F 277 . 18 S7 Copy 1 SOUVENIR SOl/r/f G4/^Ol/JVA ^SSOC/Ar/O/V IJLE OF PALMi". ~K- LIBRARVol CONGRESS I Two Gootes Rdcelvea t JUN 28 l^^O-' ^ CecyriirM Entry iUSS A XXC, No. COPY b. ' r %n ■.\ ^ - Copyrighted 1 907. Cover and Contents By Walker. Evans & Cogswell Co., Charleston, S. C. W. D. MORGAN Vice-President W. J. RODDEY President GILES L. WILSON Sec'ty and Treas. THE SOUTH CAROLINA BANKERS' ASSOCIATION OXI-^ ut the greater scientists once (lescrilied the law of cause and effect as a "chvine, omnipresent, endless chain." He was merely directin,^- attention to the circumstances that there is no effect which does not in its turn Itecome a cause. Everywhere, and in every acti\ity of the universe, the |)ro(luced hecomes the jiroducer with the next turn of the wheels of time and affairs. It matters not whether it he in the larox-st or the smallest of endeavors, or whether it he for good or ill. With every throl) of action the truth of the scientific thesis is e.\em]>lified — the effect of to-da\- is the cause of to-morrow. .Ml of which in this ])articular instance is said ai)ro])os of the fact thai the ."^oiuh I'arolina P.ankers" Association, whicli is alxait to cele- l)rate its seventli hirthday. has liccunic a ])otent agent in the tnrlher- ance of the very inflnenees to which it owes its origin. 1'he estahlish- nient of new hanking institntiims was at lirst hnt an incident (if tlie marvelous prosjierity which has characterized the State's inchistrial liistory for the last (|uarter of a century. lint thev were no sooner numerous than the need for organization among them was felt to be both ex])edient and necessary; and thev were no sooner bonded together in their i)resent fellowship than they became an in- strumentality in jiroducing and perpetuating the \ery pros]ierilv which had given them birth first and welded them together afterward. The Sluice at disposal here does not ])ermit of an ade(|uate sketch of the men and achie\ements of the South L'arolina Hankers' Associa- tion. Jt is suflicient to say that the organization is now re])resenta- tive of practically the entire Ijanking- strengih of the State. Its in- Huence has been felt in the enactment of salutarv laws. In the in- dustrial, commercial and financial life of South Carolina it is one of the major factors which make for the wonderful develo])ment of our re- sources and for the wise directir)n of our energy and enter])rise. It is not possible to render credit in detail to each of the men who has con- tribtited a qtiota to the debt of gratitude under which the public has been laid by the Association. To W. A. Law. formerly of Spartan- l)urg-, but now \'ice-President of the Merchants' National Bank of Philadelphia, more than any one other man is due honor for the found- ing" of the Association. Hut since it is not ])ermitted to indulge in extended detail as to the men who ha\e been identified with the organi- zation, or as to the beneficial meastu^es it has fostered and enforced. llio t'ollowin^- simple chronology will sufiicc to emphasize its develop- ment and to illnstrate the representati\-e character of the o-entlemen \vh(^ have directed its atifairs. The Association was organized in the Merchants' and Manufac- turers' Cliil). Colunihia, S. C, May Slh. Kpi. The Officers elected were: President. W. A. Law. S])artanhurg-: l-'irst \'ice-President. E. H. Pringle, Charleston; Second \'ice-President, K. W. Rohertson, Columbia; Secretary and Treasurer, josejjh Norwood. (ireen\-ille; Ex- ecutive Committee. R. G. Rhett, \\'. J. Roddev, Emslie Nicholson. \\". T. Montgomery and John M. Kinard. There were hft\--three hanks rep- resented. The second annual convention elected: President. K. H Pringle; \'ice-i'resident. I{. W. Rohertson; Secretary and Treasurer, Joseph Norwood. At this meeting the memhership numhered sevent\- four. Tlic third annual nieetins;- chose tlie following officers: Presi- dent. E. W. Robertson; \'ice-President. B. F. :Mauldin; Secretary and Treasurer, |oseph Norwood. The Secretary's report then showed a membership of ninety-seven. The fourth annual convention nar^ied the following: President, B. F. Alauldin; \ice-President, W". J. Mont- o-omerv Secretarv and Treasurer, Giles 1. Wilson; and there were ninety-nine banks