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CHAPTER ELL
/ <Zon't know how to tell you how I re
gret having to say lNo,} Mr. Lane.'"
Never before had Fred Lane known
the sensation of being reluctant to rejoin
his regiment When the colonel wrote
a personal letter to him some eight or
ten weeks previous, telling him that Cur
ran would almost surely get the next, va
cancy on the retired list and that he
would expect his old adjutant to come
back to them at once and restore efficien
cy and discipline to troop D, Mr. Lane
replied with the utmost readiness; but
this was before Mabel Vincent came
into his life and changed its wholo cur
i rent How much and how devotedly he
loved her Lan? himself never realized
until the day of his promotion reached
him. and with it the news that his suc
cessor was. already designated. He knew
that wilhin ^t$e week he might expect
orders from the war department to join
his troop at Fort Graham as soon as he
had turned over his funds and property
to the oScer designated to relieve him;
he knew Noel so well as to feel assured
that he would not wait for the arrival of
formal orders, but, if the colonel would
permit would start the instant he re
ceived telegraphic notification from
Washington that "Old Riggs' " nomina
tion had been approved. "This is Wed
nesday," he mused; "and by a week
from today! can count on his being
here; and in ten days I must go." .
There was a large party that night,
and, fully a week before, he had asked
that he might have the honor of being
Miss Vincent's escort It was with great
disappointment that he received her an
swer, which was spoken, however, in a
tone of such sorrow that poor Lane felt
that the barbs, at least, of the arrow had
been removed.
"I don't know how to tell you how I
regret. having to say fNo,'Mr. Lane,"
she said, and there was a tremor in her
voice and a little quiver at the corners of
her pretty mouth. "I have almost felt
confident that you were going to ask me
?is that? a very bold thing to say??for
you have been so?so kind to me since
our first meeting, and indeed I wanted
in some, way to let yon know that there
were other arrangements already made.
But how could I say anything? Mr. Ros
siter, the eldest son of father's former
partner, comes to pay us a visit of four
or five days before he goes abroad again.
And he is a great friend of the Chiltons,
and, being our guest, he goes with me.
Indeed, I'm very sorry, Mr. Lane, if you
are disappointed.n.
Fred, of course, begged that she should
give herself no uneasiness. There was
no other girl whom he had thought of
taking. Mr. Rossiter was very much to
be envied, and he would like to call and
pay his respects to that gentleman when
he arrived. "By all means do," said Miss
Vincent; and, if not asking too much,
would Mr. Lane get him a card at the
club? Brother Rex was away, or she
wouldn't trouble him. But Lane was
delighted to be troubled. Anything she
asked?any service he could ren ier her?
he flew with untold eagerness to accom
plish; and, though properly jealous of
the coming man?this Mr. Rossi cer, of
whom he had never before heard men
tion?he was eager to meet and enjtertain
him. The gentleman was to arrive on
Monday, and Lane spent a delightful
evening at the Vincents', wondering why
he hadn't come. Tuesday would surely
bring him, or an explanation, said Miss
Mabel; and on Tuesday Lane was prompt
to call, and glad to si>end another long
evening at the hospitable old homestead,
and stoutly did he hold his ground
through three successive relays of visi
tors,, encouraged to do so by a certain
look; in his lady's bright eyes that spoke
volumes to his throbbing heart, and that
very next morning at the club he found
her dainty missive on his breakfast
table.
He w early she must have risen to write
it!?and to have seen the announcement
of his promotion in the Washington dis
patches! True, he remembered that it
was frequently her plettsure to be up be
times to give her father his coffee; for
Vincent pero was a business man of the
old school, who liked to begin early in
the day. Of coursejie.had seen the name
in the Washington news and had read
the,paragraph to her; that was the way
to account for it. But her note was a
joy to him in its sweet, half shy, half
confidential wording. She merely wrote
to say that Mr. Rossiter had wired that
he would be detained in New York until
the end of the week; and now, if Capt.
Lane had really made no engagement,
she would be glad indeed if he cared tc
renew the invitation which with such re
gret she was compelled a week ago tc
decline. Lane totally forgot his break
fast in his haste to rush to tho writing
room and send her a reply..
