The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-31
UNIQUE PLANT
FOR RICHMOND.
Company Manufacturing Trunk
Straps to Locate Here.
THE WEsTHAMPToN VILLAS
THE WEsTHAMPT0N VILLAS
Number of Richmond People to Erec
Handsome Residences Along New
Electric Road Concerning Cas-
Teton Farm-ReaIty News.

Richmond fs soon to have unique plant
where the tourists trunk straps" will
be manufactured The name of the new
firm is the Lever Buckle Company, in
corporated under the laws of New Jer-
sey.
The organization is joint stock COM
pany capitalized at 100000 The bulk
of the stock is held by Richmond and
Virginia men. The president Of the COM
pany is Mr.. n. Green, OF Pittsburg, Pa;
and the secretary and treasurer is MI.
J. r. Tisdale, of this city. The direc-
tors are as follows: Messrs. ]. N. Cor
man, well known tobacconist of this
city; Mr.. N. Green, Mr.. Samuel 8. Green
Mr. J. r. Tisdale and Mr.. W. II. Petit
bone. of New Jersey
Offices have been established already on
Shockoe Slip adjoining the place occu-
pied by Mr.. German, but efforts are be-
ing made now to secure better quarters
Machinery has been purchased and before
long the new mandatory will be III
operation.
That the company is destined to grow
into something big is indicated by the
great interest being taken In it locally
Several well-known business men have
been heard to declare that 1t is a goo6
thing, and to expess desire to get INTO
it themselves John Wanamaker, of
Philadelphia. has jos, placed an order for
nine sross OF the straps and will follow
1t up with a much larger one. a number
OF other order. have been received, but
since the company has not yet got it
self fixed, have had to be turned down.
The strap itself was invented some
Philadelphia. The patent was bought
from him by the present company. The
device is a simple and practical one and
is designed to obviate the necessity Of
using the old time straps which require
a good deal of hard pulling when placed
on trunks and satchels With the new
arrangement a child can secure a parcel
weighing as much as thousand pounds.
The straps are made of jute webbing and
leather and have buckle which locks
automatically, and which in doing so
tightens the straps. To release the
strap a key is used to unlock the buc lie.
Tt is quite certain that the section of
the county along the new Westhampton
Road will soon be built up with hand
some houses. The following gentlemen
have purchased property with the inten-
ton of erecting villas and country houses:
Messrs. Gwynn a. Lyell, George A. Tow
err. William P. Marshall, ]. X. Jones, a.
Beirne Blair and Jacob Stoneman
Mr.. Preston Cooke and others have filed
suit in Lexington. Ky. against Andrew
J. and Mary Lucy Ford, to force the sale
of the Castleton farm, now occupied by
James r. Keene as a breeding farm.
Mr. Keene has offered $4,000 for the
place when a clearer title can be Sc
cured.
Mr.. Steward Ford states that the suit
is a friendly one to cover some points in
clearing up the title.
n. D. Flood special commissioner for
John r. Williams. has sold to LIS. Sale
p. Talbot. wife of Charles Talbot, for
s7,675 lot of land lying and designated
as No. lis Shafer Street, formerly owned
by Gilbert J. Hunt and wife.
Mr. N W. Bowe has sold No. OIL Park
Avenue for the sum of $1,000.