North Carolina Newspapers

'if EXPONENT OF TKAN. SYLVANIA COUnW. Volume xxv HENDERSON COUNTY ROAD CAUSES SERIOUS ACCIDENT. V • i; «r 'W TWELVE. PA^ES IN THIS ISSUE BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY. MAY 21st, 1920. Mrs. Dr. W. M. Lyday and Mrs. A.. F. Mitchell had an accident that came near being fatal near Horse- dioe, in Henderson C»unty last Sat urday. The car in which they were riding: turned topsturvey over an em- Imnkment three successive times. The occasion of this very serious ac cident was the lack of attention that the Henderson County Road Com- misioners have been griving to the road leading from Hendersonville to the very adequate roadway that Transylvania County has practically finished to the county line. It is to be deplored that Henderson County does not deem it worth while to CO-operate with Brevard and the Transylvania folks to reciprocate in the attempt to cbnsumate modern highways and means of travel be tween our County and Henderson. Gan it be that bad roads will keep more tourists away from our County and leave them in Hendersonville. 'If this is the wrong idea, perhaps some one will explain this willful neglect to at least drag the Horse- 8lK>e route in their County.. POLITICAL NEWS: ft The Democratic Executive Com mittee for Transylvania County, and the various candidates for nomina tion in the approaching primary met on Saturday, May 15 th, for the pur pose of deciding upon the date of the primary and convention, and it was unanimously decided to hold the Township Primaries on Saturday, July 24th, and the great convention in the Court House at Brevard on Saturday, July 31st. For any fur ther information write N. A. Miller, llftai'y. ^T?he Republicaj Executive Com mittee of Transylvania County will meet shoijctly to determine the date of the convention to be hold in this County for the various county of fices. UNPUBLISHED COMMUNICA TIONS: We have picked out several letters that have come in urging Eck Simms election and will publish them in this issue, but we have not space enough for them all, but will do the best we can, space permitting. If your arti cle is not published, perhaps you will be satisfied with the ones pub lished on the same cause as we can not possibly get them all in; and we feel sure that you will realize that we are editing and printing the best. Another thing, be sure to sign your full name as several forgot this im portant item, and also leave out the mud slinging and thereby help your candidate ali the better. W. A. B. TRANSYLVANIA TO HAVE BUS LINE BETWEEN HENDERSON. VILLE, ASHEVILLE AND BREVARD. Direct Line Between Bath Cities Means Considerable to Brevard By Increasing Tourist Travel. HOW WE TAMED THE BASHl- LELE. HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE (By S. P.. Verner—Copyright pend ing. All rights reserved.) THE ENCHANTED HIPPOPOTA MUS. POPULAR EPISCOPAL MINISTER URGES TRANSYLVANIAN’S TO STAND BY OUR EX-SOLDIERS THE FAMOUS LAKE TOXAWAY IS TO BE REBUILT NUMBER 21. AN EVENING WITH THE BRE VARD WEDNESDAY CLUB. For nearly four years the good people of Transylvania County, and The Brevard Wednesday Club, of Brevard, N. C., gave an intertinment on Wednesday Evening, May 19, 19 Mr. W. H. Andrews, superinten dent of this branch of the famous bus line, a million dollar corporation, which operates several bus lines thru out Western North Carolina, Georg, and other states, made a business trip to Brevard on last Tuesday for the 1 purpose of inaugurating a bus line between Brevard, Hendersonville and Asheville. Mr. Andrews believes that Transylvania would support such a line and claims that when the Road Commissioners of both Hen derson and Transylvania Counties finish their roads that the Red Bus Line wlil operate not only in the summer but all the year around. This bus line will mean much to our county and'the News wishes to extend to this progressive company the glad hand. No more will the tourists have to spend the night in Hendersonville on account of no I transportation as the schedule will' be arranged so that people can leave ! Brevard, Hendersonville or Asheville at all times of the day. Mr. Andrews will announce Brevard’s schedule next week and will have six busses running between Brevard and Hen dersonville starting the early part of next week. \nd a direct line to Asheville. This company is spending thou sands of dollars advertising this sec tion and will organize sigh,-seeing tours this summer. REV. C. C. DUCKWORTH CRITI CALLY ILL Rev. C. C. Duckworth, better known as Kail, is very ill at his home on Broad Street Road and is not ex pected to live. He was found Tues day by N. A. Miller, a near neigh bor, lying in an unconscious condi tion in his barn lot. Mr. Quckworth has been one of the most energeti cal men of this county for a long time. Faithful to the dictates of