The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-24
is That, Showing That
business authorizations
al Activities Can Mix.
MANY INDUSTRIES.
SPLENDID B AN IS
Unusually Large Nero ntiIe
Houses-centre of Apple Grow
ing County-Fortunes That
Have Been Made From
Fruit Lands-Grasses,
Cattle, Fine Horses.
BY FRANK S. woopsoN.

BY FRANK s. woODsoN.
Charlottesville, Va, September ga
rs general rule towns in which ara
located large educational institutions
IKE unto the University of Virginia
do not become particularly noted for
industrial effort. The old-tim idea
was that colleges and universities
ought to be far removed from the hum
OF business Even within the past five
years prominent educator of the
country has declared that factories and
colleges do not mix we'll while tho
youth of the land is being taught ana
prepared for professional and business
lie that is to follow in some other
neighborhood. People who entertain
this ancient idea would hardly expect
to find here in Charlottesville, this
seat of the far-famed University of
Virginia that Thomas Jefferson placed
on It's pins, busy folk who are sue
cessfully conducting wholesale stores
and enormous retail establishments.
who are successfully conducting big
factories of several kinds. a big wine
making concern, woodworking estab-
Hshments, publishing houses, abbet-
toirs, tanneries. woollen mills, flour.
Ing mills. creameries. iron works, etc.
The ancient philosophers could not
advance any good reason for their Pc
culiar doctrine, at least charlottesville
business people and capitalists could
not see 1t, IL they had any. and SO this
SPLENDID Virginia town located In
one of the richest counties. is not only
great educational centre. but wide
awake business town.
AS to Population.
Charlottesville Is another, town
among many that has a. grudge against
the census takers OF the government.
who claimed to find in the town HIST
year only 7.77s people, big and little,
but, of course, the census men COULD
not enumerate the 1000 students OF
the university, although they are citi-
zens ten months in the year, and do
pretty much all their buying and trad
Ing here; and. of course. they could
not put on the list the 1000 people who
really live in the town, and do bust
ness here, but are really just beyond
the city limits.
Everybody knows how. in the days
OF too. much negro voting, nearly all
of the Virginia towns were cut and
twisted around SO as to keep the negro
vote from affecting town government.
For this reason Charlottesville was
twisted all around and about like
corkscrew. and 1t has not extended Its
limits or Strengthened its bounds for
more than twenty years. although
Sambo is no longer lurking In the wood
pile. The Council is working on this
matter now. 1t ought to have acted
before the census takers came, and IL
they had done so the census of 1910
would probably have shown this city
to be OF 10000 Inhabitants. 1 make
1t this figure Hecause the post-office
carrier force is based upon that many
souls within the delivery territory OF
the Office, and tn carriers tell me they
are the hardest Worked of any post
office set in the State. They vow they
serve 4 population OF more than $4,000.
In Manufacturing Lines.
The manufacturing plants here are
two immense wood working tablish-
ments, one of which Is said TO be the
largest contractor with the United
States government of any similar con-
Germ in the South. 1t having contracts
to furnish post-office and other public
building materials and furnishings all
over the country.
The Charlottesville Wooden Mills.
manufacturers of cloth, has a very
large plant and employs $50 operatives.
This company has large contracts with
Uncle sam to furnish cloth for the uni
forms of his soldier boys
The Monticello Wine Companf Is a
famous plant that has created here a
market for all OF the grapes the farm
ers of Albemarle and adjoining counties
choose to grow. and they choose to
grow vast quantities OF them. The
wines from this company's cellars are
sold all over the country. not excepting
the dry spots thereof The Marchant
Manufacturing Company employs 100
people and makes overalls and work
mems pants that have a reputation all
over the South
Micbia hlisbjpo, f.op,pany ,rho
employ over 125 people. among them
about dozen young lawyers. is the
largest establishment of it's kind in the
South. Its business is to publish law
books, and the same are sold In every
State in the Union.
The Albemarle Stove Works and this
Harris Agricultural Implement Works
are big iron consuming industries which
employ large forces. The Brown Mill
ing Company maintains a fiouring mill
of large capacity. and its fours ara
known all over Virginia and beyond.
! The Aibemarle Creamery does a large
business. as does the Lovegrove Milling
Company and the Albemarle Mills.
The Mercantile business.
The Charlottesville Ice Company has
just edded to it's immense plant for tee
making and for cold storage an up-to-
date abbattoir that is. In equipment.
sanitary provisions and in all respects
except in the matter OF size and ca
pacity. the equal of any OF its
kind in Chicago or any other city. This
company is building UP an immense
meat business in all of the territory
reachabie from Charlottesville.
Three wholesale houses. two being
groceries and one a hardware house.
are large establishments, doing profit-
able business. There are other erter-
prises here. such as brick-making ea.S
! Establishments. several small machine