charges. The doxologies
were hushed and processions halted.
The hand of arrest was upon all the splendor.
"Stop heaven!" cried an omnipotent
voice, and it stopped. For thirty
minutes everything celestial stood still.
"There was silence in heaven about the
epaee of half an hour."
From all we can learn it is the onh
time heaven ever sioppea. it uues hoc
6top as other cities for the night, for there
is no night there. It does not stop for a
plague, tor the inhabitant never savs, "I
am sick." It does not stop for bankruptcies,
for its inhabitants never fail. It
does not stop for impassable streets, for
there are no fallen snows or sweeping
freshets. What, then, stopped it for thir- i
tv minutes? Gvotius and Professor Stuart
think it was at the time of the destruction
of Jerusalem. Mr. Lord thinks it was in
the year 311, between the close of the Diocletian
persecution and the beginning 01
the wars by which Constantine gained the
throne. But that was all a guess, though
a learned and brilliant guess. 1 do not
know when it wa3 and I do not care when
it was, but of the fact that such an interregnum
of sound took place I am certain.
"There was silence in heaven about the
pace of half an hour."
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all heaven then honored silence. The
longest and widest domain that ever existed
is that over which stillness was
queen. For an eternity there had not
been a sound. World making was a later
day occupation. For unimaginable ages
it was a mute universe. God was the onlr
being, and as there was no one to speak
to there was no utterance. But that silence
has all been broken up in to worlds,
and it has become a noisy universe.
Worlds in upheaval, worlds in congelation,
worlds in conflagration, worlds in
revolution.
If geologists are right?and I believe
they arc?there has not been a moment ot
silence since this world began its travels,
and the crashing and the splitting and the
uproar and the hubbub are ever in progress.
But when among the supernals a
voice cried, "Hush!" and for half an hour
heaven was still, silence was honored. The
full power of silence manv of us have yet
to learn. We are told that when Christ
was arraigned "He answered not a word."
That silence was louder than anv thunder
that ever shook the world. Oftentimes
when we are assailed and misrepresented
the mightiest thincr to sav is to sav notb
ing. and the mightiest thing to do 13 to do
nothing. Those people who are always
rushing into print to get themselves set
right accomplish nothing but their own
chagrin. Silence! Do right and leave the
results with God. Among the grandest lessons
the world has ever learned are the
lessons of patience taught by those who
endured uncomplainingly personal or domestic
or political injustice. Stronger
than any bitter or sarcastic oj revengeful
answer is the patient silence.
^ot onjy are an me tnumpr.s oi im.
past to be commemorated, but all the
triumphs to come. Not only what we now
know of God, but what we will know of
Him after everlasting study of the deific.
If my text had said there was silence in
heaven for thirty days, I would not have
been startled at the announcement, but it
indicates thirty minutes.
Why, there will be so many friends to
hunt up. so many of the greatly good and
useful that we will want to see, so many
of the iiiscrutable things of earth we will
need explained, so many exciting earthly
experiences we will want to talk over, and
all the other spirits and all the ages will
.want the same, that there will be no more
opportunity for cessation.
' How busy we will be kept in having
pointed out to us the heroes and heroines
that the world neve!1 fully appreciated?the
yellow fever and cholera doctors who died,
not flying from their posts; the female
, nurses who faced pestilence in the lazarettos:
the railroad engineers who stayed
at their places in order to save the train,
though they themselves perished. Hubert
Goffin, the master miner, who, land
in<? from the bucicet at the bottom ot the
mine just as he heard the waters rush in
and when one jerk of the rope would have
lifted him into safety, put in the bucket a
blind miner who wanted to go to his sick
child, and jerked the rope for him to be
pulled up. crying, "Tell them the water
has burst in and we are probably lost, but
we will seek refuge at the other end of the
right gallery," and then giving the command
to the other miners till they digged
themselves so near out that the people
from the outside could come to their rescue.
The multitudes of men and women
.who got no crown on earth we will want
to see when they get their crown in heaven.
I tell you heaven will have no more
nail nours 10 spare.
Besides that, heaven is full of children.
They are in the vast tnajority. No child
onH?arth who amounts to anything can be
kept quiet half an hour, and how are you
going to keep five hundred million of them
quiet half an hour? Yon know heaven is
much more of a place than it was when
that recess of thirty minutes occurred.
Its population has quadrupled, sextupled,
centupled.
