{"1": {"fulltext": "F", "height": "3916", "width": "2538", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "CQPHUGHT DEPOSrn", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "A^\\nc^\\\\", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "0 2,\\n^omfilimeais or f \u00c2\u00a7ee S^gi-\\nI\\nY r Y YYVYYYYYirVVVY YJT J\\nTRADE RE\\\\ rEW.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0elMO.E.toD-PuBL.", "height": "3864", "width": "2502", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "PRINTING /fUBBER STAMPS,\\nBOOK-BINDING seals, etc,\\nPAPER BOXES\\nTHOS. GILBERT\\n15 TWELFTH ST.\\nCOLUMBUS, CA.\\nBLANK BOOKS,\\nOFFICE APPLIANCES, MERCANTILE\\nDesks and Cabinets STATIONERY\\nTM E\\nLargest, Most Comfortable and Elegant Hotel,\\nTHE VERNON,\\nBar, Bath and Barber Shop Connected.\\nCorner First Areiiiie and Thirteenth Street, Colnuibus, Georgia.\\nRates $2 per Day. Weekly Rates given on Application.\\n^:W See Page 141.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "COLUMBUS\\nHER\\nTrade, Commerce and Industries\\n1892=3.\\nMANUFACTURING ADVANTAGES, BUSINESS AND\\nTRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.\\nTOGETHER WITH\\nSketches of the Principal Business Houses and Manufacturing Concerns\\n-OUKKN CITY.\\nHistorical and Descriptive Review.\\nJ. E. Li^NID, Editor,\\nAn llou OK flllfAGO, THE FUTURE MkTI{()P(H,1S UK THeNeW WoKI.D, St. LiHTS, her TliAlii:, (HHIEKIK\\n.\\\\M JIaMKAI TUHES, MILWAUKEE, HER TliADE, CoM.MEKl E AND MANUFACTr UES, J E.V I1.I.I STIi ATloNS\\nor New Oki.eans, Indu.stries of St. I aui,, Inuustries of I.ndianafoi.i.x, iNursTHiKs\\nOF WllEKI.INIi, I.NIHSTRIES OF Pf.ORIA, iNDl iTRIES OF EVAXSVl I.I.E,\\nllARI.ESl oN, S. OKI! TRADE, COMMERCE AND InDU.STI!I ES, AND\\nMany (tiiiEi; Works on the Indu.striai, Growth of\\n.Vmkhu an Cities.\\nCOLUMBUS, QA: OCT 20 1892\\nPublished BY J. E. Land Publishing Company.\\n18 92.\\n:^0-^ b^^V-", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "PUBLISHERS NOTICE.\\nThe labor connected with sucli a work as this none can fully appreciate but those who\\nhave performed it. The work is presented to the public witli the belief that it is as nearly\\naccurate as such works can be. The utmost care has been exercised in the collation and\\npresentation of the matter in this work, especially that relating to the manufacturing and\\ncommercial advantages of Columbus, and no expense has been spared to make it not only\\nacceptable to the general reader, but in the highest degree valuable to our tradesmen,\\nmanufacturers and financial institutions. The book is mainly designed to furnish the most\\ncomprehensive and authentic information concerning the facilities and resources of this city,\\nwhich will awaken a more appreciative spirit of enterprise at home, and increase patron-\\nage and favor from abroad. It also aims to direct attention to our vast capabilities and\\nresources, many of which are yet undeveloped, and to utilize more thoroughly the facts\\nwhich demonstrate the superiority of Columbus as a commercial and manufacturing city.\\nIn a city like Columbus, where improvement and change are the order, and the watchword,\\nit would be strange, indeed, if we did not here and there find an error. If, however, our\\npen shall succeed in directing the attention of the trade to its manifold superiorities, or\\ndraw to this vicinage a population that shall sieze upon its possibilities and go forward to\\nglad fruition controlling its agencies and shaping its destinies if we do all or any of\\nthese, we shall be munificiently rewarded, and our chiefest aim be reached.\\nIt remains for us now to acknowledge obligations to the various sources from which we\\nhave I eceived assistance. Our object, throughout, having been to i)roduce a useful book,\\nwe have not felt at liberty to reject aught that could be turned to practical use. Therefore,\\nas far as was consistent with our own plan, we have carefully gleaned whatever was perti-\\nnent and of value we have discovered in other directions. Nor have the newspapers been\\noverlooked. To the Directors of the Columbus Board of Trade, for their indorsement and\\nhearty co-operation to A. G. Grant, for the excellent photographs from w^hich the cuts\\nwere made, and to the patrons of the work, who compose so valuable a portion of the\\nbusiness men, and are contributing most largely to the growth and prosperity of Columbus,\\nthe publishers desire to return their grateful acknowledgements.\\nWith this brief ])reface, we launch our vessel, trusting that it may bring to port the\\ntreasures which the merchants and business men of the Queen City so richly deserve.\\nVery truly,\\nJuly 15, 1892. THE PUBLISHERS.\\nSTATISTICS AND INDUSTRIES OF COLUMBUS.\\nTiiK. Cm. t Mills BiiARn of Trade,\\nCiiLiMiirs, Ga., February 2!), 1802. j\\nWe, the unilereigned, Directors ul tlie oliiinljiis Hoard of Trade, have exainiiied a prospectus and plans submitted by\\nthe .1. E. Land I ublishins Co., of Chiiajio, conleniplatinK tlie publication oC a book setting forth the advantages and\\nindustries of Columbus, Ga., for general circulation, and tiike pleasure in recommending the enterprise for a favorable\\n(insideration of the business men of Columbus. It has been the desire of the Board of Trade, and the Committee on Sta-\\ntistics and Advertising, to publish such a work, and we think the proposition of the .1. K. Land Publishing Co. offers the\\nliest inducements for a |)uldication of that kind. Respectfully,\\nL. H. CH.\\\\PPKLL, President.\\nW. C. 1!I!.\\\\1)LKV. Isl Vice-President.\\nWILLIAM A. WIMIUSH, 2d Vice-President.\\nL. C. FKAZKK, ;id Vice-President.\\n.1. .1. MOULKY.\\nTHOS. GILBERT, PRINTER, COLUMBUS, GA.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "GEISTER^L INDEX.\\nA.\\nAverett, E. M., Wholesale Fruits and Vegetables, 136\\nB\\nBanks and other Financial Institutions, S2\\nBagging Manufactory, 50\\nBarrell ^Manufactures, 46\\nBerry, Geo. 0., Steam Brick Manufacturer, 80\\nBethune, A. J., Stationery, Fancy Goods, etc., 133\\nBergan, M. T., Wholesale Liquors, etc., 100\\nBlandford Grimes, Attorneys-at-Law, 100\\nBook Binders and Blank Book Manufactures, 4(5\\nBooks and Stationery, 36\\nBreweries, 46\\nBrick Manufacturers, 46\\nBrush Electric light and Power Co., 88\\nBrowdy, Jacob, Hats, Caps, Clothing, etc., 135\\nBrowne, Rhodes, General Insurance Agent, 102\\nBullard, Dr. W. L., Occulist and iVurist, 122\\no\\nCandy Manufacturers, 46\\nCantrell, V. R., Groceries, Dry Goods, etc., 106\\nCargill, J. W., Staple and Fancy Groceries, I35\\nCarriage and Wagon Manufacturers, 46\\nCarter Bradley, Cotton Factors, Commission Merchants, 74\\nCharacteristics of the People, 24\\nCharitable and Beuevolent Institutions, 69\\nChattahoochee Brewing Co., ^2\\nCider and Vinegar Manufacturers, 47\\nCigar Manufacturers, 47", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "GENERAL INDEX\\nCentral Line of Boats, 98\\nChurclies and Religious Institutions, 67\\nClotliin Mauufacturers, 48\\nClimate of Columbus, 65\\nColumbus, as it is in 1892, 20\\nColumbus and Western Railway, 26\\nColumbus and Rome Railroad, 27\\nColumbus as a Cotton Market, 29\\nColumbus as a Place of Residence, 65\\nColumbus Business College, 1-15\\nColumbus Grocery Co., Wholesale Grocers, 78\\n(Jolumbus Iron Works, 92\\nColumbus Investment Co., 128\\nColumbus Water Works, 103\\nConnor, J. II. Co., Dry Goods and Groceries, 115\\nCrawford, Tol Y., Attorney -at- Law, 98\\nCreole rile Cure, 121\\nCotton and Woolen Goods Manufacturers, 45\\nD\\nDavis, Robt. Co., Groceries, Liquors and Cigars, 125\\nDclmonico Restaurant, 86\\nDrugs and Chemicals, 50\\nDun, R. G. Co., Mercantile Agency, 76\\nDudley, T. J. k iSons, Manufacturers Doors, Sash, Blinds, etc., 129\\nE\\nEast