The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-27
that AUTO ROUTE
HON. SAMUEL D1BBLE POINTS
OUT TEE VERY BEST ONE

seueen Charleston and oraageburg
and Gives Two R6ates From Or
aageburg TO Columbia.
The letter we publish below from
sEhe Hon. Samuel Dibble, Of this city,
% the Hon. James Cosgrove, chair
5Gnen of the Good Roads Committee OF
the Charleston Automobile Associa-
sion. points out in our judgment the
best route for an automobite high
way from Charleston to. orangeburg,
and indicates the best two routes
from this city to Columbia, either
one OF which could be adopted as
she continuation Of the route from
Eharleston 10 Columbia. Here is the
aettsr:
Dear Sir: IN compliance with my
promise to furnish you with with q
sketch Of the Charleston and Co!un-
6ia public road. best adapted for
nlaciny Charleston In automobile
communication with the City of Co
aumbia and the City Of orangeburg
and towns along the route. ! enclose
a rough sketch made by myself
quite hastily; but Mr.. Fielder and
aGr. w. C. Wolfe of Orangeburg will
prepare one which will be more ac-
curate in scale.
8 The old Orangeburg and Charles
ton road, 80 feet wide by law, Is
the only route which will embrace
all the points seeking connection with
the City of Charleston, upon all the
routes proposed. This road, built
by British military engineers as a
connection OF Charleston with the
posts at Crangeburg and beyond,
during the Revolutionary war, has
maintained its efficiency in q large
degree, and can be more readily put
in automobile order than any other.
Besides tbs towns of Summerville,
Aarleyville and Bowman, and the
City of Orangeburg on the main
route, It Is in convenient reach OF
Holly EEill and Cameron on one side
and OF Ridgeville, st. George and
Branchville and minor stations on
the Southern railway below the City
OF Orapgeburg, on the otherside. At
Orangeburg, the traveller has choice
OF two routes-one by way of st.
Matthews and Fort Motto and Kings
vile. and the other by the Bull
Swamp and Kennerly public roads
by way OF CASTOR on the Seaboard
Air Line, thus accommodating all the
stations on that railroad from North
to ESolumbia--both OF which routes
are in good order in the county of
Orangeburg, and avoid the obstacles
of EIuckaboo Swamp, and of the
State Road near Columbia.
The road between Charleston and
is very fine, as FAR as
the work has been done, and ] pre-
sumo that the remaining part will
soon be made "a good road. Mr..
Gross, the supervisor of Dorchester
county, will go to work at once
with his changing and the cypress
sWamp's causeway Is not very hard
70 fix, as there is clay hill to be
graded down, and it will furnish the
dirt needed there to raise the height
OF that causeway; and the, bridges
are In such order that the addition
Of q few planks and guard-rails will
make them all right. The Four
Holes causeway will have to be rails
ed a great deal to be se1viceable
IN the wet season, and this Mr. Gross
is willing to do.
a detour of about six miles OF
distance will furnish a good road at
any stage Of water at Horseford
Bridges, and this section has just
been worked into fine condition. He
says he has q chaingang Of Il at
present. In orangeburg county, by
a fortunate contingency, Mr. Fielder
has available FIR the improvement
OF the Orangeburg and Charleston
road, about az hands in two separate
gangs, and expects to have on the
chaingang about 60 by January; and
there will be no difficulty IN our
county. Between Bowman and Or
angeburg and some miles below, the
chaingang has worked great deal
OF its time in FIVE years; and in the
rotation of the work, the townships
through which the Orangeburg and
Charleston passes, are now entitled
to this entire force; and the Bull
Swamp and Kennerly Roads above
the City of Orangeburg las well as
the road from Orangeburg to st.
Ratthews) have been clayed as far
as the Calhoun line. The supervisor
OF Lexington has promised to bring
the road via CASTOR in automobile
condition at once.
AS to accommodations for CONNER
cial travellers and others, of course
you know that Summerville has the
pine Forest Inn and other hostelries.
4Iarleyville has the Hutto House;
Bowman has the Hotel Agsaloma
(three-story briclk), the Smith House
and other accommodations in private
families; Orangeburg has the Hotel
(six-story brick), to be
onened IN January, besides the Saint
49, nr,ooohurp Inn and