All "The Queen City" had been quick
to see or hear of his "sudden smite'' and
consequent devotion to Mabel Vincent,
and great was the speculation as to the
probable result.
"How can she encourage him as she
does? What can she see in that solemr
prig?" indignantly demanded Miss Famrj
Holton, who had shown a marked inter
est in Mr. Lane during his first sh
months in society and had danced witt
him all through the season. "He is oik
of the forlornest, stupidest men I evei
knew?utterly unlike what I supposed i
cavalry officer to be."
"And yet, Fanny dear, you were ver]
much taken up with him the first wintei
?last year, I mean," was the reply o:
her most devoted and intimate friend.
"What an outrageous fib: I wasn't
and, if I was, it was because I wan tot
to draw him out?do something to en
Uvea him. Of course I danced with hin
a great deal. There isn't a better dancer
in town, and you know it, Maud; j-ou've
said so yourself time and again."
"Well, you didn't draw him out?nor
on. But the moment he sees Mabel Vin
cent he falls heels over head in love with
her. Why, I never saw a man whose
every look and word so utterly 'gave
him away,' " was Miss Maud's character
istic and slang}' reply. "And it's my be
lief shell take him, too. She likes him
well, and she says he knows more than
any other man she has ever met.
"He has money, too, and can resign
and live here if she wants him to," went
on Miss Maud after a pause which, oddly
enough, her friend had not taken advan
tage of.
"You don't know anything about what
Mabel Vincent will or won't do, Maud.
I've known her years longer than yon
have, and, though I'm awfully fond of
her, and wouldn't have this repeated for
the world?and you must swear never to
repeat it to anybody?I know her so well
that I can say she doesn't know her own
mind now and would change it in'loss
than six months if she did. She is as
fickle in love as in her friendships; and
you can't have forgotten how inseparable
you and she were for three months at
Mme. Hoffman's, and then how she fas
tened on Katherine Ward. I don't care
a snap of my finger whom Mr. Lane
chooses to fall in love with, but if it's
Mabel Vincent he'd better insist on a
short engagement and stand guard over
her with his sword in the meantime.
It's 'out of sight out of mind' with her,
and has been ever since she was 4 years
old."
And so in the smoking room at the
club and in the feminine cliques and co
teries in society the probability of Ma
bel Vincent's accepting Lieut. Lane was
a matter of frequent discussion. But of
all this chit-chat and speculation Capt.
Lane stood in profound ignorance as he
entered Iiis dark office that drenching
Wednesday morning with her precious
note in his waistcoat pocket. He neither
knew nor cared what old Vincent was
worth;, all he wanted was Mabel's own
sweet self, for he loved her with his
"whole Heart and soul, with all the
strength and devotion of his deep and
loyal nature. He could hardly control
his voice so as to speak in the conven
tional official tone to the sergeant in
charge as tho latter saluted him at the
doorway and made the customary report
of the presence of the detachment. Lane
stepped into his little dressing room and
quickly appeared in his neat fatigue uni
foim. There wasn't a ghost of a chance
of would be recruits wandering in that
day; but he was a stickler for discipline.
He required his men to be always in
their appropriate uniform, and never
neglected wearing his own while in the
office; yet in all the Queen City no one
but his little party, the applicants for
enlistment and the few citizens who
came in on business, had ever seen him
except in civilian dress.
"These reports and returns all go in to
morrow, I believe?" said Lane to his ser
geant.
"They do, sir."
"Well, will you take them in to the
clerk again," said Lane, blushing vivid
ly, "and tell him to alter that 'first lieu
tenant' to 'captain' wherever it occurs:
The?official notification is just here,"
he added, almost apologetically.
"Sure I'm glad to' hear it, sir. All the
mim will be glad, sir, and Tm proud tc
think that I was the first man to salute
the captain today," was the sergeant's
delighted answer. 'Til call Taintor in
at once."
But Lane "eras blissfully thinking ol
the little note, now transferred to the
breast pocket of his uniform blouse, and
of how not his honest old sergeant but
sweet Mabel Vincent was the first tc
hail him by his new title, and in think
ing of the note and of her he failed tc
notice that, so far from coming at once,
it was fully ten or fifteen minutes before
Taintor, the clerk, put in an appearance,
and when he did that his face was asher
gray and his hand shook as though wit!
palsy.
