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AIKEN, S. C, ONE OF THE FAMOOS RESORT CENTERS OF THE WORLD
Aiken—the place beautiful, where
Idea] climate and surroundings go to
make up one of the most heauthful
and delightful winter resorts the world
affords. Before the war Aftken is said
10 have been a summer resort for
Charleston. As a place of winter resi
dence for Northern sunshine seekers
it was discovered about thirty years
ago by Miss Celestine Eustis, sister
of our late ambassador to France, who
ever since has been its tutelary diet;/
and genius. In 1880 it was still a deso
late village, lost in Ihe South Caro
lina pines and forsaken apparently of
God and man. But in December and
January, mild, windless days of blue
and gold wrapped tbe hills. In Feb
ruary Spring stirred and in March
awakened. April was like the North
ern June.
Climatological exports have declar
ed Aiken's climate to be Surpassed in
salubrity by only one place in the
world—Davos Platz, away up among
the Switzerland Alps—and nowhere in
America.
That Aiken's possibilities in this di
rection have been made the most of,
no one who has spent a winter within
the hypnotizing influence of the place
to remember, would deny. Winter in
Aiken means a succession of days and
weeks of outdoor life, breathing a
tonic-air that causes the pulse to beat
with a fuller life, and more balmy
atmosphere than the almanac allows.
Nor is golf the sole amusement of
fered, though with Ihe Palmetto Golf
and the Park-tn-the-Pines Clubs, two
magnificent courses —the former said
to be the best south of Washington—
golf is probably the standard.
A widely circulated magazine made
the following reference to Aiken re
cently: "Though simple and without
pretense, Aiken as a playground af
fords a diversity of amusement that
is unique. One may begin the day
in the frosty dark with fox-hunting,
watch the sun rise like a Stage spec
tacle behind the boles of mysterious
pines, thrill with a gallop and the cry
of the Southern hounds, return tor a
second breakfast and a morning of
polo or lawn tennis; after lunch shoo;
or play golf or court tennis, then tea
and bridge, then dinner and more
bridge and puzzles. If only ihe thirst
of life could be assuaged with games,
this would be tbe fountain-head where
all could repair and be satisfied. It
Is the paradise playground of a boy’s
dream, but it is also something more."
Ah the ideal playground, Aiken re
veals each season more of its seem
ingly inexhaustible store of charms
and delightful possibilities, though ti
taining all that have contributed 'o
the popularity of the place. Not only
were the biggest and the most sue
cessful pigeon shoots held and tin
most exciting polo games played this
last season, but members of the Aiken
colony found in the moonlight nights
of March a witchery and a charm that,
can be compared to nothing, but which
proved to lie as irresistible as the.
Southern sunshine of the March days.
Down through Sand River, beyond
Devil's Backbone, both of which Gou
venuer Morris adores and writes about
in his stories of Aiken life, to Bar
ton’s Pond, the moonlight picnickers
have gone, and there, beside the placid
lake where the swan presides in ma
jestic grace by day, have found a do
lightful out-of-doors substitute for
bridge or the club or anything else
that would keep them indoors- and
It is tbe great out-of-doors that ap
peals to these pilgrims from the cold,
blustering, snow-bound North. Noth
ing can be simpler than a moonlight
picnic, and nothing more enchanting
than a moonlight picnic in the pic
turesque and beflowered Cuthbert Dell
Fantastic shadows dance on the straw
covered hillsides, while the soughing
of the pines summons up the mystery
of the night, responsive alike to all
moods and temperaments.
Hundreds who come to Aiken ask
nothing more than to live out of doors,
and to these Aiken, with the surround
ing country scenery and miles and
miles of fine country roads, which the
past season have been tairl yalive with
every kind of fashionable vehicle from
the dog-cart to the tallyho, has won
the unstinted praises of people who
Dave traveled the world over In search
of ideal climate.
Hotel life in the Newport of the
South," as Aiken is commonly known,
Is known far and wide as equal to the
best and far superior to many in that
section of tho country. Wilcox’s Is
undoubtedly the most popular of the
Aiken tourist hotels, possibly because
of Its air of exclusiveness and the
Wilcox catering. Then,
there is the Park-in-the-l’ines, rank
ing high among the magnificently ap
pointed hostelries of the South; the
Magnolia Inn, the Palmetto Inn .the
New York House, and dozens of pri
vate homes, the hospitable doors of
which are thrown open for the enter
tainment of guests during the win
ter.
Among the most prominent people
who huve visited Aiken in the past,
spending from on e week to three
months, have been Mr. and Mrs. F.