re])reseiUed. The fifth convention named: Presi- dent, W. I. Montgomery; X'ice-President, W. J. Roddey; Secretary and Treasurer, Giles L. Wilson. The membershii) had now increased to one hundred and fifty-one. ddie si.xth convention elected to office the gentlemen who will i)reside at the meeting about to be held: President W. J. Roddey, Rockhill; \'ice-President, W. 0. Morgan. Georgetown; Secretary and Treasurer, Giles 1.. Wilson, Spartanl)urg; I^xecutive Committee, T. B. Stackhouse, Bright Williamson, D. D. McColl, Jas. C. Self and L. C Harrison. At this meeting the roll of the Associa- tion contained one Imndred and seventy-one names. During the past }ear this list has lieen still further increased, and when the Associa- tion is called to order for its seventh annual convention it is probable that nearlv everv bank in South Carolina will l)e affiliated with it. OFFICIAL PROGRAM SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION South Carolina Bankers' Association Seashore Hotel, Isle of Palms, off Charleston June 25th, 26th and 27th, 1907 ITS PURPOSE To I'I\(_)]\I( )'ri'l the general welfare and usefulness of hanks and bankinp^ institutions, to secure uniformity of action, together with the practical benefits to be (leri\e(l from personal ac(|uaintance and from the discussion of subjects of im[)ortance to the banking and the commercial interests of the State of South Carolina, and es])ecially to secure the pro- per consideration of (juestions regarding the linancial and commercial us- ages, customs and laws whicli aft'ect tlie lianking- interests of the entire State. Tlie seventii convention of this Association will he held at Seashore Hotel. Isle of Palms, off Charleston, Tuesday evening, \\'ednesday and Thursday, June 25th, 26th and 27th, 1907. The office of the Secretar)- and Executi\'e Committee will he at Sea- shore Hotel, where, ui)on arrival, memhers and guests are rei|uested to call, register and ohtain proper credentials. All Railroads ha\e granted a one and one-third rate to all delegates and \isitors attending the convention. Have your local ticket agent give vou the regular receijit or certificate when you purchase ticket, wdiich when pro]ierly \ised in Charleston, will entitle you to a return ticket for one-third regular fare. Tickets as al)0\e can he bought to Charleston onl\-. VuU fare each wav must he paid between Charleston and Tsle of Palms. I'or further details call on or address the Secretar}'. OFFICERS President, \\ . j. Ixoddey. President .National Cnion Pank, Rock Hill; Vice-Pres.. W. 1). Morgan, President Bank of Georgetown, George- town. Secretary and Treasurer, (jiles I^. \\ ilson. Spartanburg. COMMITTEES Executive Committee — T. B. Stackhouse, Chairman, Coli.ini1)ia Eris^lit \\'illiamson. narlintiton D. i). McColl. HennettsviUe Jas. C. Self, (ireenwood L. C. Harrison, Lancaster President and Secretary, ex officio Legislative Committee — Kiclid. 1 AIannin»-, Chairman, Sumter W illiam Barnwell, Columl)ia Wilson (i. tiarvey. Charleston J. Allen Smith, Ahheville \\ . J. Montgomer\-, Marion Delegates to American Bankers' Convention, 1906. E. P. Grice, Charleston F. F. Capers, Cjreenville W . I. .Mi)ntgomer\-. Marion Attorney — A. M. Lee. Charleston. THE LADIES Other State Associations have made a feature of having the ladies present at their annual gathering. We want to brighten and enliven our meetings by their presence, and it is hoped that many ladies will attend this convention. .\ cordial in\itation is hereby extended to them all. They will be welcomed. BANK CORRESPONDENTS We welcome to our conventions representati\es of banks of other sections. South Carolina l^ankers will be glad of an opportunity- to meet their correspondents from Xew York. Philadelphia. Baltimore. Richmon;!. and other cities. This has become an attractive and valuable feature of our conventions: and is mutually advantageous. GILES L. WTLSOX. Secretarv. PROGRAM FIRST DA^' — I'^irst Session — June twenty-fiflh. Tuesday e\ening, 9 o'clock. Reception and l^ance. An oiijiortnnity for all delegates and visiiors to l)econie acquainted and ha\e an enjo\'al)le time. SECOX'D D.