Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-01-01
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the following record since October
1916: Sisters Hospital, $3ll,oOo;
Kindall College endowment, $ooo'
600; New Y. NJ. C. A. $164,oOo; Y.
w. c. A. $162,5OO; Armory, $4,000;
Red Cross, S113,5oo; Military Or
panizations, Navy League, Ambu-
lance and Hospital fund, Sl5'ooo;
Invested in Liberty Bonds, first ISSUE
s5,6S5, 900; second issue, $6,45o'ooo;
War Fund budget, $4,000; Red
Cross, $4,000; Jews of Tulsa War
fund, 100000; Knights of Columbus
$500; Christmas fund, $4,000; Hu
name Society, $4,000; March 1918
war budget, S15S, 900; Third Liberty
Loan, 400; Second Red Cross,
1926, 900; War rSaving Stamps, ST.
100000; Total, s2O,357,9OO. This
convinces you of the generosity OF
Tulsa.
The reunion was a great success.
The entire population did everything
for the pleasure of all. This marvel
Gus city of only fifteen years has
gained in population ten thousand
over the number who lived there last
wear, although this year was yet in
complete.
B. Roy Batten, superintendent OF
the Polk Hoffline Directory, says an
increase of 10000 population IS a
conservative estimate over the 1918
list. There are 7S,759 names listed in
the directory for 1918 and it is belleV
ed for 1919, listing will show at least
Iss.757. This is called magic city but
it isn't a magic city. 1t is the culml-
nation of many years of thought, en-
ergy, development, success, courage
even death, for men have died that
Tulsa might be Tulsa.
When first white men came into
Indian Territory and settled among
the original citizens, Washington lr-
v;n~ pictured a Gland of milk and
honey" when he stood on high NIL
known as the Irving Place in north
west Tulsa, and his vision of half a
century has certainly come true, 1ol
the grandeur of its mansions and eX'
ipenditure of wealth is in beauty anc
magnifcience equal to Tarrytown N
y. described in visit there, the birth
place of Washington Irving and thf
home of Helen Gould who has done
such a noble work in the education Of
the poor children of New York City
On that others with their millions
would follow her example. | am con
WINGED those of Tulsa have a hear
like hers for an appreciation of tn
greatest gift from God, the mind
which decides the salvation of tn
soul.
My host during the reunion, MI
Garbett, is one of the leading aYShhl
, tects of the city. He and Brock
had the eqptEact 5 hiatt and nffaf6ed 6Hdtb bFEek rha
carthage stone giving the impression
OF stability and spaciousness. TIL
towers are Of Gothic adaptation, plal
ned for interesting effects in ligh
and shadow. In the center above th'
entrance is niche for a sculptureC
figure, typifying the spirit of Tulsa
schools. There is every equipmen
necessary for comfort and luxury, ;
beautiful swimming pool resembling
II one l described in Mt. Ida Schoo
J on, Mass, which was so artistic
resembling the one described in the
Colony Club, N Y, that seeing would
only be believing that anything Sc
artistic could Nbe conceived by NOR.
tal man as White, the worlds great
est architect.
1t would require too much space
to describe the handsome structures
that adorn this magic city which is in
one of the richest districts in the
union where cotton and wheat grow
successfully side by side, in the coun-
Try that raises the champion live
stock. visited one of the packing
houses where the cattle are driven
lsinele file into a door. They are
struck with a hammer, made uncon-
scious, then instantly killed by cleo
tricity, next by machinery carried
! through a scalding process, by ma
chinery stripped of the hide and the
beef, by machinery, carved for ship
ment. was told in Kentucky, the
blood, while warm is given to tuber-
cular patients who cannot digest rare
beef and it has proven wonderful in