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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31
THE OPENING OF BILTIMoRE.
Vanderbilts Beautiful House and
Grounds Near AsheviIle.

George w. Vanderbilt, the youngest
member of the great New York family
of millionaires, formally opened his
country home near Asheville on Christ
mas Day. All immediate members
OF the Vanderbilt family now in this
country were guests of "Biltmore
House." Among them were Mrs. Will
liam H. Vanderbilt, mother of the
owner Of Biltmore Mrs. Bromley, his
and Mrs. F. w. Vanderbilt, Mr.. and
Mrs. w Seward Webb, and their
daughter and son, Cornelius Wander
bilt and family, w. X. Vanderbilt, w.
ID. Sloane aud family and others. All
Of these persons travelled in their own
private cars, and brought with them
an army of servants.
For two weeks previous G. w. Van
derbilt had personally directed corps
of carvers, jointers, decorators and
florists In giving the finishing touches
to the great mansion, and it stands to-
day, in connection With its surrounding
park and outlying hunting and fishing
preserves, the most valuable as we'll as
the most extensive private property
in America. The house tract contains
5000 acres, upon which seventy-five
miles OF unrfValled driveways have
| alreduy Deen constructed, Wn1l6 the
hunting preserves embrace $1,000
acres, In which is included Mount
Pisgah, one OF the most prominent
peaks on Asheville plateau, which
boasts the highest point east of the
Rocky Mountains.
For two weeks provisions OF all kinds
have been arriving in carloads, confec
tions in hundred pound packages
game, fish, fowls OF all sorts, frozer
meats in carloads, all giving intima
tion as to the bountiful good cheer
which Is to be dispensed. At IL o'clocl
q Christmas tree was given all em
ployes on the estate, numbering be
tween 300 and 500. Barrels OF mistle
toe and wagon loads of holly and cart
loads of packages were put into thi
feature, and the banquet hall wa
crowded with eager, happy faces TO
mores than two hours. After tn
Christmas tree O bountiful dinner wa
spread.
While the company now at Biltmor
is made up exclr sively OF members Z
the Vanderbilt amily, the fesiyitie
will broaden towards the close of th
week, when O large Acompany OF M
VanderbllPs New w ends Vii /
his guestsf for perfl< J, 81
time will spent
e Il 1T. kt.xr~ = =.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31

The Seaboard Air Line has given
sixty days notice of it's intended with
drawal from the Southern States
Freight Association. Vice President
st. Johns says that the Seaboard with
draws because inc organization has
not been completed, ia that new ar
filtration committee has been elected
and there Is q deadlock over the mat
ter. He declares that some OF the
stronger lines are not disposed to treat
the weaker lines fairly. The with
drawal OF the Seabosrd will be apt to
lead to q rate war,
The fact that there will be two
moons in December for the first time
since Christ's birth, 1896 years ago, Is
the cause of some speculation among
those who are superstitious as "a
whether or not the event may not por-
tend tile second coming OF the Messiah
1T isa a common fact, but not gen,
orally remembered, that cock will
not crow unless be can throw back hli
head. tx cock is shut overnight ii
Ia low coop whore he cannot stretch
ok his neck, there wilt be no growing
the morning until the bird is re
\aed ..esrnrS...
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31
EARLY COTTON FACTORIES.
The Pioneer Was the Burnt Factory
IN Spartanburg COunty-Some Facts
About the Builders,

