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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05
lWaoh0vBa Storage Vapeh0u@@a E. Coles Leaf Dealer

nable Mr.. Gray is one of the safest
and most prudent, as well as one OF
the most successful, bankers and BUSH
ness men in the State. Mr.. III. A. Shaft
ner, secretary and treasurer, is younger
than the other officers but is not a whit
behind them in capacity and character,
and stands among the honestest and
fittest of the sturdy young business
men of the Twin-cities.
The names of the officers and direc-
tors afford the best guarantee OF the
popularity and strength of the COM
pany It's President is Mr.. #. I'll. Fries;
Mr. James A. Gray, Vice-President;
Mr.. H. A. Shaffner, Secretary and
Treasurer; and w. A. Wilkinson, Man
ager and Inspector The Directors
are Messrs. r.. J. Reynolds, j. W.
Hanes, T. L. Vaughn, CD. Ogburn, j..
G. Buxton, Jas. A. Gray, G. @. Fogle
!. w Fries, N. S. Siewers, j. Il. Gilmer,
w. II. Raglan and +. Fl. Fries. These
names stand for whatsoever things
are honest, progressive, stralghtfor-
ward, reliable and wise in the Pied
mont section of North Carolina. They
have the money and the brains to ac-
complsh whatever they undertake,
and in establishing storage ware
house they have supplied a want that
has been often commented on by the
busy men of the community. The
first year was a big success, and its ca
pacity has been increased.
The business is managed by Mr.. w.
A. Wilkinson, the Inspector and leaf
tobacco commission merchant. His
knowledge of leaf enables him to
know what types are suited to the par
ticular wants of each branch of the
trade and the individual manufacturer
and the market producing the leaf for
specific use. He is personally known
to the dealers of North Carolina and
Virginia, and enjoys their confidence,
He will take pleasure in advising deal
ers OF all sections of North Carolina,
Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee in
regard to the purchasing of particular
stock grown in their respective sec
tioHs best suited to the wants of the
local trade. The sample he draws is
guarantee to both buyer and seller
that it correctly represents the stock
intended. He not only sells to the en-
tire Winston trade, but to the adjacent
factories. and also the West. He will
gladly furnish samples of any type OF
tobacco ina stock to enquiring buyers.
The manufacturers Of Winston and
other tobacco marts have been quick
to appreciate the convenience and value
of the warehouse, and will more and
more come to enjoy the advantages it
affords tothem. They know that Mr.Wil-
kinson understands the needs of the
manufacturers and is thoroughly fa-
miliar with every detail of the business.
This fact has had much to do with the
immediate success of the enterprise.
Mr.. Wilkinson is not only an expe
rienced and capable tobacco man, I'M
derstanding the business thoroughly,
but is also an expert business man,
possessing executive ability OF a high
order. He is as active as he is capable,
and under his management the Wa
choyia Storage Warehouse is rapidly
becoming one OF Winston's greatest
Industrial enterprises.
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Storage Warehouse, it is exposed to
the best market in the State.
Mr.. Frank Fl. Fries, the president of
the Wachovia Loan and Trust Com
panv. is one of the first men in the
State in point of business sagacity and
success. He was the moving spirit and
president of the company that built
the railroad from Winston-Salem to
Ronoake, Va, thus giving to his COM
munity competition in freight rates,
and a through line to the West where
much Of Winston's manufactured to-
bacco is shipped. He is the leading fac
tor in the great development of the
MAYO Dan water power, which he and
his associates will use to make thous-
ands Of gpindles convert cotton into
cloth. But the institution that de-
mands most of his time and his best
thoughts is the Wachovia Loan and
Trust Company. In the North the Gus
tom of having a personal executor or
trustee is going out of vogue, and the
Trust Companies are taking their
places. These companies have two adj
yantages: i. they never die; 2. they
have larger capital and by making
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IT IS 4 WINNER
THE wAcHOvlA STORAGE WARE
HOUSES ADVANTAGES.
1t Was so Successful the First Year i
Had to Eniarge--Its Efficient
Management.

