The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-30

to Columbia with belief that this city
| had a great future in cotton manufacturing
and offered besides the most desirable
| location in the South as headquarters for
mill designing He had a passion for ma
chinery and had worked his way through
New England cotton mills to Cornell, and
through Cornell to New England archi-
| tect's office. whence he was graduated with
a good training and an immense amount
| Of enthusiasm On coming to
| Columbia Mr. Whaley formed partnership
| with Mr.. CAD den +. Shand under the firm
| name Of ", B. 5. Whaley h Co, rented
| two small rooms on the second floor of a
Main street building and hung out sign
| indicating the presence of engineers and
| architects.
The new Office had no work in hand at that
| time, and for some months its encourage
| ment was small. During the following
| year, however, ls93-94 it designed the first
small Union Cotton Mill and the Courtenay
mill at Newry in Oconee county In the
winter Of is94-95, after long and great dis
coura cement. Mr. Whaley succeeded in
| getting the Richlnnd Mills Company organ
lied in this city and his firm designed the
MILL which was begun in February, 1895
| The CRANKY Mills, also of Columbia. fol-
| lowed. II was the result of a happy con-
| junction between Mr. Whaley and Mr.
| William II. Lyles, representing the Column
bia Land and Improvement Company.
| The construction of this mill was prosecuted
! during 1909. and in the same year Whalev
| 4 Co. designed the Union Mill No. ?, then
the iarges, single mill in the South
THE following is list of the mills de-
| signed by Whalcy & Co. in the seven years
| of their active career in this city: Court
| enay Manufacturing Company, Richland
| Cotton Mills. Union Mills 1.-TWO Mills,
| CRANKY Cotton Mills, Az ndae Mills. War
| rem Manufacturing Company, Orangeburg
! Manufacturing Company, Olympia Cotton
| Mills, c pi,al City Mills, Buffalo Cotton
| Mills, Lancaster Cotton Mills tNo. ~. Seneca
| Cotton Mills, Inman Mills. Williamson
| Mills. Glen-Lowery Manufacturing Com
pany and Chadwick Manufacturing
| Company.
The mills employ s3s,o78 spindles and
| $50 looms with capital OF s. ,j0O,OO0
When We consider that III 1880
| the entire State of South Carolina con-
| tanned only twenty-six cotton mills with
| ISL FAB spindles. 3,ils looms and 81 1854 600
! capital against this aggregate for one young
| South Carolina firm Of $40 spndles,
| 1850 looms and IS 500 900 capital, the
extent of its constructive achievements
may he better realized In Columbia alone
| II has planted 1877 600 spndles and 4,si0
! looms or more than the whole State had
twenty years ago; and the capital en-
| poyed in these mills. So, 100. 900. il only less
| than that now required for the smaller
| number Of looms and spindles in 1880 b.
| cause of the greater economy now pos
siblc in building the best mills.
| 1T is proper to add that Mr. Whaley is
the president Of all but the smallest Of
these four Columbia mills. and with iei 900
spindles, 1920 looms and 81 600 invested
capital, represents the largest cotton manu-
featuring Investment in the South and one
| Of the largest in the United States.
"The revolution which has been wrought
| in Columbia by the building of these mills
| j. one of the marvels Of the time. and affords
additional reason for the recognition which
! we here give to the enterprise which in
| this city and elsewhere has yielded such
| potential results"
| YOUNG MANS CNuSTRy.
In all the annals Of the New South's in
| dust rial awakening there could not he found
| more typical chapter than is Afforded in
| the extraordinary career Of this young
| Southerner, for MIR Whalev with all this
| achievements behind him IL still In the early
| thirties Perhaps nowhere else in the
| United States would such a career have
! been possible within the past decade, for
| nowhere else were such opportunities Of
| fcred to young man with the energy
| and the brains to seize them and make
| the most Of them, The story Of Mr. Whaley's
| work within the past ten years il in a
manner an epitome Of this great South
ern industrial evolution which is still in
| Is beginning and Is pregnant in the
| near future with vast fortunes and the
| growth Of what now are small busy centres
into great manufacturing towns such a.
are to he found in New England and in the
Middle West
! BY all the signs and the tokens of the
| times everything seems to point to such
| shifting Of the manufacturing centre Of
| gravity, or at all events to such a dwelling
| ont of that heretofore very much lop-sided
plane in the United States, az the country
never before in lis history has seen
The resources OF Columbia in the matter
| of water power have been barely touched
| as yet, There is a reserve force back of
the city still untapped that is capable Of
repeating many times over all that to date
has been accomplished Yet to this small
draft upon the city reserve fund Of water
power is due the impetus which started
Columbia on her present brilliant career
and it IL to water again that she IL look
ing for another long stride ahead-water
not used this time in creating electric force