his own conscience, always, and willing to do what he could for the uplift of the human race and for the promot ing of the kingdom of God. If it is the will of the Lord that he may go away now, then we can but say that he will be greatly missed by the ones he leaves behind. Trusting, however, that he may be spared and at an early date we may see Mr. C. C. Duckworth at his work again, we hopefully await the passing of the critical moment. THE PRAYER CORNER There are none so near the heart of God as little children. Jesus said that in Heaven their angels do al ways behold the face of His Father. Prayer for a Sick Child Most merciful and most pitiful Father, visit this child we beseech Thee, with Thy healing power. We believe that Thou art able and willing to help us. “When Thy Son dwelt among us He revealed the love and desire of Thy heart, by restoring j those who were sick in body or in mind, in answer to the cry of faith. Thou art the same tender and lov ing Father to-day. Increase our faith, that we may too receive from TRee a gift,, even the life of this chfld. Bless those who minister to (him, her.) Give them wisdom, skill, ten derness, and an ever undaunted hope. Endue with healing virtue the means being usedj to combat (his, her) dis order. Lay Thy Hand upon (him, her) to §a^e, and to raise (him, her) We pray for (his, her) souls health. Keep (him, her) pure and SUGAR PROFIT LIMITED Cos Paxton: Sheriff Transylvania County: Dear Sir: I have just received from the At torney General, the following tele gram: “Washington, D. C., May 11, 1920. You will immediately announce in your State only recognizable mragain of profit on sugar by Departinent of Justice, one cent per pound whole sale, two cents per pound retailers. Instruction contain in Circular 38 hereby^ rescinded, same sent by mis take.” Please notify the merchants in ' your town. Y-our^ very truly, T. F. Aydlett, U. S. Atty. A CORRECTION Ov/ing to our type getting mixed the little notice in our last issue about Mr. Jos. S. Silversteen attend ing the annual Convention of the American Tanners at Atlantic City last week was unintellgible. We intended to say that one of the most iniportant riiatters that the Tanners had to attend to at thei? Convention was to inquire into the high price of shoes as the price of leather had not advanced in propor tion to the advance in shoes. Mr. (iilvcrsteen was very much interest ed in this question and was hopeful that the Tanners could do something OBspotte'd fro mthc evil that is in i i ii* Also James tl. .bromneld had ms the world. Consecrate (him, her) anew to Thyself, that in ^ickness or hi heelth( he, she) may be Thine to witness to Thy Kingdom where fWgns the spirit of a child. Bless those who especially love (him, her) and who now watch and ^ wait with troubled hearts. Banish ftmn them despair. Give them an ,^jiliimdant hope and a living trust and V 4B eaniest prayer. This we ask for Christ’s sake. Amen. I C. D. C. name spelled v'itli too many “o’s” o.nd wo respectfvilly call the' atten tion of our subscribars to the fact that our prominent Ice, Coal, Laun dry and Dray citizen uses only one “o” in his name and until such a time as he goes into the broom bus iness will continue with just one “o.” A H. C. Sinjs of Blantjrre was in town this week on business. It is learned that Mr. Sims has purchased the timber of the Gash Estate in this county. \ The enchanted hippopotamus liv ed at Bena Luidi. Lapsley Pool, on whose western shores the old settle ment stands, is a famous resort for the big game in that territory. Three rivers come together there the great Kasai from the South west, as large as the Ohio at Cincinnati, the Lulua, the size of the Congaree at Columbia, from the South, and the Ikenye, as big as the French Broad at Brevard, from the east. Eleph ants, crocodiles, ho-lppopotami, and all sorts of water fowl congregiite in and around the pool, while the wooded shores shelter the chimpan zee, the python, the leopard, the hyena, the wild boar, and other char acteristic African beasts. Farther back on the grassy plateaus are found buffalo, antelope, and an oc casional lion. While the Kasai is not as abundant in game as East Africa, and such interesting animals as the giraffe, the rhinoceros, and many sorts of antelope are wanting, it is probobly more abundant in ele phants and hippopotami than any other territory of similar area. The enchanted hippo was a tough old fellow, who was said by the nati ves to carry a charmed life. They had tried for years to trap him with ^heir ' harpoon traps. These traps I take advantage of a habit of the j hippo to go out of the river to his feeding grounds at certain regular places. In doing so, he wears the bank of the river down into a deep trail or gully.”' The Africons set us a big post on each side of this worn path, with