"The sergeant will tell you what is tc
be done with the papers, Taintor," saic
Lane, conscious that he was blushin?
again, and consequently striving to ap
pear engrossed in the morning p^per,
The man picked them up one after an
other and without a word; he droppec
one to the floor in his nervousneess, bm
made a quick dive for it, and then foi
the door, as though fearful of detention
He hurried through the room in whici
the sergeant and one or two men wen
seated, and, reaching his big desk at i
rear window, where he was out of sight
dropped the papers 'on the floor anc"
buried his face in his shaking hands.
A few minutes later the sergeant
coming into the little cubby hole of t
room in which Taintor had preferred U
do his work, found him with his armi
on the desk and his face hidden in them
and the soldier clerk was quivering anc
twitching from head to foot.
"What's the matter with you, Tain
tor?" growled the old soldier. "Didn'i
you promisG "ne you'd quit drinking?*'
The face that looked up into his was
ghastl}-.
"It isn't drink, sergeant," moaned th<
man. "At least. I haven't exceedec
for a month. I've got a chill?an agu<
of some kind. Just let me rui
down to tho drug store and get som<
quinine?with perhaps a little brandy
Then I can do this work. Do, sergeant
I won't abuse your kindness."
"Well, go, then," was the relnctan
answer; "but get back quick. And onlj
one drink, mind you."
Taintor seized his cap and fairly tot
tered through the adjoining room to th<
stairway, down which he plunged mad
ly, and, heedless of tho pelting rain
darted across the street to the gas light
ed bar room.
"There's something worse than eithe:
whisky or ague back of this." muttcrcc
the veteran sergeant, "and I could swea:
to it."
CHAPTER IV.
Capt. Lane, as has been said, allowe?
until the following Wednesday for th<
arrival of his regimental comrade, Mr.
Noel. He was not a little surprised,
however, on the following Tuesday
morning, as ho sat at breakfast at the
club, glancing over the morning paper,
to come upon the following announce
ment:
DISTINGUISHED ARRIVAL.
Our readers will bo interested in knowing that
Capt. Gordon Noel, of the Eleventh United States
cavalry, has been ordered on duty in tho city, in
charge of the cavalry rendezvous on Sycamoro
street. Capt. Noel comes to us with a reputation
that should win instant recognition and tho
heartiest welcome from the Queen City. For
nearly fifteen years he has served with his gal
lant regiment, and has been prominent in every
one of the stirring campaigns against the hostile
Indians of our western frontier. He has fought
almost overy savage tribe on the continent; was
disabled in tho Jlodoc campaign in "73. command
ed the advance guard of his regiment that
reached the scene of the Custer massacre only
just in time to rescue the remnant of the regi
ment from a similar fate, and for his services on
that campaign was awarded the compliment of
staff duty in tho city of Washington. At his own
request, however, he was relieved from this, and
rejoined his regiment when hostilities were
threatened in Arizona two years ago. And now,
as a reward for gallant and distinguished conduct
In the field, ho is given the prized recruiting de
tail. Capt Noel is the guest of his cousin, the
Hon. Amos Withers, at his palatial homo on the
Heights: and our fair readers will be interested in
knertng that he is a bachelor, and, despite his
years of hardship, danger and privation, is a re
markably fine looking man.
It is understood that Lieut. Lane, tho present
recruiting officer, has been ordered to return to
his regiment at once, although the time has not
yet expired.
In the expression on Capt. Lane's face
as he finished this item there was some
thing half vexed, half comical.
A few hours afterwards, while he was
seated in his office, the orderly entered,
and announced two gentlemen to see the
captain. Lane turned to receive his vis
itors, but before he could advance across
the dark room tho taller of the two enter
ing the door made a spring towards him,
chipped him cordially on the back, and,
with the utmost delight, shouted, "How
are you, old fellow? How well you're
looking! Why, I haven't set eyes on you
since we were out on the field hunting
up old Geronimo's trail! By Jove! but
I'm glad to see you!" And Lane had no
difficulty in recognizing at once his regi
mental comrade Gordon NoeL
"Let me present you to my cousin, Mr.
Withers," said NoeL
And a stout, florid man, whom Lane
had so often seen at the club, but to
whom he had nttver hitherto been made
known, bowed with much cordiality and
extended his hand.
