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

Henrietta, the terminus of the Henri
eta branch of the great Seaboard Air
Line, on the banks of the busy South
fork of the Catawba River, in Ruther-
ford county. 1t is firmly estab-
Iished, with a capital of seven hundred
thousand dollars, and has as its finan-
cial pillars such men as j. $. Spencer,
President of the Commercial Bank of
Charlotte; Mr.. S. =. Tanner, the Secre-
tary and Treasurer and general man
ager of the company; Mr.. Geo. Wilson,
the President of the Victor Mills of
Charlotte; Messrs. T. b. Mcdowell, A.
B. Springs, Judge w. p. Bynum, j. H.
Vawnes, b. ID. Heath and Nj. A. Bland,
of Charlotte; Col. VIM. - Holt, owner
of the Wennonah Mills of Lexington,
and President of the Highland Park
Mills of Charlotte, Col. Frank Coke,
owner of the Battery Park Hotel, Of
Asheville; w. S. Forbes, Esq, the mil
lionaire merchant, of Richmond; Col
Benehan Cameron, of the Farintosh
Stock Farm, and President of the State
Agricultural Society of Durham
county;W. d. Martin, of New York,
and other men of like financial stand
ing and character.
The Henrietta Mills, number j., was
erected in 1883, and has been one Of the
best managed and most successful en-
terprises in the South. The great sue
cess and reasonable dividends that
have accrued from the operations OF
mill No. i inspired the enterprlsing
stockholders TO build during this year
mill No. 2, which is even bigger and
more imposing than its great parent
enterprise The great area of machin-
cry in the Henrietta Nils is turned by
the eyer-howing waters Of the south
Fork River at points where nature pro-
vides steep shoals over which these
waters for ages rushed to waste in Il
great volume and with powerful veloc-
ity. These practical men saw this
waste of natures blessings, located IN
one of the most favorable sections OF
wonderfully favored land, and made
APP their minds 10 tame it, dedicate 1T
TO Southern industrial progress and
utilize it in the interest Of themselves,
their State and humanity.
Neither the managers OF the Henri
,etta Mills. nor were many of its own
ers, for that matter, born rich nor
great Riches and greatness in indus
trial pursuits has come TO all or nearly
all of them as a result of personal eff
fort on their part, wise investment
close application to and the intelligent
direction of the business affairs en-
trusted to them.
Dir. J. S. Spencer, the President OF
the company, was a country boy, q
native of Randolph county. He was
was for years a successful merchant
OF Charlotte, is now the President oi
Tthe Commercial Bank OF Charlotte, one
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28
THE HENRIETTA MILLS. HENRIETTA, RUTHERFORD CoU

GOON ~ ~
warps for few years yet, and be sup
piled, but it will not be very long be-
fore our looms will have caught up
with our spindles and then we will
have only the fabric for sale.
The Henrietta's determination to
make fine goods for print cloths and
bleaching may be regarded as en-
croaching on the prerogatiye of our
New England friends, as the making
of ginghams and cheviots was a few
wears ago, but the Henrietta will pro-
coed to make them all the same, and it
has wealth enough, cheap power
enough and machinery equipment SUI
ficient to make them successfully. 1t
has the trained labor, native bred and
to the manor born-trained under its
own roof-labor that carries about
with it no dynamite or strikers club,
labor that is contented with fair
wages, employees who know and APP
preciate their employers, who duly
appreciate and esteem their en-
ployees.
Around the Henrietta Mills is built
lp little town people with the man
ayers, overseers and operatives Of the
mills and their families frugal pros
porous citizenship that makes the
town Of Henrietta a controlling factor
in the political, industrial and social
life of the section in which it is To-
Gated.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

