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ITS PEOPLE, ENTERPRISES

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@’ I-IE first settlement of Georgetown, of which history gives any account, was
A in October, 1775, at what is now called the “Royal Spring.” The name
i given to it at that time was McClelland‘s Station. In 1784 the name was

changed to Lebanon. In this same year, by an act of the Virginia Legislature,
it was incorporated under the name of Georgetown (presumably in honor of

George \Vashington). So far as history informs us this is the correct account

of the various names this beautiful little city has borne. From 1784, the year of
its incorporation, until 1869 it dragged its slow existence along, being perfectly
satisfied to rank simply as an inland town. Its people were dead to what was
going on in the shape of commercial advancement in the outside world. So long
as they were permitted to pursue their quiet, peaceful ways they little cared what
the balance of the great world was doing or thinking of. In the language of a
celebrated orator “Peace, tranquillity and innocence shed their mingled delights
around them.” One night in 1869 the dreadful cry of “fire” awakened the slum-
bering citizens. The next setting of the sun was upon the blackened ruins of the
greater portion of the business houses of the town. When the owners of the

 

  
   
   
 
  
  
   
  
    

  

 

 

 

 

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buildings had recovered from the stupor occasioned by the, then, great magnitude
of their losses, they determined that they would erect more substantial and more
ornamental buildings on the sites of the old rookeries than formerly occupied
them. Again, in 1876, the fire fiend visited the town and the remainder of the
business portion of the old town was destroyed. These owners followed the
example of the sufferers from the previous confiagration and erected more costly
buildings. Time and again since these “big fires” has the little city been visited
by fires more or less devastating in their extent. Each time more substantial
and more imposing buildings have been erected until to-day it bears, and justly so,
the proud title of “The Belle of the Blue Grass.” At the present time any one
desiring a home, either from a social, educational or commercial point of view,
could not find one which embodies these three cardinal elements more perfectly
than does Georgetown.

Its people, socially, are generous to a fault. As to educational advantages it
cannot be surpassed, and from a commercial standpoint it ranks high among even
larger cities for the investment of idle capital.

Almost a peninsular, as it is, it offers to manufactories of every description,
practically, an unlimited supply of water. North Elkhorn, having its source in
an adjoining county, forms the Northern, Eastern, South-Eastern and Western
boundaries of the town. Its average depth is eight feet six inches, from a cal-
culation made by an engineer well versed in such matters. It was estimated by
good judges that the water supply from this source alone was suflicient to furnish
an abundance of water to a city of 300,000 people. The velocity of Elkhorn eight
months in the'year is of sufficient force to insure to any one locating a manufac—
tory,.on its banks ample power to conduct his business. For the remainder of the
year, the current is such as to very materially decrease the cost of operating the
factory. In addition to this great volume of water there runs through the center
of the t0wn a stream which has as its source the “Royal Spring.” This “branch”
is of sufficient depth and rapidity of current to operate one of the largest flouring
mills in this section of' the state. From its source, the Royal Spring, to its mouth,
where it empties into Elkhorn, is five-eighths of a mile. \Vith the exception of a
very short distance its channel'contains enough water to operate several other
factories almost regardless of their capacities. So far as a failure of the water
supply is concerned even the most skeptical of investors in manufacturing enter-
prises need have no fear, for it is practically unlimited.

As far back as the ’70’s our people began to throw otl.’ the almost fatal lethargy
which had for so many years held them. When the projectors of the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad, now known as the (,Lueen and Crescent Route, asked for a
right of way the citizens guaranteed it. From that day to the present time the
town has been steadily increasing in population. The opening of that road
showed to the citizens the possibilities of the future. New ideas sprang up. An
organization, called The Commercial Club, was formed by the more enterprising
and energetic of the citizens for the purpose of forwarding any enterprise tending
to improve the material welfare of the town. Recognizing the advantages that
had already resulted from the building of the first railroad, the Club, when the
Versailles and Midway road—since become a portion of the Louisville Southern

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system—was projected, used every endeavor to secure its extension to this point.
Through indefatigable efforts they were successful. About the same time the
Kentucky Midland Railroad was brought to the attention of the now thoroughly
alive citizens. The Commercial Club by its energy and “push” finally succeeded
in getting the county to vote the necessary funds to guarantee the right of way,
The consequence of this earnest work on their part is that no city of treble its
population has better railroad facilities than Georgetown.

In order to show to our readers that Georgetown is almost incomparable as a
place suitable for permanent location it is best to set forth its advantages in detail
~———giving facts as they exist without any of the grandiloquent phrases which are
now so commonly used by the projectors of “boom” towns.