Highlands, Property of Muscogee Real Estate Co., 57\\nEifler, Philip, Dealer in Guns, Pistols, etc., 133\\nEmbryonic Colund)us, 13\\nEnnis, J. W., General Merchandise, 102\\nEverett, II. F., The Stove Man, 132\\nExcelsior Steam Jiaundry, 118\\nF\\nFertilizers, 48\\nFire Department, 72\\nFlour and Grist Mills, 48\\nFlournoy Epping, AVarehouse and Commission Merchants, 79\\nFrazer House, 122\\nFruits and Confectioneries, 37", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "GENERAL INDEX\\nG\\nGeorgia Midland and Gulf Railroad, 27\\nGirard, Ala., Trade, Commerce and Manufacturing Advantages, 68\\nGirard, Ala., Natural Resources, 64\\nGinsberg, A. IL, Gents Furnishing Goods, etc., 126\\nGranite and Marble Works, ,50\\nGreen, W. J., Boot and Shoe Maker, 125\\nH\\nHarrison, J. B. Co., Real Estate, Stock and Bond Brokers, 83\\nHarrison, J. S. Bro., Boots and Shoes, 137\\nHamer Eason, Wholesale Grocers, 147\\nHill, Reese Co., Real Estate and Insurance, 124\\nHolmes, Dr. D. A., Veterinary Surgeon, 140\\nHoward, R., Board and Sale Stables, 151\\nIce Manufactures, 41*\\nImmense Water Power, 44\\nIntroductory,\\nIron Manufactures, 48\\nJ\\nJackson, H. F., Physician and Surgeon, 107\\nJefferson, R., Groceries, 84\\nJones Bi os., Sash, Doors and Blinds, etc., 81\\nJoseph, M., Jobber of Dry Goods and Notions, 95\\nJoseph, J., Dry Goods, Clothing, etc., 127\\nJohnson, W. E., Southern Traveler for Kerr Thread Co., 138\\nJungerman, E., Photographer, 124\\nK\\nKaufman, J. J., Candy Manufacturer, 151\\nKelly Co., Wholesale Grocers, 96\\nKyle, J. Co., Wholesale Dry Goods, etc., 90\\nL\\nLeo, M. H., Dealer in Fine Millinery, 132\\nM\\nManufactures and Manufacturing; Advantai^es, 39\\nMiles Lett, Life Insurance Agents, 117\\nsillier Miller, Attorneys-at-Law, 86", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "GENERAL INDEX\\nMitchell, Thos. S., M. D., Physician and Surgeon, 77\\nMobile and Girard Railroad, 2\u00c2\u00bb)\\nMorgan, Dr. D. E., Druggist, etc., 112\\nMunday, Wm., Livery, Feed and Sale Stables, 14(3\\nMusic and Musical Instrunaents 36\\nNewspapers of Columbus, 71\\nNorth Highland Land Improvement and Manufacturing Co., 61\\no\\nOrr, J. K. Co., Wholesale Boots and Shoes, 87\\nPatterson Thomas, Wholesale Druggists, 130\\nPease, J. W. s Sons, Books, Stationery, etc., 130\\nPekor, V. J., Watchmaker and Jeweler, 110\\nPeacock, G. J., Clothing Manufacturer, 88\\nPiedmont Cider Works, 104\\nPower s Cash Store, Phenix City, Ala., 112\\nPosada, Mrs. A., Cigars, Tobacco, etc., 07\\nPopulation. 21\\nProspectively, 20\\nPublic Schools of Columbus, 67\\nR\\nRailroad Interests, 25\\nRankin House Barber Shop, W. A. Mahonc, Proprietor, 80\\nReal Estate Interests in Columbus, 5-4\\nRedd, Wm., Jr., Real Estate and Fire Insurance Agent, 127\\nReid Lenoir, Painters, Paper Hangers and Decorators, 147\\nRiddle Nuckolls, Wholesale Tobaccos and Cigars, 00\\nRhodes Browne, Insurance Agent, 102\\nRothschild, David, Wholesale Dry Goods, etc., 134\\nRogers, S. J., Photographer, 113\\nRothschild, B., Dry Goods, Clothing, etc., 126\\ns\\nSauls, Mrs. S. J., Florist, 107\\nScarbroiigli, L. A., Groceries and (xcncral Merchandise, 150\\nSelignian, M., Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, 75\\nShepherd s Brick Yards, 04", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "GENERAL INDEX\\nSimmons, S. L., Meat Market, 84\\nSinger Manufacturing Co., Sewing Machines, 101\\nSims Sims, Physicians and Surgeons, 152\\nSouthern Plow Co., Manufacturers Plows, etc., -93\\nSociety of Columbus, 05\\nSmith, U. H., Druggist, Phenix City, Ala. 111\\nSpear, T. S., Watchmaker and Jeweler, 83\\nStreets of Columbus, 70\\nSunday Schools, 07\\nSwift Manufacturing Co., Plaids, Cottonades, Ticking, etc., 77\\nT\\nThe A. G. Rhodes Furniture Co., 120\\nThe Matrimonial Outlook, 23\\nThe Georgia Central Railroad, 20\\nThe Columbus Southern Railroad, 28\\nThe Dummy Line, 28\\nThe Jobbing Trade of Columbus, 30\\nThe Wholesale Dry Goods and Notions Trade, 31\\nThe Wholesale Grocery Trade, 31\\nThe Wholesale Clothing Trade, 33\\nThe Wholesale Liquor Trade, 35\\nThe Wholesale Furniture Trade, 30\\nThe Retail Trade of Columbus, 37\\nThe Columbus Board of Trade, 53\\nThe Environs of Columbus, 57\\nThe Enquirer- Sun, 71\\nThe Evening Ledger, 71\\nThe Sunday Herald, 72\\nThe Public Library, 72\\nThe Chattahoochee National Bank, 73\\nThe Columbus Barrel Manufacturing Co., 85\\nThe Steam Plant and Plumbing Co., 95\\nThe Southern College of Music, 103\\nThe Eagle Clothing Manufacturing Co., 85\\nThe Vernon Hotel, Geo. A. Riddle, Proprietor, 141\\nThe Columbus Savings Bank, 148\\nThe Hustler, 119\\nThird National Bank, 143\\nThomas, Grigsby E,, Jr., Attorneyat-Law, 128\\nTomblin, F. B., Groceries, etc., Girard, Ala., 100\\nTorbert Floyd, Millers and Jobbers of Meats, etc., 108\\nTorbett, C. L., Undertaker, etc., 115\\nTransportation Facilities, 24\\nTurner Bros., Manufacturing Pharmacists, 105", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Vlll GENERAL INDEX\\nVernon Hotel Barber Shop, 99\\nVeranda Hotel, 118\\nW. W. C. Co., 114\\nWare, H. L., Dry Goods, etc., 119\\nWatt, W. J., Groceries, etc., 131\\nWholesale Boots and Shoes, 8-3\\nWholesale Hats and Caps, 3-t\\nWholesale Drugs, Paints, etc., 34\\nWholesale Hardware, etc., 30\\nWholesale Cigars, Tobacco, etc., 3G\\nWilliams Booker, General Merchandise, Piienix City, Ala., 109\\nWillcox, D. F., Sons, Insurance Agents, 142\\nWimbish, Wm. A., Attorney -at-Law, 113\\nAVynne, AViley, Cigars and Tobacco, 130\\nY\\nYoung, W. H. Co., Manufacturers Pantaloons, .leans Suits, Shirts, etc., 110\\nCORRECTIONS.\\nSince putting the article of the Chattahoochee Brewing Company in type,\\nMr. II. H. Epping, jr., has been elected President, vice E. H. Epping.\\nIn the article of M. Seligman, page 75, the location should read 22 Tenth St.\\nPage 124 The firm of Hill, Reese Co. changed to Geo. Reese Co.,\\noffice over R. Jefferson, cor. Broad and Eleventh streets.\\nPage 130 E. M. Averett Location of business house 945 Broad street.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "COLUMBUS, GA.:\\nTHK OUKKN CITY OF THK SOUTH.\\nINTRODUCTORY.\\nFREEDOM of industry, the printing press, steam and electricity, neither of\\nwhich were enjoyed in ancient times, are the four grand forces in the\\neconomy of modern times, which renders our civilization higher than that\\nenjoyed by the ancients the day-star of mankind, the solar-light of the human\\nrace.\\nThe ancients were largely devoted to Avar; only a select few to literature,\\nmainly in its less utilitarian departments. The industrial arts found no appre-\\nciable place in their systems, and material development was regarded important\\nonly so far as it was necessary to national defense or aggressive military opera-\\ntions. In modern times, on the other hand, the interests of industry agricul-\\nture, manufactures and commerce all the useful arts and avocations have been\\nexalted to the first importance all other considerations are made subordinate to\\nthese. If any proof Avere needed of the transcendent importance of industrial\\ndevelopment to human progress, Avhat more forcible, Avhat more eloquent testi-\\nmony could be re(piired than is afforded by the record modern civilization has\\nmade in the last three or four centuries, contrasted Avith the record of fifty odd\\ncenturies of earlier times Unquestionably it is to industrial development that\\ncivilization must look for a realization of its highest hopes. For it is to be\\nremembered, says Wells, that the material needs of man must first and ahvays\\nbe fairly satisfied before morality, certainly, in any high degree, is likely to exist\\namong the masses; and furthermore, that something of material abundance or Avealth\\nmust be earned and saved before leisure for study can be obtained, or the scholar\\ncan exist. But to sujjjjly the material needs of man begets a diversity of\\nemployment the jjroducer, the dealer, the conuuon carrier, the manufacturer^\\nthe merchant, the ])ankcr, the officers of the law, all the army of trades and", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nprofessions entering into the machinery of society and forming a city. How\\nsenseless, then, and nnworthy of Cicero, was his remark: Commerce is a\\nsordid aftair when it is of little consequence for the small traders cannot gain\\nwithout lying; it is a business only tolerable at best, when carried on on a large\\nscale, and in order to supjly tiie country with jirovision. This only serves to\\nshow how little the true interests of society were studied, how little they were\\nunderstood in his time. With such sentiments prevailing, it is not to be avou-\\ndered at that so little progress was made in real civilization during the long\\ncenturies of anti([uity.