"I didn't know," said he, "that you
were a friend of Noel's, or I'd have come
to see you before, and invited you to my
house. "
"Friend!" exclaimed Noel. "Friend!
Why, we've been partners and chums!
Why, we've been all over this continent
together, Withers! Fred, do you re
member the time we were up on the
Sioux campaign??tho night I went over
with those fellows to hunt up the trail
to the Custer ground? Let's see, you
were acting adjutant then, if I recollect
right. Oh, yes; you were back with the
colonel."
Lane received his guests with perfect
courtesy, but without that overweening
cordiality which distinguished the oth
er's manner, and then Mr. Withers en
tered into the conversation. Turning
to Capt. Lane, he said:
> "I didn't know that you had been on
1 the Sioux campaign. Were you there,
too?"
? Lane replied quietly that he had been
? with his regiment through that year?in
? fact, had never been away from it for
i any length of time, except on this de
i tail which had brought him to his old
home.
"Oh, yes; I remember having heard
! that this was your home. I am very
I sorry indeed that you did not make y ~ur
; self known to me before," said Mr. With
? era. "You know that I am a very busy
man and don't get around much. Now
> you can come and dine with us this even
, ing, can you not? Mrs. Withers will
> certainly expect you, now that Noel is
, here."
i "I am very sorry indeed, Mr. Withers,
i but I am already engaged."
"You must make early bids if you
) want to get this young man, Amos," put
I in Mr. Noel, affectionately patting Lane
; on the shoulder. "It was just so in the
- regiment. He was always in demand.
Well, when can you come, Fred? What
evening shall we say?"
I "It will depend, perhaps, on the day 1
t turn over the property to you. How
: soon do you wish to tako hold?"
"Oh,anytime. Anj'day. Whenever
i you're ready."
3 "I'm ready now, today, if you choose,'
t was Lane's prompt response. "I fancied
, you might bo here by to-morrow."
I "Yes, you bet I didn't let the grass
grow under my feet. The moment we
, got the telegraphic notification that the
i colonel's nomination was approved, I lit
> out for the railroad," said Noel, laugh
5 ing gleefully.
, "And when will you come in and take
I over the property? There's a good deal
of clothing to be counted. As for the
- funds, they, of course, are all in the
t bank."
"Suit yourself about that, Freddy, old
5 boy. I'm going down street with Amos
now. How'll to-morrow morning do?"
i "Very well indeed. You will find me
1 here any time you come m."
' "All right. Now get oat of your yel
1 low stripes and come along down with
3 us. The carriage is right here at the
door. We're going over to see the
works?Mr. Withers' foundries, you
know. Come."
^ "Yes, come with us. I think I have
7 heard it was your father who?ah?who
was in the same line of business at one
" time, Mr. Lane," said Mr. Withers.
3 "Captain Lane, Amos!?Captain Lane!
" Great Scott! you mustn't 'mister' a man
' who has been through the years of ser
vice he has."
"I beg pardon. I did not so under
r stand you, Gordon, when we were talk
ing last night with the?when we were
r having our smoke and chat after dinner.
You will come with us, won't you, cap
tain?"
"I wish. I could, Mr. Withers, but my
office hours have to be observi-d, and I
cannot leave in the morning. Thank
you heartily none the less. Then you
will be here to-morrow, Noel?"
"To-morrow be it, Fred; so au revoir,
if you can't join us. I mustn't keep
i Withers waiting?business man, you
I know. God bless you, old fellow; you
don't begin to realize how delighted I
am to reo you! So long.*'
' But about dining with us, Cap
tain"
"Oh. Lord, yes!" burst in Noel. "What
evening, now? 1\1 almost forgotten.
Gelting in among bricks and mortal
addles my head. 'Tisn't like being out
ri the saddle with the mountain breezes
all around you: hey. Fred? Gad! 1
don't know whether I can stand this sort
of thing, after our years of cam
paigning." And the lieutenant looked
dubiously around upon tho dark and
dingy walls and windows.
"Suppose we say Thursday evening,
captain," suggested Mr. Withers: "and
1 I'll have jr.; t a few friends to meet yon
a two army evntleuieu."'
"I shall he very happv, Mr. Witners."
