The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-15
The New Manufacturing Establishment of
Hughes Bros. a. Co.

| Having seen anu heard so much laudatory
in our recent tour through the state of the
line of goods manufactured by this enter
prising firm, we decided to pay them a
visit at their new quarters, ana to our great
surprise we found that, within the space of
two months, they had erected Il two-story
| building at the terminus of the Ervay street
railway, they having purchased the cele-
| brated SCOTS springs, together with
the Scott mills, and ten acres of land-the
most beautiful and slightly location in our
| city. Their new factory is erected imme-
diately adjacent to the springs, which they
| also purchased-with its never.iailing cryS-
tai waters, as pure as the virgin snow-drops.
A walk through their house soon convinced
us that these gentlemen were not only en-
lowed with extra mechanical skill, but
that they also thoroughly under
stood their business. 1t was beau
tiiul sight to see their handsome engine
together with their generation and fUunt-
aims busily engaged in doing the work that
otherwise would require more than triple
the hands. We found thirty-fve hands
busily employed, each one having been as
signed TO their own peculiar work, the
greater number of them being nice and
tidy young ladies', all of them the daugh.
tiers OF widowed mothers, il being a rule of
this house to give the preference to orphan
works, the water being thrown by their busy
little engine to their mammoth tank hold
ing $50 bills, located in the root of the house.
We were surprised at the number of artl-
Giles they were manufacturing, the most
prominent ct which being DR.. Hughes Gel
ebrated Grape Baking Powder, cider in
Kegs and barrels, champagne cider vinegar,
llavoring extracts, ground spices, in bulk
and small packages, lemon sugar, ink blue
ing besides q number of other articles.
Their cider and champagne cider and vine
gar is made from the pure juice of
lhe apple: 70 this we will
certify. The old doctor insisted
upon our witnessing the entire process,
from its incipency, more particularly The
champagne cider, until it was put into the
bottles, corked, tied and wired. He stated
that he would give guarantee that under
no circumstances, in health or in sickness,
where wine was at all admissible, would
tins cider prove injurious and certainly if
it is as healthful as it is palatable its con
sumption should prove illimitabe Those
who drink it become so fond OF the taste
that it supercedes the desire
for strong drink, thus proving a
blessing, MS it is entirely devoid of any in
toxicatin & effect whatever, acting splendid
~ upon the liver, as it is an eliminator of
','N'NS'Ns wv ubHNNlbS pIulllOltS
digestion. He then took us over the ten
acre tract they had purchased on high hill,
circled by a beautiful stream, ripping over
ITS pebblcd bottom, upon the margin of
which were handsome, lofty cedars, tall
sycamores, outrageous oaks, beautiful
walnuts and other handsome forest trees.
| Upon this hill they have erected tene-
ment houses for their operatives.
We went in and talked to some of the wild.
owed ladies whose daughters were EN-
ployed in the factory, and we found all of
their temporal wants well supplied They
have laid OIL for each family in their own
enclosure nice plot for garden, built
snug little hen houses and stocked them,
and have promised all the necessary sur
roundings to make their homes not only
comfortable but really desirable, and
| when any of them are sick the old
doctor attends them without charge
and his noble wife visits them in
person and see that they have
every comfort that one sick could desire.
| II Dallas had Il few more such enterprising
firms as this she could Justly lay claim tG
being the Queen City of Texas, and why il
is that SO many of her capitalists are willing
to snpinely pass their days in idleness, OF
| hunting some mortgaged loan at per cent
| per month, is mystery,