\\nStriking as is the contrast between the jirogrcss maile in ancient times and\\nKESIDKNCr. OF JOS. K. LAJ1I5, EAST UKaiLANDS.\\nthat made by in(Mleru civilization, the contrast between the progress of modern\\nnations of Europe and that of the people of this country is hardly less remark-\\nable. Scarcely more than a century has elaj sed since the dawn of our national\\nexistence, at which period nine-tenths of the vast country we now occupy was an\\nunexjilored wilderness. Yet, in that comj.aratively l)rief time we have grown\\nto be one of the greatest, and in many resj)ects ^//e (jreateat of the nations of the\\nearth. From a population of 8,000,000, we have reached over 60,000,000\\ngreater than any nation in Eurojie fully civilized, and greater than any on the\\nglobe except China, India and Russia. During this period we have increased\\nin population more than 1700 per cent., while the nations of Europe, as a whole\\nhave increased less than 75 per cent. In area but two nations surpass us Rus-", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 11\\nsia and China -while in other physical conditions ours is incomparably superior\\nto either. We lead all other nations in national wealth. In the value of manu-\\nfactured products, of agriculture, of the carrying l)usiness, or transportation,\\nand of mining, we are in advance of any other country and in the six leading\\nlines of business or pursuits, including the above, and also commerce and bank-\\ning, taken as a whole, no nation equals ours. While we are, perhaps, the\\nwealthiest nation on earth, our public debt at the same time is incomparably less\\nthan any of the more important nations. Of telegra])h lines we have twice as\\nmany miles as any other peo})le, and of railroads, more than all Europe, and\\nhalf as many as the entire world. Cities are said to l)e the product of ages\\nvet, voung as our country is, we are already third among the nations in respect\\nto important cities. Speaking of the wonderful progress of this country, a\\nwriter in a recent number of the Edinhury Review says:\\nYery naturally, our American friends are in the hal)it of boasting of the\\ncolossal scale of everything in their magnificent continent. Their lakes are seas\\nand their rivers are navigable for many thousand miles above the mighty\\nestuaries. The very parks which are locked away Avithin the recesses of their\\ngrand mountain ranges, might pass for provinces or princi])alities in the cramped\\ncountries of the Old World. Yet, engineering science, backed by unlimited\\ncapital, has overcome these formidal)le obstacles and barriers, flinging bridges\\neverywhere across l)road rivers, and carrying railroads by every gradient\\nthrough the passes of the mountain chasms everywhere they may point with\\nlegitimate pride to the triumphs of mind and energy over matter. Agriculture\\nhas kept pace with manufacturing industry, while it has far out-stripped com-\\nmerce. The boundless prairies are being reclaimed by indefatigable labor, and\\nthe buffalo and roving savage have given place to herds of sleek cattle with their\\nstockmen. Mining has made greater millionaires than manufactures discoveries\\nof minerals and of mineral oils have directed the rush of immigration to the\\nmost savage districts of the continent, till, from the Golden Gate of San Fran-\\ncisco to the quays of New York, and from the shores of Lake Superior to the\\nmouth of the Mississippi, the States are being settled u}) by a community that\\nis being steadily consolidated by the spread of a vast net-work of railway lines.\\nClusters of wooden shanties shoot up into towns, while towns that are favored\\nby situation. or circumstances, grow rapidly into great cities; nor is there any\\nsurer road from competence to wealth than judicious investment in eligible\\nbuilding lots.\\nWith the record of such trium])hs as we have pointed out, achieved in so\\nshort a time, who will attempt to picture the future of this magnificent country?\\nDoes any one doubt that it is capable of supporting a population as dense as\\nGreat Britain Yet, settled as thickly as those islands it would contain a billion\\ninhabitants three times the i)resent population of all P^urope, and half that of\\nthe entire globe. If to-day, with sixty million inhabitants, this is the greatest\\nindustrial nation inider the sun, when the resources of the country are but little\\nmore than explored, to what degree of grandeur and sjilendor may we not justly", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nexpect it to attain in the fnture It is not surprising that the marvelous pro-\\ngress of the country has attracted the wonder and admiration of the civilized\\nAvorld but when it is considered that this ])rogress is, in a great measure, due\\nto the Southern States to tlie Sunny South, as they have been appropriatelv\\ncalled what must lie tliouglit of the magnificent resources of this new emjjire\\nof material wealth\\nand of the splendid\\nen ter) rise of the\\npeople to whom its\\ndestiny has been\\ncommitted.\\nIf modern civili-\\nzation has so nuicli\\ns u r p a s s e d t h e\\nsplendid barbari-\\nans of anti(iuitv in\\n2 every department of\\nhuman progress if\\nZ ill this country we\\nK SO transcend the\\npeople of Europe\\nin every ratio of\\nw material ad vane e-\\n5 ment if the New^\\no South has sounded\\nK the liimde-call and\\nleads the onward\\nH march of ])usiness\\nand industrial de-\\nvelopment, can it be\\nregai ded as more\\nthan every economic\\ncondition sufisests\\nto say that in this\\nsunny clime, tiiis\\ngreat dominion, as\\nboundless in mate-\\nrial resources and\\nin the enterp,rise of\\nits nndtijilying millions as in its area, a (pa-en-like metropolis will stand, a\\ns])lendid monument of civic grandeur and magnificence? To ask tlie (piestioif\\nis to answer it for nature made the decree, so that he who runs may read, that\\nhere in (reorgia, on the banks of the Chattahoochee river, is located the city to\\nwhich all streams of traffic, and tlu industi ies of learning and the liberal arts", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 13\\n-will flow. With the (liseerninent to see this, and tlie energy to anticipate it,\\nColumbus will make herself the crowning scene of this great human sea, and\\nthrough the vista of approaching years we behold the Metropolis of the \u00e2\u0096\u00a0New\\nSouth y\\nEMBRYOI^rC COLUMBUS.