Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-03-14

| dance fresh and fine.
To give an idea of who has profit
ed BY this almost worldwide war,
since the year 1913, A. D.
quote from late Golfers:
1919. 1917.
Woolens, s4,ooo,ooo s54, 900, 900
Autos, s3l, 100000, s97, 100000
Flour s5s,ooO,OOo ss7, 200, 900
Wheat ss9,OOo,oOo s2l5, 100000
Oats slS,OoO,ooo s4s, 900, 600
Horses s4,OOO;OOO s73, 900, 600
Mules 100000 s23, 900, 900
Shoes s1s,ooo,OOO SAT, 600, 600
Cotton $4,000, 600 1000, 900
Chemicals $4,000, 900 1924, 1000, 900
Iron-steel sso4,ooo, o,ooose2l, 100000
Machinery SIG, 100000 SCI, 100000
See these enormous profits and
only one item comes South, cotton,
and the relative higher prices for
the multitude of products we have
to buy from the Trusts and North,
send our cotton money right back
to these millionaires west and north.
Take for an example the great farm
implements makers, plows, etc.
Mr.. Deerine, he has large estate
of some several thousand acres in
and near the beautiful city Of
Miami, where he has had 1900 la
borers at work for the last three
years, building a royal castle like
Mr.. Vanderbilt's at Asheville or
Biltmore. He has beautiful brick
wall running for miles along the
smooth boulevard, with servant
houses finer than any house in Edge
field county; sunken gardens, extern
sive orange groves, and every kind
of flower grown, a golf link, tennis
court, base ball grounds, and back
of his magnificent palace, he has dug
a large canal from the Biscayne
bay and his private yacht can glide
up from New York or Chicago al.
most to the back steps.
He is still working hundreds of
men, digging bitches, laying pipes
and enabling him to irrigate his
vast domain any time, and then grow
fruits and vegetables every month
in the year. There is large rock
quarry on his estate, with soft,
white limestone rock, which when
exposed to the air gets very hard,
and of this he is building all his
abutments. His mother lives
next to his estate in less preten-
tious but queenly style. The orig
inal founder of this Deering Plow
Factory, died at the present home
of his widow last year. His son is
the great builder here, and an old
old bachelor with this grand home,
no matter how many men he may
employ, it will never be complete
without a woman IN it.
Mr.. Deering has already spent
over five million dollars on this
estate and much work yet to be
done. He, like Mr.. Vanderbilt, has
scattered his money among many
laborers, and is giving attention,
too. to forestry and tree cultivation.
The native tree of Florida is the
plain, common pine, and not large
pines either, but there is beautiful
tree now being EXTENSIVELY planted in
and about Miami called the Ans
traiian pine. 1t grows very tall,
has long, soft pendants, not needles
for they are not stiff, but Timber
like the weeping willow, and when
planted in rows make an ideal ave-
pue of shade and beautiful arches
over head. A double row of these
inside double row OF tall cocoa
nuts and palnetto's, with hedges of
oleanderand other fragrant Towering
plants, with orange trees filled with
golden balls beyond, is a picture OF
beauty and JOY forever.
Hon. William Jennings Bryan has a
beautiful winter home just q few
miles out beyond the Deering Estate.
The roads are perfect. Mr.. Bryan's
home is built on the Spanish style
of this same white limestone rock
which abound there, and has court
yard in the middle. 1t is very iso-
lated and quite in a dense jungle of
native growth like some sort of
bamboo, with walks cut out and
near the water. As our party were
riding out to the Bryan home, some.
one asked. II wonder if Mr.. Bryan
bought this place, or was it a pres
ent." Neither, was the reply of a
man just in front of me-" He
talked someone out of it." Mr..
Bryan was not at home, but had
several servants about and notice
that his place was private property,