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THE GEORGIA CRACKER, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 1902.
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SCHEDULE IN EFFECT JAN 20, 1901.
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I Connections,
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Samuel C, Dunlap,
Receiver
Mot© In Today.
^eSmith-Thomas Co., move into
4rph a W . Hudson building, recently
Bte b T, j. H, Banks, today
itail k CD . Wi 1^ a targe wholesale and
ith Us * ness an ^> no doubt, will meet
a e i ® at success. Mr. W. C. Thomas,
ien ^city’s best business young
dtfo ft U1 be in charge of the business,
iebn«tw )mpeteilt cor PS of helpers.
So., ■ 1 J® SS °* the (Gainesville Mdse.
new ^ rm succeeds, has
L ’a? o ^ ° ut the new concern.
acker hopes the Smith-Thomas
y do a flourishing business.
JN THE BLUE RIDGE HILLS.
BUSTLING GAINES VIDDE, THE CAP-
ITAD OP HISTORIC HALL.
The Center of One of the Riehesr
Sections of Georgia—The Enter-
prising: People of Hall and Ad
joining; Counties — Gainesville
Destined to Be a Great Manufac
turing City—Capital, Climate, Nat-
ural Location and tlie Rich Re
sources of tl*e Surrounding Coun
try Make Its Future Assured.
From the Morning News, Jan. 26.
By invitation of personal and politi
cal friends I visited Gainesville during
court week, and spent part of two days
in meeting the citizens of Gainesville,
and of Hall, Walton, White, Rabun,
Milton and otlier counties. To a low
countryman like myself it is pleasant
to make a summer trip to the foot hills
of the Blue Ridge and enjoy their
grand scenery, delightful climate, and
heaHh-giving waters. A trip in Janu
ary is not to be anticipated with en
thusiasm. My experience, however,
was that while nature had covered the
fields and the hillsides with snow,
Gainesville was a pleasant place to
visit in winter, and its people’s welcome
in January is as warm as in July. Rev.
George White, 53 years ago, speaking of
the people of Hall county, said they
were “rather shy of strangers.” I did
not find them so.
Hall county. oDjvyhich Gainesville is
the county site, is in that part of Geor
gia that the Cherokees loved so well
and battled for from the time that De-
Soto’s pale face first startled the red
men, until the time when the Indians
were removed beyond the’Mississippi.
Three adjoining counties are named
after Georgia’s signers of the Declara
tion of Independence: Hall, Gwinnett,
and Walton.
Dr. Lyman Hall, in whose honor Hall
county was named, was a Connecticut
man who settled in the parish of St.
John’s, a part of what is now Liberty
county. This parish was settled by de
scendants of New England Congrega-
tionalists who founded Dorchester, S.
C., which by the way was also the homo
of my paternal great-grand
parents though they were Scotch-
Irish Presbyterians. In the ini
tial movements which led to
the independence of the colonies, those
patriotic Puritans of St. John’s parish
became so incensed with their fellow
subjects in other parts of the colony of
Georgia, especially those living in Sa
vannah, because they failed to act at
once in the movement against King
George III., that they refused to do
business -with them.
It was such stern patriots that se
lected, Dr. Lyman Hall to represent
them in the Continental Congress, and
which he did until the people of the
colony acted through their delegates,
who met in Tondee’s tavern in Savan
nah, where Branch’s grocery store now
stands, and sent Button Gwinnett and
George Walton to keep Dr. Hall’s com
pany. How England treated the Amer
icans of those days is well illustrated
in South Africa to-day, and doubtless
had she capturecW the doctor, he would
have been shot, hung, or at the least,
kept in a-death breeding prison ship.
England of the twentieth century, and
England of the eighteenth century are
the same, and Mr. Chamberlain of the
reign of Edward VII is the Lord North
of George III. However, Dr. Hail lived
to see the colonies independent, and
was elected Governor in 1783. He died
In his 67th year and was buried in
Burke county.
Hall county was laid off in 1818 un
der the lottery act. Its population, ac
cording to the census of 1900, is 20,752,
being an increase of nearly 15 per cent,
in ten years. It would take a page or
two to enumerate what Hall county
has under its soil, or raises on top of it.
It has gold mines, and diamonds have
been discovered within its limits.
