The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-05-13
Railroads in Laurers.
THE WONDERFUL ADVANTAGE
OF NEW CONNECTIONS.

OF NEW CONNECTIONS.
How h Competing Lines arc Bid
ding for Business-Seri"us ObJec-
lions to the Consolidation of the
Greenwood, Laurcns and Spartan
burg Road with the Georgia en-
trail System.
LAuRENs, April 29.-Wo hayc had the
luxury Of fish brought by our new rail
road (tho Greenwood, Laurcns and
~Spartanburg,) fresh from Port Royal.
caught one. morning aud delivered to
purchasers here that same night and on
the breakfast table the next morning.
Excursion agents and adv crtisemcnts
have been waking us up. We have just
had an excursion by some Of our young
men to witness the base ball game.
Our Sunday-schools are stirring our
young society" from centre to circum-
ference with an excursion to Augusta
tosiayy fnr whichstwo hundred tickets
hare been sold. Our young fire compa-
NY had theirsfriends arc making prepa-
~rctions tn participate in the coming fire
department display at Augusta, on
which occasion an excursion rate will
furnish opportunity to many for a quick
and cheap visit to AuguSta-a city ia
sorably known to US by tradition, and
none the less SO throughout the new
channels Of communication. And now
while we are almost having to pinch
ourselves to know whether we are real
ly ourselves, we are dazed by a flood of
advertisements Of excursion rates from
the "old %reliable'' South Carolina Rail
way and the 'old reliable: Columbia
and Groenville Railroad Company. that
used to publish excursion rates to
Charleston. and leave Laurens out en-
tirely! But they not only count us
in' now, but send us advertisements
embeliished with something Of artistic
pretention.
Or: a par with this excursion boom
may be mentioned tho fact that where
the freight on a carload Of building
lumber from Augusta to Laurcns was
formerly and till recently S25, it is now
only $11.75, and this not exclusively by
the new road, but by the "old reliable"
Columbia and Grccnvillc, which fact
!shnwsshow much better a rail road COM
panyswill DO when it has competition.
With this competition no wonder there
was, the other day, n lot Of mouldings
for buildings shipped from one of our
Laurens steam mills to n Greenwood
builder. Furthermore our Laurens
merchants arc beginning to attract GUS
tom from the remotcst sections Of our
county and ever frem adjoining comn-
ties Our streets, too, arc alive with
new faces prospecting for business
openings, and the demand for houses is
undated. But these benefits, which
appertain more Immediately to our town,
areEnothing as compared with the bene-
fits conferred by our new competition
upon the people of the county-the far
mers,Ion whose. prosperity NIL clse is
baaedas.1;he Greenwood, Laureus and
spartanburg is being steadily pushed
forward. For about two and a half
weeks the iron horse has been pas,uring
on the banks Of the Enortc, "bathing
his fetlocks'' in tho crystal waters pre-
paratory to leaping across the bold and
beautiful Enorce in his 'turf-time'
bound towards Spartanburg. In ten
days the. locomotive is expected to cross
the Enoree, and within n week from
that. event it will reach Woodruff.
whence "A good line Of hacks will be
provided for conveying passengers to
S~partanburg, sixteen miles distant. and
thence to Glenn Spring., also sixteen
miles distant, which will be- II great ac-
.~commodation to people from Augusta
and beyond, as also from the Savannah
side OF our State, who may want to
reach these wonderful life-siviny
springs.
When the Greenwood, I~.aurcns and
!Spartanburg Railroad shall have bean
pushed through to cor: APPLETON, as it will
pc during the coming summer, we will
doubtless have Increased advantages in
f!reights oyer what VIZ now have. That
ls unless our, town and county should
again BIZ comparatively "oottled up"
as ne were formerly Ivy the '.olL
feliable" Columbia and Greenvill.
Railroad Company when they were
without competition and used IN cb,rr.
ns $25 for what they arc NV glad to do
lorus for *ll.75, in the way Of landing
the lumber above mentioned.
Wo are we'll pleased with the Georgia
Central 50 far, but W. don't want too
much even Of so good n thing. In 9th
u words, much as we1ike Mr.. Raoul
and his policy, we don't want to be put
y bis pocket any more than in anybody
else's. The opinion Of not only thi.
town but Of this countr. so far ns c.n u,