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VOLlIIE»XVI
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. MAY 12,1911.
NUMBER*18
BREVARD TO KNOXVILLE
Monster, Railroad Meeting in tlie Interest of a
Through Trunk Line from South Carolina to
Tennessee.
Delegations from Greenville. Hendersonville, Canton, Brevard
and other Cities interested, Gatiiered in Knoxville Last
Friday to Hold Out inducements for tiie Road to Come
their Way.
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enthusiastic RECEPTION BY KNOXVILLE BOARD OF TRADE AND
OTHER AFFILIATED ORCANIZATIONS-BRILLIANT SPEECHES. A TRIP
OVER THE K. S. & E. TO SEVIERVILLE, LUNCH IN THE CITY ON
LimE PICEON, A BANQUET IN KNOXVILLE AND ENTHUSIASM
EVERYWHERE WERE FEATURES OF THE MEETING.
Last Thursday morning a delegation of 31 of Brevard’s enter
prising business men boarded the train here for a visit to Knox
ville. Invitations had been received by the Brevard Board of
Trade and the News to come and help Knoxville make Friday, May
5, a Railroad Day to be long remembered. The particular railroad
interest which the meeting was expected to foster, was the exten
sion and consolidation of yarious roads now under construction or
projected, to form a great trunk line from Greenville, S. C., to
Knoxville, Tenn.
As this is the road that Brevard has always wanted, and for
which our county has three times voted bonds, it is only natural
that Brevard should send a big delegation to see that our interests
were properly cared for. The Knoxville Journal and Tribune of
Friday morning contained the following:
9 a. m.—Concert at Atkin Hotel, with reception for visitors. '
9:15 a. m.—Escorted by band, party marches to Imperial Hotel comer and boards
cars for K. S. & E. depot.
10 a. m.—Sp^al train leaves for Sevierville.
3:15—p. m.-Party rettiras from Sevierville aborad special train and takes auto
mobiles at depot to drive to exposition errounds, tben to Coimtry Club for
brief reception, followed by drive over city.
6:30 p. m.—Reception at Cumberland Club.
7:30p.m.—Band concert in ftx>nt of Hotel Imperial, with stereoptiOEUi views of
scenes alone: route of proposed railroad cast on canv£i8 hung: over Gay street.
8:30p. m.—^Banquet at Hotel Imperial.
—Knoxville Journal and Tribune, Friday
This should be a red letter day in
the history of Knoxville, for more
than one hundred strong “boosters”
from North ‘Carolina and Georgia
will gather here to assist, local
members of the “Whoop-’Em-Up-
For - Knoxville - And - Appalachian-
Region” club 6elebrate Knoxville-
to-Greenville railroad day, and in
cidentally the visitors will be given
a great many pointers 'about the
great Appalachian Exposition.
In the interest of the connection
and proposed extension of the
Greenville and Knoxville railroad
with a similt^r extension of the
Knoxville, Sevierville & Eastern
line, delegations are coming from
Greenville, S. C., Atlanta, Brevard,
Hendersonville, Canton, Asheville,
Spartanburg and other cities in
the Carolinas, to say nothing of the
representative business men of East
Tennessee towns who will mingle
with the other “boosters.”
The purpose of the gathering of
the clans in Knoxville and their
subseqiient visit to Sevierville, the
other terminus of the K. S. & E., is
to “get together” and arouse
greater interest in and enthusiasm
for the project, which when con
summated, will not only bring into
closer relationship Knoxville and
Greenville and the intermediate
points, but may furnish another
trunk line through the cities
touched by it, since it is expected
that connection westward may be
had later on.
A similar meeting was held at
Greenville a few weeks ago, at
which the board of trade of that
city voted to raise $200,000 for the
extension of the road and the
movement to unite the cities was
given great impetus. Results as
far-reaching or even more so, are
expected from the meetings today.
The visitors will be kept “on the
jump” from a rather early hour
this morning until late tonight.