\\nBut before jiassing to the present condition of our City s trade, we deem it\\na])i ropriate to give some brief account of its past condition, the better to show\\nher importance, and the claims she has upon the country. All civilization grows\\nup from, and out of, small centers and humble resources. A man, a house, a\\nvillage and a machine, are the starting points of new and grand developments of\\ncommercial success, social life and national history. The world is full of such\\nrecords, that find illustration and culmination in the fame, and wealth and power\\nthat gives success and triumph to personal enterprise and stability and grandeur\\nto a city s history. Columbus is rich in annals, rich in associations that make\\nher plains historic, her hills remarkable, and her name beloved and honored in\\nmany a clime. These, then, are the treasured memorials of her people.\\nThese, whether they come down from the dim and shadowy past, or have their\\nbirth and fruition in the near and still remembered, are the only anti(iuities\\nof the place and of her citizens. In the usual acceptation of the term, our\\ncountry has no antiquities. Art, science, literature, music, poetry, war, have\\nleft no records given us no monuments. But itf jyhi/ si cal condition glorious,\\ncomprehensive phrase! taking in, as it were, in one grand respiration, its unap-\\nproachable climate, its areable fields, its clear, swift-rolling rivers, its unhidden\\nand exhaustless mineral wealth, its uncut forests these are the monuments\\nand monumental, too, of the Eternal Power and Godhead. Aside from these\\nand with these, what do we lack, for aught that wisdom can employ, or skillful\\nlabor produce? (Jur only real anti(iuities are reminiscencies of Indian life and\\nwarfare, and a recital \u00c2\u00bbf the hardshij)s, endurance and fortitude of pioneer\\nstruggles. The former, as to its origin and incidents, is involved in mystery\\nand mixed Avith fable. But it is reidete with interest to the curious, and goro-eous\\nwith thrilling tales of field and flood to the workers of fiction. The latter blushes\\nyet in virgin loveliness and beauty, and yet lifts its maiden hands, emploring Old\\nMortality to decijiher its inscriptions, to freshen its facts, to revivify its memories\\nand hand down to the generations coming -and to come, the short and simple\\nannals of a peo])le who, coming from their homes beyond the mountains and\\non the eastei-n shore, settled on the banks of the beautiful Chattahoochee, whose\\nfertile valleys their children have enriched as a garden, and made to bloom and\\nblossom as a rose.\\nSince that time years have rolled around; years of history, civil and social,\\n])ersonal and domestic, unfold their pages of trial and triumph, progress and\\npause, toil and suffering, virtue and vice, life and death. War, fire, famine and\\npestilence have held high carnival in her centre and the march of youthful art,", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nscience, trade, commerce and literature approach, anxious to 1)0 chronicled;\\nwhile festivals and feasts, religion and licentiousness, each come trooping up\\nlike bannered armies, with their contributions of glory or of shame, to fill the\\nmeasure of the city s history, The leaves are brimming full the acts and inci-\\ndents are innumeralile. Would tliat we could open the long-closed volume and\\nbring things long hidden out into tlie sunlight, make scenes long lying in obscurity,\\nnames long lost in the whirlpool of life, voices long silent, address us from the\\ngraves of the past; but such is not our task. Therefore, we shall oidy garland\\na few of the reminiscences, skip lightly over the remainder, and s])eak with\\nwords of soberness of the great and living jjresent.\\nLAKK ANNIi;. WlI,l WiMir I AliK. K \\\\ST Hlwll I. XDS.\\nFrom the most authentic information relative to the condition of the coun-\\ntry about Columlms at the time of its earliest settlement, we are led to believe\\nthat the hills were covered with cedar, its valleys and low ])laces hid by a dense\\nundergrowth of l)ushes, while tlie level country around about was jjeoided bv\\ndense forests of cotton-wood, oak, magnolias, an l such other lordly giants of the\\nvegetable kingdom. Tui-ning our imagination l)ack to those early times, Ave can\\nbut feel an inward sulilimity of its eai-ly charms. On the bosom of tlie beautiful\\nriver that courses its valleys, Ave see tlie Indian s ]\u00c2\u00bbark canoe; vast herds of elk\\nand horse, Avild and untamed, roaming througli its dusky Avilds the eagle,\\nSAvift n its pi-ey and liold in its flight, on cliffs and cedar-tops its eyries build-", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 15\\ning; the timid deer, ])asking at will in the genial sunbeams or the winding\\nsmoke laizily ascending from the wigwam by the river s margin warrior and\\nmaiden, chief and brave, are here in glorious contentment, discussing in colloquial\\npleasure, brave deeds or simple loves in their home,\\nShut out by alpiue hills from the rude world.\\nStanding there \\\\ipon the hills opj-.osite the city, what a grand and magnifi-\\ncent prospect would here unroll itself before our vision the far-off hills that\\nnow skirt the city s suburbs, blackened by dense foliage; the broad surface of\\nthe river stirred to gentle rolling by the evening breeze, and dashing its silvery\\nspray against the rocks of its rugged banks, the rolling, undulated surface of\\nthe soil the tangled background of cliff and cloud empurpled by the brush of\\nheaven all would here make up a scene presenting a marvelous master-piece of\\nan omnipotent artist, a landscape as sublime and imposing in its grandeur as the\\nYosemite Valley, which distinguished the brush of Bierstadt, and gave his name\\nto the roll of immortality. No churlish plowshare had ever marred the velvet\\nof the old mossy green sward; no cultivator s fire had ever rioted in the wild,\\nhixuriant undergrowth that waved its graceful plumage in every sheltered dingle,\\nor in the tufted clumps of cedar that flaunted their verdant banners on every\\nknoll and hillock no axe had ever razed the gnarled and knotty barks of the\\nhuge oaks, time-honored and immortal Titans, which, scattered far and\\nnear in their mighty grandeur, lifted their white, thunder-splintered heads,\\nstag-horned, and sear, and blasted, above their less pretentious neighbors.\\nBeneath their shadow the bow-string of the dusky hunter twanged terror to the\\nantlered monarchs of the forest. Perhajjs they stood here in their youth, when\\nthe boom of Columbus gun announced to the whole world that a new land had\\nbeen found. We know they were here, proud in meridian majesty, when\\nAmerica s uncouijuered legions swept on, like a moving wall of brass, against the\\nscarlet-coated mercenaries of the British lion. But lo I a change has come over\\nthese tranquil scenes the forest has disappeared, and up from the productive\\nsoil has vegetation sprung the briar patch has been turned into a cotton patch\\ndeep into the hillside the emblems of agricidture have fastened their roots, and\\nno more will the startled stag bound from his lair when the crack of the rifle is\\nheard in the valley, for some daring hunter has looked down upon it from the\\nbordering hills, and claimed it as the heritage of his children; the foot-prints of\\nthe Anglo-Saxon are made in its rich soil, and are impressed forever the age\\nof civilization has begun.\\nColumbus was estal lished as a trading town in 1827, by an act of the (Geor-\\ngia Legislature. Twelve hundred acres were allotted for the town and commons,\\nand a reservation of ten acres square for the county buildings of Muscogee\\ncounty, the county having the privilege of selling any portion not needed for\\ncounty buildings.\\nThe first sale of town lots, consisting of a half acre each, began on the 10th", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nday of July, 1828, and closed on the 23d out of (332 lots laid off, 488 were\\nsold, the total proceeds of the sale being $130,991.