The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-09
JACKSONVILLE PEOPLE
or the Year 1000 Talk Of Old Times
and goth Century
Progress.

~ "~aehsohfilIe llmee- mon an0
Citizen appeared al imaginative arti.
Gle pictuing life in Jacksonville in the
year 21NO, written by Mr.. w. w. Ball.
We reproduce the article for our read.
ere:
THE world is getting old, aud so am
~ observed young John smith, and
added; son the first day of January,
three months hence, | shall enter my
t~wenty-iirst year, and the Christian era
its twenty first century.
Yes aid his nineteen-year-old sis
ter, you both show your age, too
II fancy that's SO Carry. One lives
so fast in these closing days of the
century that M is old in reality at
twenty-one."
But" interposed Grandmother
Brown, "in my early days, a person of
1920, but modern medical science gives
me the hope of at least twenty years
more of activity. Why, children, when
was your age old people would have
ridicu'ed the notion of an eighty-year-
old dame driving u tandem team of
ostriches from Hogan and Bay Streets
seventeen miles down the boulevard to
Pablo Plaza"
"Now, Granny, don't you get reminis-
ScnI, pOuleu Gne girl.
YES, Granny, go on, Tll listen, 'said
the oy, 81 like to hear stories o. our
semi-bart arous ancestors"
Shame Oa you, John" replied tho
CID lady, your ancestors were dis
tinguished people. My father, sir, was
a lieutenant in the war with Spain
Moreover, he was an intimate friend of
General Andrew Jackson and General
Roosevelt, as we'll as Chief Billy Bow
legs.
BARBAROUS TOBACCO HABIT.
THAT may be true, grandma, but |
have been told that the old savage
actual y chewed tobacco suggested
Carry. But, say, grandma, | get
mixed up on American history: | wish
we could forget it all and begin over.
Now, can't help confusing these
" ashtngtons, for instance. Was it
Booker Washington, or George Wash
ington, who was called the Father OF
His Country?'
well, YOU are an ignoramus, little
girl. Booker Washington was colored
man, | think. George Washington was
President of the United States when
the country was at war with England
just before the war between the States.'
Grandma, said John, chow big was
Jacksonville when you first remember
it?"
"Why, son, it was a little village OF
not more than 200, 900 people in the
thirt'es. When your grandfather was
n young man the Federal buildino
stood on the corner of FORSYTH and
Hogan streets. SO | have heard him say,
and one little house was sufficient for
postoffice. custOmhOuse, revenue offices
and courthouse. When, in 1947, air
ntvag ation began to get common, the
city grew tremendously. You can see
that the climate Is the only thing thai
hasn't changed in the past one,hundred
years, and as soon as it became practica.
bic for a Milwaukee man, for l. stance
to flop down here in half an hour, Jack.
sonville's population doubled in a de.
cade. In m, childhood, New York was
still far and away larger than either
San francisco or Jacksonville, and il
has only been in the last twenty years
that the three cities have been of abou,
he same size. TO tell you the truth,
Ja~cksonville has grown beyond any.
body'S widest dreams. Why, even when
| was a girl, where we are now was a
distant suburb and seaside resort, and
now it is in the heart of the residence
section Of the city. | can remember
when a locality about a mile from the
Clyde wharves was known as East
Jacksonville, and was looked upon rs
suburban, and in those days what is
now Baldwin Square was a country vii.
lage."
PACE THAT JACKSONVILLE SET.
"Well," said John, ait is not strange
after air navigation became cheap and
common that Jacksonville outstripped
other neighboring cities. AS you Just
said, Granny, the climate hasn't
changed. jacksonville was the first
big town in the South to get promi.
hence rs a winter resort, and, when
the time came that one could come
here from Chicago in forty minutes it
was natura' that new residents SHOULD
ilock here by tens Of Thousands. There
had 10 be one great city on TINS part
OF the continent, and Jacksonville had
the combination Of all the advantages g.
sit must have been horrible to live
In Jacksonville q hundred years ago.
Times-Union and Citizen reproduced
this morning some matter published In
papers OF November and d cember
1900, and it is aW ful to contemplate the
crimes, the murders, robberies and
lighting that was lone in those times,
don't see how one dared to go on the
streets"
"By the way" said John, 'I see the
Times-Union and Citizen report 9
murder IN NOrtn carolina yesterday
How did it happen? / haven't heard
Of one before in the United States in 9
year"
"Why," replied Carry. the explana
tion Of this mornings London paper
is that the criminalometer needed
busting, and had a bit of dirt in It wher
1t was applied to the man, and he was
released. 1t is a curious story. 1t seem.
that when he arrived in Richmond las
year 1t was suspected that he was NOR
ally diseased. He was subjected to the
Instrument, and 1t failed to disclose
that he had criminal tendencies. Thf
examiners were doubtful, but the in,
strument had never failed in accuracy,
and 50 they discharged him instead OF
sending him to the colony of surveil
lance in the Philippines. Now It an
pears that the man did have predilec.
tions for crime, and yesterday the in
strument was examined, and the specb
Of dirt was found"
FRIGHTFUL FOR THE POLICE.
well, it is a great pity that there
were no criminalometers in jackson.
vile q hundred years ago. tt mus
have been frightful for the police moi
to be Gble to detect a criminal until az
ter the crime had been perpetrated.-.
But must go now"
Are you going to Berlin, tonight
Eyes, but shall be home tomorrow
evening for tho Iopos no.t,D