About sixty of the visitors
reached the city Thursday night
and the remainder will come in on
the early trains this morning. It
is coi^dently expected that at least
hundred delegates from the
neighboring states will be here dur
ing the day, and that this number
will be augmented by some two
score or more publishers of news
papers in East Tennessee, who are
boosters for the proposed new road
and the Appalachian Exposition,
which will open September 1st and
close October 1st.
After breakfast this morning, the
visitors will be treated to a band
concert at the Atkin hotel, follow
ing which they will be taken for an
automobile ride through some of
the business and residential dis
tricts of the city before going to
the K., S. & E. depot on West Main
avenue, from which a special train
will leave for- Sevierville at ten
o’clock. The members of the visit
ing delegations and a large number
of Knoxville’^ most prominent and
progressive business men will make
the journey to the metroplis of
Sevier county on the special train,
made up of six coaches.
Sevierville will be reached at
about 11:30 o’clock, and the pas
sengers of the special will be met
by the mayor and representatives
of the Sevierville board of trade,
which will tender the guests a ban
quet at twelve o’clock. Following
an hour or two around the banquet
table, and of course a number of
“booster” speeches will be sand-
witched in between the other
courses, the visitors will get on
board their train, which will leave
for Knoxville at two o’clock this
afternoon, arriving here at 3:30
o’clock.
VISIT TO EXPOSITION.
Upon their return here the mem
bers of the visiting party will be
taken in automobiles to the Appa
lachian exposition grounds at Chil-
howie park, and later for a more
extended trip through the city and
out to the country club, after
which-they will be brought back to
the Cumberland club for an in
formal reception. At 7 o’clock a
concert will be given in front of the
Hotel Imperial by Cronqh’s band,
and stereopticon views of scenes
along the route of the proposed
n^w railroad will be shown on Gay
street.
\
Then, as a fitting climax to the
day of enthusiasm, “boost” and
“get-togetherism” will come the
big banquet in the' banquet hall of
the Hotel Imx)erial. The banquet
ers will sit down at 8:30 o’clock, but
it is hard to tell j\ist when they
will rise again, for the feast of eat
ables will be followed by the big
talkfest of the day.'' Addresses of
welcome will be deliveVed by Chan
cellor Will D. Wright and,Col. L.
D. Tyson, president of the Appa
lachian Exposition, and a number
of other speeches wlUalso be made.
Among the speakers will be W. H.
Patterson, presidejitcof the Green
ville & Knoxville railroad, and W.
J. Oliver, president of the K., S. &
E., and General Julian S. Carr.
The final session o^ the “boosters”
will be in progress until- the de
parture of the [ early trains Satur-^
day morning. ' •
Thirty-one strong, and traveling
in a special Pullman, the Brevard
delegation reached the city at 7 ;30
o’clock last night. They were met
at the station by James A. Hensley,
s^retary of the Knoxville boai^d of
trade, and other members of the
local reception committee. At the
head of this delegation was W. E.
Breese Jr., mayor, and included in it
were leading business men of the
city.
“GLAD hand” extended.
After the “gldd hand” had ^been
extended the visitors, silken guest
badges were pinned upon the mem
bers of the delegation. These
badges show that Friday, May 5, is
‘‘Knoxville-Greenville railroad
day.” Beneath is the *‘A. E.” em
blem, and the dafe and place ot the
Appalachian exposition. Similar
badges will be given all of the vis
itors, while the members of the
Knoxville reception committee'will
also 6e properly ^]>eled by silken
badges. Last n^ht the Brevard
delegation were tendered a party at
the Bijou theatre.
Delegates from Canton and other
North Carolina towns arrived on
this same train, while the Green
ville delegation and others came in
on the “Carolina Special” at 11:30
o’clock. Twenty citizens of Green
ville made the trip.
All of the visitors were met at
the station by members of the local
reception committee, as members pf
which more than one hundred rep
resentative business men were ap
pointed. These same committee
men will be on the job again today
and will leave nothing undone in
their efforts to give the visitors a
real Knoxville welcome.
