The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28


valuable Of he many EnterpFisins
Men who Have ome From New
England 10 the New South Since the
War and Joined ia with oar Own
People in Industrial Development,
Speaking some days ago with a
gentleman in Rockingham about the
great advancement made in the cot
ton factory business since the war, ne
remarked that when the first cotton
mill was built in Rockingham, one OF
the directors was appointed by the
company to go to New England and
buy the machinery. He had to drive
through the country to Fayetteville,
90 by boat from Fayetteville to VIII
mington, take steamer at Wilmington
for New York and go by rail from New
New York to the Machine shops lie
had to take along a currency that the
other fellow would accept. After
buying the machinery it had to be
shipped from the shops to New York,
from there by water to Wilmington,
up the Cape Fear river to Fayetteville,
and from Fayetteville it had to be
hauled in wagons, over sandy roads, TO
Rockingham. Probably within four
months from the time the buyer left
Rockingham the machinery would
arrive.
Now continued this gentleman IF
we wish to build a cotton mill in Rock
ingham we can take the vestibule
train here at o'clock in the morning,
at half past ten o'clock we are IN
Charlotte, where is located the best
supply and machine companies in the
South. During the day we can buy
all the machinery we want and be at
home again by early bed time, and by
the time he gets ready for it his ma
chinery begins to Arrive"
This gentleman was stating facts,
and these facts tell story that bris-
ties with the progress of the cotton
mill industry in North Carolina and
the South.
A few years ago, Mr.. II. S. Chad
wick came through the South on
trip in the interest of a company of
machinery builders, of Providence,
Rhode Island.
Mr.. Chadwick, after visiting the
principal factory towns in the Caro-
linas and in Georgia landed one day III
Charlotte. He found the same city as
every body else finds it-hustling with
vim and push. He found that every
Charlotte man he met would tell him
that Charlotte was the best town in
the South and lots of other people
would tell him the same thing.
Charlotte folks believe in their town
and it is largely due to this fact that
Charlotte is to-day one Of the liveliest
cities in the South.
Mr.. Chadwick studied the railroad
and other facilities of Charlotte. He
took in it's location and its convent
ence to cotton factory towns in the
three leading cotton factory States in
the South. North and South Carolina
and Georgia.
Charlotte naturally appeared to
him to be the storm centre Of this
great industry. That the cotton fac
tory industry in the South was to con-
tinue to grow; that old mills were to
be enlarged and new mills built; that
not only yarns and warps and the Goa
ser fabrics were to continue to be
made here, but that fine ginghams and
suitings and cheviots, and even fine
bleached and print cioths-and not
only these, but ducitings and damasks
and eventually laces and other of the
finer fabrics were all going to be
made and made successfully in the
South where the cotton is grown
that these things We're coming in the
near future-beeame plain after he
had for few days studied the situa-
ton. And this is good enough coun-
try for me, thought Mr.. Chadwick.
The situation he knew would require
machinery Of every kind. The section
he knew would need a we'll equipped
Thoroughly posted machine agency
where factory men could at all times
see and secure the very latest and best
in spindles and looms, in lappers and
cards and Wrappers, and all the new au-
tomato devices that are required for
a perfectly equipped cotton mill.
So Mr.. Chadwick stopped in Char
lotte, not for week, month, or
year, but for busy and prosperous
life time. He organized The Charlotte
Machine Co. and became its president
and manager. He became a citizen of
Charlotte in the strictest sense, joined
cheeerfully and enthusiastically into
whatever enterprise or undertaking
that had for its object the advance
Charlotte and the South
The business Of handling machinery
for cotton mills, which he established
became the southern agents for the
A. L. Atherson Machine Co.'S Patent
Cotton Feeders, Openers and Lappers;
Pettee Machine Works Revolving
Flat Cards, Collier Railway Heads and
Drawing Frames; Providence Machine
Co.'S Rowing Machinery; Fales and
jerks Machine Co.'S Spinning and
Twisting Machinery; Easton 81 Burn
ham Machine Co.'S Spooling Machine
ny, Globe Machine Works Patent
Chain and Baling Wrappers; Knowles
Loom Works Plain and Fancy Looms
and Dobbies; Foster Machine Co.'S
Patent Cone Winders
Special Southern Agents for b. +.
Stuteyants Co.'S Heating and Ventila-
ting System. Portable FORCES,
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