[312]Ibid.
[313]Norwood, interview, Greenville, S.C., Sept. 9, 1916.
[314]Clark, interview, Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 4, 1916.
[315]Ibid., Also Separk, interview, Gastonia, N.C., Sept. 14, 1916; also H. D. Wheat, interview, Gaffney, S.C., Sept. 13, 1916.
[316]Thackston, interview, Greenville, S.C., Sept. 12, 1916.
[317]Ibid.
[318]Graydon, interview, Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 4, 1916, also J. A. Brock, interview, Anderson, S.C., Sept. 11, 1916.
[319]Separk, interview, Gastonia, N.C., Sept. 14, 1916; also Thackston, ibid.
[320]Graydon, interview, Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 4, 1916.
[321]Boyce, and Robinson, interview, Gastonia, N.C., Sept. 14, 1916; also Ragan, interview, Gastonia, N.C., Sept. 14th, 1916.
[322]Thackston, interview, Greenville, S.C., Sept. 12, 1916.
[323]Gossett, interview, Anderson, S.C., Sept. 14, 1916.
[324]Chapman, interview, Spartanburg, S.C., Sept. 5, 1916; also Boyce and Robinson, interview, Gastonia, N.C., Sept. 14, 1916.
[325]Boyce and Robinson, interview, Gastonia, N.C., Sept. 14, 1916.
[326]Gossett, interview, Anderson, S.C., Sept. 11, 1916.
[327]Wood, interview, Gaffney, S.C., Sept. 13, 1916.
[328]News and Courier, Apr. 29, 1881.
[329]April 28, 1881.
[330]News and Courier, Apr. 28, 1881.
[331]Ibid., Apr. 29, 1881.
[332]One commission house thirty years ago took all the bonds of a mill. A. A. Thompson, interview, Raleigh, N.C., Sept. 16, 1916.
[333]Wheat, interview, Gaffney, S.C., Sept. 13, 1916.
[334]News and Courier, Jan. 12, 1882.
[335]Ibid., Jan. 14, 1882.
[336]Boyce, and Robinson, interview, Gastonia, N.C., Sept. 14, 1916.
[337]Bernard Cone, interview, Greensboro, N.C., Aug. 30, 1916.
[338]Henry E. Litchford, interview, Richmond, Va., Aug. 29, 1916.
[339]News and Courier, Jan. 14, 1882.
[340]Klutz, interview, Salisbury, N.C., Sept. 1, 1916.
[341]O. D. Davis, interview, Salisbury, N.C., Sept. 1, 1916.
[342]McDonald, interview, Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 3, 1916. The Caborrus Mill, at Concord, previously referred to as having been financed on the co-operative plan was begun by others and taken over by Mr. Cannon when its prospects had declined. (Ibid.)
[343]Interview, Columbia, S.C., Jan. 5, 1917.
[344]James W. Cannon, interview, Concord, N.C., Jan. 6, 1917.
[345]J. H. Meaus Beattie, interview, Columbia, S.C., Jan. 3, 1917.
[346] W. W. Ball, interview, Columbia, S.C., Jan. 3, 1917.
[347]Thompson, pp. 82 ff.
[348]W. W. Ball, interview, Columbia, S.C., Jan. 3, 1917. A minor episode partaking of the character of both of the above may be worth mentioning. Mrs. M. Putnam Gridley, who, until her retirement from the presidency of the Batesville, S.C. Mill, was the only woman cotton mill president in America, said that the Boston commission house which owned and operated the factory under her father's control, was "about to commit a wrong" when the enterprise failed of its own accord. (Mrs. M. Putnam Gridley, interview, Greenville, S.C., Sept. 9, 1916.)
[349]Thackston, interview, Greenville, S.C., Sept. 12, 1916.
[350]Jas. D. Hammett, interview, Anderson, S.C., Sept. 11, 1916.
[351]Marshall Orr, interview, Anderson, S.C., Sept. 10, 1916.
[352]Charles Estes, interview, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 29, 1916. "When I was mayor of Augusta and Black was City Attorney, we ran the city on the commission plan and didn't know it. I used to draft ordinances in my own handwriting, show them to Black to see whether they were legal, and to Blum to see if they were grammatical, and that was all there was to it!"
[353]David, interview, Salisbury, N.C., Sept. 1, 1916. The financial administration of this mill is attributable in its form to the conservatism of the company, and to the peculiar conditions of its inception. One director has nervous prostration, and another is too aged to attend meetings, but none have been elected in their places.
