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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-22

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept, 2l.-ollrcrf
Winthrop was sentenced this morning
to NE Imprisonment FOR robbery in
connection with his abduction of
James Campbell. the Hawaiian mill
Innalre. whom he kept q prisoner three
dnys for a 100000 ransom.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-22

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 2l.-Rcp-
resentatives OF the various Womcn's
Relief Corps In and about Cincinnati
met here to-day and decided on an cx-
curslon OF women TO visit Major Nc
Ninley ut Canton, Scptember IS OF %
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BRUSSELS, Sept. 2l.--Thc ilrst COM
mission just appointed by King Leo
pold, for the protection Of the natives
OF the Congo state, Includes Dir. Sin,s,
of the American Baptist Mission.
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Special Dispatch to the lntollIEenccr,
WESTON, w. Va, Sept. ?i.-Captnln
Il. b. Dnvcncr's meeting ut Churchvlle
this afternoon. was the largest ever held
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-22

PHILADELrHlA-BelEenlnad, from
Liverpool.
New York, for Genoa, and proceeded
GLASGOW-Sarm from Montreal,
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For West virginia. Western Pennsylvn-
MIA and Ohio. light local showers followed,
by fair weather: light to fresh northerly
winds; cooler Tuesday night.
Local Temperature.
Tho temperature yesterday as observed
By G. Schncpf. druggist, corner -Four,
tccnth and Market streets, was as FOL.
lows: sssfsf
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more or less, every dollar OF It stands
for II wanton crime. We do not have
TO go far Ia lx tho blame. It was not
the work OF the Republican party.
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less ringlets by breezes sweetened
with the perfume of flowers. The
train had finally rolled into the hust-
ling little city Id the shadow Of the
Blue Ridge, and as her vision fell upon
that grand panorama Of towering hills
q few miles beyond, the poetic prompt
ings of her enraptured soul died strug-
Cling for utterance, and she could
only say, NO words Of mine can de-
scribe It, Mountains to her were new.
TO me they are forever new. This
grand two hundred mile sweep Of the
Blue Ridge, whose shadow falls over
the valley ia which Mount Airy nes-
ties LIS but few. equals III the great
topography Of nature. II is too wild.
too weird, too wonderful, too glor
ious for its beauty to fade or grow
old In early morning, when the stars
have kissed the rocks adieu and gone
to sleep, when the beams Of the sun
unpin the mantle of darkness worn
during the night, it is then they stand
out looking like mighty props. hold
ing up the sky. At midday, the scene
changes, and you look and behold a
great storm in nature "a topographi-I
cal cYcIone-t that has tumbled the
earth into towering phenomena.
When twilight falls, YOU look again.
and behold a mighty army Of mounted
hills striking camp for the night, in
its march across the earth. Look then
bv moonlight, and this great army
has seemingly passed into the sea, and
a mad war is raging between pillows
and peaks, while old Pilot stands down
In the valley looking on as If deeply
tempest These were the scenes that
strangled the utterances of the en-
chanted young lady.
They are scenes that have palsied the
brush of the painter, turned the dream
of the poet into nightmares, and scott
ed at any attempt Of pen to even re
motely portray them. and yet they are
scenes That nature has traced along
grand panorama holder or more beau
tiful than from the charming little
city OF Mount Airy.
Iii is not strange that Mt. Airy has
eeIne to be one Of the most popular
summer resorts in the State for South
ern people, and one of the pleasantest
winter resorts for those who live III
the far North. It's hotels are modern
structures, particularly suited To those
who are looking for comforts and con-
vt,nieneies while OF a pleasure vaca-
zion or in search of health.
Near the town is Bit. Airy White
Sulphur Springs, one Of the finest
springs in America, flowing with clear,
s.sel. sparkling white sulphur water
that has few if any superiors among
natures mineral specifics.
