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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-07-07
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Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy
and Controlled by the State
Eighty session begins October 1915-Ends June 1916
oratores of Chemistry Bacterogy Anatomy Physiology Pathology
Pathology Pharmacoogy Pharmacy modern
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For catalog address, OSCAR w. SCHLEETER, Registrar,
CHARLESTON, S. G.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-07-07

No communications will be published
unless accompanied by the writer $
name.
Cards of Thanks. Obituaries, Resoiu-
lions and Political Notices puDlisneo a'
advertising rates.
Evening star., 1915-11-14

earners of any city in the state. Wage
earners. 1899, $50: 1909, 1,470; increase,
II per cent. Value of products, 1899
s1.5SS.s71; 1909. $4,419,562: increase, 1S7
per cent
The carload movement of Alexandria
for the past year was. forward. 1854 !;
received. 14,16S: total, 47.709. These
cars if arranged in one train would oc-
cupy 452 miles of track, or the distance
between Alexandria, Va. and Spartan
burg. S. c. If divided into trains of
thirty cars each it would require 1880
engines to move them.
The population of the city of Alexan-
dria. according to the federal census
of 1910. was 1929. In 1900 the popu
lation was 14,52S; in 1890. 1929; in
1880. 1860; and in 1870, 1850. Dur
ing those decades the population in
crease was very slow, but since the last
census there has been a marked in
crease, due to expanding business in
the city and to the extension of the
corporation limits so that the popula-
tion of the city is now about $4,000. At
the last census Richmond had a popula-
ton of $4,000: Norfolk, $1,000: Roa-
noke. $4,000; Portsmouth. 5000: Lynch
burg. $4,000: Petersburg, $4,000; New
port News, 10000; Danville, 10000; AL
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THE POST OFFICE At ALEXANDRIA.

