The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-10
CHARLESTON RENASCENT.
SOUTH CAROLlNA'S METROPOLIS is
GROWING RAPIDLY.


Many New and Important Enterprises
Being Started--Charlestor Capitalists are
Now Investing at Icme---Deep Water at
the Bar and Il Road to the West.
CHARLESTON, S. c., July Not
for many years has Charleston APP
peared SO full of hope, lie and energy
as at the present time and few OF our
Southern cities, barring only Atlanta,
where the preparation for the great
has created more than her
usual activity, can show greater
of new enterprises inaugural
ed since the first of the year
Ever since the accomplishment of the
'ong expected deepening of channel
leading across the bar and the safe and
easy access OF vessels drawing from
to twenty-five feet of wa
ter, Il more cheerful and confident
feeling has pcrmeated the commercial
members Of the entire community,
until even the most skeptical and de-
spondent of the pessimists, of whom a
few stragglers remain, are compelled
to admit that Charleston IS fast regain
ing her prestige and position among
the more progressive cities Of the
growing South.
Not only has the number OF the new
industries been greater than the ordi-
nary. but the nature OF the enterprises
the character. experience and standing
of the men engaging in them, and
above all the substantial encourage
ment and success they have met with
from the beginning. all furnish an II
dex to the remarkable improvement
and should supply the strongest IN
centives to continued and still greater
endeavors
While all this is true and more conld
be said without eXaggeration, it IS to
be regretted that a number of the
wealthiest men of the city, bondhold-
erS who are known 10 be worth from
a quarter to two millions Of dollars,
do not interest themselves in opening
up new enterprises that will tend to
keep the young men at home and give
to those who are now
to seek for occupation In
other and more lucrative fields. Nor
is it because of any lack of ability or
of industry that the young men of our
city fail to obtain the employment
that all naturally expect to receive
from those among whom they are
reared and associated, for it is fact
freely and frequently commneted
upon at the North that the young men
from the South almost invariably gain
merit and retain the unlimited respect
and good will of their
Northern employers, that they are de-
serving, capable and successful is full
ly proved by the splendid and finely
paid positions occupied in New York
today by Southern men.
But to return to the Improvements
in business circles so welcome and
in Charleston, it might be
as well to mention, not exactly as
proof, but merely as a guarantee of
good faith as it were, few of the new
enterprises alluded to in the begin
ming Of this correspondence. y nice
ly furnished, finely equipped and well
filed store was opened on historic
Hayne street in January last by
Messrs. Pringle Brothers for the pur-
pose of conducting a wholesale dry
goods and notions business. The firm
IS composed of Messrs. r. a. and
Walter Pringle, for many years OF
the firm Of Messrs. Johnston, Crews &
Co. Their encouragement has been
ample and their success satisfactory
and gratifying in the. extreme. The
firm of Messrs. Johnston. Crews q
Co. was reorganized and with the ad-
of Mr.. L. Chalmers Waring
has been doing a fine trade, thus
showing there is room for all and
more besides to do a good paying
profitable business, if managed by
energetic and experienced
men.
The next enterprise worthy of men
ton was the new telephone company
gotten up by Messrs. Bailey & Lebby.
The rapid success of this live house
in the wholesale machinery and build
ing supply business is a guarantee of
the success Of their present venture
also.
One of the more recent and equally
promising new moves is the opening,
of a model wholesale hardware house
bv Messrs. Daniel and Henry 1. Miller
with Mr.. William B. Foster, under
the name of the Miller Hardware
Company. These young gentlemen
have been identified with the whole
sale hardware trade Of this State and
of the South for many years. Their
unqualified success is beyond perad-
venture and their ability and expert
ence Of the highest order. Another
and very hattering project is the con-
opening OF a wholesale boot
and shoe store by four of Charlestons
most successful young travellers. The
are Messrs. Walter G.
Green, Joseph B. Drake, Samuel
Innes and w J. Mcleod. Their
handsome building is now in process
of being remodelled and rebuilt, with
a new and imposing front. The store
will be fitted up with one of the most
complete and elegant sample rooms IN
the South, an innovation hitherto un-
known among the shoe houses Of
Charleston. The name Of the new
company has not been made public
but ample capital has been subscribed
and the new enterprise begins life
with the promise of a long and sue
cessful career as the young men in
terested have a large following and
many friends among the shoe dealers
OF this city and State. The recent
advance in the price Of shoes has
made fortunes for those lucky deal
ers who have had full stocks and the
travellers in this line of goods have
had a picnic selling shoes in every
State this season.
1t is noteworthy circumstance
that all OF the jobDing houses of