\\nIn 1828 the first manufacturing establishment was built, and consisted of a\\nturning lathe, erected on a little branch north of the city. In the same year\\nthe first theatre Avas built, and o})ened in July with a very creditable performance.\\nIn 1828 the\\nfirst bale of cot-\\nton ever sold in\\nthe town was\\nbrought in No-\\nvember from\\nGwinnett county.\\nIt was sold at\\n12| cents per\\npound.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a02 In November,\\n2 1828, the first\\nX- boat landed at\\nthe Avharf. It\\nwas called the\\nRob Roy, and\\ng was owned b}^ a\\ny- man named Love.\\nHer cargo con-\\nsisted of groce-\\nS ries for J. Fon-\\ng tain, Maharrey,\\nLove Co.\\nIn 1828 the\\ntown was incor-\\nporated by an act\\nof the Legisla-\\nture, but the bill\\nwas not signed\\nuntil the 19th of\\nDecember, and\\nprovided for an\\nelection to be\\nheld on the first\\nMonday in January, 1829, for an Intendent and six Commissioners.\\nThe first Mayor of the town of Columbus Avas L lysses LcAvis, Avho Avas\\nelected January, 1829, and R. T. Marks was the first City Clerk.\\nThe first ordinance passed by the city government Avas one reipiiring all\\nhouses on the public streets and common to be removed, and forbidding all per-", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES.\\n17\\nsons to cut down or destroy any tree on the river eoninion. In 1829 the first\\nbank was organized, and was called the Bank of Columbus.\\nIn 1828, the first newspaper was established by jVTarebeau B. Lamar, and\\nwas called the Columbus Enquirer. The first j)aper was issued in May of that\\nyear, it was a weekly j)aper, and was ably edited.\\nOn the 14th of March, 18-^)9, the first fire occurred in the city. The\\nquotations for this year were: Cotton 8 J to 8| bagging 23; bacon 9 to 12|;\\ncoiFee 15 to 17; sugar 10 to 12; flour $8 to $9 meal 75; molasses 45.\\nIn 1831 a new bank was organized, called the Farmers Bank of Chatta-\\nhoochee, Avith E. S. Shorter President, and Edward Carey Cashier.\\nThe following shows the condition of the banks in 1832:\\nNAME\\nCapital\\nCibcul n\\nDeposits\\nSilver\\nGold\\nBank of Columbus\\nFarmers Bank\\n120,000\\n60,000\\n150,000\\n229,972\\n91.881\\n101,299\\n813,603 50\\n32,579 00\\n7,965 23\\ne 132,951 92\\n70,171 71\\n70,375 73\\n301 50\\n18 000 00\\nThe Insurance Bank\\nTotals\\n330,000\\n423,152\\n854,147 73\\n273,499 35\\n$18,301 50\\nIn 1836, there was considerable trouble with the Indians who inhabited the\\nAlabama side of the river. There were a number of fights, and on one occasion\\nthey fired into a steamboat, and killed the pilot who was on duty at the time.\\nIn 1836, the town of Columbus was incorporated as a city, and an election\\nheld January 2d for a Mayor and six Aldermen, with the following result: John\\nFontaine, Mayor; T. G. Gordan, Geo. W. Dillard, Hampton S. Smith, E. Sigour-\\nney Norton, Thos. C. Evans and Ernest L. Wittich as Aldermen.\\nIn 1841, the bridge across the river was swept away by a freshet, but\\nwas rebuilt during the same year by John Godwin, at a cost of ^15,00-0.\\nOn March 15, 1842, the first big fire occurred in tliis city. The total loss\\nwas $100,000. One death, that of Prof. G. R. Hurlburt, occurred by the\\nthe explosion of Boswell Billing s drug store. The origin of the fire was a\\nmystery, and was never explained.\\nx\\\\pril 14, 1843, the first bank robbery was committed, wdien the Western\\nInsurance and Trust Company was robbed of some $60,000. One Thomas\\nMcKeen was arrested and gave information as to where the money was hid. All\\nbut S6,000 was recovered.\\nIn February, 1844, the total valuation of city property was SI, 266,055.\\nIn December, 1844, the Times gives the following list of establishments\\nDry goods stores, 26; groceries, 57 provisions, 28 silver smiths, 5 f cloth-\\ning, 5 hats and caps, 1; hardware, 2; books and stationery, 2 saddle and\\nharness, 3; tobacconists, 1 shoes, 7 bar-rooms, 17 auction stores, 2; drugs,\\n5; crockery, 1; confectioner, 1 tinware, 2; cabinet warehouses, 4 bakeries,\\n3; cotton warehouses, 5 livery stables, 4; hotels, 4; book-binderies, 2 iron\\nfoundry, 1 printing offices, 3; bank and ])ank agencies, 4; blacksmiths, 10;\\ncarriage warehouses, 2; cotton gin maker, 1 wheelrights, 3. Total 209.", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nIn 1845 the first cotton mill was erected. They had 1,200 spindles at\\nwork, but were making improvements every day.\\nIn 1845, the price of cotton ranged in January at 2 to 4|c. The first bale\\nof the new crop that year was sold August 5th, at S^c. The market for the\\nnew commercial year opened in September at 6|@7c., and dropped to 5|(a6ic.\\nin November. The closing ([notations. December IGth, were 5J@6ic. The\\nreceipts for the year ending August 31st, were about 85,000 bales, a decrease\\nof 30,000 bales from the preceding year.\\nThe first Board of Trade was organized July 3, 1845, with Henry King,\\nChairman, and C. E. jNIims, Secretary.\\nIn 1847, tlie city made a subscription to the Muscogee Railroad (now the\\nSoutlnvestern), and during this year there Avere numerous fires, but not so\\ndisastrous as in previous years, as the city fire companies were better able to\\ncope with the fire fiend.\\nIn 1848, the subscription to the Muscogee Railroad was ratified, and it was\\nagreed at an election, by a vote of 337 to 27, that a special railroad tax for a\\ntown of two years, of 2 per cent, on real estate, and one-quarter of one per cent,\\non sales of merchandise and banking business, should be levied to meet the\\nsubscription.\\nThe first telegraph line reached Columbus in July, 1848. In 1849-50 the\\ncity continued to grow, the factories already here enlarging their plants, while\\nthe building of the Muscogee Railroad was pushed forward with rapidity.\\nIn 1851, the first agitation of a waterworks was begun, and the first agricul-\\ntural fair was held in November of that year.\\nIn 1852, the first gas company was formed. The city council appropriated\\n$10,000 to the capital stock of the company.\\nIn March, 1853, a severe storm swept over the city, doing considerable\\ndamage unroofing and otherwise damaging houses, blowing down chimneys, etc\\nThe damage done was estimated at from $50,000 to $100,000, but no lives\\nwere lost.\\nFrom 1853 to 1856 the city continued to grow, and notwithstanding the\\nfinancial difficulties of 1855, subscribed and voted capital stock to two railroads.\\nIn 1860, the United States census showed the population of Columbus to be\\nwhites, 5,674 slaves, 3,265 free negroes, 100 Total, 9,036. In this year\\npolitical excitement ran high, and a number of military companies were organized.\\nIn December, 1861, the first year of the war, we find the following market\\nquotations: Bacon, 25 to 30c.; flour, $10 to $12; coffee, 67ic.; sugar, 10 to\\n12c.: salt, $10 per sack; corn, 85c. to $1 wheat, $2; prints 15 to 20c.\\nFrom 1861 to 1865, the city was at a stand-still a atural result caused\\nby the war between the States. On April 16, 1865, the Federal forces under\\ncommand of Gen, AVilson, succeeded in capturing the city, after a hotly contested\\nfight by the few hastily organized troops, and the city was badly looted and\\nmany houses burned. After peace was declared, the energetic people of Colum-", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES\\n19\\nbus began a system of l)uil(ling uj) their lost fortunes and their city s greatness,\\nand out of the ashes of the old Columbus has grown this magnificent city The\\nQueen City of the South with the mammoth cotton factories, warehouses, etc.,\\nher palatial dry goods and grocery houses, and her magnificent residences.