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MONDAY,) FEBRUARY I.
Augusta’s Leading City Hotel.
Offers Special Inducements To The Tourist Travel. Splendidly Equipped In Every Way For Comfort
And Convenience of Guests. Centrally Located, All Car Lines Passing Hotel. Rooms
Light And Sunny. And Table Unsurpassed.
The Albion Hotel.
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Bryan Lawrence , Proprietor. J. H. Milligan, Manager.
Short Story of the City of Augusta
Told in Chamber of Commerce Leaflet
Settled in 1735.
Population 65 thousand.
City’s Area 4% miles square.
49Vi miles improved streets.
60% miles sewers.
212 thousand square feet cement side
walk laid in 1907.
Water Works owned by city, valued at
1 million dollars.
61 Vi miles Water Mains.
Capacity of Reservoir 56 million gal
lons.
Consumption average per day 8,572,198
gallons.
Received from Water Works, year 1907
was $76,389.29.
Power Canal—-Ownea by city, 9 miles
long, 14 thousand norse power, sold to
manufacturers at $5.50 per horse power
per annum and turns the wheels of 15
plants and city's pumping station.
City's assets, $5,704,607.19.
City's liabilities, $1,860,013.95.
Surplus, $3,884,661.24.
City's bonded indebtedness only sl,-
733,500.
Building permits—Average for 7 years
over a hundred thousand annually.
Wide and shaded s eets.
Beautiful residences, parks and monu
ments.
Climate unsurpassed—Winter 49 de
grees, summer 80 degrees.
Healtn —As low as any city in the
south. Mortality 13.11 per thousand.
Handsome public buildings.
Grand Opera house.
Streets lighted by electricity.
41 churches; all denominations.
Oldest Iledical college in me south. 2
hospitals.
Public and Private schools: All grades
magnificent buildings, enrollment 4,500
white scholars—7o per cent, of school
population.
5 hotels in the city: X European plan;
One of the best Young Men’s Christian
Association in the south.
5 City clubs, 1 Country, 1 Rowing club.
Center of the finest cotton, argicul
cultural, fruit and truck land, and has
the best hay farms in the state.
450 miles good roads in county.
Coton received 400 thousand bales an
nually.
Cotton consumed in mills 116 thousand
bales annually.
Finest cotton bonded warehouse in the
south. Capacity for 40 thousand bales.
Some of the Cottage Colony
on the Hills Around Augusta
Augusta’s growing popularity each
succeeding season as a Winter Tour
ist Resort, has culminated in quite
a colony of cottagers from the North
ern, Eastern and even North Wes
tern States.
Many of the cottagers were regular
visitors season after season, and so,
succumbing to the many charms of
Georgia among which are numbered
the ideal climate, and fine forests,
etc., they have either buidt homes af
ter their own ideas, or selected such
colonial horrjes as were for sale, and
now make this their regular winter
home.
Mr. John Dickey, Mr. Clarence
E. Clark and Lockhart & Co., are
among the most prominent Real Es
tate dealers from wnom the cottages
nave been rented.
Mr. Albert H. Wheeler of New
York City, -as rented one of the
Butt Cottages on Woolsey Terrace,
after having spent one or two sea
sons. Mr. Wheeler intends to built
a winter home on the Hill at an early
date.
Mr. Arther G. Morris of Dobbs Fer
ry, N. Y., is spending the winter in
one of the Cashin cottages, and is ap
parently delighted with the climate.
Miss I Rust of New York has taken
the Weed Cottage.
Mr. R. J. Buck and family of Water,
town, N. Y. ( are in the Grabowskl
cottage.
Rev. Wm. Cook of Rochester, N. Y.,
is numbered among the Summerville
for this season. Mr. Cook
is iiWfc Gray cottage.
Mr. C. E. ohnson of New York has
built a home in the vicinity of the
Country Cluo.
One of the largest nurseries in the
country.
56 miles electric roads.
50 thousand passengers, cars in and out
our magnificent Union Passenger Sta
tion annually.
9 banks—Capital, $1,200,000.
Surplus, $1,244.405.61.
Bank Deposits Oct. 3rd, 1908—57,374,-
860.00.