Jtieaven ?ns more on nana, more 01 rapture.
more of knowledge, moije of intercommunication,
more of worship. The
most thrilling place we have ever been in
is stupid compared with that, and. if we
now have no time to spare, we will then
have no eternity to spare. Silence in heaven
only half an hour!
My subject also impresses me with the
immortality of a half hour. That half
hour mentioned in my text is more widely
known than any other period in the calendar
of heaven. None of the whole hours
of heaven is measured off, none of the
years, none of the centuries. Of the millions
of age3 past and the millions of ages
to come not one is especially measured off
in the Bible. But the half hour of my
text is made immortal.
The only part of eternity that was ever
measured by the earthly timepiece was
measured by the minute hand of my text.
Oh, the half hours! They decide everything.
I am not asking what you will do
.with the yep.rs yjr mouths ox- days of your
life, but what of the half hours? Tell me
the history of your half hours and I will
tell you tfcc story of your whole life in
eternity.
The right or wrong things you can think
in thirty minutes, the right or wrong
things you can say in thirty minutes, the
right or wrong things you can do in thirty"
minutes are glorious or baleful, inspiring
or desperate.
Look out for the fragments of time.
They are pieces of eternity. It was the
half hours between shoeing horses that
made Eiihu Burritt, the learned blacksmith,
the half hours between professional
calls as a physician that made Abercrombie
the Christian philosopher, the half
hours between his duties as schoolmaster
that made Salmon P. Chase Chief Justice,
tiio half hours between shoe lasts that
made Henry Wilson Vice-President of the
United States', the half hours between
canalboats that made James A. Garfield
President.
'lhe half hour a day for good books or
bad books, the half hour a day for prayedor
indolence, the half hour a day for helping
others or blasting others, the half hour
before you go to business and the half
hour after you return from business?that
makes the difference between the scholar
and the ignoramus, between tiie Christian
and the iniidcl, between the saint and the
demon, between triumph and catastrophe,
between heaven and hell.
The most tremendous things of your
life and mine were certain half hours. The
half hour when in the parsonage of a
country minister I resolved to become a
Christian then and there, the half hour
when I decided to become a preacher of
the gospel, the half hour when 1 first reflized
tnat my son was dead, the half hour
when I stood on the top of my house in
Oxford street and saw our church burn,
the half hour in which I entered Jerusa- j
lem, the half hour in which I stopped on ]
Mount Calvary, the half hour in which I i
stood on Mars Hill and about ten or j
fifteen other half hours are the chief times !
of my life.
Vnn will find the inhabitants all at !
home. Enter the King's palace and take j
only a glimpse, for we have only thirty
minutes ior all heaven. "Is that Jesus?'
"Yes." Just under the hair along His
forehead is the mark of a wound made by
a bunch of twisted brambles, and His foot
on the throne has on the round of His
instep another mark of a wound made by
a spike, and a scar on the palm of the
right hand and a scar on the palm of the
left hand. But what a countenance!
What a smile! What a grandeur! What
a loveliness! What an overwhelming look ,
of kindness and grace! W?hy, He looks as
if He had redeemed a world! But come
on, for our time is short. Do you see that
row of palaces? That is the Apostolic
row. Do you sec that long reach of archi- !
tectural glories? That is Martyr row. Do [
you see that immense structure? That is
the biggest house in heaven; that is "the
house of many mansions." Do you see
that wall? Shade your eyes against its
burning splendor, for that is the wall of
heaven, jasper at the bottom and amethyst
at the top. See this river rolling through
the heart of the great metropolis: That is
the river concerning which tnosc who once
lived Oil IDC Uillllk.S ui LUC uuinun \u lac
Alabama or the Rhine or the Shannon
say, "We never saw the like of this for
clarity and sheen." That is the chief river
of heaven?so bright, so wide, so deep.
But you ash, "Where arc the asylums for
the old?" I answer, "The inhabitants are
all young." "Where are the hospitals for
the lame':" "They arc all ngile." "Where I
are the infirmaries for the blind and |
deaf?" "They all see and hear." "Where ,
are the almshouses for the poor?" "They |
are all multimillionaires." "Where are j
the inebriate asvlums?" "Why, there are |
no saloons." "Where are the graveyards?" |
"Why, they never die."
l'ass down those boulevards of gold and I
amber and sapphire and see those inter- j
minable streets built by the Architect of i
the universe into homes, over the threshold I
of which sorrow'never steps and out of j
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earthly sickness, now look rubicund with |
immortal health.
