Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-11-29
AN raMsNsn Lawn PURCHASE.
How Yankee Ingenuity Discovcrod
n Fortune in tho south.


n Fortune in tho south.
The steamer Bellevue which came TO
Moore's ship yard In distress last week
cleared for the Breakwater, on Friday
where she awaited q favorable wind
and proceed on her voyage to Charleston.
The Bellevue WAS built for the city
of New York At cost of 100000
and formerly carried patients from Belle.
vue Hospital to BlacAwslPs Island. Ex-
perience proved that double ender was
required for this service and she was
sold. In tho post few Get ,na che has
been nHed ss an excursion boat about
New York until Aiviu Doolittle, her
present owner, purchased her for 81 GOO
and will use her as passenger and frsight
boat on the Cooper river, South Carolina,
aud to haul lightsrs from tho lumber dis
tricts to Ohariesion for shipment to north
efn and European markets.
| MIR Doolittle gives an entertaining de.
sesiption of his discovery Of Whits pine
amidst the dense forests of yellow pine
Tin South Carolina and he claims to bo
IN ship. building and in every respect the
equal of the Oregon pine now regarded
90 Indispensable for such work. Mr..
Dooliitle is Yankee by birth. who had
acquired O moderate competence in car-
ringe building Ia how York, from which
no redred and, removing to Oatskili on
the Hudson, he wss living quietly with
bis wife when the Charleston earthquake
shocked the whole country by the extent
OF It's devastation Two weeks after that
catastrophe Mr. Dooli,tle and his wife
went on pleasure tour south and on
their way they stopped to sss the ruins.
The people had recovered from their
first bewilderment, and as financial aid
began to pour in from all passs OF the
country, they recovered courage enough
TO begin to repair the damage dona by
the earthquake. Skilled mechanics being
scarce Ia the South, DIR. Doolittle saw en-
excallent opportuaiiy, and bfgsp 10 take
contreoiu 10 rebuild honsea hiinself.
Il Eas while engaged in such work at
! eummefvills, the centre Of tho seismic
: disturbances at that time, that he hap
! pened to fall in with an oli southern
I planter, Henry Darn, who was Tioh before
| the war, but who lost everything with
8 tine collapse Of slavery. Like many other
t southern planters, his acres which before
!. the war were worth S200 an acre aud up
y wards, could now be bought for SO cents
. an acre and, at that price, they are very
= anxious TO sell. earn had l 200 acrei
Q which he wished to sell and, despite Mr.
d Doolittle's proiestations that he did NO
j. want TO buy, he at last promised to wei
d the land, which was only - miles from
,e summerville. He had nos gone far int
o The wooded tract on Cams land befor'
r he discovered the white piue tree whicl
If the psejudiced and bigoted southerner
O. would not admit, existed in their neigh
10 borhood. A local botanist, q professor
~ denied that white pine grsw in auy con
Ii siderable quantity in the state, but wa
A. convinced OF HIS error against his will.
ut A sample of the white pine lumber va
Of finally taken to New York where its yalu
o. was at once acknowledged aud cspitE
,r offered for Its development. Mr.. DoDIittl
" associated with himself three rnoneye
Of gentlsmen Of Charleston Rnd togstbs
4. they hnys secured the option On Ia, 90
,r acres Of woodland, OF which ~, 600 acIs
u have already been purchased He ais
h. has the option on another 0,000 acres {
ct 25 cents per acre. He has with him o
er the steamer Bellevue, a large saw mi
ie which will be erected in the midst of thi
H. tyAot and the lumber placed on I'll
market at once. Mr., Doolittls Is confidel
20 OF great financial sucoess in his ventur'