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y v ? I*'' s y r . . * * * i t THF iiixjinxr TIH/IF1^ zzr 1. O Hi U ill 1. %MS Jl J. IVI Hi 13 ssa J X . v.v' VOL. LXV. NO. 51. PART II UNION. S. C., FltlDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1915 PAGPS9 to 10 *1.00 A YEAR. . Union' MIU -MUM The City Deginr For some time we have contemplated a series of articles along the line of the caption of this article. The real builders of a city, the public institutions that are worthy of com- * mendation are not always those that are featured by the newspapers. Behind every institution, every enterprise, every public advance there is always some individual, or group of individuals to whom the credit is due. Often one finds the men responsible for the advanced movement are modest to a degree. They do not covet publicity; they care not for praise. Adverse criticism is likewise a matter that affects them but little. We have felt for sometime that the work of a live newspaper lies in the ' direction of giving emphasis to just these men and institutions. Among the institutions of Union in which the citizens may feel a just pride is the system of water works and electric lights. The municipal electric light and water plant is one of the best in the State. From an almost insignificant beginning in 1896 the system has grown to one of great proportions. The average citizen has little conception of just how good and 1 to what capacity the plant has grown. After noting the wonderful improvements that have been made within the past few years we decided to get some notes concerning the whole plant, for we, like others who had not visited the plant in sometime, did not realize the great improvements that have been made. Under the management of Mr. W. H. Sartor, Mr. W. S. McLure and L. J. Hames as commissioners, and Mr. R. A. Easterling as superintendent, the plant has been developed from a very small affair to one that any city twice the size of Union : x should be proud. Only a few years ago when the present management took charge of the plant it had a capacity of only 150 h. p and had no auxiliary equipment to be thrown ii? service in case of an accident, while now the plant has a capacity of 600 h. p. and has three engines and dynamos so that in case of trouble there is always a machine ready to be thrown in in place of the disabled one. " Only a few years ago all water was to pumped to the city with steam pumps which made it necessary to haul all S1? fuel about two miles in the country ac for firing the boilers, but all pumping is now done with electric motors and ? this change not only cut the operating expenses considerably but also gave duplicate pumping equipment which is quite an important consideration, especially in case of fire. The new pumping station which has recently been installed to furnish additional water supply for the city is located j on the old Harris mill site on Brown's i creek, about five miles north of Union. I The building is fireproof, having ce- I ment roof and floors and all electrical I equipment located on the roof so that I all dangerous wires will be out of the | reach of visitors. The power is sup- V plied over a (5(500 volt power line and i a 75 h. p. motor is used to operate the pumps. This station has quite a number of unique engineering features in connection with it and is so installed that it can bo operated from Union without the attention of an operator at the pumping station. Besides the improvements made at the lighting plant and the pumping station all of the lighting and water service lines have been extended so *ti that any party living in the city may Ht he lvarhpH with lichts: nn<l water The I'e street liphtinp: service has been ex- th< tended to every part of the city and sti within the past five years one hun- fid foi ~~ cai Hati en; wh rru wi of erf as wi' Sti! mt tiv qu me or nu ad, Ar cr? wo ani lib tin Th I tio W. S. McLURE, ne 1 Commieaionej. tjc s Buildei Water an< lings to Pr > WMalmlsU^^m p IIS jnHnHm^^i ^gssM :' tV -; : ' W?5|MSBJBtt^^ : S :- : :^&??5R nSHv'^? ^1 HMB \H ll^B '^f^j^th ?Bl BiJ vaStei 9 HH^n^^nnimi^^^^BH VIEW OF nil and two lights have been added works is to the street lighting equipment. installation "The White Way," which will con- the system, tt of 42 five light standards like the getting the companyi'ng cut, will extend from they feel tf e intersection of Church and Main done the toi expense and ?enue from t creased for en up their lights are pi We wish and its well and water r know what ii in this line. The elect over ten tim five years aj. in the year, reason the now possible plant has I creased and cheapened, electricity i: was five yet cally conduc is proven lv W. H SARTOR Chairman of Com mission. cheaper tha the State. eets to the intersection of Main and w" .hour, trndon, or, in other words, from the (luan*d oples Supply company's corner to amo!I'\j r s postoffice corner. There are 10 I!J a''?w?d u indards to the block, five on each (,'la,Ke(' w^< le and each post is equipped with jr 60 candle power and one 100 ihe wate ndle power lamps. When the in- ^ thousai illation is complete it will he an sana- an(' ' sy matter to read a newspaper any- " t?c>* take lere