The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-05-03

sea, Charleston the picturesque, the
;ity Of fine old mansions and historic
churches, the city with the delightful
climate, and whose story in he Rcvo.
lutinn ou,rivals the story Of Boston
itsc. IL seems like an Old town Of
z'rauec Not another city ~ the At
iaut.a sits 20 close to tic ocean: uot
mother city in America contains 50
many splendid old time mansions.
Wctc sc.hnp a town in all the
South 10 live in would lind it hcrc.
Of cctr-r would like to have cUnaid
.or&t!a a.oncy III chat ease | would
Ike u have Il great great lot Of lris.
Ircly lazincss thrown in. When rvo-
ole rcaktast after 9 III the forenoon,
aud line for an hour or two at > in
tlic after noon, supping for an hour at
I, one must be ready to lake things
easy. When all things are done on
the SOW plan, when railroad trains
get ia Tot by a schedule, but when
thc Lord Wills it, leisure absolute,
becomes religion. Next, il living
here, would want some old family
,trad.tions, some real, aristocratic
blood, some kinship to Marion or
pinckney or Rutlcdec or Marshall or
70 any Of the rcvcrcd patriots of the
oidcn time. would want to live in
onGst any one Of these four hundred
..1isut,:ons see, with their three sto
ri,,s aud their enormous white column
d vcrandas, looking to the sea.
world want 1850 or 1890 carved on
my mansion as the date Of its build
ing. And to be in mode Of the Char
iestoa four hundred, stone tablet
above my window would read: "In
this house George Washington was
entertained, or "in this house La.
fayette Has lodged" or "in this house
the British Clinton lived" or ''in
this house CORVALLIS had his head
quarters" or From this house pa
triots in the Revolution were led to
execution Inscriptions like this are
on doz ems and dozens of Charleston
houses.
But, above all, l would want to
aave it written on my forehead that
r:n the war of secession 1 was "rebcl'
"a heroiJ Confederate soldier; that
served without pay, lived on poor
rations, lost all fought for, and
rcamo home to find my house in
4 ruins.
| Pos sessed of all these requisites
! Charlie ston, with its sea-views, its de-
| ficieus climate and its purely South
| ern types-spite Of it's myriads Of
dark ies-would be little paradise.
The city has perhaps 5000 people
-35 900 whites and 10000 the chill
kiren of slaves.
One need not be so rich after all,
feo live in big mansion in Charles
iaon. NJ any Of these great homes, af-
Fer the civil war, passed into other
Eands. Some of them have been sac
Ei6ced for a tithe of their original
cost, yet today they are still absolute
dy ehe statelicst mansions in the
South.
Ch arleston for many years had lost
ats grip. Money: ambition, opporta-
Snity-all were gone. The people had
uitte to live on, save the great recol-
aections Of other days. 1t was like q
beautiful grave yard filled with state.
EE sep ulchres. And what had this
grave gard by the sea experienced {
First, { our years of war right il its
door yard; next, terrible conaagratioD;
then earthquake and at last monster
cyclone. One wonders that one stone
stands up2n another in Charleston.
Yet here it is, beautiful as bride,
and with halo of history about
chat makes it the most intert sting
.aity ia the South. Business men tell
.ae that the tide of new day is set
~ting in for Charleston. There has al.
ways been wealth here. The blockade
runners prevented Charleston's be-
comm 8 poor to the came extent as did
>nther Southern towns. Many Of
. Chose palatial homes by the sea were
i",' 4,e.,t up by their first owners. and
/" their 'chiadren still live in them.
= Ihat means money, and much Of it.
$ Cotton growing and cotton dealing
a iSeve -alwass been gold mine to the
q apper classes Of the South. Then
= aature,a' few years age uncovered vast
Phosphate deposits that have been
roiEng millions of dollars into the
pockets Of South Carciinians. OF
shese Charleston has her share. And
Hhese. phosphates are revivifyipg