The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05

ton Of what two determined indus
trious North Carolinians have done
within a few years. It is monument
to the pluck, energy, business integ-
rity and untiring efforts of its builders
It is a birds eye view of the great plug
tobacco establishment Of two OF the
most successful men that have bent
their energies towards building UP the
manufacturing interests of the State
since the war. The picture is true to
life, it tells of the little unpretentious
home in which r. III. Hanes and Jno
w. Hanes, under the firm name of r.
III. Hanes a. Co, first began manufac-
turing North Carolina rich, waxy weed,
in what was then the little village Of
Winston. It truthfully portrays the
circumscribed building in which the
industry had its birth. Tit does not
hesitate to proclaim that it's early
home and surroundings were humble
and modest when in 1873. r. III. Hanes
and Jno. w. Hanes having just LETT
their homes in Davie county, put them
selves, their energy and their limited
means into a modest manufacturing
establishment, the little building be-
ing only 40x6O feet, and story and
jump high. The picture tells of for
ward movement four years later. in
1877, when another building was erect
ed beside it, two times as big and two
times as high Here from 1877 until
1884 as the picture indicates the bus
mess prospered until it spread out
again and occupied the five-story brick
building on the corner of the street,
here it pushed ahead and prospered I'M
TIL 1890, when it crossed the street and
built an immense six-story brick fac
tory, covering. nearly half block.
There are a few chapters, two at least
in the history Of this business, that the
picture does not portray, they are the
sad chapters In the story and they tell
of a fiery fiend of flames that on two
occasions lit up the sky and sent the
smoke OF srnouldering wealth high up,
until it seemed to shut out the sunshine
of hope and prosperity. Furious, mad
flames which, in July, 1877, and in May,
1892, melted down the buildings and
burned away the wealth that the Hanes
had built. But they were not the men
to grieye over these calamities. The
ground was hardly cold before men
were at work again, under the skillful
direction and undaunted courage of
II. III. Hanes and Jno w. Hanes, re-
building bigger and better buildings,
and refurnishing them with the best,
newest and most perfect machinery.
And almost before the smoke had
cleared away the hundreds Of workers
would march into the new buildings
and the great business of Hanes 1t Co,
would start again in the march of pro-
gress. Men with less grit and determi-
nation might have been depressed and
deferred, but r. TT. Hanes and Jno. w.
Hanes we're not built that way They
are made Of firimer material-theg' are
of sterner build. They had built once
and they could build again. Grit and
energy were the foundations Of the first
building and Of the surrounding build
ings, upon the same foundations new
ones and greater ones could be erected,
and they were erected.
The firm Of r. IT. Hanes 81 Co, was
established ia Dayie county In 1872,
and is composed Of Pleasant II. Hanes
and John w. Hanes, who were born
and reared in the county of Dayie. They
removed their factory to Winston DUR
ing the year 1879. bought property and
erected building, as stated above,
40 by 90 feet, and in this building re
established the business that has, DUR
ing these twenty three years, grown
into the great manufacturing enter