The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-10-31
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1905.
The Southern and Two Of Its Officers

makes one realize the importance OF
the Southern railway TO note that
Z Samuel Spencer is the spokesman for
all the railroads in the campaign
which they are conducting against the
sch-Townsend bill. And the South
ern is a great system. There can be
no doubt as to that" There can be
no doubt of either proposition, and
while. as to the first, we cannot but
think he is wholly wrong in the posi-
ton he takes, it is source OF con-
3 siderable satisfaction to remember
/ that "thie spokesman for all the rail-
roads" in their campaign against the
rate regulation bill, the president OF
the Southern Railway company, is
r Southern man, a Georgian. AS to the
second, it is yet more pleasurable to
remember that its first vice president
and one of the principal factors in
/ its success, is North Carolinian, Col.
B. Andrews In this connection
is recalled a tribute to him in re-
cent number of the Goldsboro Argus,
in which were said these, among other
s things:
s 'sThe people are realizing, day by
day, how much the development of
North Carolina is due to the South
ern railway, ramifying as it does so
many sections Of Our state and ex-
tending its lines into many distant
states. Moreover, these same people
realize, too, that the man who has
/; been the chief factor in this develop
ment is Col. A. B. Andrews, first vice
president of the Southern railway sys-
TEN.
Ss= ssWhile Col. Andrews has always
hooked to the interests of the South
ern, which he has seen grow from its
incipiency to great system, at the
same time. patriotic North Carolinlan
szthat he is, from his young manhood,
when he wore the uniform of Con-
& federate soldier to this day, he has
ever been true to the interests OF his
people and as we have watched our
B grand old mother state struggling up
from the prostrating ravages of the
war unto the proud eminence she
holds today in the sisterhood Of states
4 and realize that her greatest achieve
ments of development have been in
! the territory ramified and subserved
4 by the Southern railway. The Argus
has ever been glad and grateful to
yield the chief credit for this SO great
progress progress that gives prof
liable employment and happy homes
h<of comfort to thousands upon thous-
I ands in countless avocations Of indus
:, trial enterprises-to the one man who
has abided at his task, whose brain
conceived, whose patriotism fostered
and whose rare executive ability
guided and sustained the energies and
forces that have worked out this pros
perity for his native state"
81 This is thoroughly well deserved
& and the Observer is glad OF an oppor-
! tunity to copy and endorse it.-Char-
lotte Observer.
81 The Herald and News takes pleas
ure in copying the above with its
i a,sarty endorsement. And we would
be pleased to add another officer ofthe
: Southern who is a staunch friend of
s the south and himself southern gen
y t1eman. We refer to Col. Sam H.
{ Hardwick the passenger traffic man
ager. He never loses an opportunity
to speak a word or perform an act
that will benefit his native southland
Then there is the general passen-
s ger agent, w. H. Tayloe, and the as
sistant general passenger agent,
Brooks Morgan, also southern men,
both of these young men having been
trained by Mr.. Hardwick and all of
them true 70 the south.
s The Southern has done much to de-
velop not only North Carolina, but
South Carolina and the whole south.
Of course what helps the south helps
the Southern railway, but the fact re-
mains that the Southern has contribu-