The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-10
PATTERSON FOLKS \
COMING BACK HOME
Old-Time Tobacco Con-
Germ Resumes Business
IN Same Old Bailiwick.
RICHMOND IS HOME
OF BEST TOBACCOS
New Establishment That Adds
About 500 People to the Big
Pay Roll List-Local Men
Put Up Money That ii
Means Big Things
to Richmnod.

The tourists who come to Richmond
and thousands Of them do every year
visit all of the places of historic in
/ terest. and there are very many such
i places hereabouts. and then naturally
! these tourists make inquiry about
business. Nine out of ten OF them will
! ask their guide to show them a to-
/ bacco factory. for no matter where
/ the tourist comes from no knows that
\ Richmond has from time immemorial
/ been as famous as n tobacco manu-
| featuring centre as it ever was as tho
seat OF old st. Johns Church, where
! Patrick Henry made the flaming
speech that set ali the colonies on fire
! OF rebellion against the English
/ crown.
| From the earliest days the tobacco
manufacturing business has kept Rich
| mond industrially and commercially
| famous. and In this line, as well as
many others. Richmond has kept up
| with the times, for whenever anything
new sprung up In the tobacco limo
| Richmond was the first to catch on:
in fact. most OF the new things that
have sprung up from time to time in
| tobacco manufacturing had their birth
| in this city. and it is no wonder
that all over the country. from CALI
| fornia TO Maine and from the Lakes
| to the Gulf. users of the weed are in
tho habit of asking the retailer if it
was made in Richmond"
! HichTnond's Prestige.
A the close OF the War Between the
States. when everything in the South
and especially in Virginia was in a
state of commercial and industrial
chaos. Richmonds first efforts at a.
| resumption of business was in the to-
| bacco making line Just then DR.. r.
| A. Patterson. Confederate surgeons
concluded that making plug and smok-
| ing tobacco was likely TO be better
paying business than rolling pills, and
he established in thu city, on n small
| scale at first, n tobacco manufacturing
business that became famous. The
history OF the Patterson concern be-
came u large part of the commercial
\ history of Richmond. DR.. Patterson
originated brand of 10th chewing and
| smoking tohaccos that made Richmond
famous. He early took his sons in tho
business and taught them all OF the
details of the trade. In the course of
time tho r. ~ Patterson Tobacco Com
pany became n part. and very largo
part, OF the American Tobacco Com
pany. and when that gigantic cor
poration was dissolved BY order of
Uncle sam the Patterson company was
totally absorbed. and the then head OF
the concern became a leading officer
or the American. and practically tho
Patterson business was removed from
| Richmond.
Came Back Home.
However the Pattersons were true
Rtchmonders, and they could not long
remain away. To make long story
short. they pulled out from the Amer
lean. came back TO Richmond. and the
Patterson Brothers Tobacco Company,
Incorporated was organized. and thus
the old Patterson tobacco business.
with all OF its prestige, has come back
10 Richmond. and come TO stay
The officers OF the Patterson Bros.
Tobacco Company. Inc. are: NJ G.
Patterson. until recently vice-presi-
dent of the American Tobacco Com
pany. president: James r. Patterson,
vice president; John Landstreat. vice
president; j. Stanford Hutcheson for
merly president or the Gordon Cigar
and Cheroot Company. vice-president
and secretary; f. d. Mason. treasurer
The above, with A. w Patterson. L. H.
Norris and Henry Fairfax. form tho
directorate of the company The firm,
has cash capital of 100000.
The new company first bought out
the Gordon Cheroot Company manu-
facturcrs of the noted Green Turtle.
cheroots and other smoking goods OF
the cigar kind. and since early spring
they have been pushing this branch
of the business. They bought the big
tobacco factory and adjoining grounds
AT twenty sixth and Main Streets,
property known for years as the Gull
linGworth tobacco factory. This old
-four story building has been remod-
eled and enlarged, its capacity being
almost doubled. until now il has some-
thing over 100000 square feet or floor
space. The very latest machinery FOR
the manufacture of cigars cheroots
and smoking tobacco has been INSTALL
ed. and to-day 1t is perhaps the most
up-to date factory OF it's kind in the
United States. Later on a cigarette
department viii be added. and per-
haps still later on a plug chewing
branch will be established. but for the
present the company will give It's en-
tire attention 10 the manufacture OF
its brands Of cheroots and cigars and
especially 10 the pipe smoking tobacco
end OF the business. for which they
have a capacity OF 10000. 600 pounds
per annum In the pipe smoking end
of the gigantic factory, work was COM
mcuccd last week. and by the middle
OF this week the Patterson company
will have on the market two brands
OF smoking goods that are destined to
become famous They will be known
as Whip" and "Queed."
How Ii All Happened.
In the manufacture OF this class OF
goods, rs already intimated. Richmond
has become famous. and out West and
MP in New England nothing goes with
the pipe smoker unless IL was made
in Richmond" No people have done
more TO thus make Richmond famous
abroad than the Pattersons for in a
way they have mado we smoking to-
bacco made in Richmond" very ia
nous.
n 30 successful nave they been In this
/ particular line, II may be said. that
| the Pattersons have built up the habit
/ OF pipe smoking in this country. FIJI
teen or twenty years ago there was
/ not over third OF the quantity of y
/ tobacco smoked In the pipe in this
I country as is the case to-day. 1t is
true that thousands. even millions OF
pounds of graduated tobacco was
| smoked. but IL was mainly In the fac n
tory-made and home made cigarettes 4:
! Comparatively few smokers. possibly,
less than third, used the fuc ,curad &
granuiated tobacco in the pipe. bccsuseA