"Oh. let me go in and see them!" you i
say. No, you cannot go in. There are j
those who would never consent to let you
come out again. You say, "Let me stay
here in this place where they never sin,
where they never sudor, where they never
part." No. no! Our time is short, our
thirty minutes are almost gone. Come on!
W e must get back to earth before this
half hour of heavenly silence breaks up,
for in your mortal state you cannot endure
the pomp and splendor and resonance
when this half hour of silence is ended.
The day will come when you can sec heaven
in full blast, but not now. I am now j
onlv showing you heaven at the dullest j
half hour ot all eternities. Come on!
There is something in the celestial appearance
which makes me think that tne
naif hour of silence will soon be over.
Yonder are the white horses being hitched
to chariots, and yonder, are seraphs linger- |
ing harps as if about to strike them into |
symphony, and yonder are conquerors i
taking down from the bine halls of heaven
the trumpets of victory. Remember
we are mortal yet and cannot endure the
full roll of heavenly harmonies and cannot
endure even the silent heaven for more j
than half an hour.
Hark! me ciock in tne rower 01 ncaven
beyins to strike, and the half hour is ended.
Descend! Come back! Come down
till your work is done. Shoulder a little
longer your burdens. Fight a little longer
your battles. Weep a Tittle longer your
jriefs. And then take heaven not in its
dullest half hour, but in its mightiest
pomp, and, instead of taking it for thirty
minutes, take it world without end.
Cut how will you spend the first half
hour of your heavenly citizenship after
you have gone in to stay? After your
prostration before the throne in worship
of Him who made it possible for you to
get there at all I think the rest of your
first half hour in hearen will be passed in
receiving your rewarC if you have been
faithful. T have a strangely beautiful book [
containing the pictures of the medals
struck by the Englilh Government in
honor of great battles. These medals are
pinned over the heart of the returned heroes
of the army on great occasions, the
roval family present and the royal bands
playing?the Crimean medal, the medal
of the mutiny, the Victoria cross, the
Waterloo medal. In your first half hour
in heaven in some way you win ne nonorea (
for the earthly struggles in which vou won j
the day. Stand up before all tne royal |
house of heaven and receive the insignia
while you are announced as victor over
the drafts and freshets of the farm field,
victor over the temptations of the Stock
Exchange, victor over professional allurements,
victor over domestic infelicities,
victor over mechanic's shop, victor over
the storehouse, victor over home worriments,
victor over physical distresses, victor
over hereditary depressions, victor
over sin and death and hell. Take the
badge that celebrates those victories
through our Lord Jesus Christ. Take it
in the presence of all the prallerics, saintly,
angelic and divine, while all heaven
chants. '"These are they who came out of
great tribulation and had their robes
washed ard made white in the blood of
the Lamb."
[Copyright^ 19(2, L. Klopsch.l
| FIRE AT ARP'S HOUSE
The Alarm Made Bill Get a Move On
Him.
CHIMNEY SOOT CAUGHT ON FIRE
Water Poured on Soon I*utOut Blaze
in Kitchen?Arp Gives Some Fire
statistics.
Fire and water and air. The three j
things that cost the least and are the j
most necessary to our existence are the
most dangerous when unrestrained, j
Last Sabbath evening my wife and I
walked down to Jessie's house to comfort
her in her sick bed, ana play with .
Lhe little girls and help nurse the little
Daby boy. Suddenly the fire bell gave an
ilarm and my wife walked out on the ;
veranda to find out where the fire was. I
in a moment she came hurrying back
tnd almost screamed. "It's our house?
:t's our house; run quick. Oh! mercy." j
I threw the baby down on the floor? j
ao, I didn't either?and dep%rted those
:oasts with salacrity. Firemen and
people were hurrying that way. I j
jtruck a fox trot for awhile, but soon
relaxed into a fast walk, and then a
slow pull up the hill, for I felt my pal- |
pitation coming on. Before I reached
the mansion I met some of the advance i
guard returning who said the Are was
>ut. So I sat down on the front steps .
to blow for a minute. When I went |
through the hall to the kitchen where |
the commotion was, I found our daugh- ;
ters and some good friends still j
drenching the smoking walls and
pouring water down the flue up in the
garret. The accumulated soot of twenty
years had caught on fire and some- i
bow got to the lathing and then to the 1
veiling and dropped d^wn to the floor.