\Y — First Session — June twenty-si.xlh. Wednesday morning, lo o'clock. Con\-ention called to order by tlie President. Mr. \\'. J. Roddev invocation : Rev. S. Cary Beckwitli, L). D.. Rector of St. Philiji's Trotcstant Epis- co]ial Church, Charleston. A.ddress of Welcome : Hon. k. Coodwyn Rhetl. Alayor of Charleston, and President of Peoples National Bank. Response : Mr. B. .\. [Morgan. President Bank of Commerce, Green\ille. Annual Address : President \\". J. Roddev. President of Xatinnal L'nion Bank, Rock Hill. Report of Secretary-Treasurer: Mr. Giles L. \\'ilson. S]:)artanhurg. Report of Executive Committee: Mr. T. B. Stackliotise, Chairman, \ ice-1'res.. National Loan & Ex- change Bank, Columbia. Rciiort of Legislative Committee: -Mr. Richd. I Manning, Chairman, I'resident oi Bank of Sumter, Sum- ter. I-Jejjort of Delegates to .-Vmerican Bankers' Convention, St. Louis: Mr. E. P. (irice. Cashier Peoples Xat. Bank, Charleston. Address: ■'The Country P)ank Check." Mr. krancis B. Sears, \'ice President of National Sliawnnit Bank, Boston. Mass. Address: "The Pank and l-"ilth\- Lucre."' Mr. John W. Simpson, \'icc-President of Central National Bank, .S|Kirtanl)urg. Introduction of Visitino^ Bankers. Appointment of Committees: Committee on Resolutions Committee on Auditing- Committee on Xominations Announcements. Adjournment for Fish I'"r\' on Heach in front of Hotel. SECOND DAY — Second Session — June twenty-six, \\ ednesday even- in_■■*,^kd^ 0■■^^:^'^>•■^^ <>■';^ O'^ * 4^ .* * ♦ i^ A TYPICAL INDUSTRIAL CITIZEN OF CHARLESTON Since it is ])ro])()sc'cl here to j^ive in niiniatnre a sketch of Charles- ton, a brief bioj^rapliy of one of the best known and most typical of the city's industrial citizens is entirely o])])i)rtune. The term "indu^irial citizen"" is nr)t merely a jjhrase meant to catch the eyes or hnld the attentinn. There is :\n actual recijirocal relationshii) between a citv and its industrial, cnmmercial and financial establishn:ents. as there is between a citv and the man and woman who form the roster of its inhabitants. C'omnumities as well as indix'idnals. have identities. The characters of cities are distinctixe. ( )nce established thev per- City Hall County Court House petuate themselves as tlinu.!4h by some law ni heredity. Derixed tri)m the dominating- tone and ]iur])ose of the indix'iduals who o'o to make np the ])ersonnel of the mnnicipahtx' the\ impart themselves not only from one generation to another, hnt to new comers as well. And all of this is trne of ("harleslon as ])ecnliarlv as it is trne of an_\ other city on the American continent. And the individnality which is hers helon2,-s also to her peoi)le and to her cor])orate institntions. 11 i,^h ideals. East view Colonial Lake. di^nit\- of character, consummate courai^'e, fidelity to ohlio-ation, honorable amhitions, inte^ritv of ])ur])ose are all traits with which the ])uhlic mind associates the name of t/harleston. It is a repute which is a valtiahle asset to anv community; and to say that the firm of Walker, lA'ans & C'o^'swell Co., is a typical industrial citizen of Charleston claims for it these attrilniles. A hislorv of the house, how- ever brief, cannot tail to i^ive additional emphasis to it> representative natnre. Its record reaches from th.e halcvon davs of Charleston's com- mercial and industrial su])remac_\- on the South Atlantic Seaboard. It follows the niunici])alit\- into the ec]i])se of its fortunes which suc- ceeded the war; and it rises with it into the new commercial and in- dustrial donhnance which has now dawned for the old town. The business was founded in 1S32 bv Col. Jose])!! Walker at Xo. 117 h'ast i5ay Street, and there it was continued bv him tmtil 1H55. when he wiliidrew from it to estal)lish at I'.ath, South Carolina, one of the first ])aper mills ever built in the South. Hut the business was continued under the name of Walker, I'.vans i^t C"omi)an\-, the partners in it bein^- John (.'. W.alker, I'.. F. i-'vans and llarve\- Cogswell. The lirm shared in the uni\er.^al disaster which the war brou":ht. After Meeting Street Residence Showing Famous South Carolina Society Hall. Meetinc Street Residence having moved from East Bay to Broad Street, it was once more moved, going this time to Columbia where the liouse was cmi)lnyed by the ("onfederate (JovernmeiU in htlio^raphin^- the mone}' and bonds of tlie new nation, 'i'he workmen who performed these serviees had to . , i^ 1 1 Looking North be imi)orted from luigland. R„3i, Dis.ric .