Post Office receipts 1897, $57,425.06;
1908, $117,652.29; gain $60,227.23.
8 railroads reaching all parts of the
country with attractive freight rates.
2 Boat lines—s boats.
Annual commerce 100 million.
Within 100 miles 2 million people.
Cotton mills, 13; employees, 6,797.
Machine shops, 2; employees, 263.
Brick plants, 9; output 50 million brick,
employees, 411.
Paving brick and sewer pipe, 1; em
ployees, 175.
Ice plants, 4; employees 82.
Cotton compresses, 4; employees, 345.
Electric railway, 1; employees, 231.
Bagging and tie plants, 2; em
ployees, 95.
Fertilizer works, 3; employees, 310.
Gas Light Co., 1; employees, 82.
Lumber, sash, doors and blinds, 7; em
ployees, 831.
Mattress and bed spring, 2; em
ployees, 135.
Cotton seed oil mills, 4; employees, 311
Flour mils, 1; employees, 37.
Paint manufacture, 2; employees, 43.
Railroad and railroad shops, 3; em
ployees, 1,148.
Wagon works, 2; employees, 43.
Silk mill, 1; employees, 72.
Overall and shirt works, 1; em
ployees 35.
Hosiery mills, 2; employees, 45. ‘
Total, 11,359.
Jobbing houses, 75. Handling all
lines of commodities.
The cheapest shopping city in the
south, our magnificently equipped stores
carry full lines of all kinds of merch
andise.
Beautiful suburbs. Summerville and
North Augusta, where is located 2 large
Tourist hotels valued at nearly 2 mi
ion dollars. Accomodating over 1,000
guests.
The city of opportunity, openings for
merchandising and manufacturing.
Mr. I. D. Warner of New York state
built a very nandsome home on the
Hill several seasons ago, and makes
this tils regular winter resort.
Mr. W. W. Dake of Rochester, N.
Y., has bougnt a home on the hill.
Mr. Wallace H. Rohe, of Pittsburg,
Pa., is spending his ft: ret winter on
the hill, in the Dawson cottage.
Mr. Evans W. Hess of Pittsburg,
Pa., is occupying the Doughty cottage
on the Hill.
Gen. R. P. Hughes of New Haven,
Conn., is in one of the Butt Cottages
on Woolsey Terrace.
Mr. J. S. Kuhn of Pittsburg, has
purchased and renovated one of the
prettiest homes on the Hill.
Mr. C. O. McClintoch of Pittsburg,
is one of the regular winter cottag
ers.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wheeler are
now building on the Hill, in the neigh
borhood of the Country Club.
Mr. F. H. Denny of Pittsburg has
built a most attractive home on the
Hill.
Mrs. Innes of St. Paul, Minn., has
added much to the Hill’s beauty with
her handsome new home.
President-Elect Judge Taft, occu
pied the Terrett cottage, near the
Bon Aair Hotel.
More new comers are being wel
comed each season, proving that Au
gusta, and her surrounding hills,
I have just claims of being the most
jpopular, most healthy and most ideal
location as a winter tourist section.
THE HORSE SHOW IS
111 ANNUAL EVENT
II SOCIETY
Not since the clays of the St. Val
entine’s Ball has there been a social
event, in Augusta that has attract
ed so much attention from the world
outside as that which hns been ac
corded the Horse Show.
Cities innumerable have horse shows,
but it is a most unusual thing to
have one in the open air.
Augusta has done the unusual
thing, has done is not only once, but
three times, and has done it suc
cessfully from both a social and fi
nancial standpoint.
No more ideal spot for such an
open air exhibition could be found
than in the grounds of the Country
Club, and the scene presented there
when the many boxes are gaily dec
orated and the women wear their
most elegant gowns beggars descrip
tion for its brilliancy and charm.
The Horse Show has been the
means of encouraging greatly the
purchase of the finest horses obtain
able by the people of Augusta and
has generally Improved the appear
ance of the turnouts seen on our
roads. Of course there is the fact
that many of our winter residents
and many of the tourists who come
here for several weeks are accus
tomed to bringing some of their
horses with them, and that these
generally make an appearance that is
so sharply contrasted with that for
merly satisfactory to our own people
that there is of course a desire to
make the difference less marked, but.
the real incentive to improved condi
tions in this airection is the Horse
Show.
