The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-06

try. This not only provides rapid tran
sit within tine city. but has opened two
new and delightful suburban pleasure
resorts-Chicora Park about five miles
above the city limits on the Cooper
river, and the Isle of Palms, described
last week.
Charleston, through the South Caro-
lima railway, claims the honor OF
building the first railway in the world
to operate over hundred miles of
road. The original charter Of this
road was granted in 1927 for road
to be run between Charleston and
Hamburg, on the Savannah river.
Work was begun in January, 1880.
Piles were driven six feet apart, in
two parallel lines, and their heads
bound together by cross-ties. sur
mounted by "A longitudinal wooden rail
on which was nailed "A fiat piece Of
iron. Five hundred dollars was Of
fered by the company as aprizc for the
best horsepower locomotive, and was
awarded to one Detmold for a ma
chine that carried twelve persons at
the rate of twelve miles an hour. but
which was never adopted. as in Eng
land the Rocket" had proved so very
contract with the West Point foundry
to build a steam locomotive that was
capable of carrying three times its
own weight at at the rate of ten miles
an hour. This locomotive was COM
pleted in December 1890. and proved
successful, 1t is claimed it was the
first locomotive built in the United
States and was christened "The Best
I.s,,tA
burst, an accident said to have been
occasioned by the engineer fastening
down the safety valve because the es-
Gaping steam annoyed him. After be-
ing repaired it was re-Christened
"PhoeniX."
The reader will note that the BEST
Friend" made her trial trip over the
South Carolina railway one year and
five months after the "Stourbridge
Lion" made her trial trip over the
Delaware and Hudson Canal COM
pany's railway at HOnosdale, Pa, Aug.
s, 1929, and | am happy to chronicle
the fact, that the Hon. Otis Avery, a
resident of HOnosdale. now 93 years of
age was one of the hOnorod guests on
that occasion, and the only person liv-
ing who took that memorable ride.
Southern Hospitality.
Southern hospitality in its perfec-
tion is met on every hand in Charles
| ton, and the visitor who is socially in
| Clined will find numerous families, es-
| pecially proud of their city and their
| birth, highly educated and finished in
! every way, impressing one with their
| courteous manner and that refinement
| born Of gentle breeding for genera
| tions. While it's inhabitants are emf
| nently social and hospitable in tenn
| naughty display.
TO be i'm the best circles of Charles
| ton society you must he born into
| them. Your grandfather at least
| should be the introducer. but great
grandfathers are preferable, and II
/ YOU can add another great or two your
social standing will be complete,
Speaking of families, there can hard
| ~ be another city whore families have
| for generation after generation lived
| the same lives, in the same houses
| amid the same surroundings as here
| The doings and sayings of great
| grandfathers and mothers and what
| happened in seventeen hundred and
| something, Is heard i'm ordinary con
| ycrSatiOn, as though they were but dO-
| ings of yesterday, and the stranger
soon becomes acquainted with those
| who passed away generations ago.
| cub life i'm Charleston is Il very
pleasant feature. Yachting is espe'