\fter the war ("ol. Josei)li W'rdker and his son. Gen. C. Irvine W alker, re-(jpened business in Charleston at the corner of Markel an 1 Meeting Street, but moved it again to the old stand on llroad and East Bay Streets in iSf)/. A year later Messrs Evans and Cogswell re-entered the firm with Walker and the business was carried on under the name of Walker, b^ans & Cogswell. Col. Walker died in 1S70 and Col. I'lxans in 1S71 ; but the surviving ]);n'tners remained. When the .State had been redeemed from negro control by the 1 lampton move- Seeing Charleston. mcnt. the firm displaved a characteristic piece oi ])atriotic enterprise. The crecht of tlie counties of South C'arohna had heen temporarily de- stroyed. Fn this emeri.;ency tlie famous Cliarleston firm came to their aid. It ])rovided tliem at its own risk witli tlie expensive su])pHes of which the\- were in need: and it is to l)e said of the county ^'overnments of the State that the del)t of gratitude incurred I)v accei)tance of tliis jHihhc s])irited ii;'enerosity is one which has never lieen forgotten or commercial ciub Building. disclaimed . When the tirm re-opened its husiness in \^(i^ it added to its stock of goods, tv]K', ])resses and ]irinters' supplies. It estahlished the plants of many of the news])a|)ers conducted in this section at that period. No less a distinguisheil jnurnalist than the late Menrv W. Gradv bought from the house the materials with which he began the publi- \f cation of his first newspaper at Rome. Georgia. After the death of Messrs. Josepli Walker and !!. F. I'lvans the snr\iving- i>artners dis- continued tin's l)ranch of their husiness. The firm was incor]K)rated in iS86 mider the name of Walker, Evans & Cogswell (/(imi)an_\-. It has had as ])residents Gen. C. Irvine Walker, Mr. 1-. J. Pelzer. Mr. Geo. W. W'lliam^, Mr. W. I 1. Co£?s\vell. Gen. Walker was general manager of the firm until 1890. I'ntil the ^ew Roper Hospital. lime of his death Mr. llarvev Cogswell was secretary and treasurer of the corjioration and manager of its finances. At the outset, and even during the earlier ])eriod of its cor])orate life the husiness of the Com]ianv was largely local; hul under its present management the field of its endeavors has been greatly extended. Its salesmen travel a half score States, and wherever its wares are distributed the firm's name is respeclcd for the excellence of its proilucts. for its eneroy and enterprise, and for the fidelitN- with which its contracts with and obligations to its patrons arc exccnted and discharged. It is a typical Charleston hnsiness honse — pridint;' itself npon its lon^- and honor- able history, iealous of its re])iUe in the industrial world, and ani- mated 1)\- those i)rinciples which are so rapidly making a new and a greater Soutli. Residence Cor. Wentworth and Smith, CHARLESTON Histdricallv and arlislically C'liarleston is so intensely attractive that those who have written of her liave oftentimes been led to treat without due consideration the more material side of tJTe City's past record and ])resent life. In song' and story the marvelous charm of the old numicipalitw and its peo])le, have been celel)rated. The poet and the novelist each tinds within Charleston's g;ates such a wealth of ins])iralion that it seems well nis^h a desTadation to refuse to o-jve a free rein to fancv when speaking' of her. rather than to harness one's Residences South Battery Jasper Monument and Battery Park. jieii to the facts of her coniiiKTcial and industrial life, ^'et the Ameri- can s])irit n\ the hour is so essenliall}' ])ractical and real — industrial- ism is so omnipresent and all-jjotent in the life of the nation — that it demands recognition e\-en here where the imagination tairly yearns to revel in tradition, romance, and other things e([ually seductive men- tally. Mr. W ister found here a life and atmosphere which fairly en- thralled his fancv; and the result was a hook which delights tliose who still cling to the ideals of the old American regime. Architects from the uttermost parts of the earth luwe declared tliat with the possible exception of Ouebec, the French ([uarler of New Orleans and the Spanish sur\'i\-als to he found in the far South-west, Charleston ofifers more of worth from their ])arlicular angle of view than is to be obtained anvwhere else on the continent. The painter has done Characteristic Charleston Door Way. Quaint Old Legare Street. nuin_tj honias^'e to the riot of color witli which nature lias clotlicd the site of the citv from the Hk\- line of the coast to the horizon of the iuainland. Tho-e who.