Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-05-05
Bill Boards and Connecticut
Rocks Seen From the Car
Window.


As I wrote in my first letter, one
of the most striking things which riv-
tied my attention from Washington
to Providence, R. L., were the varied
and numerous bill boards every
where.
always enjoy looking out of a car
window. On one occasion when I was
a girl and going to Charleston to
school, a young man whom l knew
but whom 1 did not welcome, came in
and sat beside me. AS continued to
look out of the window, he asked
why I did so, and l said, Because
what I see on the outside is prefer
able to what l see within"
I still like to see the new pictures
as l look out of the car window,
many of which are more beautiful
than any landscapes put on canvas
in the Corcoran Art Gallert to which
place people come many miles to ad-
mire. want to see the country God
has made, and in viewing it, / can
see what problems and difficulties
the people of the various sections
have had to overcome in order to be-
come what they now are. can-see
what their evidences of enterprise
and energy are and what use they
are making of their natural advan-
tages and disadvantages.
In the dining car as we were pass
ing through New England, I remark
ed to young man across from. me
at the table, who on account of an
amusing incident that occurred at
the table had engaged me in conver-
sation, that I was interested in the
bill boards l had been seeing along
the way. He said, eyes, the North is
more progressive than the South"
and as we looked out on the cold,
bleak hillsides with no sign of bud
or leaf and the apple trees black as.
if dead, which in Virginia were will
derness Of blossoms, J. said, eyes, but
not in the spring time" He saw the
significance of what I meant and
made merry over it.
IF you are a grocer, how would
YOU like to have the name OF u.
Pender.9 At first I thought it was an
advertisement of his good qualities,
but he is really man and gocer
who advertises on bill board in
Connecticut.
All the great concerns which we
see only advertised in the big maga-
zines in the South, are placed on
enormous bill boards and in every
conceivable place, one advertising
sliced bacon painted on an enormous
rock boulder which could be seen as
far as eye could reach.
In many places these signs were
out in the middle of shallow WATER
over which for miles the He'll Gate
Bridge passes, the longest bridge in
the world. This bridge seems sto be
AN elevated road all the way from
New York to the proximity of New
London, Connecticut, made neces-
sary by the water of Long Island
Sound, near which this Shore Line
road of the New Haven, Hartford
and New Hampshire road passes. On
this road there are numberless little
villages, summer resorts probably
and the larger cities of Stanford,
New Haven, New London and Hart
ford, Connecticut, Providence and
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Mansfield,
Massachusetts and others.
Out in the midst of one of these
shallow ponds, I saw the most be-
witching group of little boys all
dressed in red and holding most &C.
statically in their arms, enormous
boxes of Wrigley's Chewing Gum. l
almost thought they were alive as
you have often seen them in maga-
zine pictures, but life size and true
to life. They deserved the big boxes
they held for their successful adyer-
tising.
AS I passed another stream of run
ming water 1 saw this sign, which l
had never seen before in my life in
such a place, 'No Skating Allowed
Here"
On the front of church was this
word "Arctic." What could it have
meant? I am sure we would never
have placed such an one in any OF
our churches in Edgefeld.
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