The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-22

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war, the typical city Of the south
the chief seaport and commercial city
of South Carolina, and belongs to the
best type of the colonial cities of the
United States. For the casual visitor
Charleston presents romantic and
charming aspect. 1t has an architec-
ture all it's own and retains many of
the characteristics of it's early Huge
not days. Considered from an indus
trial and commercial Standpoint,
Charleston Is one of the progressive
cities of the south. Yearly becoming
more cosmopolitan in it's interests. II
not in the character of its popula ton.
Charleston is located geographically
very much like New York. upon low
tongue of land, between the Ashley
and Cooper rivers. very much as New
York lies between the East and North
rivers that form confluence at so
called Battery Park.
The battery of New York and Bat
terry Park of Charleston are quite
alike In size and similar imposition.
A visitor standing on the Charleston
battery. with a slight stretch of mag
ination. can feel he has dropped into
Battery Park. New York. in Old
knickerIockcr days, when from Cas-
tie Garden and surrounding it north
west We're the fashionable residences
Of the city. On the west is the Ash
ley river corresponding to the Hudson
with low marshes lying beyond like
unto the shores of New Jersey. fifty
or hundred years ago. On the east
is the Cooper river. similar to East
river, giving large water front lined
with wharves and shipping. while
scuthward. the two rivers unite to
form a spacious and beautiful harbor
or bay. whose blue waters dxtenI
through a narrow passage to the sea.
Northward from Battery park. like
the Hudson and East rivers of New
York. these rivers separate and be-
tween them for score of miles rich
plain extends. occupied by fruit and
floral gardens.
BATTERY PARK.
CharlcstOnians are as proud of their
Battery park as is New York, and
well they may be- for its one of the
most delightful of resorts for rest and
recreation. At the entrance of the
Park. is a drinking fountain of granite
and bronze. erected by the Daughters
of the ConfederaCy of Charleston. as
a memorial of the sailors of the Con-
federate states. Another is the Jas
per Monument. erected by the Pal
metto guard. To the west is a bronze
bust of William Gilmore Simms,
Of Confederate (piracy) fame, also
several palatial colonial residences
some dating back to the last
century. With all its beauty
Of scenery and the historic as
sociations attached to each point
upon which the eye rests, it is not
strange that the Battery" is the
favoritc and constant resort of Char
with pride and devotion.
The park embraces the splendid sea.
wall, in length some fifteen hundred
feet. six feet high and three feet wide
on top extending in front of what is
called East battery toSouth battery to
White Point garden. A park contain
irg seven acres of ground, intersected
by walks and shaded by live oak trees
some of them two hundred years old.
No more beautiful drive and prom
enade can be found in the country
than here, while the broad esplanade
of East battery affords a magnificent
view of the harbor looking straight
out to the ocean with Fort Sumptcr
In the middle distance, the shores Of
James island to the right. the houses
of Moultrieville and Mount Pleasant
in sight on the left and nearer STILL
Castle Pinkney standing in sight out
from its little marsh island in the
Cooper river.
CHARLESTON'S SITE
The city stands on a surface of made
ground elevated some nine feet above
in length and two in width and six
miles from the Atlantic, Like many
northern cities it is not laid out on a
IT Sular plan. but il rectangular in
form, and MANY points of interest
city's life are not confined to few
localities, but are to be found in every
part of the peninsula.
The streets are broad, well shaded
with ancient trees and adorned with
many public and private buildings.
The main streets begin at the South
Battery and run due north. The
cross streets, starting from the center
line of the city, run east and west to
the water fronts, King street is the
retail thorouGhfare, and is over three
miles long: on II are some fine struc-
lures and some of the oldest and his
toric edifices in the city Meeting
street, next to King, is the main
wholesale quarters, as we'll as the
principal hotels and numerous hand
some residence, many of them CEN
tury old. with the colonial doorways,
broad piazas, two stories. overlooking
a large flower garden enclosed by an
ornamental iron fence. Broad street
Is the center of the financial interests
of the city, where are located hand
some bank and insurance buildings.
A popularity of nearly all of Charles
toms houses are that they are built
with their narrow gable ends 90 the
streets, their broad sides. with spa
cious galleries at every floor, facing
picturesque gardens replete with flow-
ers and semi-tropical plants, enclosed
by high walls, over the tops of which
climb struggling vines. In the typical
Charleston houses the doorways open
from the sidewalk, and do not admit
anyone to the house itself, only TO the
lower piazzas. In the center of the
lower piazzas the main door of the
house opens into spacious hallway,
with large rooms on either side, and
a colonial stairway winding to the
floors above, the galleries having a
southern exposure.
A CITY OF GARDENS.
The gardens are enclosed by high
walls, and afford privacy from public
gaze to the dweller that Is not known
In the gardens of the north. The en-
tree to the garden is as personal a
tribute as TO the house. and the public
are excluded as effectually, for in