The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-10-07

the United States, being in the first
company. The first factory was fol-
one encouraging others, add before
High Point knew what had happened
the town was dotted with furniture
factories and they were prospering.
That commenced TO attract more
people to High Point and those who
gathered in from the neighborhood
farms were young men who had the
ambition in them to go somewhere to
do something.
High Point is a town Of energetic |
young men. 1t is big example of CO. |
operation that would delight the soul |
of Clarence Poe, for although it is not |
posing as/an apostle Of cooperation |
the habit these people have of form
alS a corporation and taking stock
- mall blocks has distributed the
ownership of High Point industries in
most promiScuOuS and gratifying
way.
From the furniture factory it was
an easy step to the glass that goes to
decorate furniture. One step taken,
/ 1t was another easy step to start some-
thing else. With more factories came
| more impetucus young blood, and
| more enthusiastic young fellows meant
more factories. The available female
| help suggested textile mills so cotton
and silk mills sprung up until this is
one Of the important textile communi-
ties Of the United States, and more
| cotton mills are building
This feature Of cooperation in
cludes more than simply uniting to
build factories. The city owns its
lights. and it gets the best rate. for
its people of any town in the State
with service that does not have to
apolgy for the lights. Water-works
that bring water from Deep river
through big new filter plant is an
other public utility, and the. monthly
analysis says the water is as far above
!. reproach as Caesars wife.
For a time the furniture factories
of High Point built a simple line OF
stuff, but as they learned how they
entered upon the better kinds. Now
! scarcely anything is too pretentious for
these shops, and a couple of times a
year professional designers visit the
factories to bring forth new things
1 in furniture, for furniture is like al
most every other thing favored by
2 mankind, it is subject to changes OF
fashion Instead of following the
/ fashions, as was the case a the begin
ming, High Point has reached the
place where the factories Of the towr
S set the, fashions and are accepted az
: among the dominating lords of hous.
I furnishing styles.
course furniture employs more
n hands at High Point than any otheI
: industry, yet there are a Thousand
girls in the hosiery mills, proba bl.
u three hundred in the silk mills >ant
n more in the spinning and weavin,
Y mills.
q One of the most interesting depar
lures taken at High Point, and the on
n that really clinches the fact that tn
n town has found itself is the car works
n 1t is easy to understand why furni
el,x IL -,
a and hosiery and textiles, and buggie
e and coffins, and any other thing tina
% uses the raw material at the factor
d door, and mirrors and things of tina
ID sort that rather go With furniture. Bu
n a street car is another breed of ami
h mails, and that High Point shoul
a take up an outside article. bring
y to perfection and establish its manu-
e ia cture away from any Of the con-
IS mon centerS of such industry, is eV
is dence that these people have pick G
Y. up the real industrial swing. TT
> street car fac ctory is ma king high grad
t street cars and making them for trol
1T ley lines up in the North where the
N are supposed to have a cinch on tn
ne manufacture of everything.
The street car factory does NJ
a. ctartle High Point, for the town he
if reached a place where it looks wit
O. complacency on the suggestion
IN anything new, ana IeelS LndI II ca
III get away with any proposition, whic
I think IS the case. There is no re;
id son why the men Of High Point ca
" rot make IS good street cars as al
ic made in ST. Louis or Philadelphia.
- as good silk Weaves are made
id Patterson. or as good anything as
made by Inen and women IN al
ck place.
ed The young men Of High Point ha'
es gone at the making Of things. and
nd some Of the young fellows are, gra
nd uany growing old. they have give
de their after ton 70 the production
a their wares and not to the debate
IN the question Of whether il could
rl- done They have shown 10 The Sta
ed OF North Carolina and to the enti
Is South that North Carolina bra
~. and a North Carolina hand can
,iu lust what q Massachusetts or Pen
Of sylvania OF a New Jersey brain a
re hand can do. They have shown tn
90 application. economy. industry and O
Car bring rpSTilfS