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VOL. XXIV. CARTERSVILLE’S GREAT COTTON MILL Some F acts About the Best Equipped Most Modern Manufacturing Plant in the South. An hour spent at the village and cotton mills of the American Textile Company in north Cartersville a few .days ago revealed a story of improve ment and progress that was .amazing. In company with Paul Gilreath, the progressive mayor of Cartersville. who was largely instrumental in lo cating this splendid plant in Bartow county, we had a full and free op portunity to see what has been and is beingdone by' the Textile Company. The view was refreshing and in spiring. Things are coming to pass ■up there with surprising strides. As one building is finished another to begun. While one improvement to being completed another is being planned. Less than tw r o years ago the pres ent site of this great Bartow county enterprise was a red hill slope, with only a barn in the field and a modest farm house on the hill. .Now it is the finest and most modern manufac turing town in the south. This is not mere newspaper talk. The statement is made deliberately. There are many larger cotton fac tories and many more populous vil lages than the Cartersville establish ment. But for beauty of location; excellence of buildings; completeness of equipment; convenience of ar rangement, and provision for the comfort, pleasure and improvement •of operatives, there is nothing in the south to compare with the McClain Mills. It is worth a hundred mile journey to see what has already been accom plished by these progressive people. They do things. There is no blow and bluster; no begging for donations nor asking for favors. They pay for what they get, and spend their own money in their own way. They are proud of their plant and pleased with their location, believing it to be the prettiest place for a cotton mill ever picked out in this country. Mr. W. M. McCafferty is the suner inte&dent and the local head of the American Textile Company. He is tlie man in charge and looks after every detail of the great Bartow . ountv enterprise. A quiet man is Mr. McCafferty. He moves about the place in his shirt sleeves, saying little but seeing everything. Now in tne office, now in the commissary, now in the mill, now about tlie vil lage, now out on tne farm; speaking a quiet word here, giving a sharp order there, calling to a laborer yon der, studying plans in the office, climbing to the top of the new school building, meeting strangers, greeting friends—busy, busy, busy all the day, from six in the morning to six in the evening. A practical, patient, re sourceful man, is Superintendent McCafferty, who knows his business thoroughly and performs it to the minute. The main factory building is full of machinery and vibrant with ac tivity. The whir of spindles and click of looms is turning cotton into cloth with magical swiftness. About twenty-five bales of cotton per day are used, or an annual consumption of something like 8000 bales. This will increase as the working force is filled in. Mr. Paul Gilreath says he was told j by the representative of the Lowell Manufacturing Company who in- j stalled the machinery, that the Me-I Plain mills had the most modern and most perfect equipment ever placed in a cotton mill of this kind. Also that Mr. McClain was one of the very few men who had ever paid spot cash for the complete outfit of his mill. Everything about the place moves like clock-work, and every labor-sav ing device and every provision for comfort and convenience of em ployes is provided in this mill. It is really amazing that machinery can be invested with the apparent intel ligence of a human being. The homes provided for the em ployes of the McClain mills are mod ern. well built, conveniently arranged residences. There is not a sorry house in the village, and remarkable to state, no two ot them are alike. In most factory towns there is a sameness of architecture and a simi larity in buildings that becomes tire some. Every home looks alike. There is a machine made appearance in every thing. Individuality is lost. Not so at the Textile Company s town. Each home is different. Each family have a house of their own. A thorough system of water works The Cartersville News has been installed and every home in the village is supplied with pure, sparkling water by a hydrant lo cated at the door. A water tower has been built with a pressure that will throw water over the mill buildr ing. A regular fire department has been organized and equipped with hose and reel. Every' building has fire protection. A fact of much importance to. Car tersville in this connection is that the factory village could help us fight a fire in our town, and in case our water gave out theirs could be turned on through the main con neeting the two places. Eleetrie lights now brighten the factory village. Arc lamps have been erected at alternate street corners and every part of the town is well lighted. The streets are paved; the sidewalks laid out; a large park has been planned; shade trees have been planted, and no detail that will make an attractive and comfortable vil lage settlement has been neglected, j The factory store is a model of con venience. It is compact in arrange ment and yet there is no crowding. Light and air 1 each every department. The cash carrier system is the latest. A post office has been fitted up with a private lock box and a key for each family. A combination school house, fra ternity hall, library, gymnasium and church is now under construction and will probably be comple ed by August 1. The building is of pressed brick, 60 by 100 feet, three stories. The basement floor will be devoted to playrooms for the children anla gymnasium. The second floor will be the school department, with class rooms, cloak rooms, etc. The third floor will