The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-05-23
HOW GREENVILLE GROWS.
The Secret of the Success of Any Town
Is In the Pulling Together Of
Live Citizens.
Greenville, S. c., May 16, 1913.

every man, woman and child living
in Newberry who formerly lived in
Greenville
1t is a suggestion that you visit your
old home during the week of May
1924, when there will be "some things
doing" What? The "Made in Green
Vile" exposition, the Pure Food and
Health exposition, the Municipal San
itary congress, the Greenville horse
show, the home coming week, the State
convention of Elks. the big farmers
rally, the trades day parade, band con-
certs daily and nightly, etc.
Visit Greenville and see how it has
grown.
The steep, muddy roads that you
used to use for streets are now well
graded and paved with fifteen miles Of
the finest paving you see anywhere.
"old Reedy' is spanned with mag
nifcent $4,000 REINFORCED concrete
bridge, with Great White Way
running it's entire length, and with
a big four-story concrete warehouse
where the old mill used to be.
Go in any direction you chose, from
the center of the city, which by the
way, is not he same as it used to be,
and you will not know your eyes. Let
me ask you few questions?
When you lived in Greenville, did
she have the 5S daily passenger trains
she has now? Did the c., & W. Z.
have $4,000 invested in depots and
plants in Greenville? How many rail-
road stations were there in those
"good old days" within sixty miles OF
Greenville? Not the 135 that We have
now, were there?
Perhaps you lived here when we had
few more than 600 people. Now, the
Southern railroad alone has force OF
600 here and is paying them 100000
a. month in wages and salaries.
Honestly, now, did you ever think
Greenville's freight veceipts would
amount to the s2,5OO,OOO annually
that they reach now? Did you ever
dream that there would be sold IN
GreenEille on an average every day
in the year $1,000 in passenger rail
way tickets?
Can you imagine that within 70
miles of Greenville is concentrated 70
per cent of South Carolina's main in
dustry-cotton manufacturing? The
presidents of Al mills live in Green
Vile. while the purchasing depart
ments of 48 are located here. Last
wear in Greenville, one engineer
honght one million dollars worth OF
electrical equipment alone. You re-
member where you used to co., up
Reedv river, to hunt arrow heads!
Well there stands today in that same
neighborhod the largest cotton mill IN
the United States under one roof, and
right around it, in the territory where
Won hunted bird nests and shot helo
larks, are eleven giant mills with
canital of ten millions of dollars, en-
ploying 1000 with an annual pay roll
of more than two millions OF dollars,
Truly, your "home town" has grown
into big city, and is still "going
some"
About the only thing that hasn't
changed is the altitude of the city
which remains at 1,O54 feet. Well,
Paris mountain seems to be where it
used to be; but it only seems" for
it is really much closer to Greenvllle
than ever before because of the great
amount of building and development
towards it and on it.
You know what is doing it all?
Thirty-fve thousand live, energetic
hustling citizens all working together
to make Greenville the biggest city
in South Carolina as it is already the
best in which to live. Here is what
one old Greenville boy has just writ
ten us: 'sNow and always friend to
Greenville and her prosperity. For
merly of Greenville, sorry ever any
thing else, and wishes he was now.
Don't you feel that way?
A great many of the "o>d folks are
coming back this week, maybe you
had better be one of them.
You won't know the town, it has
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