W. Drummond, of London; Mr. and
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, who have
made annual visits for the past sev
eral years; Mr. Henry C. Frick, of
Pittsburgh; Mr. and Mrs. George
Bird, of New York; Air. E. Rollins
Morse, of New York, Boston and New
port; Mr and Mrs. Mortimer Sohlfi,
of New York; Mr. Sidney Smith, of
New York; Mr. ißehard Harding Da
vis, the author; Mr. George von L.
Meyer, former secretary' of the navy;
Mr. Huntington Wilson, former assis
tant secretary of state; ex-Congress
man A. P. Gardner, of New York; and
Messrs. E. L. and G. T. Smith, of Sara
toga Springs.
A partial list of those who maintain
beautiful homes, which they occupy
during the winter months, includes
Mrs. John H. Hanley, of St. Joseph,
I Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Cabot, of
Boston; Mrs. Andrew W. Smith, of
Balston Spa, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. R.
A. Swygert, Lexington, Ky.; Mr. and
i Mrs. J. T. Cannon, Boyd, Ky.; Mr.
John Wesley, Oil City, Pa.; Mr. and
Mrs. C. B. Soutter, Cedar Rapids, la.:
Mrs. Henry Warren. Boston; Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Bohlen, Philadelphia;
Mrs. Sheffield Phelps, Englewood, ...
J.; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock.
Jr., Westhury, L. L; Mr. and Mrs. ( .
Oliver lselin, New Rochelle, N Y.; M'.
. and Mrs. H. E. Pellew, ;
Harry Paine Whitney, New York; Mrs.
William Goddard, New York; Dr. ami
Mrs Filmore Moore, Eliot, Me.; Mr.
John Sanford, Amsterdam. N. Y.; Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Harrtman, Newport;
Dr. and Mrs. W. Duncan McKim,
Washington: Mr. C. P. Goss, Wate"-
bury, Conn.; Mr. and Mrs. Philip S.
P. Randolph, Philadelphia; Mr. arid
Mrs. Godfrey Wheeler, London, Eng.;
Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Beach, New York;
Mr. and Mrs. W. Butler Duncan, New
York; Mrs. J. K. Scommell, St. John,
N. B.; Mrs. A. F. Mills, L>*er Monl
claire, N. J.; Mrs. Thomas G. Ward,
Albany, N. Y.; Mrs. J. R. Ellicott,
Portsmouth, N. H,; Mr. and Mrs. D.
R. Hanna, Cleveland, O.; Mr. and Mrs.
Gouveneur Morris, Westchester, N. Y.;
Mr. Daniel Isaacs, Omaha, Neb.; Miss
M. Fairbanks, Boston; Mrs. Mary T.
Seccomh, Highland Mills, N Y.; Mr.
and Mrs. Sidney Burehetl, London,
Eng.; Mrs. T. T. Gaff, Washington,
and Mr. Josef Hoffman, the famous
pianist.
Augusta's Strategic
Position As a Railroad
Center
Take a map' and examine min
utely the situation of Augusta.
There is not another city, town oi
hamlet situated like it. There
is no other location at all anala
gous to it. In this respect:
A straight line drawn Irom
New York to deep water on the
Gulf of Mexico, strikes the gull at
St. Andrews Bay, Florida. Like
wise a straight line drawn from
Chicago to deep water on the At
lantic, strikes the coast, at Port
Royal, Savannah and Charleston.
These two lines cross each other at
Augusta.
New York and Chicago are the
great centers of wealth, population,
influence and commercial importune,!
of America, and it is a very remark
able coincidence that this city should
lie directly in the pathway of each
one of them in seeking the nearest
rail connection with the Panama Ca
nal.
The importance of this location
might not appear sit first blush, but
it will become more apparent as the
grand development resulting from the
operation of the Panama Canal be
gins to have its effect.
The Panama Canal.
The operation o that stupendous
work will revolutionize the trade
routes of the continent. Many new
lines will be constructed, and old ones
will be re-constructed to meet the re
quirements of commerce created by
the changed situation. And all of
trese trade routes will be re-organized
on the line of the shortest possible
cut for the Panama Canal.
Water being universally recognized
as the cheapest and the quickest
mode of transportation the shortest
route from the commercial centers
becomes the most impotrant. And
Augusta’s position, where these two
lines, North and South, and West and
East cross each other, from a com
mercial and strategic standpoint.
Tlie tines from New York and Chi-
CECIL H. SEIGLER
Perhaps one of the most satisfac
tory evidences of business quality, of
■technical training is offered by the
great demand in all quarters for men
anil women of technical education.