be a large auditorium with a seating capacity of 800, besides a | stage and private rooms for lodge figures, fraternity, paraphernalia, etc. This auditorium will be used on Sun i day for sacred services, such as ! preaching and Sunday schools, and also during week nights for lodge pur- poses, lectures, literary entertain ments and other educational services. This new building stands on a fine elevation and the top floor commands a splendid view 7 of the surrounding country. It is the purpose of the mill com pany to dedicate this building to ed ucation and religious purposes for for the benefit of their people. It will be equipped with heating and lighting fixtures and made comfort able for both winter and summer. A graded school will be maintained for six and probably for eight or nine months of the year. Blackboards, desks, library and all modern school fixtures will be supplied. Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and . ; •••>* -- • -*****a MAMMOTH COTTOX MILT OF THE AMERICAN TEXTILE CO., CARTERSVILLE. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, I!K)5. fOfi IHE NEK CHURCH Dirt to be Broken Tuesday for Methodist Edifice. Interesting Service of Song and Speech to Which the Public is Cordially Invited. It will be interesting no* alone to the members of that denomination but to the entire public, to-know that next Tuesday dirt will be broken for the proposed handsome new house of worship of the Methodists. It is proposed to make the-occasion peculiarly interesting andiimpressive and a very fitting programme has been arranged. The public is cordi ally invited to be present.. The exercises will be on the site of the new building, will begin at nine o clock and the following, is- the pro gramme: Opening Song 132. Reading scriptures and prayer by Rev. G. W. Duval, Some remarks by Rev. FTml Mcßee. Breaking dirt. Closing song !546. Benediction. other secret orders can meet there. A lyceum lecture course will perhaps be installed. All religious denomina tions can hold service in the audito rium, and a Sunday school will be taught every Sunday. It is gratifying beyond measure to note the substantial and thoughtful provisions being made for the physi cal, moral and mental development of the village by the practical and far-seeing proprietors of this great enterprise. Those who carry their families to the village seeking em ployment can procure work at living wages and also give their children the benefit of comfortable homes, pleasant surroundings and good edu cational and religious advantages. It is understood that the capacity of the mills will be doubled in the near future, which means the doub ling of the size of the village in houses and population. There are already four or five hundred people there and others are moving in daily. Ten new residences are now under con struction and others are being plan ned. Few of our people really under stand the greatness of this cotton mill tntorrrise nr what it may mean for our county. It is such industries as this that make a country great. Mr. McClain and Mr. McCafTerty have asked no special favors in com ing among us. They have ample capital and prefer to pay fair prices for what they get. They appreciate the advantages of this locality for their business and are proud of their plant, which is in every way the best ever built in the south. Their pur pose is to make it as near perfect in every detail as money, experience and favorable surroundings can pro duce. SOME TIGERS CAGED. Whisky Seller Makes Use of Court House. The City Officials Have Been Busy and Quite Successful In Pulling Violators of Law. Blind tigers are being killed almost every day in Cartersville. They are different sizes and show different degrees of vicioutmese. These short-sighted and savage creatures have grown bold to reck lessness in their depredations about the city, and a large- sized specimen actually made his den in the base ment of the court house. It is gratifying to note that Mar shal Satterfield and his deputies have showft diligence in following these dangerous tigers 1 to. rover and no less than four have been captured within the week. One was pulled at the court house last Thursday and Ed Morris, the colored janitor, was taken into custody as the supposed keeper of the “beast.” Bottles of divers sorts and sms were discovered in the base ment o: the court house and some body hud evidently done a rushing business at >out this building dedicated to justice. Ed Morris was given a hearing before Mayor Gilreath Thursday night and found gilty. He was fined SSO, or thirty days, and also bound over undpr SIOO bond for his appear ance before the city court. He appealed his case to the council and they wll probably pass on it next Thursday night. The lact that a blind tiger was located in the court house and that the janitor has been pulled as the proprietor has put the laugh on the county officials who have heretofore shown such diligence in suppressing these "animals” elsewhere. They argue that this species of “tiger” has been well named and only a “blind” one would dare invade the sacred temple. Another tiger was captured in the W. & A. depot last week and Clarence Coleman, colored, taken into custody as the alleged keeperof the menagerie. Tip Kincaid, colored, was also pulled at Anderson’s livery stable, just across from the News’ office, and given a dose of “SSO or 30 days” by the mayor. Last Monday Walter Fletcher was brought before Justice George W. Waldrup under a like charge and waiving commitment trial was bound over to the city court under S2OO bond. There may be others, but this is sufficient to indicate the character and number of blind beasts doing business in this bailiwick. It would seem that the crusade against this unlawful business has begun in earnest and the marshal announces his purpose to break it up, if