exandria, $1,000. and Staunton. 10000.
Cities between 5000 and 10000 popula-
tion were Charlottesville, Winchester,
Clifton Forge. Fredericksburg and Bris
tol. In the last census Alexandria was
the ninth city in point of population,
and though all the cities of Virginia
have prospered and increased in popu
lation, 1T is believed that at this time
Alexandria is in seventh place.
At the last count of heads the white
population of Alexandria was 11,132
and the colored 4.1SS. The native
whites of native parentage numbered
1929. natives of mixed parentage 412.
and of foreign parentage. 557. The for
efgn born whites numbered $40. The
males of voting age numbered 4,650.
and of this number sos were colored.
There were 277 illiterate of voting age,
so of them being native whites and 21S
colored. The number of dwellings was
3.273 and the number of families 5,577.
The number of children between six
and fourteen years was 2,404 and 10
per cent of them were attending school.
The corporation limits were so ex-
tended that North Alexandria, Park Ad-
dition, Braddock Heights, Rosemont
and George Washington Park and the
closely settled country between Del
Ray on the north and Braddock Heights
on the northwest and Rosemont on the
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bacco warehouse was esta Dlishcd on the
site of Alexandria in 1880 and there
grew up a small hamlet which was
called Belle Haven. The growth Of this
town and the excellence of the harbol
suggested that the site was n good
for a regularly planned, laid out and
governed town.
Alexandria takes its name from the
Alexander family. The first of the
Alexanders came to Virginia about
1910 and settled in Stafford county His
name was John 1t was the emigrant's
son John who bought the patent
granted to Howsen. This John died
in 1851 and oequeathed the land Gov
cred by the Howsen patent to his sons
Robert and Philip. Philip exchanged
his share of the patent lands with ms
brother Robert for other lands. Ropert
died in 1885 and bequeathed the How
sen lands to his sons John ana Gerard-
Gerard's share was the north portioh.
extending from Four Mile run north
and west along the Potomac. he SOLO
a part of this land to John Parke Gus
lis son of Mrs. Martha Washington by
her first husband. John Parke Cuetls
after his marriage to Eleanor CafVert
of Mount Airy, near Marlborough. in
MARYLAND. took up his abode in the
house called Abingdon, and there Nellie
Custfs, the ward of George Washins-
ton was born. The son of John farhe
Custis. George Washington Parke Gus
tbs. built a mansion on the hills above
the Abingdon lands and called II Ar
lington. That part of the Howsen
tract between Four Mile run ana
Hunting creek was Johns share. ana
dying he left it to his eldest son.
Charles Charles lived at fine old
place called Preston, near Alexandra,
and up to few years ago this place
was in possession of his great-grand-
children named Swami, and it may be
in possession of the Swami family to-
day.
Lord Fairfax had received from the
crown a grant to all northern Virginia
and laid claim to the Alexander lands
hat had come through the Howsen pat
ent. The case was in the courts for
years, but was at length decided In ia
vor of the AleXanders. The history
of Alexandria. as interesting to Amer
leans the history of Williamsburg.
Frederick and FrederIcks-
burg, would fill many chapters.
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and transatlantic lines. Washington
and Alexandria are connected by 1876
electric trains and fifty-siX steam pas
senger trains daily.
The energetic business men of Alex
andrla want that city to become the
great industrial suburb of Washington
The Alexandria Chamber of Commerce,
in it's literature setting forth the ad-
vantages of Alexandria as a manufac-
turing center. says:
Alexandria aspires to be the work
shop for the Nations Capital: here the
manufacturer has no smoke law with
which to contend. Alexandria wants and
welcomes the manufacturer and de-
sires to see her city girdled with belt
Of factories utilizing and employing
the wonderful facilities she possesses.
She now has forty-eight manufactures
in operation; others are coming and
she wants more"
The extent of manufa ctures in Alex
andria is not realized by the average
person who sees Alexandria through
guide book and INDUCES in reveries at
her historic shrines Among the forty
eight manufactures in operation are
three large fertilizer plants, clay works
for the making of terra Gotta pipe,
drain tile. building blocks and silos;
iron works for the production of struc-
tural iron and wrought iron; glass
works. where bottles are made in great
plumbers: an automatic coupler plant,
machine shops operated by private cap
ital and one by the Southern railway, a
boot and shoe factory, an underwear
mill, a brewery, bread and cake bak
ing plant, an ice factory, milling.
silk thread factory and a vinegar and
cider making plant.
Alexandra does a big business in the
lines of builders supplies, coal, wood,
lumber millwork, building material,
sand and gravel, wholesale drugs. flow
er growing and distribution, wholesale
groceries. ship chandlery and wholesale
hardware. In the city are seventy five
according to the chamber of commerce,
do an annual business of $4,000, 900.
There are four national and state banks
in the city with resources Of about
S5.000,O00.
According to the latest figures of the
census bureau, Alexandria has made
the greatest gain in the value of manu-
fact"red articles and number of wage
Evening star., 1915-11-14

