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CITY GE CHARLESTON riORTH CAflOLiHA'S MAGNIFICENT EXHIBIT Stands Second to None at the Charleston Exposition. . 4 Attractions to Visitors of the Host Historic City, on the American Continent. llESS i t-v - "-- AID FUTURE Offer to the; World as a Great Cen nerce and Trade and the Many vantages to be Obtained. FINANCE I It Offers At t the City that here Else and find Historical ilutionary and iments.as Well 'als of Nature, bn Surmounted 'pie. g man who was is first trip to (elated as to be ' speak of any t after purchas ( his Journey, .ho halting for his 1001, to Juno 1st, 1902, is to dazzle all visitors, is the promotion of a more in timate commercial relation , with the seventy principal islands of the West Indies, and tooint out that Charleston is the gateway to these, the outlet of this country with its vast ability to pro duce, and the open port through which may flow the return of the products from those islands, for because of its ad vantageous geographical position as a seaport and 1 natural outlet for the sur plus products of the Southeastern States and the Mississippi Valley, and its prox imity to the West Indies its mission is an important one to American commerce. It is for the! purpose of giving some account of the facilities and great natural-advantages of Charleston that this article is written, and with these it is attempted to tell something of it in Its various tangent points to the' industry and activity -'of the business life, as well as to tell of the local coloring, the touch of home, without which no line .could probably be written of this beautiful citv. CITY BY THE SEA. It is a "City by the Sea" in very truth. most beautiful appearance as you come up to it, and in' many respects a magni ficent. 'I can only say in .geu eral that in grandeur, spfendor of build ings, decorations, equipages, numbers, commerce, shipping, and indeed almost everything, it far surpasses all I eVer saw or ever expect to Bee in America." "All seems at present to be trade, riches,, magnificence, and great state in everything; much gaiety and dissipa tion." ""State and magnificen'ce, the 1 natural attendant - on great riches. are conspicuous among the people." "There being but one chief place of trade, its increase is amazingly rapid. The stories you arc everywhere told in the rise of the value of lands seems ro mantic; but I was assured that they were facts." , A STIRRING HISTORY. Its history has been a succession of stirring events and romantic incidents. To it has been allotted more than its share of war, pestilence, fire, cyclones, earthquakes and the horrors of misrule. These have all been clogs upon the wheels of progress, but they have not deterred her people from endeavor -upon endeavor. Arising buoyant among the wreckage of tempest tossed waters of calamity, her people have ever turned with hope tovthe future, and their pluck and indomitable energy mean that abid ing success and prosperity must come. : Its people are a distinctive people, and this comes legitimately from a union of a trio of ancestral races whose predomi nating characteristics, are all softened and toned by the native Charlestonlan. To this place came In the days of the Lords Proprietors many sturdy English colonists, followed a little later by the persecuted Huguenots, and then the Scots, driven from their first landing UNRIVALLED FEATURES Attracts Attention of Visitors From All Sections of the Country. . IN THE MINES AND FORESTRY BUILDINGS Hashing Gems, Gold and Silver Ores, Superb Wxd, fxquisite Fruits, Splendid Stones and a Generally Elaborate Dif play : of the State's Ptsources. Excelled by none is what can truthfully be said of the North Carolina exhibit at the South Carolina Interstate and' West Indian Exposition, now open ; to the world at Charleston, S. C. North Carolina is in full accord, with her sister State and during the Exposi tion in Charleston its citizens are going to attend in ever increasing numbers. But there will be one great week when the attendance; from this State will break the records, and this is the week beginning on the seventh of April. Many cities of the State have named special days during the week and the outlook i3 for. a great attendance from every sec tion. . .. During this week 'Governor Aycock, his staff and a, provisional regiment made up of four companies from each regiment in the State