The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, June 20, 1902, Image 4
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UNION, S. C., JUNE 20, 1902.
The office of railroad commissioner
must be a soft snap with its big fat
salary attached if we are to judge
from the number of candidates who
are out after it this year.
Miss Mary Oustis Lee, daughter of
Gen. Robt. E. Lee, was arrested at
Alexandria, Vu., last Friduy because
she had by mistake taken a seat in
the Jim Crow car, on a passenger
train, and having a number of bundles
with her she refused to move
Into the next coach when requested
to do so by the conductor. This will
give the colored people something to
talk about.
The campaign broke loose in an
unexpected quarter last Saturday, at
least it was not on the official program.
The meeting was held at
Donalds, and while there was quite
a iarge crowd present, the me-.ting is
said to have been colorless. Nearly
all the State candidates were present.
It is said that Jim Tillman failed to
answer the charges of The State regarding
the parliamentary law question
.
The perpetrators of the famous
cherry tree fraud by which a large
number of women were buncoed out
of twenty or more plunks, are now
dancing to the music of the fiddle
played by the United States District
Court. It develops that the ownership
of the concern changed hands
rapidly when the newspapers began
to make things hot for them. It is
estimated that the frauds perpetrated
by the various defendants amounted
to something like $47,000.
I n the charges brought by the Greenville
News against Mr. A. F. H.
Dukes, a member of the State Board
of Control, it is stated that he received
from one B. F. Sprinkler, of
Reidsville, N. G,, a $2 rebate on 500
barrels of corn whiskey sold to the
S. C. Dispensary last July, and that
this was the usual rebate allowed the
members of the board of control. It
is lather late to air this transaction,
but it is up to the board of control to
specify. The matter should be sifted.
Let the light bo turned on. The
board cunnot rest under such indictment.
I n the next place it is a serious
charge for the News to make and
unless it can substantiate it there
may be trouble ahead for it.
"The fellow that totes the ordinary
pistol does not seem in a hurry to
dispose of it and get one that conforms
to the new law of 20 inches
long and three pounds in weight.
Why should he? The old law has
V\ A An A /n M/l A AM 4 U A ntnixi /V L A -
uoou a luii/U uii tiiu BiaiuiU UUUILH j
the new one will be equally or more
so. A few negroes may be caught up
with; but that will be all."?Newberry
Observer,
Just such expressions found in the
editorial columns of certain newspapers
supposed to be moulders of
publio opinion; sentinels upon the
watch tower, ever looking to the best
interests of the people, and studying
for morality, Chrlstlanlry and good
government, are in a large measure
responsible for the violation of certain
laws, beoause said violations are
apparently condoned by said editors.
If it Is wrong and unlawful for a
man ta innke of himself a walking
arsenal as if ho were in the jungles
of Africa and oxpected to be attacked
by some wild boast or assassinated
by some highwayman, then it is
wrong, if not unlawful, for a newspaper
to intimate to those inclined
to disobey the law, that they can do
so with impunity, as there will probably
be hothing done about it, the
law is "a farce, etc., etc," There
may be some surprises in store for
the Observer. We hope the point has
been reached where the people have
determined to put a stop to the pistol
toting habit, the awful consequences
of which it is needless to
mention here.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(Froin Our Regular Correspondent)
June ICth, 1902 ?During the past
week the inquiry lk-i:ig conductei by
the Committee on delations with Cuba
elicited from Mr. Thurber, of New
York, the statement that he had secured
from Mr. Ilavemeyer a contribution of
$2,500 towards a fund used to influence
fmolie opinion in favor of reciprocal reations
with Cuba, and that General
Wood, on behalf of the Cuban government,
had contributed to the same fund
$2,880. This testimony was regarded as
extremely sensational by the opponents
of reciprocity and, partially as a result,
I thirteen Republican senators who opixwe.
a measure providing for straight recip-"
rocity, held a meeting at which they
ugVeed to stand firm for the bill as passed
by the House, and which removed the
differential from rtfined Bugar. or for
adjournment without action. In addition
to the thirteen senatois preseui it.
was stated by Senator Kikins, who is
acting as leader of the "insurgents,"
that five others would consider them
selves ooiinu uy tun miwun <? t,.?*r wuference.
