The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-02-17
THE NEW SIDEWALK.

| Commenting on our suggestion that
Gre enville street needs another side
walk, in order to accommodate the
school children and general public,
and that Mr.. Stark and Chief Justice
Gary will likely be willing to donate
the necessary land, our Brother Hor-
| ton has the following to say:
"We know now why Mr.. Greene
went into the newspaper business.
HE wants to make Mr.. Stark and
Chief Justice Gary give up some OF
their valuable property just to make
a sidewalk. Greenville street only
needs sidewalk on one side OF the
street as very few people live in that
part of the suburbs, and if it wasn't
| for the fact that the "Buy Now, Pay
Later" king lives on Greenvllie
street, they wouldn't need a sidewalk
| at all.
Brother Horton kicks before he is
spurred. We merely made a sugges-
ton that the gentlemen named would
likely be as patriotic as their neigh
bors who had already given neces-
sary sidewalks in other parts OF the
town, and stated the necessity of an
other sidewalk on Greenville street.
We have no idea that we will "make"
either of these gentlemen "give'
anything to the town, but have a
definite idea as to the duty of the
town, in case either refuses to give or
sell on reasonable terms, and we shall
insist on that idea for sometime to
come unless the sidewalk Is forth
coming. But we had no idea that
this suggestion would cause Brother
Horton to 60 into conniption.
In fact it has not been so long ago
that Brother Horton himself was
about to do something for Abbeville.
His coming was heralded as the COM
ing OF great city-builder. We had
some doubt at the time about a man
from Williamson building a city
much larger than New York, never
theless as he entered triumphantly,
we gave him the right hand of fel-
lowship, and the city handed him the
hammer and saw. ....
Brother Horton commenced well.
He purchased an established newspa-
psr, and bedecked its title page with
this laconic inscription, "Pull for
Abbeville, or Pull Out" That
sounded a little rank for one who
had never been on Greenville street,
but we watched and waited. Well,
Brother Horton at once gave to his
readers a good newspaper. He en-
deavored to give them all the news,
but so far as our memory runs, we
have not heard yet that ne
has done much "pulling for Able
ville." Now. we thought he was
only getting ready, and we had an
idea that when some one had some
thing to propose that was to the in
terest of the public, Brother Horton
would be there with his team to do
some "pulling." We were somewhat
surprised, therefore, when (obeying
the Biblical injunction to get the
beam out of our own eye first), we
suggested that the inexcusable condi-
tion of Greenville street be remedied,
to find Brother Horton on hand, not
to "pull for Abbeville, but "pulling''
for Brother Stark and Chief Justice
Gary. g..
Brother Horton advances three ar
guments against the new sidewalk:
First. Mr.. Stark and Chief Justice
Gary.
Second. That the lots of these gen.
tlemen are valuable.
Third. That the sidewalk is not
needed.
We shall try to answer these in de-
tail according to the merit of each.
AS to the third we take it that this is
la question which addresses itself to
the citizens of Greenville street and
to those who frequent that thorough
fare. AS we have not seen the good
brother up that way we are not sur
prised at his assertion. We merely
suggest to him that, he travel some.
If he will 60 up Greenville street any
day about two o'clock, we dare say
the children returning from school
will undertake to prove to him that
we do need new sidewalk.
Recurring to the first objection, we
will not dispute, but will admit, the
fact that Mr.. Stark is valuable citi-
zen, a public-spirited citizen, and one
who is factor in all good works, and
we are mindful also that the other
gentleman is the Chief Justice of the
highest judicial tribunal of the State,
and a worthy officer. 1t was these
facts which prompted us to say that
these gentlemen would donate the
sidewalk. Mr.. Stark has been the
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