The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-05-21
SARGE PLUNKETT.
THE SOUTH is THE PLACE FOR MAN.
UFACTURING INDUSTRIES.
Happy Homes of Country Fnctories-A WISH
to TrOup Factory, then to Fiat shoals,
the Old Home OF MRS. FELTON,.
For The Constitution.

have a good time and be instructed on the
visit We went last week and nave nothing
to regret, but everything to be thankful
| for. il visit to Troup factory was one Of
the pleasantries. Here we found content
ment among the working class that has
grown to be q rarity almost everywhere.
So different is the life of these operatives
as compared with the operatives of city
factories that Troup factory might be
called a blessing to man. a heaven wo-
men and little children. There is alb
sence of anxiety among the men; the
women are not careWorn and feeble, while
the little children play IN grassy places by
cooling streams and shady trees. no house
rent to be met, for the factory furnishes
the house, and they are neat little cottages
with gardens attached. No huStiing out
on hot streets for pitiful dinner but fresh
VeGeta bleS are IN their own patches, meat
at land and pans OF milk cooling IN the
spring branches. All these people can have
their and their pigs in the pen, raise
their vegetables and get their cloth at
wholesale factory prices, house rent is free
and firewood costs scarcely anything. then
why should they not feel biest and the
whole place smile with contentment?
The girls Who weave ut this factory took
my eye and Browns too with pretty
nomeSpun frocks, white aprons and d neat
ness and freshness that reminded US of
the Sundays church III the days OF the
confederacy. We spent more time looking
al the girls than at the machinery. don't
know how Old man has TO get before he
quits aumirnS Sucn girls as these, out It's
older Than me and Brown. There is no
night work among these operatives and the
little homes lighted and cheerful when
the days work is over. The cLilQren play
in the yards by mo0nshine, the old folks
smoke their pipes i'll peace, while the grown
up youngsters Sing ana court and dream
OF the happy days tc come. Me and Brown
nave often remarked upon the good looks OF
The girls who work in Atlanta and we nave
fingered along the streets to watch them
as they hurry TO and fro. They mighty
hard to beat, but they lack q freshness and
bloom which can only De nad by the cooling
streams ana SHADY groves 50 abundant over
the south. Along these streams and amid
these groves is the place Tor manufacturing
industries 10 settle down. There is no lack
OF room and a plenty of power to run md
lions of industries that are now crowded
ana jamned III much less desirable places.
Caeap lands win water powers, seasons
favorable, iVlnS cheap dld d heaIthfuinesS
distressing to doctors should cause 1t rush
from everywhere. How happy would it be
il tae capitalists everywhere would decide
that in the comforts and cOntentment OF the
home life OF the iaborlnS masses lies the
best 81 feguard TO wealth. and so to work and
dot the south all over with such "envIron-
mcnts," as are found at Troup factory
From what l know Of town life among
poor operatives, there is comparing
The advantages OF living as the people
of this factory Not single face did [
see that gave painful impression, and
not single young CIR. VINO must work
Tor q living did L fee. could be benefited
by going into the towns. The deportnent
or the people about this factory is such as
TO impress one that there many people
IN other walks CT life who could profit by
hooking upon therl ana initiating their man
: ners The owners OF this factory are in
lOuCn
stan dard of the place Not a person can
enter these possessions as operative
until his character has undergone the
most searching inquiry. If Bad characters
should get in by chance, they are removed
at once when complaint, with EVIDENCE, is
given to the proprietors. All in all, Troup
factory is model place and of just
such places wish TO see capitalists turning
their attention to the building of. The
south is full of just such natural powers
for the running OF machinery; just such
soping hills, shady woods and ripping
streams-plenty OF ROOM good water, good
health and the material for good morals
at hand. What a blessing to humanity
would it be if the manufacturing industries
OF crowded places could be scattered here
On our way back home we came by Fiat
Shoals on South river. This is another
place of the same kind, and the people
there love to speak of it as the childhood
home of Mrs. DR.. FELTON,. Mrs. Felton's
father. Major L4atimer owned Fiat Shoals
n long time ago, and there are old people
i. there who take pleasure in pointing out
the cid home of this lady, but they all
qonder-one old negro auntie in particu-
}r--why such lady married a man with
ICh a big A big nose is all the
,nplaint they bring against the doctor,
nd l heard him charged with that when
was running for office, and heard, also,
at ne was pigeon-toed, but he got
ire on election day, and there are plenty
people in Georgia who would vote tor
now if he were to come out, despite
Sc dra wbackg. The scenes at Fiat
>+ls afforded US much qualification and
we turned away Brown remarked that
e.1If.In ,N1.,1 bod
INTO the world woman of such a
80 character Brown believes that eli
environments, etc, has somewhat
with the formation of character.
o. "a e mentioned just these two places
Of my recent visit. There are
DIS of just such places in Georgia,
- in the sOutn-now idle. Like good
would be q comparison OF these
pl, as sites for manufacturers, to the
CROW districts of New england or to
cities anywhere. These crowded places
could be purged of much suffering and
danger by turning these idle water powers
of the south into places of usefulness and
homes of comfort and of virtue. 1t seems
such pity that people should be crowded
So when there is SO much room; such a
pity that women and children should be
pale and haggard when every brush of
e d boo pfe f2 b Is c WIN nf1
Gods pity-that one sweet innocent should
be besmirched by contact unavoidable as
matters now run. 1t is timea problem
worthy the best thought and action-for all
the world to join together in striving to
see what may be did for working people.
1t is time to contemplate their conditions
in crowded places and study out a way to
make them better. Like Brown I believe
that surroundings have something to
do with the formation of character.
We must rot slight Truitt, in making
mention of Troup cOunty's good things.
He is good man. and you will learn
something by being with him every time.
Last year he planted a quarter of an acre
in castor beans, because | wanted him to
try it. He pressed the oil from the beans,
put it in bottles and set away to surprise
me with the pleasant result. When he
went to get his bottles out the oil was
all gone. 1t was mysterious to all of us
as to how the oil got away but it is now
plain--solved by Truitt. Rats like oil, and
it was rats that emptiad Truths bottles
With their long tails, they soon draw
the oil from any bottle, if once they get
the stopper out. 1t is sight to watch a
big rat, Trutt says, he rears his hind
feet up the bottle, sticks his tail down
into the oil and then pulls it out and ticks
it. This is pretty good rat tale but
Brown it, too. This great farmer is
already preparing for Atanta's exposition
He says that he will have the finest ind-
vidual display at the fair ever got to-
eether on the American continent Every
product that Georgia soil can be made to
to the exposition in his display He is
almost as big q crank now on the planting
of the Unknown" pea as he used to be on
cotton seed. He says that hogs can be
raised with profit by this pea. / believe