Maj. Wm Hoy in Carolina Spartan.
Mr.. Editor Il have been called on
for information with regard to the
pioneer manufacturers of cotton in
South Carolina. The first factory for
spinning cotton that l ever heard of
was what was sometimes called the
Burnt Factory. 1t was in operation
before 1916. At that time Weaver,
the proprietor Of the factory, was en-
gagged in a lawsuit with Mcdowell, of
Charleston. Mcdowell died that year
and his executor carried on the suit
and gained it. When the factory was
burnt, do not know. Weaver after
wards built factory on one of the
prongs OF Middle Tiger, in Greenville
County. The Hills must have come to
Spartanburg about 1917 or 49, Major
Henry came with the Hills and was
for sometime engaged with them in
spinning cotton on Tiger. He quit
the business and was lawyer in full
practice as early as 1922.
When the Rev. Thomas Hutchings
came to what is now called Pelham,
do not know. His was the first
factory ever saw. | recollect seeing
1t as early as 1922. Mr.. Hutchings
operated the factory TO some time near
1880, he took into partnership Josiah
Kilgore, who had plenty of capital, and
they made 1t a success.
1t might, Mr.. Editor, be OF some in
terest to some Of your readers to know
how the factory was operated. heard
Kilgore say that 1t took $4,000 a year
to buy the cotton. That would pay for
500 bales, which number is now spun
at Pelzer in five days. To turn This
twenty thousand dollars back into
cash they would have to transport
their thread by wagons to Western
North Carolina, East Tennessee and Q
great quantity TO the lower part OF the
State. They barGered quantity o.
their thread In East Tennessee for fla,
thread. They sold flax thread to the
shoe makers and had large amoun
woven In the country looms, paying (
skein OF cotton thread for weaving !,
!, yard OF cloth. Pelham, Mr.. Editor, 4
about sixty yards inside the Green
Vile line.
When Mr.. Hutchings sold his factor
on Enoree he built another at plac
now called Batesville, on large cree
J o short distance from what is no,
, Batesyille. He was /running tha
!. factory In 1888. The precise time h
, sold II, do not Nnow, but he-SwS
\ I'm t5ezrr,rr,zs' ,sopQ nl, III a
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31

A DISMAL FAILURE One Of the
most amusing stories of the day treats
OF mistaken philanthropy. At cer-
tain army post there was q sentry on
duty near the hospital. The surgeon
was preparing to go TO bed inside,
when he was annoyed and alarmed at
the sentfy's coughing. His expe-
rienced ear told him that the man had
q severe bronchial affliction, needing g.
strong remedy.
He debated awhile with himself, and
then going into the dispensing room,
compounded powerful mixture. This
he took outside to the sentry with i'm
structions to swallow it Immediately.
The man refused. The surgeon in
sisted and finally commanded the man
to take the medicine, which he did,
with much grumbling. Then the
worthy surgeon went to bed, pleased
to hear no more coughing.
Next morning to his surprise the
commanding officer sent for him and
said that the sentry had complained
declaring that the surgeon had forced
him to swallow something he thought
was poison. An investigation follow
ed aud revealed the fact that while
the surgeon was mixing the medicine
the coughing sentry had been relieved
and consequently the remedy hat
been given to the wrong man.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31
Guiana was discovered by colum-

---Guiana was discovered by Column
bus In 1498. Dutch settlements were
founded in 1880. In 1895 Sir Walter
Raleigh landed In the country to
search Sc oh for gold. British g. Gsians Cyl has
miles. In 1851 the population was
about $4,000. The English made no
permanent settlements In jts early
history. After various changcs Eng
land made an arrangement with the
Netherlands In 1914 by which they re-
gained possession OF the territory,
which is now called British Guiana.
They have enjoyed undisturbed posses
siop since that date. Sugar Is the
'aokfnl poEts,6sop' that country
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31
Rep0A&
MH. Turner or the |

Gratis CARRIED off the honors. The<+
passed to-day repeals the present taQ
law unit August l, 1898. 1t restorasl
sixty pelf cent. of the Mckinley rates}
On wool land lumber and carpets and,
makes d horizontal increase of the|
present rates in all other schedules,
except sugar or Is per cent.
The final passage of the tariff bill
was mulch confused and individual
counts 69 not tally with the official
record. Fhe vote as it will appear to-
morrow lin the Congressional Record
shows the ayes 227, nays 81.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31

The story is told of canny Scot,
who having recently lost his wife, was
receiving the ecommiseration of o friend.
I" You have great trial, Mr.. Camp
that, : was the reply. And then paus-
tnRT Hith a.shake of his head: Not
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31

A GREAT I
turers' RecorV
Southern ind 4
the GecisionS'
to award the\I
tleships to II
building and /
garded as a |
dustrial inti /
illustrates til
of Southern d
ability to undI
sections becaI
tages Of this j
The opening&
| 600 hotel jusb
| Va, followi1
Gently opeH
| cost over 81
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31

WONDERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI
A writer n Logman's Magazine says
Mississippi has in the course of ages
transported from the mountains and
high land within its drainage area suf-
ticient material to make4OO, 900 square
miles of n4w land by filling up an estu-
ary which, extended from its original
out fall tol the Gulf of Mexico for O.
length of POO thiles and in width from
80 to 40 miles. This river is still
pouring 4olid matter into the Gulf,
where it Is spread out in fan-like
shape ovcr an extended coast line,
depositing $1,000, 600 tons year, or
six times as much soil as was removed
In the construction of the Manchester
ship canal and sufficient to make a
quare mile of new land, allowing for
ITS having to fill up the Gulf to deatIh'.u
of aiU UhtNl YurlS. Soma .iIaz.zzzzz. ..-- ~
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31
A rARiFE MEASURE.
Revenue Increased 60 Meet I'll
Deficit-The Bill Passed by a Par

Revenue Increased go Meet d
Vote. a
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.--The Hot
today responded to the appeal OF, I
President by passing the tariff D.
the operation of which is ltmisG
two and half years aud
designed to raise $40, ,000o.O 700 #
relief of the Treasury. The =
will be passed Tomorrow. s
to-day was on party lines, &
exceptions. The Republics
voted for the bill, except HarS
Montana, who did not vote,
Democrats and Populists agt 4
save Newlands, Pop. of Neva
voted in favyr of the measure.
The special order under whiy
bill was brought to u vote at
this evening, after three and
hours OF debate, was ironclad
character and compelled the me
to adopt or reject it without
tunlty OF Offering amendments q
kind. Although there was the IT,
liant setting that usually accompa
q field day In the House, the de\A
lacked much of the spirit and W
which generally eharacterizes q pa
san battle in the lower branch of o.
gress. Even the preliminary skirnf fS
over the adoption of the rule, vii
precipitates the fierd5|
wrangling, passed off quietly. n
debate itself was participated sin j.
u, sne =, iea,as Leaders on sialss The -
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31

lit is said thet during one of MIR.
Moody's meetings q W. .
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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31

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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31

material carried on the
of America, or say for OF
penny per ton per mile
of half the total dist
would be no less q sum d 4
600 a year. Throughl6
thus formed the river
twis ting and turning by
bends until it extends iV
nearly 1900 miles, or MOI
the point to point lengt
continually
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-20

Liberty. There has been some difficulty
IN hndlng some one to take this part, but
Mrs. Hyde will do it full justice. The
Goddess OF Peace will be represented by
Miss Annie Darlington.
In i'The Specter Bride" DR.. ]. NJ. Dunn
will be the groom into whose arms the
specter lady will walk only to disappear
Immediately. Miss Mabel Hussey will be
the bride.
Miss Lulu Ayles and Asa Clark Hewlett
will represent Millet's "Angelus."
Miss Sullivan and Mrs. A. A. Dewing
will sing, Miss Sullivan's numbers being
Schuberts ''Serenade' and the solo in
cover the Garden WALL" She will not, as
has been stated, appear in this tableau
Mrs. Alexander Mclean, secretary of the
Woman's Exchange, will play the part of
a mother struggling to wash her small son s
face.
Mrs. Oscar White, who is member of
the board of directors of the exchange,
will pose as 1.-THE Bereaved Mother"
The Congregational Church orchestra
may furnish selections, though the music
has not as yet been definitely arranged.
Miss Pearl Hickman and Miss Merle
Francis will both be Little Red Riding
Hood" and the latter will also be 1.-THE
Shepherd Boy" into which the tableaux
"Medi tation" and Truth" will be dis
solved.
All is in readiness for the rehearsal to-
morrow and enthusiasm grows apace. The
first performance is on Thursday night.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-20
FROM CHURCH TO ARMY.
Miss Ada Beck Leaves Oak
land to Become a
SaIvationiSt.
The Third Army Woman Officer to
Desert the First Baptist
Church.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALL. !

