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Augusta Making Remarkable Strides in Building Operations
BILLION FEET OF
LOU Cll) in THE
STATE DING 1913'
More ili;hi 100 years um> the first- )
• hoisiu i>i ll <- left its home in the great
Inn-sis m' llh' Southern coast for the
gnat markets of this country. Though
in in this time a factor In the com
nit'll ml lit,, of 1 1 ip state. Its history
lor the next three-quarters of a cen
tury was uneventful. During these
years the industry was confined en
tirely to the Southern coast of tne
stale. With the growing facilities for
transportation, it gradually extended
ami, for the last twenty-five years, it
has occupied a considerable place in
the list of (ieorgia industries. The
construction of trunk lines through
the heart of (lie lumber forests have
given a great impetus to lumbering.
Three years after the Brunswick and
Albany, now a part of the Atlantic
Coast Line, was built, there were
twenty-five sawmll's i n operation
along its line.
A man who has do: < more than any
one else for the development of the
lumber industry in the state is Cap
tain H. if. Tift, in 1572, Captain Tift,
foreseeing the tremendous possibili
ties for tlie lumber industry, began
buying timber lands for the purpose
of developing them. When the Geor
gia Southern and Florida railroad was j
built in 1892, lie, was chiefly instru- j
mental in tsarting the town of Tilton,
in the heart of the lumber region, and
today the town, with its 2,590 inhabi- j
tants. bears strong tetsimony to the !
excellence of his judgment and Cl' '
fori.
Saving the Waste.
Until within the last few years,
however, Georgia pine bad little corn
Tiioreial value. The methods of lum
bering used were extremely crude, the
waste was so great and preparing the j
product for market so costly and in- j
efficient that the profit to be derived i
from the industry was always an ex- I
tremel.v uncertain quantity.. In those j
days the square portion of the tree :
was the only marketable portion. Tile \
sawmills, therefore, only squared the j
logs, leaving the remaining side por- j
lions to be burned. For this purpose j
only the finest trees were used, and a I
great number of trees had to be cut i
in order to secure very small return". !
Great forests were ruthlessly sUuign- i
teed on every side. And for all this j
m iste, where one fortune was made,
many were lost.
Foreign Trade.
It was not until 1902 that the wave j
o prosperity which swept over the
'oiinirv enlarged the demand to such
extent that Georgia pine, hitherto
known only t< the domestic markets,
f< ami its way to the foreign as well
a the home markets of the world
Cnee given a change in these larger
markets, it made good its claim to su
periority and soon gained an estab
lished place. The day of prosperity
had come. With the rise in the price
of lumber came a corresponding in- \
crease in the value of the land. Be
ioie 1903 these pine lands had hardly
been worth their taxes. All the stand
ing timber in the state could have
been bought for from 50 to 60 cents
an acre. By 1907 these lands had mul
tiplied many times in value. One larg.
body of virgin pine has recently sold
for S2O an acre.
A Wife's Humiliation
(Newport News Press.)
Mrs. Edwin Carman, of Freeport. N.
A .. who has been arrested on suspic
ion of having shot a woman in her
hhusband's officee, whether guilty or
innocent, is the victim of her inordi
nate Jealousy. Every woman is sup- j
posed to be more or less jealous of the I
man she truly loves, and some go so j
far as to say that without jealousy !
there is no love. But airs. Carman's
jealousy was peculiar.
"For years,” she said. "I have heard
that I was a martyr to my husband's
gay life.
"I wasn’t jealous as women are or
dinarily jealous.
“I had an increasing sense of shame
that my womanhood resented.
“i resented 1 lie thought that 1 was
the ‘pitied’ wife.
We can well understand the galling
sense of indignation to a proud woman
in being placed in such a humiliating
position in society. To hear the name I
of a man who has sworn to honor j
and protect her and yet to tie made tlte j
object of pity because of the conduct I
of her husband towards other women !
it is enough to drive a spirited woman !
mad and if a wile so treated should in ]
a moment of frenzy take vengeance on '
■be husband who had so wronged her. 1
'Ve doubt if a Virginia jury would find
her guilty. We should say that if the
unwritten law" may lie fairly invoked
in any case of homicide, it is here.
I, T f 1 > t
Heroine of Signal Box
\ *lnr> of dramatic heroism. reading
IK* a tragic melodrama, is told in tlie
i’ariM newypaers in describing the mur- !
• • r of a pointsman named Pouiliin while (
l.c was on duty on the line from St. i
Imjih to lipcmay, on the main Paris- I
«"iiautllly line.