-e province it is to trace the inlluences which Washington have controlled the making' of the nation's thoti^iit ha\-e found here square Showing the the we!ks])rin<4' of one of the several great currents of purpose which Historic pitt , . 1 \ • -■ • \ 1 ■ 1 ■ • Monument. liave dominated American allairs. At everv ])oint to winch iii(|Uir\' mav turn (."harlcston asserts an indi\idualitv so coin])ellini;' that one pauses, unwilling' to seek furtlier for a theme for animad\-ersion. There is small wonder, in sucli circumstances, that the cilv and its j)eo])le occup\- so unii[ue a ])l;ice in the minds of their neigiihors. and ^'"^ °' Sunken Garden that there are so many conllicting impressions entertained of them. Hampton Park. lUit the weight of testimon\- lirung into existence villages, towns and cities. The farmer could sell at united states Custom House. his own door the cotton which he had formerlv marketed at the sea- hoard. The factor, once all im])ortant. hecame little more than an in- cident in the new industrial order. Cotton was still Kiny in the South, Iiut its sovereignty was dift'crentlv aflniinistcred. The mills were coming to the cotton; and as the hum of the spindles grew into a veri- tahle din, a powerful inlluence was exerted o\-er ever\- husiness method Plant of which related to the growth and marketing of the great staple. Royai Bag and Yarn M'f'g Co. In the midst of these radical changes, while the commercial and industrial ma]) of the entire South was l^ieing made anew. Charleston might have fared far worse than she did had nature not come to her rescue. The discoverv of those splendid de])osits of pliosphate rock in her vicinitv, which suh>ei|Uentlv made her the center of the fertilizer manufacturing trade of the world, ga\e her new prestige. Though Fertilizer Works her supremacv in this industrv is not as comi)lete as it was a score on Ashiey River. o f vears ago. it has not heen. nor can it ever he. snatched from her. But great as has been tlie commercial importance of Cliarleston in the past — great as is the commercial importance of Charleston now — the ])art that she is destined to ])la}- in the future is of far greater con- seciuence. The com])lelinn ni the Panama canal will exert well nigh a revolutionary induence not (inl_\- un the trade relations of this conti- nent I)Ut ui)on the trade relations of the entire world. Charleston is ])eculiarlv fitted to become rk. The I'anama canal once open Charleston will l)e closer to San I'rancisco l)v water than will he anv other ])i)ri itn the Atlantic or the Gulf. I'Tirthermore, since the march nf the em])ire westward. ha\ing made the circle of the glohe, is niiw awakening the Orient again, the opening of the Tanama canal will make Charleslnn one nf the salient features in the ever increa.sing trade whicli the Cnited States is to conduct with China. Jajian and the Phili])piues, And it does not need argument to convince the modern l)usiness man that distance is a differential in trade relalidus which is all-im- Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church South. Cor. Pitt and Calhoun First ( Scotch 1 Presbyterian Church Cor. Meeting and Tradd. jiortant. Tlie mills have come to the cotton fields of the South he- cause of this fact. The space of time required to reach a market is important, hut since transportation is such an item of cost in ])r(>duc- tion, it is essential that tlie ])nrt that is to handle the commerce of the future should he close to the s^'reat distril)utin<4- center hy land, and close likewise to the markets in which Imsiness finds its final destination. It is l)v meeting both of these re(|uirements that Charleston establishes her claim to maritime consequence in the future. Draw an air line from Chicago to the seaboard at any point on the continent, and re- membering Charleston's ])ro.