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

sessed of genuine merit. They are the
gradual accumulations of days and
nights of intelligent, practical and tire
less work. The mammoth buildings IN
which the establishment Of Z. ii. Hanes
6s Go. has it's home to-day have been
built and equipped with the dollars that
have been the annual fruitage OF this
thrifty, industrial plant. The acres
of floor space on which 600 people ey-
cry day manufacture North Carolina
golden weed, were paid with these same
kind Of dollars. These 600 people who
make this tobacco into popular styles
and shapes for the trade, are paid their
weekly wages with the dollars that an
appreciative public gives as tribute
10 honest work and meritorious pro-
duct.
The many thousands Of dollars paid
by this firm to the tobacco farmers of
Piedmont North Carolina for the two
and a half to three million pounds Of
leaf tobacco that is required in their
factory each year, are distributes paid
by the consumers of tobacco through
out the country, through Messrs. L. IL.
Hanes Il Co. to the men who, with such
care aud attention cultivate and cure
the best leaf tobacco that is grown IN
the world
Mr.. p II. Hanes, the senior member
Of the firm of r. H. Hanes d Co, is
an affable, exceedingly pleasant and
agreeable gentleman, who, by his
genial manner and kindly disposition
has made himself popular, not only
among his immediate associates, but
with very large circle of business and
social friends all over the country
Mr.. Hanes is small of statue, quick in
his movements, unassuming in manner,
modest in dress, open and frank in con-
versing with friends. He is a typical
North Carolinian and is enamored of
no such thing as ''frills," or aristocratic
habits or ideas. He is ACKNOWLEDGING
business man, and keeps in touch with
the business world. He is q master of
the art of tobacco manufacturing in
all it's details; is one of the best judges
of tobacco, either in leaf or in plug, that
is engaged in the business. He has
travelled very extensively in the inter-
est of his firm knows his trade in per-
son, and is sad to be one of the best
statesmen that ever went on the road.
His thorough knowledge of the value
to tobacco, either leaf or in plug,
that goes into it, and the cost of the
workmanship necessary to produce the
manufactured article, equips him for
quick trades on big round lots of plug
and twist, and his contracts on many
of his short trips figure away up in
the hundred thousands. Mr.. Hanes is
not only d successful manufacturer,
but he is a pushing, public-spirited
citizen, a valuable individual force in
his town and community, q charitable
citizen and worthy gentleman. Mr..
Hanes is q consistent member of Cen
tenary Methodist church in Winston,
regular in his attendance upon its
meetings, and liberal supporter of the
church and its institutions.
MR.. JOHN w. HANES.
Mr.. John w Hanes is one Of the
busiest men in Winston. He is one Of
those kind Of men who rather do a
thing himself than to wait for some
body else to do it, and If it were physi-
calIy possible for him to do the entire
work connected with his mammoth es-
tablishment, he would take delight in
doing 1T. lie is d thinker as well as a