The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-05-03
LOOKING AHEAD
Her Unequalled Advantages are Be.
ing Appreciated at Home and
AbrOad-Great Activity In Busi-
ness Circles-A Rush OF New Peo.


Abroad-Great Activity In Busi.
ness CircIes-A Rush OF New Peo.
pie to the Town.
There never has been a time in the history
OF Abbeville when her prospects were as
bright as they are al present.
| There never was q time when her material
prosperity and her growth In citizenship were
as evident rs they are to-day.
in bnPdns e our schoo n ooW
Ing that advantage with the securing OF the
railroad shops. the Allen Manufacturing and
Building Company, the Tugaloo Iron Works,
and other smaller Industries, all the arteries
or trade have been quickened and all the
sinews Of com mmerce have been strengthened.
| In the roar OF many moving trains and In
the whir OF scores OF Industrial wheels the
echoes Of the adjacent hills and valleys are
awakened while the sound of the saw, the
hammer, and the trowel are heard by every
While 1t is not our purpose to speak OF all
our advantages, and while IL is not our inten.
tion to recite the thousand and one reasons
why the laborer, the business man, the pro-
] lessional man, and the gentleman Of means
and leisure should seek Abbeville as his
horne, we may be pardoned If we make few
notes.
Health being the richest estate, and the
chief aims OF life, it might not be amiss to
state that Abbeville is located on rolling
hills with superior natural drainage. Except
possible for our people to become sick. The
salubriousness OF our climate; It's freedom
from excessive heat and cold; the purity OF
| the water from our springs and wells. togeth-
er with the refreshing and health-giv-
Ing breezes which come from the
neighboring pine forests make this not only a
ognized fact thst no better health resort is to
| be found between the sea and the mountains.
| Except for the sickness which Is chronic or
the diseases which are attributable to the vio-
lntt Df Hhn lon Df aotf a. go
| would starve and our people would die OF old
age.
| life
Abbeville is a city of beautiful churches
| whose domes and spires whose silver-tongued
bells, and whose pious preachers cordially In
| vite alike the citizen and the stranger within
their holy precincts, and whose members
give cordial greeting and seat Of honor to
any who may choose TO enter the portals OF
our sacred temples. The wayfarer. the black
long way off are each earne nestly Invited to
partake at the fountain Of living waters.
The social rectitude OF our people and the
moral tone Of the community make this one
OF the most desirable communities In which
10 rear family under Christian influences,
surrounded as 1t is by the safeguard which
the correct life and exemplary character OF
our people set up.
One OF the chief advantages for children at
Abbeville lies In the excellence OF our school
facilities, which are not surpassed by any
community on the continent.
The building itself is OF modern architec
ture and includes all the known advantages
and needs for such an institution. Its beauty
OF design Its splendid lights; It's perfect ven-
tilation; Its thorough and complete warm
ing furnaces; its ample halls through which
refreshing Summer breeZes may come and
go; and It's full faculty Of painstaking teach
ers are at the services Of every boy and every
girl In the town. AL are asked TO come with
out money and without price. The school is
free to ALL no matter whether the scholar Is
seeking classical training, or whether be 1s
beginning at the A, b, G of an English educa-
ton.
Although our school has been In operation
less than year, yet It's good naIne has gone
abroad. and many prominent citizens In va
rious parts of the county are already plan
ming removal from their farms to the village,
and before the beginning OF another scholas-
tic year We expect to welcome some OF them
and themselves the best educational and reli-
gious advantages to be had anywhere In
South Carolina.
We have In a commercial and industrial
point OF view made much progress Within the
recent past. New business houses have been
opened and all the stores have Increased their
stocks.
The removal to this place Of the Tugaloo
Iron Works, the bringing OF the Allen Manu-
featuring Machine shops from another town,
and the establishment OF the railroad shops
of the g.. G. & n. are big victories for little
town like ours. Our splendid school and
churches, together with the bringing OF these
Industrial enterprises within our gates make
this for the mechanic and the artisan, for the
professional man and the laborer, for the mer.
chant and the gentleman or means one or the
most inviting places in the South.
Great ad van tage has been realized because
of the fact that this Is the relay station on the
Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railway.
There is not day in the year that we have
not many tralnmen in the town, and because
OF our central position many railroad men
who do work along the line make this head
quarters for their families.
Although new house Is to be seen going up
on every hill In the western part Of the town,
yet II Is a fact that nearly every nook and cor
ner in our houses IL crowded 10 It's capacity,
and although the town Is already full of peo-
pie, yet 1t is certain that In July or August
about fifty additional families will be knock
great question then is, how are we to accom-
modate them, unless q number of new houses
are built for them?
| We have no advice to give anybody In refer
ence 10 their lands, but we do hope that our
people will find 1t 10 their Interest To sell
building lots at fair prices. In our opi MON
the wise man will realize on his unprottable
hills. When this rapid and phenoTnnal
growth OF our town stops, then there may ben
| falling of in the demand for lots, and rs II
consequence the selling price will decline,
The probability is that II will not pay to hold
land now In the hope OF n higher price. The
chances are that he who sells now will be In
the future adJudged wiser than the mnn who
did not sell.