The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-02-24
ROBT. YOUNG HAFNE--PIONggR.

i'tH VI MhECH IoEo' anu ny ,SpHy OF lle
same yaar five experimental milns had
been built. In August, 1880, the com-
pany was organized to build the
road from Charleston to Hamburg, S
c., and by May LIST, 1888, &c miles had
been completed. A branclt.]fne was
to run TO Columbia. ~ ki,4s
The Charleston Mercury OF May 7th,
1889, stated very truthfully that the
locomotive trayels over greater ex-
tent of line of railroad In consecutive
miles than Is or now can be done in
any other part OF the world" News
papers were boosters in those days
also.
Martin Van Buren, did not hesitate
to assert about that time that the con-
structlon OF the Charleston railroad
was a part of the plans OF the nulli-
ficationists to make Charleston the
great port of this country by reaching
out arms OF railroads into the west
and draining that section of its com
merce.
In 1888 Elias Horny at Augusta, in
a speech commemorating the building
of the Grad, declared that the Western
Railroad, building from Knoxville,
Tenn, would enter South Carolina
about SpartaHburg district and would
proceed to Columbia and thence to
Branchville to connect with the South
Carolina road, or the Charleston Rail-
way as 1t was called. Early In Feb
ruary the locomotive "Tigefield" made
the run from Charleston to Augusta
In hours and 20 minutes, a distance
of 1876 miles. Some speed The roll
ing stock OF tho road consisted ( of
nine locomotives, II passenge erl coach
es and 80 freight cars. ES
But the real pioneer of failroading
in South Carolina Is said TO have been
Robert Y. Hayne, who as far back as
1892 divined that what South Carolina
needed was railway TO be operated
by steam power to solve the dlfficul-
ties OF transportation. The patent
railway" had been exhibited in Char
lesion and Mr.. Hayne realized what
1t would do. But we are told by his
torians that for narrow, selfish rea-
sons, they had demagogues nnd oh
structionists then as they have today
--the railroad was turned dowA fiat
by Columbia and even in Charleston
was denied access to the water front
a while. ia \
In 1895, Gen. w. II. Harrison of In
diana. later president, but at that time
senator and friend OF Gen. Hayne.
headed a group Of men to build the
Charleston and Cincinnati Is IlAxing-
ton 10 Cumberland cup to "a fench
Broad Valley and TO- CONT q and
Charleston. Joel n, Poinsett was al
$50 Interested In this proposition, and
by some credit for the Tor Ssight OF
the whsle mat. 4 glaea e Stephen
Elliott. AT Columbia Abra Bland
Ing. Wade Hampton and Senator W. C.
Preston tools7up the propositidE. &
On the sth of July 1886, great
convention was held Id KncxviIJey
Tenn, and the matter was DEBATED st
great length. 1t was declared to be
easily feasible to build the- road, the
only question vas sha Eoate. EEr.
Hayne and this associates, ahcluding
Judge O'Neall. contended for . road
through the middle Of the Sihie. and.
Mr.. Calhoun contended for the road
known as sthe Georgia route.
This was to go by way.iof Augusta
and Athens, bnt Augusta fen down on
building bridge and the two roads
were of different gauge. Mr.. Hayne
had triumph in the Knoxville con-
yentiun and 1t was dstermined To-
build the road by the FrS1ch Brood
way. Later Mr.. Calhoun discovered
the route over the mountaiH By WHITE.
Fails. now the Blue Ridge road. He
described 1t as following tue oiGi
Cherokee trading path and crossing
the Blue Ridge from WlAts Water
creek, branch OF the Kebwee, Ito.
the Tuckasiege." ii
There resulted q long an9 intermin-
able wrangie. which caused the death
of Hayne. He attended q E;aetlng of
the directors at Asheviiie on the 10th
OF September, 1889. and was taken
with teYer which caused his death six
days later, Thus has every grea,
undertaking martyr, as the Panama
,,annI had ,fa Ilaxy1,, ~, tsS.1,s n ., m. -
ana It's jackson smith OF South Caro-
lima.