President victor Mills, Charlotte, NJ.
and soon each one was slipping a we'll
filled glass Of genuine Bourbon. The
Bourbon made them buoyant, and they
fingered still. One gentleman suggested
that if Charlotte was to 60 forward her
people must wake up. Charlotte had
then but one cotton factory. Let's build
another cotton factory" said one gentle
man, as he slipped his glass of enthu-
siasm. Good, said another, "and here's
to the success of the enterprise" And he
lifted his glass. ''Pat me down for S., 900,
said prominent gentleman, and
then as he passed his empty glass over
for ro6lling, he said, MAKE it 10,000."
@'I'll take ten thousand, remarked anoth-
er gentleman. "Put me down for 50, 0o0, :"
said another. And so it went on, and
when the meeting broke up $50, 900 had
been subscribed, committee had been
appointed to solicit other subscriptions,
and another committee to get up corpo-
ration papers, select site, &c. That's
the way the Victor Mills were started
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j. S. SPENCER, Charlotte, \. c.
President Henrietta Mills, Henrietta,
and Columbia Mfg. Co., Ramsuer,
n. C.
will place it in the lead of any plant IN
the State and among the largest
plants in the South.
1t will employ probably by the first
operatives and will consume during
of January twelve to fifteen hundred
next year more than twenty thousand
bales of cotton in the manufacture of
sheeting and fine white cotton fabric
for bleaching and print cloths.
This great enterprise is located at
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

Secretary and Treasurer, Elm Grove
Mills, Lmcolntou, N. c.
with his hair parted on one side, a
young fellow full Of the Push, Pluck
and Perseverance, that MIR. Samuel
Witkowsky, OF Charlotte, talks about
and put him in the mill to manage it,
and the stock in that mill viii do to
hold. This is the kind Of man Bob
Reinhart was when the Elm Grove Mills
found him at Iron Station and the sue
cess thar has come to the Elm Grove
Mills under his management demon
strates his fitness for this responsible.
position.
Mr., J. f.. Reinhart, the president of
the Elm Grove Mills, is very much the
same kind of a man. He is a man who
adopts practical methods in the con-
duct Of all his business affairs. Like his
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

OF the leading financial institutions of
the State. He is also interested in a
number Of other enterprises and is
everywhere regarded as safe, saga
c;ous conservative tinancier and
strong individual force in the business
affairs of his town and section. Mr..
Spencer is a modest unassuming Chris
tian gentleman. unaffected in manner
or feeling by the successes that have
cn1nn TO him. or by the cOmpetency
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

brother, he is affable, clever and popu-
lar, and year ago when the balance
of the state or nearly all of it went pell
nell into the fusion camp, Lincoln
county, principally because of the pop
ularity OF Jack Reinhart. stood to its
Democratic mornings and sent him as
her representative to the Legislature.
His majority was small but the fact
of his election against a combination
of Republicans and Populists demon
strates the confidence the people had
in him and the great popularity he
enjoys among his neighbors.
The fact is pretty well established
that Lincoln county was the birth
place OF the cotton mill industry in the
State. 1t was only two miles from
LincoInton that Michael Schenck
built the first mill in 1918, that first
plant was hut a short distance from
where the Elm Grove mills are locat-
ed. 1t began with only 70 spindles.
OF this first mill Wheeler in his his
tory Of North Carolina says:
1T was a rude structure, compared
with our modern machinery. The
whole consisting of only seventy-fve
spindles, the iron shafts of which were
made in a blacksmith shop by David
W arlick, who was a superior workman
in his day; and the spools and other
wood work were made by Michael
Beam, a neighbor of Warlick. The
house containing the machinery was
a simple log structure twenty-five feet
square.
The spinning was done by means, of
what machinists call a mule-the
thread being drawn out horizontally
and then wound on breaches. 1t was
then reeIed, and sold as fast as it could
be manufactured at fifty cents per
pound in specie.
This factory was erected and put in
operation by Michael Schenck, who
had emigrated to this country from
Pennsylvania. 1t was placed on Mill
branch two miles east of LincolntOn,
and the first yarn was made in the
year 1915.
This proved profitable enough to
justify Mr.. Michael Schenck in send
ing to Providence, Rhode Island for
more improved machinery, which was
put in operation on the same site in
1918. This, in it's turn, was laid aside,
and Mr.. Schenck in co-partnership
with the late Col. John Hoke, Sr., of
and DR.. Bivings, erected the
large factory"
Major Schencks was "a small begin
ming, but it blazed out a new indus
trial highway, and the old song that
was sung by the old Schenck spindles
has echoed and re-echOed up and down
the hills and valleys of Lincoln county
for more than three quarters of a CEN
fury. I he echo of this old song has
been caught up by the winds that
swept down the slopes of the Blue
Ridge and waited into the different
corners of the State. 1t has been
almost inaudible but al
ways inspiring.
Lincoln county has kept up the
strain and is to-day singing it more
than ever Her thrifty and
public spirited citizens are determined
that the original home of the North
Carolina spindle shall not lose her
cunning. Robt. S. Reinhart is one of
those who glories in his counties past,
and is making interesting history for
those who come after him to read He
is the constant companion of his en-
terprise an untiring worker and is de-
servedly one of the most popular men
in his county.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28
ELM GROVE Mills
MANAGED WITH NSPICVuUS
SUCCESS E5Y ITS POPULAR
TREASURER
ON THE BANKS OF THE CRTRWBA

