Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-05-14
WhLHALLA, 9. G. 3
WEDNESDAY, MAY IA, 1902.
A PLEASANT TRIP TO CHARLESTON.
Much TO be Seen that Instruc!s and Broadens
the Thoughtful Visitor.

Editors Courier: On the morning
of April %, in company with our
"better half" ar two little girls,
Odessa and Annaressa, and Misses
Freddie Boggs and Cora Trotter, we
left Newry, destined for the old and
historic city of Charleston.
After boarding the train at Seneca,
via Anderson, we arrived in Belton
about 10 a. M, where we changed
cars for Charleston, at which place
we arrived about 1870 that evening
without accident or mishap.
This being our first trip to Charles
ton, we found everyone stranger
except the Hon. Archelaus Lay, of
our county. He and his son went
down on the same train, so he rem
dered us assistance in securing a
stopping place, which was at the
home of Mr.. Henry Ostendorff, where
we had the pleasure of meeting the
Hon. M. +. Ansel and wife.
After a good nights rest and par
taking of good breakfast at Mr..
Ostendorff's we boarded street car
for the Battery, arriving there in a
few minutes, where we beheld one of
the grandest views it has ever been
our pleasure to behold. The grand
old ocean, with it's shipping going to
and fro, and its tides ebbing and
flowing, formed a grand scenery be-
fore us; and as we looked far out
into the distance we could see his
toric old Fort Sumter and Morris
Island, both of which carried our
minds and thoughts back to other
days when it was not SO pleasant to
be in Charleston as now; but, thank
God all those days of strife are past,
and we could see men from New
York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Illi-
nois, Ohio and Missouri sitting here
and there and going to and fro with
men from all over the South, chat
ting like brothers about the exposi-
tion and the great progress our COM
mon country has made and the great
possibilities that it still possesses.
This manifestation of brotherly love
and friendship, the universally of
the floating of the glorious old Stars
and Stripes over the principal build
ings and along the streets of Charles
ton, and the splendid exhibits at the
exposition by the several States and
the United States Government would
very naturally make every thinking
man and patriot feel proud of his
common country and not regret hav-
ing paid old Charleston and the ex-
position visit.
After having spent two days on
the exposition grounds and through
the city and taking in the harbor,
the time arrived for us to begin pre-
parations for our return home. So
early on the morning of April 25 we
boarded train on the Southern
Railway and arrived in Columbia
about noon and changed cars for
Bolton, at which place we arrived
about 3 p. m. and again changed cars
for Seneca, the end Of our Journey
by rail, where Mr.. d. ID. Crenshaw,
of Newry, met us with a nice team
and carriage to carry us to our home
at Newry.
Now, Messrs. Editors, in conclu-
sion | would like to say to your
readers and the people of Oconee
that those of you who have not gone
to the exposition, if you can possibly
do so, go by all means; you will
never regret it. What you will see
and learn will pay you four fold the
expense and cost for the trip. To
those of US who have never seen the
ocean, the city of Charleston and the
magnificent and splendid exhibits of
everything that we could think of
(and more, too,) all combined will
make us broader men and women
and give us that education and con-
ception of the greatness and resources
OF our country which the reading of
books can never give.
B. S. Boggs.