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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-09-25

Measure it is to attend to every medical
want of the operatives at the expense OF
the mill company.
The management is deslrious of having
the very best class Of operatives to 1--we IN
their village and to work in the mill. AS
the mill is Just starting up this enormous
plant. the company viii require several
hundred families to give it the full num-
ber of operatives. The mill, therefore, Is
offering to receive green" help and to
teach them 10 work in the factory.
Anyone desiring 10 investigate with
view of accepting this offer. can. get all the
information, such as regards to wages OF
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 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 conmu-
nicate with any parties desiring to come to
the mills for the purpose of working In
them, and are satisfied that the opportunl-
ties are such as to satisfy them.
The story of the Olympia Cotton Mill is
one OF intense interest to every Carolinian,
and when one thinks it will be realized
how very intimately the cotton mills OF
the State are asvoclated with the industrial
development Of the State.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-09-25

The plant Is operated throughout with
electricity. The expectation is to soon offer
electric lights to all Of the operatives for
their homes.
The pictures indicate the neat and at
tractlve 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 553
feet 2 inches long and Isl feet 2 inches
wide, and contains four floors and a base
ment, each story being IS feet high.
There are two towers about q by q feet
and 1ss feet 6 inches high. containing the
stairways and the tanks for the sprinkler
system.
Adjoining the rear wall Of the mill at the
middle is machine shop and in the rear
of this is the engine and boiler rooms The
engine room being 12O by 50 feet, and the
boiler house 40 by 40 feet in plan. 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,
slashing, spooling and warping; the third
to carding, drawing and tapping, and the
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-09-25
MOST MODERN AND UP!EO-DA7E MILL
PLANT IN TEE 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. It
stands out conspicuously as the highest
type Of mill construction in this country,
and is pronounced by competent mill peo-
pie to be the most complete, up-to-date, and
promising cotton manufacturing plant in
the country. It repres1iis the :ype Of
Whaley mills, all Of which are successful.
It is without doubt the largest COTS
mill under single roof in the entire South
ern States. and competent judges announce
that It is the most complete mill plant in
this country, and no nation is ahead Of
this country in the cotton mill business.
People hear end know that the Olympia
MIL is the largest in the South, but they
may not know, nor do they think, of what
combinations go to make this magnificent
structure what It is.
Think of single cotton mill consuming
1900 bales Of cotton.
1t will employ. when all machinery is in
stalled and in operation, more than 1900
able-bodied operatives.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-09-25

Z. bHps the most modern and improved
:, . cbinsSy and, with the new and up-to-
Hate mac eShinery. operatives can readily
earn morA than they would in old plants
with antld duated equipment.
-. ,os ttbe best class and most up-to-date
,or,es for is operatives.
=. ,s an the direct line Of the Columbia
p,sc,rIc stree et Railway, and within few
.,,n,,tes, ridS of the heart of the city.
- i near enough to the city to give all
- - aavanta ses- and pleasures Of the city
of Columbia.
- will build a $4,000 school building for
49,. o,,,aren Of its operatives and support
.he school Of It's own accord and out OF Its
own funds.
portunlties to its help.
u ,s a mill operated, owned, and man
a..d nv South caroHnians, who. have the
same sentiments, purposes anu leei'nss as
those who do the work.
=. has lavished money in instahng the
most thorough sanitary arrangements in
the mill and its village.
- employs a mill physician, whose er-
vices are at the call of employees wi'he't
cost. ,,,, a
rne wages are full and the piece work a
~ ether classes permit better incoEss
than usual because of the improved iaei
aties and new machinery.
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The generating plant consists OF three
Mcintosh & Seymour engines, each of a
normal rating Of 1,6OO-horse power, capable
Of developing a maximum Of 2,OOO-horse
power, directly connected to alternating
current generators.
The engines are Of the vertical cross
compound condensing type, with cylinders
20 and As inches in diameter, and stroke
of 42 inches. The cylinders are steam
jacketed, and reheating receiver is placed
between them. -
PLENTY OF PURE WATER n
The water supply for the mill comes
from springfield reservoir Of some 100000
gallons capacity, which a!so supplies the
,, mill village with it's drinking water.
The mill is heated by two 14-foot electrl-
cauy 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 imposing and
| the structure Is beautiful. Considerable
money was expended in beautlfying ths
building and every possible convenience is
closets and wash rooms are finished ir
marble and mosaics, and elevators arr
at hand for the operatives. A J,000-pounG
Schane bell is in one Of the towers ant
| y,-ith hoo f,,1 otrlya fha ~
in the second tower there is a standard
| time clock
The officers Of the mill company are:
President, w. B. Smith Whaley.
Vice president. w. A. Clark.
General manager, ]. S. Moore
SECRETARY and treasurer, w. n Rose.
Superintendent, F. S. Barnes.
A SUBJECT OF PRIDE.
The mill was constructed on the plan:
of w. B. Smith Whaley G. Co, the mos
successful mill engineers In the South
This firm has left It's deep imprint on the
industrial development of the South, ant
especially in South Carolina. In recent
article it was stated that: "The record
Of the firm is that of 5S9.67G spindles, IA, ,56t
! looms and sS,5OoOOO capital in WORKING
period of seven years, unapproached b,
any mill engineering firm in the South
and she uld be subject of pride to South
Carolina and to Columbia, as well as tc
the members of the firm"
When We consider that in 1880 the entire
State of South Carolina contained only
rs cotton mills. with 1S1,743 splndles, 1sAs
looms and s4,OS4,OOO capital, against this
aggregate Tor one young South Carolina
firm Of 5Ss.676 spindles, 1860 looms and
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fourth floor to spinning. Communication
between the floors is also afforded by two
Otis electric elevators driven by alternat-
ing-current motors.
The mill will operate 100000 splndles and
the latest Draper looms have been put into
the mill. The total number Of looms to be
operated will be .2.4OO 40-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 OH
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. Sixty-one per cent
OF the shafting cost was saved by. the use
of electricity. Three-inch shafting Is the
largest in the building. Sixty-slX per cent
of the cost Of the belts and ropes was
saved with the electrical system. The saw
ing due to these three items was sufficient,
1t is said, to more than pay for the cost
Of the electrical equipment Of the mill.
Part Of the electrical generating plant Is
sused'to light the town and also to run a
ktreet railway. The maximum power re-
eired by the mill Is about 3.6O0-horse
Dyor. \
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-09-25