along the street. This improve- an(' ? mt will help in several ways, it ,aonth P4 II make us who live here feel proud thousand, our city. It will show the outsia-> And the q 5 that, we are an up-to-date people nished, and a business street adequately lighted ?f the wate th artistic and well proportioned cism. Unioi indards is the best evidence of a lighted, as e, wide-awake, aggressive com- may know if inity. The advantages of an effee- b,e to invest e ornamental lighting system are One of the ickly seen by property owners and ward is the Tchants. The value of a property installed on business location depends on the. courthouse mber of people who make use of the photograph ioininir street as a thornno'bfMrn ohnuio ... i up-to-date lighting system in- Way" lookii ?ases the traffic and the value of the from Gadbe irk so that the porpyrty owners the work h d business bouses are all helping work is now erally and it will only be a short stallation fi rte before we get in all the system, street. The e city is to pay one-third of installa- ti've street t n, the property owners and busi- confidently 1 ss houses one-third cost of installa- A good poi m and the commissioners of public in this impr J rs and Th< NUMBER ONE I Lighting * esent Splenc ^fin^BiBlliiK I *>%> KH>^^I mm fSS ^ EL Sal i g WHITE WAY" LOOKING WEST FROM GADRERI1 pay one-third of cost of , here in Union by the Union and operate and maintain dry, a concern conducted The commissioners are Moss. Not many of our c heavy end of the load but J aware of the fact that Unio lat the good that will be | an establishment. Yet it vn will be well worth thejthat the Union Iron Works on the other hand the rev- out high grade work, and i: tusiness houses will be in- to do the most complicated all merchants will bright Moss has had charge of thi windows when the new lf> years. He came to Uni( at in. j from Gaffney, and is a si all interested in our town worker. The shop is equif fare would visit the light all kinds of brass and iron i dants, so that they would turns out a great deal of i in asset our city really has work, as well as many job: size. ric plant now generates tm T, , ' , .. ,1 he Commission of rub es as much power as it did , ,. . ' ? , believes in giving emplovniei ro, and operates everv da> . , . , 1 .. . . - , 0 , ' talent, whenever possible, including Sundays. Omj . . ... . ' , . , , .i euriiraci 10 mis union cone rood service at 1? ? it witl)oul , , ? l,e? ,he facl lh' Commissi.,nets of Public XV ?eei. so very ureal ly in- , . ... i a- a. i proven themselves wise bull the production therein ... e , . 1 . - hind every successful institu The cost of areneratinir ? . . , J i . must be some man, or erou ; but little more than it . , . ' .; who have made the achieve us sible. The lipfht and water plant has been cconjnii- Un, js m) c tiol, Th(. to. ami wisely maitpcd bav<, |isile|| the , t the fact that the price , *n o nd lights in Unnn are . n in almost any torn n, iq nn ea . ma Ihe light rate is Jk per fajrs of b|[<. u(m ? and according ^greater a|most cn(,|osq fH(.tion wUh 111 01,0 a'?" q , lie, or rather, with a part of nore than 100 k>. hours ^ Th(, ^ am| ,?hts p] 'l Per x u' 1 is preeminently a field fo ?n as many as WO hours , ,. ' breeding. There are many rt . , . this, but chief among them i late, in fi one o mentjone(| ^^e following:: ? ltd gallons, 30, per thou- , > s scaled uow to where 1;?u*0 , -..v. ?Kuii>, nnu an- iiiways s as much <?"}"? hu..- tQ fin(, that at the end of t ne thousand*? '?!'"> F*'1 the bill has climbed to a coi ts it for elefn cen pei sjze Such people think n< leaving unrepaired a leakii uulity of tl lighting iur- thus allowing water to run the suflficieJy and purity for weeks at a time. They r r supply ; above cuti- turn off lights when i is well yjfcred and well not needed, and at the en any weFfnformed man month they are surprised thu he will If take the trou- has run up to a stiff figur .igate. ? again, most people are natui most apnced steps for- picious. The inspector makes "Whitc^ay" now being ular rounds and many peopl Mainftr?et from the to keep the record themselvc to Chfh street. The indifferent to doing so, are shown in this article question the records turned i estern&lf of the "White inspector. Then, too, it freque ig ud^oin street west pens that one hears of the ch, rry Jet.* Thi's half Ok reported from other towns aK pi completed and that if run to earth, are fou goi^orw?rd on the in- without truth. Anyway, th om ,?dberry to Church generally is hard to please an< re fiot a more attrac- a bit ungrateful, even when o bdfen in the State, we servant has done well. We do belf1*- itate to say that Unions c< rti?#f the iron work used in charge of the light an o^flent was made right plant have done well. They / eir Handi system Fro lid Achievei hK^ 4 JH^H ffcgl|||| , gt| &* &f i| |HS|| BB^w^^BII^^Wf^^wrWiiWftlifflMnallfflBriii^^^B m Y STREET. "Jjll Iron Koun- eomplished an almost impossible itnsk. by J. M. They have, working n?,w mm djffl. itizens are culties, created one of the most modn has such ern and well-conducted lijfhtinp and is a fact water systems in the State, is turning To W. H. Sartor, chairman of the s equipped jobs. Mi. s. shop for on in 1 !