The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-08-01

as twenty miles per hour was regarded
fast time. Now, unless a speed of
forty-five or fifty miles per hour is
made, the average passenger, of swift
ideas becomes somewhat impatient, and
almost ready to say, "I'd just as well
get out and walk" while the enterprise
ing business community is by no means
contented unless the mails arrive twice
or thrice daily, to say nothing of r. f.
d.. routes that drop in at all hours.
And unless the reader of dailies, print
ed hundred of miles away, gets his pa
per at the early breakfast table he is
ready to bless out the whole newspaper
fraternity, the entire postal service and
all railroads between New York and
San Francisco, not to mention points
near home. Had such impatient reader
lived in the days when leading city dali
lies displayed at the heads of their for
eign news column, in conspicuous CAPT
tails, arrival of Steamship America,
Fourteen Days Later from Europe"
perhaps he would be willing to cultivate
''O'S OiS Nv INSWSpdDtIS VI tle
present day get news across the water,
or rather under it, in fourteen minutes.
When the Charleston papers could be
read thirty-siX or forty-eight hours af-
ter publication, two hundred miles dis
tant, most people were satisfied with
the lateness and freshness of its news.
Now they receive it within six or eight
hours after publication at even a
greater distance, and many are yet not
entirely happy.
The leading daily newspapers of
Charleston, as l remember them back
in the fifties and later, were the Cou-
rier, by A. S. Wellington & Co., Rich
ard Yeardon. editor; the Mercury, r.
Barnwell Rhett, Jr., w. r. Taber, edi-
tors, and the Evening News, Col. John
Cunningham, editor. These were strong,
ably conducted and influential journals.
In Columbia the Daily South Carolinian
was published by johnson & Cavis, w.
b. Johnson, editor; the Palmetto State
Banner, by L. c. Morgan, and the illus
trated Family Friend, by Stuart Adair
Goldman. The last two journals were
weeklies, but excellent papers. DR..
r. w. Gibbes subsequently bought the
Carolinian from johnson & Cayis and
became it's editor. All these papers,
both of Charleston and Columbia, were
hrst-class, both as to editorial ability
and typographical execution.
The same may be said of the country
weekly, when such men we're at the ed
itorial helm as Maj. r. F. Perry, of the
Greenville Patriot; G.. H. Allen, DIR.
John H. Logan, w. C.. Davis, f. w.
Selleck, of the Abbeville Banner, o. II.
Wells, G%reenville M%ountaineer; Arthur
Simkins, of the Edgeield Advertiser;
w. p. Price, Greenville Enterprise; the
talented and versatile Warren, of the
Camden Journal; A. A. Gilbert, of the
Sumter Waterman; Slider & Crosson,
of the Newberry Sun; B. l.. Posev.
w. A. Lee, Abbeville Independent Press;
S. A. Goldman, r. Nj. Stokes, John D..
Wright, j. Wistar Simpson, Homer l..
MCGOWAN, w. l.. Hudgens, Joseph N.
Brown, j. j. Davis, James Hollings-
worth and j.. Perkins Hoyt, of the
Laurensville Herald: All of these land
a number of others whose names can
not recalD were editors of the respect
i've papers mentioned prior to the wal
between the States, none of whom are
living, believe, with two exceptions
Judge James M. Crosson, now of Hous-
ton, Texas. and Col. Joseph N. Brown,
now of Anderson, S. C.
Time and circumstances permitting, l
perhaps could have gone more into de-
tail regarding my recollection of the
press of the State during the decade
from 1850 to 1861; but what / have
written, it may be, is already too much.
Respectfully and f~raternnally,
Il. b. CREWS.