First.- The climate is healthy and agreeable. There are no sudden changes
from extreme cold to extreme heat or vice versa, as is so common with cities
further north.

Second: From an agricultural point of view its advantages cannot really be
stated too strongly. Situated, as it is, right in the heart of the “Blue Grass
Region" it would be difficult indeed to find a more profitable field for the invest-
ment of capital than in the farms immediately adjoining the town. The late
monthly report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Kentucky
shows that the crops of last year were simply enormous in proportion to the num-
ber of acres under cultivation. This is simply mentioned in order to show that
the fertility of the soil is so great that it is worthy of mention by the Agricultural
Department of the State. Cereals and fruits grow to perfection with the least
possible expenditure of labor and money.

T/zfrd: The morals of the city are carefully and successfully guarded. There
are seven churches representing the leading denominations of the Christian world.
Owing to the rapid increase in the population, two of the denominations have come
to the conclusion that their present quarters are too small to accommodate the
people and are projecting the erection of more costly and spacious edifices. Among
the religious institutions of Georgetown the Y. M. C. A. occupies no mean place.
Though still in its infancy its influence is being felt throughout the community.
There is an undercurrent being disseminated from this body of young men which
can produce none other than good. The organization was conceived and perfected
in the closing months of 1889. They now have nicely furnished rooms in the
central part of town where can be found a fine selection of literature on their
tables free to any and everybody. Their rooms are lighted by electricity and heated
with nice large stoves. They have two rooms: A devotion room, where they hold
two religious meetings per week—Friday evenings and Sunday afternoons. They
hold public meetings monthly, which consist of prayer service, conducted by the
executive secretary followed with a lecture from some good speaker. These have
been well attended by the public, showing that the good people are interested in
this work. The, management of the Y. M. C. A. is in the hands of an executive
board selected by the body. Their rooms are always in charge of a good man
who sees that everything is being done to make strangers welcome.

Fond/1: Georgetown stands pre-eminent throughout the state as the most
desirable place for securing an education—commercial, classical or otherwise.

   

  

 
 
 

  

  

 

 

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“The City Fathers,” as the Board of Trustees are affectionately called by the
citizens, take great pride in the City School. The average daily attendance is
about two hundred. Some of the best talent of the community has been employed
as instructors. Whoever passes through the City School creditably is fitted to fill
almost any commercial position to which they may be called.

It is a graded school, the standard of scholarship being placed very high.
All the rudimentary branches are taught. The Principal of the school is Pro—
fessor R. L. Garrison, a native of Scott county, and a graduate of Georgetown
College. He takes great pride in having this institution rank high among the
Public Schools of the State. It was through his untiring efforts that the present

     
    
  
    
 

       
 
  
 
   

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handsome structure was built. It cost about eight thousand dollars. It is built
of brick, and its internal arrangement was made with strict reference to sanitary

laws. The rooms are large, commodious and well ventilated. Professor

Garrison, an expert mathematician himself, has charge of all classes in the higher
mathematics. Through his efficiency as a teacher he has been enabled to hold

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His management of the pupils themselves is admirable in every respect, and
gives satisfaction to all concerned. His mode of doing this can best be given in

his, Own words, as follows:

“Some higher incentive than mere force is necessary to arouse enthusiasm in-
schoolwork. The rod of fifty years ago has somehow lost its magic powers in
imparting knmvledge to the youth of this country. When all other means have
failed, the rod can be successfully used in forcing a pupil to be orderly and to
compel him to allow his neighbors to pursue their lessons undisturbed, but it will
never arouse an interest in study. A pupil may be forced to gaze for hours at the
pages of his lessons, but he is all the time spelling between the lines the words,
hatred and contempt; hatred for books, and contempt for your methods. There
are numerous methods and conditions that will obviate the necessity for the rod.
The ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure in school as well as other
places. What stimulus then can be used in the place of the rod? A thorough
system of classification is one of the necessary conditions to good order and to
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him confidence in his own powers; and allow him to be jostled by a judicious class
emulation. A daily record of school work and conduct should be accurately kept
by every teacher. At the close of each month these results should be condensed
into a report and sentto the parent or guardian. There are but few pupils who
are unconcerned whether their parents have learned or not through the post-
oflice that they are renegades and outlaws at school. They would prefer the
rod to this method if their parents have succeeded in gaining the respect of
their children. If on the contrary pupils are indifferent to the character of their
reports, then the fault is in the home management and not in the school. The
teachers of the Public School have successfully carried out their part of the system
of monthly reports, and when it has failed to stimulate certain pupils to do better
work, it has been due to the carelessness and indifference of parents. By these
reports a grade of honor has been established. and a pupil must make at least
eighty (80) in Scholarship and ninety (90) in Deportment each month to entitle
him to a place on the roll. As a further incentive to excellency in recitations and
conduct, the teachers give annually gold medals for the highest proficiency. The
maximum standing of one hundred (100) implies perfectness in either Scholarship
or Deportment, and this number was lowered by violation of any rule, neglect of
duty, or deficient scholarship. '

The Georgetown Public School is thoroughly graded in all of its departments.

