The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-12-16

II Cne progress Oi tOWH, do ellO pioSiOoo VI ioO
Industries It affords us pleasure, therefore,
occasionally, to take one of these, examine
4 its present condition and note its growth
from the original small affair of the years ago,
to its now full manhood-to the position OF
honorable exaltation which its fair, square
progressive mode of dealing has secured
The establishment of j. H. McCarty i Sons
|, is a case in point, and has more than once en-
gagged our time and enlisted our pen IN the
delineation of its progress and success.
1t is not many years since j. ii. McCarty,
the senior of the firm made his advent among
us. He came from Milford, which we looked
upon as place Of antiquated notions, ana
thought nothing less that that the man who
thus hailed from there was as antlquated as
the place from whence he came. But 1t did
not take long to satisfy us that we were the
antiauated ones-that we were furnishing
: our houses in the taste and fashions OF years
''lang syne"-that the enterprise OF our
furniture men did not lift US out of the era
of cherry and the stiff, ungracelul o. u. ola
hundred years ago-that decent parlor anu
bedroom suites were unknown among us, or,
if here, brought not by the skill and enter
prize of our own mechanics, but by lnnova-
ton and importation from abroad, at an
expense altogether beyond the pocket
of any but the wealthy among us. McCarty
changed all this-he proved reformer
indeed, and soon demonstrated that
| it needed spirit such as he possessed
to revolutionise the clumsy appearance
of our household, by the introducing
| light and elegant furniture, which coul
not but have an eevating tendency on the
taste of all, and that too at prices within the
reach ofall.
But McCarty, on his advent, did not come
up to the full measure of himself He saw
the situation and prepared to nurse 1t, as the
husbandman nurses the ground of a worn,
sterile farm on his first taking possession.
His start was giant stride beyond his sur
roundings though trifing affair for him,
but he went on growing day by day until now
his factory and warc-rooms vie in size and
contents with those of any other in the
county, not even excepting those of the re-
tail traders in the cities What ever in his
line can be had elsewhere McCarty is pre-
pared to furnish on short order and at prices
exceptionally low.
In his career McCarty has had pretended
rivals-but the fact that, while these have
passed way and are passing away, his career
is onward and upward, show that they may
have been imitators, but never could sue
cessfully claim the position of rivals. And
the reason is obvious-McCarty always
supervised the manufacture of his wares
never entertaining the idea that the cheap
work of the city shops was the proper thing
to foist on his customers in exchange for their
money, or the proper material out of which
to build up permanent trade on which to
| found permanent home in the place
of his adoption. His present status confirms
the correctness Of his theory, and from his
small beginning he has grown into the sole
occupant Of the basement, and first and sec
ond stories ofthe Odd Fellows Hall, embracing
hundreds upon hundreds of feet of surface,
arc filed with furniture choice in material,
choice in finish, and choice in design, which
is continually passing out to customers, only
/ to be replaced 10y others to meet further de
mands. This is not fiction-worksh filed
with skilled mechanics, and sales amounting
to hundreds Of dollars per day. even in these
dull times attest that there is tangibility
in McCarty's business, in strong contrast with
the cry Of other shops of the dulness of bust
ness and great scarcity Of money.
And the wonder of this state of things
ceases when McCarty & Sons shop and ware
rooms are visited In the one all is thrift
and the busy hum of industry-the stalwart,
cheering music of the saw, the plain and
hammer. In the other the packing Of furn-
ture and the crisp, but soothing music of
rafting greenbacks show that business is
there and that ''the wolf of grim want has no
business at that door" Nor even in view
of the cry OF hard times, does this long re-
main wonder when passing from room to
room one secs the rich displays oiware, made
of all the woods known to the cabinet business
and arrayed in style to form perfect
kaleidoscope of the beautiful in art and de-
sign and finish. Columns might be filed
with the descriptive, but every one should see
for himself, and in the gentlemanly courtesy
of the members Of the firm, learn the finish
ing grand secret Of success.
In addition to the furniture business Ne
Carly & Son S hold that Of undertaking and
: in this particular branch they stand without
rivals anywhere. Starting with the idea
, that the burial of the dead should not be a
matter of speculation but of duty merely,
they have studied the business in all its parts
and in the quiet perfect manner in which
funerals are conducted by them death, fol
3 the living is stripped of more than half it,
D terrors. From the death bed to the grave
, all moves smoothly, without untoward dis
( play, without jar, without confusion, ant
e this because all their annlia ances are narCact