Vobody was at home. Tho cook was in
her cabin asleep. Her little boy was sit- ;
ting on the back steps and when our
girls arrived he very quietly pointed to '
the kitchen and said: "Dar's a fire in
dar." Then they heard the cracking i
dames and saw smoke pouring through
a broken pane. On opening the door
they were astounded, for the whole
room seemed ablaze. One ran to the
front door and screamed "Fire, fire, ;
fire," and the other went to the tele- j
phone and then they flew to the water
Taucet and good neighbors gathered in
and filled the buckets and went to
work. They were just in time, lor a
delay of ten minutes would have caused
the loss of the house and all of our
time-henored furniture and pictures
amd books and my wife's fine clothes
and golden wedding presents. When I
left Jessie's house my wife hailed me
bn the run and said save something,
but I am not certain whether it was
her fine dresses in the wardrobe or her j
silverware In the dark closet or her
Bible. I reckon it was the Bible that ,
?he has read a chapter in every night
for all these long years. I had a good j
bid Baptist aunt in Rome and when
her house caught on fire away in tr-e j
night and the firemen came running .
she ran out in her night clothes and
begged them to save her Christian In- i
dex. She had a stock of them and treasnred
them more than anything else.
aU PVinrlna IT
V/llI ftVSUU U1U inoicanwi, vimiiVd A.
F. McCoy, of Franklin college, used to
lecture to us students, and h's favorite
subject was 4 The Regularity of Irregular
things." and he satisfied me
that the longer my house escaped a lire ,
the more I was liable to have one. The ,
chances against me increase 1 as the
years rolled on, and so i have been ex- j
pecting a fire. The insurance romps- i
nies understand this and base all their j
calculations and rates upon it. They
will tell you what is the average life of j
a dewlling. a store, a gin. a planing
mil or a church. The professor illus-!
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cast the dice a dozen times the six
spot might come up th ree or four times I
in succession and the ace several
times, but if you caset the dice a thousand
times, each number from one to
six would show up about an equal number
of times. That is according to the
calculation of chances and proves the
regularity of irregular things. So it is
with the rainfall which, however uncertain
in its coming, amounts to
about the same every year. Since 188.1
the losses by fire in the United States
have averaged $105,000,000 a year, the
lowest being $100,000,000 and the highest
$110,000,000, and yet in 1871 the loss
in Chicago alone was $200,000,000.
But where did fire come from and
who gave it and when. There is nc
mention of Are In the Mosaic account
of the creation nor for two thousand
years after it. Until after the flood
there was not much need of fire, for
the people were not permitted to eat
meat. Their food was the fruit of the;
earth. But I reckon they did have fire
%.nd blacksmith shops and made hammers
and hces and nails, etc. Noah
could not have built the ark without
tools and nails. The presumption is
that tl^e Creator supplied Adam with
tools to dress the garden and Abe5
with knives to sacrifice the firstlings
o? his flock, but there are Indian tribes
In our day and negroes in Africa and
Esquimaux in the Arctic regions whc
nave no anowieage ot iron ur il? uac^.
A thousand years before Christ, Honiei
wrote that Jupiter only possessed the
element that we call fire and when
man was created man he refused tc
give him fire. But Prometheus stolf
some from heaven and gave it to mar
and it made Jupiter so mad that lit
chained him to a rock and sent eagles
to eat his liver out and as fast as thej
eat it by day the liver grew again by
I night, but finally he was unchained
and the eagles driven away. It seems
that Prometheus was a friend to mankind.
and by the command of Jupitei
actually created man ont of the mu<l
1 that was left after the flood?not Mo\
V
ah's flood, but the flood of Deucalion
away back In the ages. He was a god
nearly as powerful as Jupiter and was
always In a quarrel with him. He
taught mankind architecture, astronomy.
figures, medicine, navigation and
all the arts that adorn life. At Athens
and other ancient cities, temples were
built to his honor. They believed thai
the verv firp that he brought down
! from heaven was still preserver! ant!
; was always burning on an altar In the
i temple of Vesta-. It is sailed the pacred
' fire?the Vestal fire?the fire of the
hearthstone and must not he allowed
to go out. If it does go out from accident
even the familv who loses it rousl
go to the temple of Vesta and get a
i new supply.
' Of course all these stories about th?
gods are superstitious, but they are
very fascinating ones and old Homer
still stands as the greatest poet, and
ranks as the equal of Shakespeare or
Milton. That reverence for sacred fire
is not yet extinguished, and it is said
that the Roman Catholic priesthood
burn candles in their cathedrals day
and night because the custom was
handed down from the ancient churches
and those churches probably got it
from Grecian and Roman mythology.
