The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

.. C. Wysong, born in Virginia and tralhed in Ohio was a machinist of ahiI- ity' ie was put on the road as a sales man Tor the machinery house After a"nile ne decided to go into busfnes, TOT hlinsen He brought a man from the oInce or Cincinnati firm and they went into the commission business here without any capital whatever A lot of ground was overgrown with grape vines and weeds had been condemned by the elty, and it's owner was directed to clean It up. It was a very unprofftable iob and the man decided to sell the land. Wysonu bought 1t for sSl5 He paid S25 down, and had five years to pay the balance The five years has just been completed, and on that plat of ground stand factories representing an investment of over $300,- OO0. Less than one-fourth of the in- Vestment It outside money, the balance has been earned on that $S15 lot. Wysong invented machine which substituted an endless belt turned by machinery for the sheet Of sand paper worked by elbow grease. This was the foundation of the business and is still the principal output or his shop. A foundry to furnish the castings was next. A boiler factory was a logical addition Then another ma chine shop. Then the bobbn factory.
 Mir. Wysong went to New England, where practically all textile machinery is made Somebody said to him: You can't make bobbns down there, you can't bore that little hole" ''Fd like to know why machine that will bore a hole in Massachusetts won't bore a hole in North Carolina?' demanded Wysong. He got the necessary machinery and now he is mak- ing bobbins for southern cotton mills He believes looms and all other textile machinery can be made in the south, too. His next branching out will be in that direction. prominent banker here. who once loaned Mir. Wysong sS5 for neces- saries, was a milk wagon driver until the days when Greensboro turned it's atten- ton from farming to milling. This banker is also the head of a successful insur- ance company and loan and trust com pany.
 These are instances of the benefit that manufacturing has been to one town of the Piedmont. In some ways it is the more striking here because of the fact that the real development did not be- gin until about twelve years ago with the advent of the Cone family. Moses H. and Caesar Cone and others of the fam fly control the largest cotton mills and the largest cloth sales business in this section. They have done much to develop the town along practical lines and are greatly interested in the welfare work among the mill hands. Recently Moses H. Cone returned from a trip around the world for pleasure. He was rendered a home coming banquet by the business men of the city through the chamber of commerce.
 In the mill village there are excellent schools. The buildings erected by the mill owners, and the expenses are shared between the county and the mill com panies Children of certain age are re- quired to go to school by compulsory methods. Kndergartens are provided for the very little boys and girls. One beau tiful graded school building has just been completed for the White Oak village. There is a social secretary who lives in a model house. in the village Her house is externally the same the ones occupied by the mill operatives. Her furniture is simple and inexpensive. She teaches the people how to keep house, how to raise flowers, how to cook, and how to enjoy life. Parties are given at the social secretarys cottage to which the women and girls are invited. Prizes are given for the best kept cottages and the prettiest flower garden. An ordinary house Is rented for s to 8 a month, which includes water and a lot large enough for a good vegetable garden in the rear. Electric lighting will be added soon. The streets of the village are lined with trees but as the mill has been running but two years the are necessarily small.
 The great event of the year in the three Cone mill villages Is the Fourth of July picnic. This is a great gathering of 10.- GOO people the mill hands their families and friends. Watermelons by the carload ice cream by the hundred gallons, and other things in proportion are dispensed freely at the expense of the company. The hands get the holiday on full pay As a Fourth of July would not be the Fourth of July without orntory. there is plenty of speaking. But not states man or a politician or even lawyer is In sight. The speeches are made by the men in the mill and by the men who own the mill. At the last picnic a machnist who works for small wages made the principal speech and his subject was ''En- ergy." There are no labor troubles In these mills.
 Tomorrow = Guilford Battle Ground