In reporting the banquet Friday
night the Knoxville Sentinel of
Saturday gave Brevard the post of
honor. It placed the remarks of
Mayor W. E. Breese, jr., in front of
the regular speakers and quoted
what he said as follows:
Mayor Breese, of Brevard, stated
that each citizen of Brevard, in-
eluding every man, woman and
child, had subscribed $14.21 toward
building the railroad. He said that
Transylvania county would give a
free right of way, and more than
that, the farmers hkd promised
labor and teams to assist in the
work to be paid for in sto5k, so
anxious were they for the road to
be constructed. He said that their
people had utmost confidence in
the ability of William J. Oliver and
believed that he would come, to
their assistance by constructing
the road. He said that within a
stone’s throw of the proposed line
of the Greenville & Knoxville rail
road were rich veins of lime, man
ganese and iron ore, and that
should the line go through this sec
tion it will be one of thb richest in
the country. “We also have the
promise -of a large pulp mill in
event that the proposed line is con
structed.”
The talks were very interesting
and pertained to conditions tEat
exist in the Carolinas and the Ap
palachian region, and plainly
showed the dire need of the pro
posed Greenville & Knoxville rail
road.
The Journal and Pribune report
ed the speech of T. H. Galloway of
Ifeevard at Sevierville as follows:
“T. H. Galloway, of Brevard, ex
pressed appreciation for the courte
sies extended and the enthusiasm
manifested. Hd sjtid that great
things might be expected from this
road, for it was surely going to be
built, and the development after
ward would be unprecedented.
J‘Mr. Galloway said that Transyl
vania county, in which Brevard is
located, had always worked for
railrodds and had also been work
ing and waiting for a quarter
of a century to get. over the
mountains to Greenldlle and also
over the n?ountains westward, and
that now it looked as though both
of these things were to be accom
plished by the completion of the
Knoxville to Greenville road. Fol-
I
lowing the completion of the short
railroad between Hendersonville
and Brevard. Mr. Galloway said
'that the value of th^ taxable prop
erty in the county had increased in
a few years from $600,000 to $3,000,-
000, and that similar progress was
expected to follow the completion
of this road.”
W. H. Patterson, of Atlanta,
presi,dent of the Greenville & Knox
ville railroad, was heard briefly.
He said that the Greenville people
had done all for him that he had
asked, and that the Knoxville peo
pie would do all that they could for
Mr. Oliver. He said that with his
determination and Mr. Oliver’s
knowledge of railroad building, the
Knoxville to Greenville project
cannot fail, but that its up to the
Knoxville people to lend Mr. Oliver
their local support.
WHAT WM. J. OLIVER SAID.
“Within the next eighteen
months I am going to extend the
Knoxville, Sevier^jille & Eastern
Railway eastward m the "direction
of Greenville, S. C., to Waterville,
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thirty'five miles beyond Sevierville
and sixty-five miles beyond Knox
ville. I have here with me today
and in this room a man who repre
sents one of the largest banking
houses in New York, and I have
the money in the bank to carry out
the work,” said William J. Oliver,
the Knoxville railroad wizard, at
the conclusion of an enthusiastic
mass meeting in Sevier county
court house at Sevierville,
— / ■
and ii^tructive by reason of the ef
forts of the good people of Knox
ville,
“Therefore, we the special repre
sentatives of Brevard and Tran
sylvania county to the great rail
road rally, do hereby extend our
heartv thanks for the recep^tion and
entertainment given us while in
Knoxville. We cordially give, to
each and every citizen of Knox
ville an invitation to v^it us at
their earli^t opportunity, when we
will be pfeaaed to show them the
beauties of Brevard and convince
them of the benefits that will arise
from the constrxiction of' a railroad
to Brevard, the land of. waterfalls,
Greenville and the sea.
(Signed:)
“W. E. Breese Jr., Mayor,
“C. M. Doyle,
“President Board of Trade.
