The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-12-18

from its own yarn and spins and sells
$4,000 pounds of yarn week in ad-
dition. Every day it loads three
freight cars with its product Of the
day before, shipping most Of it direct
to the far East. 1t has 1850 steam
horse power and 1900 horse power
from its water supply. The steam is
used exactly as it may be needed to
supplement the water. The mills have
not lost an hour, have not had to wait
an hour, during all the unprecedented
drought of the fall and winter of this
year.
The old pioneer mills are thoroughly
equipped, prosperous and expanding
continually and are the centre Of a
happy, healthy and growing commun-
ity. Besides its good schools Pied
mont has unexcelled church facilities,
the Baptists, Methodists and Presby-
terians each having large, handsome
and comfortable church buildings on
land given by the company. The
Presbyterian Church, just completed,
is really beautiful structure, finished
in hard wood and designed after the
latest models for such edifces. The
other congregations are nearly as well
equipped. The Piedmont company
long ago built union church, but the
congregations have outgrown that.
A library of 1890 volumes, estab-
lished and kept up and constantly
added to by the company is free to all
employees. tits the pride and special
care Of Mr.. Rowell, foreman Of the
cloth room, who watches with keen
pleasure the steady growth Of taste
for reading, which is attested by the
we'll worn appearance Of many OF the
books.
With No. at work there will be
labor for many more hands, consump-
tion for many more bales of cotton, g
large increase in the amount OF money
brought here from abroad to be distri-
buted among working people: farmers
and stockholders. The vast machine,
the great aggregate of power Of water
and steam, Of big, tireless wheels,
whirling shafts and betting, Of hun
dreds Of busy hands and countless in
tricate mechanisms, the steady river
of white cotton tumbling into the
mixers in the Easements, sucked up
to the floors above to be drawn out
into endless ropes, passed through
series after series of spools, spouts
and twisters and then as thread put
on the looms and woven into cloth to
be rushed into the waiting cars-all
this, and all the ,rami6cations OF a
business Of millions Of dollars moves
SO smoothly and easily that Colonel
Orr, who is at the head Of 1t all never
seems to be in hurry or to be bother
ed over anything and has the oppor-
tunity to give his attention to the
smallest details Of work and manage
ment and to take special interest in
the welfare Of all tie Piedmont opera
tives, from the smallest children in
the schools to the veteran Of years OF
service.
It is well disciplined and oficered
army, well equipped establishment
from wheel pits to skylights, and it
has been so thoroughly adjusted that
it works almost automatically.
A modest monument Of marble
stands in conspicuous place in the
town of Piedmont. 1t was erected to
the memory Of Henry Pinckney Ham
nett, the founder Of Piedmont, the
man who gave the first impetus to an
enormus industrial movement which
has reyolutionized conditions in this
country and is destined to have yet
more far reaching results. AS mat.
ter of fact, mills Nos. 1, 2, 3 and and
| Nos. 5, 6 and as they come in their.
due time and order, and many other
tall chimneys and great masses OF
brick and machinery in Piedmont,
South Carolina, will be monuments to
Henry Pinckney Hammett. the found
er of Piedmont and pioneer Of the
manufacture Of cotton on large scale
in this section. His work has fallen
into strong hands and is being carried
forward and steadily expanded and
extended, but the beginning OF it will
not be forgotten.