The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-06-20

There we're q few cotton spinning
mills in operation, but the spinning
jenny, the caIding machine and the
loom with flying shuttle were almost
unknown in America. The century
was 13 years old before the first power
loom was set up-at Waltham, Mass.
A woman could spin from dawn to
dark from 40 to 60 knots of yarn.
Now, with modern machinery, one
operative can spin 10000 knots in
the same time.
Carpets were q luxury in 1900.
There were a few woolen carpets in
Philadelphia and New York; a few
ingrains, and here and there an i'm
ported Turkish rug. But these were
used for state occasions. The rag car
pet was the glory Of the housewife.
A few Administer carpets were made
in Philadelphia; but the century was
we'll begun before ingrains appeared.
Up to 1850 there was not power loom
for carpet-making in America.
Nota cast-iron plow existed in 1900.
The farmer used the sickle, the scythe
and the fail. His plow was home
made of wood covered with @ thin
sheet Of iron. Seeds were scattered
by hand; the hoe was the cultivator.
Grain was gathered by hand, threshed
on the floor during the winter, and
crushed beneath stone pestle into
-four, or ground in the neighboring
-four mill. The mower, the reaper
and the self-binder were unheard Of.
To go to New York from Philadel-
phia meant two days by the swiftest
stage; to-day it is done in two hours.
To go from New England to Oregon it
took Doctor Atkins eight months,
even in 1847. To-day one can go from
New York 20 San Francisco in one
hundred and two hours.
There was not mile Of railroad in
1900. The first line built was the
Baltimore and Ohio, in 1880. It was
fourteen miles long. Three years later
when the South Carolina Railway line
of 136 miles was finished, it was the
longest railroad in the world. To-day
in the United States alone there are
185, 900 miles Of railroad, or more
than third Of the mileage Of the en-
tire world. In 1888 there were but 16
passenger locomotives in the United
States: to-day there are 10000.
No steamboat existed in the world
a hundred years ago. Sailing vessels
crossed tie Atlantic ocean and took
from two to three months for the voy-
age. Buiiet-proof packet-boats, pro-
PEELED by sails, horses and poles, at
tended to most of the commerce be-
tween river towns. Passage from
New Orleans to Louisville cost 1926.
1t was not until 1907 that Robert Full
ton built his ."Clermont,' and the first
steam propelled boat in the world
steamed up the Hudson river.
The street car was unknown in 1900.
The century was third over before
the frst horse car appeared-in New
York city. Thestrolley car came only
twelve years ago. Now We have 49,
600 miles.of trolley roads in America,
running $4,000 cars.
The newspaper had hardly started.
There were about one hundred and
ifty publications Of all kinds in the
United States. Ahons ona-:entI. Of
them were newspapers, and were is
sued daily. Not one Of them sold
more than a thousand copies day.
To-day we have $4,000 different peri
odicals of all kinds.
There were 903 post Offices in 1900.
To-day we have 75,000-that is, in
America alone. It took letter six-
teen days 20 60 from Phildelphia to
Lexington, Kentucky; twenty-five
days to Nashville, Tennessee. The
cheapest letter postage was eight
cents, and to send letter more than
hundred miles cost shilling. Three
million letters and papers were then
sent in year. At the present time
the post-ofice. handles about 30,000,-
000 pieces Of mail in single day.
The telegraph was unheard Of. Not
until 1914 did Morse send his first
telegram. When the battle Of Water.
loo was fought, in 1916, unusual meas
ures OF haste were adopted to get the
news to London, where it was resolved
three days later. The guns of Dewey's
feet were hardly quiet before the re-
suit Of the battle was known in New
York. To day we have / ,00O, 900 miles
oe saloc,o ~, ~,;.a e, Ac,a,:oo orI IN.