The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-27

ground and noted a coming change.
Their chief occupation upon which re-
lance was placed for the food and
clothes of their offspring was DOOM
ed, for the old tried methods of manu-
featuring tobacco was to be no more.
They accepted the situation and being
hardy people and unafraids they turn
ed their eyes to the win4ward and
caught a new note on the blowing
breeeZes. With a seeming unamity of
action, the old business, with many a
pang, perhaps, was abandoned and
new and diversified industries took
shape and formation. Immense brick
structures supplanted the old frame
warehouses upon the floors of which
the auctioneer of the aforetime sold
his two piles of tobacco to the minute.
The storage houses for freight and
the depots of the railroads had to be
enlarged and gradually the smell of
tobacco casing departed from the nos
trils of the people, while the stacks
of her plants belched out smoke of
myriad manufactures. Wise men had
seen the star that led them to this
point to betoken the advent of possi-
bilities for business, and Lynchburg.
instead Of sending tobacco to the four
quarters of the globe, began to dis
tribute merchandise of every character
that man had need of. With progress
or time the energy and enterprise of
her merchants increased MANIFOLD un-
til to-day the old road to the river
side marks the dividing line around
which cluster on both sides a COM
munity bristling with business. Her
schools and institutions of learning
rank as high as any, and have served
to temper, with refining influence the
character of her people. The standard
of business principles here maintained
is of such character as to guarantee
every transaction of her men and the
buyer who buys in Lynchburg knows
in advance that the treatment he will
receive is all that he can wish for.
while the seller when he seeks his
rest he sleeps serene in the knowledge
that the customers he has gained that
day are his friends and will remain
so. Thus has the city of Lynchburg
amid the clay and the pines of Old
Virginia, grown on merit, until now at
the beginning of this new century.
when the world we live in is up and
doing, she stands in the very front
rank of progression, pointing the way
to prosperity, proud in her pre-emi-
nince as the biggest, livest, fairest.
cheapest and most up-to-date distribu-
tor of all the goods and wares and mer-
chandise that the want OF man re-
quires in the length and breadth of this
old Southland of ours.
Among those who have put their
Drawn and brain behind the scheme of
bringing the old city to the front may
be mentioned those who compose the
concerns of the Craddock-Terry Com
pany, Guggenheimer & Company.
George d. Witt Shoe Company, OgIes-
by-DeWitt Company, The Lynchburg
Shoe Company, The Hughes Buggy
Company, Quinn Marshall Company.
Ould-Carter Company, Kinnier, Mont
gomery and Company, the First Ma
tional Bank, S. c. Hurt & Son, Adams
Brothers-Paynes Company, Ainslie &
Martin Smith -Briscoe Shoe Company.
Harris, Woodson & Company. Beas-
ley, Couch and Company, the National
Exchange Bank, c. H. Beasey &c
Bro, E. Crump, the Peoples National
Bank Barker Jennings Hardware Com
pany, Strother Drug Company, Jack
son Brothers & Watts Company, and
the Lynchburg National Bank