Anyhow, we know that the Jews had
great reverence for fire, for they had
to use it in their sacrifices, and God appeared
to Moses in a burning bush and
descended on Mt Sinai in fire and the
Israelites were guided through the wilderness
by a pilar of fire by night, and
fire came down from heaven and de- i
stroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and
many other important events wcm i
marked by fire. In our young days |
when there were no matches it was no
ure or certain thing to find fire on the
hearthstone every cold morning that
came. Some times the live chunk that
was buried in the ashes at bed time
went out or was burned up. and then
one of the boys had to go to a neighbor's
and borrow fire. It was alway3
called borrowing fire, for it was reasonably
expected that the neighbor
would sometimes find himself in the
same condition. The Cherokee Indians
made fire by rubbing two hard dry
sticks together with great rapidity. 1
have seen little Indian boys do it very
quickly, and I tried to imitate them,
but I failed.
But if the good pure vestal fire came
from heaven I reckon old Satan got
some of it when he fell and took it
down below. That's the kind that concerns
us most The old preacher who
rvrv ornunrl nrfl O /?>! i Tl V A.hfUlt t.llfi
uaoi iu ?>\j atuuuu V4*w4..**0
"Mountains of Hepidam where the lion
roareth and the whangdoodle mourneth
for its first born, and he played on a
harp of thousand strings?sperots of
just men made perfect." also had a few
broken remarks about fire. "My impertinent
hearers, there are several kinds
of fire. There are fox fire and camp fire
and fire and fill back, but the kind that
consarns you most are the fire that is
not squenched and is called hell fire for
short."?Bill Apr in Atlanta Constitution.
Hission to Move.
Kroonstad, Orange River Colony,
By Cable.?Owing to the great distance
separating the members of the
Transvaal mission nere, rrom Mr.
Steyn, the former president of th?
Orange Free State, and General Delarey,
the negotiations between theBoer
leaders in South Africa looking
to the conclusion of the war make
little prosserg.p!NEw( amhramh ma
little progress. It is expected, however,
that Mr.' Schalkburger and his
collegues on the mission will shortly
leave here for a more convenient
centre from which to conduct the negotiations.
Sargeant Appointed.
Washington, Special.?Frank Sargent,
president of the Brotherhood of
T /./.nmntli'A fli-omon caw tho Prpsi
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dent Friday, and was tendered the position
of Commissioner General of Immigration.
Mr. Sergeant accepted the
offer. It is understood that the resignations
of Messers. Powderly and McSweney
have been requested, or will be
at once. Jos. Murray will succeed the
latter and Wm. Williams will be nominated
soon to succeed Commissioner
of Immigration Fitchie, at New York.
Chamber Meets.
Johannesburg, By Cable.?A meeting
of the chamber of miner?, the
first since the beginning of the war,
has been held here. The president of
the chamber said in an address that
it was greatly due to General Botha
that much wanton destruction had
Leen avoided, as he had held the commandant
of the town personally responsible
for the destruction of any
pioperty which might ocxur. The
president also said it was highly probable
that by next July half of the
mining industry would be in operation
and that before many months full
working would be resumed.
i ne Atlantic wuy rue.
Atlantic City, N. J., Special.?On
Thursday a diasirous fire wrecked
many of the palatial hotels of Atlantic
City, doing a damage of over $1,000,000.
No adequate fire protection was available.
One life was lost.
Thirteen hotels and more than 7C
buildings had been destroyed or severely
damaged. The effect of the fire
has been to give the city a new charter,
providing for building laws, the bill
for the same having been signed by
Gov. Vfurphy when he heard the fire
was raging. Already the city is planning
to rise, strengthened, from its
1 financial loss of $1,000,000.
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SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL
Confidence In the South.
Mr. M. H. Atkinson, of Atlanta, Oft.,
who recently returned from the North
after conferring with the stockholders
of various public service companies of
Atlanta, says that he found the 3tock
holders much encouraged over conditions
in that city. They apparently
had great faith in their Investments in
the South, and believed they had done
well to Invest there. Furthermore,
they would not dispose of their holdings.
Continuig, Mr. Atkinson said he
had spent three weeks In the North,
and that during the entire time he has
been living in the South, making occasional
visits to the North, he had never
seen business men of the latter section
so thoroughly imbued with the
idea that the South is the place for investments.
