The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-08-10

bands and other hands are worked
night and day on the extensive freight
yards. Five car inspectors are con-
stantly employed, three roadmasters
are located here with five section mas
ters. A considerable force of locomo
tive engineers, dremeu, conductors
and baggage-masters and other rail
road men are living here. The dis
trict surgeon of the three railroad sys-
TENS lives here.
Total value of real estate and per-
sonal property, returned for taxes IN
the city of Sumter in 1908, 81, 794, 090.
Actual value of all personal property
and real estate of all kinds, taxable and
non taxable in the city of Sumter esti-
mated So, 600, O0O.0O: Total city taxes
collected in 1903, s24, 794 SO. This
deos not include license tax and COM
mutation taxes, amounting to 81, 500
annually. Increase in tax returns in
city of Sumter in 1903, s175, 000.00
Number of new residences, stores,
tenement houses, Office buildings,
enterprises, schools,
warehouses hotels, lumber plants,
churches and other buildings erected
in the past 18 months 16S, which
cost 1915, 100. 90.
The Western Union Telegraph Co.,
Postal telegraph Co., and the South
ern Express Co. have 16 men employ
ed here and they do a very large bust
ness. The. Western Union pays
taxes on personal property returned at
s27, 81S. so. The real estate and per-
sonal property owned by the city OF,
Sumter valued at s12, 500.00. Its
muicipal officials are: Mayor, eight
aldermen, city clerk and treasurer,
recorder. supervisor of registration,
superinte ndent Of public works, as
sistapt superintendent of public
works, chief of police. s regular po-
hceman and several substitute officers.
chief and assistant chief of the fire de-
partment, secretary to city Board OF
Education, health officer and sanitary
inspector, city physician, superintend-
ent of education, five members, OF the
city board of education, five members
of the health board, president of the
health board, city engineer, corpora
ton counsel, So teachers employed in
the city graded schools. Total school
enrolment for 1903, l, 400, an increase
OF 16 per cent. The county court
house ard county Offices are located in
Sumter.
{ The total amount of business in all
branches of trade, manufacturing
and industrial lines is estimated by
experts 10 be not less than 81, Zoo, 600
annually, exclusive of banking busi-
ness. The total volume Of business as
done by the three local banks in 1908,
according to statements of cashiers Of
the First National Bank of Sumter,
Bank of Sumter, and The Sumter Saw
ings Bank $50. $50, 382. 06. Sumter is
an unusually large lumber market,
with cozen lumber plants located in
or near the city, employing several
thousan ds hands, and nearly all lumber
shipmerts are made from the Sumter
depot. we have also telephone fac
tory, 2 large cotton ginneries, 2 coffin
and furniture factories, l large cotton
oil and fertilizer factory 3 large bot
Ting works, l golf stick factory, flne
water works system, 8 ice plants, l
electric light and power plant, 5 lum-
Der. door, sash and blind factories,
and gen eral wood working establish
ments. 2 laundries, bishops making
wagons and buggies, 3 embalming es
Establishments, free city mail delivery,
rural mail delivery, one cotton mill,
one nataterium, 6 shoemakers, 3 tin
shops, number of contractors, painters,
and architects, and skilled laborers
and mechanics and artisans, stenogra-
piers and typewriters, private schools,
music schools, fine drives, good hunt
ing and fishing, one whiskey dispen-
sary, beer dispensary, 8 job printing
establishments, daily and 4 weekly
papers, one monthly paper, 3 banks,
s railroad companies, colleges and
graded schools, 2new modern. hotels,
and many excellent boarding houses,
one military company, brass band and
orchestra; $40, 600 opera house and city
hall, long distance and local telephone
exchanges, 3 gunsmiths, two brass and
iron foundries, 3 machine shops, 5
blacksmiths and wheelwright shops, 5
bicycle repair shops, 5 plumbing and
steam fitting Establishments, fnrni-
ture and cabinet repair shops, 2 mar
BILE ami stone yards; there are Is ply
sicians, 8 dentists, drug stores, l5
traine.i nurses who go out of the city
to work when called on. 81 attorneys,
railroads attorneys, railroad sur
geons, 50 county officials and their
clerks and assistants, who have their
Offices in Sumter, Ii lodges of secret
societies.
Sumter is large wholesale as
we'll al retail market, having exclus-
i've wholesale and jobbing houses.
with representatives on the road,
orS wholesale and retail establish
ments. and about Is retail stores of all
kinds, besides other places Of busi.
ness. Eight handsome brick stores
and / brick warehouse 40x175 #. are
in course of erection Or have been
built within the last Is months, be
sides a namher of small wooden stores,
not previously mentioned. Sumter is
also a. very large live stock market.
there being 6 stables handling thou
sands of horses and mules annuity. be-
sides many thousands dollars of farm
ing machinery. other agricultural i'm
plements, harness, hay, grains, bug
oies. wagons. &c. Sumter is large