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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-25

pleasure it is to attend to every medica!
want Of the operatives at the expense OF
the mill company.
The nanagement is desirious Of having
the very best class of operatives to live IN
their village and to work in the mill. AS
the mill is just starting up this enormous
plant, the company win require seVera!
hundred families to give it the full num-
Der of operatives. The mill, therefore, IS
offering to receive green" help and to
teach them 10 work in the factorH.
Anyone desiring to investigate with a
view Of accepting this offer, can get all the
information, such as regards to wages or
the different kinds of work, etc, by writ
ing to the superintendent Of the Olympia
Mills, or any of the mill officials, at Colum-
bia, S. c.
Columbia offers a great many advantages
TO people moving into the city. Its fine
churches and fine schools give to those
persons living in Columbia advantages not
possessed by good many other localities.
The mills are all located on the street
car line, making them very accessible to
any part Of the city.
A good many families in the past have
moved in from their farms TO work in the
factories here. They SEEM to be perfectly
satisfied and in many instances have bet
tered their condition considerably.
The mill officials will be glad to commu-
n:cate with any parties desiring to come to
the mills for the purpose of working in
them, and are satisfied thai the opportun!-
ties are such as TO satisfy them.
The story Of the Olympia Cotton Mil is
one of intense interest to every ICarolinian,
and when one thinks it will be realized
how very Intimately the cotton mills OF
the State are asAciated with the industrial
development Of the State.
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paper man on the editorial staff Of the
New York Times, visited the South. and
made a careful study Of the mill situation,
and in one Of his letters recently to his
paper this New York writer had this to
say, among other things: ..ss:
"While the owners and stockholders are
making money they are conferring per-
manent blessings upon the people. AS in
other towns where new mills have de-
manded increasing numbers Of operatives
shops have started to supply the needs Of
! operatives or, those who were employed IN
new industries called forth because Of the
coming Of laboring population. Stores
have been obliged to carry large and more
varied stocks. There is more travelling
by rail. It is matter of daily occurrence
that among the passengers who overcrowd
the trains of the Southern Railway there
are inquirers arriving at various points
to look over the land with the view Of set
Ting, either as persons already concerned
in cotton manufacturing or hoping 10 De-
or tradesmen seeking a new market.
.The country is beautiful. It IS charm
ing to the eye; it Is naturally heaItafut,
and in the towns will be more neallaLui
with little criticism and sanitation. Ine
summers are long and the winters oriet
and unusually mild.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-25

and here IS an interesting summary IN
one of his letters:
"In passing through a mill settlement
some weeks ago stopped at the home OF
.. niddle-aged man who had five children
working in the mill. He lives in a six
room. two-story house. met him some
distance from his house; I said: want
to see how you people live. would Ike
to &C il some home where several children
live He started in a jiffy and SAID as
he walked Come and go in my house.
! have five children, but they are in the
mill. Entering the house from the rear
we went through the dining room into
bed room, ard then into the parlor. The
old gentleman was proud Of the parlor.
He threw back the windcw, curtains and
pointed to the large pictures on the wall.
They were paintings from photographs OF
his children. The floor Of the room was
carpeted and in one corner was an organ.
From kitchen to garnet the house was
clean. When mine host had seen me to
the door he said: 7 farmed on rented land
before came here, but could not feeo
nv family there now. I like the life
here. I like my employers. Tney treat
US we'll if we behave in like manner TO-
ward them. # we risbehaTe they turn
us out and get others in our stead. When
I moved here the superintendent warned
me against drinking. He said that ne
would have none but sober help. he
meant what he said, for have not seen
a drunken man on the bill since came
here two years ago. My children are IN
good health and seem satisfied. We are
all contented. All Of us belong to the
Church and attend regularly.
.I went from house to house and heard
the same story. Indeed, there IS no prob
lem at the best mills between capital and
labor. for the mill owners and operatives
dwell in harmony
The various religious denominations in
the mill sections are doing great deal Tor
the factory element in the South. Preachers
call on the operatives and their families
at thelr homes. CAufCleS eiS DNAAS ~
preaching and Sunday-school conducted at
nearly every mill. Within the last five
wears in the South much mas been done
for the betterment of the condition Of the
cotton mill help. The work IS till going
on.
NO one who knows the facts, as any
one can learn by going to the mills. can
doubt that the people who work in the
cotton mills of the South are far better on
| in every way than ever before.
Such are the conditions IN all the Caro-
| lima mills"
Mr. E, G. Dunnell, an experienced news
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-25
HOST MODERN And Up -FO-DATE MILL
PLhNf IN FHE COUNTRY.
Every Convenience and Comfort
offered Mill Help-A Happy
and Contented Family.