For many years there has been a
great discriniuation between the
business world and the educational
world; but the gulf between the two
today lias been bridged by technical
schools. The young man and woman
trained therein, when he or she steps
beyond the threshold, has a certain
amount of skill to sell, and the de
mand is far greater than the supply.
The ability of a young man or wo
man to capitalize his or her educa
tion .while it is not the sole end of
education, is a highly valued end.
Thousands of young men and women
who have gone out of the Southern
technical schools are today engaged
in developing the material resources
of the South. Agriculture has estab
lished itself as a science; book-farm
ing is no longer sneered at and there
has been a universal recognition by
the farming interests throughout the
South of the direct, practical value
of the results of colleges and of ex
periment stations and competent
public instructors. Within tile last
few years there has been a remark
able growth in the demand for young
men and women trained in scientific
agriculture, and many of the most
talented, matured and serious youths
the country of both sexes are now
entering into this field ot education.
The various fanners' institutes, boys’
and girls' farms, gardens and girls’
tomato clubs—-this incomplete cata
logue of a tew ol the leading activi
ties of the experiment station indi
cates the tremendous range and value
of this work. Mr. Seigler and Mrs.
Mrs. Seigler (his wife), tiie populal
Sui ei inteudent. of Public Instruction
oi Aiken County, is responsible for
the establishment oi the Girls’ Toma
to C'lub in 1910, which has proved so
popular and profitable Irotn an edu
cational and financial standpoint in
Aiken County, and all the Southern
states. This was begun in Aiken
County with 47 members; now there
are more than 110,000 members in the
Southern states. Knowledge, indeed,
is for an advent for better things lor
the South, is happily prophesied by
the wide-spread Interest in technical
education. Great credit is due Mr.
Seigler for the great progress he is
making, not only In this field of edu
cation. but in having been the first
to havd a county-wide contest in the
different school departments and in
athletics, the first of which, in South
Carolina, was held in 1909. in Aiken.
This has spread to nearly every
county in S. C-, and in many othet
states. And he is rapidly becoming
known as one of the foremost eduem
tore In the Southern states today,
cago to deep water are destined to
become great highways of travel and
commerce between those cities and
the Panama Canal. They will handle
the products of the northwest ter
ritory, the coal, iron and the varied
i agricultural and manufacturing prod-
J nets o that teaming section, together
I with the finer class of manufactures
that are located in tbe New England
and Middle states.
And they will require the finest
road bed and the most improved
equipment to do it. The curves must
be straightened, the grades cut down
and the road bed ballasted, to haul
the heavy trains of a hundred cars
each, down by a powerful mogul en
gine.
Augusta the Concentrating Point.
Starting with Augusta, the logical
concentrating point for all this enor
mous tonnage, both from the West
and from the North, where is the
nearest deep water on the gulf. We
know where the nearest deep water
on the Atlantic is, for we have both
rail and water connection with the
three ports, Savannah. Port Royal
and Charleston, and so we are now
looking for the nearest, the deepest
and the most available deep water
harbor on the Gulf coast.
And shall find it at St. Andrews
Bay, now called Panama City. Put
your rule on the map and draw a
straight line to St. Andrews Bay.
You will find that it fulfills the con
ditions you are looking for.
There is no other harbor on the
Gulf comparable to it except Pensa
cola and that is bottled up by the
railroads and its water front cut off
from the commercial world. It is not
thought that this could happen at St.
Andrews Bay, for its fine water front
is too extensive to be gobbled up by
any sinister interest.
St. Andrews Bay.
Now note tlio towns that the line
passes through. The first is Louis
ville, Jefferson, County. Louisville
is about 50 miles away from Augusta,
its natural market, but it might as
well be 150 as it is isolated from this
city and forced to trade with Savan
nah and Macon, which are remote
points from it. A railroad from here
to Louisville would bring 20,000 bales
of cotton to this city that now goes
elsewhere.
The next point to be reached by the
line is Dublin, which is 85 miles dis
tant. Dublin has received as high as
60,000 bales of cotton in a season.
Augusta is its nearest market and its
best market for the sale of cotton and
most of the cotton would come to
this point if there was direct rail
connections. And the same can be
said of Cordele.
Cordele gets 100,000 bales per an
num and Albany gets 75,000. Both
places are on the line and both are
nearer to Augusta than to any other
cotton market and yet they are as
much cut off from th's place as if
there was no such tplace. Then, there
is Bainbridge, a flourishing town, that
is in the same condition so far as this
city is concerned. From Bainbridge
to St. Andrews Boy is but a stone’s
throw.
