The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-08-10
NEWBERRY COLLEGE REUNION
AT LITTL EMOUNTAlN

AT LITTL EMOUNTAlN
There was the usual reunion GROVE
at Little Mountain last Friday. Some
people said it was the largest yet anG
others estimated it not SO large. J
can never tell. 1t always seems tc
me to be about the same from year
20 year counting back many years. j
have been attending these reunion;
for many years now and the crowd
always seems to me to be about the
came in size, though this year it did
look like there might have been sons
ZEN thousand automobiles on the
grounds and at the station anc
around the school grounds, If tha!
many cars could get in that space,
Every available plot seemed to have
been occupied from the time you
reached the school grounds this side
If the mountain on until you reached
the foothills. And nary a buggy was
to be seen. Strange is it not? And,
suppose in the next few years the
people will ccme by the air route.
+ is a great gathering place. 1t l:
really a reunion of the people for
many miles around. Some Of then
never see one another except on
these annual occasions. And it J:
we'll for them to come and renew old
acquaintance.
There are two or three sugges-
tions l will venture to make, and II
they are not honored j will
not be hurt in the making.
The speakers stand had been
moved further up the hill and
that is an improvement, though 1t is
some struggle to reach the top. No"
f the stand were just little larger
and made to accommodate more peo-
ple it would be an Improvement. The
accommodation for the speaker IS {:
great Improvement over what it was
when | first undertook to speak a:
his place and the attention to the
speeches is much better than it once
was, and this is due largely to the
improved accommodations for the
audience and for the speaker. 1t Is
delightful place in which to speak
and the auditorium was filed ano
here were many on the ground out
,;de who would have been more COM
.ortable If the auditorium had beer
made larger. The other suggestion
s the convenience for water is not
what it should be. On a hot day
such as the reunion day generally Is.
there is need for water and all the
soft drinks that may be sold Will not
take the place of water. There is {,
ine spring, but to furnish water for
such a crowd as is always here it is
not possible to get at the spring.
It seemed to me that if there had
been placed at different positions
along the valley and on the noun
tain side number Of large barrels
with ice water, and even if there
should be a charge of a penny say
for a glass of water, it would be a
great thing for the thirsty and the
penny would be gladly paid. That is
# it could not be free, and l sup
pose there is no fund with which to
ray for ice for the public, but have
seen such arrangements for water
at big expositions and found them
a great convenience. And then there
is another suggestion, and it is CT far
greater Importance, and that is the
handling of the crowds and the
MANY cars. | noticed that there was
q read or driveway made circuit 50
to speak. Why not require all cars
20 60 in one driveway and out the
other. In this way there would be
10 meeting of cars in this narrow
driveway and the cars could be the
more easily handled and there would
be less danger of accidents. Just go
round the belt as it were and then
YOU would not meet any car ana
there would be less danger OF the
driveway being blocked. And then
it would be we'll TO have the belt line
lust little wider so that the people
who were walking to their cars and
who had walked from the station
could get along without the .dan-
ger of being run down by a car, and
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