The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-04
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and expecting soon to run their annual
business to more than million"
VICTORIES IN THE PHILIPPINES.
The rapidity with which the company
has extended it's trade, not only through
| out the South but in the North and in
foreign countries, is one of the marvels
of recent Southern progress. The VIC
tories which it has recently won in the
Philippines and in Porto Rico are OF far
greater Significance than good many
military victories of which so much has
been recently made. Not long ago the
house received cable order from General
Macarthur for twenty three hundred dol
lars worth of Carnefix charts and Primers
This order means that the Board OF Ed
ucation of the Philippines, which is COM
posed largely of Northern men, has de-
cided that the CarnefiX Chart is the best
of all the charts on the market. 1t means
that every school in the Philippines Will
be supplied with these charts and primers
This is the entering wedge which VIII
make way for all the other text books of
the company. Some time ago the Govern
ment Board of Education of Porto Rico,
also composed chiefly of Northern men,
and wrote a letter to the company stating
that the adoption was made after care
full examination of all the leading charts
published Recently steps have been
taken to introduce the Johnson text books
in the English schools of China, and it is
said that within the past few weeks or
ders have been received from South
America, Corea, and other distant coun-
4,:oa II tha meantime tho home trade
continues to grow at a remarkable rate,
and the house is constantly securing new
contracts and adoptions.
In an appreciative article on the recent
growth of the Souths great publishing
house. the Southern Farm Magazine, OF
Baltimore, says
"The publications of the Richmond
company are by no means sectional,
/ though no one can doubt that Southern
teachers and writer's, thoroughly in SYM
pathy with the needs of their section,
are in many respects the best fitted to
prepare certain kinds of textbooks for
Southern children. Still, the fundamental
idea of the company, in line with the
strong Americanism which has always
dominated the South, is the publication
of works which encourage broad patriot
cples of the American government and
the American people. Among the notable
works already published are the Johnson
Readers, Lees Histories, Miss Louise
Manly's Southern Literature" which
for comprehensiveness and convenience,
can hardly be equaled, and the "Carnetix
Practical Sight-Word Reading Chart and
Phonic Exercise Reading" by a Virginia
woman, which has been adopted for use
in the schools of Porto Rico. Represented
among the authors of the fifty or sixty
educational works published by the COM
pany are teachers and authors of nearly
every Southern State, of Washington, ID.
c.. and of New York city.
1.-The business has developed so steadily
in recent years that an enlargement of
the capital has been found necessary to
, to carry it on, and the company has been
reorganiZed, with Mr.. Johnson still as its
president, and with a capital of $1,250, 900,
in 1880 shares. The stock has been ca
gerly sought by the business men of
Richmond of Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Florida, New
York, West Virginia Louisiana, Canada
and elsewhere, assuring the continued
success of the concern in it's wider opera
tions.
"The South has at last large first
class publishing house, and the thanks
for it belong primarily to B. F. john
son. The dominant ideas of his career