"They are," he added,
"going to do much for this section in
the future, and the results of the present
feeling will soon be felt generally."
To Double a Big Mill.
Mention was made recently of the
fact that the Belton Mills, of Belton.
S. C., had in contemplation the erection
of a duplicate plant. The propo
sition was given consideration at a
meeting of the directors on March 20,
and decided affirmatively. This company
now has an equipment of 27,000
spindles and 300 looms, which will accordingly
be duplicated. The construction
of the required additional buildings
will be commenced at once, and
contracts for the machinery will be
awarded soon. Formal action to ratify
the directors' decision will be taken
in April by the stockholders. Cai>italization
is $400,000, and probably
$300,000 will be the investment for the
new mill. F. A. Smythe is president.
A Denim mil Rumored.
Messrs. Moses H. Cone and Caesar
Cone, of Greensboro, N. C., are negoti- ,
ating the purchase of. a water-power
property near Roanoke Rapids, N. C.,
the power said to be obtained being
10.000 horse-power. It is rumored that
If the property is purchased it will be
develoDed to its utmost, and that a cot
ton denim mill of 2,000 looms and complement
of spindles will be erected to
utilize the power. The Messrs. Cone
control the Proximity Manufacturing
Co. at Greensboro, N. C., which operates
18,000 spindles and 1.000 looms in
the manufacture of cotton denims.
Textile Notes.
(From the Manufacturers' Record.)
The Highland Park Manufacturing
Co. of Charlotte, N. C., and Rock Hill,
S. C., will build a cotton-seed oil mill
to be operated in connection with Mill
No. 2 at KocK Hill, it is proposed 10
expend about $100,000 for the erection,
and equipment of the addition. Doubtless
this is a step toward adding a ginnery
and fertilizer factory, and thus
the company would be enabled to manufacture
from cotton all its marketable
products.
Piedmont Manufacturing Co., Portsmouth.
Va.. states that its proposed
equipment, lately mentioned, wilt be of
sufficient capacity to produce 400 dozen
garments of ribbed underwear daily,
employing 125 hands when in full operation.
The building completed is a
two-story structure 40x80 feet, with a
30x30-foot ell. Capital is $25,000.
Rapid progress is being made with the
reconstruction of the Globe Cotton
Mills at Augusta, Ga., and the plant
will be in operation in the near future.
The old building has been remodeled
and rebuilt, and will hold 5600 spindles
The new loomhouse is built of brick
149x156 feet, and will hold 400 looma
A new wheelpit will be built, and ne*
equipment of water-wheels will be Installed.
R. M. Gates of Charlotte, N. C., Is
about to purchase the Green rlvei
shoals property near Hendersonvllle.
N. C., with the intention of developing
the property and erecting at the aite 8
large cotton mill. Mr. Oates also has
under consideration removing to the
site a Charlotte mill, instead of erecting
new plant. The Charlotte mill has
15,500 spindles and 300 looms.
Messrs. W. C. Kimball & Co. of Tallapoosa,
Ga.. stated that their knitting
plant, reported recently, will require
an Investment or ?z,uuu. me two-siorj
building, 25x80 feet in size. Is now being
erected to hold the ten machines
for producing hosiery.
Ellawhite Cotton Mills of Uniontowir
Ala., contracted for a 500-spindle addition,
not a 3500-spindle addition as
stated last week. All contracts havt
been awarded. Work has begun on
the erection of the required buildings
Roberdel Manufacturing Co., RockIngham,
N. C., states that plans have
not been formulated as yet for its No.
2 mill. Announcement of fae decision
to build this addition was made at
length last week.
Richmond HosieryMills of Rossville
Ga., has increased capital JIO.OOO. This
frtr im.
acuou ID La&cu iu i/iu>iuc iuuuc ivi Approvements
and additional machinery,
especially in the dyeing department
Messrs. M. C. Migel & Co., of Astoria,
N. Y., manufacturers of broad and
dress silks, will establish a branch
plant at Fayette and Greene streets
Baltimore, Md., employing 100 operatives.
T. L. Vaughn has purchased the
Twin City Knitting Mills at WinstonSalem.
N. C., from F. H. Fries, receiver.
The plant produces ladies' underwear;
it was capitalized at $12,000.
Merchants and Manufacturers' Association
of Laurinburg, S. C.. is in communication
with a capitalist who is
seeking site for a $100,000 cotton mill.
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