ss,5O0,OOO capital, NtheS extent of Its con-
structive achievemehts2 may be better
realized. e
THE GENIUS OF W. B. SMITH
t, WHALEY.
In Columbia alonesit has planted $4,000
spindles and 4.S4otlooIns. or more than the
whole State had twenty years ago, and
the capital employed In these mills-s2. 1OO.
00O--is only less than that required for
the smaller number Of looms and spindles
in 1850. because of the greater economy
possible now in building the best mills.
1t ais proper-teSa dd~that Mr-Whalsy., is
| the president of all but the smallest of
these four Columbia mills which he has
planned, and which, with $1,000 spindles,
| a620 looms and s3,0OO.oOO 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-slghtedness and
quick business perception may be noted
in connection with the electrical installa-
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
| In the net earnings Of the railway and
| lighting systems, but will also add an
appreclable net income to credit of the
mill.
OLYMPIAs GREATNESS ACKNOWL-
EDGED.
Last April, when the great Olympia Mill
was started up, 1t was examined by q
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 Amoskeag Company
who said: 1.-THE Olympia was the finest
structure of the sort he had ever seen,
He was glad the Olympia was not CON-
petitor Of the Amoskeag 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 equipment-and
! he said this with full realization of what
| he was saying as he was connected with
New England mills.
Not long ago Mr. H. E.. C. Bryant
made trip through the mill territory
and made disinterested and impartial in
I quirles and wrote q series of articles on
the result of his inquiries in the various
mills In this State and North Carolina,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-09-25
EFFECT OF PROSPERITY.

"Most of these people were of the real
hardy mountaineer sort, with the same
soft deliberate courteous address that is
Characteristic of all the mountaineers in
the Virglnlas. the carolinas. Tennessee or
Kentucky They brought with them stall
wart frames, simple appetites and igno-
rance of letters. But they were not al
together at fault for that. They had not
been treated as wards of the State. Tnere
was a moving down from the mountain
districts into a region where there were
schools and stores and churches OF a
proud but earnest and ambitious multi
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-09-25

"But it Is not alone in the coming of the
trolley, the expansion of the shops, the
paving of streets in towns. the sanitation
of all places Of la. ge population, the SEN
sation of earning money with regularity
and certainty never before enjoyed In the
section, that occasion for rejoicing Is
found in South Carolina. Attention was
directed by a thoughtful and observant
citizen to a sociological phase of the IN
dustrial development that Is most salts
factory, and that 1t seems pity could not
be extended in some way to the State OIL
Kentucky.
when Columbia began to build mills
and the operation of the mills had made
| perceptible drain upon the most conven-
| lent and willing class of the population
that was fitted to work In the mills. that
drain was felt little at points more or
less remote from Columbia. Men and wo-
| men who had yearned toi opportunity 10
get money without digging or hoeing tor
Il. moved from the foothills into town
first into places vacated by the people VINO
moved earliest, and afterward, as the
mills began to rise nearer to the NILS INTO
the manufactures elsewhere.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-01-15
LOADS OF PENNIES.
Ing of Coppers Collected for
Galveston Sufferers.