a cross-beam supported by the posts. From the center of this cross-beam a heavy log with a sharp iron harpoon is suspended pointing down over the trail. The rope holding the harpoon is linked up with a trap lever designed to be released by a bow stuck in the trail. When the hippo puts his head under the bow his shoulders caiise it to come loose, and the harpoon is re leased and falls upon his neck. It either kills him immediately, or later after his' return to the river, when' his body is usually recovered. That so many hippos sui’vive the warfare made against them through this cruel device is evidence of their gjreat abundance. But “Nguvu mulosh”, as they cal led the wizard hippo, had shrewdly dodged all the traps on the shores of the pool. Time and agin he had been shot at by such natives as possessed the flint lock muskets, the only fire arms allowe din their possession by the Congo government. White men had tried to kill him. I myself had once made the attempt several years before with a Martini-Henry rifle shooting a leaden bullet, but I had either missed him, or the bullet had flattened against the massive frontal bone above his eyes which is about all a swimming hippopotamus offers to a marksman. The natives said they knew the beast by reasoh of a notch in one of his ears made early in the campaign against him, as well as by his sizQ and the persistency with which he haunted certain parts of the pool. The east bank of the pool was oc cupied by a trading station of the Kasai Compaiy and by a Catholic mission. The abandoned station on the west bank had originaljy belong ed-to the Societe Anonyme Beige, one of the pioneer rubber^ companies which had been absorbed *by the Kasai Company. ^ already enjoyed the friendly cooperation of the Dir ector of the Kasai Company, Dr. Dreyepondt, one. of the most able and distinguished Belgians in Africa, so that my temporary occupancy of the ;old disused factory was unob jectionable as far as his company v/as concerned, while the Belgian government had lent me every a^is- tafice and encofuragement. Natural ly the first thing I decided to do after landing at Bena Luidi upon my re turn from Wissman Falls sixty miles up the Kasai, \^here I had restored the pygmies and all their belongings into King Ndombe's care, was to call upon nay nearest white neighbor a- cross the pool. I was courteously re ceived by all of them, and shall re fer to them more specifically later, but here I must stick to .the 'wizard of the pool, since my affair with him was destined to |^y so vital a part General George Washington serv ed our country in the time of war; and our ancestfos nominated and elected him president. All succeed ing generations have thought they chose wisely, ^hall not we, their descendants, here in Transylvania County nominate and elect men who like General Washington offered themselves to fight for our country. Several young men of sterling worth are making it possible for us to put the stamp of approval of generations to .lome upon us as the present and former generations have upon those who nominated and elected General George Washington presidei^^ of the United States. There hangs in the office of Mr. Eskell L. Sims an army certificate of his honorable discharge. His army officers say, yea certify, he made good as a soldier; and he will make good as sherifi. Let Transyl- vai^ia show her appreciation by nom- indting and electing him this year; and all the other honorably discharg ed soldiers who may aspire to other offices. JOHN C. SEAGLE. other counties for that matter, have 20. The Auditorium was filled to waited for the time to come when the rebuilding of the great lake at Tox- away would be announced. It is now ! overflowing anid the proceeds will fill the coffers of the club. The program given was splendidly render- j ed and the local talent displayed by known that the project will be a, those tal^g part marks train- reality. The dam will be built offing of high intelligence, and from concrete and will be reinforced. This, the appreciation shown by the vast is interesting to the many people ©f j Proves t^t the^day ^is^not this section and other sections that U. D. C. MEETING The May Meeting of the Transyl vania Chapter, U. D. C., will be held Saturday aftemooQj the 22nd, of May, at 4:30 P. M., at the residence of Mrs. J. M. Allison. Members are requested to bring copies of the U. D. C., Song recently published in the Brevard News. Annie Jean Gash in my relations with the Baschilele. When I went from the factory down to the river’s bank on my return, I found a group of Bakuba and Bas- chilele engaged in negotiations about a trade in ivory on the bluff leading to the boat landing. Some of the Bakuba knew me, ^but the' Baschi lele did not. While the Bakuba were exchanging greetings, suddenly some of the Baschilele began