\\nAt this juncture of our labors we may, with propriety, change the current\\nof our remarks. We have brought the records of our city in a rude and\\nimperfect manner though it be down to a period within the memory almost of\\neven our youngest citizens. However, we by no means claim to be the historian\\nof the city, and trenching in no part upon ground that properly belongs to the\\ndomain of biography, we have sought only to balance all drafts upon the Past by\\n-f\\n*eK^Ti^\\n-^^^J^^\\nWi;i!(i(i)P.A DKIVK, EAST HKUILANDS\\nthe marvelously increased value of tlie Present, demonstrating the philosophy of\\npolitical economy in the presentation of ause by the grander illustration of effect.\\nTherefore, Ave may say the past of this city has been Avell cared for, and as a\\nNeophyte in iVrcluvology, one may well, then, despair of success, and devote\\nattention to the actual and the present of our city, which, sustained by energy\\nbacked by capital, stimulated with fortitude by virtue of success, presents with its\\nmaterial progress, its advances in commerce and manufactures, its internal naviga.\\ntion by river and rail, its industrial features, its telegraphy, telephones, electric\\nlights, its enlightened press, its metropolitan advancements in every particular,\\nthemes sufficiently comprehensive and voluminous, and to which we invite the", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nclosest attention, and in which we promise faithful account of its magnitude and\\ndevelopment. In this connection we may say,\\nPROSPECTIVELY,\\nHer destiny is fixed like a new-born empire she is moving forward to conscious\\ngreatness. In her bosom all the extremes of the country are represented, and to\\nher growth all parts of the country contribute, Mighty as are the possibilities\\nof her people, still mightier are the hopes inspired. The city that she now is, is\\nonly the germ of the city that she will be, with her hundreds of thousands of\\nsouls occupying her vast domain. Her strength will be wonderful, and as she\\ngrows toward maturity, her institutions of learning and philosophy will cor-\\nrespondingly advance. If we but look forward in imagination to her consummated\\ndestiny, how grand is the conception! We can realize that there will be built\\ngreat halls and edifices for art and learning; here will be represented some future\\ngreat teachers of religion, teaching the ideal and s{)iritual development of the\\nrace, and the higher allegiance of man to the angel-world here will live some\\nfuture Plutarch, who will weigli the great men of his age; here some future\\nMozart will thrill the strings of a more perfect lyre, and improvise grandest\\nmelodies for the congregated people; here some future Rembrandt, througli\\nhis own ideal imagination, will picture for himself more perfect panoramic\\nscenes of nature s lovely landscapes. May we not justly rejoice in the antici-\\npation of the future greatness of the civil, social, intellectual and moral elements\\nwhich are destined to form a part of the Columbus of the future and may Ave\\nnot realize that the thousands who are yet to be its inhabitants will be a wiser\\nand better people than those of this generation, and who, in more perfect life,\\nwill walk these streets of the city of the future with softer tread, and sing music\\nwith sweeter tones, be urged on by aspirations of higher aims, rejoice with fuller\\nhearts, and adorn in beauty, with more tender hands, the future Queen City of\\nthe South?\\nCOLUMBUS AS IT IS IN 1892.\\nThe entire length of the city shows a magnificent river frontage of more\\nthan three miles, forming a beautiful and picturesque curvature, while the thickh^\\nsettled suburbs beyond give it even greater frontage. The average breadth of\\nthe city is two miles, and the greatest width two and two-thirds miles.\\nTHE QUEEN CITY PROSPECTIVE.\\nFrom the more prominent points about the city, and particularly the hills\\nacross the river in Alabama, a fine view is obtained of the city and the surround-\\ning country, which, lying like a vast amphitheatre, the range of hills forming the\\nsegment of a circle, and stretching far away to the North and Soutii, about three\\nmiles equi-distant from its central point, makes up a picture of hill and dale,\\nravine and river, city and country, exceedingly grand and lovely. The beautiful\\nsuburban towns, and the thickly populated agricultural district far beyond, made", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 21\\nlovelier still by the soft gray veil of distance, handsomely diversified -with highly\\ncultivated vegetable, floral and horticultural gardens, and extensive and valuable\\nplantations, intersected by numerous railways and graveled roads, present a most\\nenrapturing prospect. Turning toward the busy haunts of man, what a pano-\\nrama of mingled art and nature meets the eye church-spires are marshaled in\\nhosts, and warehouses stud every quarter; the mansions of the opulent, half hid\\nby ancestrial trees, and the cottages of the humbler citizens are seen in every\\ndirection the smoke-stacks of industry rising at countless points, form a forest\\nof progress, while the clouds of smoke vomited from their untiring throats bathe\\nthe city in vapory folds, and seem climbing one on top the other to kiss the God\\nof Day. Lastly, the river winding like a silver snake not by bald and sky-\\nkissing |)eaks, but past the scenes of honest toil and thrift, lending the force of\\nits waters to turn the ponderous wheels of its shipping, and to add to the comfort\\nof the people who inhabit its banks. There are no red gashes in the fair bosom\\nof mother earth; swords in this quarter of the moral vineyard, have been\\nturned into plow-shares, spears into pruning-hooks -it remains only for the iron-\\ntongued eloquence of the pen, more powerful than the gleam of falchion or the\\nsceptre of kings -to proclaim its glittering excellencies and to assert its proud\\nposition. To witness these charmes and to feel the sublimity of the cause, there\\nseems within the heart such a flood of melody seeking voice that some times, for\\nvery ecstacy, one is half tempted to give language to all the pent-up joy that\\nother men have frittered away, and that we have garnered up for a sight so rare\\nand exquisite. The poet, Cowper, had in his mind s eye a scene of comporting\\ngrandeur\\nT is pleasant, through the loop-holes of Retreat,\\nTo peep at such a world;\\nTo feel the stir of the great Bable. and not feel the crowd;\\nTo hear the roar she sends through all her gates\\nAt a safe distance, where the dying sound\\nFalls a soft murmur on theuninjur d ear.\\nkSo, whether we take it in the, garish light of day, or under moonlight, or\\nstarlight vision, no city in the South presents a fairer view than Columbus, the\\nQueen City of the South.\\nPOPULATION.\\nIn days immediately prior to the Avar, Columbus advanced with regularity,\\nand, up to the commencement of hostilities it was a place of comparative import-\\nance. The greatest growth and increase in population, however, has been during\\nthose years intervening the close of the late struggle and the present time, and it\\nhas moved forward with bold impetus, not only in wealth and commercial and\\nmanufacturing magnitude, but in substantial and i\u00c2\u00bberceptible aggregation of resi-\\ndent population. In 1870, the first census taken after the war, Columbus con.