. This system of classification has been sufficiently tested and permanently established

in all towns and cities in the North and East. They are advocating the establish—

ment of the graded system in the country schools in several States. The time is

not far distant when the public schools throughout the whole country will be
based upon this rational system.

No school can succeed without a perfect system of classification. The age,
health, mental capacity, application to study, and home advantages of pupils, are
important factors to be considered. If mistakes are made at the opening of a
session, a pupil can be dropped to a lower grade or advanced to a higher one as
the case may be, and the general classification will not be disturbed. At all times
individual interests must be subordinated to the general good. The law regards
the teacher as the proper one to determine the grade of a pupil, as he is the only

- one familiar with the facts upon which a classification is based.”

Acting upon such principles as set forth above, it is small wonder that he has
F succeeded in bringing the school up to its present high standard of excellence.
1‘ lle has an able corps of four teachers, selected on account of their peculiar fitness
ll for this most responsible work. They are Mrs. Garrison, the wife of the principal,
Miss Emma Gasner, Miss Bettie Bradley, and Miss Johanna Mahoncy. These
teachers hold their places subject to the action of the School Trustees. As they
are graduates of the home Seminaries, where they stood at the very top of their
f" classes, it is reasonable to suppose that they will continue as teachers in the Public

School so long as they may desire to hold their places.

In addition to this institution there is located in our midst one of the most
famous colleges in the Union—Georgetown College. This institution was chart-
ered by the legislature in 1829 and located upon the beautiful and commanding
campus where it stands to-day. That these years have been filled with constant
and regular work on the part of the institution is attested by the fact that within
that time more than four hundred graduates have passed through its various
courses, and more than three thousand students have pursued their studies within
its walls.

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These young men have gathered £10m all sections of the State of Kentucky
and of the South, and on leaving the College they have scatte1 ed th1oughout the
length and breadth of the United States filling honored and useful positions in the
various walks of life. Indeed there are very fe“ institutions in the whole South
with so great and honored an Alumni as Georgetown College. Nor does the
College live wholly in the past. It is now doing noble and effective work in the
cause of education. There are now amongst the students some as bright and
promising young men as ever before. A well organized faculty of able and well—
trained men are doing the work of instruction. The endowment funds have
recently been much increased, an efiicient gymnasium has been added and the
library enlarged.

Additional buildings are in contemplation, one of them being already in pro-
cess of construction, and the whole institution is thoroughly progressive and
abreast of the age.

Connected with the College is a vigorous and successful Academy where the
boys of the town and surrounding country are thoroughly fitted and disciplined
for college work. While not attempting to advertise itself on the score of exces-
sive cheapness, Georgetown College insists that there is no college in the country
where the same grade of work is done at less cost.

Parents who have sons and appreciate the inestimable advantage of having
educational facilities at their doors cannot fail to see the inducements offered them
by the splendid history, solidity, excellent condition and bright prospects of
Georgetown College.

Within the past year the Board of Trustees of the College hax e caused 'to be
erected a handsome residence for the President of the College.

   
 

          

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It is a large building built entirely of red pressed brick, and is one of the most
imposing looking residences in Georgetown. No expense was spared to make of
it a comfortable dwelling and one fit in every respect for the home of the President
of this time—honored institution.

Connected with the College are two literary societies, the membership of
which is taken from the students. They are named respectively, the Ciceronianv
and Tau Theta Kappa societies. Every student, while not compelled to join one
or the other of these bodies, is expected by the College authorities to do so. Great
rivalry exists between the two as to which shall have its hall the finer furnished .~
and the library the better stocked with all of the standard works, both historical
and in the line of fiction. Each has a library of about two thousand volumes.
The character of exercises is such as to make the students ready and fluent speakers
in after life. The subjects of debate are generally selected from the live political
issues of the day, thus compelling those who participate in them to keep posted in
the contemporaneous history of their own country. Subjects are also frequently
selected from points in history, such as “Was Charles the First justly beheaded?”
in order to make them study up the history of former times. The oflicers of these
societies are selected from their own members. Each body is controlled, as near ,
as practicable, by the parliamentary rules laid down in Cushing’s Manual. \Vhen
a student has taken an active interest in the workings of these societies for the few
years he remains in College, he goes out to the world a ready debater and one who
is well prepared to cope with almost any one on the public rostrum. Some of the
most eloquent orators known to the public to-day, learned their art in these halls.