The climax of cotton mill. development
in this State for the century just closed
was reached in the Olympia Cotton Mill. 1t
stands out conspicuously as the highest
type Of mill construction in this country,
and is pronounced by competent mill 2eo-
pie to be the most complete, up-to-date and
promising cotton manufacturing plant in
the country. It represents the type of
Wbaley mills, all Of which are successful.
It IS without doubt the largest cotton
mill under single roof in the entire South
eru States, and competent judges announce
that it is the most complete mill plant in
this country. and 10 nation is ahead Of
this country in the cotton mill business.
People hear and know that the Olympia
.MgI IS the largest IN the South, but they
nay not know, nor do they think, Of what
combinations go to make this magnificent
structure what It is,
Think Of single cotton mill consuming
f5,oM bales Of cotton.
It VIII employ, when all machinery is in
stalled and in operation, more than l,2eo
able-oodied operatives.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-25

Il has the most modern and improved
machinery and, with the new and up-to-
date machinery, operatives can readily
earn more than they would IN old plants
with antiquated equipment.
It has the best class and most up-to-date
homes for its operatives.
# Is on the direct line Of the Columbia
Electric Street Railway, and within a few
minutes ride Of the heart of the city.
II is near enough to the city to give all
the advantages and pleasures Of the city
OF Columbia.
It will build a $4,000 school building for
the children OF IT'S operatives and support
+be school Of its own accord and out Of its
own funds.
II offers the best school and church op-
portunities to its help.
II is mill operated, owned and man
aged by South Carohnians, who have the
same sentiments, purposes and feelings as
those who do the work.
II has lavisaed money in installing the
most thorough sanitary arrangements in
the mill and its village.
It employs mill physician, whose Ser
vices are at the call Of employees without
cost.
The wages are full and the piece work as
an other classes permit better incomes
than usual, because Of the improved facil-
sties and new machinery.
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"Rut If is not alone in the coming OF the
trolley. the expansion Of the shops, the
paving of streets in towns, the sanitation
of ali places Of large population, the SEN
sstion of earning money with a regularly
and certainty never before enjoyed III 'He
section, that occasion for rejoicing IS
found in South Carolina. Attention was
directed by a thoughtful ana ooserFaHe
citizen to a. sociological phase OF the IN
d~stria1 developuent that is most salts
factory. and that it seems pity coulo no.
hn extended in some way to the State Oh
Kentucky. IN.
when Columbia began to build mills
and the oLeration Of the mills had maze a
nerceptible drain upon the most conVeh-
ient and willing class Of the population
that was fitted to work in the mills, ths1
drain was felt a little at points more OF
less remote from Columbia Men ana "o-
men who had yearned fof opporIuHity "
Get money without digging or hoeinS 1or
= n,oved from the foothills into town.
| s-st into places vacated by the people VINO
.oovad earliest and afterward, as the
..i,Is hogan to rise nearer to the nils, INTO
the manufactures elsewhere.
EFFECT OF PROSPERITY.
"Nost OF these people were OF the real
hardy nountaineer sort, with tne sa-Ie s
soft deliberate courteous address that IS IS
characteristic of all the moCntalnee!s ~
the Virginias. the Carolinas' tennessee ~
KentuckS, They brought with them sta4-
wert frames, simple appetites and igno-
rance Of letters. But they were not al
together at fault for that. They had not
heer treated as wards Of the State. 4nete
was a moving down from the mountain
districts into a region where there were
schools and stores and churches OF a
oro,ld but earnest and ambitious multi
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-25