"Good! That's the talk, Fred!"
heartily shouted the lieutenant, bring
ing his hand down with a resounding
whack between Lane's shoulder blades.
"Now wo are off! Come along, Amos."
And the cousins disappeared down the
dark stairway and popped into the car
riage.
"Not a very demonstrative man, your
friend the captain, but seems to be solid,"
was Mr. Withers' remark.
"Oh, yes. He is about as solid as they
make them," answered Noel, airily.
"Lane has his faults, like most men. It
is only those who really know him, who
have been associated with him for years,
and whom he trusts and likes, that afe
his friends, Now. I'd go through fire
and water for him, and he would for me
?but of course you wouldn't think it, to
see his perfectly conventional society
manner this morning. If I had left you
clown at the foot of the stairs and had
I Stolen up on tiptoe and gone over and
[ put my arms round his neck, you would
probably have found us hugging each
other and dancing about that room like
a couple of grizzly J>ear3 when y?u came
up, and the moment he caught sight of
you he would have blushed crimson and
got behind his ice screen in a second.
You just ought to have seen him the
night we' met each other with our de
tachments down near Guadalupe Can
yon when we were hunting Geronimo.
Some d?d fool of a ranchman had met
him and said I was killed in the little af
fair we had with the Apache rear guard.
Why, I was perfectly amazed at the
emotion he showed. Ever since then I've
sworn by Fred Lane; though, of course,
he lias traits that I wish he could get rid
of."
"Good officer, isn't he?"
"Ye?es, Lane isn't half a bad soldier.
Of course it remains to be seen what
sort of captain he will make. He has
only just got his troop."
"But I mean he?well?is a brave
man; has shown up well in these Indian
fights you were telling us about."
"H'm!" answered Noel, with a quiet
little chuckle. "If he wasn't, you bet
he wouldn't have been all these years in
the Eleventh. A shirk of any kind is
just the one thing we won't stand. Why,
Amos, when old Jim Blazer was our
colonel during those years of the Sioux
and Cheyenne and Nez Perce wars he
ran two men out of the regiment simply
because they managed to get out of field
duty two successive years. Oh, no!
Lane's all right as a soldier, or he
wouldn't be wearing the crossed sabers
of the Eleventh."
Mr. Withers listened to these tales of
the doings and sayings of the regiment
with great interest. "Lane might have
been here a dozen years," said he to him
self, "and no one in our community
would have known anything at all about
the dan^cii: his comrades and he had en
countered in their frontier service. It's
only when some fellow like Noel comes
to us tliat we learn anything whatever
of our army and its do? Jgs."
He took his cousin to the great mold
ing works of which he was the sole head
and proprietor, and presented his fore
men and his clerks to the captain, and
told them of his career in the Indian
wars on the frontier, and then upon
'change, and proudly introduced "my
cousin, Capt. Noel," to the magnates of
the Queen City; and, though not one
out of a dozen was in the least degree
interested in "the captain" or cared a
grain of wheat what the army had done
or was doing on the frontier, almost
ever}' man had time to stop and shake
hands cordially with the handsome offi
cer, for Amos Withers was said to be a
man whose check for a round million
would be paid at sight, and anybody
who was first cousin to that amount of
"spot cash" was worth stopping to chat
with, even in the midst of the liveliest
tussle 'twixt bull and bear on the floor
of the Chamber of Commerce. A tall,
gray haired gentleman, with a slight
stoop to his shoulders and rather tired,
anxious eyes, who listened nervously to
the shouts from "the pit" and scanned
eagerly the little telegraphic slips thrust
into hrs hand by scurrying messenger
boys, was introduced as Mr. Vincent,
and Mr. Vincent inquired if Noel knew
Lieut.?or, rather, Capt.?Lane.
"Know Fred Lane? He is the best
friend I have in the world," was the en
thusiastic answer, "and one of the best
men that ever lived."
"Ali! I'm glad to know you?glad to
know what you say. The captain is a
constant visitor at our house, a great
friend of oursin fact. Ah! excuse me a
moment" And Mr. Vincent seized a
certain well known broker by the arm
and murmured some eager inquiries in
Iiis ear. to which the other listened with
ill-disguised impatience.
