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SPECIAL NUMBER 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 ' x : SS3BSSBS v M!'v ■s' ‘ 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 (AIKEN) I sHIP® 1 IH vGBSSSba £ vHhW fg§re|iHSß7 <* |^|feiSsßy 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. Eg. V: V v N '""4 ' 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 No, 4 Irish-American Bank Building General Contractor and Builder SMp®**.3i' f Fine Residences and Buildings of Every Description My Specialty. Satisfied Customers My Reference Office 2476 PHONES Residence 6625-L. 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