 

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GEORGE'I‘O‘VN .lUi’lVIALE SEMINARY.

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The Georgetown Female Seminary is another educational institution of which
the citizens are justly proud. This Seminary is recognized as one of the leading
educational institutions in the South and West for young ladies. It has a history
which extends through nearly half a century. Its standard of Higher Education
has been constantly increasing until now it stands the acknowledged peer of
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opened the doors of the College to the young ladies of the Seminary. They ac-
cepted the oli'er and are receiving instruction in advanced studies in the classes of
the learned faculty of that institution. The lower and intermediate classes are-
still cared for in the Seminary by a very superior corps of lady teachers. We can
therefore commend this institution to all parents who expect to send their daugh-
ters aw'ay from home as one in which they will be well cared for and thoroughly
and conscientiously educated.

The Seminary is situated in the southern portion of the town. The grounds
are large and spacious and kept in the very best of order. They furnish ample
room for exercise for the students. The Seminary building is a large and handsome
structure, built with an idea singly t0 the health and comfort of those attending.

In addition to a large number of home patrons, a great number come from
other States. These are boarded in the Seminary building. This Seminary can
number among its Alumni ladies from almost every State in the South, as well as
a great many from the North and West. No one leaves this schoolwith a diploma
unless it is well earned, as the grade of scholarship is placed high. The full
course comprises all the English branches, French, German, Music, Painting,
Drawing, and all things necessary to make one an useful and accomplished orna—
ment to society.

In addition to these widely and favorably known institutions it maybe said
that there are several private schools, the owners of which graduated with high
and distinguished honors at one or the other of these three institutions. These
private schools are devoted principally to preparing those who attend them for
the higher branches of the College and Seminary.

The Public Library, the organization of which is under the name of the
Scott County Library Association, is another very powerful factor of the educa-
tional facilities of Georgetown. It was organized about three years ago by the
young ladies and gentlemen of the town, with a small library of about one hundred
FSiIfinEsj‘ and a membership, comparatively speaking, very small indeed. It now
has a library of over eleven hundred of the choicest literary gems, and a member-
ship composed of the very best and brightest minds in the community. The-
Honorable \V. C. Owens was elected President, and still holds that position. Under
his direction and management it has become an assured and permanent institution
of the town. The Library is situated in the south-west room of the Court House.
The Association gives a series of lectures during the winter months, securing for
these entertainments the services of the widest and best known Zz'fcralcm's in.
America. The funds derived from these lectures are devoted to increasing the
number of books they already have. The rooms are open to the public every
afternoon and until nine o’clock at night. Miss Nora Tingle holds the responsible
position of librarian, and by her ever genial reception to all has made it a very
pleasant place to spend an evening in intellectual enjoyments. The library is free
to all, but it requires an admission fee to become a member. The rules are very
strict in regard to the taking out and returning of books, consequently they have,
as yet, met with no losses in this direction. As was said above, it is one of the
best avenues for the dissemination of knowledge that the town possesses.

7 Fifi/1: The railroad facilities of Georgetown are first class in every particular.
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territory which insures to those desiring to establish manufactories a certain and
short access to the immense coal and timber lands of Southwestern Kentucky and
Eastern Tennessee. To-day lumber can be, and is, brought to Georgetown for
manufacturing purposes cheaper than it can be gotten at Cincinnati, Indianapolis
or even Grand Rapids, Mich. This sounds a little overdrawn, but to any one
desiring to investigate the matter, the facts and figures will convince him 'of the
truthfulness of the statement.

The Kentucky Midland Railroad recently completed and now in full opera—
tion places Georgetown‘in direct connection with four other trunk lines, thus
insuring cheap rates of transportation. With its starting point at Frankfort, Ky.,
it gives easy connection with the Louisville and Nashville system with only a
short run of about eighteen miles. Tapping the QVueen and Crescent at George—
town it runs through the richest and most fertile portions of Scott and Bourbon
Counties until it reaches Paris, Ky., connecting at that place with the Kentucky
Central Road, thus insuring at least a competing line to Eastern cities and the
Northern and Southern markets in the great “ Huntington System.” In addition
to these outlets the Versailles and Midway Road, now a portion of the Louisville
Southern system, has recently been completed, thus giving the fourth through line.

