The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-05-16
BILL ARP.

BILL ARP.
Bill Arp Visits Anniston, Alabama, and
Tells of Some Things He Saw There.
Atlanta Constitution.
When is this thing going to hold up?
How many more wheels can be turned to
advantage in the sunny south 2 Ofcourse
as population increases manufactures
must increase, but they are now multi.
plying much faster than population. I
was talking to an iron man in Admission
about this and he smiled and said the
south is still a long ways off from the goal
of reproduction in iron, and as to 9th
er manufacturing industries she has not
begun. We are now making two
thousand tons of pig iron per day, which,
of course, is largely more than the south
consumes, and therefore, goes north and
pays its Own freight and comes back TO US
in a thousand different shapes upon which
ne pay another freight and yet there is
good margin Of profit in making pig iron.
This business alone has added millions
to our wealth and given employment to
thousands ofyour people. -Four furnaces
owned at Admission made for the owners
not less than four millions of dollars in
ten years. But they are not making SO
much now and 80 the Admission iron kings
have taken q new departure and are rap
idly establishing enterprises that will
consume all the iron she makes. Their
immense pipe works will consume two
hundred tons per day and that pipe will
all be required for southern use; your
own town of Gainesville has recently
purchased thousand tons for water and
gas and it waa all made in the south. We
are keeping our profits at home.
As I meandered around the model city,
the beautiful city of Admission, I was
more than ever impressed with the fore.
sight and wisdom of her founders. It
seems but few years ago that I went
down with Mr.. Noble, the old patriarch,
to see the property they had bought.
The ruins Of an old furnace, that the yam.
kees had burned, were there and nothing
else save the ores in the hills and the
timber that covered the surrounding
country. To develop this property the
Mobiles and the Tylers put in their capi.
ital and their brains. With an eye and a
taste for the beautiful they laid out a
town, and just as fast as they made money
from their furnaces they graded streets
and paved sidewalks, and planted shade
trees, and built churches and academies.
Health, and ornament and q noble Chris
tian charity marched right along, side by
side with industry. They had care for the
comfort and contentment oftheir laborers
and took fatherly interest in their chill.
dren. The partnership Of the Mobiles and
Tylers was a very fortunate one, for what
one side lacked the other possessed. Ofthe
Tylers, + only know that they were an
aristocratic family Of fine business quail.
ties and unassuming dignity. Of the
Mobiles, I know that their cardinal prin.
ciple was to dignity and adorn labor, and
they did it. They are doing ityet. No
matter how fast they are accumulating
wealth, they continue to labor-labor as
q duty and not 10 pile up riches. The
children and grandchildren have all been
trained to work, and they do it cheerful.
ly. saw one of them to-day earnestly
bending over his drawings and plans of q
new plant that will cost perhaps 100000,
and half mile away I saw beautiful
church, nearly finished. that cost another
hundred thousand, and it is his gift to
Admission. They are always spending
money to improve the condition of the
laboring classes or to beautify the town
or to provide schools and churches for
their people. Within few years the
Mobiles and Tylers have raised Admission
from the woods to city of $4,000 people
with s16,OO0,O00 of capital invested. II
is model city, moral city, an indus
trious city, and continues to grow and
prosper. New men, younger men, lave
been attracted here, and now the Parkers
and Ledbetters and McElroys and With.
ams are working in the lead. I never
saw place with so many active, energetic
young men.
There are over four thousand artisans
and laborers upon their pay rolls. The
Rolling Stock Company alone has over
eight hundred. Bishop Wilmer said in
beautiful sermon that giving healthy
employment to the poor and paying just
wages was far better than charity. This
is done at Admission. The poor are held
up and encouraged. The laborers all
have clean, attractive homes, with vines
and flowers in the front yard and gardens
in the rear and schools and churches neal
by. Everything here is based upon la.
Dor, intelligent labor. The splendid
residences of the rich, the beautiful
churches, the Inn, the hotels, the stores.
the parks, all came from the sweat and
toll and skill of the laborer and the arti.
san, and this toll and skill is entitled To
the highest respect. The rich man who
would sneer at the laborer is fool.
The young man who prides himself OF
his family or bis money and snubs the