Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-09-20
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| iolh) mas IeCSIltly Dcen conducting q
prize contest, seeking to draw from
the citizens Of various sections Of our
great country the prime reasons for
their love of their immediate home
sections. An article entitled "Give
Me the Good Old Middle West" in
spired a resident Of the South to con-.
tribute the article below, under the
| caption:
"Why Love My Home in Dixie"
| arrived in little old New York in
the end Of June, 1885. 1t was also
| about the end of the day, counting
midnight as the end. The streets
were full of people. all going in
hurry. thought there was a fire.
Down home they never hurry that
late at night except to go to fire or
a fight.
| was surprised when told by a DO
liceman that they were only chasing
dollars and that they kept it up till
they died. l was only boy then,
! but the shock l received on learning
Of such a sordid waste Of man power
has never left me.
My home there was in a ten-story
building on the corner of LAFAYETTE
Place and Great Jones Street 1t was
then one Of the tallest structures in
the city.
The Fourth OF July reached New
York shortly after did, and it was
great treat to stand Oh top of that
tall building and watch the fireworks
displayed all over the city. Fire
Company No. 33, which was worked
! very hard on that Glorious Fourth,
was right across the street. Their ap-
, paratus was great attraction to
me. Back home had known moth
ing in that line better than what was
practically force pump on wheels
drawn and worked by the firemen.
The Eden Musee, Central Park,
the Bowery, Mott Street, Baxter
Street, the Battery, Brooklyn Bridge,
the Globe Museum. Tony Pastors,
, were great and alluring attractions
for while, but they paled. l felt the
solitude of the crowd and longed for
my beloved Southland.
My metropolitan occupation was
errand boy for Donovan & Londer-
: gin, Printers,' Pearl Street, near Full
ton. started at two dollars and a
Il I~ll
board. l was highly elated when
i they raised my salary to three dollars
per week; but the most ecstatic feel
ing had after the new wore oft New
| York was when I got such a severe
| case Of earache that had to be sent
! home.
Manhattan Island was too congest-
ed when I left it, March, 1886, to be
fit habitation for real people, and
, learn from the newspapers that seve-
raj st,rcs and residences have been
/ added. and that the skyscrapers make
my old ten-story domicile look like a
! low bunsle Of a bungalow. None of
: that IN mine, please.
live in the main street Of a town
| in Dixie whose population numbers
! about twelve thousand. My house
! has ten rooms and bathroom. with
I a couple Of closets that might pass
! for rooms in New York Four Of my
, chambers are about twenty by twen-
! ty. Four nice porches give me good
i sleeping places these summer nights
! There are ten families in space Of
three hundred by six hundred feet.
This borders on overcrowding, but
we can fill our lungs with ozone with
out showing ncighbor off his feet.
When I leave home I can throw a
kiss at my wife without slapping
some Ole and getting "jugged" for
assault and battery, or having my
saluate misappropriated or resented
by thousand strange ladies'.
We have fine churches and schools,
elegant social clubs and fraternity
homes, besides the splendid elee-
mosynary institutions that prove we
are rich in lifes best asset, not what
we get, but what we give. Our thea
ters give lis the best obtainable, from
minstrels to Shakespeare. Our cli-
mate is ideal. Our summer days are
warm, but not with the oppressive
heat that kills in New York and in
tho "London of the Middle West"
Winters are mild, and live stock find
pasture all the year round. Million