[354]Samuel Stradley, interview, Greenville, S.C., Sept. 12, 1916.
[355]McDonald, interview, Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 3, 1916.
[356]Thomas W. Loyless, interview, Augusta, Ga.
[357]Estes, interview, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 29, 1916.
[358]T. S. Raworth, interview, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 30, 1916.
[359]D. S. Thompson, Cotton Mill, Commercial Features, p. 51.
[360]Thackston, interview, Greenville, S.C., Sept. 12, 1916.
[361]John W. Fries, interview, Winston-Salem, N.C., Aug. 31, 1916.
[362]Graydon, interview, Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 4, 1916.
[363]Mar. 18, 1880.
[364]News and Courier, Aug. 12, 1881.
[365]Observer, Feb. 13, 1880.
[366]Quoted in News and Courier, Mar. 22, 1881.
[367]p. 271.
[368]Thompson, pp. 82 ff.
[369]Thackston, interview, Greenville, S.C., Sept. 12, 1916.
[370]Orr, interview, Anderson, S.C., Sept. 10, 1916.
[371]Cleveland, interview, Spartanburg, S.C., Sept. 8, 1916.
[372]Augusta Trade Review, Oct., 1884
[373]Baker, interview, Gaffney, S.C., Sept. 13, 1916.
[374]Morris, interview, Salisbury, N.C., Sept. 1, 1916.
[375]Mrs. Gridley, interview, Greenville, S.C., Sept. 9, 1916.
[376]J. A. Brock, interview, Anderson, S.C., Sept. 11, 1916.
[377]Jas. D. Hammett, interview, Anderson, S.C., Sept. 11, 1916.
[378]Washington Clark, interview, Columbia, S.C., Jan. 1, 1917.
[379]Thompson, pp. 89 and 90.
[380]Tracy I. Hickman, interview, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 29, 1916.
[381]Thomas Purse, interview, Savannah, Ga., Dec. 26, 1916.
[382]Geo. W. Williams, interview, Charleston, S.C., Dec. 27, 1916.
[383]W. P. Carrington, interview, Charleston, S.C., Dec. 27, 1916.
[384]Geo. Williams, interview, Charleston, S.C., Dec. 27, 1916.
[385]H. R. Buist, interview, Charleston, S.C., Dec. 28, 1916.
[386]Julius Koester, interview, Charleston, S.C., Dec. 27, 1916.
[387]Boyce and Robinson, interview, Gastonia, N.C., Sept. 14, 1916.
[388]Thackston, interview, Greenville, S.C., Sept. 12, 1916.
[389]Boyce and Robinson, interview, Gastonia, N.C., Sept. 14, 1916.
[390]Royan, interview, Gastonia, N.C., Sept. 14, 1916.
[391]J. Lee Robinson, letter, Gastonia, N.C., Nov. 28, 1916.
[392]Boyce and Robinson, interview, Gastonia, N.C., Sept. 14, 1916, and Robinson, letter, Gastonia, N.C., Nov. 28, 1916.
[393]C. B. Armstrong, interview, Gastonia, N.C., Sept. 14, 1916.
[394]Robinson, letter, Gastonia, N.C., Nov. 28, 1916.
[395]Rogan, interview, Gastonia, N.C., Sept. 14, 1916.
[396]Estes, interview, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 29, 1916.
[397]Cleveland, interview, Spartanburg, S.C., Sept. 8, 1916.
[398]The trained men in the industry are in the technical branches, and that when a leader is wanted at the top, as for the president of a mill, a man is still chosen who enjoys a general business reputation rather than specific mill experience.
[399]Morris, interview, Salisbury, N.C., Sept. 1, 1916.
[400]Graydon, interview, Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 4, 1916.
[401]Augusta Trade Review, Oct., 1884.
[402]G. T. Lynch, interview, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 30, 1916, and Tracey I. Hickman, interview, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 29, 1916.
[403]Estes, interview, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 29, 1916.
[404]Augusta Trade Review, Oct., 1884.
[405]News and Observer, Nov. 16, 1880.
[406]Augusta Trade Review, Oct., 1884.
[407]Hickman, interview, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 29, 1916.
[408]News and Courier, Feb. 24, 1881.
[409]Ibid., Aug. 12, 1881.
[410]Ibid., Aug. 12, 1881.
