Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-04-07

The following reference to the
speech delivered by Mr.. Lewis w
Parker, of Greenville, at the child
labor conference in Atlanta Friday,
appears in the Atlanta Constitution;
A novel departure was then intro
duced when Lewis Parker, mill
operator, was introduced to speak on
Compulsory Education, the Solution
of the Child Labor Problem" His
speech was clearly the hit of the days
session and he was roundly applaud
ed. Mr.. Parker declared that what
South Carolina, where one-fifth of the
population worked in the mills, need
ed more than anything else was laws
to compel the registration of births
and stricter marriage laws. He stat
ed that the only requirements neces-
sary for marriage in that state were
an agreement to live together as man
and wife. He said that this made II
impossible to keep innocent gTls
from being deserted when men oper-
atiyes moved from one settlement 10
another. Without the record or q
marriage to be had it was found i'm
possible to trace these cases.
Washington, April 3: Successful
experiments in the cultivation OF
Egyptian cotton have been conducted
in New Mexico and Arizona, accord
ing to reports made by the bureau OF
plant industry of the department of
agriculture. Dr. Webber, now of
Cornell, experimental with the Egyp-
tian plant in South Carolina and
northern Georgia, but the climate
was too severe in these sections. DR..
Carson of the department was re-
warded greater success in his efforts
made in the Colorado river basin, as
much as nine hundred pounds of lint
having been secured from one acre
last year. 1t is believed that the
plant can be grown in northern Flor
ida and southern Georgia. Egyptian
cotton, millions of dollars worth of
which are imported annually into the
United States, is more valuable than
inland specimens of sea island and
upland varieties though less valuable
than the best grades of the former. 1t
is the strongest variety of cotton, and
is used largely in the manufacture OF
fine laces and best quality of under
garments. Seeds from the Arizona
growths are being distributed by Di.
Carson for experiments in other sec
tions as the department is anxious to
develop the cultivation of Egyptian
cotton in this country.
- Columbia State, Sunday: John
Shelton Williams and party of New
York and Baltimore, capitalists, pass
ed through Columbia yesterday in a
Pullman private car attached to the
Seaboard regular southbound passen-
ger train. In reply to questions at
the station, where a brief stop was
made, Mr.. Williams said that he and
a party of friends were going south" "
He said, in reply to another question,
that they would probably return in
about a week or ten days. Accom-
panying Mr.. Williams and the party
of capitalists was Mr.. c. 7. Williams,
secretary to the receivers of the Sea-
board Air Line railway. 1t is rumor-
ed that Mr.. John Shelton Williams is
making a trip of inspection over the
property of the Seaboard with a view
to purchasing it. He organized the
Seaboard system and was for long
time president of the company. He
is now one of the largest stockholders
and has always taken a very active
part in the road. 1t is said that he
has associated with him some prom
inent capitalists and will take over
the property from the receivers with
in the next few months. Mr.. Will
liams has many friends along the
line of the Seaboard who would be
glad to see him again at the head OF
this great system. TO him is due
much credit for the development OF
manufacturing industries, etc, along
the Seaboard. He is a southern man
and there are many who believe that
he would be able to handle the prop
erty to advantage if he should again
be made president.
New York April 4: When the
clocks chime midnight tonight the
Fifth Avenue hotel will pass into OBJ
livion. For fOrty-nine years ii has
held its place as one of the most IA
nous hOstelries in America, but big
ger and more elaborate hotels nave
taken the patronage it once held, ano
now modern business requirements
have forced out the old building
which i'm it's time has housed thouS-
andS of men whose names are house
hold words. to give way To Il modern
skyScraping office building. The po-
litical history of New York and OF
America is closely identified with the
old hotel. On the great plush SetteeS
i'm what has come TO be known as the
"amen corner" have sat most of the
men who have been prominent in the
political history of the country in the
last half century. There have sal
Grant. COnkling, Arthur, Plat. De-
pew, in fact practically all of the mer
whose names are craven on the an
nails of the Republican party in New
York. on the stairway i'm the corner
James G. Blaine heard DR.. Rurchard
deliver the Rum. ROmanism and Re-
belliOn" speech which cost him the
presidency. Every corner of the old
building. every room is peopled with
the ghosts of the famous men who
have been known there during the
time the hotel has been i'm existence
The old guests. many of them having
spent thirty and forty years under Its
hoSpitable roof, have left for new
homes, and the old servants. dozens
of whom have been i'm the hotel fol
more than quarter of century
have secured new places or have ar
ranged to retire altogether from la
Dor. Hundreds of people have asked
for souvenirs of the old hotel.
- For president of the United States
Thomas +. Watson. of Georgia. Fol-
vice president of the United states
Samuel Williams of Indiana. The
foregoing ticket was nominated ut st
Louis last Friday, after two stormy
sessions. during which the Nebraska
and the Minnesota delegations bolted
because they could not procure q
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