Withers and. of course, "the captain,"
were the center of a cordial?not to say
obsequious?group so long as they re
mained upon the floor, and the secretary
presently came to them with the com
pliments of the president and a card ad
mitting Capt. Gordon Noel to the floor
of the chamber at any time during busi
ness hours, which that officer most grace
fully acknowledged, and then went on
replying to the questions of his new
friends about the strange regions through
which he had scouted and fought, and
the characteristics of the Indian tribes
with whom he had been brought in con
tact. And by the time Cousin Amos de
clared they must go up to the club for
luncheon even-body was much impress
ed by the hearty, jovial manner of the
dashing cavalryman, and there were re
peated hand shakes, promises to call,
and prophecies of a delightful sojourn in
their midst as he took his leave.
"Has Capt. Lane come in yet to
lunch?" inquired Mr. Withers of the
liveried attendant at "The Queen City,"
as his cousin inscribed his name and
regiment iu the visitors* book, as intro
duced by "A. W.," in ponderous strokes
of the pen.
"No, sir. It's considerably past the
time the gentleman generally comes. 1
don't think he'll be in today, sir."
"Then we won't wait, Gordon. We'll
order fur two. What wine do you like?"
* * * * * *
Over at the dingy recruiting office
Capt. Lane had forgotten about lunch
eon. There were evidences of careless
ness on the part of the clerk who had
made out his great batch of papers, and
the further he looked the more he found.
The orderly had been sent for Taintor,
and had returned with the information
that ho was not at his desk. Sergt.
Burns, when called upon to explain how
it happened that he allowed him to
slip away, promptly replied that it was
half-past 11 when he came out of the
' captain's office and said that the captain
would want him all the afternoon, so he
had best ?0 and get his dinner now.
' Half-past 12 came, and he did not rc
* turn. The sergeant went after him, and
came back in fifteen minutes with a wor
ried look about his face to say that
Taintor had not been to dinner at all,
and that the door of the little room he
! occupied was locked. He had not been
1 i in the house since 8 that morning.
'Tm afraid, sir, he;'s drinkm' again,"
said Burns; "but he's so sly about it I
never can *ell until he is far gone."
"You go out yourself, and send two of
the men, and make inquiries at all his
customary haunts," ordered Lane. "I
will stay here and go through all these
papers. None arc right so far. He never
failed me before; and I do not under
stand it at all."
But when night came Taintor was
still missing?had not been seen nor
heard of?and Capt. Lane had written a
hurried note to the lady of his love to
say that a strange and most untoward
case of desertion had just occurred which
necessitated hisspending some time with
the chief of police at once. He begged
her to make his excuses to her good mo
ther for his inability to come to dinner.
Later in the evening he hoped to see her.
"P. S.?Gordon ?oel, who is to relieve
me, has arri ved. I have only three or
four davs more."
"Gor?on Noel!" said JDss Vincent,
pensively. "Where have I heard of Gor
don Noefc**
[to be continued j
Carolina's Lumber City.
Sumter as the Centre of a New
and Growing Industry.
Stiff Correspondence News and Courier.
Sumter, S. C, September 26 ?
Special : The record cf the past teo
years has been in every respect a re
markable ooe iu the history of Sooth
Carolina. It has beeo a decade of
booms, and of booms which were in no
sense of the word artificial or forced.
Prostrated commercially, as well as
politically, by the reverses of war, for
fifteen years Lhe Palmetto State was
scarcely known in the business world,
and it was not until after the revolu
tion of 1876 that she agair assumed
her rightful place amon he great
States of the American R?tablie.
Not only has the State entered upon
an era of unprecedented prosperity, but
from the Blue Ridge to the Atlantic,
over her whole territory, every town
and city bas its own individual boom
which has made its people wealthy and
happy. Crossroad villages and settle
ments bave suddenly sprung up into
thriving towns, and the tow:,s of twenty
years ago have grown to be fair and
flourishing cities that can be claimed as
monumeuts to the pluck and indomitable'
energy of the people of the State. The
tide of renewed trade has flowed into
every nook and corner, and the people
have developed a commercial vigor of
which their forefathers never dreamed.