The following unique mei^u card
told the guests of the banquet Fri
day night at the Hotel Imperial
what they might call for during the
surfeit of good things. As an many
of the functions of Railroad Day in
Knoxville, it will be noted that Bre
vard is at the top. Many of pur
delegation have copies of the print
ed cards which they are keeping as
souvenirs :
Appalachian Cocktail
Brevard Sweet Pickles
Turtle a la Greenville
Sevierville Nuts
Baked Pigeon River Snapper^
^ Lemon Sauce
Julian Potatoes % Cucumbers
Roast Turkey - Canton Sauce
New Potatoes in Cream
^ Piedmont Punch r
Creamed Sweetbreads on Toast, a la
Asheville
Newport Green Peas
Waynesville Lettuce with Tomato
Mayonaise
Mountain Ice Cream and Hendersonville
Strawberries
Waynesville Cakes
Riverview Cheese Waterville Crackers
Happy Valley Coffee
Cigars
Toastmaster—D. C. Chapman, president
Knoxville Board of Trade.
At the banquet Friday night Mr.
Oliver said that he had had wide
experience in all parts of the coun
try in railroad building, and tllat
he knew of no line that would be
as productive as the Greenville &
Knoxville railroad. He said that
he was in possession of a letter
written by an official of a certain
railroad to a subordinate saying
that the proposed Greenville &
Knoxville road was one of l^he most
dangerous lines that could be con
structed, speaking from a com
petitor’s standpoint. He said that
the proposed line was one that was
first thought of by the late Samuel
H. Spencer, president of the South
ern Railway Company. He said
that today he was in a position to
build the road, and that ^within
sixty days he thought that he
would have sufficient money to
take the road to Canton, if not, at
least to Waterville.
—Knoxville Sentinel, Saturday evening.
In appreciation of the courtesies
extended them while in t6is city
attending the raUroad rally yester
day and last night, the members of
the delegation from Brevard, N. C.,
today wired President Chapman, of
the Board of Traile, a most felicit
ous telegram. They also extended
a cordial invitation to the citizens
of Knoxville to visit Brevard. The
telegram reads:
“Morristown Tenn., May 6'.
“Mr. D. C. Chapman, Presidpnt
Board of Trade, Knoxville, Tenn.
“At a meeting held on board the
Brevard special Pullman ‘Drury’
enroute from K:^oxville to Brevard,
the following resolution was unani
mously adopted:
- “Whereas, the citizens of Knox
ville through their representatives
did extend the delegation from Bre-,
vard a most hearty welcome to
tneir city,, and
“Whereas, the stay of the Bre
vard party was made most pleasant
OTHER MEETINGS PROJECTED
—Greenville News, Monday.
That two other meetings shall be
held in the interest of the Green-
ville-Knoxville railway, one meet
ing to be held at Brevard and the
other at Canton, is the slogan of the
business men of towns lying on the
proposed route of the railway.' At
the banquet tendered the visitors
to Knoxville’s “railroad day” Fri
day night an invitation wa^ ex
tended those present to gather in
Brevard in the near future for a
similar meeting. At the same time
the Canton, N. C. delegation gave
notice that a meeting in the inter
est of the railway would, in all
probability, be held in Canton in
the ne^r future.
On the same night it was sug
gested that delegations from Knox
ville, Sevierville, Canton, Brevard
Hendersonville, Greenville and
other towns and cities along the
proposed route of the road arrange
for a gathering in Charleston, the
terminus of the new road. These
three meetings will, in all proba
bility, be worked out within the
next-few weeks.
—Knoxville Sentinel, Monday.
The regular meeting of the Knox
ville Board of Trade will be held
Tuesday night at 8 o’clock in the
assembly room, comer of Gay
street and Vine avenue, when D. C.
Chapman, president will be in the
chair. At this meeting the pro
posed Knoxville & Greenville rail
road will be discuss^, also the
feasibility of a booster trip to Bre
vard.
County Government*.
Representative—^Thos. S. Wood.
Clerk Superior Court—Cos. Paxton.
Sheriff and Tax CoUect«»r—^Fred Am
Shuford.
Treasurer—Z. W. Nichols.
Register of Deeds—B. A Gillespie.
Coroner—^Dr. A E. Lyday.
Surveyor—J. C. Wike.
Commissioners—W. L. Brooks, >G. T. Ly<,
day, Arthur Miller.
Superintendent of Schools—T. C. Hea-^
derson.
Physician—Dr. Goode Cheatham.]
Attomey-^Robert L. Gash.
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