It is this April function that has
brought about a revolution in women %
dress.
Augusta women have to endure
summers of such duration that they
are by no means eager to doff the
becoming winter garments for the en
forced white of the many long months
of our endless summer; but the Horse
Show requires summer clothes, and
so summer clothes there must, be,
even though April’s showers are more
chilling than the breezes of any of
this most remarkable January.
Our women have always dressed in
exquisite taste, but never so extrav
agantly as for the Horse Show, which
is a matter greatly aproved by our
merchants who declare It has made
a marked difference in trade. Social
ly, the Horse Show brings about a
series of brilliant galties that call for
I many expenditures In still other di
rections, and the general business
activity is greater in consequence.
Tuat . e Horse Show will continue
to be an important feature of life
in social Augusta is a foregone con
clusion. The institution has long ago
been put on a paying basis, thanks to
the skilfull management of those hav
ing it in charge, and there is every
reason to believe that there will soon
be a tremendous advance in the fi
nancial phase of the Horse Show as
well as in other matters pertaining
to the snow.
It is not yet announced #vho will
be the officers for next season, but
those who served last year were: Mr.
Fielding Wallace, Chairman, Mr. T.
I. Hickman, Treasurer and Mr. Ed
ward Johnson, Secretary.
NORTH AUGUBTA LOTB,
Owing to a continued demand for
North Augusta property, especially
since the flood, prices of Individual
property are soaring skyward, but the
Homeseekers’ Investment Co., under
Its new management, has decided not
to increase their prices until June
Ist, 190!). This gives you a chance
to secure property at exceptionally
low cost and while desirable sites
are obtainable. Real estate values on
the Augusta-Alken trolley are rising
rapidly and improvements being
made and projected will cause them
to soar even higher in the very near
future. Invest now Is our Invitation
assuring you of our belle/ that your
money will double soon. Write for
further particulars to either L. A.
Dorr, Prea.; Jno, M. Cranston, Vice
Pres., Augusta, or H. M. Cassels,
Sec., Ellenton, S. 0., Homeseekers’
Investment. Co.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
The Albion Hotel An Ideal Stopping Place
Augusta is justly proud of her
splendid hostelries, and tho Albion
BRYAN LAWRENCE,
Proprietor Albion Hotel.
Augusta As a Winter Resort
Unequalled Anywhere in the Country
When was Augusta not desirable as
a winter resort?
This is a question that not even
the oldest inhabitant can answer, for
as far back as memory can go, and
even farther, our climate has been
considered something closely akin to
that which Eden is popularly suppos
ed to boast.
About a hundred years ago, all the
planters in this section had their
homes in Summerville, which—as we
shall find In the story of Summer
ville appearing elsewhere In this is
sue—was known as Mount Salubri
ty, a musical and distinctly appro
priate name. These planters were
not only independently wealthy but
they were conservative in the ex
treme, and so far from welcoming
an influx of strangers, they strove
by every means in their power to
frustrate all attempts at an Invasion
of their privacy.
The first recognition given Augusta
as a winter resort began about a
quarter of a century ago when Mrs.
Heard conducted a large boarding
<>u*e on the Hill at the place now
known as the Three Oaks. All the
Northerners who came there wished
to come again and yet again, until
the capacity of the house was more
than tested. It was just about this
time that a group of our wide-awake
business men conceived the idea of
building a large tourist hotel, with
the result that just twenty years ago
the Bon-Air, then a small hotel, was
opened, and entered upon Its bril
liantly successful eareor. With tho
opening of the Bon-Air hotel there
began to be a demand for cottages
which at first were rented furnished
from those owning homes on the HIIJ.
After a time, as capitalists from a
distance began to realize what gold
| mines of health were to be found in
our salubrious climate, home after
home was bought by those not, na
tive to Augusta, and a large num
ber of handsome new houses were
erected.
The Bon-Air hotel had succeeded
so well that it seemed expedient, to
build another large resort hotel
I across the river, where the rapid
growth of Augusta had contributed
to the far mere rapid growth of
North Augusta The immediately won
popularity of Hampton Terrace proved
that Its builders had built, wisely.