[411]Buist, interview, Charleston, S.C., Dec. 28, 1916.
[412]Keatz, interview, Salisbury, N.C., Sept. 1, 1916.
[413]Davis, interview, Salisbury, N.C., Sept. 1, 1916.
[414]Ball, interview, Columbia, S.C., Jan. 3, 1917, and Davison's Textile Blue Book, 1916.
[415]Brock, interview, Anderson, S.C., Sept. 11, 1916. See p.
[416]Thompson, pp. 82 ff.
[417]Interview, Columbia, S.C., Jan. 5, 1917.
[418]Goldsmith, p. 6.
[419]Tompkins, Cotton Mill, Commercial Features, p. 172.
[420]Goldsmith, p. 6.
[421]Thackston, interview, Greenville, S.C., Sept. 12, 1916. A mill man near Greenville said: "The money actually paid in was more or less local in those days (the early years of the period) but not much paid in." (Gossett, interview, Anderson, S.C., Sept. 11, 1916.)
[422]W. J. Thackston, letter, Greenville, S.C., Nov. 28, 1916.
[423]Buist, interview, Charleston, S.C., Dec. 28, 1916.
[424]News and Courier, Feb. 24, 1881.
[425]Raworth, interview, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 30, 1916. He knew of no Southern mills quoted on any of the exchanges.
[426]Hickman, interview, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 29, 1916.
[427]Raworth, interview, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 30, 1916.
[428]Ball, interview, Columbia, Jan. 3, 1917.
[429]Ibid.
[430]Ragan, interview, Gastonia, N.C., Sept. 14, 1916.
[431]Hickman, interview, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 29, 1916.
[432]Goldsmith, The Cotton Mill South.
[433]Estes, interview, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 29, 1916.
[434]Buist, interview, Charleston, S.C., Dec. 28, 1916.
[435]Ball, interview, Columbia, S.C., Jan. 3, 1917.
[436]Washington Clark, interview, Columbia, S.C., Jan. 1, 1917.
[437]Wool, interview, Gaffney, S.C., Sept. 13, 1916.
[438]Ball, interview, Columbia, S.C., Jan. 3, 1917.
[439]A Rock Hill correspondent in News and Courier, Jan. 12, 1882.
[440]In ibid., A Rock Hill correspondent in News and Courier, Jan. 12, 1882.
[441]Walter Montgomery, interview, Spartanburg, S.C., Sept. 5, 1916.
[442]Cleveland, interview, Spartanburg, S.C., Sept. 8, 1916.
[443]Augusta Trade Review, Oct. 1884.
[444]News and Observer, Nov. 16, 1880.
[445]Augusta Trade Review, Oct. 1884.
[446]Hickman, interview, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 29, 1916.
[447]Davis, interview, Salisbury, N.C., Sept. 1, 1916.
[448]Ibid.
[449]Ragan, interview, Gastonia, N.C., Sept. 14, 1916.
[450]Robinson, letter, Gastonia, N.C., Nov. 28, 1916.
Transcriber’s Notes:
The following typographical and spelling errors have been corrected:
"evidenes" corrected to "evidences" (page 2)"be lieved" corrected to "believed" (page 4)"American" corrected to "America" (page 15)"powerul" corrected to "powerful" (page 16)"controservy" corrected to "controversy" (page 16)"Carolinaian" corrected to "Carolinian" (page 17)"Id" corrected to "If" (page 18)"build" corrected to "built" (page 19)"newsness" corrected to "newness"(page 19)"propserous" corrected to "prosperous" (page 22)"mangers" corrected to "managers" (page 22)"temas" corrected to "teams" (page 26)"tage" corrected to "stage" (page 29)"advances" corrected to "advanced" (page 29)missing "in" added (page 29)"steambot" corrected to "steamboat" (page 31)"sucess" corrected to "success" (page 33)"delcared" corrected to "declared" (page 45)"Calhoung" corrected to "Calhoun" (page 46)"feel" corrected to "fell" (page 48)"quote" corrected to "quite" (page 49)"imiginary" corrected to "imaginary" (page 52)"repating" corrected to "repeating" (page 58)"reproahced" corrected to "reproached" (page 59)"expression" corrected to "expressing" (page 67)"tectile" corrected to "textile" (page 69)"warm" corrected to "war" (page 71)"seaw" corrected to "sea" (page 75)"where" corrected to "were" (page 75)"perosns" corrected to "persons" (page 76)"charged" corrected to "changed" (page 