[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!"