\\ntained a population of 7,401, and in 1880, 10,123. There was considerable\\ndisappointment, and we may say, chargin, among the boastful citizens, when the\\ncensus of IS JO showed a population of only 18,(^50. In this connection we may\\nsay, too, that the census-taker is yet to see the light of earth who could give", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\ngeneral satisfaction, and for this reason all census reports have been set down as\\nnotoriously innperfect. We, however, propose to be just a little charitable with\\nthe authorized enumerators, but to take sides with the people in this way In the\\nthe first place, the Census Bureau, as at present conducted, is nothing short of a\\nGovernment sinecure, glaringly faulty and speculative in the extreme. The\\nenumeration i s\\ngenerally made\\nduring the sum-\\nmer months, at\\nAv h i c h time a\\nlarge proportion\\nof the urban\\npopulation are\\nout of town.\\nT heir loss is\\nnever placed on\\n7 the credit side\\nof a coramuni-\\nty s numbers,\\nnor do we find\\nincluded in the\\nr e port s many\\npersons living\\njf in tenement\\nhouses, in back\\n_ alleys,desultory\\ndwellings, in\\nbasements or in\\nattics. In view\\nof tliese facts,\\nw e propose\\nselecting three\\nplans of calcula-\\ntion in determin-\\ning the present\\npopulation in\\nthe city, and\\nwhile we depri-\\ncate these uniparisons Avhic i are proverbially odious, we shall place sufficient\\nconfidence in the general correctness and utility of the figures to give them a\\nplace in this department of our report, asking for them a careful consideration as\\nto plausi1)ility:\\nFirst According to the official vote of the city at an election where a full\\nvote is cast, there were 8,500 votes polled. Estimating seven inhabitants", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES.\\nto each vote, (instead of eight, as is generally customary), we have a total\\npopulation of 24,500.\\nSecondly There are eight thousand and nineteen names in the last City\\nDirectory for Columbus alone estimating 3 J inhabitants for each name, and we\\nfind in this city a population of 28,067; add to this the population of Girard and\\nPhenix City, 7,036, and we find that the city and suburban towns show 35,703\\ninhabitants.\\nThirdly Estimating 9,440 lots within the city limits (or eight lots to the\\nacre), and three inliabitants to each lot (in Chicago and Philadelphia the rule\\nwhich holds is six inhabitants to each lot, and ten lots to the acre), the city\\naifords accommodation for 28,320.\\nThere are a variety of means of accounting for this gratifying growth, and\\nobservant Columbusonians will readily believe it. The most prominent reason\\nestablished is the fact that, our manufacturing interests having made such percep.\\ntible and gigantic strides of late, it has brought to us a greater addition of\\nnumerical strength than could have been the case had our trade been merely and\\nonly of a commercial nature. Nevertheless, we chose to accept even our own\\nfigures only with a grain of conservative salt, and to predict that the year 1900\\nwill witness a hona fide population in the city of Columbus of 50,000 souls\\nNow, observe that we do not resort to the trick of percentage a very untrust_\\nworthy method, since it is a less feat for a small town to grow twenty-five, fifty,\\nor one thousand per cent, than for a great city to do the same but having by\\nthree different rules of calculation, found an absolute addition to the city s popu-\\nlation of an average of 8,310 souls which, added to the Federal census, gives us\\nan average population of 26,960, may we not fairly and not ungreedily figure the\\nincrease tlie next eight years commensurate with that of the past two, calculating\\nfor the contribution of the country to the city, added to the city s own recruting\\npower by birth and the locality is certainly favorable to fecundity legitimately\\nentitlino; us to the better half of a hunched thousand at the close of the next\\ndecade.\\nTHE MATRIMONIAL OUTLOOK.\\nColumbus, it would seem, is also a good place at which to raarrj^, pro-\\nvided, of course, the applicant is of suitable age, comes well recommended, is\\ngood-looking, sensible, industrious, and possesses a fair modicum of this world s\\ngoods and chatties though these preliminary (qualifications are generally settled\\nby the parties most interested, and we have nothing to do with the business,\\nonly in a statistical form to present the city s advantages in this light. From\\nApril 1, 1891, to March 31, 1892, the total number of marriage license issued was\\n400. The number of divorce suits docketed for the iMay, 1892 te -m of Court\\nwas six, which proves conclusively that there are very few unhappy matrimonial\\nalliances, and that a very large and gratifying percentage of those who copartner-\\nship their jo^^s and sorrows, travel the rugged paths of life in full accord and\\nsympathy.", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA^HER\\nCHARACTERISTICS OF THE PEOPLE.\\nThe native Columbusonian is not the lean, lank, sad, intense, subjective\\nYankee, nor the dilatory, fatty, undemonstrative dullard of Pennsylvania; but he\\nis always florid, plethoric, laborious, well-fed, jolly and complacent. He works\\nlike a dray-horse in daylight, and is a profound sleeper at night, open, laquacious,\\nliberal, he i\u00c2\u00bbatronizes church festivals, and while yet a beau, congregates in\\nscores at club dances. lie is gallant to the ladies, attentive to strangers, and all\\nin all, is a duced clever fellow, He loves self-reliance as the son of Erin loved\\nsolitude, ad est, with his crony or his sweetheart. Whetlier he is a laborer or a\\nbanker, he manages to get away with three S(piare meals per diem. He frec^uently\\nwears a respectable mustache, generally shaves his chin, never wears gloves during\\nl)usiness liours, always keeps the side-walk, owns his turn-out, which sometimes\\nbeing a phaeton, he permits his matronly and excellent better-half to drive down and\\nescort him homeward he is an irreclaimable literary cliei?t of the Enquirer-Sun\\nov Ledyer he takes great interest in politics, but never allows public matters to\\ninterfere with business always goes to church on Sunday, and during the week\\npatronizes amusements of first-class and acknowledged merit in short, he is ever\\non the alert, and prone to do things that will promote the city s interest and\\nglorify her commercial condition. Such a people are necessarily practical, since\\nthe executive faculty under such conditions is too important for work to allow\\nattention to what is not visibly practical. It is attributable to such characteristics,\\nperhaps, that our city has progressed and prospered as she has, for undoubtedly\\na fair degree of the very best enterprise of the country is seated in Columbus.\\nTHANSPORTATIOK FACILITIES.\\nThe position of Columbus on the banks of the Chattahoochee river, gives\\nher advantages Avhich few cities of the South command. Her location with\\nrespect to the Avhole extent of the country embraced in the Chattahoochee Valley,\\nand extending to that portion of the country traversed by the many streams\\ntributary and made tributary to her by means of her river, is of such a peculiar\\ncharacter, that when viewed with reference to her natural means of intercourse\\nwith the States within these boundaries, she stands in a position both to demand\\nand con)mand the entire trade of this vast territory. The increasing demand for\\ncheap transportation, and, in fact all transportation arising out of the multi])lying\\nwants of the growing population of the various sections of the nation, must, at\\nan early day, cause tlie Chattahoochee to be made as fully available for transpor-\\ntation as it is possible for engineering skill to render it. The Chattahoochee is\\nthe dividing line between Georgia and Alabama, with a navigable length of 228^\\nmiles; the Flint, witli a length of 261 miles; and the Apalachicola, 137 miles,\\nhave shown each year a ])rompt return in the increase of commerce as the work\\nof improvement went on and what has been done in the past is but a slight indi-\\ncation of what will ])e the result when, Avith navigation unimpeded, and schedules", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AlSfD INDUSTRIES.