will attend, and with them will go the citizens of the State by thousands to be 'delighted with the great Exposition that is worth going many miles to see,' and to view with pride the great exhibit made by. North Caro lina. This exhibit is made , by the Depart- nient of Agriculture under the direction of the Legislature pf the State, and in charge of it at the Exposition is Mr. T. K. Bruner, Secretary of the Board of Agriculture.1 : The executive committee havine- Nn,-th ! Carolina's exhibit in charge is composed oi uovernor Unas; B. Aycock, chairman; v. u. r-anerson, Commissioner iBi-,1imS .'I ' i 'H i'i m m i i ilil I, -- inn ii hi il ii i mm- am T i ii i . ii. m i ir ' ii i t - i nnii.i.ii n , n f i " "V '"l . .,.n c jT ... X" - ' ( 1 ; " .... :-. , .. -, . " A ' :f .' .-. : K: ,,v. ' '- a ;; : v- ' " ' f . ! . V.; ': . ' ' r f- tr v MRS. ANDREW SIMONDS, JR., Cliairman Committee on Entertain ment, Reception and Ceremonial at Charleston Exposition. Mr. Wm. J. Cocke, of Asheville; Mr. 3. E. Weston, of Asheville; Mr. It. J. Sher rill, of Ashevlllo; Mr. L, A. Carr, of Durham. The State exhibit collected by the ex ecutive committee is a magnificent .one, truly representative of the vast and varied industries of the great State of North Carolina and thepride of every North Carolinian that gazes upon it and hears its praises proclaimed by thou sands of visitors to the Exposition. An admirable location was secured for the exhibit by Mr. T., K. Bruner, whose great experience in preparing Exposition exhibits has never before been so well 6hown. The exhibit is in the Mines and Forestry Building, the most accessible exhibition building s on the Exposition Grounds, and it occupies the central po sition, where every vfsitor to Charleston is brought Ihto close contact with it. The exhibit is divided into five sections. The central space is surmounted by an ornate pagoda, under- which are four plate glass cases of choice exhibits and the office of the North Carolina Com mis'sioners. In the cases are more than five hundred cut gems, gem stones, rare 'minerals, and a large .display of gold ' nuggets and native silver, the arrange- from the mountain section, notably from Yancey, Mitchell, Haywood, Madison anJ.WY. Caldwell. In all the sections the walls are lined with attractive photo-reproductions in wntcr colors, showing the trucking fields, fruits, farms, forests and scenic features of the State. The entire display of the State is at tractive in its arrangement and occupies about one-fourth of the entire Mines and , Forestry Building, the North Carolina section having its walls covered with art goblin drapery, decorated in gold with background of 'olive green, making the presentation of the State's resources second to none. The aim: your re- am-me leal- ,.jon- crcd ou our this outh and a. it tand you rles- THE. WALL STREET Of CHARttSTON st,-i it - til hovj-e of yrR,g. JIMOKTD p.5'T. or.woriAN PEPARTMENT MICHAEL IT t' ' 1.-.'-.sssS3K'i".-fi-''-: CHARLESTON'S WHOLESALE TRADE. , 'Charleston does a large wholesale busi ness, and this is increasing, the growth being steady and sure. The figures which cover the wholesale and retaU trade exceed thirty-two million of dollars a year, and in the wholesale business new business is being obtained. Among the wholesale business conducted there is the trade in groceriesstationery, watches ., . - and jewelry, grain and hay, hats and caps, foreign and domestic , fruits, drugs and med icines, doors, sash and blinds, 'clothing; dry goods, crockery, to bacco and cfgars.boots , and shoes and furnl- A ture. There is roonrT for new comers and these'" will be ; - wel come. The Manufactur ing: Industries. The "chief manufa,, turing ' iridustry of thj city is fertilizer artd there Is ' miich - capital invested in this. The totiil output of thi mills tons. ; m & l 4'- i TUh;i pasjses 400,000 Ulantic one can g more to inter ether considered physi.'ally. xeston! What a world of .he very name. . I ;t back into the pattered through s tiiivr hnrnp il e history of this nnd in a twink ston of today, y of years, and j Twentieth Cen " one stupendous ja into prominece land commercial i energy and pro jve can look for j see these things Jr the creation of j.f 1902, the influx r celebrated por- w, vistas to her Stake for her pos it he good she has ; He thoughts into j Carolina Inter . Exposition, which iry in Charleston, j an idea, and the li is