The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-21

ed with WOOdDerry duck, Carried luc
fame of Baltimore to every port, and
now, while the clipper ships are no
more, Baltimore made canvas con-
tinues to whiten every sea.
1t is also interesting to know that
the yacht America, which first
brought the international cup to this
country, was equipped with Wood
berry cotton duck, and every Ameri-
can yacht which has won cup race
since that time has been similarly
supplied in full except the Vigilant,
which used some canvas of another
make.
The history of Woodberry began
in 1896, when Messrs. H. N. Gam
brill and David Carroll started the
manufacture of cotton duck at Wood
berry and Whitehall, the latter now
being known as Clipper. Two -four
ing mills were bought, mainly for
their water rights. Mr.. Carroll built
the Mount Vernon Mills first in4ca4+
nection with Gambrill, Carroll & Co.. ],
and when that firm failed, years later,
he organized the Mount Vernon Com
pany and continued their manage
ment. After the failure Messrs. Viii
liam E. Hooper & Co. purchased and
ran the Woodberry group of mills.
In recent years the two groups We're
consolidated and the joint company
was afterward merged with the Uni
ted States Cotton Duck Company,
forming much the largest part of the
whole.
1t is characteristic of conservative
Baltimore that some of the defendants
of the original proprietors of these
mills still retain their management.
Thus, Mr.. D. H. Carroll, vice-presi-
dent of the United States Cotton Duck
Company and secretary both of that
apd the Mount Vernon Woodherry
Company, is son of Mr.. David Car
roll of Gambrill, Carroll & Co. Mr..
James E. Hooper, president and gen
eral mill manager of the Mount Yer
non Woodberry Company, is son Of
Mr.. William E. Hooper of Vim. E.
Hooper & Co. The employees have
also shown the same inclination to
"stick to the last, 'and there are many
instances of three generations working
in the mills, the elder of which began
there as boys and girls many years
ago. In that time the business has
grown from one which consumed 12
bales of cotton day to one which
daily uses Ieo bales.
Like Woodberry duck, SO may the
products of the foundry and machine
shops of the Poole Company be found
in every cline. The specialties of
this company are heavy castings and
machinery, their looms being consid-
cred of peculiar excellence, and pro-
ducts of this factory may be found in
the Far West, Mexico, South Amer
ica, South Africa, Australia, New
Zealand, and almost everywhere that
ma man d delyes deep deep into the earth in
works employ 400 men, and as these
are all adults and, In many cases,
highly-paid workmen, the monthly
payroll of this establishment is larger
in proportion to the number of hands
employed than that of the Cotton
Duck Company,
This business was established at
Woodberry many years ago by Mr..
Robert Poole and Mr.. German H.
Hunt, who withdrew from the firm
several years since, and is now vice.
president of the Baltimore Trust and
Guarantee Company. The corpora
tion was then formed under the name
of the Robert Poole & Son Company,
and was managed by Mr.. Robert
Poole until his recent death. Mr..
George Poole, the son, is now at the
head of the business. - Baltimore
Meas, Fe6. 4, 1908.