The Wachovia Loan and Trust Conn
pany. of Winston, is great and many
sided institution. Closely connected
AZ II is with the financial life of the
community, it could not be thorough
lv representative of Winston unless it
touched the tobacco business. And it
has come to be one of the most pro-
cressive agencies in the tobacco bust
ness. having erected a storage ware
house for tobacco with capacity of
four thousand hogsheads Of tobacco in
nackages. TT is now prepared to store,
insure. inspect, make advances, and
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WACHovlA STORAGE WAREHOUSE
w. A. Wilkinson, Manager and Inspector.

special business of winding up estates,
acting as trustee, etc, are enabled to
do it more promptly and satisfactorily
than any individual The Wachovia
Is the first company of this character
to be established in North Carolina,
and ii has been successful from the
start. The reason for its success is to
be found in the men who are at it's
head. The name Fries has come to be
Synonymous with probity, business
ability, straightforward dealing and
success. There is no member of the
family In whom these qualities are
more happily blended than in the pres
ident Of this company. The yice-pres-
ident is Mr.. James a. Gray, the cash
Ter of the Wachovias Bank, an insti-
tuition that is roclx-ribbed and impreg-
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RIGHT AT THE FRONT
THE LEAF TOBACCO BUSINESS
OF Mr.. j. &. COLES.
His Complete Leaf Factory is Equipped
With Every Necessary Modern Pro-
cess for rambling the Leaf.

One of the largest and most success
full leaf tobacco buyers on the Wins
ton market is Mr.. j. E. Coles, who
went to "a inston from Danville in 1888.
Mr.. Coles has been in the tobacco bust
ness for twenty-five years; indeed, his
whole life has been practically spent
in the business. He was for eight
years engaged with i. G. Williams q
Co. in Danyille, during which time he
became an expert at buying, grading
and handling leaf tobacco, learning the
business in detail in all it's features,
from packing a hogshead to preparing
strips for foreign trade. He was for
seven years with A. G.. Fuller, of Dam
vile, and here he attained additional
knowledge and experience, both in
handling and manufacturing the weed.
On retiring from the latter firm he
came to Winston, and it was but a
short while before he became an ac-
tive and leading individual force that
has operated on the Winston market.
Mr.. Coles is not only equipped in per-
sonal experience and thorough iudg-
ment for successfully conducting the
leaf business. He has a large and
complete leaf factory,
built of brick and equipped with every
process for the hanging, re
ordering, redrying, packing and ship
ping leaf. His establishment is new
and really one of the largest and best
in the State. He has capacity for cas-
lily handling nearly million pounds of
tobacco and from 25 to so people regu-
larry employed, all kept busy in the
various departments Of his extensive
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Southern Railway Depot in Winston,
with adjoining and adjacent leaf
and dry houses of immense proper
tions.
In these extensive buildings are
manufactured many of enc most non-
, ,,lar brands Of plug and twist tobacco
that go on the maT ;5 Among these
are Old Bob and Big Twenty, each of
which have devotees in all the South
/ ern and Southwestern towns, and are
/ standards of value among the leading
! dealers in more than half a dozen
/ States. Bailey Bros. Best a twelve
\ ounce plug, is par excellence, and it's
friends claim for it that superiority
only attained by applying frst-class
workmanship to the best cuttings of
the famous Piedmont leaf, which for
making a rich, pure and delicious
chewing tobacco stands without rival
in all the vast realm of tobacco culture.
"Eli''is another popular brand. 1t is
possessed of that popular "get there,
Ell" characteristic, and it gets there
at nome and abroad.
With Ell" goes "Ellen Fisher" a
fine chew in all the most up-to-date
styles, each embossed and each a ready
seller.
These and many other popular
brands of Bailey Bros. grow in favor
with tobacco dealers and tobacco users
year in and year out.
1t takes now over three quarters of
a million pounds of the famous Pied
mont leaf per annum for Bailey Bros.
factory, nor has the meridian of the
business yet been reached.
