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Title: American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home"
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Street, Julian, 1879-1947
Subjects: Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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was atutor in the Greene family after the generals death,and it was at the suggestion of Mrs. Greene that hestarted to try and make a machine to pick the seed outof cotton. It is said that Whitneys first machinewould do, in five hours, work which, if done by hand,would take one man two years. This was, of course, anepoch-making invention and caused enormous commer-cial growth in the South, where cotton-gins are as com-mon things as restaurants in the city of New York.\\hich reminds me of a story. A northern man was visiting Air. W. D. Pender, atTarboro, North Carolina. On the day of the guestsarrival Mr. Pender spoke to his cook, a negro woman ofthe old order, telling her to hurry up the dinner, becausehe wished to take his friend down to see the cotton-gin.You know, he explained, this gentleman has neverseen a cotton-gin. The cook looked at him in amazement. Lor! Mistuh Penduh, she exclaimed. An datman look like he was edjacated! Another item in Savannah history is that John Wes- 556
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<-, L BEAUTIFUL SAVANNAH ley came over about the middle of the eighteenth cen-tury to convert the Indians to Christianity. It wasnot until after this attempt, when he returned toEngland, that he began the great religious movementwhich led to the founding of the Methodist Church.George Whitfield also preached in Savannah. Evi-dently Wesley did not get very far with the savageswho, it may be imagined, were more responsive to thekind of conversion attempted in South Carolina, by aFrench dancing-master, who went out from Charlestonin the early days and taught them the steps of the statelyminuet. Another great event in Savannah history was the de-parture from that port, in 1819, of the City of Savannah,the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. If I maymake a suggestion to the city, it is that the centennialof this event be celebrated, and that a memorial beerected. Inspiration for such a memorial might per-haps be found in the simple and charming monument,crowned by a galleon in bronze

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