The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-01

stands apart from it's neighbor in it's
own garden.
The city has population of 25,S0O,
nearly three -fourths of whom are coll
ored. Columbia has a half dozen hotels.
churches of all denominations, six
banks, two club houses, an opera
house, three daily newspapers, one tri-
weekly, six weeklies and four month
lies besides neat job printing and
book binding establishments also two
telegraph lines, gas and water works
and electric plants, a fine fire depart
ment with three steamers, and over
eleven miles of electric railway. be-
sides hospitals for both white and col
ored patients, colleges and other state
institutions, which will mention later
in fact, all the accessories of modern
city life;
CLIMATE AND FLOWERS.
1t Is not quite summer here in Col
umbia, but it's epringy-March here Is
May up North. Violets and dandelions
are looking forth from the grass. jon
quils and crocuses are a-bloom in the
gardens here. bush honeysuckle and
Forsythia and japan ounce are flower
ing. loaded with buds and blossoms
that attract a throng of humming
bees. Magnolias and many other shrubs
and trees are full of swelling buds. The
tall magnolia tree, with its full rich
evergreen and dense glossy foliage, Will
stand the winter through. Among such
trees and shrubbery and climbing
roses, green all the year round, one
loses the idea of the season altogether
the aspect of winter is removed.
Peach trees are in blossom also.
The city rests on a granite spur or
the Piedmont region. which projects
into the long leaf pine belt. and it's
high elevation gives 1t pure air ana
admirable drainage. Here are no stag
nant pools of water, or surrounding
marshes, and every condition or
healthfulness Is fully met The air Is
cool and bracing and there is little bad
weather from September to May. The
mean annual temperature Is Ga de-
grees. AS a health resort 1t is one of
the very best, the winter climate be-
ing especially agreeable. A number of
northern people have bought and
built houses and make their winter
homes here. The health of the city is
exceedingly good. the death rate per
thousand being 11.01 for white and
2025 for colored people.
AN EDUCATIONAL CENTER.
Columbia is the great educational
center of South Carolina. the seat OF
four colleges and one theological semi
nary, besides a number of private
schools and charitable institutes. viz.
the South Carolina college. covering
two blocks. that time honored institu-
ton that sent forth so many noble
men to battle against the ills of fate;
the Columbia female college tMetho-
disD the Winthrop training school,
the college for women, the Presby-
terian college for women the Prcsby-
terian theological seminary, the Allen
university (MethOdisD. and Benedict
institute (BaptisD. both for colored
people. and Columbia business college
and the Ursuline (Catholic) institute.
Two great state institutions are To-
Gated here. The hospital for the in
sane and the penitentiary. Nearly 500
convicts are employed on railroad
works, plantations and within the
prison walls.
But the centre of attraction is the
capitol building, which we visited with
much interest. The capitol building,
commenced in 1S49. is still unfinished.
even after an expenditure Of $4,O00,00O
1t stands in the centre of a high
plateau called Capital park. which is
beautifully laid out in drives, lawns
and promenades with an elegant
flower garden at either end of the
building. To the right of the main en-