In the hands of such energetic and
experienced gentlemen, whose rule is
to make every box of tobacco a sample
box, and every plug a sample plug, the
Bailey brands will continue to invade
new States and new towns. taking
with them the peculiar and delight
full natural flavor of the Piedmont
Carolina leaf, and making new friends
for their progressive makers, and new
fame for the hustling city from which
they hail
Bailey Bros. have a corps of tourists
who are among the most popular of
the hundreds Of clever drummers who
travel the South. Mr.. III. d. Leak,
clever Winstonian, takes in western
North Carolina and a portion Of South
Carolina.
Mr.. j. b. Smith, who was formerly
Reidsville's popular mayor, carries the
Bailey brands to a large portion of
Georgia and into Alabama and Florida.
Mr.. III. ID. Martin, native of the old
Dominion, finds hundreds of apprecia-
tive Georgia buyers. Mr.. IT. MI. Hendon
finds friends for the Bailey tobaccoes
IN part Of Alabama and in Mississippi
Mr.. w ID. Dean, a clever young gentle
man from Kernersyille, carries the pop
llar plug away down in Tavas vubere
live some Of the firms largest buyers.
NIessrs. j. X. Morrison and w. b. Will
son cultivate rich territory in East
Virginia, Eastern North Carolina and
: part OF South Carolina. Mr.. Chas. w.
Wilkins is the resident salesman for
.he city of Charleston, S. C.
All over this vast territory are the
Baileys through their clever represen-
-atives planting their favorite brands
and reaping a well merited harvest
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sell leaf tobacco. 1t sells all grades
of North Carolina and Virginia leaf
and scrap, Burley, Tennessee brights
and Grant Point Perique.
The advantages possessed by the Wa
cboyia Company are very many. 1t is
ofTieered by the representative BUSH
ness men Of Winston-Salem. Among
its Board of Directors are found the
leading tobacco manufacturers Of Inc
Twin cities, as well as the leading bus
mess and professional men IN other
channels. Being located IN the
midst Of forty or more active tobacco
factories, and of easy access to the
large number in the immediate vicin-
ity. it furnishes guarantee TO dealers
in leaf tobacco at other points, that in
shipping tobacco to the Wachovia
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BAILEY BROTHERS.
CORNER STONE UPON which,
THEY HAVE BUILT A GREAT
BUSINESS.
Fer Twenty Years This Firm Has Been
Steadily Increasing and Their
Brands Growing in
Popularity.

One of the strongest teams in VIM
ston's galaxy of plug tobacco makers
is the well known firm of Bailey Bros.
This establishment is built on four
substantial corner-stones-exp experience,
integrity, progressive ideas, and hard
work. The firm is composed of Messrs.
Phillip N. Bailey and Mumford ID. Bal
ley, two of the best types of that long
list of enterprising natives of Dayie
county, who have gone out into the to-
baeco world and made fame and for
tune in the manufacture of the weed.
Thirty years Phillip n. and NJ. d.
Bailey went into the tobacco factory of
Bailey & Dulin in Dayie county, they
were mere boys. but they held re-
sponsible positions, one becoming the
business manager, the other the super
intendent of the manufacturing depart
ment. They mastered the business of
manufacturing tobacco and in IA UNI
der the firm name of Bailey Bros. they
became the successors of Bailey d
Dulin, and for these twenty years the
business of Bailey Bros. has been
steadily increasing and their brands of
tobacco steadily growing in popular
favor. From Dayie county they moved
their factory to Statesville, m. c.,
where they were located for ten years.
In 1880 they removed again, this time
to Winston. Forsyth's capital city was
not then the great storm centre of the
South's plug factory industry that it
is to-day, but it was bending its ener-
gies in that direction. The Baileys
have been potent individual forces in
giving the hustling young city this dis
tinction. They are both practical men
and men of vim, energy and industry.
They belong TO that class of men who
believe that reputation built on true
and genuine merit is the most lasting,
that a business built on strict business
integrity and fair dealing is the most
substantial, and that fame or fortune
that comes as a result of honest toll
is most conducive to the happiness of
its possessoF.