>()() tilled i1 uii Jm ' * W wi \ lis a; H | mm i : lie Works ' hence the ' (8 '^Sw' _ |W J ' men icss judpr e the af- " ithout an |{. A. EASTERL1NG. the pub- Superintendent, the pub- h roposition ~ p r trouble commission for the pa t eight or ten v lasons for years, much of the credit is due. He 1 i may be has been untiring in his efforts to put dost peo- the work of the commission upon a of water sound basis, and to develop the best ? surprised results possible. He is deserving of he month the commendation of the community isiderable for his good work. Mr. Sartor is a ithing of native son of Union county; he was lg valve, born on a farm seven and a half miles to waste below Union in Santuc township in the eally for- year 1S(J.'5. He has been identified they are with the business and political affairs d of the of Union for many years. He is at it the bill nresent the chief factor in the Union e. Then lee and Fuel Co., a concern which ally sus- began business here in January, 1913. ? his reg- And it is hut the truth to say that e, unable Union has, since the organization of j is, or too this concern, been bountifully supready to P'ied with ice and at a lower rate in by the ,han ever before in her history. Mr. ntly hap- Sartor has carried into the sap rates mcnt of his ice and fuel business the reports same good business judgment he has nd to h(> manifested in his work as chairman ,e public the city's li^ht and water plant, d usually W. S. McLure, another member of a public the commission, and serving sine? i not hes- 1904, has ably seconded the efforts of >mmittee the chairman. He is one of Union's id water leading business men, a member of the have ac- firm of McLure Mercantile Co. He is 3MC =3>H 30 PC iwork J mar-??mum mum?? m Small nents 'so a native son of Union county, aving been born in what is now herokee, then Union county, in I860. Le is identified with a numfter of other progressive business concerns here, ind is considered one of Union's best i ousiness men. He is public spirited, alert and on the lookout for opportunities. Mr. McLure is an active supporter of every progressive more made by the citizens of Union. He is a believer in printer's ink, as his advertising patronage of The Times win snow, and has had the grace to say to us time and time again: ''That ad. of McLure Mercantile Co. last week did us good service." Ho is one of Union's best business men. Associated with Mr. Sartor and Mr. McLure is L. .1 .Hames, the third and only remaining member of the commission. Mr. Hames is a native of our neighboring town of Jonesville. but has so long been identified with Union that he has become a real part of her business life. He is 42 years old. He is now the head of the Hames Grocery Company, one of our wholesale concerns. Besides this, he is interested in many other enterprises here, to say nothing of his activities as an agriculturist and stock raiser. He is one of Union's substantial business men. He is a leader in promoting anything that promises to build up bis town and community. Mr. Hames is, and has from the first, been a staunch supporter of the Union Chamber of Commerce. He is wise in council, strong in debate and public spirited to a degree. The commissioners have been exceedingly fortunate in their choice of a superintendent for the city's light and water plant. R. A. Easterling was chosen to this position in 1910, and (" has had no ffpaaU part in the go V wort- J ' ffcrnmrVtiaUH'/l" " ~ "t" "* r..??vu. >i^ 10 a imtire-ooi' J | Barnwell county, is MO years old, )r ii^ is one of the best equipped men anywhere to be found. He graduated from Clemson College in the electrical department, in 1007, took a special engineering course with the General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. He is thoroughly competent to hold the responsible position to which he has been chosen. During the six years he has been superintendent the plant has grown from its insignificant state to its present size. Mr. Easterling is not only a skilled machinist and engineer, but he is courteous and accommodating, and has won a large place in the esteem of the people of Union since coming here to begin his work as superintendent. His advice anil his skill have been of exceptional value to the patrons. R. A. Easterling is a genial, warm-hearted fellow. He is not inclined to do a great amount of talking. But he is a worker, mil he is a workman with brains. Some men have energy but are deicient in judgment. Easterling has ioth brains and energy. He has suggested, planned and \vorked for the mprovement of the plants. He has teen encouraged and backed by the commissioners for they realized that if woum uo 10 trust, that he knew vhat he was about, and that he was ijjht at the forefront in all matters lertainintr to the work which he had hosen to he his life work. There is another thintr about this nan Eastorling; he is never too tired, ever too hard pressed to turn down he appeal that cones from some distressed patron, whether that distn . e in the nature of a frozen watei ipe or the installation of a complete rater and litfh tsystem in the home. >ay or ni^ht, Sunday or week-a-day. (Continued on page 10) . - v-c' L. J. HAMES. Commissioner.