Rr. II. 8. ReiuhaFdt, the Manager,
Left Successful Mercantile Busi-
uess TO TAKE Charge of the Mills,
and Carried with Him all the ElC-
mems at 6access-.One OF the Most
Popular ysiI Men Managing one OF
the Most Popular Mills in the tate.
If the Elm Grove Cotton Mills, Of
Lincolnton, n. c., were not in the hands
of one of the cleverest and most ener-
getic young men in the State it
would not occupy the position it
does. as one of the most successful
plants in North Carolina, nor would
the product of this plant be so popu-
lar. It's standard yarns numbers las
to 2O's have gained the reputation they
have among the leading yam buyers
of the country, and command as they
do at all times the best value for yarns
of their character. OF course there
are channels, systematic methods, es-
tablished trading relationships be-
tween yarn and warp makers and their
patrons, and the yarn and warp ma
kers of the South especially can, as a
general thing say, why l have no
trouble marketing my entire pro-
duct" And this is generally true OF
North Carolina spinning mills, and
yet you may strike the weaving men
here and elsewhere and you will soon
learn that they don't buy yarn per
plies because it is yarn. They have
their favoritc mills from which to buy
their yarns aE6 teesF favoRsse men
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THE NEW COTTON MILL.
/ Why the Holts Decided to Build "A Big
/ Plant ut Fayetteville.
Fayetteville Observer.

Fayetteville Observer.
At the request of Mr. Walter L. Holt
we have hitherto made no reference to
the negotiations which he and others
have been carrying on for some time
past with a view to establishing cotton
mill here. We arc now authorized by
him to state that they have definitely de
cided to build the mill He is now here
again, perfeatr2 his arrangements.
Now that thio cotton factory is an as
su1ed fact, it is VIII elousl to remem-
b ~ that we owe the coming Of Messrs.
Holt to Mr.. James r. Williams's inhu-
ence and exertious, and also much that
led to their final decision to select Fay
etteyille for its location to Mr. Thcrn-
toms most liberal act in presenting 10
them a deed for the very choicest factory
site to be found anywhere n North Car
DINA.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

Hon. John II. Webster persuaded a
man to go to hear Tom Dixon lecture
in Reidsville promising to refund the
fifty cents if he did not like it. AT
forwards the man said he would not
take $3.50 for it. Those who deny
Tom Dixon great gifts are those who
do not hear him.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-07-11
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.
Furnished by the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union