west were annexed. Lying partly with
in the city of Alexandria and the coun-
ty of Alexandria are the Potomac yards,
which are said to be the largest classi-
fication railroad yards in the United
States. The yards cost over $4,000, 900,
contain forty-five miles of tracks, have
a capacity of $4,000 cars. employ 500
men and have a monthly pay roll of
100000. Alexandria has a mile and a
half of water frontage on the Potomac
river. and the steamer lines give direct
connection for all river. coastwise and
transatlantic business. The number of
vessels arriving in the harbor of Alex
andria average 1900 a year. The an
nual freight tonnage of these vessels
averages $4,000, and the average an
nual value of the freight is $1,000, 900
1t is pointed out by the Alexandria
Chamber of Commerce that Alexandria
is the only point on the Potomac river
where direct connection is made be-
tween railroad lines and vessels, two
wharves in the city being equipped
with tracks which place the railroad
car at the vessels side.
The site of Alexandria and a goodly
portion of Alexandria county were in
cluded i'll a crown patent given by
Gov. Berkeley to Capt. Robert How
sen under date of October 81, 1863.
Howsen had brought to Virginia 120
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1876: colored males. 1865; colored fe-
males. 1878. The number of males of
voting age was 3.4S5. The number of
iliterate males of voting age was 277.
or 6 per cent, being decrease from
SO per cent during the preceding ten
years. The number of white litter
ates was SO. or 1.6 per cent while the
number of colored illiterates was 213,
or III per cent.
The number of inhabitants of six
to twenty years of age, inclusive, was
1916, and the number attending school
was Isis. or 62.2 per cent. The num-
Der six to nine years of age was $50,
and the number attending school was
500: the number of inh1 1bitants ten to
fourteen years of age was 959. and
the number attending school was S59
Between the ages of six to fourteen,
inclusive, the percentage of whites of
native parentase attending school was
sos; of native whites of foreign par
entage attending school. S5.s, and the
percentage of colored inhabitants be-
tween the ages indicated and attend
ing school was 1873.
The number of dwellings, in the coun-
ty in 1910 was 2.04S, and the number of
families 2.141. but a great change Aas
come over these figures in five years,
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in Alexandria county. The main
streams of the county are Four Nine
run, which rises near the western eno
of the county and enters the. Potomac
bridge and Alexandria: Long branch,
which rises in the Arlington hlSh-
lands and flows through Green valley
to Four Mile run; Spout run and Wlnoy
run. which rise in the uplands near
Cherrydale and flow into the Potomac
between the Aqueduct and Chain
bridge. and Pimmitt run, which rises
in Fairfax county, passes into Alex
andria county and enters the Potomac
river at Chain bridge.
The population of Alexandria county.
according to the federal census OF
the city of Alexandria was 1929, a
combined population of $3.50. 1t is
somewhat difficult to consider the
county and the city of Alexandria sep
arately. but the cities CT Virginia are
politically Independent. After the civil
war, when the Underwood constitution
was framed, the city and the county or
Alexandria were separated and remain
as different jurisdictions. In 1870 the
population of Alexandria county was
S,1S5; in 1880, 1887: in 1890. 4.25S. ana
in 1900, 6,430 The population increase
during the decade 1900-1910 was more
than SO per cent, and it is believed
that that ratio has been maintained
and very probably surpassed. Ihe
county population is now estimated to
be between $1,000 and $4,000.
The white population of the county in
1910 was 1856, against 3,963 in 1900.
and the colored population in 1910 was
2,645, against 2,467 in 1900. The whites
of native parentage at the last census
were 6,0So; the native whites of for
eign parentage numbered 557 and the
native whites of mixed parentage num-
bered 412.. The foreign-bo white pop
ulation numbered 292. OF the foreign
born inhabitants of the county 1872 were
English, 123 German II Irish. so Ca
madam, As Russian, IA Austrian and IA
Swedish. Other countries represented
were Denmark, France. Holland, Hun,
gary, Italy. Norway, Runania, Scot
land, Switzerland ahd Turkey. Of7white
males there were $3.50; white females.
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colonists, and the grant, a recompenss
for this. called for $500 acres fronting;
on the Potomac river from Hunting
creek. then called Indian Cabin creek.
to point opposite Analostan Island.
then laid down on the maps as My,
Lords Island Howsen sold the land
to John Alexander. and 1t is said that
Simon Pierson, related to the Alex
ander family by marriage, built a
house in 1886 on that marsh and water
girded tract which at different times
has been called Persons Island, Dain-
gerfield Island and Alexander Island.
You cross this land between the south
end of the Highway bridge and Ar
lington Junction Many Washingto-
mans remember the race course which
was operated on that land. 1t has been
written by Alexandria antiquarians
that Persons house was the first per
manent habitation in Virginia north of
Hunting creek.
1t would seem that very early in the
eighteenth century, or perhaps IL was
late in the seventeenth century, there
was a settlement on Jones point. the
long neck of land between the Potomac
and Hunting creek. the form of which
has been materially changed by the
recent filling in of the Potomac shoals
at the foot of jefferson, Green, Church
and South streets, Alexandria. A to-
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d point one mile north of Falls Church,
that line having been the original
southwest boundary of the District of
Columbia. From that point the boun-
dary runs northeast four miles to the
Potomac river, striking the river
quarter of a mile above Chain bridge.
The Chain Bridget Falls Church road,
over which SO many Washington auto
mobilists travel, runs within and along
the western edge of the county where
1t intersects the Fairfax county line
close to the tracks of the electric line
to Bluemont, which road was the Lou
doun and Hampshire, and was until
lately the Bluemont branch of the
Southern railway. The village of Falls
Church once lag wholly in Fairfax
county. while the boundary between
the counties ran through East Falls
Church. but the fine little town has
grown until it lies in both Fairfax and
Alexandria counties
Among the relatively large towns in
Alexandria. county are Falls Church.
Clarendon, Bailston. Cherrydale. Del
Ray, st. Elmo. Rosslyn Addison, Arl-
ineton. Fostoria, Glencarlyn, Virginia
Highlands and scores of beautiful sub
urban settlements which within the
last few years have grown up on and
near the several lines of electric road
and the excellent automobile roads
which gridiron the county. Arlington
cemetery, Fort Myer the wireless tow
ers and the Potomac railroad yards are
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Liquor Control in England.

