The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-26
aARBLEIZEo MANTELs
And The Celebrated Baltimore Heater
at the State Fair.

One of the unique displays msde at
the fair, just closed, and one that at
tracted the attention of nearly every
houseoWner and housekeeper was the
exhibit made by the Glasgow Mantle
and Granite Company in the west wing
of Floral Hall A few years ago every
body will remember that there was a
stampede going on for investments in
the city Of Glasgow, boom town IN
the Virginia Valley. Lots went sky
high and enterprises galore were booked
and being built in the new Yir
GINA town It would be remark
able if in all this clamor and
enthusiastic effort to build manufac-
turing center, there had not been some
industry, planted on sufficient terrafrma
to enable i TO blaze the way for another
Southern achievement in the manufac-
turing world, an achievement along a
new line, practical demonstration of
the fact that mere in the southland was
a valuable resource unlimited in quaint
ty and unexcelled in quality, that could
be made into merchantable, profitable
and almost indispensable articles, and
sold to our own people cheaper than
The Glasgow Mantle and Crate Com
pany is the exception to an almost uni
versal suspension and abandonment of
proposed industrial enterprises in the
boom towns up TO 80 and 91.
1t was bern in an era Of imitation and
unsteadiness, but it has conquered at
tendant evils herewith and has estab-
iished upon firm and healthful basis its
ability to do and do successfully what it
proposed to do when it came into exis-
tence. It's mission was to make marble
lied and hard wood finished mantles, iron
nantes and CRATES that should rival
in durability, in excellence Of finish and
color any made either in this or any
other land. Nantes made from the
slate that now sluggishly sleeps in hun
dreds of hillsides in North Carolina and
Virginia, and CRATES from the pig of
Southern furnaces and FORCES This
Glasgow Mantle and Crate Company has
had some hill climbing TO do. 1t has haS
TO overcome the great prejudice and
severe criticisms of hundreds who in
vested unwisely and, too well in the
town in which it was established. Had
it been planted in Raleigh, In Durham,
Charlotte or any stable Southern city, it
could have done in Six months more
than it has been able to do in three years
situated where it is, but the nantes and
CRATES exhibited by this company at this
years fair establishes the fact that this
Southern enterprise, notwithstanding it
is the frst and only one of its kind built
South of Baltimore, can and does make
as handsome and attractive work as ia
made IN any factory ia the world
Another feature of this exhibit was
the celebrated Baltimore heater, which
is rapidly taking the place of all other
heating apparatus. Heaters by the use
of which two scuttles OF coal will
heat three rooms eighteen hours
without any smoke, dust or ashes in the
rooms. These heaters are made in Bal
timore, but their sale in this territory Is
controlled by TIE Glasgow Company and
sold in connection with their mantles, or
sold without the NANTES, as the pur-
chaser may desire.
Mr.. a. II Temple, formerly of Raleigh,
is the pr ncipal owner and manager of
this company. He has been in Raleigh
several weeks, and has pat the heater
into the houses Of a number Of the
leading men Of the city. among
them hessrs. G J Hunter, b Monta-
que, 7 Is CroWder, & II Beiyin, g. B.
EdwardS, N Bcoughton, J J Thomas,
Rev. a. III Simms aud others Mr.
Temple is a gritty energetic gentleman,
and merits all the success that has come
or may come TO him in the establish
ment and management Of his unique
enterprise.