Of all the towns and cities of the
State there is not ooe that so illustrates
the native pluck and "go-a-headative
ness" of its people as this thriving
young city of Sumter. Situated geo
graphically at a point which in time
must make it the gateway of the further
South, it has by co means been slow
io availing itself of its natural ad
vantages, and its vantage points have
been recognized by capitalists from
abroad who have hastened to better
their own fortunes by investing, their
money in the building up this promis
ing city.
"I am convinced that Sumter is to
be the Atlanta of this part of the coun
try,'7 said Col. R. C. Barkley, the late
president of the Charleston, Sumter
and Northern Railroad to this corres
pondent some years ago, and his view
has been repeatedly endorsed by other
railroad men of equal experience and
business acumen. Said one of them
some time ago: "I would rather own
real estate in Sumter than in any other
city in this section, because on account
of its location, if from no other cause, it
is bound to be a great city io the course
of time. The great effort of all rail
road corporations in the South now is
to reach Florida, and secure close con
nections with the countries further
South. No railroad can afford to go
through central South Carolina without
passing through Sumter, and I predict
that in a few years this city will have
as many great railroads as Atlanta or
any other city in the country, and will
be the gateway to Florida and the
splendid undeveloped regions of the
South."
The visitor to Sumter ten years ago
would never recognize the old town in
this busy, bustling city of to-day.
With its broad MacAdamtzed streets,
its tall blocks of handsome business
houses, its electric lights, the hum of
factories, its double population, and the
increased trade brought in by its four
important railroads, it seems a new city
set upon the site of the sober old coun
try town. And not only is its present
prosperous, but its future is bright and
its possibilities boundless. Not only
is it situated oo the great highway of
trade, but it is surrounded by a country
of magnificent resources. It is ihe
centre of an agricultural district,
famed far beyond the borders of the
State, and the vast tracts of timber, as
untouched by the axe, which cover the
countryside, could furnish the United
States with timber for years with scarce
ly any preemptible diminution in the
supply. Capitalists have not been blind
to the advantages to be derived from
these conditions, especially with regard
to the la ter. Every few miles 3long
the railroads through the tributary ter
ritory are located mills of more or less
capacity, and the largest lumber plants
in South Carolina, with possibly one
exception, are to be found in the city.
an immense lumber plant.
On entering Sumter by any of its
four railroads the visitor is immediately
impressed by the large number of man
ufacturing plants of various kinds
which are grouped iu the vicinity of the
depots. Just after passing into the
city limits, at the junction of the Wil
mington, Columbia and Augusta Rail
road, and the Central of South Caro
lina and the Charleston, Sumter auc
Northern, can be seen the immense
lumber mills of Lukens & lliefsuydcr,
which occupy several acres at a poinl
accessible by all the railroads. This
I plant was erected in July, 1889, auc
! has since done an immense business,
I the output last year being over 8.000,
j 000 of feet of all kinds of dressed
j lumber. The output during the cur
! rent will greatly exceed this. Th<
! greater part of this is shippod by rai
j direct to New York, Philadelphia anc
j other Northern markets. The loca
j business is also very large ; 2.000.?0(
I feet will be sold this year to the builden
; and contractors of Sumter alone, aiu
! the demand from o:her points in th<
'adjoining couuties is very great.
These mills receive the rough-cut
iumber from their ?aw mills at Harvio*8r
a lumber station on the (/entrai Rail
road, several miles below tbe city. It
is kilo dried before being dressed, their
kilns having a daily capacitiy of twenty
thousand feet. Superintendent J. F
Laoghery is now making preparations
to increase the capacity of tbe plant.
New boilers and machinery are being
put io, and tbe plans bave been adopted
for the construction of several immenser
sheds for the storage of dried lumber,,
three million feet of which is always
kept on band to be used is filling
peremptory orders. This plant is not
dependent on the city for either its
water supply, or for assistance ia case
of fire. Tbe firm has erected in the
yard a private water works plant, ancS
hydrants are placed where they can be
conveniently reached in case of a con
fiagration. Tbe workmen are trained
in the use of the hose, and daring the
past year they have controlled two
ugly fires with great success.
TUB CA RR, PLANING STILLS.
In this same vicinity are also the
planing mills of J 13. Carr, which are
located immediately at the intersection
of tbe Wilmington, Columbia and
Augusta and the Charleston, Sumter
and Northern railroads. Mr. 3. IS.
