Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-23
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fotarians who visited wellsville
rs the guests of u. J. Lewis, of the
riarrispurg Leather Products Com
panS. were impressed with the thrift
anu enterprise of that little town.
t, t,artlcularly were they amazed by
a oae SIZE and extent of the industries
OF the place. far removed as it is
from railroad connections. The
NWeIisv1lle Whip Company, General
manager j. Milligan told the Ro-
tSrlans. turns out fifty gross of
WHIPS day and disposes of them
IN all parts of the United States
ana abroad. The raw materials must
e ee lauled TO the factory and the
nnished product away by wagon. but
not even the war, which has c,it off
some OF the sources of supply in far
away Singapore, or the automobile.
whlch carries no whip socket, have
been able to cut down the business
TO any appreciable degree. -.
Mr. Mllligan told the Rotartans
that the original whip factory had
Deen started by the founder, Mr..
Wells, away back in 1897, in a small
room at York. The nearest railroad
point then was Harrisburg, and the
materials and products made the
thlrty-mile trip by wagon. The fac
tory grew and was removed about
that year to its present site in Wells
Vllle@ 1t now occupies a long, vine
covered stone building and looks
just as prosperous as it is.
Just back of 1t Is the factory of
the Harrisburg Leather Products. a
large frame structure, big and airy
IN summer and steam-heated in win
ter, which gives employment to the
sons and daughters of the men who
ma employment in the whip factory
OF IN that other of the trio of big
industries in Wellsville. the Wells
Vlile Manufacturing Company, of
Whlch w. d. Brougher is the head.
some Idea of the extent of this COM
pany's business may be obtained
from the fact that last year 1t turn
ed out $4,000 fly nets for horses.
winch is the unique and almost the
sole product of the big factory. I,
But Wellsville has public spirit as
we'll as business enterprise and the
town reflects the thoughtful care of
Its citizens in their pride in its ap-
pearance and the prosperity which it
enjoys. Home gardening was a IA
vorite outdoor occupation in Wells-
vile long before the war forced 1t
upon less thrifty communities and
every house has It's flower as we'll
as its vegetable lot adjoining. The
streets are not the ordinary bor-
ough streets. They are we'll kept and
the houses almost without exception
shine resplendent in fresh paint and
the fences are cleaning white with
lime applied this spring. Wellsville
is the home of Richard Young, a
millionaire leather man of New
York, whose summer home Is one
of the show places of that town. Mr..
Young came to Wellsville one day
some years ago to do business with
this same Wellsville Whip Company
and there met one of the charming
girls for which the town is famous.
She is now Mrs. Young and every
summer comes back to renew old
acquaintances amid the scenes of
her girlhoood. while Mr.. Young is
one of the big holders of stock in
the whip company and Just to show
his interest in the place not long
since presented to the town q hand
some schoolhouse, fully equipped
with everything that any city school
of modern design and furnishing can
claim.
The Rotarians were so we'll i'm
pressed with Wellsville that they are
very likely to accept Mr.. Young's
invitation to come out some day this
summer and be his guests for a time.
Relating his last conversation with
Uncle Henry" in his Office at the
Capitol just prior to his death last
winter, DR.. McCaskey gives this in
teresting account: 1--WE had an old
time hour with him not long ago in
his reception room at the Capitol
and talked of men long gone, some
of them forgotten. Mac he said,
YOU and I are all that are left of
those old days of Burrowes and
Hickok and Wickersham and Brooks
and f. A. Allen and Woodruff and
other good men of that early time.
Soon we'll be gone We laughed,
y Yes,' said T. we were youngsters
then; you were little ahead of me,
and I haven't caught UP with you
yet. We don't. see many on the
street who are ninety or hundred
and we must vanish soon. But we
are in no haste to be away from so
good a world So we chatted pleas
antly of yesterday and a. near to-
morrow. I little thought it was the
last time, and that when next I saw
his face there would be no smile
upon it of friendly recognition"
Speaking of the Capitol, one of its
admirers is Attorney General Brown.
Not long ago he met some friends
in Philadelphia who were talking
about spending the summer on
motor trip to see points of general
interest in eastern States. 1t cropped
out that they had not been in Har-
rjsburg since the Capitol was built.
start in and see Philadelphia and
then go see the Capitol of your own
state. Then you will be ready for
Others" was Mr.. Browns admon-
ition.
In years to come some citizens and
citiZenesses of Harrisburg will be
rather surprised to find what they
gave to the Red Cross in the great
war. One of the features of the sub
scriptions this week has been the
putting down of gifts In the name of
Youngsters. It was the same with
the Aiberty Loan and it is starting
out young Harrisburg in the right