The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-24
WINSTON FACTOAIt
Growth of Tobacco aoa Nee
Growth ofthe Towns
go ACRES OF FLooR-spAc1
Sketches of Leading aanniaoa
turers and Their planta'
sALsM-wlNsroN COUNTRYSIDE
Dissertation of the Handsome New
Court-h4ouse~-Old Waughton and
Its Famous Wagon Recalled
Warehouses and Leaf Trade.

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respondence. There is sort of hop,
skin and a jump in the business atmos-
phere that envelops North Cardinals
famous twin cities that soon clears it OF
the effects of defeat or disappointment.
A little while ago Winston was sorely
grieyed over the defeat Of one of her
foremost and most thriving citizens. She
feels. of course the disappointment yet,
but the spirit Of push and energy that
invades the busy mart Of the golden
weed has reasserted itself and its thou
sands OF people are once again pushing
along in its never ceasing march OF pro-
gress. Winston is to-day more than ever
the South storm centre of plug to-
baeco making and with the close OF
every season a greatly increased volume
of business adds to its distinction along
this line. This is truly tobacco town
and will forever remain SO.
As long as the world appreciates
the purest and best that grows
in all the realm of tobacco Gull
ture this Piedmont section Of North
Carolina viii carry the banner and so
long as the trade seeks the best results
from the most thoroughly systematic
methods of manufacturing tobacco these
w IDSLOn men WALL uG Ill tic
Tobacco manufacturing is a science
and these men are, by instinct training
and experience masters of that science
and for this reason you will find brands
of Winston tobacco in trading centres
from one end of this country to the other.
1t is this great scope OF trade that has
made Winston famous. 1t is this vast
volume Of business that has converted
small unprententious factories into i'm
mense plants in every portion of that
city, the magnitude of which almost daz-
zIes the eye. 1t is this extensive bust
ness that has built up in this favored
town great blocks of slightly and impos-
ing buildings.
1t has graded and paved these beauti-
full streets 1t has built immense store
houses and bank buildings, and peopled
them with leading traders and successful
fnanciers. 1t has erected mammoth
office buildings and attracted as tenants
leaders in every profession. 1t has built
costly churches and school buildings of
the most pleasing architecture and
secured many of the States most talent
ed preachers and teachers.
1t has linked the past with the present.
The historic old town of Salem, with
century and a half of charming history
with the new busy mart Of Winston
infused into each, the widely different,
but the delightful characteristics OF the
other. 1t is the famous North Carolina
golden weed that has done all Of this.
The handling, manufacturing, selling
and shipping of this North Carolina pro-
duct has so expanded that to-day more
than fifty solid acres Of floor space has
been dedicated to its use in Winston
alone in buying, stripping, storing, manu-
featuring and shipping. Tobacco is one
of those things that builds big when it
builds at all: it wont live long in circum-
scribed quarters. 1t seems to have ma
turai tendency to spread out and the
immense factories that dot almost every
section of Winston are towering evil
dences OF this fact
The mammoth plant of Bacon Bros.
Co., OF which the second genera
ton are now the active managers
has grown and grown until it spreads
ever whole block OF the city.
Across the way is the establishment of
Bailey Bros, from out Of which goes enor-
NOUS shipments to all sections of the
country.
A block away is the dazzling, seven
story new factory of +. III. Hanes & Go.
ings, former homes OF this progressive
firm, and all of them combined are now
hardly adequate to the demands of this
mammoth concern.
Across another street is Mr.. Phillip
Hanes, successor to the late B. L. Hanes.
whose high grade OF tobaccos have added
fame to Winston and to the State, and
then comes the two towering buildings Of
the r.. j. Reynolds Tobacco Company,
with half dozen immense storage and
leaf houses, in which is made annually
several millions of pounds of the popular
''R. j. r." plug and smoking tobacco.
On another block is the two six-st0ry
brick buildings occupied by that stirring
young firm OF young manufacturers,
Brown Il Williamson, two OF the Invest
and most successful young manufacturers
that the State contains, adding this year
nearly million pounds to their already
enormous output.
A block from this establishment is the
extensive plug and smoking tobacco works
Of w. b. Ellis & Co, at the head Of which
ia Mr.. w. B. Ellis, one of the Invest and
most successful Of the younger manufac-
turers.
Then there is the young but buoyant
establishment Of Casey & Wright, push
ing their popular brands of plug into a
commanding place in the tobacco world.
Over in Salem is the Casper Tobacco
Company, one of the Invest concerns in
the Twin City.
On another side of Winston we find
the pioneer establishment, the oldest and
one of the biggest and best. Over the
door is the familiar lame Of 7. L. Vau-
CHAN & Co. The senior partner of this
firm while not yet old, either in appear
ance or in years, is the father Of plug
tobacco making in Winston.
Near this factory is long row OF mann
moth six-story brick buildings, where we
find such progressive firms as Locket
Vaughan & Co, Dalton q Ellington, Og
burn, Hill 81 CO., Hamlin, Lupfort d Co.
and the venerable j. A. Biting.
A few blocks away is the progressive
firm of manufacturers, Dalton, Farrow 4
Co, while over another street we fn(
such well known and successful firm:
as N. S. & r. J. Wilson, G.. A. Ogburl