The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-01-22
what Saw on My Trip to Camden.

der. >1u II en- EnGwn NJ, stly through
istorichl associations, IL and The battles
fought near it, during the Revolution.
But she has certainly awake from er
lCng sleep, ard i altt II OF the lcthargy
III which she has been cnvclopcd. Sly
OF busirCss thrift, are seen ON ull sides.
'lous es, Of |usiuess ana for dwellings,,
ave spring'I & up every where, aud
every body and every thing iS3 the
appt rance Of Il wide awake people. All
signs ,Oint 10 ;h, fact, that she is
fairly in the inGUstrinl race for public
few towns in The State, of its size. are
letter CQuilnd First is branch Of
the Southern, which puts it in touch
with Columbia, Charleston ana all
points west. Then comes the great
and entcrprising Scaboard system,
which Is forging its way, to every
nook and corner, in the South and West
Then comes the three C's, from the
great coal fields Of Tennessee and North
Carolina, and leading on to tho coast
at GEORGETOWN. What better advun-
tages could any manufacturing cutcr
prise desire than these, especially when
the hcalthfulncss and salubriiy OF the
climate arc considered. Already large
cotton mill is rapidly nearing compic
tlon aud soon tho hum OF its thousands
OF spindlcs and looms will be heard in
the land with the domestic activity, in
its hundreds OF cottages, that uCorn
"'actory town." Large plancing and
Lumber mills are in operation and not
the least of its industries is branch OF
the States great moral institution, q
distlllery, that turns out daily 2C2 gal
Ions "f "chemically pure" But this Is
outside the combines Of the town and in
which its citizens take little pride.
its educational facilities are of the
very best. The graded school OF 80
to 400 students, its building Of stone ard
brick, standing in IL beautiful grove, is
second to none in the State in proper
tion and In its ARCHITECTURAL design
There are also two large buildings on
the opposite side Of the town for the
c0lnred people, one the school proper,
the other for industrial training. These
last two buildings were principally
built by northern philanthropy and in
some cases taught by northern white
teachers.
Camden is Il close rival OF Aiken rs a
resort for northern tourists aud on the
outsk: :rts OF The town, Oh Hobklrk hill,
IS Guilt mammoth hotel the "Kirk-
wnod,' expressly for the convenience
aud comfort OF these men Of culture,
wealth and seekers of health aud pleas
urc. Here too is the only ploC of ground
in the State stocked and kept eXclu-
slve'y as polo ground. From ~ to
rs polo pon es are kept here all the
time with an army &c keepers and train
erS
The historical places in Camden,
with its shafts and monuments erected
to hprilDst";ous dead, are well worth u
visit f'"m every student of history and
'overs Of famous men and ,'laccs. In q
grove just in front of one Of the churches
stauds monument to l. uOn De KALI,
one OF The foreign patriots in the days
of the Revolution. Two more tall shafts
stand in MAIN street, one ~ the memory
of the Confederate soldiers, the other
to the heroes o; the Mexican war. Here
too is pointed out to the stranger the
battlefield where the patriots mot the
mi lob -, 1,t
While in Camden I was shown by a
friend curio, n relic OF the "chvalric
age" of South Carolina, a genuine
dueling pistol, and said to have be-
]onged to the Cash family and the iden-
ti''al weapon used in the last encounter
OF this kind-a-la- code in this State in
which the lamented w. NJ. Shannon
lost his 1T Il victim to an impious Gus
tom and false notion Of personal
honor.
The "Silent City of the Dead" Cam
den's beautiful cemetery, with its wide
avenues, ita well kept driveways, state
ly oaks and towering pines, cvcrgrccns
anG roses, dotted with marble head
stones, shafts and monuments, would
demand far more attention than space
n such an a"ticle as this will admit
Suffice to say 1t Is beautiful, magniG-
cent tribute to the dead.
When standing.by the tombs of two
OF our illustrious commanders over
which costly monuments have been
erected, what emotions what memories
Hit across my halt closed eyes. To the
left, as you drive in, sleeps the brave
and brilliant Major Gen J. B. Kershaw,
and near by on the right is the gene
rous hearted and gallant Brigadior
Gen. John ID. Kennedy. When I re-
membered how we followed the plumes
of these two knights Of the nineteenth
century as they waved first on the
plains of Manassas, around Richmond, -,
along the banks OF the clear watcrcd
Shenandoah. on the heights of Mary
land, at Antietam, Fredericksburg,