eOS Broadway, August IL.
Miss Ada Beck, member of the First
Baptist Church of this city, took her trunk
to the Woman's Training Garrison of the
Salvation Army in San Francisco to-day
and will be trained for an officer. This is the
third young lady who has left the church
within month to become an officer IN the
army.
Miss Beck for long time was regular
singer in the Baptist Church choir and
was a general fayorite. She is about 10
years old and a well-educated young
woman. Her appearance is attractive,
and during her short attachment to the
Oakland corps she became great favorite
with the audiences on account OF her re-
markable voice.
The new cadet lived with her widowed
mother at Nineteenth and Grove streets,
and has held several positions in Oakland
as cashier in stores. Her mother was Bit
terly opposed to her joining the army, and
is more bitterly opposed to her becoming
an officer. The particular branch of work
that Miss Beck is anxious to undertake is
what is known as slum work. The other
two young ladies who have gone to the
Training Home from the Rev. G.. II.
Hobart church are Miss Fisher and Miss
Sheffield Mr.. Hobart is a very earnest,
aggressive and impressive speaker, and all
the young ladies who went into the army
attribute the foundation of their religious
convictions to his teachings.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-20

range several tableaux. but it was an easy
matter to find "Trilby," the principal
character she was to take.
Miss McKisick took offense at the publ
cation of her picture and concluded to
have nothing further to do with the phan-
tasma.
Now there will be two Trilbys. Miss Ida
LANCE, young lady who is considered
quite a musician and who is physically
well fitted to pose as the hypnotized SUBJ
ject of Svengali, will be the singing Trilby.
She will sing "Ben Bolt" as she stands in
the position Trilby took when on the stage.
1t was not made known whether she
would pose with bare feet. Miss May
Sharon will pose as Trilby as she was in
troduced into the studio of Little Billee.
Little Miss Ida Maloon will give Span
ish dance, which all who have seen declare
charming. A group from Company A.
under command OF Captain G. T. Poulter,
will pose in several realistic battle scenes,
during which Miss Pearl Noble of Ala
media will play several solos on the cornet.
A team of mixed doubles will delight ten
mis- enthusiasts 1t will be composed of
the Misses Ethel Pratt, Paula Rued, Colt
and Peres, Sam and Sumner Hardy,
Charles Bates and Allen Bowen.
Mrs. G. Q. Hyde Will be the Goddess of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-20

Davie is more available for commerce than
any of the pieces of land to which claim
has been made by the different holders,
and is therefore proportionately more en-
titled to it. Not only has 1t been filled in,
but it has been fully improved and SUBJ
stantial wharf built at the end of it, at
which vessels daily load and discharge.
Many thousands of dollars were spent in
the improvements and the wharf was con-
structed under great difficulties.
To prevent Davie from getting the piles
into the slip or from getting his pile
driver to work the railroad company sank
a huge barge across the entrance and
moored it with heavy chains. Some rail-
road men were put on board to hold it and
on several occasions bloodshed nearly re-
suited. But Dayie kept at work and built
his wharf and it is to-day one of the most
used and most useful sections of the water
front.
Judge Ogden decided that the city was
not entitled to recover those portions of
the water front that had been improved by
those who now occupied them and that
were held in good faith for the purposes of
commerce. The only piece of privately
owned land that is available at this time
for all purposes of commerce is Davies
wharf
II intend to make no claim to water
front property" said the Mayor this after
noon. 81 have right to do so, and l be-
lieve very substantial right on account OF
I have all along maintained that the
whole of the eleven miles of water front be-
longed to the city of Oakland and have not
yet changed my mind. would rather see
the city own it than private individuals,
but still have no doubt the decision OF
Judge Ogden is just and legal. I do not
think anybody in Oakland deserves their
holding any more than do. built my
wharf and every day my steamer calls and
loads and discharges and think that is
surely proof that it was improved for the
purposes of commerce.
considering the large amount of money
I spent down on the front think that ii
the city obtains title to the land l am en-
titled to some compensation for the i'm
provementsa as they will commence earning
an income as soon as the city acts on its
title. l have not given this part of the
subject much consideration yet, neither
can l say just now how much have spent
down there, but it is small fortune"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-20