\imitv liy sea to the markets of the Occi- dent and the ( )rient after the completion of the Panama canal, and draw )'Our own conclusions. The business men of (/harleslon look to the sea with e\'er\' con- East Battery Looking South East Battery Looking North. fidence. Their ]K)rt is practically the Atlantic ocean itself. The city is jnst enongh removed from the open sea to furnish a safe harhorage ni stress of weather. The comi)letion of the ^-oxernnient work at the en- trance to Charleston harhor has provided a depth of water sufhcient for the accommodation of craft of |)ractically any draught. The city has sixteen miles of water front where vessels carryint;- the commerce of an entire continent might find dockage. On the l^osom of the heati- tiful hav formed !)>• the conllnence of the Cooper and the Ashley ri\ers the navies of the world may ride at a safe anchorage. Possi1)lv a final test of the ade(|nacv of the harhor of Charleston for anv jnirpose is found in the fact that when the federal go\ernment was seeking the hest jilace for a great naval estahlishmenl on the South Atlantic, Charleston was selected over several competitors as fur- in the Retail District V^^>1 nishing the best facilities. The navy yard which is now nearing completion on the Cooper river will eventually represent an outlay of fifteen million dollars, and in peace or war Charleston will he reck- oned among he bases of the nation's naval establishment. In the circumstances it is not wonderful that Charleston has been selected as the port of entry on the Atlantic fur the great tide of immi- pfration which is destined to set toward the .South in the future. A (|uarter of a centurv ago, the .Siaith's prolileni was tn iind enough c'd])\- tal with which U> em])loy her i)eoi)le; to-day her problem is to hnd enough i)eople to emplnv her capital. In the marvelous industrial deve- li>l)ment which has characterized this ])eriod, Snuth Carolina has been cons])icuous, if not actualh' |)re-eminent. Cliarleston is Sotith Caro- lina's eatewav to the sea. Within the twelve months the lirst practical U, S. Lighthouse Supply Station "Castle Pinckney" Fort Sumter Charleston Harbor steps looking to meeting- the ever-increasing demand in the Snuth for men have l)een taken. A (hrect Hne of steamers has l;een estal)hshed hetween Charleston and llremen. I-^)r the first time in many decades, hundreds of immigrants from foreign countries were landed at a Soutli Atlantic seajjort. The arrival of the first of these immigrant shii)S was hailed as an eixich-making e\ent in the histor_\' not only of C'liarleston, hut in that of the entire new industrial South; n(.)r can the importance of the movement he over-estimated. I*'ach succeeding year will hence- lorth hear go forth from the South a more insistant demand for labor- ers — and hv that term is meant e\-erv class of men who contri])Ute, either hv hrawn or hrain to the industrial and connnercial life of a nation. The develojnr.ent of the Soulh's resources was begun in the travail which succeeded the great war 1 etween the sections, l-'or a Wentworth Street Residence Residence German Consul Rutledge Avenue. ^*'*''te time progress was made Intt slowly. But the tentative period is at an end. The momentum now acquired is enormous. Men only are re- quired — an adequate supply of energy, enterprise, industry — of strong arms and well balanced heads — to carry the work to its logical conclu- sion. To the assistance of the millions of citizens of the South who are already engaged in this endeavor are coming other millions from the other sections of the Union, and from Europe. As the best port of Charleston Country Club. entrance for the last-named class, Charleston's claims are already es- tablished. It would l)e a mere matter of sujjererogation to say that Cha'des- lon is e(|uipped with all llie accessories which are considered re(|uisite in modern American munici])al life. There is a consolidated system of electric street ra'lwaxs which not only adeciuatel}' covers llie business and residcnliril lliDronqiifares of the city, hiit jilnces the resident in close tonch willi tlie na\-y yard, seven miles n]) tlie Cooper: with Mt. Pleasant, a i)retl\- little citv of live