The total number of sen itors
is 88, of which 32 sire Democrats. If a'l
the Democrats and 18 Republicans vo'ed
against a straight reciprocity bill there
would be left an iiffirmative vote of but
88.
When the prospects for an agreement
on a reciprocity bill looked particularly
blue, however, the President, alleging
that such action he tielieved to be his
"plain duty," sent to Congress a message
urging that body to carry to its
highest completion the policy inaugurated
by the war undertaken to relieve Cub\
of Spanish oppression, by so legislating
as to insure to the new republic a medium
of prosperity. Mr. Roosevelt asserted
that, in his belief, certain reciprocal concessions
were essential to Cuba's prosperity
and that such could be granted
without injury to any American industry
He bad been advised by many of his political
friends that a message to Congress
at this jnncture would seriously injure
his prospects of renomination but he refused
to listen to any suggestion of personal
profit or loss and sent to Congress
a message which *will domm ind the respect
of his friends and opponents, and
even or lliose wno noia mat, ins reasjuuing
is fallacious On Saturday Senator
Elkins introduced a resolution to admit
Cuba to the Union as a State
During the past week the Senate
passed the Naval Appropriation hill instructing
th? STp-tary of th? Navy ?<
secure the construction of two fiist-clastbattle
ships, two armored cruisns, two
gun lioat.s and five submarine torpedo
boats of tlie Holland lyp . i'lie p.o/isiou
of the House that one ves.?el of each
class should be built in a government
navy yard was stricken out and 1 understand
that the house will seriously oppose
this elimination of one of its pet
schemes when the bill is taken up in
conference and also that it will object to
the Senate amendment providing for so
many torpedo boats of one and, it is
claimed, insufficiently tested type. The
Senate will vote on the canal bill on
Thursday.
On Weduesday the House will take up
the Philippine bill and will, according to
the rule which lias been adopted, devote
one week to its consideration When
this bill is passed the members of the
IIou3e will be so anxious to get away to
their districts that it will be almost impossible
to hold them longer in Washington
and they will bring tremendous
pressure on the Senate to hasten its proceedings
and adjourn. July 3rd is being
talked of as the probable date of adjournment.
The Secretary of Agriculture has
adopted a new platform. He told me
one day this week that in view of the
magnificent possibilities he could foresee
in the way of scientific development ot
the agricultural industries of the coun
try he had determined to ask nothing
further from Congress in the way of
protective duties but to preach to the
farmers, early and late, the advantages
to be derived from pursuing the most
approved methods. The-Secretary made
tins statement when I quoted to him the
remarks of some congressmen who had
expressed the fear that when Secrotarv
Wilson had succeeded in establishing the
silk industry he would ask of <k>ngress
a protective industry on raw silk. "They
need not be apprehensive for I shall ask
them for nothing," said the Secretary.
' They said, when I first stated that vi*
could raise our own tea. that it could be
done only by means of an immense protective
tariff but we are today raising
tea and selling it at a profit and we are
raising tea that, because of it its superioi
qualities and the fact that it is cured
without the use of chemicals command
a better price than imported tea The
same will be true in time of the silk industry.
We have reasonably cheap labor
in the South, among the negroes,
and I expect to secure the help of Tuskegoe
and similar institutions to train
the reelers of raw silk. Meanwhile oui
scientists will direct their attention te
decreasing the amount of labor and t<
finding methods that will compensate
for the difference in wages. In the rice
fields in this country there and instances
of one man doing the work that it woulc
require 400 cheap foreign coolies to accomplish.
If we can do that with rice,
wky con not we do it with other things?"
mi - * - *
i nure seoms 10 nave been some
thing of a scrap between Roosevelt
and Mark Hanna recently whon Rep
resentativo Burton charged four Fed'
eral officers with political crooked'
ness, and asked the President to investigate
the matter. It happened
that all four were friends of Mark
Hanna, who advised that no investigation
be made, as it would hurt the
Republican party. Roosevelt ordered
the invstigation, nevertheless and let
Hanna chew the rag. Pretty good
| backbone Teddy, we admire your
nerve. He has a Democratic bone in
his makoup, wo believe, and we adhiin
more every time he knocks the
props from under some big-cockalorum
of his party?but then wo
can't help but remember the Booker
Washington dinner.
