Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-10-22
DULL TINES, ETC.

During the past few weeks, with the
war over, cotton low, trade dull, and
very little stirring generally, many of
the newspapers have been hard pressed
to get up their usual amount of fresh
readable matter. The editors, of
course, seldom admit such conditions !;
but the situation sometimes shows up
in the character of their productions,
as for instance, the following from the
Rock Hill Herald, of Wednesday,:
In recent issue of his paper, the editor
of the Yorkville ENQUIRER gave a de-
scrption of the mile or more of macad-
amized road leading out from Yorkville
i'm the direction of Charlotte. 1t also
published good picture Of the section.
The strangest thing about THE ENoU1R-
ER's publication is the fact that although
the merchants of Rock Hill originated
the very plan that Yorkville copied, and
completed, not two miles, but eight miles,
of macadamized road in the Rock Hill
community, THE ENQUIRER was not falr
enough to- even allude to this fact; but
palmed 'the Yorkville plan" Oft on its
readers as original. Listen to what 1t
says:
Here follows an extract from the ar
ticle on the Charlotte road, recently
published in THE ENQUIRER, and ex-
tensively copied, and The Herald con-
tinues
Once THE ENQUIRER stated that its
editor was as we'll acquainted with the
affairs of Rock Hill as was the editor OF
The Herald. If so, he must at once rec
0gnize the above as correct statement
| of the movement in Rock Hill to improve
our road Except as to the period OF CON
tract) which resulted in giving us eight
miles of ''fine macadamiZed road" when
there was not foot i'll the nelghbornood
of Yorkville, and understanding this so
well, it is little peculiar that THE En-
QUIRER has failed TO acknowledge lndeot-
edness to Rock Hill for the "plan" which
has enabled Yorkville to construct SUCH
All excellent highway. Rock Hill does
not object to any part OF the county
Copying" her plan, but THE ENQUIRER
knows that it is ethical to give due credit.
Remembering, as we did, that full
descriptions of the building of the
macadamized roads in the vicinity Of
Rock Hill, with due credit to DR.. T. A.
Crawford, the original promoter OF the
enterprise in that section, were pub
lished in The ENQUIRER at the time,
when we first read The Herald's re-
marks, we could only account for them
on the dull times theory suggested
above. But in running the matter
through our minds, another solution
is suggested. We remember reading
sometime back about man who took
refuge from a thunderstorm by crawl
ing into a hollow log. After the storm
was over, the poor fellow found that
the water had so shrunk the log that
he was unable to get out. He was in
very bad fix, and thinking that he
would probably die there, his mind
began to run Oh the many little things
of which he had been guilty from time
to time, until presently he was small
enough to crawl out without difficulty,
1t is possible that the editor of The
Herald was thinking of this story when
he penned the comments published
above. Whether he was or not, if he
should ever get fastened in a hollow
log, a very few seconds reflection on
them is guaranteed to give him certain
rescue.