The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-07-30
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A LEAF FROM THE LIVES OF
TWO GREAT CARoLINlANs.
How DR.. James H. Carlisle Discover
ed in a Little Boy Great Man
and Railroad Manager.
! From water-carrier at SO cents
week to general man ager of great
railway system, at salary OF many
! thousands of dollars year, is ca
reer one doesn't hear of every day,
| but that was the achievement of a
South Carolina boy, who grew up
in Columbia, and who became well
known all over the South. That
boy was William H. Green, who was
general manager of the lines no"
controlled by the Southern Railway
system for number Of years.
This statement was made to the
Washington correspondent Of the
Spartanburg Herald recently by Mr..
S. H. Hardwick, who, as passenger
traffic manager, is at the head OF the
entire passenger business OF the
Southern. The story of Capt. Green S
remarkable success was mentioned
| by Mr.. Hardwick in an accidental
way. On the desk of the busy rail-
way mans office lies a stack of rath-
er heavy volumes, whose appear
ance indicates that they are the
work of printers and binders or
many years ago: Closer examina-
ton revealed the fact that the BOOKS
were bound volumes Of weekly
magazine, printed in London, during
the years from 1870 to 1852. Across
the first page of each weekly issue
were the words, 1.-THE Railway
Times" and directly beneath this
captain was a crude picture of a
railway train Of that date. Trailing
along behind delicate looking lit
tie locomotive train of cars was
repaeneed, the single passenger
coach being very much like the old
/ time "carry-all" drawn by horses
Next to this in the train was a car
loaded with cattle, while at the ex-
treme rear was a flat-car, loaded
with boxes of goods, trunks and 9TH
er kind of traffic.
"The issues appearing during the
period mentioned has been bound
into a dozen sturdy volumes, bear
ing the mark of an enterprising
bookseller of Southampton, Eng
land. Mr.. Hardwlck was asked
where he ran across these books,
which were apparently of much
value and to- reply he told the fol-
lowing story:
why, about five or six years ago
in 1905, believe it was-1 made
a talk down at Glenn Springs, S. C.,
on the subject which was all-absorb-
ing at that time, not only in South
Carolina, but all over the country
the railroad-rate question. After my
address was finished, Dr.. James H..
Carlisle, president emeritus OF Wof-
ford College, Spartanburg, who was
spending a while at Glenn's, and
who had heard the talk, came to me
and spoke most kindly of my feeble
effort. He declared that he had been
interested in what said, and SEEM
ed deeply impressed with the i'm
portance of the problem of railroad
rate adjustment. AS we'll as | can
recall his words-and they were inl-
! pressive, can assure you-he' said:
I feel that it is a great question, and
l regret that have not given 1t
more careful study.
"Dr. Carlisle then told me that he
had in his library on the Woford
College campus several bound vol
umes of an English railway maga-
zine appearing about the middle Of
the last Gentry. which might be Of
interest to ME. as they had been to-
him so far as he, had had time to
read them. and asked me if l would
accept them. OF course l told him l
should be glad indeed to get them,
and arranged for him to send
them to ME here. Those are the
volumes he gave me. Most people
would have destroyed them as
worthless years ago. but have no
doubt that Dr.. Carlisle has preserF-
ed them all these years, waiting for
some such opportunity 10 give them
to someone to whom they would be
of interest and value. | have found
them of great interest. as contrast
Ing the railway business of sixty
years ago with that of today; and
now that Dr.. Carlisle has passed
away, the value of those books to
me has passed out OF the realm OF
| dollars and cents.
Continuing Mr.. Hardwick said:
Il suppose you knew Of the close
friendship that existed for SO many
years between Dr.. Carlisle and Capt
Green, our late general manager?
Well it is not SO generally known,
but they we're great friends until the