The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-08
CHARLOTTE BOOSTERS
VISIT LANCASTER
Representative Business Men of
Queen City on $50
ciability Tour"
WERE WARMLY RECEIVED
Welcome Addresses by Col. Springs
and Judge Jones, Responded to by
Mayor Kirkpatrick and Others.

and Judge Jones, Responded to by
Mayor Kirk patrick and Others.
About eighty Charlotte boosters
left that city yesterday morning and
made "sociability" tour to num-
ber of towns and cities in the terri
tory to the south, Including Pine
Vile. Fort Mill. Caoawba Junction.
Lancaster, Heath Springs, Kershaw,
Camden and on the return trip
changing at Lancaster from the
Southern to the. Lancaster & Chester
Railway, went over that road to
Chester, then by the Southern Rail
way to Rock HILL At Lancaster the
visitors stopped their special train at
the Lancaster Cotton Mills. where
they were met by the president Of the
mills. Col. Leroy Springs. and other
officials of this large manufacturing
concern. tour OF inspection of the
mills proved an interesting feature
of their visit here. After spending
about half hour there they were in
vited to the court house, where the
hospitality of Lancaster was extend
ed and responded to by several
speakers. Colonel Springs, as presi-
dent of the Lancaster Chamber of
Commerce, welcomed the visitors on
behalf of that body. He told them
what Lancaster had accomplished
along many lines, how the town has
grown and spoke laughingly of the
possibility of our soon annexing
Charlotte. He declared that the
spindles in all the Charlotte cotton
manufacturing concerns could be put
into the Lancaster cotton mills. for
this mammoth concern has space
enough to hold them all. Colonel
Springs congratulated the North
Carolinians on their boosting spirit
which was good, yet sometimes led
them to disregard the boundary line
Andrew Jackson, who left the Caro-
linas and went to "uncivilized Ten
nessee," but remembering that his
good wife came from the state so de-
scribed. he got out of the dilemma
quite cleverly. Colonel Springs con-
cluded his remarks by presenting
Judge Ira b. Jones. who responded
on behalf of the city of Lancaster.
Judge Jones. in happy vein. made his
hearers feel the warmth of Lancas-
ter's welcome. He compared the
present Lancaster with the little
hamlet he found it to be when he
came here forty years ago. and told
his hearers that today, October 8,
marks the fortieth anniversary Of his
coming to Lancaster. Judge Jones
described the growth and develop
ment of Lancaster which is now one
of the most important cities OF the
Piedmont. He likewise described
the remarkable growth OF the Lam
caster Cotton Mills, which were or
ganized with q capital of $150.0O0
and under the wise management of
Colonel Springs. have grown to be a
corporation with capital stock of
$2,500,000, whose buildings cover
over eight acres and surrounded with |
a population as large as the city Of
Lancaster. The judge also praised
Lancaster's excellent school facili |
ties and stressed the necessity OF ed !
ucation. saying that with all the in
dustrial development in North and
South Carolina we cannot make the
progress we should unless the rising
generation Is educated in mind and
heart. Judge Jones reminded his
hearers OF Lancaster's contribution !
in men and wealth to the growth OF
Charlotte, mentioning the fact that
cotton was hauled there anu sold and
the proceeds therefrom invested in
goods In that city. In this connection |
he recalled the fact that during one
of Zebuion b. Vance's speeches In
Charlotte in 1876. a South Carolinian
who was in the audience, was in a
hilarious mood and causing some
disturbance, was about to be arrest
ed, when the great North Carolinian
interefered, saying, Let him alone,
he is merely overloaded with groc-
cries which he is taking from Char
lotte to Lancaster Judge Jones
told the Charlotte visitors that
Colonel Springs got his inspiration
and ability to do things from the
Westminster Shorter Catechism and
that as boy he road on an old gray