The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-11-19
WASH|NGTON|ANS
HONOR HACKNEY
Youthful Captain of Industry
Given Banquet
Exceptional Tribute OF Town to
Bow Who Has Become Famous
as a Manufacturer.
(By W. Z. BOST.

Inc business WOTlU Oh Eastern NOlti
Carolina. belongs the exceptional tri-
butte OF last night. a banquet by the
chamber Of and the citizens
OF Washington.
AS a purely social event. it could
not be called vastly different from any
other In which countless courses and
manifold speeches fill the two pages
between the ornamented covers that
mark the individual plates. TO be
sure, it was a delicious dinner that
Manager j. A. Tucker. Of Hotel
Louise. set before the b%anqueters, and
Congressman John II. Small executed
neat coups as POSTMASTER. But the
food and the speeches were the mereSt
incident to an achievement in business
that must inspire every North Caro-
lima boy.
George Hackney. Jr., is % years
old. having asst his first presidential
vote at the recent election. He is the
son Of George Hackney. Sr, of Will
son. and the wise son Of a noble sire.
In the beginning of a wonderful bust
ness career, young George Hackney
chose his father with the greatest
care.
And when the junior Hackney. who
was living and working with the Sc
Nor Hackney in Wilson, where their
buggy shops were attracting the buy
ers Of the world, became of age, he
had a large substance that he might
have gotten from his father, and gone
to the far country, which is nearer
the prodigal today than ever. He
didn't choose a course. He took
the good name Of the parent, put it
into a great brick structure which
now gives employment to more than
125 men, started it to work on full
time and has run 1t on doubled and
scale ever since. He has
now invested in this factory, more
than s25O,O00 n his payroll
amounts to $4,000 a month. His fac
tory finishes daily more than twenty
five buggieS, annually more than 5000
buggies. wagons and phaetons and the
value Of these cO~nVeyances is placed
at 100000 q.
1t Is one OF the biggest businesses
OF Washington and is an almost un-
matched achievement of youthful en-
ergy and wisdom. Young Hackney
isn't a plunger. He settled at Wash
ingtOn for several good reasons and
went into the buggy business because
it promised we'll. The statistician Of
the city declares that it has grown
during the last few years more tina
any like business in the United States
The banquet to this young man was
of course, the plan Of Congressman
John H.. Small, the i%ncarnate energy
of the first district. On the folder!
telling by whom and for what pur-
pose given. the hOnored guest is re.
ferred to as lone Of Washington!
best assets" Mr.. Small was toast.
master and in presenting the severa
speakers after the six-course dinner
declared that the proprietor of the no
tel had been forced to apply the emer
gency to the reception and limit it tt
what the two great tables could seat
There were many other Washington
ians who wished to be allowed to hon
or this wonderful young fellow.
Mr.. Small introduced first the CUES
OF honor, whose toas was "Why
Came to Washington" Mr.. Hackne,
betrayed in the opening paragraph
the first and biggest reason. you al
understand what that was" he said
They did. They saw the m tn
secret incentive to the worlds grea
causes.
Il came to Washington" he said
because it has excellent freight ad
VantaGes and the low rates Obtainabl
here are a big item in a business Xix
this. The people welcomed me hear
lilly and those holding real estate en-
couraged me in the purchase of a sit
for the factory" And the young fel
low had finished his story in less tha
three minutes. 1t sounded just like
business letter.
Capt. j. Il. Clark.
Capt. j. E. Clark, of the patriarchs
beard. without a streak OF gray, Re
sponded to the toast, "Washingto,
Old and New" He started with 1856,
when his youthful eyes beheld in tn
miniature warehouses. the create.
sheds On h globe and the river rur
ming by the beautiful spot opened
him a piano. anna, by which the apocs
lyrtic vision Of Saint ohn the Diyir
must have seemed tame. II locke
down upon the metropolis OF II
world, as / thought, but there can
the wal between the wave and stec1
and steam won"
And the good captain went back