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

dent Roosevelt in March three patriotic
american citizens who had gone to
Washington 10 celebrate the great
event were travelling on south bound
train by the Southern Railway. They
went into the smoking compartment
| nized," as all good Americans are wont
to do before, after and during such
OccasioDs; and just as naturally they
began with one accord to exalt the
several States from which they hailed.
One, OF the travellers was from Col
| Orado. the second was fiOm Texas and
the third was from South Carolina.
The Colorado man gloried in the hea-
ven kissing peaks 0f bis mountains
| and the great variety of the Colorado
climate, which ranged from eternal
snow 10 tropical luxuranca Gf veketa-
ton. The Texan was willing to shoot
it ont with any man who would dare
say that there WAS any State in the
Union which could be compared with
Texas III extent Of territory, or ferti-
lty 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 Sou tn Carolina and said:
yes: and south Carolina will spin
| every burned bale of cotton you fell
| lows IN Texas can make"
|
! from Colorado was nor the man from
! Iexas-the man from South Carolina
was Joseph j. Fretwell, of Anderson,
ana he spoke the spirit of South Caro-
| INA; lie talked to the strangers in
steady and unbrOken stream from
| BlacksbuIg to Greenville. He told
them what South Carolina was doing,
| now it had distanced the whole South
| ln cotton manufacturing and was run
nlng neck and neck with Massachusetts
1or Gne nrst place in the manufacturing
world, and as he and his chance ac-
quaintenCes were not out of eight of @
cotton mill during all the time of his
moving discourse he made the mOst of
MS advantage In occular demonstra-
lion. he left the Colorado man and
the man from Texas in an exhausted
condition at Greenville and went back
to MS hospitable home and splendid
people In Anderson to build another
cotton mill, or to devise some new plan
TOT the development of one Of the most
progressive industrial districts in the
United States.
HT. Fretwell is called "Joe" by his
nome people, and wtat "Joe" says goes
the only busy, pushing, progressive
man IN nAnderson-there are the Brooks,
the Browns, the Ligone, the Sullivane,
the Smyths, the Adgere, and host Of
other men, native and adopted citi-
zens, VINO are working as meu never
worked before for the industrial de-
vfiopment OF field Of, marvellously
IiGh rssouIces. Fretwull 10 only typi-
cel OF his race and time, and he and
hls associates are performing prodigies
IN the Industrial field. Twenty we
years agO one Of tho occupations of the
Ingenious youth of Anderson was the
gameof marbles. and they took "round-
ance" and "fudged" as all the careful
and ambitious marble-players did; but
they DO not play marbles on the pub
lic square of Anderson any more.
ut work, and all the middle-age men
ana old men, too. and all the women.
1t is q wonderfully busy and lnspir-
ing community to live in, community
or refined people with great history,
nr men s?a T0Tion Wl0 Keep up with
the world In art and literature and all
the rennements OF the most cultivated
did or selfish about them. They live
above the fOgs Of sectional preindicen.
they mold to their opinions, but they
respect the Opinions of others, they be-
!ieve that Anderson is the centre of
the world and everything in the world
that Is worth having, and they are sor-
ry only that al! the reat Of the world
and prosperous and happy in Ander-
son. They talk Anderson among
themselves at home and they talk An
derson to all who come within the
range OF their exquisite hospitality;
ihey 'Iive. move and have their being''
70 anderson, and because OF their faith
IN tnemeelves and their work for them
Industrial empire 60 the growth Of
which practically no metes and bounds
can be set, u d =
Some idea Of the prosperity of An
derson may be had from the simple
gtatement that there are now in An
derson County fourteen banks, all do
ing well and making money. aud nine
the latest and most modern machinery
and making the best goods for stead
lily increasing market. Besides the
cotton factories thera are cotton oil
mills, mattress factories, workers in
iron and wood and etnne. aEas iniiHHaiiSSifs= 81
able smaller industries giving profit
able employment to thousands Of peO.
pie. So, ,it
The farmers are doing their full
share for the upbuilding OF the county,
anu are making money. Many, IL not
all OF them, have money in the banks
and are steady investors in the mile
and factories that have been establish
| ed from time to time. They are maxi
ing two stalks OF corn grow where it
was regarded as not practicable to
grow one few years ago and are maxi
ing cotton upon the cultivation OF
which the old-t timers would not VEN
ture. Improved methods of cultiva-
ton. improved Implements Of hus-
bandry, and the larger faith OF the
farmersin themselyeshave made farm
Ing in Anderson Q most profitab BILE bus
iness. {5 lssss,. 81 la 3 X
But without the women Of Anderson
none of its present greatness would
have been attained and none of ita,
future promise would inspire to nobler
effort. Their hand is in evidence all
around. The beautiful gard ens.S the,