The Baileys are well matched and
in the person of one or the other is a
master Of every detail Of an extensive
manufacturing establishment.
MR.. PHILLIP NJ. BAILEY.
Mr.. Phillip n. Bailey is careful, sys-
tematic and patient manager of Office,
factory and other interior matters. He
was reared in the midst of the growing, |
curing and handling Of the golden weed /
he has a thorough knowledge of it in /
adj its growing, curing and handling /
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phases from the sun-kissed plant bed
on the south side of Dayie county hill
to the power press, which shapes,
presses and embosses it into
popular styles of plug in his
own factory. The hours spent
in routine work in his factory and
In his office, which to some would be
tedious, are to him pleasure, excelled
or equalled only by the hours spent
around his fireside at home. He is
most affable and urbane gentleman, al
ways busy, but always considerate and
clever lie has such pleasant way
of conducting his business affairs that
although they are intricate and exact
ing, he never seems in a great hurry,
and has at all times pleasant moment
for q social or business caller. Mr.
Bailey is public spirited citizen, and
his brain, his time, and his money are
frequently drawn upon iD the interest
OF his town and community. He is
kind and considerate employer, and is
greatly beloved by the two hundred
and more people who are ia his em-
ploy.
Mr.. M. D. BAILEY.
Mr.. Munford d. Bailey is most COM
petent and aggressive worker, anil /
you find him in the factory,
in the Office, in the leaf department, on
the warehouse sales, you are sure to
find him actively and intelligently en-
gagged. He lis a. constant attendant on
the warehouse sales, is a thorough +
Judge of tobacco, and lively buyer on
all the Winston warehouse floors,
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The purchase of Mr.. Coles are not
confined to any particular grade or
class Of leaf He buys, and buys largely
Of all grades of the weed, including
wrappers, filters, cutters, Tugs, etc. Mr..
Coles is most excellent gentleman, a
genial, lively friend, and popular with
his companions in the tobacco bust
ness and with his associates generally.
He lives in the sunshine, not in the
shadow, and his countenance is never
clouded. Kindnesses and courtesies
from him to a friend is the friends for
the asking, and the greatest respect
and consideration for the stranger
whom he meets, either in business or
social intercourse. "A town or com
munity filled up with such genial
spirits as J. Z. Coles would be doubly
blessed. With such men it is a pleas
ure to mingle; and at all times il can
be nothing short Of a pleasure to have
business dealings with them. Per-
haps Mr.. Coles success as a buyer and
shipper of leaf tobacco is in a measure
due to these characteristics. And
when these are combined with thor
ough knowledge and experience in leaf
handling, his success can easily be ac-
counted for.
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interest of his patrons. He is not only
one of Winston's leading tobacco men,
but he is one of those enterprisinv and
public spirited citizens who have made
the town one of the liveliest and most
rapidly developing industrial centres
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establishment. Mr.. Coles is one of the
largest buyers on the Winston market,
buys largely on order for number of
the country's leading manufacturers
and dealers. He is one of the most
regular attendants on the warehouse
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administration Of the affairs of his
county; under his immediate super
vision the new county court house is
being erected, and it's largely due to his
efforts that the county is to have a
new and magnificent court house
building
Bailey Bros. occupy a commodious
brick building, situated near the
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help to make famous throughout the
world North Cardinals wonderful
weed
The Bailey's are among the most
valuable citizens of the Twin cities.
They are busy men with their own
multitudinous duties, but they find
time to give, fostering the interests
of their town and county Mr.. M. d.
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cessful manager of general business
affairs, and stands ID the front ranks
Of the States most successful and most
young manufacturers. He
has ripe experience. has mastered the
science OF tobacco manufacturing,
and shares with his brother the honors
that comes to firm of young North
Carolinians, who by dint of pluck and
Evening journal., 1896-02-17
rhn Onn.t nnnrdn

Winter weather on the Atlantic coast
and the Great Lakes has already resulted
10 moro than usual loss OF life aud
property this year There has so far
been no reason to doubt bat the crews Of
the life saving stations have done thelr
bost with the facilities az their command,
but we are forced to admit that neither
their numbers nor equipment have been
sufficient to meet the demand made
upon them by the stormy elements OF
our oceans. seas and lakes
The attention Of the government has
been called frequently to the needs Of
this heroic servics. which It Is now
apparent should be doubled in numbers
This Ia not a matter whore money that
c7uld be used to an advantage should be
saved for parsimonious reasons, and
Congress, nov In session, cannot do
better than to provide more men, better
pay and larger life saving equipments
for this department
Evening journal., 1896-02-17
The Nicaragua Canal.

