The news & observer., 1897-08-28
MATTHAI-INGRAM co.

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a mammoth stock could stand the daily
drain.
MATTHAI-INGRAM co.
| Another sage-in service at least OF
the Tarheels in Baltimore rs my Old
friend John r. Morris, who has been for
twenty-One years connected WIN
the tinware establishment of the
Matthai-Ingram Co. During these
twenty years John Morris has
told more funny stories, wrote
more real humor and sold more
tinware than any man who has Travelled
in North Carolina. He is general IA
vorite among the business men of the
State and he is one of the brightest and
cleyerest men that ever went on the
road. l found Mr.. Morris at the office
and sales department of his hrm on
Hanover street. This department covers
the entire ground floor of the immense
building at 100. Ill and 113 Hanover
street. and is one of the handsOmest Of
fee and salesrooms in America, newly
Il huilt and trimmed throughout in native
maple.
When Mr.. Morris first went with TINS
house. twenty-one years ago, the firm en-
Ithey employ 1000, and it is probably
the largest tinware manufacturing es-
ltablishment in America. The factory is
located on the southwestern SUBURBS or
Baltimore on the main line of the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad and covers the
entire block bounded by Ohio avenue
Light Winder and Bond streets, the
factory buildings have in them about
ten acres of floor space, and every part
| of it is utilized in the manufacture.
packing and shipping of tinware, and
their celebrated greystone Enameled
| Iron ware.
went, accompanied by Mr.. Morris,
through this great factory. L walked
about over this ten acres of floor space
| filled with machinery and men, the very
best of each-machines that by the mere
touch of which tin plate and other sheet
metal IS cut and fashioned
into any kind of household
utensil. and men whose genius is
Icrimped and carved into these utensils in
a thousand ways. l saw the busy ma
chimes grinding out cups, buckets, coffee
pots, basins. oil cans and everything else
that is made from sheet metal, and then
saw them FURNISHED and garnished and
enameled and galvanized-painted and
ornamental in all of the latest designs,
and made ready for shipment into every
nook and corner of the country. l was
surprised to find in Baltimore
the largest tin works and enam-
eled iron ware manufacturing
establishment perhaps in the world, and
/ was more than interested in the won
derful mechanical devices that have been
invented for the manufacture of these
wares.
1t is said that America is the great
est tin using country in the world. 1t
must be so, or else no such mammoth es
tablishment as the Matthaic-Ingram Co.
could be built up here, and all of it done
in about a quarter of century
Mr.. Morris. the North Carolina repre-
sentative of the firm, came when 1t was
young and unpretentious. He has seen II
as it has been extended and broadened
into its present mammoth proportions.
He has been a potent force in its up
building, and while the establishment
sells it's goods in every State and terri
tory in the Union there is perhaps no:
part of it's trade that they have more re-:
gard for than that built up by their pops
ular North Carolina salesman. The fa+
nous greystone brand of ware made by
this firm is a standard with the trade
from Maine to Texas.
Mr.. Morris is popular in Baltimore as
well as with his people in North Caro-
lima. He is one of the best informed men
that you could find in months travel.
He is a great reader of current literature,
political and otherwise, with a keen
sense of humor and one of the very best
of the occasional contributors to the sec
ular press. He is whole-souled, Jovial,
genial gentleman, Tarheel to the core
and universally popular He is not only
trenchant writer, but an entertaining,
logical and forceful speaker, and his
voice is frequently heard in defense of
the truths that he loves. He is an an
finching Democrat and his work in be-
half of the party has been felt both: in
his native State and in Maryland. He
takes easy rank with the most successful
statesmen that ever travelled the State
and his trade increases as each season
goes by.
ELHART, JOYNER & co.
At 76 South Hopkins place is the
arge wholesale hat, cap and straw goods
establishment of Elhart, Joyner & Co.
This firm is composed Of Mr.. Adolph En-
hart, Virginian, who served on the
staff of the lamented Jackson; Mr.. Chas.
G. Joyner, a popular young North Caro-
linian ,and Mr.. II. M. Witt, of Stauhton,
Va, all men, who have carved the promi-
nent positions they occupy On the mercan-
tile world out of the opportunities af-
forded them in the Monumental Cityt Mr..
Chas. Joyner is one of the most success
full Of the younger Tarheels who has
forged to the front in Baltimore ,ard he
Justly merits his success. Mr.. Jeyner
came to Baltimore from his home in
North Carolina in 1879 and accepted
position at salary of So week. From
this beginning he has worked himself up
until he is today one of the managing
partners of perhaps the largest hat and
straw goods establishments in the city.
He Travelled for several years for the hat
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