to say: “Nguvu! Nguvu!” They had seen an animal on the other side of the river. It was a big hippo walking slowly along the shelv ing sandy beach. As with most ri vers flowing north and south, the Kasai has bluffs on one side and slop ing banks on the other, I unslung my binoculars and took a look at him, much to the curiosity of the others. Some of the Bakuba asked what I was doing. The Baschilele drew near.. I handed the glasses to one of them, and showed him how to use them. He was immediately all ex citement. He said the glasses had pulled the hippo up close., “Get your gun and shoot him, white man”, cried the crowd as the glasses passed from hand to hand. “Oh, he is too far away,” said I. “What is this thing for then?” inquired one of them. The crowd evidently believed that the binoculars constituted a art of my hunting equipment, all of which» was more or less magical to them. The Bakuba had already explained that I was the big medicine man who had taken the pigmies over the big water and brought them back again. Those binoculars were intended to bring an animal up close for the slaughter. Otherwise, of what use were they? ! I saw that if I did not kill that | of this much missed lake. have to do with the influx of summer tourists. Asheville, Tryon, Hender sonville and Brevard have depended right much on the. publicity that the famous lake gave Western Carolina when it was first constructed, for their advertisement. The lake was built right after 1900, an^ covers an area of more than two thousand acres of ground; its depth was fifty feet and its Circumference was ap proximately eighteen miles. At the time of its construction Lake Toxa- way was the largest artificial plea sure lake in the world. The dam was at the summit of the Toxaway High Falls of Toxaway River and it back ed the water over the beautiful val ley of the Toxaway. It was sur rounded with an elegant display of the most attractive mountains, the highest bf which towers immediately over the lake to a high altitude of five thousand feet is Mount Toxa way. From the summit of this moun tain the view is fine; looking south over a barricade of mountains South Carolina is discernible; while over the mighty Balsam Mountains at the north Mount Mitchell is plainly seen. To the west Whitesides, Chimney Top, Yellow, Nix’s and Bald Rock mountains range widely in a quarter circle. Lake Fairfield and Lake Sap phire sleep at the foot of this beau tiful monumental mountain, and from the East End View the great Lake Taxaway was stretched before the sightseer like a map. Mount Toxa way is planted as a soltaire while the many mountains that are in the immediate vicinity group around it like an endless chain of smaller moun tains lingering close to forma barri cade for the defense of the larger and greater mountain. The Toxa way section has long been known as the most beautiful in the world with the possible exception of the peaks of Switzerland. Gentle slopes, vine clad hills, sunny valleys with clear streams that swarm alive with the speekeled trout and the rainbow trout; quiet nooks where sleep the deer or where roam the wild turkey and numerous game. The ToxaWay Inn stands upon the shore of the lake, and is a large hotel with more than five hundred bed chambers. Its accomodations were excellent, with row boating, launching, yatching, horseback riding, and other numer- out sports at the command of the guest. For sometime this hotel has not been open, ii> fact, since the lake made its departure in 1916 the place has seemed rather quiet, but now the time has come for the activity for which Lake Toxaway was famed, to come again. The wOrk v/ill begin in a short while and will be quickly cairied to to the end under the direct 'supervision of C. E. Orr, of Brevard. No greater thing can happen to Tran sylvania County than the rebuilding The South far distant when Brevard will have an Annual Music Festival. Among those taking part were: — Mrs. Sim ons at the piano, Mesdames Allison, Erwin, Farrell, Miller, Macfie, Riley, Shipman, White, Silversteen, Doyle, Ward, Breese, Hine, Sprague, Jen kins, Perkins; Misses Rebecca Bly the, Dorothy Silversteen, Adelaide Silversteen, John White, Fred MiUer and others. The Newf congratulates the Brevard Wednesday Club on the success of their first intertainment and urges them to appear again at an early date. hippo, my reputation would suffer ! a serious setback. It occurred to ihe that I might possibly get out of the dilemma by making one of them look at him, while I shot at him. If I missed him, then — according to good medical practice — he would not have “followed directions”, land the fault would be his. Of course I did not expect to kill him at that distance. He was clear across the northern end of the pool, which narrowed down there for the egress of the Gasai, but was still