Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-05-01
CHICAGO AND The SOUTH.
THAT SINGLE CITY HAS 222
FURNITURE FACTORIES
EMPLOYING $4,000
HANDS.
TURE THE FURNITURE OURSELVES
THAN TO SEND THEM OUR
FINE WOODS IN NAT
URAL. STATE FOR THEM
TO WORK UP

r at is for the best interest O
our southern hardwood manufac
turers and handlers to cultivate
friendly relations with Chicago
so far as possible, and to endeavo1
TO institute reforms in the STYLE
of inspection and grading there
Ill, as also to encourage those be-
ing instituted from time to time
even though they be crude and
OF not much success III a business
point of view. The leading
reason foi this is a purely selfish
one. Our best southern dealers
have or can have full stocks Of
the best qualities of the finest
furniture woods in the market.
Chicago is rapidly coming to the
front as manufacturing center
Of all grades and kinds of furni-
ture. Formerly the especially
fine grades of furniture were
made only in the eastern facto-
lies, now large portion Of this
trade is coming to Chicago.
Chicago is also drawing from
Grand Rapids and from Rockford
i'll the higher lines of the furni-
ture working.
There are now in Chicago 223
concerns engaged exclusively
and entirely i'll the furniture
manufacture, this is those who
are solely in that business and
not those who take it up as side
line, of which there are a NUNS
Der, nor does it include those in
the upholstering business. In
good times, when the trade is
brisk, there are about $4,000
hands employed all around i'll the
furniture business in Chicago.
This comes very near to placing
that city III the front rank in the
furniture manufacturing line
Until the South turns it's atten-
ton toward the making of fine
furniture, which it does not at
present, it would be we'll for Our
dealers having fancy hardwoods
% cultivate the Chicago furni-
.ure makers. '-Tadesman.
The above clipping from one
IF the leading tradelperiodicals of
he South contains statements
which it would be we'll for
people of the South, for people
If North Carolina, for people of
our own city to ponder. One
1orthern city employing 1000
lands in manufacturing furni>
ure and getting its lumber
rom the South! And the South ,
ldvised to cultivate the trade!
1t may be we'll that there is s
his market for our lumber and t
his large and growing demand
or it. But would 1t not he in>
lnitely better if we manufactured ,
he furniture ourselves and rentI
hem that instead of sending our J
inc lumber. Suppose there were |
5000 hands in the whole State
If North Carolina employed ex-
in manufacturing lum> E
difference it would i
make in the prosperity of the
:apitalist-the working men and {
he business men. Indeed, what
lass is there that would not feel
he glorious effects of such bust
less activity as would result.
We want to see large attention
,aid to manufacturing of every
lind. No community can ex-
)ect to attain to that eninence
II the industrial which it might {
occupy that neglects SO important {
branch of human effort.
If 223 furniture factories cain
,e made to pay in Chicago where
he furniture is made out Of I'M |
ported lumber, why cannot one
,e made to pay in Eastern North
Carolina where we have the fine /;
woods in variety growing in
in the vast forests all :
round us?-Newbern 1ouyHak