of ttanscen- Nation as well th Carolina and i tho expansion in neiLLorhood 'o markets, wanty st ill wider open J the Exrwsition. ini December 1st, for as a view is taken from its famous place Battery, off in the distance are the white capped waves of the' Atlantic, arising again and again as if to gaze at Fort Sumter, the grim sentinel in the harbor, whose guns now, .silent have thundered jn war and whose very name tells of the Nation's history-' f ' And what a, great history has this proud ' city, one of the oldest in the United States, dating back , to 1670, some 232 years ago. In those early days it was even then a seaport adequate for the largest sea-going vessels and the ob jective point of the early settlers. A pioneer in ; American foreign commerce it rose to be one of the chief seaports of the New World, a city of attractions and prosperity, standing, at the close of its first century's history, "second, to no city in North America in prosperity and so cial comfort, and even in luxury," as is stated 4n a government report. it is one of the best types of the ole colonial cities of the United States, and its situation on the narrow neck of land between the A.shlcy and Cooper rivers is a charming and advantageous one. Along the streets there are specimens of old colonial architecture, and, in the beauty of the sunshine, telling talcs of "strange tropic, warmth and hints of summer seas' its roses blossom in loveliness and its hospitality keeps pace. When the cold of winter makes its frozen visit to" the North here U a season of perpetual de light, where from i. the upon gardens there are gathered rosea.'for the bowl upon the Christmas table. . . . : , - What its earlier chroniclers tell of it sounds like romance, yet these are but veracious facts. Josiah I Quince y, of Mas sachusetts, a guest in the city ia 1773, says of it: PLACE OF BEAUTY. "This town (Charleston) makes the mBmmMm . by the Spaniards. Evidence of these triple factors in the city's life Is shown in the French-style in the archi tecture and the courtesy which surely came from Huguenot, in the customs of t ho place and in itrs noblo conservatism we see the Knglish,'and in the pluck, en ergy and endurance we the energy, and endurance conies the Scotch. ( LOOKING BACKWARD. There can be but a passing glairce at its great history, began under the Lord'" Proprietors, but in 172!" going under tin direct authority of the British crowc,, when North and South Carolina was made of the divided "Province of Caro lina. In 1783 the town was incorporated as the city of Charleston, .which has grown to its present population of nearly 60,000 people, the city standing upon "made ground,' as much of it was in Its beginning marsh and creek; and poniUi. Then came the, Revolutionary -war, bo ginning with opposition to the stamp act and in the etruggle for American 'Inde pendence Charleston took Its full share and Sergeant Jasper: and- Fort Moul trie are famous names, and tales , today are told by grandsons and .great 'grand sons of those who suffered privations during its days of .bombardment. After the Revolution the city grew and prospered, reaching out into new fields and crowing in population. While In 1800 there was a population of nearly 1,'JOO this had grown to over 40,000 iu 1SR0, when the Flag; of the Confederacy oated over the city. x ,-""-- A: J-QUTH CAROLINA; MIUTAB,Y ACAPtY AflD CALHOUil ONUflEftT. Agriculture; , Prof. J. A. Geologist; Mr. William Dunn, Board of N. C. Exhibit, and Mr. T. K. Bruner, Sec retary of the Board. As provided in the act of the "Legislature, Governor Ay cock appointed a. body of representative citizens as North Carolina's Commission ers to the Charleston Exposition, these being Gen. Julian S. Carr, of Durham; Mr. Thad R. Manning, of Henderson Mr. W. L. "Hill, of Warsaw; Mr. William Dunn, of New Bern; Col. F. A. Olds, of Ri-leigh; Mr. A. Cannon, of Horse Shot?; On, December 20, 1860, the State of South Carolina seceded from the Union, the ordinance was passed at St.. Andrews Hall, on Broad street. In Charleston. and ratified thats night in South Carolina Institute Hall on Meeting street, both r.of which buildings were destroyed by a great fire in December, 1861, a year later. From the evacuation of Fort . Sumter on December 2( I860, to the close of the Civil War, or rather to the eighteenth day of February, 1863, when Charleston city and harbor were evacuated, after 