The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-09-24
A STORY OF
DREAMS AND DEEDS
Continued from page 81

from this plutocratic state, than the
safe, amply secured, gilt edge eight
per cent investments the Presbyterian
elders were accustomed to make. The
horizons of life broadened and men,
looked forward, were thrilled by the
heroic deeds of their revolutionary
fathers upon the bloody and decisive
field of Guilford Court House; and
they set themselves to defend their
fathers record, rearing to them bent
ting memorials and restoring the old
lighting lines on the Guilford Court
House battlefield. Looking forward,
they saw with prophetic vision the
coming day when, sitting at the gate
way to the South, their town should
become a populous and opulent city.
The submergence of the City of
Flowers and the emergence of the
Gate City of the South may be traced
to four principal causes: ~ The
coming of the railways; (2) the com
ing of the colleges; (3) the coming OF
the churches; (4) the coming of the
Jews.
The railway construction of the SOS
brought the City of Flowers into di-
rect connection not only with Wash
ington and the great cities of the
East. Richmond, Raleigh, AsheviIle,
and Atlanta, but also the sea at Nor
folk and Wilmington, the Blue Ridge
( Mountains, at Mt. Airy, connecting at
important centers with the main
lines of the N. & w. Ry., the S. A. l..
Rv. and the A. c. L. Ry. Then came
the panic of 1898, which threw most
of these roads into receivers hands
this being followed by the consolida-
ton upon a really colossal scale OF
the Southern Railway. The City OF
Flowers now became known as a
splendid distributing point, desira'
bic location for manufacture Of ev-
Sery sort, being near to the raw ma.
terial and close to growing markets
The factories came.
Wherever Presbyterianism thriveE
good schools and few mortgages ar,
found. 1t is only in a Presbyterian
community that bond issue for thu
erection of a college-and negro col
! lege at that-could carry with Onl!
.. one vote against it, and this happen
/. ed in the City of Flowers in the yea
I 1891. During the period of 1888
1898, three new colleges were estab
! lished and the total population o
white and black in 1890 was less thai
: $500.
One of these schools, the Norma
l and Industrial College for Young Wo
= men, brought to US as members o
:: its faculty a group of young men des
! tined to become the educational lead
I ers of the South. DR.. Chas. D. Nc
liver, the first president of the college
7 DR.. E. A. Alderman, now president o
4 the University of Virginia; DR.. I
p. ClaXton, National Commissioner O
y Education; j. Y. Joyner, the leader @
4 the educational movement in Mort
: Carolina and now for a number @
= years the Superintendent of Public Ir
d struction in that state. For an ir
= teresting but not altogether accurat
!: account of this educational campaig
u had only a name to live. Everywher
ii cities were laid out, imposing hotel
p looking like exaggerated Queen Ann
I cottages, were erected, glowing pro:
n pectuses were prepared and widel
2 distributed, and the promoter fattene
Z upon the hopes of men.
n The conservatism of Calvinism CAV
3 place to a distinctly Arminian con
= mercial philosophy, holding better tn
ID fluctuations of fortune, the possessio
81 of wealth followed by a sudden ia
= which led to the founding of tn
u school, read Walter Hines Page
"Southerner," a book which, howe,
p er, does not reflect upon the distir
Y guished ambassador to Great Britai
h very much literary credit. Other et
s ucators were reared there: Henr
y Louis Smith, President of Washint
n ton and Lee University; Charles
n Weaver, President of Henry and En-
y cry College; C. Alphonso Smitl
n Roosevelt Exchange Professor ,