The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-10-07
DEATH OF MAI. LEWIS GINTER.
The Great Cigarette Manufactu rer
AMI Capitalist Dies at His Home
Near Ric hmOnd.

The Great Cigarette Manutactu rer
ami Capitalist Dies at His Home
Near Ric imOnd.
Reference was made in these col
urnns last week 10 the critical III ess
Of Mai Lewis Gintcr, the we'll known
cigarette manufacturer and capitalist,
Of Richmond, Va. He died at his
country residence, "Westbrook,' near
thai city, at II:2o O'Clock Saturday
night, aged - years.
The death Of Maj. Ginter will be
sincerely deplored by all who kno"
him, while his loss 10 the business IN
tc7e5ts OF Richm md and vicinity IS
lncaIculable. For he was more than a
great and successful cigarette mana
facturer. He was largely interested and
prominently connected with many OF
the greatest business enterprises OF his
CITY. such for instance as the Rich
mond Locomotive and Machine works,
the Jefferson Hotel, in both Of which
he was a large stock holder and dl-
rector, the Virginia Dredging Com
pany, and numerous other smaller en-
terprises; and it was not alone as
cigarette manufacturer that he amasse1
his fortune Speaking Of him the
Di5batCh says edltorlal'y:
Death could not have torn from
Richmond more useful or beloved
citizen than Mai I,=vIs GInter was.
He was not merely rich man. He
was a great pubic benefactor. In
| business enterprises, IN private char
ties, IL help extended struggling youth,
| in aid to educational and eleemosy-
nary Institutions, ne showed a noble
spirit and princely hand.
Great factories and a palatlal hotel
in this city and marvellous improve
ments made by him at and about
Westbrook, in Henrico Will be pointed
TO as special monuments Of his public
spirit. But these are not all Of the
memorials Of him that exist. Many
an orphan child, many distressed
widow, many a poverty-strlcke vet
eran, many youth, struggling for an
education, many a young business
man fighting tiercely to keep his head
above water, as 1t were, will to his last
day cherish the memory of this up
right, transformations and generous
gentleman.
Major Glnter was native of New
York, but came to Richmond when
quite young man and engaged in
mercantile business.
At the breaking out of the war ne
entered the Confederate service and
rose to the position of major in the
quartermaster department, beng al
ways in front and showing his gal
lantry on d number Of occasions.
After the war he returned to Ne"
York and engaged in the brokerage
and banking business until the cele
brated "Black friday when he me
with disaster.
He then came back to Richmond
and III association with the late ohr
+. Alien commenced tine manufacture
of cigarettes, Ike concern finally going
mo the American Tobacco Company
NOT CONFINED TO THE SOUTH.
Human nature is pretty much TIKI
same irrespective OF geographical lines
The people of the North and Yves
talk fluently about the treatment of tn,
negro IN the South-hIs not being &C
corded his Just ri ghts when there is
objection to the practice of socia
equality-but when it comes home Il
them it is quite a different matter
They then act very much on the same
line as the people of the South do
only they are more violent and bite
toward the negro than the Southern
whites are. Take the cases in Alton
ILL.,, and Chicago for example, anC
that at Ansonia, Conn. There a negro
Thomas NJ. Ellis, entered the public
school, and white boys cut off his hal
and whitewashed his face, suhiectins
him to cruel treatment and endanger
ing his eyesight. The whites objected
to the presence of the negro in schoo
and took this method of manifesiin@
it. As the Asheville citizen says:
The objection to mixing the race
is evidently not confined to the South
it is grounded in a natural feeling anC
cannot be removed. Even in En-. land
during the Queens jubilee, nothing
gave So much trouble as where to en-.
terrain the black soldiers in He
Majesty's service. None of the whit,
troops would associate with them, ant
were entirely Indifferent as to whethe
they were fed or housed.
TIE good name OF the State 0
North Carolina has been dishonoreC
and dlsgraced by the development
concerning the conduct of one Of it
; trusted officials. 1t seems almost in