The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-03-09
AMONG OUR ADVERTISERS.
Mcintyre & Harris.

Mcintyre & Harris.
The firm we refer to in this brief
sketch is that of Mcintyre a. Harris,
whose place of business is located on
North Main street. We regret that
space forbids us to specify and partic-
ularize in reference to their extensive
plant as we otherwise would gladly do.
Suffice it to say that they endeavor to
carry everything in their line needed
by the public.
One finds there almost everything
going on wheels, with wheels, or with
out wheels, on land or on water. on top
of the earth, or beneath its surface.
The public can procure of this firm any
article, all the way from Irvine string
to the finest turnout that money COM
mands. We had almost said that with
an early order, style and finish fully
stated, that they could, on short notice,
procure wives for the right parties.
But while that would be an exaggerat-
ed statement, nevertheless, it is quite
true that any young man armed with
one of their "turn-outs" who cannot
get a wife in short time, must be wo-
fully lacking in personal appearance
or manhood.
In the line of wagons, carriages, cut
tiers, bicycles, pumps, tanks, plOws,
farm machinery of all descriptions and
repairs for same, this firm carry the
largest stock in this region. They have
been under the necessity of reiitting
their large brick ware-roOm, and adj
ding an extensive new store room for
implements, and their trade calls for
more room. For many miles in all di-
rectiOns from Yale, the country is
flooded with vehicles and machinery
placed by this firm. All this has been
done in less than four years, the short
period the firm has been planted in
Yale.
Several elements enter into this great
success. Perhaps the chief one lies in
the fact that both members of the firm
have taken time to learn the business
They began at the bottom by first
knowing the art of carriage and wagon
building. The senior member of the
firm, George Mcintyre, spent nearly
fifteen years in the employ of the late
w. III. Harris, for many years carriage
maker for this region. The Junior
member, Porter Harris, is a son of JAS
Harris, of the old Harris firm, and was
born and bred in the midst of the car
riage trade. These gentlemen would
have to be dummies indeed if these adj
vantages did not enable them to know
good carriage from poor one. They
have also one other advantage in doing
business in this lOcality-they are both
native born in the county; Mr.. McIn-
tyre making his debut into life about
IS years ago in the city of Port Huron,
and Mr.. Harris being first discovered
in Brockway about 90 years ago These
things are but incidental, yet of such a
character as TO be an important factor
in their ability to know their countless
customers by years of intimate ac-
quaintance.
In writing what we have, our
thoughts have been upon past days
and present environment. If we turn
to future, what does it hold? Most
surely the sequence of the past. If
such results have come in four years
what will come in a score of years, or
five times that period? These are now
young men; but when middle or
mature life has been reached, what
then will be the size of their plant, or
the quantity of their stock? We are
sure that we but voice the sentiments
of their many patrons in saying that
we hope their success will ever be on
this same ratio. and the past ever null
tiply itself into future prosperity.