Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-14
Main Street in the Prosperous City of Winchester, Va

failed of its boom" projects. Judge Hand
ley was an ardent admirer of 'StonewaH
Jackson and the confederate cause in gen
eral. and when he died it was found that
his will provided for a $4,000 sarcophagus
in Mount Hebron cemetery near the main
entrance of .'Stonewall' cemetery. He was
buried there so that, to quote the eminent
son of Ireland, The might greet the con-
Judge Handley left the bulk of his vast es-
tate of several million dollars to the city
of Winchester, $4,000 to be used Tor the
erection and equipment of the Handley
Memorial Library, which is soon to be
built on a site already selected, while the
rest of the great legacy is to be applied
to the erection of industrial schools for the
poor and other educational objects
Schools and Colleges.
Internationally Winchester has been ia
nous for many years. Not long after the
establi shment of the public school system
in Virginia John Kerr a wealthy resident
of this city contributed 5000 toward the
erection of a $4,000 school building, which
houses between 600 and 100 children 1t is
known a. the John Kerr Memorial Public
School. and is massively constructed and
modern in equipment.
Within the past few years, however
there has been such steady and deep
seated interest manifested by parents and
others in public school matters and educa-
ton in general that It will be necessary
at no distant date to provide another build
ing for children anxious to get All educa-
ton School teachers speak in high terms
of the eagerness of the majority of pupils
to become scholars.
Since State Superintendent Joseph D. Egg
gleston. jr.. of the department of public
instruction came into office he has made a
number of visits to Winchester and Fred
erick county. with gratifying results, while
in Maurice NJ Lynch the city and county
have an enthusiastic school superintendent
Less than month ago the first high school
in the county outside of Winchester was
started at Middletown, with Prof Austin
Middleton. late of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity Baltimore. as principal The people
of Middletown contributed literally toward
the high school fund, and the already as
sured success of that school is about to lead
to the erection of others of that class
The Episcopal Female Institute. which
has as its principal Prof William c. Mar
shall, A. NJ. University of Virginia, re-
Gently began its thirty-Second annual Ses-
sion with the largest enrolment in its his
tory. Fort Loudoun Seminary another
school for young ladies' is a flourishng in
sttution. situated on the fort of tIat name
which was built by Col. George Washing
ton prior to the revolutionary war The
seminary is under the management of
Misses Glass and Gold. The Shenandoah
Valley Academy which is conducted by
Prof. James 3. Lovett another University
of Virginia master of arts has been here
more than seventy years, and many of the
leading lawyers of the valley of Virginia
in addition to scores who have achieved
prominence at the bar in distant states, re-
ceiyed their first lessons in law at the old
academy. which has had its principals
such men as the late Judge Minor, Prof. A.
Magll Smith and others whose names are
synonymous of scholarly attachments.
Local Manufactures.
While manufacturing on an exceedingly
great scale has never been carried on in
Winchester 1t has been an important pro-
Queer ever since the town had existence.
This was notably true when this city was
regarded one of the leading points on
the road from Washington down through
the Virginia valley into Tennessee and I,en-
lucky before the days of railroading All
kinds of manufactures were doing a thriv-
ing business here but the march of prog
ress and events have somewhat changed
the city's appearance in that respect.
There Is, however. more manufacturing
carried on here today than in most towns
of between COCO and 1000 popula ton, and
the success made by those already so en-
gagged is having a tendency to give others
with capital to invest more confidence than
otherwise. One of the greatest drawbac ks
though, is the scarcity of skilled la Dor, but
real estate statistics show that the demands
for houses and land on which to build were
never more promising. and the fact is
GeduZeu DS ltldl the proper class
of labor can be had from other localities if
the local conditions are made attra Give
Hundreds of men - most of them with
families-receive good wages here in flour
ing mills. knitting mills. WOODEN mills, glove
factories. woodworking establishments ice
and cold storage plants, a big branch of
the American Strawboard Company, gas,
electric light, printing. brick making foun-
dries and similar industries, while builders
are rarely ever idle
Great Apple Country.
The greatest industry in the country ad-
jacent 10 Winchester. however, is the grow
ing of fruit, which is In some instances
supplantlng grain crops. Twenty years ago
DR.. John g. Lupton of this county planted
the first commercial apple orchard in the
lower Shenandoah valley. and his neighbors
said he was crazy and would be bankrupt
In a short time. He selected the Albemarle
pippin. which is precisely the same as the
Hudson valley pippin of New York and the