between eight hundred and a thous and yards wide. I gave the glasses to one of the oldest men, and told him to be sure to hold them absolu tely steady, I had a rifle this time capable of killing him at that dis tance, if I should only hit him at the right place —- a high power Mauser chooting a steel projectile. But even a hippo at that distance is a target for a marki^an’s skill, and a shot to kill^ I knew very w^l, would be Ivcky.bey^d all reasonable ex- l>ectations. I slowly raiied my rifle, arid squared m^lf fptJ^e shot—— (To be continue nl^ week.) ern Railway Company# has deemed it improper to continue the old schedule that the Toxaway people enjoyed prior to the passing of the lake, but now they will place tv/o trains on the line from Hendersonville to Tox- avv'^ay and return each daj^, and the good people that live in upper Tran sylvania and Jackson c^nties will have better transportation facilities thr.n they* have enjoyed for a long time. More than ten thousand voices v/ill be raised to joyfully welcome the returning of the strongest card that Transylvania County ever held against the other tourists sections of T'V'estem Carolina. The ac; that trumped the strongest cards that Wayne&ville, Hendersonville, Tryon and othar^ Western Carolina^ towns ever held has again been drawn, and the game is on. The lake was built upon the top of the Blue Ridge on the head waters of Taxaway River, which passes into the Savannah River. J. F. Hays and other northern men <»me into the section many years ago and lookeii upon this location and went away to return financially equipped the iml)roving of the whole of Western Carolina, but more in particular the section known as the Toxaway sec tion. Roads were built by ' the old Toxaway Company over the county of Transylvania, which at that time, as the writer recalls were constructed for “horseless carriage” travel. This was the first introduction that this county ever had to iHie automobile. ^ No long after this the great Thos. A. Edison came this way in J^^e car, ^ in search of cobalt, and passed tiirtt this county with difficulty, that be ing the first automobile that the wri ter ever saw m this country. These roads were built from where the city of Rosman now stands to Toxaway, Fairfield and Walhalla, S. C. Later the company promoted the extension of the railroad that l^dted at Brevard to Rosman and still later . to Toxaway. At the time of the various improve ments in this section by The Toxa way Company, under the immediate charge of T. S. Boswell. R. A. Ja cobs and Dr. W. C. Fisher, the en tire work was premature. At that time only two streaks of rust, serv ing as a railway, connected the won- deiful country so artistically beauti fied by the works of God and man, with the outside world. Now, it is dif ferent. The railway has been great ly improved and besides great high way are springing up on every side. With the Greenville Highway, the Hendersonville Road and with fair prospects for Pisgah National and Pickens-Eastatoe Highway the trans- poration facilities will be wonferfully more accomodating and the influx of automobile tourists wil flow incessant ly thru this great mountain section. Tfce railway must necessarily be lengthened and better highways are impelled. The blooming of this greater iiower again will greatly add to the already lovely scene, and showers of excursionettes, motoret- tes, etc., will swerve swiftly but gently from the lower region, where the rays of a sultry sun beat hotly upon the pedestrain, to the shadowy lanes of the Toxaway, where cool breezes perpetually waft sweet m^- sages of delight pass the tired trav eler, and bidsvhim quiet repose. Many thousands of people have come this way and look ed upon the grandeur of the rustic hills and the cleverness of the arti ficial decorations added thereto. Many millions of people will now come to see the new decorations that bedeck the bosom of the mountain stage; many millions of people %nll but be pleased at the various attrac tions {hat awsftt them here in the “Switzerland of America.” Gov. T. W. Bicket is now in the midst of these wonderful scenes hooking trout from the silvery brooks that trickle merrily down from their source among the rpcks and caves, to pass sweetly on to the larger water that wait below. Gov. Bicket says “that no prettier scenes can ever be con ceived by the eye of man than those found among* the hills of your coun ty.” To this we must respond that we had anticipated this comment. We find that the critics that roam the Berkshires in summer, the Rockies in autumn^.the alps in spring are pifac- tically uniEinlmous in their asserti<ms tliat the greater varied of scenery is to be found here m We^tem Car-. olina, and pai^cularly here in Tn^ ^ sylvania. . Lake Toxa\pa^^7^we you with glad hand fuid w^c«die^^^v back to bur si^y > -V!