The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-04-19
Anderson.
(News and COurier.)


American citizens who had gone to
Washington TO celebrate the great
event were travelling on south bound
train by the Southern Railway. They
went into the smoking compartment
OF their car and naturally "frater-
nized," as all good Americans are wont
to do before. after and during such
occasions; and just as naturally they
began with one accord to exalt the
several States from which the, hailed.
One of the travellers was from Col
0rado. the second was from Texas and
the third was from South Carolina.
The Colorado man glOried in the hea-
Won kissing peaks of his mountains
ana the great variety of the Colorado
climate, which ranged from eternal
snow 10 tropical lu6uriance of veReta-
tlon. Inc Texan was willing to shoot
say. that there was any State in the
UDlor which could be compared with
lexas IN extent Of territory, or fertii-
ity OF SOIL, or variety Of products; that
Texas alone could and would raise
enough cotton to supply all the spin
dies IN the world. Then uprose the
man from South Carolina and said:
Yes, and South Carolina will spin
every duTned baio of cotton yod fei-
lows IN lexas can make.n
1t does not matter who the man
from Colorado was nor the man from
lexas-the man from South Carolina
was Joseph j. Fretwell, Of Anderson,
ana no spoke tho spirit of South Caro-
INA; he talked to the strangers in
steady and uDbroken stream from
blacks6urg to Greenvile. He told
them what South Carolina was doing,
now 1T had distanced the whole South
Ia cotton manufacturing and was run
nnIy 81 /, A.
for the first place in the mapufacturine
WoriG. and as he and his chance ac-
quaintanCes were not out of sight of o
cotton mill during all the time of his
moving dtscOurse he made the most of
MS advantage in occular demonstra-
tion. he left the Colorado man and
the man from Texas in an exhausted
condition at Greenville and went back
TO me hospitable home and splendid
peopie ID Anderson to build another
cott0n mill, or to devise some new plan
LOT the development of ono of the most
progressive industrial districts in the
United States.
Mr.. Fretwell is called "Joe" by his
nome people, and wi at NJoen says poee
IN Anderson. He is not by any means
the only busy, pushing, progressive
man IN Anderson--there are the Brooks,
the browns, the Ligons, the Sullivans,
the Smyths, the Adgers, and host Of
other men, native and adopted citi-
zens. who are working as men never
worked before for the industrial de-
velopment of field Of marvellousIy
rich rtsOuices. Fretwelll. only typi-
col OF his race and time. I'd he and
his associates are performins prodieies
In the Industrial field. Twenty Ii ve
years ago one Of tho occupations Of the
ingenious youth Of Anderson was the
game OF marbles, and they took "rOund-
ance" ana Judged" as all the careful
anu AMBITIOUS mnrble-players did; but
,iy tiney 90 not play marbleB on the pub
nc square of Anderson any more.
Al the young men of Anderson are
OF work, and all the middle-age men
ana oId men, too, and all the women.
IL 1s wonderfully busy and inspir-
ing community to live in, q community
OF refined people with great history,
OF men and women who keep up with
tne World IN art and literature and all
Tue rennements OF the most cultivated
gaste. Inere is nothing nioaD or Sur
dld or selfish about them. They live
above the foRs of sectional Erejudices,
they hold to their opinions, but they
respect the opinions Of others, they be-
iieve that Anderson is the centre Of
the world and everything in the world
tnaG 10 worth having, and they are sor.
~ only that all the rest OF the world
cannot live and work and grow rich
son. They talk Anderson among
themselves at home and they talk An.
derson to all who come within the
range of their exquisite hospitality;
they live. move and have their being,'
IN anderson, and because of their faith
IN themselves and their work for them.
selves they have built up o splendid
lndnstrial empire to the growth Of
when practically no metes and bonnds
Some idea Of the prosperity oP An
derson may be had from the simple
statement that there are now in An
derson County fourteen banks, all do.
Ing we'll and making money, and nine
teen cotton factories, equipped with
tne latest and most modern machinery
and making the beat goods 3of q s.eaa-
ily .Screasing market. Besides tile
cotton factories there are cotton oil
mills, mattress factories, workers. in
iron and wood and stone. ard innumer-
able smaller industries giving profit
able employment to th0usands Of peO.
pie.
Z The farmers ars doing their full
share for the npbuit,1ing Of the county,
anu are making money. Many, if not
all OF them, have money in the banks
and are steady investors in the mills
ana factories that have been establish
ed from time to time. They are maxi
Ing Gwo stalks of corn grow where it
WIS regarded as not practicable to
grow ono few years ago and are MAX
ing cotton upon the cultivation of
which the old timers would not ven
ture. Improved methods of cultiva-
tion. improved implements Of hus-
6andry, and the. larger faith of the
farmarein themselves have made farm
Ing In Anderson most profitable bus
iness. Ss;, & .ily & sas So. &
But without the women of Anderson
none OF its present greatness would
have been attained and none of its
future promise would inspire to nobler
effort. Their hand is In evidence ali
The beautiful gardens, the
well-kept fences, the ahaded streets,
the fountains and monuments, the
equipages, the millinery
openings. the ashi0nable goWne, the |
birds and the delicious 5waffies
are witnesses that without the en-
couragement and help of the women Of
nEl <hc Ard