In the collection taken up in the
Queensborough schools, New York, for
the Galveston sufferers 26,750 pennies
We're turned in, and the school board
was sorely perplexed. The officials did
not realize how much trouble they had
on their hands until they sought to de-
post the money. The pennies were
first offered to the Flushing savings
bank. The cashier would take all the
bills and coins of larger denomina-
ton, but declined the pennies.
Then the Queens county bank was
visited and Manhattan was invaded by
representative Of the board. who went
to bank after bank and tried to get rid
of his pennies. But they would not be
received, and the school people became
disheartened.
The pennies meantime were dumped
in big packing box in the cellar of the
board of education building, in Main
street, Flushing. They weighed sew.
eral hundred pounds, and as six men
were required to lift them burglars
were not feared.
The school board advertised that II
had lots of pennies for exchange and
would turn them over for quarters and
dollars to any person wanting them
This brought big department store to
the rescue and it took them.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-01-15
Armours buy Salt Abroad.

Kansas City, Mo. Jan. "A large
shipment of salt from Lisbon, Portu-
gal, for the Armour Packing company
has just begun to arrive in Kansas
City. Thirty-fye cars have reached
here and twenty-five cars are on the
way. Each car is loaded with from
thirty-fve to forty tons of the salt, all
in bulk.
The purchase abroad Of this enor-
nous quantity of salt by the Armour
company was provoked by the high
prices demanded by the salt trust in
this country. Salt might have been
bought from. Hutchinson (Kas.l com.
panies. The Armour company uses
about fifteen carloads week. James
Terrell, purchasing agent for the com
pany, today said:
"Prices are now Sc a ton, figure 81
high that we were forced to do some
thing desperate to escape the payment
of it. Instead of buying salt at g
point 21O miles from Kansas City we
have sent more than 5000 miles to an
other country for it, and after paying
steamer and freight rates and Gus
tom duty Of 8 cents hundred, we are
still able to save money. This shows
what an outrageous profit the sal
trust makes in this country"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-01-15
NEW BRIDGE SHOWS STRENGTH
Satisfactory Military Tests of the
Pont Alexandra Structure
in Paris.

"Solid as the Pont Neuf" used to be a
fayorite Partisan smile. Now this his
toric bridge threatens no longer TO
Justify the formula, for some of its
arches are in need of being strength
ened. and the popular phrase will prob
ably give way to this: "Solid as the
Pont Alexandra"
This new bridge, whose construction
was begun by Emperor Nicholas at the
same time as the seal was set upon the
Franco-Russisn alliance-which it will
possibly survive-has just undergone
a final test. for which it had been pre-.
pared by the passage of several mil.
lion visitors during the exposition. Lo,
connective engines and stone-laden
trucks have been sent across it, not tc
speak of heavy field guns, for the mate
rial of war, as everybody knows, is the
indispensable complement of every
work of peace.
The bridge stood the test admirably
to the great JOY of its architect.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-01-15
HIS OWN GRANDFATHER.
Decision of court Strangely Affects
James Hartwell, of AL
biOn, Ill.

Through a peculiar holding Of the
courts James Hartwell, of Albion, ILL.,,
has been declared his own grandfather.
The discussion that brought out this
peculiar relation arose over the DISPOSE
ton of SITS. In 1897 there lived at AL
bion, Ill.,, widow named Swan and q
young man named James Hartwell.
The widow was 40 and the man 81, but
they fell in love and were married.
Last year he died, leaving a clause in his
will bequeathing $175 to my grand
father, James Hartwell and in event
of his death it shall revert to my wife"
The wife succeeded after legal advice
in cutting out the living grandfather
on the following interpretations: James
Hartwell, her husband, was dead, and
James Hartwell, his grandfather, was
living, but James Hartwen was his own
grandfather, so the money reverted to
her. James Hartwell, her husband, was
his fathers father-in-law, because his
father married her daughter. Her hus-
bands fathers father-in-law is her
maternal grandfather. therefore her
husband is his own fathers father-in-
law and is the same as his grandfather
and, being dead, entitled to the amount
of the bequest.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-01-15
Citizens or Subjects.

