The news & observer., 1897-08-28
Prominent in the Business
and Social Affairs of the
Monumental City.
SOME NOTABLE HOUSES
AND THEIR CLEVER NORIf1
CAROLINA REPRESENTATIVES,.
TuRrr GREAT ESTABLISHMENTS

In BaItimore's RAPIDLY Growing hlerchantllf
Business, and the Men Who Man
age Them.
Baltimore, Nd, Aug. 26.-(Staff Core
spondent.)-I like Baltimore, and most
people like it. l like to come here either
for business or for pleasure. IL
is an active, energeuc, as
gressive city, and it gets big
ger every day, and, besides 1T is full q1
genuine Southern hospitality. Baltimore
is a Southern city and full Of live, pro
gressive and hopitable Southern folks
and the SOutherner that comes hither al
ways meets a genuine welcome.
Right now Baltimore is an exceedingly
busy city. 1t is full of strangers, South
ern merchants and their families and
friends ,all taking in the sights and buy
ing fall and winter goods. 1t is always
pleasant in Baltimore for visiting Tar
heel The mercantile business of the city
is largely in the hands of North Caro-
linians, either as proprietors or sales
men. Nearly every wholesale establish
ment of any note has connected with IT
one or more Tarheels and every fellow
Of them does his best to make it both
profitable and pleasant for visitor from
the Old North State.
Among the most popular of the Tar
heels in Baltimore is our own Jim Higgs,
one of the veterans Of the drummer tribe,
who has been for nearly twenty years
connected with the establishment of John
e. Hurst & Co. This is one of the largest
dry goods and notion establishments in
the country and probably the largest in
the South. had the pleasure of taking
a look at this mammoth concern from
cellar to garret, being piloted through
by my clever young friend, Mr.. Allen
Sherwood Higgs, of Raleigh, who is also
connected with the establishment as as
sistant salesman to his father. The elder
Higgs was as busy as he could be pass
ing about from department to depart
ment waiting on sometimes two or three
North Carolina merchants at the same
time. 1 met here, too, other popular Tar
heels-Mr. William G. Lindsay, of Sails
bury, who represents the establishment
in western North Carolina; Mr.. Nelson
King. a former Raleighite, now of Greens
boro, and Mr.. e. s. Hutchinson, of Lex
ington, who represents the notion depart
ern North Carolina. 1t takes these five
North Carolinians, all trained business
men and experienced statesmen to look
after the enormous trade that this es-
tablishment has in North Carolina. Mr..
Higgs, Mr. Lindsay, Mr.. King, Mr..
Hutchinson and Mr.. Higgs Jr., are
among the most successful drummers
that 90 out Of Baltimore. They are fur
tunate in having firm behind them of
unlimited means and with every facility
for doing mammoth business. The
house was established in 1881 and was
for years run under the firm name of
Hurst, Purnell & Co. A few
years ago it was succeeded by the pres
ent firm, which is composed of
Mr. John e. Hurst, Baltimore's leading
business man; Mr.. Lloyd L. Jackson, Mr.
VIM. B. Hurst, Mr.. A. r. @. Wilson, Mr.
Henry Il. Hurst, Mr.. Millard Burgess,
and Mr.. John e. Hurst, comprise
the firm. This is a combination OF
business vim, energy, and experience
that has built and is building here one
Of the largest and most extensive dry
goods and notion establishments in the
world. They are clever men, too, all
of them, and popular in the social and
political as well as the business world
With a cash capital Of $1,000
the house is enabled to carry an i'm
mense stock of both dry goods and no
tions, buying in large quantities direct
from the manufacturers. both in this
country and abroad at best cash dis
counts Mr.. Hurst is one Of the active
spirits in the affairs of his State and his
home city. He is leading Democrat and
tod hu ri txun ri
ago for Governor of Maryland. He has
been for years one of the strongest
forces in the commercial life of Balti-
more, has been a great success as a
merchant and stands today in the fore
front of the merchants of America. Mr..
Lloyd Jackson is likewise a staunch
ellis Of the party in its national as well as
local organizations.
Mr.. Hurst, the founder of the busi-
ness, has lived to see it grow and grow
until it takes rank with the biggest
and best. He has lived, too. to see
three of his sons, Messrs. VIM. b., Henry
S., and John e. Hurst, Jr., attain to Wig
orous young manhood, and join him and
lis other co-partners in the management
of the establishment. Mr.. Hurst him
Germ, robust and strong in body and
mind, and as busy as ever in the man
agement OF the business. In his other
partners, Messrs. Jackson Wilson and
Burgess, he has able, experienced and
successful aids. They are all clever
genial gentlemen, whom it is a pleas
ure to meet.
This firm occupies a mammoth fire.
proof building six stories high located on
Hopkins Place and fronting on Hopkins
Place, Sharp, German and LIB
erty streets. It is one Of the
largest and handsomest store
houses in Baltimore, and it is headquar-
ters for North Carolinians visiting the
Monumental City.
1 saw our friends, Higgs Lindsay
King Hutchinson and their colleagues
all surrounded by great colmun Of sea
sonable and fashionable goods, enough