The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-06-20
A PROGRESSIVE HOUSE.
Remarkable Growth Of the George ID.
Witt Shoe Company.

The following article taken from
the Lynchburg Ners OF June 10th.
is not without local interest. The
George ID. Witt Shoe Companv's
goods find ready sale on this market.
the firm being recognized as one of
the first and most reliable houses in
the country. And besides this is
the home OF one Of their most sue
cessful and popular statesmen, Mr.. W.
o. Shannon. Under the above caption
the Ne,cs says:
Geo. D. Witt Shoe Company's Ninth
Street Shoe Factory marks another
epoch in the rapid growth and enterprise
of this house. Starting, as it did, in
1873, as the pioneer exclusively whole
sale house of Lynchburg, with only three
statesmen, the first years business
amouted to $137 500, drumming the
trade OF Virginia, East Tennessee and
the Carolinas.
The steady growth OF this firm is the
strongest proof Of the merit OF its line OF
goods and fair treatment of its Gus
toners.
1901 fluids the house working on the
second million of business The Lone
Jack" line of shoes, the trade mark OF
all the leather made goods, has met with
phenomenal success, and are extensively
worn in no less than twenty-One States,
reaching from the Atlantic to Mexico.
1t is hardly reasonable to believe that
Geo. ID. Witt Shoe Co. overcome the COM
petition of the largest markets in this
| country, and now sell a large trade in
Pennsylvania and Ohio, and make ship
ments almost daily, under the very
shadow of two of the largest cities in this
country, Baltimore and Philadelphia, to
Pittsburg and Cleveland. where they have
salesman established at each place.
Last week the house made a large ship
| ment direct to Durham, South Africa, of
goods made up on order, especially
| adapted to the demands of that coun-
try. Nothing could argue holder
stroke OF enterprise, unless 1T be the big
| new shoe factory on Ninth street, than
| the simple announcement that four sales
| men are at work, at this time, in the
Empire State OF Texas, marked by four
| divisions of territories, viz: San An
| tonic, Waco. Greenvile and Houston,
| and SO successful has been this field for
| this firm and for Lynchburg, that the st.
Louis lion of competition growls, and Is
| made to acknowledge another cOmpeti
tor.
When the thirty hustling statesmen OF
| this house, travelling in almost as many
| States, who are daily showing and talk
ing the clone Jack" line, the best value,
| at the lowest price, is taken into con-
sideration, it fully explains the necessity
| of erecting the Ninth Street Shoe Fac
| tory to accommodate the increased de-
mand
| The new Shoe Factory building now
under construction is a type OF the
modern shoe factory, in shape and de-
sign; 40 feet long, 4G feet wide, on Ninth
street, five stories high, mill constructed,
| to obtain minimum rate of insurance,
| and will beinstaled with the finest steam
| and electric power plant obtainable. The
| equipment of this plant, from the base
ment to the top floor, will consist of the
most modern inventions in shoe mn
| chinery to enable the making of shoes at
| the lowest cost.
The proximity of the factory to the
! jObbing house works many advantages.
The power plant besides furnishing
power to run the machinery OF the shoe
factory, steam to heat factory, light for
the building, will supply heat light and
power for elevators, in the iobbing
| house.
| Could more condensed system for
economy be devised. which will work as
an advantage to lower the cost Of shoes,
| while the volume of business goes
higher?
|
| Know One Sure Remedy
for an obstinate cold Its name is Pyny-Balsam