Furnished by the Womans Christian
Temperance Union
We are glad that we have one alder
man who never votes for saloon IL
|censes.
Pleasant Prairie is to be congratu-
lated that it mas women with grit
enough to prevent the licensing of Il
saloon in their midst
Who pays the nearly twenty thousand
dollars liquor license money in the city
of Kenosha? The saloon keepers In
one sense yes, in another no, but the
wives and children and creditors of
their patrons, the taxpayers who sup
port the paupers and criminals made
by it's use, and lastly, but not least,
every dealer in the necessaries of civil
lied life in the loss of patronage which
would rightfully come to him.
One week ago last Sunday was the
dryest Sunday New York has had for
many years. The police commissioners
rigidly enforced the law against open
saloons and not drop Of liquor was
sold.
At Des Moines June 26 injunctions
were issued by Judge Spurrier against
all eX-saloon keepers and owners OF
property used for saloons restraining
them for further sales of liquor.
At the big bottling works of Mil
waukee they have employed five hun
bred boys and girls ranging in age
from eleven to nineteen years. They
are employed at bottling beer and
there is no limit to the amount they are
allowed to drink. The language the
boys and girls use to each other and
the familiarity between the sexes show
an abomlnable state of affairs.
A writer who is discussing the ques-
ton of drinking and total abstinence
from practical business point of view
and ignoring the moral and sentimental
side, says: Life insurance companies
find the moderate drinker a more dan
gerous risk and his mortality greater,
hence refuse to insure him at ordinary
rates, or at ALL Mercantile agencies
find that business conducted by moder-
ate drinkers is more precarious and
followed by a greater number of fail
ures, hence rate such firms low as to
responsibility. Railroad companies
find that accidents and losses increase
under the care of moderate drinkers
and that the income and stability of
the road are diminished compared with
the same service by total abstainers.
Capital everywhere discovers by figures
and statistics which have no other
meaning, that under the care and con
troll of either moderate or excessive
drinkers, the losses, perils and risks of
business are increased"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-07-11
WHEN THE EARTH WAS YOUNG
1t Absorbed, the Heat That Now, a;
Coal Serves other Purposes.

The average householder this winter
does not pause to consider the fact EMaf
he is keeping his dwelling warm RxH e
heat Of the suns rays which fell upon
the earth millions of years ago. Says
DR.. Homer Greene: 1.-THE solar orb Of
that vanished epoch, bigger than it is
to-day and hotter, brought forth even
in this latitude a tropical vegetation
of wonderful Iuxuriance. Plants Of
strange kinds-moSSes as big as forest
trees and ferns 80 feet in height-greW
up richly from the clayey soil and
formed dense jungles in the vast
marshes which covered large areas of
the surface of this planet. Ferns,
MOSES, and the leaves, branches and
trunks of trees fell and decayed where
they grew, only to make the soil more
fertile and the next growth more lux
uriant. Year after year, century after
century, this process of growth and de-
cay went on, until the beds of vege-
table matter thus deposited had reached
great thickness.
"But the earth's body was still shrink
ing, and in consequence her crust at
times contracted and fell in. When it
did SO the land sank throughout vast
areas. These beds of vegetable matter
went down, and over the great marshes
the water swept again. Over the de-
posits the sand and mud and gravel
were laid down anew, and the clayey
soil from which the next rich growth
would spring was spread out on the
surface. This process was repeated
again and again-as often, indeed, as
seams Of coal in any coal-bed. Thus
the conditions for the formation Of
coal were made complete, atmospheric
air being entirely excluded, while the
vegetable beds underwent the process
of decomposition"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-07-11
REGIS TIERS SHADES.
The Tintometer Valuable Invention. by
an, ISngIisaman.