The cool. bracing atmosphere; the
delicious mountain water, needing no
ice Ga the hottest day TO make it pal
atabIa; the lovely scenery spread out
kRae . panorama as you look out from
vote hetel window in any direction;
ks wmding drivsm, bringing you 1t
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mes of manufacturing tobacco. They
knew all about the cultivation of to-
bacco from "a" to So" and they felt
that their knowledge could be profit
ably utilized in making plug. They
did not put on their best clothes and
go to some city and try to organize a
corporation with large capital, with
themselves as kid glove managers at
big salaries. There was a cabin or
hut on the farm, four miles from Mt.
Airy, not much if any larger than the
little hut that Mr.. Washington Duke
used as his first tobacco factory. The
Spargers made their cabin ready for
business, and with few il any modern
appliances, began to make chewing to-
bacco. 1T was a slow process Mt first,
but even from the start it paid better
than anything else they saw in sight,
and they believed from the first day
that there were great possibilities in
it, Their success justified their every
faith. They worked ahead, conscien-
tiously using nothing but the best
weed and manipulating 1t in the best
way, and soon they found ready sale
for more than their small quarters and
small force could turn out. Then
they saw that if they built up great
business they would need more facili,
ties than the country afforded, and
that they must move to some point
where they would have the benefit OF
a good market and other accessories
they could not obtain in their isolated
location. Mt Airy was chosen and
the result shows that the choice of To-
cation was Il wise one. At first they
built in Mt Airy a two story wooden
building but soon the growth Of their
business demanded the immense brick
structures they now occupy.
Draw the contrast between to-day
and 1872! THEM little hut in the
country, with a capacity of a few hun
dred pounds, and two young men with
much industry and little capital eN-
cept willing hands and knowledge Of
tobacco. Nova factory with work
ing capcity of 100000 per year, and
two men who, though older in years
and older in experience, are not yet
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1.-The Homie OFF T0lbao@077F3n@ E@alG6 Resort

The sale of these brands has in
creased every year, and they have
grown in popularity with the dwellers
on the Rio Grande and the oystermen
on Chesapeake Bay. Their three sales
men are among the best men on the
road and know how to sell good tobac-
co to good men The leading brands,
the sale of which has grown most
rapidly are Little Grady" "Old
Tom, IS eli &. S, +" and Free Silver" the
last of which is used largely by the
friends of the white metal
In the establishment Of Hadley &
Smith about three handred thousand
pounds of tobacco are required annual
~, and the quantity required increases
every year. The members of the firm
are both careful, capable and popular
business men, understanding every de-
tail of the business, and devOting their
every energy to it's successful prose
cution They understand how to buy,
how to manufacture, how to sell-the
three essentials in the successful manu-
facture of tobacco. Having mastered
those three things, which must be pres
emit to the manufacturer just as the
Christian must possess the three
graces, these popular young gentle
men have seen their business grow
from year to year. With every in
crease, they have redoubled their en-
erges and their zeal, and have
been alert to keep every brand
up to the Standard of highest merit.
Every one of the one hundred and
fifty people employed by Hadley q
Smith are instructed to use all dill
gAnce to secure the sweetness and
natural flavor, which, from the first,
made their tobacco a favorite where
ever introduced.
Mr. j. A. Hadley, the senior member
Of the firm, is a native of Chatham
county-a county whose history is
blazoned with the honorable deeds Of
illustrious sons. He comes of a family
noted for integrity, business judg-
ment, industry and patriotism. He is
worthy member, and is every day
proving it by becoming one of the
most useful citizens Of the State. He
is a "hustler'- in the sense i'm
which that word is sometimes en-
ployed, but in the sense that he is i'm
dustrious, quick, active and knows
what's what
Mr.. A. f. Smith, junior member Of
the firm, is a native of Guilford county,
man of vim, perseverance, capacity,
and shrewdness. Heis an expert on to-
bacco, having learned all about the
fragrant weed from field to factory.