Stately homes began to be erected In
the neighborhood of this hotel, and
more tourist* than ever flocked an
nually to Augusta, for Augusta it was
always, it always will be, whether it
is Monte Sano, Summerville or North
Augusta.
Today, not even the Florida resorts
are so sought after as is Augusta,
where we have warmth and surishine
In plenty, but where the climate Is
not so enervating as lower down the
country, and where there are hun
, dreds of Interests that no part, of the
state of Florida oan boast.
presents an ideal, centrally local ed
stopping plape for all who desire com
fort and convenience, without extrav
agance.
Situated right in the heart of the
city .cars to all points of interes'
passing every few minutes, it is mag
nificently suited to all who intend to
make a long or short stay.
The hotel is so arranged, that,
every room is well lighted and venti
lated with large, sunny windows, and
every room in the hotel affords com
fort and convenience for its inmates.
A feature of the hotel management
is the supplying of its tables with
products from the hotel’s own rann,
which insures only the freshest and
purest of milk, butter, vegetables, etc.
The quiet, courteous attention of
the hotel's force adds much to the
pleasure of a stop at the Albion, and
the hotel is equally as popular for
family parties, as for travelling men.
Mr. Bryan Lawrence as proprietor
leaves absolutely nothing undone,
which will add in any wny to the
comfort, health or pleasure of his
guests.
To the winter tourists, the Albion
is especially attractive and each
year many visitors from the North
and West spend a portion of their
time in this ideal, well kept and com
fortable modern hotel in Augusta.
Nowhere in this part of the world
can there be found such superb goif
courses as the two we boast., and
our automobile roads are not to be
surpassed either for smoothness or
for the beautiful views that may be
enjoyed along their route. Better
still, we have many objective points
of historic interest, places that make
any ride seem worth while because
it loads where every prospect pleas
es and where lessons In history may
be conned at the same time,
'men too the fact that, our two
great hotels on the health-breathing
heights are within easy reach of a
large town offering many municipal
advantages as does Augusta, adds
not a little to their attractiveness to
the people of the big Northern and
Western cities.
It Is good to know that one Is In
constant touch with Wall street, that,
any number of good physicians are
within call, and that the shops of
every kind all offer facilities almost
as great as the shops of New York
and Philadelphia. To be able to en
joy the best, theatrical attractions the
South affords, to have a complete and
convenient trolley service, to have at
one’s command the best milliners
and dressmakers to be found In this
country, and to have so cheap and
so plentiful the most beautiful flow
ers In the world,—does not ail this
moan a great deal? It, must mean ev
erything, for surely not even our
heaven sent climate, not even our wa
ter that once drunk calls for an im
mediate return of the one drinking It,
can account for the tremendous num
ber of people who every year flock
to us In greater and greater num
bers, and who in turn go out and
advertise Augusta to the whole
world.
And the development of the past Is
as nothing to what, it will be In the
future. The fact that Mr. Taft has
chosen to winter here has focussed
the attention of the whole union up
on Augusta, and has attracted notice
from every civilized country on th;
globe.
Why did Mr. Taft choose Augusta
for rest, and recreation? This is th
very natural question that Is being
everywhere asked, and it. Is a ques
tion that calls for such replies as
prove Augusta to be even more de
sirable from the standpoint of the
outsider than from that of the peg,,
pie who have been so long accus
tomed to her perfections. Take for
instance, Mr. Rockefeller’s choice of
Augusta as a winter resort, a choice
that is noteworthy because It Is made
by a man to whom everything is fi
nancially possible. All the most ex
pensive, all the most desirable, all
the most ordinarily unattainable
’places of the earth are open to him
because of the magic of his bottom
less purse, and out of the whole world
he chooses Augusta. There must be
something quite remarkable about
A SCENE ON THE CANAL
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TOBACCO MACHINERY.
The cultivation and curing of cigar
ette, smoking and chewing tobaccos,
excepting for n few technical varia
tions, is somewhat similar to the of
cigar leaf, although they are of a
markedly different character when
they come out of the cure, Virginia
and North Carolina is of a light yel
lowish color, and very dry and mild
and Is used In the pipe. Kentucky
and Tennessee In darker and very
gummy, and is in demand for plug
and fine out chewing. Perlque, grown
and cured almost exclusively in 9t.