Ex-President Harrison, in a recent
address before the students of Ann
Arbor, said many things which the
people should carefully consider be-
fore they give their assent to the adj
ministration's policy of Imperialism
Here are a few extracts from his
speech.
''The man who must depend entire.
ly upon the benovolence of another is
a slave. A government of unlimited
and absolute executive power is not
an American government.
''Did you ever read one of the treat
les made by the United States with
an old-world power? On one side
they speak of the subjects of her ma
jesty" and on the other of 1.-THE citiz-
ems of the United States. now if
these provisions guaranteed to the
citizens of the United States do not
apply to citizens of the PHILIPPINE Is.
lands, it is time for us to amend these
treaties by adding "and subjects" at
ter the words "citizens of the United
States. !"
God forbid that the Gay should ever
come when the thought of man as a
consumer should absorb that grand
old doctrine that man is a creation OF
God endowed with inalienable rights.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-01-15
STARR TO STUDY INDIANS.
Chicago Anthropologist Has Left tt
Investigate Mexican
Tribe.

Prof. Frederick Starr, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, has left for six
months trip among some of the wild
and unknown tribes of Mexico. The
Lacandones, one of the tribes he ex-
poets to visit, are one of the least
known peoples in the western hemis-
phere. They lead wandering lives
and use crude stone implements and
are as timid as rabbits, leaving their
homes at the approach of strangers.
A village is to be studied where in
1869 all the whites and half-breeda
were killed and old pagan religion re-
established. The people crucified a
boy in order that they might have an
Indian Christ, A priestess led the
outbreak.
While in the state of Chiapas pinto,
a peculiar and little understood skin
disease, will be investigated. The
skin becomes covered with perma.
nent red, white or purple spots.
Pinto is but slightly contagious and is
not painful, Nearly 80 per cent. Of
some of the towns are affected.
Prof. Starr will have the aid Of
three assistants, photographer, plas
| ter-worker and guide. Much of the
travelling will be through dense trop'
ical forests and 500 miles of horse.
| back riding will be necessary. One
hundred and twenty-five women Of
each tribe are to be measured anc
five plaster busts made. The present
is Prof. Starts twelfth trip to Mex
leo and the last. as he expects t.
complete his studies of the soutl
Mexican Indian.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-01-15
Justice Brown of the United States

Justice Brown of the United States
supreme court in the income tax case
in his dissenting opinion said:
"The decision involves nothing less
than the surrender of the taxing
power to the moneyed class. While l
have no doubt that Congress will find
some mea As of surrounding the pres
ent crisis, my fear is that in some mo-
ment of national peril this decis ion
will rise up to Illustrate its will and
paralyze its arm. l hope it may not
prove the first step towards the sub
mergence of the liberties uf the PEG.
pie in sordid despotism of wealth.
Justices Brewer and Harlan were
equally severe in critizising the dc
cision. The farmers voted to pay tht
taxes to support the ,vernment eN
onorating the Nanderbilts, Rookie
felers and Carnegies of its burdens
and the republican party and its pres:
echo the praise of their action.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-01-15
Exnorts and Home Markets.

The president in his late message to
congress says the exports of agricul-
tural products have increased over
$50, 900, 900 in the last year. To farm
er this doesn't look much like the
profitable home market that was
promised him for his share OF the
benefit to come from the Mckinley
protective policy. That home market
has been promised the farmer for the
last thirty years by protectionists.
After all these years of being subject
ed to tariff taxes, 1t really makes the
farmer feel that he has been "gold
bricked" to have proteetiopist boast
of the increased exports of farm pro,
ducts. Mark Hanna in his subsid.
bill speech said that one third Of thu
agricultural products OF this countr.
had to go abroad to find a market, ant
to get it there the American people
pay $4,000, 200 year bonus to the ship
owners, andthe farmer pay, the freigh
besides. This seems to me like heap
ing injury on insult. am a farme
and the son of a farmer and | hay
done nothing all my life but till tn
soil. Now cannot see it any othe
way than that we've been "buncoed.
NJ. PLUMMER.
McCOok Neh Dec %
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-01-15
Gov. Odell of New York, in his in
augural address on Jan. 1st, said in

Gov. Odell of New York, in his in
augural address on Jan, LIST, said in
part:
"The burden of taxation should be
so adjusted as to fall lightly upon
those who can i'll afford to bear them,
and be borne more generously by those
who have received from the state pro-
lection and rights which have given
to their vast business interests the
success they deserve. Combinations
in restraintof individual rights should
be curbed and a welcome extended to
all whose energy and genius will add
to the luSter and fame of the Empire
state aud aid us in unfolding our bust
ness and commercial supremacy.
If w. j. Bryan should give utter
ance to the above, the same class who
applauded Odell would condemn Fry
an and call him by all sorts of pet
names, such as pnpulist, demopop, aud
perhaps socialist or anarchist. And
the reason is that they know Bryan
meaIs what he says, but they have
agreeable doubts about Odell and 9th
er leaders of the republican party
Clay ton County Democrat.