thousand or so inliahilants ; with Snllivan"s Island, where the government has a ^'reat military estah- lishment, and with the Isle of Palms, one of the most heautifnl and one of the most sjiacions seaside resorts on the Atlantic. In addition Drawing Seine ti:> this svstem two others are now buikline, one which will connect isu of Paims the cit\- with Summerxille, a famous winter resort, eij^-hteen miles distant imm ( 'harlestim ; and the other known as the I'tihhc Serx'ice Cor])oration which is to construct a net-worl'; of trolle\' lines from tide water to Piedmont, South Carolina. This corporation has a cai)ital stock of ten million dollars, and it i)roposes tn l)uild in this State alone six hundred miles of track. Beach. Two greal railway system?, the Sontlicrn and the Atlantic Coast Line, contrullin^- as they do ten thousand miles of rails ])lace the city in close touch with the distrihulint;- ])oints of the south, west and north. Memminger Through them the merchants of Charleston are enahled to mnnster to formal schooi -^ -,-,,...■ -i i for Girls the trade of eyery Southern State Last ot the Alississippi, and to reach a territory e\en more extended and remote. The growth of Charleston has been yery rapid in the last seyen years. Her inhabitants now number seyenty odd thousand souls. The municii)al goyernment is, as it has always been, accounted one of the most efficient and most free from corruption of any in the country. The city has but recently been provided with an abundant supply of ])iu-e Acad.my. water; her ])ublic schools are admiral^le, and she is the possessor of sev- eral institutions of higher education such as the .State [Military Acad- Porter Military ^»»\J»r part of the world's crop ol that valuable sta- ple ])asses over her wharves annually. Within the last few years the lumber trade of Charleston has multiplied itself manv times. \'ast areas of timljer lands have been ac- (|uired, and a half-score of great mills have 1:een constructetl for the conversion of their i)roducts into marketable commodities. The annual output of these i)lants is now over 100,000,000 feet (if lumber, and the sources from which they draw their sui)plies ol raw material are so Sorting "Irish" Potatoes for Northern Market Annual Value Charleston Potato Crop. $l.joo,ooo j-ich and exteiisixc llial llicrc need be no diniiniuion in ihc xolume of tlieir traffic f(_)r more than a (juarter of a century to come. \\'hile details liave lieen eschewed in these ])a,i^'es. a few saHent facts regarding- the great trucking industry, to which reference has already been made — a prolific sotirce of wealth to the city and its vicinage — mav be i)ermitted. A charming drive across the Ashley river and into St. Andrew's Parish, takes one through the largest single cabbage field in the world. It contains twelve hundred acres and yields annnallv some fnurteen hundred thousand head of the jileliean, but nu- tritious and popular vegetable to the culture of which its soil is devoted. The amiual marketaltle value of the products of the truck fields in the immediate neighborhood of Charleston is $3,000,000. 'idie railwav companies annnallv transport from Charleston to Xew "S'ork. Philadel- Harvesting Asparagus Total Annual Value Charleston Truck Crop $3,000,000 Section of the Largest Cabbage Field in the World St. Andrews Parish Annual Value Charleston Cabbage Crop. $1,200,000 pliia, iiallinmrc, nust(.in and dUicr cities of tlie I'last. Xnrtli and W e>t, 12,000 car Iliads of veg-etaliles. The Cali1)ag-e Cro]) is valued at $i._'O0,- 000; tlie I'otato Crop at an e(|nal amount. I'or miles about the city one drives through endless L^'ardens of strawberries, beans, peas, aspara.^us, lettuce, beats, and all other similar delicacies. And si)eakin^- of ^'ardens, there is one of a dilTerent character Irom these at the L'itv's doors with which the name of Charleston is every- where associated. The fame of Magnolia-( )n-The- Ashley is veritably world-wide. Traxelers from the uttermost i);uis of the earth have seen and i)raise(l the sjjot as beini;' without parallel or compare in the ]n-()- fusion and beautv of its i)lants. There are to be scni twelve acres of Japonicas. .