The Garden Spot of Georgia.
From Augusta to Dublin is the only
■part of the line that would have to
be built. All the rest of the way. the
JUDGE H. F. RICE
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Judge Rice was born in
Barnwell county, S. C., Feb.
1(1, 1866, and spent his boy
hood days on his father’s
farm.
lie graduated from the
South Carolina Military
Academy at Charleston in
1886 and taught school for
several years. While teach
ing lu 1 studied law and was
admitted to the bar in 1898,
and commenced the practice
of his profession at Bam
berg, S. C. In 1905, he
moved from Bamberg to
Aiken, S. C., and in Janu
ary, 191‘J, was elected Judge
of the Second Judicial Cir
cuit of his native state.
Judge Bice was born and
roared on the farm and is
still an ardent agriculturist,
operating two small farms
near Aiken, which arc his
pride and hobby. Tie is en
thusiastic over the agricul
tural possibilities of Aiken
Countv soils.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA.
The Real Estate Business at Aiken,S.C.
By J. W. ASHHURST
Aiken property has always com
manded fair prices but about fifteen
years’ago, after! the burning of the old
Highland Park Hotel, a buying and
building boom , was started when some
of the best known and wealthiest peo
ple of the United States brought and
built rather than depend on future
hotel accommodations, and thus en
larged the resident winter population
of our city, since which there has been
a steady increase until no wduring the
“season" not only wealth is well repre
sented but the old aristocratic fami
lies of the North predominate ami
among whom many celebrities lend ad
ditional charm, making the resort not
only an "all the year round” good place
Augusta Bludwine Bottling Co.,
One of Successful Soft Drink
Concerns of Greater Augusta
Among - the manufacturing industries
of Augusta tlie Bludwine Bottling Co.
ranks among the leaders in the manu
facture of soft drinks. Although they
have not been established in Augusta as
long as some of the other companies,
they are enjoying a very large and rap
idly increasing business. Their plant
is very modern and sanitary and equip
ped with latest improved machinery,
which insures the highest proficiency in
the manufacture’of their products.
Bludwine is a most delightful, health
ful and envigorating drink made from
the fresh, select natural foods. The.many
towns mentioned are connected up by
lines that are already running
Thus the road would soon become
a highway from the local traffic alone
connecting a string of flourishing
towns and villages and servinj the
territory, which is rightly called the
garden spot of Georgia.
It would not only afford this rich
territory an outlet for its cotton,
fruit, melons and other products of
the soil, but it would put these places
on the trunk line for the Panama
Canal.
St. Andrews Bay is already attract
ing widespread attention. Its mag
ni icent natural land-locked harbor,
the finest on the Gulf coast, with
thirty three feel of water over the
bar. is cla ming the serious attention
of capitalists and others interested
in tlie Panama Canal trade.
Atlanta, alwavs alert arid wide
awake to the situation, is already in
the field and building a rilroad into
St Andrews Bay. More fortunate is
Augusta that has the railroad already
built, except the short link from here
to Dublin.
A PRACTICAL GIRL
lie (lanlently) r l would lay down tea
thousand lives for you.
She—You’d please me better if you’d
lay up SIO,OOO. .
WESLEY YONCE
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Wesley Yonee lias been a
resident of Aiken County
for the past thirty-three
years, having been born in
the northern part of Aiken
County on January 9th,
1871, and spent his boyhood
days on the farm.
For the past eight years
he has been the Treasurer of
Aiken County, South Caro
lina. Previous to that, for
nine years he taught in the
public* schools in Aiken
County and is a firm believ
er in the future prospects
and possibilities of the City
of Aiken and of Aiken
County.
He is particularly inter
ested in county affairs, and
a firm believer in good gov
ernment.
Having been born and
bred in this section, and
having witnessed the won
derful growth of Aiken and
the surrounding seetioiaMr.
Yonee is most enthusiastic
in his predictions for the
future of the State. “It is
the greatest country in the
world, and has the best peo
ple,” is Inis expression.
to live in, but particularly interesting
during the winter; laid out with 150
feet wide streets and avenues, and
lying on a large plateau, with all fa
cilities for water, lighting and sewer
age, there is no practical limit to the
growth of the city and newcomers can
be suited with locations to suit their
individual tastes whether they want a
modest lot for a bungalow, or a “tract”
for a mansion, and the prices are nor
mal, the numberless advantages of the
city as a winter home for the leisure
class of the North appeal to any casual
visitor, and the proof is in the facl
that the longer our friends spend their
winters here the better they seem te
like it.
superior qualites of Bludwine has made
It a most popular beverage and is rec
ognized as one of the leiding drinks on
the market. Mr. James R. Moore, who
operates this plant, is a most capable
and successful business man and de
serves great credit for tlie wonderful
success of the Bludwine Bottling plant
of Augusta.
