The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-04-14
PROGRESSIVE CORINTH.

ried visit. on the morning of the Goth
ultimo. to some Of the leading indus
tries of one of the most progressive and
prosperous little cities of the South
west. We were on our way, with hun
dreds of others from all parts OF the
State. to attend the funeral of Ex-
Governor John NJ. Stone; and having to
wait until the train came along from
Holly Springs, we called upon Corinth's
popular mayor, Hon. T. Z. Henry, and
invited him to escort US to some OF the
big factories that are making fame and
fortune for that e~nterprising city. The
mayor promptly accepted the invita-
ton. and a good team being placed at
our service, we drove to the Alcorn
Wooden Manufacturing Company, OF
which John H. Jones is president and
| R. NJ. Weaver secretary. This factory
from a modest beginning eleven years
ago, has grown to large proportions.
Its sole and only output is pants
mostly leans pants, that wholesale from
"a. 20 to $50 per Dozen. There are about
| $50 persons employed in the building
| no children, no colored, and nearly all
| adult females, who make from 81 to u
per week. About 100 sewing machines
| are in constant use. The cutters place
a full bolt of cloth on the tables, and
cut out from twenty to thirty pairs OF
pants with a few movements of the big
knives. the waste being reduced to the
minimum. The cloth is purchased
from mills in Knoxville, Atlanta and
New York-the bills from the Knox
vile Wooden Mills often amounting to
S.. 900 a month. If some of the new
cotton factories being erected in Mis-
sissippi will make their products of the
kind used in Corinth they will secure
big cash customers from the start. We
were specially pleased to note that the
15O-horse power engine that operates
this big pants factory was made in Bir-
mipgham.
This factory has enjoyed exemption
from taxation for ten years, and is on
the tax roll this year for the first time.
The exemption contributed very mate
riallv to its success. 1t is now abund-
antly able to take care of itself.
The Corinth Clothing Manufacturing
Company has been in operation two
wears. Its output is ''high-gradc jeans
and cashmere pants" Its efficient and
courteous foreman insisted on taking
our measure for a pair of his best, and
one OF the ladies' delivered them, in
custom-made style, in an hour and
thirty minutes, but they have made
pants in twenty-six minutes from the
time the cutter placed the cloth on the
t table.
The directors of this factory are w.
T. Adams president, S. II. Curlee vice
president, T. d. Duncan secretary, j.
W. Taylor treasurer, and S. /. Nelson
The two factories turn out about zoe
dozen pairs of pants a day; pay rolls
about s1,700 a week; the weekly pay
rolls of all the factories in Corintt
amounting to about $1,000.
There is one unique and most com
mendable feature in the Management
of the pants factories. Perhaps there
is nothing else like it in the industrial
world. A cabinet organ is a part o
the equipment. When the employe
assemble each morning at : ( o'clock
quarter of an hour is occupied in devo
: tional exercises-songs of praise, praye
and reading the scriptures. No wonde
! those establishments are prospecting
| and that all in their employ are as con
5 tented and happy as toilers for dali,
bread ever get to be.
We were pleased to meet in the ship
ping room of one of the pants ~factorie
l Mr.. Toby Richardson, who graduate
from the Institution for the Deaf an
Dumb, at Jackson, three years ago, an
to hear the compliment, 1--WE couldn
, get along without him"
I. The plant of the w. T. Adams MI
chine Company is the biggest thing
Corinth, and one of the largest of il
kind in all the Southwest. About l;
hands are employed, and they turn OF
all kinds of machinery, engines, boi
9 ers, all varieties of mills, presses
everything but locomotives-and shil
g ments are made as far as California an
, Mexico. When Mr.. Adams moved
, orinth in 1850 his total capital wa
g $500. He first made cast plows; the
acquired an interest in a small shop,
failing condition; To- orders reach hi
n from all sections of the Union, and it
S only by constant enlargement that /
: is able to keep pace with his order
e He is not an importation. He is to IL
q manner born; and his successful care
u shows what may be accomplished I
d pluck, perseverance and good judgmen
These were all the factories that v
: could visit; but the other industries i
!, clude an ice factory, a steam laundr
two spoke factories, a barrel-headiI
factor, a large cotton compress, electr
q lights, water works and telephone sy
TEN, planning mills and lumber factor
two brick factories. a saddle factor
two marble yards; two merchant ia
oring establishments. There are tS
q excellent newspapers, two banks, Sc
A eral wholesale houses, a splendid cour
.. house, a school building that cost abo