The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-09-12

From the Richmond Tinus of last
Sunday We take the following. 1t will
be read with interest by many people
in Henderson, where the firm of Allen
& Ginter is SO well known by reason of
Their extensive interests and operations
in our town. Their large business in
this market is looked after by John D.
Cooper. That paper says:
When Bill Nye went over to the Paris
Exposition he pretended in his CORE
spondence that he became homesick and
Disguised with the American exhibit
there, until after a while he ran across
the smiling face of Mr.. Ginter in the shape
OF thefamiliar picture (trademark) of the
Richmond Gem cigarettes. He was 80
delighted he went up and kissed the pic
ture, and declared that he knew the old
man perfectly well, and that it was a
splendid picture OF him.
Millions of people have looked upon
the self same picture (which is not q like
ness of Mr.. Ginter at ally with feelings of
genuine delight, and if there be any such
thing as pleasure in blowing clouds of to-
bacco smoke from nose and mouth, they
have realized it to the fullest in smoking
the Richmond Gem, the first cigarette
brand in Richmond.
The business was first commenced
under the firm name of Allen & Ginter,
the force employed consisting of about
twenty hands.
Through the mutations of time see
what a tree this little acorn has become.
Now an immense, comfortable and airy
building shelters thirteen hundred happy
girls, through whose fingers the fragrant
tobacco quickly assumes the shape of the
cigarette. The work is light, comfortable
and free from heavy fatigue, and great
pains is taken by the employers in per-
fecting every arrangement that can be
calculated to produce contentment. Once
year Allen & Ginter give the girls an
entertainment of some sort, either q
picnic in the country Or banquet in the
city. On these occasions expense is a
matter not to be considered.
The weekly payroll amounts to ten
thousand dollars, making the enormous
sum of five hundred and twenty thousand
dollars paid out here by this enterprising
firm.
Mr.. Ginter is a big advertiser, but he
has his ideas about how to do it. He
despises anything in the shape of free ad-
vertisement, and fights shy of parties
WIZ WuhO " pun HIS uOuSe. he, HOW
ever, is extremely courteous, and per-
fectly willing to furnish the press with
any information that will be calculated
| to further the material development oil
our trade industries and manufactures.
In Henderson, N. c., in the region OF
| the beautiful bright-leaf tobacco, Allen &
Ginter have two large stemmeries, in
which are employed three hundred hands
The firm is the largest buyers of the finer
qualities of bright leaf that are to b.
found in this country. It is of such ma
terial that their fine brands of cigarettes
are made. The FULL capacity of tn,
house here is 100000 cigarettes pei
day, and ready sale is found for them al
over the world
OF late years the business has been in
corporated with the following officers
Lewis Ginter, president; John Pope, vice
PRESIDENT; and T. F. Jeffries, secretary
and treasurer.
Perhaps no other manufactured articl
of trade that ever went out of Richmond
has done more to make the city know
to the trade world than Allen & Ginter'
cigarettes.