Wheat, rye, corn and cotton are pay
ing crops, and fine cattle are raised on
its hills. At one time it was thought its
altitude would not permit the growing
of the fleecy staple with success, but
Hall county now comes up with its
share of those ten millions and more of
bales, which make the farmer feel
blue, and keep the buyer, consumer
and speculator guessing. However,
home cotton mills-soon w r ill manufac
ture into goods all of Hall county's
cotton crop, and probably that of sev
eral adjoining counties. Further on 1
shall give some interesting data about
local manufactories.
Gainesville has a commodious public
school building and several f small
school houses, and a mag
nificent college, not public, how
ever. The educational statistics of
Hall county for 1900 are as follows: To
tal number- of pupils enrolled during
the year were 4,655—I include the col
ored, as they are a very small percent
age—and the total average attendance
was only 2,280, and the whole number
of days that the schools Were kept in
operation, 90; the average monthly cost
per pupil is $1, the whole of Which it
appears was paid by the state.
The colored brother and sister are
not conspicuous in Hall county—in fact,
even in Gainesville they are not much
in evidence, and for this reason there
is a complaint of a lack of household
help. Three gentlemen who called on
me had troubles of their own in that
way; their cooks had failed to appear
promptly on that day, and if I remem
ber" correctly, in one case not at all,
and the gentleman had to hustle for
his breakfast. —Such a condition of af
fairs at home is more important for
the time being than the question of
the governorship, and I recognized that
fact by sympathizing with my visitors.
It is easy to predict that Gainesville
is destined to be a great manufactur
ing- city. The location is healthy and
the cost of living below the average;
there Is a large suburban white popu
lation from which to obtain intelligent
and industrious workmen and work
women/ I would give the statistics on
these important points, but the gentle
man who promised to give me the lat
est information on the industries of the
city and cbunty let me leave without
them. However, . those who visit
Gainesville and keep their eyes and
ears open, cannot fail to observe the
indications of its future greatness. It
is one of the growing cities of Geor
gia, and the completion of several new
enterprises now under way will greatly
add to its . population and pros
perity. Gainesville will. . doubtless
have a population of 15,000 to 20,000 in
1910. The last police census of the city
gave it 5,494 inhabitants, to which, if is
added about 3,000 people in the suburbs,
✓as somp cities do theirs, its population
might be put at 8,500.
At this time the especial pride of the
people is the great cotton mill that is
about completed, and which will soon
be in operation. The‘mill is known as
“Pacolet No. 4, ” No. 1, 2 ahd 3 mills
being in South Carolina and owned by
the same corporation. Pacolet No. 4
is,built on the land known as the,New.
Holland Springs tract. Doubtless many
who read this will recall that once fa
mous summer resort, with its health-
giving spring. The spring is there/of
course, but. it, as well as its surround
ings, have been changed and improved.
The old hotel building and a few ol
the cottages are still there,. reminders
of by-gone days, and look like ^olcl
shacks in contrast with the massive
mill nearby and the hundreds of white
cottages on the ; hillside. The mill is oo(
feet in length by 150 in width, and
nearly all of the building is five stor.ies
high, though a part of it is six stories
There are ten acres of floor space in
the mill. The total investment amounts
to $1,250,000, which represents $600,000,
the suepIus earnings of the other Pa
colet mills, after paying tvvo half yearly
dividends of 10 per cent, each, and new
subscriptions from old stockholders.
When in operation the mill will give
employment to 1,600 people, all white,
many of whom have already come in
from the surrounding country, await
ing the opening. The mill will make
standard brown sheetings.
„ Another recent addition to the in
dustries of the city is the Gainesville
Cotton Mills, with a capital of $5C0,-
000. This mill w r as formerly the Vests
Mills of Charleston, S. C., where the
experiment of using negro labor in
the manufacture of cotton goods met
with such a dismal failure. It was
removed to Gainesviile, and with white
labor is making money for its stock
holders.
Speaking of the cotton mill industry,
Col. C. C. Sanders, president of the
State Banking Company, who is a
gentleman fully alive to the possibil
ities of manufa.cturing in Hall county,
told me that nowhere could there be
found more intelligent labor than
among the small farmers of Northeast
Georgia., The climate, he said, was
so healthy that families of 10 to 16
children were nothing remarkable, and
the crop was perennial. These farm
raised families make the best factory
operators". Col. Sanders said that it
was this labor that brought the fac
tories, and for years to come it would
continue to be an inducement. North
Georgia had everything necessary tc
start and operate, probably, any in
dustry—brains, braw'n and bricks. AI"
that had to be brought there was the
machinery.