The Press Association M eeting.' '
(Continued from last week.)
Georgetown is located at the con-.
fluence of the Sarapit, Pee Dee, Black
and Waccamaw rivers, where thej^T
empty into WinyahBay, about twelve;
miles from the ocean ; is protected
by a land looked harbor, where the*
government has been expending two v
million dollars In building jetties for
the past ten years and the work will
continue lor some time yet. bo rar
the channel has been dredged and
scoured by the effect of the jetties
until vessels drawiDg sixteen feet of
water can come up to the" wharves
right in the heart of the <Slty, giving
her the world for a marlc&t. Besides
this sea front, she has one thousand
miles oi navagable streams giving her
access to the interior of the State.
It is claimed that 650,000 of this
State's populstion live in the territory
drained the waters emptying
into Winyah Bay, and that on this
territory 420,OIK) bales of cotton are
annually grown. The business of
the port last year amounted to $8,000,000
showing an iucrease of 12$
per cent over the year before.
m * *
The Atlantic Coast Lumber Co's
plant, located here, is claimed to be
the largest in the world. Their output
is incomprehensible to the ordinary
mind. 650,000 feet of lumber
is sawed and handled per day. A
month's run on full time would build
every house in Uniou, including
the five cotton mills with
Buffalo and Lockhart thrown in, and
yet this enormous quantity is handled
with less fuss and confusion thanthe
manager of Bailey's lumber yard
would deliver a wagon load of plank
to the Buffalo train. Four to five
log trains a quarter cf a mile long are
daily delivered to this plant after being
cut from the stump 26 to 110 miles
away. These logs on arrival are
dumped into the log pond aud guided
to the endless chain on which clutches
are fastened to catch the log, and
when onde the grippers are attached
up goes the log to tho carriage whic**
shoves it back and forth against a
band saw, with teeth on both sides,
when it is cut going a <1
coming aud the plank dropping ? IT
uearly as fa^t as you can oount them,
are autom ilic.tlly conveyed tu the
1 sorting skids where they ure en'iied
1 to the proper bin ami iliore depoai> vl
according to their width and leugth,
the machine never makiDg a mistake
in getting a wrong size in the pocket
intended for another?the plank are
, then dumped on dry kiln cars and
couveyed to the dry kilns, and after
t seasoning are rolled to the wharf and
i loaded on steamers for New York and
i Boston. Nearly the whole work Is
i done by maohinery. The negro of
i course is in the picture, plentiful in
tho woods where the logs are cut and
1 on the wharf where each plank has
1 to be stacked separately in the hold
of the ship, but no one has much to
1 do from the time the cars are loaded
till the time comes for loading the
ships?they are dumped, while you
are looking for the modus operandi,
picked up by the endless chain fastened
to the carriage, slabbed, turned,
squared and put into plank without
any hand ever touching them.
The number 8 plant is as near a
perfect automaton as you can find,
i It is not exactly a double of number
1 and 2 but does twice the work, it
i has two endless ohains pulling the
logs from the pond into both sides of
' the shed and eaoh chain delivers its
' logs to a separate slabber and squaring
saw. As soon as the log Is squared
eaoh machine tosses its squared
1 log to the center of the run between
them, where they are picked up by
I i_ 1 _ 1 %_9 A ? -
} auumer uurrmge ana anven tnrougti
a gig saw arrangement composed of
forty-eight saws set one inch apart
urVti/tVt olmnltr ^ aoq f V* /\ wr/xwl#' ;?
ua*11 * J vtv/VO VUO TT V/i A JL 1119
machine will deliver 144 inch plank
8 inches wide at each run of the carriage
if it is loaded with eight inch
square logs and this wagon load of
* lumber is sorted automatically, carried
to dry kilns and delivered from
there by machinery. The slabs are
automatically carried to the hog
which chews them to a coarse saw
' dust when the conveyors come in and
1 carries it to the boilers.