A wife may now depend upon her nus
band to match "a piece of ribbon, and
she need give herself no concern as to
the result A device, the tintometer, has
been invented, by which various shades
may be recorded so that there can be no
error. The tintometer was recently ex-
hibited in Washington, says the Star.
The tintometer is an invention of J. w.
Lovibond of Salisbury, England. BY its
means the color and brilliancy of any
object may be measured and recorded
so that the tints may be exactly
matched at any future time. The color
test has to some extent replaced chemi-
cal analysis as easier and quicker and
equally certain. It is especially adapted
for testing the purity of ale, beer, and
water, the estimation of carbon in steel,
lead contamination in water valuation
Of flour and other things. It is consti-
tuted of two parallel-sided tubes.
piece of common mirror glass is placed
at the two openings which show the
equality Of light, which must practically
be white light, or as near white as it
is possible to get. There are caps placed
at the bottom of the tubes, used to
measure the glass standards and other
I1ILlG I6CSPldClGS IOI l1GdSUIlIlS IAO1Oo.
The lecturer illustrated different meth
DDS of measuring different materials.
The light of sea fog not contaminated
by other light is the standard white light
most useful in making tests, said the
lecturer. 1t has been found impractical
BILE to measure daylight, electric light
or any direct light, because of the red
ray, but by rejecting it through the
ground glass and opal it may be so mod
flied as to be useful for purposes OF
measurement The tintometer, Mr..
Ward said, was used with excellent re-
suits by ink manufacturers, dyers and
painters. In determining the measure
ment of steel the instrument, he said.
was an invaluable aid. Several lard
companies in England and America
have used it, and so has the petroleum
trust in England. Brewers, sugar re-
finers and winemakers have also found
it useful instrument. For qualitative
analysis, he said, there was no more
accurate test. He said that it had also
been employed in pathological work in
several English hospitals.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-07-11
ny Uses for Mushrooms.

Not only human beings, but cows,
sheep, squirrels, and many kinds of
birds are fond of mushrooms. In many
places mushrooms are dried just as our
grandmothers once dried apples, strung
on strings, and hung from the ceiling
for winter use. Some European species
are used in coloring. One yields a yell
low dye, another an exquisite green
which colors the tree on which it grows;
and from this wood is manufactured
the celebrated Tunbridge ware The
poor people of Fanconia, Germany, dry,
press, and stitch together certain kind
of mushroom, which is then made into
garments; and in Bohemia a large round
toadstool is dried and the inside re-
moved; it is turned bottom upward,
fastened to the wall, and used to hold
a beautiful trailing vine, which grows
luxuriantlJ
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-07-11
The Thunder Snake.

Already a good many specimens OF
the thunder snake have made their ap
pearance in Louisiana. This curious
reptile no doubt belongs to the glass
snake family, which is, properly speak.
ing, a true lizard. In color it is quite 9
beauty, being composed of alternate
rings CT red and white, and the length
is anywhere from six to eighteen inches
TIT. popularity Of this snake lies in its
ability 10 reproduce lost parts of it
BODY The negroes say that thest
snakes faiI e pieces whenever it thun
s..s, hz.- t.7at they afterwards go baol
a~ethe~ a-ain." 50 - at it is practice rs
81 - t5 Ea~t,e-- them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-07-11
HIS MOTHER AS CAMILLE.
Ex-Speaker Crisps Boybood Recollec
tions of the Stage in America

Ex-speaker Crisp's Boybood Recollec-
tions of the Stage in America.
Ex-Speaker Crisp's family was of the
stage. And, indeed, it was this profess
sion of the theaters by his parents
which furnished Sheffield, England, to
the ex-speaker as a birthplace. Both
Crisp's father and mother were Ameri-
cans born and bred. And it was while
his father was fulfilling an English en-
gagement that the leader of the Geor-
gian Democracy was born. Not only
were Crisp's father and mother stage
folk, but his brothers as well. One of
his brothers persisted at the burning
Brooklyn theater many years ago. He
was playing at that theater at the
time. Not long ago Rhea appeared in
Washington in the role of Camille;
Crisp, then speaker of the house, was in
attendance In the interim between the
second and third acts he turned to
gentleman who occupied a seat just
behind him. "This is the first time I've
been to the theater for many months"
said Crisp. cit struck me all at once
that I'd like to see this play Camille.
I haven't seen Camille since I was
mere boy, many years ago. On that oc-
casion my mother played the part Of
Camille, while my father was Armand.
And concluded the speaker, while q
smile settled about the corners Of his
kind, friendly eyes, " tile I would not
claim that my mother was the greatest
Camille that ever lived, [ must say thar
the impression which still dwells With
me is that she played it a great deal
better than does this lady" At thi2
point the curtain went up and the
speaker settled back for the third act
and the clustering memories it brought
in it's train.