The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-07-04
THE GAME COCK CITY.
Editors Pleasant Impressions
Of Sumter.
A MANUFACTURING TOWN.

The visit of the editor of the Times
70 Sumter on Tuesday was the first
opportunity that he bad enjoyed OF
| looking over that city fer nunosr OF
years. The last view vas very gratifJ-
!ns. l. is credit to tie state to have
such ;owus as Sumter. It is pretty
| town, we'll laid CT, With shady streets,
handsome residences, betokeuing wea,h
comfcrs and retirement The business
houses are we'll built attractive, snowy.
The maia street is uacadamized and is
handsome sno:oughfare. The stores
keep we'll selected stocks of goods we'll
displayed aud give evidence of large
trade of high GLASS.
There are few towns Of the szs of
Snm,er or very much larger that can
boast the aunber Of diversified indus
tries that Sumter can.
There is large cotton mill ID opera
ton aud another about to start up, two
telephone factories, a coffin factory,
three Ice factories, golf stick factory,
big cotton seed oil mill, brick yard a
nuuber of large wood working mills
and namber OF machine shops and
foupdaries. All Of these enterprises
sell goods manufactured from the p.o-
duce of the country, in the markets OF
the world and draw the wealth Of all Sec
,ioDs to Sumter, giving employment to
hundreds Of hands and distributing a
great deal of money 10 the city.
Sumter has the Atlantic Coast Line,
the Southern aud the Wilson system Of
railroads. which gives her unusual rail
road facilities for the distributioa of
goods aud the sccomn odatlon OF the
trade of the surrounding country.
Samter's business men are alive
to their own interests and they know
that the dollars that are put in the
bulldog up OF industrial life OF the
town are the dollars that ere coming
back to them with the most satisfactory
ratio of increase.
A magnificent system Of watervorks
is 10 operation 10 the town, which
affords ample Ere protection. No
engines are used at the FIRE. the water
being thrown from the hydrauts over
the top of any building in the :owo.
aud OF one occasion there vas very
dangerous looking fire which was
fought by seven streams from as nauy
hydran;s.
Sumter boasts a 6pe Opera House
which cost the city nearly forty ,housaod
dollars. has which would be an osna-
mea: to any city 10 ,ae State. Sumter
is growing fast. Her postal receipts.
which IS tie thermometer Of trade.
speak 10 no uncsrtaio voice Of :he
progress of ,ae tovo. Tais c4oe has
jass been raised TO the second class.
which dis,lac!iou is enjoyed BY bat Few
Offices IN the State. The good people
Of Sumter will soeo have their mail
deliys.ed a: their doors. which always
follows e5en al Office is raised to the
second class.
Sumter las fous good newspapers,
The Daily Item, which has been doing
a good work for the towu for six years,
edited by Il. G Os;ceo !; The Herald.
a 6sss class weekly edited by j. NJ
knight, The Watchman aud Sousbrco.
the old reliable, edited by N. G. Osteen
aud the sprigbtly Freeman edited BY
W. c. Ivy.
What Sumter is sbe has been made
by tue enterprise of her business men,
who we're not conteot to rest satisfied
With the barrow sphere in which they
we're moving, aud they began that
policy Of commercial aud industrial
expansion that has pat ,ha: city in the
froas racks of the towas of the State
There is much in Sumter that the
editor of The Tines would be glad to
see duplicated IL Florence. AID ws Say
that uithous treason to Fiofence, Ter we
thipz The: there are maoy things 10
E iorepce that Sumter might With ad-
vantage adopt. and thus, by borrowing
ideas AID plsos from each other, these
towns of Toe No.theas. Carolina will
become The greatest :owas Oh earth, for
they ere made up Of the creates; people
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