Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04

that of the average boy in Green Noun
tain village; he attended the public schools
and graduated at the academy. Che pub
lie school has been his only college, as it
has been for hundreds OF others Of YER
mont's brightest sons.
Carroll Page was not very old when he
started what has since grown to be the
largest green calf skin business in the
world. He began business without -four
ish, just trading little. The back part OF
cellar was his store house, and caldron
kettle was used for his only brine vat.
Later on he secured barn, aud made such
changes and improvements as we've neces-
sary to accommodate bis growing trade.
Thus the barn grew and grew, until in
1880 the requirements were such that an
extensive ware house was built especially
for the business, and additions have since
been made to it until today there is floor
age of about two acres.
Ellis business methods have been origi-
nal and unique. For more than a decade
he has employed no salaried travelling men
either to buy or sell. His collections are
made up entirely of shipments sent in to
him by butchers and dealers, who trust en-
tirely to his integrity and judgment as to
the returns they are to receive, while his
classifcations are so uniform and reliable
that bi, entire stocks are sold on printed
price-lists issued to tanners from time to
time, as changes in market values occur.
"There are very few large calfskin tam
ners in this country who do not draw more
or less Of their supplies Of raw material
from Hyde Park. His trade in Europe
is extensive, and even Asia occasionally
makes drafts upon his stocks.
"How a business of such magnitude
could have been built up in little country
village hundreds of miles from any of the
trade centers, has for many years been
subject OF much comment in Vermont;
but that it has been done, and that the
business is the largest OF its kind on the
face OF the globe, is now no longer ques-
ton. All trade papers in the hide and
leather line concede to Carroll S. Page this
pre-eminence.
''He has also found time to take an
active interest in the public affairs of his
state. In 1869, at the age OF 26, he was
elected representative to the General As
sembly, and was reelected in 1870. From
1874 to 1876 he was the senator from La
mOlllc county. III IOOO NC Wdd ucIcSdJc
to the republican national convention at
Chicago, which nominated President Gar
field. In 1884 he was made inspector OF
finance, and as such, tor tour years, had
the supervision of the rawlings banks of
Vermont. For IL years, from 1872 to
1889, he was the Lamoille county member
of the republican state committee, and dur
ing the last few years of his incumbency of
that office was chairman of that committee.
From 1890 to 1892 he was governor of
Vermont, which office he filled with ability
and dignity.
Carroll S. Pages life has been largely
what it is by what he is pleased to denomi-
nate the four P's-Promptness, Persistency,
Pluck, and Printers Ink. On these he
built. While he is modest and attributes
to himself no excess of natural ability, he
had faith in these four P's as factors of sue
cess. He has been a most persistent
advertiser, probably paying out many
times as much for this purpose as any one
else in the same line OF business. Yet,
after all, there is no doubt that bis success
is mainly attributable to the fact that dur
ing his whole lite he has acted upon the
idea that thorough adherence to correct
business principles, persistently persevered
in, would in the end bring success"