\zalias and Ma,i.;"nolias embedded in a semi-tropical l(jr- est, and overto|)pini4' a charminj^- reach of marsh and river. The riot A Typical Field of Squash. Twelve Thousand Cars of Truck Sllipped From Charleston Annually. Average Net Value $-'50. CIO Per Car. of color tliat greets the eye of the visitor, when tlie flowers are in hloom l)ewil(lers the imagination, and fairly beggars the vocabulary of one who seeks to describe the inii)ression i)roduced by so gorgeous a spec- tacle. A few miles distant from Charleston are to be found the only tea farms in America. This industry has long since passed its experimen- tal stage. For years the tea gardens were little more than objects of speculative interest; to-day they have been proven to be a source of wealth. The (pialitv of their products has been pronounced to be excel- lent even bv the experts of China and Japan, and tea-culture must hence- forth be accounted an important item in the agricultural life of South Carolina. Charleston is the richest city of her size in the South. Her banking Y. M. C. A. (section of i Swimming Pocl. Gymnasium, Dressing Room Office and Lobby. institutions are numerous and are everywhere noted for soundness and integrity. In her savings institutions alone there is always on deposit millions enough to proclaim her wealth. , If additional i)roof is nceiled of the superior advantages which the city of Charleston offers to the investor and to the business man it would be found in the rapid de\elopnient which is manifested in every department of her trade and commerce. Her exports have doubled within the space of a few years. The numljcr of her wholesale deal- ers in important lines of trade has multiplied several times within a brief space of time, and yet each of the individual houses of to-day is doing a larger business than was done by the same house of ten years ago. The traveling salesmen of Charleston are to be found from Florida to the Potomac, and from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. The Entrance William Enston Home. prices of real estate show a cimtinuous development in value. There is nothing' lacking that is indicative of growth and prosperity. Charles- ton's ]irogress is not e])henieral. There has never heen that species of industrial hysteria known as "a boom" within her corporate limits, Imt she has never ceased to go forward with confidence, energy and success. The victim of two of nature's great disasters nianv years ago — a great earth(|uake and a great cyclone — she retrieved the losses of hoth with a facility that exemplified the mar\"elotis courage Home. p.nd energy of her people, and which clearh' cstahlished her title to lie accounted a trulv great citv. AA'ithin the last foiu" years Charleston has attained nnich celeb- rity as a winter resort. For a period her marvelous climate, charm- mg scenery, historic interest, and artistic worth were overlooked ])y Canterbury Avenue WilHaTi Enston the tourists who annually make an exodus from the east, north and west to Florida. But this could not long contimie true. The tide of tourist travel to the city during' the winter season has doubled in the last few years, and there is no longer a question that another decade will see Charleston estal)lished as one of the points in the South In which everyone goes, as a matter of course, when in search of recrea- tion and health. But after all is said Charleston must he seen antl known to he appreciated for what she is and what she is worth. The pleasure- seeker finds in her endless ins])iration to enio\nienl : the artist revels in conteni])lation of her picturesipie houses, cliarming gardens and s])a- cious parks; the historian finds in her records food for con- tem])lation and study: the ca])italist and business man is astonished Marion Square Showing Calhoun Monument and South Carolina Military Academy. St. Philip's Church Resting Place of John C. Calhoun I)v Iicr unsiiriiasscd advantat^-es as a trade center. Charleston lias l)cen a beautiful and a great city for a century; she is a beautiful and a great cit\- now; she will un(|uestiona1)ly lie a more beautiful and a greater city with the progress of the years. Cannon Park Showing Entrance The Nc.v Charleston Museum. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ' '1 1 1' h 014 417 167 6 # . • /;