Those who visited the State Fair ol
Savannah will recall the shoe exhibit
of Inman, Smith & Co., whose tan-
yard and shoe factory is lqcated. ai
Gainesville. I had a desire to see how-
shoes were made, and in company with
Col. W. F. Findley, w^as shown
through the factory by Mr. J. G.
Hynds, the general manager, who es
tablished the factory in 1887, and sold
it tou the present owmers two year?
since. An idea of the extent of the
plant can be had when it is stated that
it employs 175 hands, all white, and
makes and sells a quarter of a million
of shoes a year, the wholesale price?
of which range from $1.00 to $3.50 a
pair, embracing 100 varieties of
shoeware. It uses two. carloads -of
hides every week from * its own tan-
yard, not to count leather and other
material obtained abroad. -The work,
of course, is nearly all done by ma
chinery, operated by home people, as
manly a lot of men, and as comely a
gathering of women as can be found
anywhere In Georgia. Among the op
erators on one of the hundred intri
cate shoe-making, machines is an al
derman of the city. .
Gainesville also boasts of the fine
quality of bricks manufactured from
the clay of Hall county. The several
brick yards make twenty millions of
brick a year. Mr. M. B. Hudson, who
is well known as one of Gainesville’s
prominent citizens, a self-made man.
is the leading brick manufacturer.
Near the city are several lime kilns,
they are called“perpetual” kilns, as
they are forever burning. I was told
that the only stone in the state that
will'make the celebrated Portland ce
ment is to be found in Hall county,
The pride of the city is Brer.au Fe
male College—the first word means
“pure gold”—at which there are 200
boarding pupils, besides scholars from
the citj'-. The building is handsome
and extensive, with a spacious campus
Profs. A. W. Van Hoose, H. J. Pearce,
and M. M. Riley are associate princi
pals of the college
The horse-car track from the South
ern Railway station to the city has
been removed to make place for an
electric road, the Gainesville and
Dahlonega Electric Railway, which is
to run between the two cities, a dis
tance of twenty-five miles, with 3
miles of track in the city and su
burbs. The dynamos are to be driven
by th% waters of the Chattahoochee
liver.
Though it is midwinter I saw
a number of herds of fine cattle
in the fields and pastures, and later had
st. further. oDDortunLty of seeing what
kind of beef cattle was raised cy m
specting beeves in the markets, and it
is my opinion that there was not a
quarter of beef on the hooks that was
not as good as the best Western meat.
This can also be said of pork and
smoked meats.
In my rounds I visited by invitation
of- Mayor Pro Tem Puckett, Gaines
ville’s new City Hall, a handsome
building well adapted for its purposes.
In £he lower story is located the ex
ecutive offices of the city, and the po
lice and fire department. Chief Dun
bar gaye an alarm, and the horses
showed they were fire horses, and the
men. that they were fire laddies. The
second story of the City Hall is an - -ail
ditorium capable of seating about 1,800
to 2,000 people. The building cost $15,-
000; some people think It dost too much,
but hot knowing the cost oi labor and
material in Gainesville, I cannot pass
judgment in the case. However, it is
my „ opinion that the same building
built in Savannah would have cost
$25,00 Qor $30,000. ., £ . , •
I don’t pretend to have given all of
Gainesville’s enterprises due credit^ or
even./mentioned them; this- letter is
simply intended to give a faint outline
of what is there. There is an ice man
ufacturing company, several machine
shops,, wagon and carriage factories,
as. well as all those many other busi
nesses that tend to make up a city.
The newspapers of Gainesville arc-
the Georgia Cracker, edited by A. S.
Hardy, Esq., and the Eagle, edited by
W. H. Craig, Esq. Like all newspapers
they are doing. their best to build up
their city and the surrounding coun
try.
