The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-23
RICHMOND IN THE
TYPEWRITER LINE
Continued from First Pege.

business conditions. For thirty years
This city has been considered an ac-
tive market for standard typewriters
very fcw foreign made machines
nave found any sale here. owing large
~ TO The high duty on such articles.
hut II is fact that every standard
make OF writing machine ever exploit
60 in the United States has found an
active demand and a vigorous sale
III richmond and each in it's turn has
had IT'S day y number OF our promi-
ncnt men in the city will admit their
juvenile experience i'm selling one make
O. another some Of them TO the point
OF substantial profit, and most Of them
admitting lingering interest in the
subject.
over 100 different makes of type.
writer's have been put on the markc,
In the last thirty years. some OF The
Shitt key and others OF the complete
EcNpoard principle, and a few Of them
can snow period OF profitable sue
cess IL rs generally known that moro
none mas been invested and wasted
III the manufacture OF such articles
man any other paten,ec article. This
Is due largely To the expensive meth.
DDS required for selling
kichmond adopted the typewriter
before SUCH cities as Chicago. ST. Louis
ar Cleveland recognized it, as a prac-
tical device one or TWO OF the lead
ing citizens OF to-day made their start
IN business or profession through
handling the typewriter In this city.
as carly as 1881, John Il. Culpeper
known for years as the Typewriter
King sold machines in these parts.
his first sale being Remington for
:l23 TO General " d. C;roncr, agent
Tor the Merchants and Miners Steam
ship Company, at Norfolk. He was
then private secretary to General Gro
io:. Mr.. Culpepcr earned his twenty
o. u-itl
Company as fifth in his class OF early
pioneers in the business, and is now
ON the advisory board OF that com
lanY and pcnsioncd Il. r.. Chesterman
= Richmond correspondent of New
York papers for many years, was one
among the first in this city to invest
III a typewriter.
20. Raymond Brown, well known in
Richmond as official court reporter is
also AN old typewriter man. having
invested in q Caligraph fitted with all
caps type as early as 1882. which he
used up TO the year 1887. during which
time he represented that machine, now
obsolete. until it was taken over by
Everett Waddcy, who handled it for
a few years. ID. II. Midycttc. an in
surancc man and bank director was
An carly purchaser Of typcwriters. and
sold Dcnsmorcs for several Years
Prior to the year 1890. ten sales of ma :
chimes year in the State Of Virginia
WAS considered a large business
Nowadays out Of the army OF sales
men in tho state. the man who sells
less ,han ten machines a month Is
considered poor trader IT is claimed
That the highest record ever made in
tho state was made in 1901. when Gull
pepper sold in the city Of Richmond
SIS new machines. since which time no
managed to sell over 500 machines
up 10 tho time of his retirement from
active work.
About the time when the indus
Try commenced to boom Thomas S.
WhnclwriSht and j: f. Howison took
up the sale Of tho Hammond type
writer in this territory and made a
great success OF tho business. Mr..
Ifowison soon retired from tho busi-
ness and went to New York City AZ
an offioc manager Mr.. Wheelwrisht