.lames parts, Louisiana, is a deep
black in color and the heaviest to
bacco produced. It Is used to give
body and pungency of flavor to our
smoking mixtures, and many insist
having It.
Machinery plays a prominent pari
In tiie manufacture of chewing and
Smoking tobaccos and cigarettes. Cut
ting, shredding, mixing and packing
are all done wholly or In part by me
chanical devices.
The most Interesting of these Is
the cigarette machine. The shredded
tobacco Is fed into a hopper and tho
cigarettes tumble out Into a trough,
wrapped, pasted' printed and topped
at the rate of three hundred to five
hundred a minute. Nearly all of our
cigarettes are products of the ma
chine, even the Turkish varieties, re
tailing at ten, fifteen and twenty cents
the package.
The term Egyptian cigarettes Is, In
this country al least, a misnomer, as
there is no such thing as Egyptian to
bacco. No tobacco is permitted to
be grown In Egypt. Our so-called
Egyptian cigarettes are made of to
bacco grown In Turkey and tho old
Turkish provinces, such as Monteno
gro, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Syria. ■
Carl Werner, In The Bohemian Maga
zine for February.
FROM BAD TO WORSE.
Tomdlx- "They say old Gotrox had
a lot of trouble getting that homely
daughter of his oft his hands ”
Hojax—"Yes; but his trouble ar«
even greater now."
Tomdlx—“How is that?"
Hojax—“He bus to keep that home
ly daughter's husband on his feet. 1
—Exchange.
thi’ place sought by the great ones
of th" earth, say the lookers-on, and
so they come to find out what It is.
When once they come, the witchery
works upon them too, and the result
is the tourist-crowded city and sub
uroa as we see them today.
PAGE FIVE
THEARSENAL
One of the most conspicuous feature*
es Summerville Is the United States Ar
senal consisting of a group of imposing
looking grey buildings set In the midst
of wide lawns and spacious grounds
kepi In exquisitely beautiful condition
by file United States government.
Formerly there was a United States
Arsenal on the present site of the Sib
ley Mills, bill It was moved in 1532, to
tin I till, where it now stands on ths
hlgliesl point In Summerville, 400 fest
above the level gs the olty of Augusta,
and fiOO feet above the level of the At
lnntle Ocean.
This Is a very healthy point In the
winter and summer, tile atmosphere be
ing dry und pure In the extreme. Small
arms stored In the Aisennl building are
said to ho entirely free from rust.
Many of the best known officers of tho
United Slates army have been station
ed from time to time at the Arsenal,
which has been many limes enlarged
since It was first built and is now recog
nized as an Important ordnance post.
The present commandant Is Major
Joyes.
A BOOM ON AT BELVEDERE.
Augustans are Interested over a
deal jlist closed between Mr. L. A.
Dorr, of Augusta, and Mr. Jaa. E.
Kerr, an Eastern capitalist, now win
tering in Aiken, 8. C. Mr. Kerr pur
chased a large tract of land at Bel
vedere which he proposes to cut up
Into building lots, erect nice cottage*
and sell them on easy terms to white
patrons. Streets will be opened and
a village of beauty will thrive In the
glory of nature’s pure air as Its stand
ard. Mr. Kerr Is thoroughly con
versant with the development of Bel
vedere and with the opportunities
wnich exist there for Investment. A
twenty minute trolley schedule and
a five cent fare insures a steady
growth. Belvedere, situated as It 1*
on the highest point between Augusta
and Aiken, just far enough to be free
from malaria arising from the low
lands, invite one to locate if in search
of pure Bweet air. Take a tip and
buy a lot now. even as an investment,
because land is the basis of all wealth
und It Is only one kind of property
that cannot bo taken from you, neith
er ran it burn up, run away or die.
Write to L. A. Dorr, Augusta, Ga.,
for further information.
SLIGHTLY ABOVE IT.
Hyker—"Do you thing young De-
Swift Is on the level?”
Pyker—"Of course not. He’s M
airship chauffeur.” —Ex.