Tt has been said that the man who
causes two blades of grass to grow
where one has hitherto grown, is
public benefactor. How much more is
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moth plug tobacco works Of Sparger
Brothers. We present herewith a
view of their mammoth factory, which
is five stories high, in which employ
ment is given to three hundred work
crs, who are kept busy every day man
the celebrated brands that
make the name Of Sparger Bros. as fa-
miliar in San Francisco as in North
Carolina. They have daily output Of
four thousand pounds which is
shipped to all points, from Mt. Airy to
Boston in the East, and from Mt. Airy
to the Golden Gate on the West. So
popular is the tobacco made by this
firm on the Pacific slope that they
have foundit necessary to have
branch establishment in San Francis
resident agent in San Francisco with
one Of their best men in charge.
The history of the success Of Sparger
Bros. is a page in the history OF the
state that is bright with encourage
ment to young men. They were not
born with silver spoons in their
mouths, and their present great BUSH
ness did not grow up in night.
Neither did they Inherit it from their
forefathers. What they did inherit
from their father was sterling integ-
rity, strict economy, untiring indus
try, and a determination to succeed.
Twenty-four years ago these two gem
tlemen, Jas. III. Sparger and b. r..
Sparger they were just emerging into
manhood-decided to go into the bust
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half-fedged poets, yainly trying to ex-
pand their wings, has il given the soar
ing inspiration! Even upon me it
flashed the needed illumination, rons-
ing my inventive faculties, so with the
first wreath of gray smoke that curled
up from my pipe and vanished in the
clear wintry sky, / saw my route over
the deIuged causeway."
There can be little doubt that the
tobacco that enabled the traveller to
find way was manufactured right in
Mt. Airy out of the leaf grown, per-
haps, on the very hillside on which be
was sitting.
THE SALE OF LEAF TOBACCO.
The tobacco business in Mt. Airy
may be said to date from 1871 when
the first warehouse was built, and the
farmers of Surry, YadlSin, and Stokes
counties, North Carolina, and Patrick
and adjacent counties in Virginia were
invited to bring their leaf to near
market and get as good prices as when
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den Gate ready to respond to the re-
quest: "Give me a chaw of terbaccer,"
which those coming from the Orient
are sure to make as soon as they land,
Ia 1884. Mr.. Edmund Kirl1e made a
tour through Western North Carolina
and wrote his impressions of the coun-
try and its people to Lipptncott's Mag
azine. One day in SuITy, near Mt. Airy,
he watched a shoemaker scale a cliff
which rises a hundred feet in sort of
broken perpendicularity. TO reach his
journeys end he had to pass by preci-
pice and scale this cliff. How to ac-
complish what seemed so fool-hardy
an undertaking he did not know. and
in his dilemma he drew out his pipe
and filed it with some of the pure
goldenleaf and sat himself down to
think out the solution of the problem.
Let me quote his own words. as he sat
on the rock smoking and Illuminating
as Bill Arp would say.
let who will rail at the delicious
weed. I do not propose to join in the
chorus, for it carried me over thirty
feet of rushing water with scarcely
moistening of the soles of my boots
And how many another has it helped
out Of an even worse dilemma. How
many aching heads has it soothed, how
many wounded hearts assuaged! To
how many sluggish brains has it lent
eloquent expression! To how many
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Mt. Airy has two foundation stones,
either of which alone would make II
q great place. They are not always,
/ may say they are not usually, found
in the possession of one town. The
law of compensation in nature is usual
Nv such that every community must
be content with one special blessing as
men must content themselves with one
talent.
Mt. Airy's twin blessings are:
I. 1t stands in the front rank as
health resort.
.. 1t vies with any as a tobacco
market, and is climbing up with the
biggest as a tobacco manufacturing
center.
It is not that Mt. Airy has only these
things 1t has many-notably it is the
best town in the State for fine apples,
dried fruit, and country produce. Ii
has fine churches, excellent schools,
modern hotels, a citizenship surpassed
nowhere in those virtuous and indus
trious habits worthy of their sturdy
and noble ancestry. But 1t IS its ioca-
ton as a. health resort and tobacco
mart upon which it's chief prosperity
is built, and upon these foundations it
will stand ever increasing IN attTac-
tiyeness and in riches.
mo words of mine can describe IT,
The speaker was a bright, beautiful
young lady who had just alighted from
the train on her first visit to Mount
Airy one day in the early summer OF
1895, and the remark was in reply to
question from companion as to what
she thought of the beautiful country.
