The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-06-23
Biggest and Best of
its. Kind in World
Furniture Exposition
, Building at High Point
Opened Here Monday

Advertising Wonder OF the World
Carries 216,OOO Feet of Exhibiting
Space on Ten. F4oors-1O0 Car
Loads of. Furniture Are There.
Rising above all its fellows like
the Alps above "a hay-rick, high
j Points million dollar beauty building
advertising wonder of the world, $
/ bedecked, but not bedizened for the
opening here Monday, June 20.
/ The furniture capital of the south
] cannot be said, to have gone n1adly
] excited over the formal opening; it
/ never has allowed itself to bec6me
/ SOPHISTICATED either to the fact or the
| fictin of greatness. It is a city of
/ hard-working artists and artisans who
have done their business so we'll that
they have not had time to advertise
themselves to the world. The expo
sition temple is the embodied dream
of ten years thrown into one supreme
achievement. The building is mar
vel, miracle in material accomplish
ment. =
1t is high enough to overtop all the
J towns and country about it and just
about big enough to enclose. base
,ball park. In its stocking feet lV
! stands ten stories high and meets Rip
Van Wrinkles toddied toast to all his
friends whom he wished to live long
and broad" 1t is 2O8 feet long, 100
feet wide. It carries ZIG, 6,O0o<feet OF
exhibition space and on it's ten floors
there are now with many thousands
feet of uncovered space, upward OF
4 100 carloads of furniture.
| 1t is the greatest furniture Du1lo-
!. ing devoted to advertising IN the
world. JamestownsfNeW YORK, mas d
structure Of this character but High
Points is incomparably superior to II
in every detail of minutiae and and CIR CIR
cumstantiality There is ST ,OO9,OO
/ +ed I'm in this unmatched building
And more than S5OO,OO0 of the. money
was raised by, private subscription
High Pointers, of course, predom1nate
! with their 115 factories in this place
but the nation has entree here. There
are 3O-odd exhibitors from out of the
state and more than 20 within,
It isn't any Mister Mans vanity
any expensive folly, 1t IS a wonder
ful combination Of utility and orna
/ mentation.s North Carolina has. some
thing to sell made by North Carolins
skill. This state consciousness H1gf
4 Point is anxious to spread. Man!
other places in the conmonwealtf
have ioinA In this elaborate plan, K
introduce North Carolina to itself.
Open All the Tpe
The exposition building will be con
stantly open, from this time forward
It is not to be a stamping ground to1
the curious, but a trade vantage poln'
a which buyer and seller can meet
go over the wares made here ano
elsewhere. Admission will be DJ
card. On the 10 floors will be the
products of the. hundred or SO manu-
/ facturers- The best that their facto-
,;as s sC-t t,i1n out will be, ON exhibition
there. One hundred lights on eevry
floor will give the perfect illumination
] which no natural rays from the goo
lof day ever gave to such articles un-
der inspection. The makers will have
experts in charge and in this great
building here will take place the bulk
! of furniture transactions IN North
! Carolina from now on.
Day and night shifts have been at
work all the week. When Monday
came the other day there were 81
car loads of furniture on the side
tracks waiting to be housed. There
we're six Yesterday when the day end
ed At the beginning of today there
we're floors which had not beer
touched. But by Monday every ex,
hibit will be in place and the Largest
j amount of space under single roo1
in North Carolina will be covered.
High Pointers are not resentful to,
ward those who never yet nave sale
the seasonable word about hem to the
world outside. It is wetl-knoWn here
, chat dealers have not advertised hlgn'
,, ly the homemade goods. Ihougf
High Point is vaguely known as the
Grand Rapids of the south, that ter
i, rible cult Of the second best in Nortt
Carolina, has somehow had the effec'
of writing the furniture metropol1!
, down instead of up. Of course every
body knows what High Point makes
) it is as distinctive town type a.
! Durham or Winston-Salem. But ther'
lis no general knowledge even OF tn
l character Of goods made right here
: And when it is written it is writer
that no factory in the country ha
sent to this exposition home a flne
! grade. of finished product than Higl
!, Point daily turns out, the public vii
/: begin to understand how slow 1T ha
D been to learn what High Point ha
wrought.
his grand march from the cradle O
the quick to the coffin of the dead: ]
exhibited as product OF High Po1nt
[ but not even High Point has fully iunF
| understood it. One of the most de
} tlicious stories told here when the IN
f spection of the building began wa
: that "Gra ndpa" Snow, daddy an
II granddaddy of the town: declined.
: belieye his own eyes. The furnltur
{ manufacturing has so outgrown thl
r / henipnant father of a city that n
could not recall hisgowr children. Hi
81 lumber yards have made millions o
!, feet for use in the finished produc
5 of these factories, but when he stun
EbIed into the Continental, the Tat
and the Tomlinson exhibits yesterda
q The would not believe any such mate
r rials AS these possible IN the hom
" factories. -. s