1 ottllain. who was aged 81, lived with
,s "if** and another fa mi y in a small
• • ape close to his signal box at Pierre
fit'*', about fifteen mi.es from I’av s. and
K*»ili of tin I'oullafns were certificated
• s c cant a of the company.
These boxes ate only entrusted to tried j
*■ .ploycs. as tin express service by day |
ai d night is almost perpetual, requir
ing um rising vigilance.
He Wotlc was sli red between Poul- I
•cm and ilia wife, and soon after 3 in
tin* morning the woman, hearing a cry,
inn down and found iter husband lying
**’i tin threshold. just able to say:
"Help! I am being murdered. '
Shouting aloud, she l egan to attend
Poullain. when she heard tlie semaphore
bell giving 'warning of the approaching
3:b train, and leaving her dying hus
band, she rushed to save the lives of
the passengers by working the points,
which she a one now understood.
The whole time she continued crying
at the top of her voice, and she saw
first their ton and then the neighbors
' < ’n« out and pick up tlie wounded man. ,
bet though half heartbroken and shaken
with sobs, she remained at her post for
tlie passage o! the Calais bout train, due
&i 3:80.
This she stopped, and Poul) in. tin*
oonscioui, but stili breathing, was placed
on board and conveyed to Paris, while
his heroic wife defused t*» quit the lever
till ft in ‘lie morning, when finally she
was relieved by another signalman. It
was only then that the poor creature
broke down in a long fainting fit, and as
soon as she recovered she took a train to
New Home o! Dr. Whatley Battey
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PLANNED AND DESIGNED BY G. LLOYD PREACHER,
ARCHITECT
Handsome and Attractive Residence ot George
S. Lombard, Augusta, Ga.
HmnjitTH' ■
HIS PRETTY AND ATTRACTIVE HOME DESIGNED BY G.
LLOYD PREACHER, ARCHITECT
PLUMBING SERVICE
OP A SUPERIOR TYPE
is the result of our varied experience. We have
installed and done the Plumbing; Work on many
prominent Residential and Business Buildings in
AUGUSTA , GEORGIA
G. Llovd Preacher, Architect and Engineer,
lias secured our services on many of his Large
Contracts.
Nothing Too Small. Nothing Too Large.
LET US ESTIMATE
T. Q. BRITTINQHAM,
Phone 524
651 Broad Street AUGUSTA , GA.
SAND
LIME
CEMENT
WHOLESALE ONLY
Material furnished on following contracts in
Augusta, Ga.:
University Hospital.
Mt. St. Joseph Academy,
Empire Building,
Chronicle Building,
Kale Hotel.
Levee for Augusta, Ga.
and other large contracts now under construc
tion in this section.
Dealers and Contractors of South Caroli
na and Georgia invited to write mo for prices.
YOU WILL SAVE MONEY
R. J. HORNE
LEONARD BUILDING. AUGUSTA, GA.
see her husband, whom she found dead.
Tlie courage and almost sublime devo- I
tion of tlu« wife in taking her dying Ims- >
hand's place and leaving others to tend
his last moments will stand high among
Dip records of heroism cla'med for the
humble servants of tlie public.—Provi
dence Journal.
CRUSHED STONE
LUMBER
IRON AND STEEL
PLASTER
PAINT
ROOFING
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA.
E. L. CROOKS
General Contractor 1230 15th St. Phone 3118
Estimates furnished on all kinds of residences, stores, offices, apartments, etc.
LARGE AND HEAVY CONSTRUCTION A SPECIALTY
Mrs. G. W. Morgan. IdEU Broad Street.
Hollingsworth Candy Co.
Delaney Builling.
H. H. Ellison Building.
Use Stone Mountain
Granite
Man
Recognized by architects, contractors and builders
everywhere as the finest granite for every use. Comes from
the famous Stone Mountain, 700 feet high and 7 miles in
circumference.
Best granite for large building work which is our
specially. Dimension Stock, Rubble, Paving Blocks, Crushed
Granite, Etc.
In Augusta, and in fact all over the South, G. Lloyd
Preacher as well as other promient architects use Stone Moun
tain Granite and find it always satisfactory.
Stone Mountain Granite Corp.
Quarry, Plant and Office
Stone Mountain, Georgia
ALBERT WEIBLEN, President C. BENDER, Vice-President
Wm. S. MARTIN, Secy. & Treas.
Among some of my work are the following:
AIN D MANY OTHERS
Morgan & Johnson Furniture Store.
Lakeside Club.
Mrs. J. B. Morgan’s Office and Apartment Build
ing on 13tli Street.
‘‘AUGUSTA IN 1914”