77)"an" corrected to "as" (page 82)"advances" corrected to "advanced" (page 83)"repvailed" corrected to "prevailed" (page 89)"understodd" corrected to "understood" (page 95)"munitiae" corrected to "minutiae" (page 95)"Herland" corrected to "Herald" (page 98)"sawrm" corrected to "swarm" (page 100)"officiaals" corrected to "officials" (page 100)"Sate" corrected to "State" (page 105)"and" corrected to "an" (page 112)"grow" corrected to "grew" (page 117)"happaned" corrected to "happened" (page 123)missing "is" added (page 126)"back-bitting" corrected to "back-biting" (page 127)"wlecomed" corrected to "welcomed" (page 128)"bounds" corrected to "bound" (page 128)"adhorred" corrected to "abhorred" (page 129)"whol" corrected to "whole" (page 129)"di" corrected to "do" (page 130)"pilosophy" corrected to "philosophy" (page 132)"telehone" corrected to "telephone" (page 133)"capaign" corrected to "campaign" (page 134)"loca" corrected to "local" (page 134)"natice" corrected to "native" (page 137)"capitalists" corrected to "capitalist" (page 139)"urges" corrected to "urged" (page 139)"Souther" corrected to "Southern" (page 148)"anive" corrected to "naive" (page 150)"hav" corrected to "have" (page 150)"struglle" corrected to "struggle" (page 159)"renumerated" corrected to "remunerated" (page 160)"Crhonicle" corrected to "Chronicle" (page 162)"If" corrected to "It" (page 170)"And" corrected to "An" (page 171)"Heraldn" corrected to "Herald" (page 173)"1811" corrected to "1881" (page 174)"pressent" corrected to "present" (page 181)"porblem" corrected to "problem" (page 181)"he" corrected to "the" (page 181)"ot" corrected to "to" (page 182)"aided" corrected to "added" (page 184)"wss" corrected to "was" (page 186)"neat" corrected to "near" (page 189)"mil;" corrected to "mill" (page 194)"sotkc" corrected to "stock" (page 201)"sone" corrected to "some" (page 202)"in" corrected to "is" (page 203)"orgin" corrected to "origin" (page 205)"yed" corrected to "yes" (page 207)"ouright" corrected to "outright" (page 211)"consideraion" corrected to "consideration" (page 218)"intented" corrected to "intended" (page 221)"build" corrected to "built" (page 221)"or" corrected to "of" (page 222)"propsered" corrected to "prospered" (page 222)"Unitl" corrected to "Until" (page 227)"annul" corrected to "annual" (page 232)"Salsibury" corrected to "Salisbury" (page 233)"wanters" corrected to "wanted" (page 234)"deciaion" corrected to "decision" (page 242)"theys" corrected to "they" (page 251)"unproftiable" corrected to "unprofitable" (page 266)"laides" corrected to "ladies" (page 270)"inheirtance" corrected to "inheritance" (page 270)"Commerical" corrected to "Commercial" (footnote 2)"us" corrected to "up" (footnote 19)"2n" corrected to "2nd" (footnote 17)"destroyer" corrected to "destroyed" (footnote 29)"Commerical" corrected to "Commercial" (footnote 45)"Grenville" corrected to "Greenville" (Footnote 47)"suidical" corrected to "suicidal" (footnote 57)"Ibis." corrected to "Ibid." (footnote 82)"sgainst" corrected to "against" (footnote 86)"Olmstead" corrected to "Olmsted" (footnote 97)"Ble" corrected to "Blue" (footnote 110)"itno" corrected to "into" (footnote 114)"intenal" corrected to "internal" (footnote 123)"1811" corrected to "1881" (footnote 144)missing "to" added (footnote 147)"solicitious" corrected to "solicitous" (footnote 148)"to" corrected to "the" (footnote 150)"ot" corrected to "to" (footnote 162)"acaclim" corrected to "acclaim" (footnote 162)"Nasvhile" corrected to "Nashville" (footnote 170)"unusued" corrected to "unused" (footnote 175)"you" corrected to "your" (footnote 175)"rebuilt" corrected to "rebuild" (footnote 237)"Bid." corrected to "Ibid." (footnote 237)"Grenville" corrected to "Greenville" (footnote 291)"Grenville" corrected to "Greenville" (footnote 421)
Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.