Carr, the proprietor, came to Sumter
a number of years ago, and, com
mercially speaking, may be said to
have grown up with tbe town. By at
tention to business aud able manage
ment, he has built np a large business
as a builder and contractor, and has
during the past year erected fifteen
buildings in Sumter, five of them being
handsome brick stores, which are now a
great ornament to the business streets
of the city. This establishment is io
connection with his contracting busi
ness, aud bas a daily capacity of front
12,000 to 35.000 feet of dressed, lam
be r, which is used in tbe city, or
shipped to dealers North. He makes a
specialty of finishing mouldings,
brackets, etc , and employs in bis
business over one hundred men,
many of whom are skilled mechanics
and laborers.
THE COTTON COMPRESS.
One of tbe most recent enterprises io
Sumter is the Sumter Compress and
Ware House Company, which baa
located its extensive plant in the
eastern part of the city, adjoining the
yards, of the Charleston, Sumter and
Northern Railroads. It is equipped
with a Taylor press, which - has a
capacity of 600 bales a day, and the
ware houses which are just in coarse of
erection will accommodate all the eot
ton that will be brought to them for
many years to come. Every bale
brought to Sumter is compressed before
being shipped, and the work has been
highly complimented by cotton men at
the various ports to which it !:as been
sent. A. K. Ctark, formerly of Geor
gia, is the general manager of tbe
concern, and the following well-known
business men constitute the board of
directors: A. K. Clark, John S.
Hagh8on, N. O'Donnell, A. S. Brown,
A. Rytteuberg, R. P. Monagbao and
B. D. Lee. All tbe railroads centering
at Sumter have ran switches to the
compress, so that the cost of hauling
the cot-ton has been reduced to a mini
mum figure.
THE ICE FACTORY.
The Sumter Ice Manufacturing Com
pany has recently been organized with
J. J. Harby as president and E. iL
Moses as secretary and treasurer. The
faetory, which is equipped with tl*e
most improved kind of machinery, has
at present a capacity of six tons a day,
bat daring the approaching winter a
sixteen ton machine will be put in, and
the capacity of the plant more than
doubled. This factory now supplies a
great many towns in the interior of
the State, and is competing very zlosely
with the factories in the larger cities.
It will continue in operation during ths
entire winter.
THE SUMTER ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY
was organized about a year ago with s
capital of $10,000. A contract was
made with the municipal authorities for
lighting the city, and the streets are
now illuminated with the best arc
lights that can be secured from first
class machinery. An incandescent
plant has also been put in, and that
light is now used io all tbe stores and
p a bit buildings and in many residences.
The investment has already paid so
well that at a recent meeting of the
stockholders it was decided to doable
the capital stock.
OTHER ENTERPRISES.
In the brief space ot a single letter
it is impossible to mention all tbe
varied industries and enterprises which
are ccmbining to make Sumter a great
commercial point. These are bot a
few o? the most important, and there
are many others that can be described
later, which are of equal value io
building up the city. Any notice of
Suroter's manufactories would be in
compl?te, however, without special
mention of the attitude of the govern
ment and tbe people generally toward
enterprises which desire to enter the
city. In the first p-a^e, any
legitimate industry which promises to
be a paying one can find ready sap
porters among tbe loeal capitalists.
They are proud of their city, and
eagerly seize every opportunity to bet
ter her condition, and they realize that
manufactures will do more to infuse
new life into her than anything else.
Another very important point is that no
new companies will have the slightest
difficulty iu securiug first class sites for
factories, ware houses, etc. The city
government has in some instances
donated sites for the location of certain
enterprises, and has always evinced a
disposition to exempt the property
entirely, or iu part, from taxation for a
period of years. Where sites cannot
be secured free of expense, any number
of m<o can be found who are willing to
sell desirable locations at a reasonable
figure, and to take paymeut in the stock
of the proposed company.
Such inducements should attract
capital to any city, and Sumter is
already reaping those benetits which are
bound to accrue to any place that adopts
such methods to increase its prosperity.
s. c. a.
Po rt irritate vour hums with a stubborn
c< ugh when :? pleasant sud e?Wtiv* renwdy
m?y be found in Dr. J. B. McLean s Tar
Wiiie i.u.i- B?Iui ! vto?t