She had looked through the window
as the train rushed around curves on
the banks of the Ararat river. She had
beheld for the first time "Oid Pilot,
that grand old God-commissioned sem
tinel, which In earlier ages guided the
old pioneers through Fancy Gap down
the Southeastern slopes of the towering
Blue Ridge and then across the broad
valley between the Yadkin and the Dan.
She had seen buzzard roost, a terrible
cliff in a towering hill. She had passed
under hanging mountains, skiTted
dizzy heights and listened to the never
eeasing song of the smiling river, as
over its rugged bed a million crystal
lyrics hummed in harmony with the
wayelets and the winds.
She had caught, too, the strains Of
the thrush, the wren and the hooking
bird, as they lead in natures wildwood
STE Deun." Her waving blocks of
brown hair had been famed into care
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"Old Chief"
1t is only recently that those gentle
men have engaged in making cut-plug
IT is making friends in Washington
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York,
and other big markets. Without re-
ducing, but increasing their plug for
chewing, they are pushing their
Cream OF North Carolina" and other
plug-cut brands, and it is developing
into a large part of their big business.
HADLEY q SMITH,
This progressive firm of manufac-
turers Of plug tobacco was organized
in the fall of 1890. Tt is located in a
four story building with brick base
ment. of large dimensions, situated
near the G. f. a. y. v. X. r. depot,
From top to bottom the mammoth
factory il thoroughly equipped with all
modern machinery for the manufac-
ture OF their leading brands which
carry solace and comfort to chewers
and smokers.
They have three men on the road
all the time, selling their popular
brands to consumers all the way from
baltimore to Texas. Among their
brands are:
willie G." 8 in. 4 s.
Little Grady" in. $.
"Red June" 7 in. 8.
"Our Pride" 9 in. s., and in 9 s.
sold Times" ~ in. s., and 8 in. 5 S
"Our Reliance" IL in. s. and 0 in. $
s.Red Bird, in. Sc.
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transported a greater distance. The
invitation was accepted, and the early
sales on the floor Of the warehouse
built by Col b. Y. Graves was good
augury of Mt Airy's future big sales.
This warehouse, made or wood, 100 by
40, is still in successful operation, aud
was conducted by Graves and Porter.
Col. p. Y. Graves and G. d. Patterson
are now the popular proprietors.
The second warehouse to be built
was erected in the fall Of 1855. and
opened ia 1857, called the Globe. This
Is q large brick structure, and one of
the best in the State. 1T il 160x70 feet,
and is run by Mr.. Jos. w. Ashby.
The Farmers Warehouse was built
in 1891. 1T il q large frame building,
160x46. Poor. Jessup 81 Son are the
proprietors.
The Planters Warehouse, a splendid
new brick warehouse, was built in
1892. It 10 the largest in Nouns Airy,
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to raise the tobacco that viii pay them
the best; it advertises the advantages
of Mount Airy as a tobacco market:
il seeks To insure to every seller the
highest market price; it concerns it.
self with every phase Of the business.
preserving the amenities between the
seller. the leaf dealer, and the manu-
facturer; and, in a word, pushes Mount
Airy tobacco interests forward. The
members of the Board are given here
as Mount Airy's Roll Of Honor:
MANUFACTURERS parger Bros,
Hadley 81 Smith, Prather q Whitlock
t. w Ashby's Sons, j. d. Satterfeld Il
Co, Fulton Tobacco Company, Wins
ton Mckinney, all of whom carry on
the manufacture in Mount Airy, and
r. r. Gwyn, who manufactures four
miles from town.
WAREHOUSEMEN Brown, Hanes
n Newsom, Poor, Jessup 81 Son, and
JOS. VI. Ashby.
LEAF DEALERS.-Lu Tiiley, r.
N. Brock, Sam Beasley, J. S. Penn, G
B. Keesee, .R. n. Totten, s. G. Jones, G..
s. Summons, Jas. r. Green, G. T..
