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Once Poor, Now
Worth Million
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| Therefore we deemed it necessary to
employ both, in order to carry out
our business policy successfully"
As he reflected into the recedinp
years, he continued:
I'VE never expected to do what
we have accomplished when we came
to this country. | knew when | came
here that it was a fertile field and
that almost anything could be ac-
complished."
Both Married
Both brothers are married. Will
liam lives with his wife, Gertrude,
and little girl, 10, at $50 Hancock
Street. His daughter is yet in grad
ed school, but expresses her desire
to become a lawyer when she is
grown.
Ethelbert, Jr., is the 16-year-old
son of the elder brother. He is a
student at the Thomas jefferson
High School and has made quite a
reputation for himself as a track
man. Ethelbert Darlington, ST., lives
with his wife, Mary, and their son,
at 521 Logan Street, in the East
New York section of Brooklyn.
when we leave the office. +"
unused Ethelbert, mo person can
talk business with us. We are as
free as homing bird. If | am not
at the office, or if both of us are
away, our business continues. Moth
ing Lays along because of our abb
sence. We have our business so or
ganized as to continue when we are
gone. | work for the interest of nv
brother and he works for me-"
Once We're Tailors
About eleven years ago, the Car
rington Brothers were listed in Brad
streets year book for the first time.
They were then doing business as
tailors, one block from the present
address. They have never given a
statement to Bradstreet, although
the publishers have sent representa-
tives several times.
The Darlington Trophy" is IA
miliar to tennis players throughout
the country. 1t is large silver low
ing cup offered as a prize among
tennis players in Brooklyn and Long
Island. If any club wins it three
times, it becomes the permanent
property of the club. Gerald Nor
man, Jr., son of DR.. Gerald Norman,
of Flushing, has won it twice. Spe-
cial mention of the trophy was made
in the souvenir program of the
American Tennis Association last
August when it held its tournament
at Tuskegee.
William P. Darlington was born
September 26. 1885, and his brother.
Ethelbert, July 20, two years later.
At the age of IA, William left
school and became an apprentice to
tailor. Two years later. he was
cutting and fitting clothing along
with his employer. He came to this
country in 1904 and lived here six
years. During this time he worked
as bellboy at the st. George Hotel
and odd Jobs, sometimes working at
his trade as a tailor.
The year following Williams ar
rival here, he wrote Ethelbert of the
possibilities in the United States and
urged him to come. Ethelbert had
learned the tailoring trade, too, and
William told him that he believed
that they could do better working
together.
Went to Boston
After his brother came, William
thought that he could do better out
of New York for the time being and
he decided to go to Boston. There,
he started to work for a tailor on
Columbus Avenue. After five
months at this job, he bought the
business from his employer and OPP
Grated Independently. He maintain
ed the shop until 1912, when he sold
out and came back to New York.
In the meantime, Ethelbert was
working in tailor shop in Brooklyn.
William began to work on the Fall
River Line, as bellboy, running
between New York and Boston. When
he returned from the first trip, he
saw his brother and had talk con-
corning the proper investment of
their earnings. After long discus
sion, the two brothers decided to buy
real estate in Brooklyn and the West
Indies.
In 1915, they decided to open a
shop together in 135th Street, be-
tween Lenox and Seventh Avenues.
| By this time, they owned two houses
in Brooklyn and other small property
in the West Indies. William did not
give up his job on the Fall River
Line, but bought the concession to
operate valet shop there with Ethel.
bert, working with him, while hired
man carried on the work in Harlem
They continued to buy property and
in 1918, they decided that they could
do better without the shop since they
were working on the ship, so they
sold it. Two years later, they quit
the job on the boat and opened an.
other shop in Brooklyn.
By the time they came to Brook.
lyn again, they owned considerable
properties. Eighteen months later
they decided that the business of col
lecting rentals was too much for the
tailoring business, so they opened the
office of Darlington Brothers, real
tors. On opening, the company EN-
ployed two white and colored per
sons.
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