The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-09-05

4 y Kjuult mars HOa'N -
3fti times aR hlsh.
Such a monumen OF this great
American made toy exceeds the
height of the Washins on Monumenl
2275 times Those Kiddle kars piled
seat hieh would reAth up into the AR,
or rather ON past the air 27e miles, r
height 80 miles freder lhan TIE dtf
.ance from New York Gs.y 10 Boston
Throw open thu hrotile o. yoW'
Imagination Iust ran a kalie on
every Kar. Let ihem So TIRE feet
Iapa.i III a gigantic pqrsle That line
would he exactly 1865 mites long. Can
vui imagine rarade rf yelinssters
reaching from New York 10 Mllwau-
kec MA Chicago. with rs miles OF kid
dies and kars thrown in Or lpil meas
ure. II you can jnu Will begin TO
have q true apprecis, ion and q prop
or respect for the American toy
mannfa cturaI. Yon viii also under
stand just wliat,a big lhln2 Q clcFE
n the Adams Haidyare cohlpany OF
Bennington, vt. did when IN 1914 ne
,old Clarence Whit n Tin aRompbile
1 saw that toy few days ago like
La faithful old horse Surued out 10 pas.
ture: It Is well cared ior In the
presidents Office d the II. c. White
Company Il rests in n glass case. IL
and Freddie White were inseparable
pals that winter al lp14.5. II was q.
| good little automobile, but Freddie
was husky Nd, with MI smash Rang
| ylp stuff that Is the heritage OF
ihealthy, American youags'er. Ha.
didn't want toy to look ~. He
wanted to ride that unto and he did
The first week he put q hip through
the side OF the tonpeau api when MS
lad oyerhaulcd tie buggy Saturday
I nlght one wheel was or h
Every kid IN Ameriea onght 10 have
| a dad like Clarence While. Hs'i enN
II Freddie's gang They took The
| broken TOW over to Pas Optical tac-
tory and tinkered il into working or
der. It. was q good job FOR IT lated
three days. Then II busted galn and
from there ond Tor month Fred Via
roasted and brSke while Freddie
lad .inkcred and smiled.
Then came the day when G'ayen"e
Whites PATIENCE was punrtm'Fa. The
blowout was complete The remains
looked like wleelbarrow that had
been in .lIe way or an Eric frel9ht
train There wasn't any patch LEI
In st. Clarence cooked IT. oyns and
eeme to the wise ricrslon hat
Freddie had ner cer coming but
ae didn't want to- Wish himself into
perpetual repair job
The Adams dia1~F~T cnmr1ny
LII had LOT Of toy Ia a'n'E. tri
hey didn't have one that KID rouf
Il on and nropel by ipo ny ers The"
hidn't have one that could he sieera
they didn't have one thSi vas built
from the ground w % sthnd The 'ov
hooks OF play mad vnungsts- with
rapGlY leveinrinG s,s'cd tendencie'
knowing this hn BenhIngtm o.
ical goods manufacturer wont ort g.
he work rhot srd v''t In two DAYS
making the iarrt Kiddie kar. IT hhe
hardly been chang ID Elnce
The principal features ~ the toy
rreddis White tooS ~i'h him n hei
hat night have nevn~ been cAaneed
hut from that well-nsde Joy 4 great
Ansinpse has bean developed From
those two DAYS work on industry
| regularly emplovine 30n factory roo
ne has teen orea.ti From Frcddle
Whites first dFv q. erStasy tho soy
bowls OF millions of kiedies ssriur INC
to seyen years OF agn has been Iilled
TO overfowlng ssh
A business employing 9Aa rr1nie
n business that kesps !, ear Jni'l on
he hum hrsiness' 'iAi righ' fn'ly
claims to he the mont riDidly devel-
oped and subs tantially founded toy
/ business IN the world IS q business
worth any hardware mans afterstor
/ ! heard these fgures. ! took them
with Grain OF salt I met Hitch
heWorld Trout" the White sales
manager and in a moment OF indis-
iretlon | suggested that HIS adding
machine needed rnDa!rsA
Trout hit the ceiling and stayed up
n the air Until had AGREED to 10 to
Moth Pennington api he convinced.
! We arrived at Nhriii Benning on
Harrie White met Us In RuicN
lont know why. for It was a down
hill coast to the factory and we could
have mad Ii on Number s." Ten
minutes later we were going through
1.-The plans
Recently visited The factory
where the best bedroom furniture in
M world Il mrdn. Tha equipment
n the Kiddio Ksr factory IS better
Ial.l the finish Is just as Enod The
Inspection is stif.e' than in that fur
nj nre factory ! ras utterly as.
founded. ] saw Sldie Ktr parts dis
rafded because IL tiny knots. ! saw
them REJECTED on inspection for noor
finish In rarts that didn' sh1N..
saw Tie humber, rock maple Tor the
wheels. has 5wood for tho seats, yel-
low birch TOR the bolkjeis and Whit
birch for he yollc' ami handles Each
lumber pile was the1hoies stock OF =
days run al the mill.
4 ] saw this lumaes 81 eamhi and Elm
dried | Jaw IL plaped and sized saw
7 lIt take form under saws . amer
knives and turning ma hines. saw
these rarts atted together with care
one wouldn't expect to encourl sr cut
si5le a watch factory
/ saw. rharvelled and criticised
a>uldn't see The need Of such STOCK IN
toy. cou,dn't se- he sense OF
piano finish on plagthlns. u was
, TOO good, / thought they were crazy
but when we left the packing room
where the master wrapper put each
= Kiddie kar in package quicker than
| could wrap lye-pound package OF
: nails. when left all that and came
g back to the office where Whites