The generating plant consists Of three
Mcintosh & Seymour engines, each Of
normal rating of 1,6oO-horse power, capable
Of developing a maximum OF 2,0Oo-horse
power, directly connected to alternating
current generators.
The engines are Of the vertical cross
compound condensing type, with cylinders
20 and IS inches in diameter, and stroke
of 42 inches. The cylinders are steam
jacketed, and reheating receiver is placed
between them.
PLENTY OF PURE WATER :
The water supply for the mill comes
from springfield reservoir of some S0o,@o
gallons capacity, which also supplies the
mill village with its drinking water.
The mill is heated by two 1A-foot electrl-
caliy driven Sturtevant fans, blowing air
through horizontal ducts along the front
and rear walls Of the mill, as shown in the
half plan and section Of the mill build
ing.
The mill architecture is iraposing and
the structure is beautiful. Considerable
money was expended in beautifying the
building and every possible convenience is
provided in and around the mil. The
closets and wash rooms are! finished in
marble and mosaics, and elevators are
at hand for the operatives. A 5,ON-pound
| Schane bell is in one Of the towers and
| with beautiful tone strikes the hours, and
in the second tower there is a standard
time clock.
The officers of the mill company are:
President, ". 3. Smith Whaley.
Vice president. W. A. Clark.
General manager, J. S. Moore.
Secretary and treasurer, W. H. Rose.
Superintendent, F. S. Barnes.
A SUBJECT OF PRIDE.
The mill was constructed on the plans
of ". B. Smith Whaley & Co, the most
| successful mill engineers in the South
This firm has left its deep imprint on the
industrial development Of the South, and
especially in South Carolina. In a recent
article it was stated that: "The record
Of the firm is that of 5Ss,676 spindles, l4,56l
looms and $S59o,OOO capital in a working
period Of seven years, unapproached by
any mill engineering firm in the South
and should be subject Of pride to South
Carolina and to Columbia, as well as to
the members Of the firm
When We consider that in 1880 the entire
State Of South Carolina contained only
2S cotton mills, with 1S1.74S spindles, 13,41s
looms and s4,0s4,Co0 capital, against this
aggregate for one young South Carolina
firm Of 5S9,G76 spindles, 1860 looms and
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-25

fourth floor to spinning. Communication
between the floors is also afforded by two
Otis electric elevators driven by al:ernat-
ing-current motors
The mill will operate 10000 spindles and
the latest Draper looms have been puc into
the mill. The total number Of looms to be
operated Will be 400 4O-inch looms.
The electric equipment at the mill COM
poses everything that has been construct
ed by electrical or mill engineers. 1t is by
odds the most thorough that has yet been
undertaken.
BY using electricity the cost Of the mill
buildings was reduced by 10 per cent on
account of the absence Of heavy transverse
walls through the mill, necessary for the
head shafts at the beltway, with the belt
and shafting system. SiNty-oae per cent
Of the shafting cost was saved by the use
largest in the building. Six;y-six per cent
of the cost Of the belts and ropes was
saved with the electrical system. The saw
ing due 20 these th-ae items was sufficient,
it is said, to more than pay for the cost
Of the electrical equipment OF the mill.
Part Of the electrical generating plant IS
used to light the town and also to run a
street railway. The maximum power re
quired by the mill is about 3.sGo-ho-se
power:
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-25

