The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-16

keel already laid. II will be the largest
mill Of the kind In the country. II not In the
world II alone will employ some 1000
hands.
They have all got TO come from the out =
side. There are no idlers in Greensboro
none looking for jobs.
Within a few days a tobacco manu-
featuring concern has opened up and is
advert Using for 1900 operatives. When
fully In operation it will employ 1000
persons.
They, too. must all come from the out =
side. They and their families must add
to the swiftly mounting tide OF Green's
| boros population.
And 40 il goes in all direct ions in the
outlook for the future There are going
TO be some sharp and exciting neck and
neck races for the front between these
| robust young cities in this wonderfully
progressive State of North Carolina The
| electricity of achievement is in the air
here.
The Old North State is in the saddle this
time for certainty. She is booted and
spurred and out on the road to win the
victory of big results as she never WAS be-
fore in her history.
They must be up and doing, the others
Of the splendid sistcrhood Of Dixie States.
II they are to ride knee to knee with her in
this great onward sweep of Southern prog
ress. which just now is undeniably one of
the stupendous facts OF the country's
growth.
DETAILS OF THE TOwN's GROWTH
To 60 into the details Of the growth Of
Graanshprr and fka OF %
which Greensboro is the capital and chief
business centre. is simply to 60 into an
other and one Of the most surprising Of
| all the chapters Of recent Sout hern de-
velopment IN manufactures.
The growth OF the cotton mill indust ry
here was simultaneous, approximately.
with the similar growth all along the line
Of the Piedmont region from Virginia to
Georgia and Alabama. But side by side
with the cotton manufacturing there grew
up here In Guilford county another industry
which at this moment has got 10 such di-
mensions that were the cotton m lis them
selves eliminated, the prosperity here and
hereabouts would still be on a foundation
broad and permanent.
The furniture making and the wood
working industries Of Guilford county
have grown from small beginnings to an
industrial interest which reaches out from
one end of the country 10 the other and
even beyond the Seas for its market
A Connecticut Yankee, W n Snow. has
lived and still lives here in Guilford to
hear himself called the father Of furniture
making and wood working In the county
He came down this way some twenty wears
ago, along In the early eighties. and he
gave birth 10 an idea.
The idea was that whereas in the North
all the countless thousands of shuitles
used In the cotton mills and other looms Of
the country were made of apple wood at a
certain cost. an equally good shuttle might
be made OF dogwood at a far less cost
WOOD WORKING STARTED
And he worked that idea out Dogwood
grows in great abundance hereabouts
Indeed, 1t il pretty hard to mention anv
kind OF wood indigenous to the North
American continent that does not grow
here in abundance. 50 Mr. Snow took 70
making, not shuttles. hut the shuttle blocks
out Of North Carolina dogwood-thc shuttle
block being a piece Of wood roughly out
lined into the general shape Of a shuttle,
just as blocks ~ wood Of other varieties
go to gunmakers 10 he finished into gun
stocks
The outcome 81 this little venture on the
part Of Mr.. Snow is that the concern he
founded, AZ present working some ski cen
factories, is the Shuttle Block Trust Of tho
United States, and of the world for tina,
matter. All New England now comes to
him for shuttle blocks, and all the rest %
the country besides for that matt or, 10 say
nothing Of large orders from Great Britain
and Germany and other transocoanic
count ries. In word. the concern founded
by Mr. Snow, the head of which is now
J. Edward Cox. Mr.. Shows son-in-law
manufactures 90 per cent. Of all the shuttle
blocks used in the world
II was at High Point. only few miles
southwest Of Greensboro. on the line of the
Southern Railway, that Mr.. Snow began
his work. The plan, does not now limit
it's out put TO shuttle blocks alone Formerly
the blocks were sent North TO be finished
but now tens Of thousands Of them are
every year finished into shuttles right hero
IN the South.
GREAT FURNITURE CENTRE.
From shuttle blocks to the manufacture
Of OF her articles Of wood was an easy step
and the manufacture Of furniture followed
in logical sequence High Point is now
one Of the great furniture manufacturing
centres Of the world
From an obscure little hamle. Of n few
hundred inhabitants it has DEVELOPED into
a thriving. rapidly growing town Of up
ward Of 5000 inhabitants with fine bust
meas blocks, fine schoohouses and public
buildings and a population that has not a
drone in it. Everybody is a worker there
Ninet y-nine per cent Of the inhabit an,
are up by 9 o'clock in the morning wear
in and year out and are at their places Of
business by 7 clock
There Is furniture or woodworking
factory OF some sort to every las inhabi-
tants Of the town. men. women and chill
| dren included-a total OF forty-four such
factories in all. The demand for plate
glass mirrors to put into the furniture
! made there. and here in Greensboro, il 40
great that a large Pittsburg plate glass
| manufacturing concern has opened branch
| store here in Greensboro to aooommo-
| date It, Four hundred pounds OF plate
| glass mirrors were sent here in ono recent
shipment.
Considerably over 81 10000 is invested
in furniture and woodworking plants in
| High Point alone. and the product of the
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