The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05
ONLY TWO YEARS Old
BROWN AND WILLIAMSON STEP
PED TO THE FRONT AT
ONCE.
The Popular Proprietors Began With
Long Experience and Business Ab'l-
ity--They Had no Probation
to Serve.

s.If was asked TO select the young
concern, which in my opinion, is going
to take the lead quickest in the manu-
featuring industry of Piedmont North
Carolina, should name the young to-
bacco manufacturing firm OF Brown d
Williamson, of Winston" was the re-
mark a prominent gentleman made to
me in a hotel corridor some weeks ago.
This gentleman's opinion had probably
been formed from his knowledge of
the wonderful success already attained
by this stirring young firm. It has
only been two years since this firm was
established. and these two years have
been years of business inactivity, not
to saw general depression, and yet the
annual product of this hustling young
firm is nearing the million pound
mark.
Mr.. Geo. T. Brown and Mr.. Rob't i.
Williamson are the young gentlemen
composing the firm of Brown & Will
hanson. and to a man who knows
them the great success that has atten-
ded their departure in plug and twist
making is not a surprise.
The gentleman quoted above, re-
marked In the same conversation that
whenever this country got to that
point where such young men as Geo.
Brown and Bob Williamson, with their
characteristic energy and business
training could not make q big success
out of an enterprise, it was time for
the balance of rs to be packing our
grips for some other country
The firm of Brown Ii Williamson was
organized just two years ago. Had the
business Of manufacturing tobacco
been new to them, Ii would probably
have taken these two years TO have
properly acquainted themselves with
It's many important details, but while
they were young men, they were ex-
perienced tobacco men, indeed they
both had grown up In tobacco facto-
ries.
Mr.. Geo. &. Brown il son OF the
late Rufus d. Brown, who was Tor more
than thirty years member OF the frn
of Brown Bros, of Winston, and one
of the most successful manufacturers
the State ever produced, and one q the
cleverest and most valuable CITIZENS
the State possessed. Mr. Geo. Is.
Brown. therefore, inherited q natural
tact for the business. He has been
during his early years thoroughly
schooled IN every department. OF man
ufacturing establishment. His father
was his tutor, and he taught him with
chat care and consideration that only
4 father can give.
It has never been custom or the
Browns to have somebody else do all
their work, they do the most important
part Of it themselves, nor did they
learn their boys how to have some
body else do the important work. Mr.
Geo. Il. Prown learned the important
lesson Of pulling off his coat and doing
effective work in every department
Of q tobacco factory, from rolling the
leaf into shapes for plug or twist to
carefully buying the leaf In large
quantities on the warehouse floors. 1t
is on leaf tobacco sale where mans
Judgment nndergoes the seyerest test.
ii is here the basis for good quality
of manufactured tobacco at reasonable
values is first laid.
1t is on the warehouse floor in the
midst OF thousands of piles Of leaf to-
bacco. varying in value from one dollar
per hundred to fifty dollars per hum
dred, where d mans knowledge Of to-
bacco is soonest ascertained.
Mr.. Geo. T.. Brown is q recognized