The plant IS operated throughout with
electricity. The expectation is to soon offer
electric lights to ali Of the operatives for
their homes.
The pictures indicate the neat and at
tractive homes that are provided for the
help.
ABOUT THE MILL BUILDING.
Something Of the giant mill Itself: The
mill building Of the Olympia Mill is 5as
feet inches long and Isl feet inches
wide. and contains four floors and base
ment, each story being IS feet: high. "a
There are two towers about q by 2 feet
and lss feet inches high, containing the
stairways and the tanks for the sprinkler
system.
Adjoining the rear wall Of the mill at the
middle is a machine shop and in the rear
OF this IS the engine and boiler rooms. The
engine room being 12O by so feet, and the
boiler house l4o by 20 feet in pl;:n. In the
rear Of the latter is the building for the
mechanical draft plant. The first floor Of
the building is devoted to opening bales
and weaving; the second floor to weaving,
slasaing, spooling and warping; the third
to carding, drawing and tapping, and the
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-25
sS,5oo,0Oo capital, the extent Of its con-
structive achievements may be better
realized.
THE GENIUS Of W. E. SMITH
EWEALEY


realized.
THE, GENIUS or w. E. SMITH !.
WHALEY.
In Columbia alone It has planted $4,000
spindles and 4S40 looms, or more than the
whole State had twenty years ago, and
the capital employed in these mills $, 1oo,-
o0G-is only less than that required for
the smaller number Of looms and spindles
in 1880, because Of, the greater economy
possible now. in puilding. the best mills
It is proper to add that Mr. Whaley is
the president Of all but the smallest Of
these four Columbia mills which he has
planned, and which, with $4,000 spindles,
1920. looms and sS,Ooo,o0O capital, represents
the largest cotton manufacturing invest
ment in the: South and one, Of the largest
in the United States.
| An example OF his far-sightedness and
quick business perception may be noted
in connection with the electrical instaua-
ton OF the Olympia Mills. AS soon as the
electrical transmission of power had been
| definitely determined upon for that mill
| and its location determined, he at once
purchased the existing electric car lines
of the city, also the electrical lighting
business, and will furnish the power and
current from the Olympia: also provide
electricity for the other mills. The re-
| sultant economies will not only be factors
| ;r ~ of tI,a
lighting systems, but will also add an
apprecIable: net income to credit Of the
MILL ....ss
oLYMPIA's GREATNESS AcKNowL-
- EDGED.
Last Aprii, w.aen The great Olympia Mill
was started UP, it was examined by a
number Of the leading cotton mill officers
in the country men who lead in the cotton
| Industrial movement. One Of these was
! Capt Manning, Of the 1Amoskeag Company,
who. said: ''The Olympia was the finest
structure of the sort he had ever seen.
He was glad the Olympia was not a COM
! petitor Of the Anoskeag Company"
Mr. Richardson, of Massachusetts, said
! that the Olympia Mill was. in his opinion,
the finest cotton mill in the world-the
| finest in architecture and equiDment-and
| he said this with a full realization of what
he was saying, as he was connected with
New England mills.
Not long ago Mr. H. E. c. Bryant
| made a trip through the mill territory
and made disinterested and impartia! in
I quiries and wrote series Of articles on
the result Of his inquiries in the various
mills in this State and North Carolina,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-25
THE OLYMPIA MILL
Hl8 LARGEST Cotton Factory
Under One Boot.

More than Million Dollars Invested
in a Great Enterprise-One
Plant Operating More than
100, 900 Spindles = The
Opportunities Offered
Unskilled and UR-
trained Help.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-05
Practically Regarded as Already in
the Field.
WANTS TO BE GOVERNOR OF IOWA
is Known to Have Made the State
ment That He Would Enter the
Field if Major coneer Was Not a
Candidate.