TT HE central control board on liquor
u traffic in Great Britain recently
met in London. The reports received
from the chief constables of the areas
affected by the new liquor control reg
ulations reveal a striking decrease in
drunkenness. According to the statis-
tics the number of prosecutions for
drunkenness for the four weeks pre-
vious to the boards order was 734, and
for the one months experience of the
new traffic control regulation only 1876
prosecutions. "A decrease of over 40 per
cent The reports also show a marked
increase in the sobriety of seamen and
firemen in transport areas, and in the
shipbuilding yards and munition works,
the time-keeping has very much i'm
proved and the output greatly in
creased,
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piles 1.olJ square miles, and without in
cluding the city of DanvilIe the county
occupies 1.ul2 square miles, which in
round and rough numbers is one-for-
tleth of the area OF Virginia. The
county next in size is Augusta, with an
area Of .Ub3 square miles. Rock
bridge, Halifax. Rockingham Shenan-
doah and Fauquier are large counties,
but they do not come very near the
thousand mile mark
The area of Alexandria county is
thirty three miles, and that includes
the area of the city Of Alexandria,
which is three miles. The Virginia
county in the scale of area just above
Alexandra county is Elizabeth City
county, which occupies ffty-four square
miles; next comes Warwick county,
with an area of sixty-sey ven, and then
comes Mathews. with AN area Of nine
ty-four square miles.
p to within q Few years the area OF
the city Of Alexandria was one square
mile. but the corporation limits We're
extended, so that the present area of
the city is approximately three miles,
this increase in the area of the city
being, OF course. at the expense of the
area Of the county and reducing that
area To thirty square miles.
Another Interesting fact relating to
Alexandra county is that II has, in
Guiding Alexandria city. greater dem
sity OF population than any other
county in the state. The most sparsely
populated county in Virginia, in COM
parisou with area ~ Bath, one OF the
western border counties. The popula-
tion density OF Alexandria county is
'3s-s persons to the square mile. while
The population density Of Bath is only
twelve persons to the square mile. The
population density of Bath is but
la .1g.aUH
another western border county, which
has only fourteen inhabitants per
square mile. and Craig county, stIll an
other OF the western border counties,
is a mere trifle above Bland, with a
density OF li-l TO the square mile. 1t
is interesting To note that while the
density OF population in three OF the
virginia counties near Washington
Fairfax. LoudouH and Prince william
Is 49,. sos and 10, respectively. the
density Ct Pow hatan county one OF
the central counties. IL only - inhabit-
ants to the square mile. while Amelia
has %, New Kent -, Appomattox.
Prince George and SUSSEX 2G Charles
City -, Dickinson IS and Dinwiddie
Fiuvanna, Frederick and Rappahan-
mock -
Alexandra for more than half a CEN
fury was a part of the District Of Column
bia. Cession of IL made by Virginia
FOR the use Of the federal government as
part of federal territory in which to
establish Il permanent capital. Virginia
ceded the land December 3, 1883 and
although the first corner stone of the
District was laid at Jones point. with
Masonic honors by Alexandria Lodge
No. -. April Is. 1891, Congress did not
take control OF that part OF the District
until 1901.
In September, 1876. Virginia's contri-
button Of territory to the District OF Co
Iumbia was receded TO the state by the
national government and ont of this
retrocession grew Alexandria county.
which before becoming Il part of the
federal territory or the District of Co
lumbia had been part of Fairfax county.
Fairfax county had not long been carved
out Of Prince William county 1742).
whAos " l74S, the general assembly Of
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Wastington's acknowledgements Gov