Il Is TO be regretted that there is 50
greata differences In the esslmatts between
the Board Of Engineers, appointed BY the
Government. and thoss OF the canal
company The Government board was
composed Of Lieutenant Colonel VIII
liam Ludlow. U. s. A.; Mordsoal
Endicott, o. s. N, and Alfred
Noble, a representative Of the civil
engineers OF the country. Those govern
ment engineers were not able. In
the time they spent In Central
America, TO accomplish what wta
expected Of them. They sailed
from Mobile on Nay z, and we're back IN
New York on July 81 an interval Of ten
weeks, It being then hoped that they could
supply adequate data to enable ths pres
ent Congress to plan for the imuedIats
resumption OF work on the canal. IL is
great dlsappointment therefore to
learn from thsss engineers that they
cannot supply the necessary spec.fca-
tions for this gigantic project unless
they are given eighteen months moro
time, 30 as to cover two dry ssssons, at
sn additional expense OF 1850 600.
No one unscquainted In a techalesl
manner with this vast enterprise has q
right to critlclse the acts and the advice
Of these able engineers. but It will DO a
cause for disappointment to the people Of
the country, who hoped that actual work
could be begun this coming Summer on
tho canal. Whatever It may cost, pro-
vided the money Is honestly spsat, the
United States is pretty we'll determined
to build 1t and pay for It. without foreign
help The resources Of this country
have been recently exemplidsd by the
subscription within few weeks OF over
$500 600. 900 for government loan.
which is certainly pretty gosd proof Of
cur ability to bring the canal to salts 3
factory conclusion without calling upon
others for help.
Evening journal., 1896-02-17
THE PENINSULA PRESS.
what the Delaware and Eastern Bhorl
Editors Arc Thinking or.

What the Delaware and Eastern Shore
Editors Are Thinking or.
How would the editor Of the Every
Evening do to edit the Pail Mall Gazette
He has made a good hit on the Ventz le'a
matter We think he would hll the posi-
tlon and the sslsry OF $2l, OOo.-Dally
Republican.
When Seustor Smith, Of New Jersey.
told the United States Senate the best
thing Congress could do would be 70
adjourn and 60 home, he was utterlng o
painful truth and 20 recognized by the
press Of the country. Senator Smith
might have extended his advice TO the
Maryland Legislature with equal htness
--Elkton Cecil Democrat
J. Edward Addiclxs is not and will
not no a candidate for governor The
only office for which he Is candidate is
that of United States Senator. State
sentinel
Republicans eau trass their Demo
ocrhtlc friends In any or all bnslness
trauaections and Vice versa aud why
not rise above the ncrrowness OF the
bitter partisan feeling aud let the whole
PEOPLE Of the State Of Delaware make her
constitution2-Sa Sussex Republican.
Republicans can derive small comfort
from Democratic dissensions over free
silver coinage The RspDblican party Is
about as hopelessly divided onithis ques-
tlon ss a party well can ba.-Eyers
Evening.
Eastern shore men, as re have alwaYF
csntende6, felt that the time hoaorea
Law should bs respected and that 80
should have been repoaIsd before eleciing
senator from outside, no matter wha'
his qualifications The little incident At
Annapolis last week showed that tho
member from this district WAS fully
qn2l to the occlsion aud that he had the
courage to staui up Tor his c,nTictiens.
-Elatcn Appeal.
The action. or non-sctIon: Of this grand
jury, In ignoring the bills against the
irregular street meat dealers does not,
By any means. have the effect Of &
decision il their favor, further than It