The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-09-11
Abbevil1e's Steady Growth
Notwithstanding the Calamity How1er Abbevie is Stu on
the Upward Move-Many New, and Some OF hem
Handsome Buildings, Have Been Put Up in the Past
Two Years.
Two Years.

We are all acquainted with and nave heAIu
the calamity howler. He, who with a long
face and a melancholy look, and with a sad
tone of voice and frequently heaving sign,
who seems 10 be full OF pessamism from tne e
sole of his feet to the top OF ms neaa VIII hha te.
Won that the town is going down, thaI Aooe,
Vile viii soon be no good at all Will VAST
awav To nothing, will dry up on the stem; az
II were, and many other statements Vi HAe
strain. ,,,.,. or that kind of
,oit Fron, certain people since have oeen IN
Ahheyille. and after hearing llttle OF ~ .ue
other day got to pf puiIdng up and
movements in Abbeville during Cne pas.
twenty-eight months that nave oeen hSlng S
here and found that aS9eSalie a1d solid p sdvanee
, maA,n sS'r;nS he past little more than two
veaTs and I believe the readers OF the fIsss res
and Banner will think so 100 "hen 'heS iu'
ISL reaaae ,aen factory has, doubled In size. and
more than doubled in output anu wotkins
force. From about forty houses 10, n, tIe opu,d nd
atiSeS =, mere pess are eoubie large
Handsome two-story residence has peen oulIt
for the superintendent, and lour heat' COLL
modous six.room cottages d ge,ne lTr 1ee house COM
bined has been built by Mr. =. "A: Dongisss;
and little further. just on the other sue o.
the railroad, two neat littie noeses p Risnchei
and his SON Coming up this way towards
the ouare we come TO. the new, .handsome,
elegant residence Of Mr.. j. A. Harris, %nlGt, ;i
he has recently built in the place OF tne oiu
one torn down. Then on Magazine Hill Mr.
F. c. DaPre has built nice home: ;d.ns Mr, -, W.
White tore down the 0ia iamray ian nsati modern
up.to-dste six-room cottages. Mrs. tEonso n
has lust completed pretty residence OppO. pSer
site the A. X. P. Church. DR.. ": "a. we, 20
has built q neat, seven-room cottage neHs oaro W
his dwelling house. The Baptist parsonage
and the house next to It,, lived In anu 9"heo sa
by Mr.. c. E. Mckay, have both oeen aoue9 i,is ",
remodeled and repahireGa Genn nm has I built @ an up.
1o.date cottage, on the lot adjoining MIN.
-Four commodious dwelling houses bsSe oeen
up put in "Jerusaiemm;;r m,;re MO home me- I up on Main
Street next to MI. J. NJ: Hardep's, and tnrsner eg
on up the same street MIR. Free Cason ID nov nov
putting up pretty little res1aeV' Wrs Lees and
Col. ]. It. Robertson's, MIR. c. u. Brown s
building what they say is going 10 pe bhsi ~nen
finished the most hadsome resloenG ~ 5aor,a aou
Vile. over on Chestnut street TWO hanusotne .
commodfous residences have been put up and
are occupied by Messrs. T. NJ. Glenn ana MAR stn
Coleman. Fire, some twenty MOI nv M,I1ep' nsT'
but he has replaced 1t by much more nanu- M9s,
some structure. Fire also destroyed tne w WI ~,
der Block OF wooden sbanties, Wnlcn has ais9 .s9
the Msyor S. q. Thomson's home, but he In "a,
few weeks repaired all the damages me
old dwelling house little way up o.s lon
the Episcopal church. 9wnsa pss Saen o iorn away
and double brick store built 10 lts pisce. -
large double brick warehouse 1or tne sIorase
OF cotton and other merchandlse, mas IsSemt ennS
been put up near the Southern depot Ooroi 1eOunu
has been broken by Mr.. W. II. Long. Prepa[saii osi
tory TO the building OF first-class roller mill
with q capacity of fifty barrels DAY, anu az
ice-manu1acturing plant attaGnea, ,-eato aa ueii
trio plant has been built the streets wsil
lighted be arc lights as well as most ot W ,he .
stores, some of the churches ana many o1 Ine
private dwelling houses are lfghteo oy incan, ..c
descent lamps. A steam laundry ana oSe
works are in operation, doing thriving pus-
tness under the able management 9l wi.
Charlie Hammond. Ten thousand aoiiars t,,srs .
have already been subscribed ana la.nieuJe htns
factory will soon be built In our midst, Wnlcn
will no doubt prove to be paying investment
to the stockholders. A brick store 1as oeen
built on WASHINGTON street Sy m Nave mill a
large handsome brick church. me Methou'
tst Conference have put up neat IIang cnaP az,
ell at the cotton factory, and the FIRE banI
stantial frame church on Cherokee street. In
nv strolls about the town the other uay
counted between forty.h and nlty tnree,
four and fve-room eottages Inas ssrass nass SnI.
put up for and are inhabited by negroes, our
ing the past twenty-eight months.
II we.rnake a resume Of the whole thlng IN
brief statement, we see that during tne past
little over two years there has been added 70
Abbeville ll6 dwelling houses, three churches
seven stores, a laundry. public warehouse
an electric plant, and q roller mill, furnl-
ture factory and q macnlne shop arc w oe
built in the near future. .
Who is it that can truthfully say that Alb
beville. is on the downward ROAD OF ID aI
standstill? No one.
improvement and has been ever since the
year 1892. The census Of 1890 gave US, tblnk
about 1900. We have to-day 4OOO. HVed S
here some five months during tne year rxss 100.
and know the town Is three times larger
has made this great progress during the past
nine years, we should not rest sat1sned WIN
what has been done, but push on. go iorWaIu'
do twice as we'll in the coming nine years,
and 1t can easily be done If the business men
will Just get together, throw aside all PreJ9-
dces and petty ppS WorR talk
for and put their money IN the oulioinS 9t 2t
various small enterprises, or larger ones Il
they so prefer. 49,, .,
should not double In size and population by
1910. Elberton, Anderson, Laurens, Green
wood and Newberry, five towns within ra-
dius Of less than fifty miles around us are
more than apt to do 1t, and there is no reason
at all why Abbeville should not DO the same.
We have Just as many natural advantages
and Just as much money IN our % m1as6 1nns as any
There are fifty.six stores In AooeVllie, oi-
vided up as follows: Two furniture, one hard-
ware, three clothing, four dry goods and mil
Iinery, four drug, one shoe and hat, one leath-
er and harness, one dispensary, twenty
general merchandise, and nineteen grocery.
Besides these there arc three livery stables,
three wood working shops, three blacksmith
shops, an Oil MILL ginpery, two hotels an
innumerable number of boarding houses,
three restaurants, bakery, steam laundry,
waterworks and electric light plant, 9. A: l..
shops, q cotton factory, a planipg mill, five
white churches, five negro churches, two
Tanks, a photograph gallery. and many other
things too numerous to mention are In this
town Of 1900 population.
Abbeville with lis delightful, healthy eli,
mate, its good drinking water, its beautiful
shade trees, its magnificent lawns and pretty
flower yards, Its handsome residences and
kind, generous. hospitable, intelligent, cul.
tured educated citizens, Is one OF the best
towns In the State of South Carolina. and as
I said before, if the people will but just get q
little move onto themselves. will soon be the
very best in the whole State.
w. II. NJ.