CMALEST County the Sate Having Only Square Miles
- Thy PatdArage Number People Each Square Mile
88-Lage Sized Towns the ComyGrea ndustyS Especially
Fitted BunThe Farm Census-Dpmen Suburban Area Washington
Products YearThe Aexandis Many Industries
Railway
a Manufacturing Center.
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the colony of Virginia constituted and
appointed Thomas Lord Fairfax, Will
liam Fairfax. George Fairfax, Richard
Osborne, Lawrence Washington. William
Ramsey. John Carlysle, John Pagan,
Gerard Alexander. Hugh West and Philip
Alexander directors and trustees for
designing, building, carrying on and
maintaining the town of Alexandria, to
expand or supersede the town of Belle
haven
The southerly boundary line of AL
exandria county runs from Jones point,
where the lighthouse stands below AL
exandria northwest for ten miles to
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49, $ :::::: ::; S :: III: II; S
q q live many hundreds of men and
women who earn their wages or sala
fles in Washington, and are therefore
a part of the industrial population of
the capital. is remarkable in number
of ways. 1t is the smallest county in
the state of Virginia. OF all the 100
counties in the state the largest of
them is Pittsylvania which is one of the
sixteen counties forming the south
boundary of the state. That county,
including the CITY OF Danville. occu-
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-12

until this year has there been c law
that would permit the state 10 take
charge of the affairs Of q company in
like circumstances with the defunct
life insurance company, and that be-
fore this there has never been a suffi-
cient appropriation TO permit the
state authorities 70 make the neces-
sary examinations into life insurance
companies. No regular. lawful in
vestigation has been made into the af-
fairs of the company about which
there is so much ado, and it cannot be
said with certainty that fraud OF
crime has been committed in the adj
ministration of its affairs.-Miami
Herald.
In other words, another exhibition
of legislative and official incompe-
tence. The people had reason to be-
lieve their business was being attend
ed TO by the state. but it wasn't and
no state official had the forethought
to tell them it wasn't being attended
to and couldn't be. Only a sin Of
omission, but as generally as grievou:
as = sin Of commission.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-12

The comments of the Times-Union
or international affairs would be
funny if they did not refer to mat
tiers that may soon become tragic.
The Times-Union wants US to call
both Germany and Britain to account
for impositions on America, and it Is
easy to see the T.-U. has greater dis
like for Britain than for Germany. At
the same time, the Times-Union
knows we are in no condition to call
either to account, and it gives some
very sensible reasons why it is almost
impossible to put ourselves in condi-
ton. The Star must admit that IN
less our public affairs are conducted
more for national welfare and less for
local selfshness, we will never be
anything but a jellyfish of a nation
with sense enough to know when we
are wronged but mostly lacking in the
power to claim our rights.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-12

The German note is just about what
the Star supposed it would be. 1t Of
fers no apology and shows no regret
for the Lusitania incident, and gives
no assurance that it will not be re-
peated 1t offers safety to Americans
on the high seas on about the same
terms that it might offer it to Norwe-
gians or Peruvians, or any other
weak people. If we have no desire
for anything better than temporary
safety, we can accept the terms and
swallow the insult, which would never
have been offered, or given occasion
for, if we had not been too Internally
lazy, selfish, short-sighted and corrupt
to make the ordinary amount of sacri
flee necessary to provide for the ma
tional safety. America can atone fol
national heedlessness and porkbarre
craftsmanship in two ways. One is il
sacrifice and preparation now. Th'
other is in devastation and humilia
ton later. We can't put off tht
choice very long.