of California Boating Association issued a
report TO-DAY showing their present hnan-
cial condition. needs and purposes. The
statement says that the boats now under
construction consist of one 25-foot pair
oar boat for training purposes; two 40
foot, four-oar, open Outraged boats, which
will be used for racing until the associa-
ton is prosperous enough to purchase
either four-oared or eight-oared racing
shells; two single outraged sliding seat,
working boats, for general use and well
adapted for racing.
The report shows further that an adj
ditional boat equipment would be in the
line of pleasure boats such as the associ-
alton owned before the fire. These boats
can be purchased for $50 apiece, and five
of them are necessary, making total out
lay of $500 necessary.
The financial summary is as follows:
Realized from insurance, $2447 so; debts
of the association, $735 IS; available for re-
building, Sill 60; boathouse, as now COM
pleted, $500; contracts for boats now being
built, $!040. Total, $166o; leaving bal
house and boats, $500 will be necessary;
for running expenses $40 per month.
University Records Broken.
The University Daily issued to-day the
following official report of the records
broken during the Eastern tour OF the
U. G. Athletic team:
100 yards, (old) 10 LIS seconds, Mays, '93,
new 10 seconds, Scoggins, '97; 220 yards,
(old) % seconds, Mays, '93, new % % sec
onds, Mays, '93, (new) 30 80 seconds, Koch,
go; 100 yards hurdle, (old) 15A seconds,
Henry. '93, new Is 3-5, Dyer, "a; 220 yard
hurdle, (old) &c 2-5 seconds, Bakewell. '95.
BAL 3-5, Dozier, 98; running broad jump
lold) % feet, Woolsey, '95,. new % feet
inches, Woolsey, '95; throwing 16-pound ham
mer, (old) 123 feet 81 inches, Edgren. 81,
(new) 126 feet, Edgren, 1877.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-20
LATEST OAKLAND NEWS.
The Grand Jury Ready to
Investigate the Tax
Shortage.
ANXIOUS TO RETAIN WENDTE.
Oakland Knights Templar Start on
Their Pilgrimage to
Boston.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALL
o08 broadway August 10. \

90S Broadway, August 19.
Theregular term Grand Jury was drawn
by Judge Prick this morning. After hear
ing some excuses, the following were
sworn; c. w. Damon, Solomon Kahn, b.
j.. Osgood, August Fromm, Peter COOK,
James P. Taylor, William Hoffschneider,
Don F. Miller, James L. Barker, James ID.
Corey, B. D. Gray, Richard Bowling Jr., b.
J. Holland, James H. Rourke Albert Wey-
mouth, Justus Held, E. S. Boswell, Joseph
Knowland, T. P. Carey. E. ]. Osgood was
selected as foreman by the Judge.
Judge Prick, in his instructions, dwelt at
great length upon the instructions which
he: said were to govern the jury IN Its de-
alterations, as laid down in the statute
books of the State. Outside of these specific
duties of the Grand Jury, Judge Frick
directed especial attention to the fact that
the body was required and had the power
of its own motion to investigate matters
connected with the administration OF
county offices that had become public
topics through the press and were subjects
of public rumor. He instructed the jury
that where embezzlement of public funds
was charged, the statute OF limitations was
not bar to proceedings.
q. The Judge in conclusion, said great
deal of time and money had been wasted
by Grand Juries going into matters over
which they had no jurisdiction. He re-
ferred very strongly to the duty of Jurors
to inquire into rumors of public matters
that had become matters of gossip or that
had been spread abroad by the newspapers
concerning maladministration in county
offices.
The first thing taken up by the Jury will
be the investigation of the shortage in the
Tax Collectors office.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-20
CRIMINAL OR CRAZY.
Cornelius Stuart Remembers He Has
Wife in England.

Cornelius Stuart Remembers He Has a
Wife in England.
Cornelius E. Stuart, the man who was
arrested Saturday for alleged tampering
with the marriage records, has confessed
that he has wife in England TO whom he
was married twenty-three years ago. He
says be deserted her about six years ago,
and did not know that a marriage in Eng
land was binding on man in this country.
Mrs. Ada Moore, the lady he married two
weeks ago, has not put up bond for him,
and has hired lawyer instead, and will
find out just what Stuart Is and what his
motive was for marrying her.
Stuart is held at present with charge
of felony against him, but investigations
are being made that may result in charge
of bigamy. He says he does not know
whether his first wife is alive or dead. He
contradicts his stories quite frequently
and for a long time swore that he was a
single man when he married Mrs. Moore.
The District Attorney has examined the
records aud feels convinced he will be able
to make out good case against Stuart for
altering public records.