Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1899-11-25

| remember that he was one of nv
fathers friend. "Who is your msyor?"
said |. "we have none; no mayor nor
alderman, no municipal corporation,
no marshal nor police. Captain
Smythe runs the town. Everybody
who comes here for employ ment is in
vestigated carefully. His antecedents
mast be good or he can't stay. We have
no lawyers nor editors; don't need
any. We allow them to come in and
loQk around" Did you know that
was lawyer?". said |. "Oh, yes; but
we learned that you had quit the prac.
tice and reformed, and so we invited
you"
dont see any negroes about here"
SAID |. NO, we don't want them.
There is few, but they live outside.
Some OF them cook and wash for us.
but Captain Smythe don't want us to
mix with them or depend upon them.
lie wants everybody to depend upon
themselves as much as possible" "And
so you have ruled out lawyers. editors
| 'oS'' Les Salu he, "and
there are no saloons or blind tigers or
cigarettes" "How about doctorsY"
asked. "Oh, of conrse we have doctors.
yes, we have two doctors and one dem
tist and four preachers, all select. and
one photographer" The company has
good public library and pays man
to keep it.
visited mill No. 4, an up-to.date
mill in all respects. 1t is operated by
electricity that IS generated two miles
distant at some falls OF the Saluda
river, This mill amazed me. No coal
and no steam. 1t is l2S feet wide and
62S feet long and is four stories high.
In one great room | saw 10000 spin-
dies turning. In two others were l.
400 looms. 1t requires LOO operatives
to attend TO this mill, and it takes 56.-
ooo oaies OF cotton for a years supply.
just think of il. The superintendent.
Mr.. Guy, had the elevator to stop
about half way up between floors so
that | might have a good view of the
machinery and the busy boys and
girls in this spinning room. This
room he called his children's room {.
not the children's room, but my chill
dren's room, he said. Scores of little
chaps not more than ten years old who
looked their love for him. They were
the brightest and healthiest children
l ever saw in a mill, and earned from
20 cents to 60 cents day. Many OF
the grown girls earn from 60 cents To
Sl.2j day, ami the average pay of
them all Is G2 cents. This is good
wages, for their work is easy and
healthy. The rooms are never too hot
or too cold; for the temperature is
kept uniform By fans and heaters i'm
the basement. No grease or fatty mat
Ter Is used on the machinery-nOthing
but pure mineral oil. These children
are required to leave he mill at GER
tain periods ana go to their public
schools, which are supported by the
company. ! visited the school and
fonnd 800 of the pupils gathered in
the large room to receive me and lis
ten TO brief talk about my old school
days ard some words of encourage
ment to cheer them up. Mr.. Guy, the
eilcleut superintendent of No. 4, is an
Augusta man. and has been in the
mill service for forty-four years. In
the packing room | observed that all
the bales are marked to Shanghai,
China, and | heard that China is the
best customer of southern mills. That
government used to buy from New
England and old England, but they
buy all their goods by weight and not
by the yard, and in course of time
John Bull and the Yankee got to mix
ing white clay with the starch to make
the cloth weigh heavy, and so they
turned their trade down south, where
people don't adulterate everything
they made to sell. Said Mr.Guy to me
"There is no sizing in these goods ex-
cept that made Of pure boiled corn
| starch"
Nearly all the capital in these great
$3.50 TO $1,000 A YEAR.