Gainesville is the resting place of my
old friend, H. W. J. Ham. I don't
mean by that that he
has left this ‘terrestrial globe, for
he hasn’t, but is very much alive, and
1 hope he Will remain so for, many
years. Mr. Ham was away from home
on a lecturing tour, telling about the
“Snolagoster,” but I was pleased to
learn that by his efforts in the lecture
field he has gathered a ^ considerable
quantity of what Shakespear calls
“filthy lucre,” but which is, however,
one of the filthy things that all mor
tals like to have.
The only hotel in Gainesville is the
Arlington, but its managers do not
take advantage of that condition of
affairs, but give good accommodations
to the wayfearing man. When I was
in Gainesville some years since, it was
a town of hotels and boarding houses,
with the New Holland Springs Hotel,
and one Or more other spring hotels,
to accommodate travelers and tour
ists, This Is no sign, however, of the
city going backward, but rather the
reverse, it indicates that it is a busi
ness and manufacturing city, and pc
longer depends upon the fleeting sum
mer boarder for its prosperity.
Among old friends who called tc
see me was that veteran oi
the sword and pen, Maj. J. H. Butte
The major, after our mutual greet
Ings, fumbled in his vest pocket foi
several minutes and then pulled out
a pair of folding scissors which lie
held up to my gaze and asked if 3
remembered them.^ I recognized their
at once; I had given those adjuncts
to successful journalism to the ma
jor when we were delegates to one O:
the numerous press or political con
ventions that we had attended to
gether. The major is in the 70’s, but
is still in business.
Hon. j. B. Estes, judge o? the North
eastern Circuit, was holding court dur
ing my visit and when I appeared be
fore the bar kindly invited me to a
seat, ‘‘on the bench” with him. Dur
ing my visit to the Court House I hac !
the pleasure of meeting many of th€
county officers, among them, T. M
Bell, Esq., dlerk of the Superior Court
a brother-in-law of Mr. W. A. Winburr
of this city, traffic manager of ^ the
Central of Georgia Railway; WT A
Charters, Esq., solicitor general, ‘ £
brother-in-law of Prof. Walter W. Wil
son, formerly principal of Oharthair
Grammar School in thiff city, and H
H. Perry, a prominent lawyer and s
native of Savannah. Mr. Perry is tht
son of the late Charles Perry of this
city, who removed to Gainesville £
number of years since.
Besides the gentlemen mentioned, 1
had the pleasure of calling on or be
ing called on by others, among them
M. O. Gilmer, sheriff; M. J. Charles,
tax collector; Hon. W. N. Dyer, ordi
nary; J. W Cox, receiver tax returns:
P. N. Parker, Mayor of Gainesville; L.
D. Puckett, Mayor pro tem.; W. B
Smith, deputy clerk Superior Court:
C. R. Faulkner, Mayor of Bolton, Ga.;
ex-Judge J. J. ICimsey of Walker
county; Hon. J. H Pryor, judge of the
County Court; H*. H. Dean, a well-
known lawyer and wealthy citizen; W.
J. Hobbs, chairman of the Board of
Education; A. J. Mundy, ex-sheriff ol
Hall county; J. C. McConnell, whole
sale dry goods ajid grocery merchant;
Messrs. R. M. Bryson and O. J. Lilly of
Dahlonega; Col. W. F. Findley and J.
O Adams of Gainesville; J. P. Brook
of Milton county; Fletcher Johnson, a
prorfiinen.t attorney of the Northeast
ern Circuit; Chief of Police -B. - H.
Parks; Joseph Blalock, city clerk; J.
M, Towery, a prominent lawyer; Chief
Fireman Charles Dunbar, and his as
sistant, Walter Dunbar; D. T. iQuilllan,
a well-known planter; P. A. Lathern
and his son, George Lathern; Robert
Patterson; W. R. Canning, merchant;
E. C. Kimbrqugh/insurance agent; W.
H. Summer, jeweler; H. T. Martin,
stock dealer, ,W Li. Telford, lawyer;
Will Crow, John E. Red wine,. Jr., Guy
Clopton, city editor Eagle; R. J.
Swayne, court stenographer;- Col. S.
C. Dunlap, receiver of the Jefferson
and Southern . Railway,, and ex-
United States marshal; R. D.,
Mitchell, ex-May or; Hon. ; W. I.
Pike of Jefferson, Jackson county, Capt.