567 days of continuous -"military opera tions against them its history is one of battle and strife. Deluged with a storm of phot and shells, which plowed their wy through streets and homes, leaving it battle scarred city, it took up the bur den after the war, , and bursting through hc terrible bonds' of the "Reconstruction era" it moved onward so that its 40.0C-0 people of 18(i0 amounted to nearly 60,000- Holmes, Statement being at once artistic and pleasing, - the color scheme of gold and olive greSn being carried out in the ornamentation of each section. The listof gems is a long one, in .tho collection being amethyst, beryls, . sap phires, cat's eyes, gamete, rhodolites, almandines, Hiddenite, valued at $150 a carat, and many others. The other four sections surrounding the central space are devoted to exhibits of mines and building stones, forestry, ag riculture and horticulture. In the min ing section are the gold, silver, copper and iron ores of the"Statc, and follow ing these the economic minerals, such as kaolin, asbestos, mica, talc, monazlte, zircon, graphite. Above this superb col lection are the marbles, granite, gneiss and brown stones. In the Forestry section'across the aisle Is , one of the best exhibits on the grounds, consisting of a splendid selec tion of trees, showing. cross sections in a natural and highly polished state, tho discs being magnificent, specimens of the forestry product of North Carolina. The next section shows the agricultu ral display, which is highly praised. Ou !,'A?V-'?f The capital employed in other manu facturing establishments is over ten mil lion dollars, ami there are employed in the neighborhood o 6,500 hands, the total numbering of manufacturing plants being about 375. Among these are bagging fac tories, envelope factories, fertilizer works, rice, saw and lumber mills, ship and boat yards, shoe factories,' broom factories, knitting factories, barrel lactones, cigar factories, soap and candle factories, cot ton tie factories,, underwear factories and a' large list of .other industries'. "The manufacture of fertilizers in Char-V leston, enormous in its proportions, and, leading tho world, 'gives employment to r ' many people and turns loose largo amounts of cash. The labor necessary, the materials' employed, are all cash Br- , tides and ample means are necessary to keep this great business going. For phosphate :rock there are ttfo classes. of mining conducted. Land rock is taken from the land mThes, the de posits ranging from six to. fifteen feet below the surface, while. the river rock is dredged from the rivers. The land rock is -used in the local manufacture of fer tilizer, while tho riveter rock usuallly goes to foreign countries. th6 walls the sheaf grain' 1 ornately displayed, while in 350 glass tubes are the shelled grains, seeds, etc,, from all . tt c...tA - t .... I.. ootiiuiis ui oiiii,e, ,111 iuui . icirg'j j jno-rnln cuerry. cases is snown the tobacco and cotton exhibit. Then comes the horticultural sectidu, a revelation even to North Carolinians. Vegetables from the trucking fields, CHARLESTON NEWSPAPERS. The city is suppjied with its news ser vices by two able newspapers, one a daily, the News and Courier. with MaJ. J. C. Hemphill as the editor and a strong corps of assistants in department. The Evening modern afternoon daily, progress ints in cviw-y Post is' Vi igrossive uM Dcaches. ocar sranns . liluma JananpKn persimmons, apricots, cherries, etc., an,i 1 CI1,;rRCtic' nnd its editorial and news col a great central pyramid of wines. -.Then : "tuns show that it is in charge of men there is the splendid collection o! apples; of ability. in 1000. ' Aincf (!) war its history has been gtili eventful. Its grapple with the jf'Stilei.ce f yellow fever, a scourge forever driven away, the terrific cyclone which twisted its homey from their foundatious, and the still more awful throes of the carth- HON. T. K. BRUNER, Director in Charge of The North Carolina Exhibit. Mr S. 1. Itavenol, Jr., of Highlands; Mr. Osmond Itarringer, of Charlotte; j Mr. W. C. Heath, of Monroe; Mr. K. K. j Proctor, Jr., of Lumberton; Mr. James) Sprunt, of Wilmington; Mr. 1). S. Coweu, i NORTH CAROLINA WEEK At the Great Exposition April 7th to 13th. THE GOVERNOR AND STAFF LEAVE HALlllGII TUESDAY, APRIL 8TII, OVl:il SPECIAL TRAIN ION SEADOAKD AIR LINE. t: 'i J . i . : I r
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