Their plant is now running full ca
pacity and it is a matter of a very
short time when they will have to in
stall new machinery and increase the
capacity of their plant to supply the rap
idly increasing demand for Bludwine.
WONDERFUL WOMAN.
With liat tipped over, no eye free,
’Tis very plain she cannot see.
With hair combed over the ears, ’tis
clear
Blie of course can hardly hear.
With gown so tight it causes talk,
’Tis plain that she can scarcely wall;.
And yet she dodges autos, teams,
Arid gets along quite well, it seems.
Man never could survive, poor chap,
Beneath one-half that handicap.-
—Louisville Courier-Journal.
J. L. IVicCARTER
City Clerk and Treasurer.
AIKEN, S- C.
Is one of the most prominent citi
zens and public o:ficials of Aiken. S.
C. There is no part of the city’s
administration but what Mr. McCarter
is thoroughly acquainted, even to the
smallest detail. While Mr. McCarter
was born in Columbus, Ga., on March
16th, 1871, he has been a resident of
the City of Aiken for the .past 29
years and has been its efficient City j
Clerk and Treasurer for the past 13 j
years, and during that time has only
missed two special meetings of the i
City Council, and these only for rea
son of being away on his vacation, !
when these special meetings were
called. A record that few, if any, j
public officials can surpass. Mr. Me- j
Carter is very prominent in fraternal 1
societies, being past master of Aiken !
Lodge, No. 156, A. F. M-. is P. H. P. j
of Kadoshlayah Chapter, No. 41, and
a member of Omar Temple. A. A. O. :
N. M. S.. and past chancellor of Aiken !
Lodge No. 25, K. of P., and has been 1
a member of the Grand Lodge since
1896 and is at present a member of
the ways and means committee of
same.
During the many years Mr. Mc-
Carter has been in the office of City
Clerk and Treasurer he has establish
ed the reputation of always treating
everyone with courtesy and obliging
to all. He is very popular among Ills .
associates and is the right man for *
the office he now fills. |
HALL COTTON CO.
Domestic and Export. Handle principally North Georgia and North Alabama Cotton.
SURE SIGN OF INSANITY.
Owner of Car —Why did you leave
your last place?
Chauffeur —The guy I worked for went
crazy. Started shingling his house when
his car needed new tires. —Puck.
GOSSIP.
An’ they say he never pays a cent
less’n ten cents for his neckties!
PROBATE JUDGE
JUDGE GEORGE C. EDMONDSTON
AIKEN COUNTY, S. C.
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Probate Judge Geo. C. Edmondson, of Aiken
county, South Carolina, was elected to the office in
August, 1908, by one of the largest votes said to
have Ken cast for any other candidate for public
office in the history of Aiksn. For more than a
quarter of a century before being elected to that
office, or since 1876, he served as deputy clerk
of court of Aiken county under his father and oth
er clerks, as follows: Capt. Angus P. Brown, Capt.
W. M. Jordan, Capt. John N. Hankinson and Capt.
J. W. D--bar.
Born i Charleston on January 16, 1845,
“Little George,” as he is now familiarly known by
his intimates, ran away to enlist as a Confederate
soldier at the age of 17. He served ten months
as a private in Company B, Twenty-fifth South
Carolina Infantry, and at that time was taken
down ill of bronchitis as the result of exposure.
After recovering sufficiently Private Edmondston
was appointed an accountant, in which position
he remained until the close of the war. His father,
Charles Edmondston, refugeed from Charleston to
Lawrence Court House in ’62 and in March ’65
removed to Aiken.
The Journal andßeview
A Semi-W.iekly Newspaper Published at
AIKEN, S. C.
The official paper of one of the largest and most
prosperous counties in the western portion of South
Carolina.
It goes into the homes of more people than any
other paper. If yon wish to reach the people of Aiken
County, you must use this paper.
E. H. MOBLEY
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
“AUGUSTA IN 1914”
THE STINGY VARIETY.
Reggy is certainly a peicli. but he
won’t give me an engagement ring.
Perhaps he’s a cling stone.
HARD ON THE TRANSGRESSOR.
“I would hate ot die on such a hot
day.”
"It wouldn’t be much of a change,
would it?”
COTTON
MERCHANTS