The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-04-29

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were given larger lot than was
originally promised. The condition
we have tc meet is to get the people
to vote rs the property and raise
lot less than $4,000. Z. Let US all
get together and have our building
ready BY the time Columbia moves
into hers. The Herald and News
and the Observer have both opened
their cDlumps to US and we feel
very grateful to them for it, but I.
don't want them to get divided on
the Question of the place. You will
remember we waited about two
years to get together on using the
Southern railway depot as a. union
station and the present arrangement
there is a great improvement on the
old. It took us about three years
to get together on lot for the Fra
ternity hall and it was beyond ques-
ton the best place we could have
built it and the building Of It in-%.
. creased the value Of all the property
in that section just as improving the
old court house property will en-
hance the value of all the property
on Main street from Mowers corner
to the depot. Then with the space
in front equal to that in rear Of the
building to- the wall below the Con-
! federate monument, with neat
granite coping, with a grass lawn:
/ and flowers planted inside and a.
park or square similar to those mem
toned by you in AnbeVille and An.
derson, on the wagon yard below,
between opera house and Mr.. Mann's
we will have a square just as prat-
ty as theirs. AbbeYille formerly
used the square they have beautifed
for wagons, horses and buggies just
as we do and the sqaure down there
in front Of Mr.. Mann's could be made
attractive as well as theirs. Then
i if you get the owners Of the prop:
erty below Mr.. Klettner and Mr.:
LeavelI to improve it, or sell it to:
some one who will, you will place
q -Newberry on the road to lead in
public improvements just as Ander-
| son, Abbeville, Spartanburg, Green-:
:, vile and other places are doing now,
and will make it the attractive home
Of our Y. M. c. A.: building when
improved.
/ While T have digressed a little
, from the subject that is nearest and
dearest to my heart, having been
connected with and watched the,
growth of the Young Mems Chris.
tain associations in the South for
more than thirty years, yet I feel:
all that I have written is either di-
rectly or indirectly IN the interest.
of the Young Mems Christian asso-s
citation, and for the good Of New
berry. Lt =s..@ u
! 1 can't understand for the life of
me why any one would want to pull
down or destroy that building which
could not be built for less than $10,-s
600. You have plenty Of room for
square below the court house and
a nice building there will be not
only an attraction but protection,
as well, to- the Confederate monu-
ment near it. Pull it down would
be useless destruction Of property
that is valuable and you will always
have a square there unless you buy
all the way through Mollohon block.
So you see at once, that the sensible
thing to do is to build up and im-s
prove and not to tear down and de-
stfoy. One friend has already. prom
ised us before we have decided on
the date we will begin the canvas
that he has thousand-dolla sub;
scription ready for US to improve
this property, showing that it COM
mends itself to him and the letter
to "The Idler" from Columbia rec.
ommends and endorses it and ali
that is necessary as I, have already
stated is for us to get together, and.
when the State committee arranges
to take up the canvas, as it did for
Columbia to raise $4,000 to $4,000
to enlarge and improve the building
to help to do It. -
A. G. Jones,