the people and offloials will back him up. BARTOW’S WEALTH AS SHOWN BY DIGEST Property Returns Show a Neat Increase Over the Valuations of Last Year. At the June meeting of the oouwty commissioners a final settlement* -*hh made wirh Tax Collector Joseph Shaw for the year 1904 ami the hooka closed. This transaction should interest every tax payer in the county and She News takes pleasure in presenting some facts developed by this settle ment. The total property returns for state and county taxes in 1904 aggregated the sum of $4,133,855; which was an i increase of $210,758 over the previous year. Of this aggregate amount, the colored people returned $84,990. The total polls returned was 3,®56;: divided between whites and blacks as follows: Whites, 2,000; colored, 470. There w r ere 02 white defaulters and 53 colored. The property returns by distrrafis were as follows: Cartersville #'1,790,272 Wolf Pen - 57,368 Stamp Creek 9,434 Allatoona 65,308 Emerson 130,660 Euharlee 292,365 Iron Hill 0,766 Taylorsville 209,828 Cassville 224,185 Kingston 157,928 Adairsville 448,375 Sixth 148.614 Pine Log 156,296 Sallacoa —10,706 Supplemental 206,818 The tax rate for 1904 was one per cent., or tin dollars on the thousand. Of this amount 48 per cent, was for . state purixoees and 52 per cent, for county purposes. The total charges against the tax collector as made up from the digest stood as follows: General property tax $41,138.55 Professional tax. 550.00 Poll tax 3,306.00 Aggregate., $45,194.5# This sum had to be accounted for by Collector Shaw either by taxes collected, errors in digest or insol vents. His final settlement shows how well he has done his work for the past year. IT /vl f +*oifawirfKiruy An HIA lIC 7V**x;o tvvt v v* j digest except $0911.85, made up as follows: County’s part of property tax uncollected $175.50; state’s part $172.36; uncollected polls $282.00; errors in polls $52.00; defaulters relieved $12.00. When the amount involved is considered this record of close col lections seems almost wonderful and it is doubtful if any collector in the state can show a better record. In addition to this, Collector Shaw succeeded in collecting about f 000.00 from persons who had failed to make i returns and whose names did not appear <m the digest. It is practically impossible to- collect from those who j only return a poll and do not volun tarily pay, as they have no property | on which to- levy. Another- matter in which all the people jkoußd be deeply interested to. the present financial condition of Bartow county. Realizing the importance of this* | matter and believing our readers would appreciate a statement from an authoritative source we solicted from Hon. Lewis P. Gaines, chairman fo the county commissioners, a state ment. Mr. Gaines readily responded to our request and talked frankly of county affairs. “There are no bonds outstanding, against Bartow eounty,” said com missioner Gaines, “except those claimed by the Conyers estate, grow ing out of the war and now in litiga tion. “Bartow county is now out of debt and we have paid all current expenses in cash up to date, a thing that has not been done in Bartow county for many years. “We still have a small balance in the treasury to the credit of the county, perhaps enough to pay cur rent expenses for another month. After that we will go along on a credit until taxes are collected in the fall. “We expect to reduce the county tax rate this year one dollar on the thousand; that, is to say taxes this year will probably be one dollar on the thousand dollars less than last year. When the new railroad is com pleted and begins to pay county taxes a further reduction can doubtless be made. “We are building two new bridges, and repairing several old ones, with °U any special tax levy f*V 11 probable . , i■- rV r > ■v - !>*•-. r aim banks seem to be doing a good busi ness, capitalists are making invest ments and 1 consider the future of Bartow county very bright.” It is good to hear a county official talk like that. It gives the private citizen hope and courage. Truly’ the future of Bartow county does seem very sright. REV. W. A. CLEVELAND. Presbyterian Church Shows Apprecia tion of His First Year’s Service. It was in June 1903 that Rev. W. A. Cleveland came to Caxtersviile as the new pastor of the Presbyterian church. The first anniversary of his pas torate occurred on the first Sunday in this June. That his services as preacher and pastor are appreciated by his people is evidenced by the fact that at a session of the church held last Sunday it was unanimously de cided to increase Mr. Cleveland's salary from SIOOO, to SI2OO, per an num and furnish the manse rent free. This is said to be the best salary paid a pastor by that church in recent years and serves to illustrate the spirit of liberality and appre ciation felt by the membership for their faithful and efficient pastor. Thir appreciation is not limited to the membership of the Presbyterian church. Tfee people of all denom inations kniow and esteem Mr. Cleve land, who. is untiring in his work as a pastor and possesses remarkable gifts as a pulpit speaker. The con gregations at his church are large 1 and constantly increasing. The membership is united and working together most helpfuly. Death of Mrs. Dansby. Mrs. Lucile Randall Dansby died in Rockmart last Monday night. Just a week before she had stood before the altar as a beautiful young bride and assumed the vows of wife hood, becoming the wife of Mr, George Dansby, of Rookmart. Within an hour after her marriage 1 Mrs. Dansby was stricken with gas tric fever and grew steadily worse until her death. V *- As Miss Lucile Randall she had often visited Cartersville and had/a host of friends and admirers here who are grief-stricken over her ’ death. She was a granddaughter of Mrs. William Goodwin of Cartersville. NO. 30.