If competing lines of railway are any guarantee of cheap freight and passenger
transportation, then these facts, as they exist, ought to be sufficient to convince
any fair minded business man who cares to investigate them that no better location
than Georgetown, considered from that point of view, exists. Sixteen passenger
trains daily arrive and depart from this point. There are in the neighborhood of
fifty freight trains each day. As a shipping point it does more business than all
the towns along the line of the Clueen and Crescent Road combined between
Cincinnati and Lexington.

These three roads, the Queen and Crescent Route, the Kentucky Midland
Railway and the Louisville Southern Railway, connect Georgetown directly with
the immense iron and coal fields of Eastern Kentucky. The very fact that each
furnishes an easy inlet into these rich deposits, and that each intersects the other
at Georgetown, makes it a fact that cheap transportation of these products to the
citizens of Georgetown is a necessary consequence. Hardly any other town or
city along the lineof either of these roads has the advantages of competition in
railroad facilities in an equal degree with Georgetown.

In this era of the world’s civilization it is a recognized principle that speed
and economy in transportation are essential, not only to a people’s advancement,
but to their status of command, or even of respectability; and so access to market
for their wares and products, by cheap and rapid means entirely within their own
control, is nOw the consideration of first importance to all people who are pos—
sessed of an ordinary degree of ambition, or a safe amount of business sagacity.
The farmer or the merchant or the manufacturer who is endowed with a compre-
hension, embracing both cause and effect, recognizes in cheap transportation the
corner-stone of all material prosperity. These advantages Georgetown possesses
in an eminent degree.

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Schaler, Ex-State Geologist, in his Report on the improvement of the Kentucky
river, has this to say:

“As regards the character of the beds of coal and other materials, by far the-
greatest part of the facts are doubtless to be learned from the more complete
exploration of the country. There is enough known, however, to make it clear
that both in variety of products, and in the facilities for obtaining them, this
region can successfully compete with any other within the drainage basin of the
Ohio river. It will be seen from the records that there is a mineral field of at least
three thousand square miles which can be made accessible. Of this, about two
thousand five hundred will furnish coals of varied qualities. A large part of this
coal is about as good as Pittsburg for house and steam uses. The main sub-
conglomerate coal, the equivalent of the Pine Hill coal at Livingston, is a superior
gas coal, giving, as found at Pine Hill, within ten per cent. of the amount of gas
found in the best Pittsburg coal, as determined by the superintendent of the gas-
works at Crab Orchard Springs. Though the lot of coal from which the determina-
tion was made was not as well selected as it might have been, it is quite probable
from the analysis and from the experiments made with these sub—conglomerate
coals in Tennessee, that some of them will serve for the smelting of iron ores in
their raw or uncoked state. By this means, or by coking, there can be no doubt
that we will find an abundance of cheap stone-coal fuel for furnaces in this district.
The cannel coal that can be furnished by this district is practically inexhaustible,
and of excellent quality. Besides its great value for home use, there is a large and
growing demand for this material to enrich coal gas. The considerably higher
price of this coal enables it to be carried over a wider field, and the States of Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois, would, throughout their extent, be within the probable range
of these coals via the Kentucky river.”

Of the timber supply of Eastern Kentucky, and the easy means of transporta-
tion by way of the Kentucky river to Frankfort, he speaks as follows:

“The timber supply is extensive and remarkable for the great variety of species
which seem to find here their best conditions. There is a considerable quantity of
yellow pine, of a size fitting it for use in the arts, and some white pine of rather
inferior quality; some hemlock, and a good deal of cedar timber may be had-in the
district. The main export will be of the non-evergreep species of our forest trees—
oaks, hickories, poplars, etc. The drainage of the'Kentucky above Frankfort
contains probably not far from three thousand square miles of forest land, which
is continually yielding successive crops of our most valuable woods." 9“ 95‘ ‘3‘ X'

“The whole of the upper part of this valley will be found peculiarly fitted for
the growth of this species of timber, without any planting whatever, and with only
reasonable care of those parts of our forests in this valley which do not occupy
land fit for agriculture, it can readily yield ten thousand walnut trees to the wood-
man’s axe each year for centuries to come. After taking out the land fit for
agriculture, there will remain in this valley not far from ten thousand square miles
which should be devoted to timber growing, in order to furnish timber for the
mines and for export.”

At Frankfort, as stated above, the Kentucky Midland Railway connects
Georgetown with the Kentucky river, thus furnishing easy and cheap transporta—
tion of timber to this piace.

With such data as given above, the conclusion is irresistible that the statement
made above, that timber for manufacturing purposes can be obtained cheaper at
Georgetown than at Cincinnati, Indianapolis, or even Grand Rapids, Michigan,
is correct. In the first place the supply is not only equal in extent and in the
variety of woods obtainable, but these timber lands are lo