Des Moines, March 1.-Col. David
Palmer is practically in the field Cor
governor. AT least his position is so
regared by politicians and by the 9TH
er candidates. Colonel Palmer made
the statement several days ago that
he was waiting until he knew definite
iy about the Conger movement before
announcing what he intended to do.
To others, however, it is known that he
has admitted that he will enter the
race If Major Conger does not. Both
Mr. Cummins and Mr.. Foster regard
the Conger matter as closed, believ-
ing Mr.. Conger meant what he said
in his cablegram and that when he
comes back to Iowa he will not allow
his name to be mentioned in connec-
ton with the governorship after look
ing over the situation and listening 10
the advice of his friends.
In view of Colonel Palmer's state
melt that he will enter the field If
Major Conger is not a candidate, ana
with Conger already out of the race,
Colonel Palmer is now regarded as
positive candidate.
The statement by Colonel Palmer
that he will enter the race if Major
Conger does not will tend to influence
Conger not to go back on the word he
has already given. Minister Conger
has two very close friends already in
the race, both of whom have not from
the first believed that he would be a
candidate, and after pledging his
word that he would not enter it is I'M
reasonable to suppose that he even
contemplates violating such pledge.
Colonel Palmer, however, refuses to
authorize his announcement at the
present time. 1t is thought that he
will do nothing until Minister Conger
returns to Iowa and he has an oppor-
tunity to have heart to heart talk
with him.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-05
ARE ALARMED.


NO one conversant with the situa-
ton will deny but that the dissension
in the ranks of the local democracy
has reached point where the leaders
are alarmed to the extent that they
are using every means in their power
to win Mayor Phillips over Just what
argument they use, except that of par
ty loyalty to induce the mayor to face
about is not known. The mayors
friends say that the tactics used by
the ring were disreputable and that
nothing can wipe out the insult but
the defeat Of the machine. They say
they would rather many times over
that such rebuke should be admins.
tered than have the ring triumph and
set a precedent for disreputable poll
tics in local democracy.
The mayors friends are seriously
considering him as candidate and
are still laboring with their favorite.
The chances are that they will not
succeed but the wound does not seem
to yield readily to the treatment to
which it has been subjected.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-05
TROOPS GUARDED NEGRO.
Hundreds of Citizens, Bent on Lynch.
ing, Fooled by the Troops.

Carrolton, ILL.,, March 1.-Guarded
by four companies of the state militia
to protect him from a mob determined
on lynching, Albert Shenkle who, De-
cember % last, criminally assaulted
the sixteen-year-old daughter of
Charles H Giller of Carrolton, was,
early today, taken from the county
Jail at Springfield, placed on a spe-
cial train and brought to Carrolton.
Thru the streets lined with hundreds
of spectators he was hurried to the
court house. An hour after the ar
rival of the train, Shenkle had plead
ed guilty, been promptly given an in.
determinate sentence by Judge
Thompson and was on his way to the
southern Illinois penitentiary at Ches.
ter.
Altho threats of lynching had been
freely made by the citizens of Carroll
ton since it was announced that
Shenkle would be brought here for
trial, there was no disorder attending
Shenkle's arrival and departure. APP
parently nearly the whole population
of the town gathered around the depot
and along the streets leading to the
court house, but the troops forming a
Gordon around the train and surround
ing Shenkle, prevented any hostile
demonstration. ~
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-05
PEOPLES PULPIT.
Observation-Disclosures
: Agency, Iowa, Feb. 81, 1910

-.
Editor Courier: Dear Sir-I beg
leave to differ from your Agency COR
respondent in your Mondays issue, in
regard to the damage being the same
in having the railroad double tracks
running on the north line of the GEM
etery rather than thru it. First it
leaves the proposed Is feet that was to
have been occupied by railroad tracks
for cemetery purposes; second, it is
SO much further from the hitch racks;
third, am told by parties in posi-
ton to know that it would have even
been financial loss to the city. At
the present prices of the lots the strip
the railroad track would have occu-
pied when sold for burial purposes
would amount to the sum of $1,000,
and with the present death rate it will
be but a few years until all will be
sold. 1t is the only available ground
joining the cemetery that is suitable
for the purpose and the same has
been bought in sections as needed by
the city council some years ago and
dedicated to cemetery purposes for
ever. AS to overhead crossing, the
deep cut will be about the same and
/ suppose the 90 people will consider
the city's interest as well as their own
and give the public the best crossing
they can well afford, but just what
kind of crossing it will be. am in
clined to think neither /, nor your cor.
respondent, would be able to say even
if it had gone thru the cemetery, as
the city ordinance to sell had no such
clause in it. can Outsider"