Brewer a. Co, II. F. Scales, J. w. Crit
fifth, j. R. Paddison, n. T. Smith q Go.
There are no better Judges of the
weed than the dealers and warehouse
men of Mt Airy, most Of whom have
on hand large stocks of well selected
leaf tobacco.
SPARGER BROS.
Whenever anybody speaks Of Mt.
Airy they are sure to think Of the mann
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every turn to some new revelation of
natural beauty; the orchards, lovely
in their flower and fruit, that don the
picturesque biIl-sides; the mountain
ranges, lifting their heads upward to
the sky as sentinels of God-all these
conspire to make Mt Airy an ideal re
sort for the seeker after health and
pleasure, and every year increases the
number drawn hither by these attrac-
tions.
Mt. Airy's other foundation-stone-
tobacco-does not draw visitors to Mt.
Airy, but it draws money from as re-
mote a point as the Golden Gate. A
Mt. Airy man, representing Mt. Airy
manufacturing firm, stands at the Col
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Mr.. smith a public benefactor, having
been able to help manufacture 3O0,ooo
pounds of tobacco right here IN North
Carolina when heretofore it was manu-
featured in other States! lie IS q
splendid gentleman.
These young men are among the
States most energetic, pains-takln@,
and successful tobacco manufacturers.
Their aims and purposes are to supply
their very rapidly increasing trade
with the best grades at fair values.
They are practical young men, imbued
by nature and training with honorable
ideas of business dealing. These things
count for the great success that has all
ready come to them. They insure the
continued growth of their business,
which will grow until they stand easily
among the largest manufacturers in
the South.
JAS. r. GREEN. BUYER OF LEAF
TOBACCO.
Mr.. Jas. r.. Green has been ON the
market Of Mt. Airy for years and is
one of the leading dealers Of the mar
ket Thong a young man there are few
better Judges Of tobacco anywhere than
he. He is a son of John r. Green, 81
Durham, the originator of the famous
Durham Bull smoking tobacco.
Though only % years old he is taking
his stand among the foremost men in
Western North Carolina He is a native
of the city Of Durham, and it was there
he formed a fancy for dealing in to-
bacco and in the past 5 years he has
acquired handsome fortune. He does
a large order business and has all the
modern appliances for handling all his
tobacco, giving him advantage over
many other competitors. He buys
from u to 70 million pounds annually.
He has orders for, and buys most OF
the fine wrappers on the market. Ills
business is continually on the increase
as he believes in fair dealing and never
fills an order without having the privil-
eye of duplicating it.
Mr.. Green began to buy tobacco ON
the market of Mt Airy years ago in
little way and by hard work bbiit
up a trade which any OF the buyers
OF the State might envy and has made
for himself by honest and fair dealing
a reputation second to none and stands
to-day in the foremost ranks, among
the business young men Of North Caro-
( lima.
Durham watches with greet interest
any of her young men who may 20
| elsewhere to seek their fortunes and
make for themselves a name and there
! has not one gone out Of her borders
| whose success is more deserved than
| his. His friends are numbered by the
| hundreds in North Carolina and they
all rejoice at his great success and
| wish for him many years Of success
! vet in handling the weed.
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A. L. SMITH.

200X60 feet and is the best lighted
house | ever saw for the sale of leaf
tobacco. 1T is run by its owner, J. NJ.
Brewer.
The total annual sales of leaf on this
market runs from three and half
to four million pounds, fair portion
of which comes from Virginia. Mount
Airy, doubtless, draws more trade
from Virginia, as well as sells more
Virginia tobacco, than any other
North Carolina town.
THE TOBACCO BOARD OF TRADE.
This is one of Mount Airy's first in
stitutions. It encourages the farmer
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and is one of the largest in the State,
being 20Ox104 feet 1t is run by
Brown, Haynes and Newsom.
In 1898, Hon. j. M. Brewer, who had
represented the district in Congress,
built a large frame building, which is
known as Brewers Warehouse. 1t is