The company employ 2,70C hands
and have a suburb of their own?a
^ regular little village?with a hotel,
department store and all other con'
veniences, they have bought up most
, of Pawley's Island and are building a
railroad so as to convey their white
> employees there a^d back every day
> in summer without any cost, simply
i to keep them healthy, thereby geti
ting enough work out of a healthy
> laborer in excess of what a sickly ono
I /.nnU nA.f/..? * - > >...
wuau ^ciiunii tu pu)' ino additional
expense. They are doing everything
that concentrated wealth can do to
make their plant healthy, all drains
are kept open, low and marshy places
. filled in and their whole plant is po.
liced as systematically as any red
' taped board of health eonM
" Some of our old farmer friends may
ask where this demolition of the tor.
eats ia to end? There will be no end.
The company haa bought aomething
over a million acrea and eatimate
1 that by the time they have cut over
once that the small trees left will
have become large ones and ao the
, process will go on year after year.
The lands near Georgetown are being
colonized by emigrants from Scotland,
Finland and elsewhere, and the
county ia fast blossoming into truck
farma to again give the shipping and
railroads more work.
? # #
The hospitable people of Georgetown
have showed such open handed
hospitality that it will be years be- ,
fore the Press Association has an- i
other such a meet. The drive over i
the olty and the lumber plant, da0
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splenoin 1 America. Every cora
fraHp I this moat liberal wa
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111 ttliS line I corset is not satisfac
keeps OS I trac*e narKi, Ibe aij?f
i 1 appear on inside of <
DUSy label of box. LooK fo
ordering I *l "Small things to. lo
sizes. I Di* tHln*9 to find"-<
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'tecmst? Goods, Millii
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scribed above, was taken b y the whole | \M _
association, and the next day an ex-1 ur I I
cursion on two steamers took the | | wl
party, with a fall complement oft
Georgetown ladies and gentlemen,
down the river and bay to the jetties.
From time the gang plank was palled A.t 1
aboard till placed back again, ser* ;
vants with waiters of dellcaoies pass* Ofa.00
ed on the upper decks, while below
cascades of the effervescenoe made doill
the men think they were on a fishing
trip. It takes the low country peo- l3V d
pie to prepare such a trip, and of t
course such a sinuous stream as the
Sampit to sail on, must of necessity mf y w?^
be at hand, for no such streams ex* I l""|
ists anywhere with banks perhaps a A M M A -w
hundred yards apart; the course represents
the letter S joined together w ,
two or three times as tortuous as a Ana
spring branch, yet so deep thatooean your
going vessels sail on her bosom. , s posit<
This water once imbibed, so ancient ,
legends say, so intoxicates and in- e?rnl
thralls that the patient is forever en- At til<
chanted and must return for more. lies tl
None of the party at this meeting can _
object to the old legend proving true a?pOC
and only await the opportunity to teresl
repeat the dose. L. Q. Y. j finxxn
(To be continued.)
A serious fire occurred at Oross I'' I*' T T T~p
Hill last Thursday in which three j JL il i
stores were burned, the loss amounted
to something over $500. Partly
insured. The losers were R. 1).
Nance, P. H. Madden, Wheeloar <fc T AvrAyin
Hill, Q. T. Reid, Thos. A. Campbell I ilyPrV
and J. T. Smith. AJV I VI M
Dr. F. C. Woodrow, the preside nfc
of the South Carolina Colloge, has
been asked for his resignation by the By +7
board of trustees. After mature con- j
sideration they came to the conclu- '
sion that this would be for the best;
interests of the college as he was not
the ideal man for the place. The
board after taking the action which
unseats Dr. Woodrnw rvncanH IK? 1 I
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lowing resolution: I ' JhH B
"Resolved, That the board, ex-. I I
presses it* confidence in President* I Bm
Woodrow's character and exonerates! flBfl
him from anything rejecting on!|lfl| Ml
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