H. B. Smith, a cotton merchant, well
known throughout the state; Rev. J7
B. Boyd. of Bowdre, S. B. Cantrell,
farmer; Joseph Reed, T. S. Waters,
merchant! DeLacey Law and Thweat
Robertson, druggists; L. L. Strickland
of Chesnut Mountain, H. H. Towery,
ex-chief of police; W. E. Sailors,
farmer. Qf Bellmpnt. Ga.:
George r. lcstes, Rutus p. Lattner
formerly of Forsyth county; Z. T. Cas
tleberry, president of the First Na
tional Bank; R. J. Webb of Milton
county, Dr. R. E. Green, president of
the Georgia Cotton Mills; M. C. Brown
Dr. J. w. Oslin, H. H. Stephens nf
Murrayville, H. :A. Terrell, agent South
ern Express Company; J. R. Boor.^,
exrceunty treasurer; B. H. Whelchel
teller of the First National Bank; Sam
uel Hynds, an uncle of Mr. Hynds. man
ager...PC; thetinman, Smith & Co. shoe
factory and a veteran of the Third Ten
nessee RegimenL
Wedriesday afternoon; when I took
my departure from Gainesville, the
leaden skies from which the shew had
fallen the previous day, had passed
away, and the bright-sunshine made it
beautiful spring-like.
J. H. ESTILL.
COURT ADJOUKNS.
Hall superior court adjourned yester
day afternoon after a two week’s term,
Much business was disposed of, the
following being the eases on the erim-
inal docket in which pleas of- guilty
and verdicts of guilty were returned:
Ann Pugh, Isom Thorton, Bill
Fraser, Mrs. Bud Fowler, E. T.
Martin and Thos. Hughes were
found guilty of selling liquor and
were fined, in the order in which
their names appear, as follows;
$200 and costs, $20 and costs, $20
and costs, $15 and costs, $75 and
costs, JS5 and costs. -
Ira Wood and Van Harris were
found guilty of a misdemeanor and
were fined $20 and costs ahd $25
and costs, respectively.
Bob and Earl Sloan were con
victed of breaking into the Gr. J.
& S railway depot, and each was
given a sentence of $100 and costs.
Geo. C. Murphy Was found guil
ty of assault with intent to mur
der, with recommendation that he
be punished as for a misdemeanor,
and of carrying concealed weap
ons. For the first offense he was
given a sentence of $250 and costs,
And for the latter $40 and costs.
The fines and cost amount to over
$400. It will be remembered that
Murphy shot Ed Bell, of near
Bellmont, about four years ago.
Walter Brown, col, was convic
ted of stealing a mule from D. C.
Whelchel, and was sentenced to a
term of four years in the peniten
tiary.
Newt McDonald, col., was con
victed of stealing a watch # and
was given a sentence of $80 and
costs or six months on the gang.
Floyd Whitworth was convic
ted of keeping a disorderly house
and given a sentence of $100 and
costs. /■'/'
Claud Miller was convicted of
shooting at Harve Merritt., col.,
and given a sentence of $250 and
costs.r/ ^
Gus Horseshaw, col r , was found
guilty of larceny after trust and
sentenced to pay a fine of $10 and
costs or go to the gang for six.
months.
^ Viola . and Gertie Davis were
convicted of assault and battery
and each given a fine of $10 and
costs or three months on the gang.
Rev. A, J. Beck of DeKalb has
announced himself a candidate
for state school commissioner. If
the thing keeps up, there, will soon
be as many candidates for this
office as there are already for
governor, or speaker of the next
house of representatives.
i A Little Gill Dies.
The tbirteen-months-old girl of Mr. &
Mrs. J. D. Reed died at their home yes
terday morning after an nine ss of short
duration. The^remaihs will be inter
red at Poplar* Springs church today at XI-
o’clock, the funeral to be preached by
Rev. D. S. McCurry. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Reed are confined to . their bed with
fever, and in their deep affliction they
have the sympathy of many friends.
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Mrs C A Stovall Dead.
Mrs, Charles A. Stovall died * at the
home of her husband near Storeville,
Forsyth county, yesterday about noon.
She was about thirty years old and be
fore marriage was Miss Nannie Wodd-
liif of this city. Her death was caused
from an attack of pneumonia. The re
mains will probably be '
J * P ‘ Prater - Jzion today.
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