\\n25\\nof our boats as reliable as they will be, the country bordering on our streams\\nsettled with an industrious population, and all our country receiving the full benefit\\nof these water-ways so favorably placed for use and benefit. The improvement\\nof the navigation of the Chattahoochee has, in past years, been so strongly pressed\\nupon Congress, that the Chattahoochee Valley Improvement Commission will no\\ndoubt soon perfect plans and secure an appropriation sufficiently large to enable\\nthem to make the river navigable at all seasons of the year.\\nRAILROAD INTERESTS,\\nTo the railroad interests of the city, the past year has been of the utmost\\nimportance, as it has marked throughout the country a period of remarkable\\nIIILTOX\u00e2\u0080\u0094 PROPERTY OF MUSCOGEE KE\\\\L ESTATE COMPANY, EA8T niGHLAXDS.\\nprosperity to the railroads in general. During almost the entire year the roads\\nconcentrating in the city have been taxed to their full capacity, and in some\\ninstances beyond their facilities, to perform the work. Both passengers and\\nfreight have greatly increased, especially the former, and it may be stated, with-\\nout any exaggeration, tliat the railroads in which Columbus is interested have\\nnever before been in a more prosperous condition. Not only has there been more\\nto do, but the physical condition of the property has been better than at any\\nprevious period. The past few years have witnessed remarkable development,\\nnot only in the railroads actually running into Columbus, but in those that, in\\nother Southern States, had apparently no definite termini, and formed merely a\\n(C)", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\ndisjointed system of railways, each looking out for its own local interests. The\\no-reat railroad manager of the age suddenly appeared in the field, and although\\nhe did not commence his work in this immediate section, his gigantic operations,\\nAvhether in the North, West, the far West, or in Mexico, have all had a direct\\nbearing upon Columbus The rapid manner in which he obtained control of road\\nafter road, and combined them into vast but harmonious co-operative systems, was\\nsuddenly followed in the South by several bold railway managers; and the pro-\\nduct has been the combination of numerous short and weak roads into long and\\nself-sustaining trunk lines, reaching from the lakes to the Gulf, from the Missis-\\nsippi to the Atlantic. The establishment of these trunk lines has produced a\\nwonderful activity in railroad circles, the benefits of which to the South in\\nthe purchase of new material, laying new and re-laying old tracks, securing a\\nhost of new locomotives and cars, and engaging thousands of additional employees?\\nhave been sustained by the competition natural between such strong and wealthy\\ncorporations to add new lines, new territory, and new trade to their resources.\\nTHE GEORGIA CENTRAL RAILROAD,\\nThe Georgia Central system stands more prominent than any other great\\nsystem in the South, and it is largely due to the Central Railroad and Banking\\nCompany of Georgia that Columbus is to-day one of the most flourishing cities\\nin the South. Instead of taking from Columbus her retail trade, the Central\\nRailroad has enabled Columbus to become the great manufacturing centre that it\\nis. It has given her prominence over other places to which she never could have\\nattained with the miles of iron track, reaching out like so many arteries from the\\nheart, over which course the pulses of trade as measured by the country. The\\nCentral system proper is 1,043 miles long, and embraces the following:\\nFrom Savannah to Macon 193\\nMacon to Atlanta 104\\nMilledgeville to Gordon 17\\nColiinibas and Western 89\\nColumbus and Rome 50\\nAugusta and Savannah 53\\nEatonton Branch 22\\nSouthwestern and Branches. 321\\nMontgomery and Eufaula 80\\nMobile and Girard 85\\nPort Royal and Augusta 245\\nUpson County IG\\nSavannah and North Alabama 00\\nOcean steamship 250\\nMaking Total 1,643\\nCOLUMBUS AND WESTERN RAILROAD.\\nThis road is a part of the Georgia Central system, and is one of the best\\nequipped roads out of Columbus, and places this city in direct communication\\nwith Birmingham, Montgomery and Atlanta. At Birmingham it forms a connec-\\ntion with the Birmingham, Memphis and Atlantic Railway, thus making the\\nshortest line from Kansas City to New York. By this road, Columbus is con-\\nnected with all the important cities of the North-West on a direct line.\\nMOBILE AND GIRARD RAILROAD.\\nThe Mobile and Girard Railroad is one of the most important tributaries to\\nthe city of Columbus. It is embraced in the Central System, and has been\\nleased to the Central for a period of ninety-nine years. This road extends from\\nColumbus to Troy, Ala., a distance of eighty -five miles, and in as good condition", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "COMMEKCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 27\\nas any road in the country. The Mobile and Girard has been under the control\\nof the Central for a number of years, and while this has been the case, the people\\nof Columbus have much cause for congratulation in the liberal policy adopted.\\nSince the road has been leased there is none other than the highest commenda-\\ntion for the course pursued, as it is believed that it will be for the best interest of\\nthe stockholders, the Central Railroad, Columbus and all concerned. There is a\\nclause in the lease which gives the Central authority to extend it, if so desired,\\nand as a commercial move it Avas to the interest of the Central to extend it,\\nand it has been done.\\nGEORGIA MIDLAND AND GULF RAILROAD.\\nThis road can be strictly called a Columbus enterprise, for it it is to the\\nuntiring eftbrts of some of her leading citizens that the road was built and e([uip-\\nped. The road was built by the Georgia Midland Construction Company, which\\nwas chartered by the State with an authorized capital of ipl,000,000. The road\\nextends from Columbus to Griffin, where it connects with the Georgia Central\\nfor Atlanta and all points in Southern Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. At\\nColumbus it connects with the Alabama Western for Montgomery, Mobile, New\\nOrleans and. Texas Columbus and Western for Birmingham, with the Mobile and\\nGirard for Eastern and Central Alabama, and with the extension of this line to\\nAlbany will connect at that point with the Georgia Central for Savannah, with\\nthe Brunswick and Western to Brunswick, and with the Savannah, Florida and\\nWestern to Savannah, Fernandina and Jacksonville at Jacksonville with the\\nFlorida Railway and Navigation Company to Cedar Keys, and the Jacksonville,\\nTampa Bay and Key West Railway to Tampa Bay, and thence by ocean steamer\\nto Key West and the West Indies. It is the best built road to-day in the South,\\nand has been constructed with such economy as to astonish even expert con-\\ntractors. It has standard steel rails, iron bridges throughout, and is the smoothest\\nroadbed and best equipped road in the South. It traverses the garden spot of\\nGeorgia, and a section of country that has only needed railroad facilities to\\ndevelop the finest country in the South a country of excellent water, exhilarat-\\ning climate, productive lands and fine timber.\\nCOLUMBUS AND ROME RAILROAD.\\nThis is a narrow gauge, and extends from Columbus to Greenville, in Meri-\\nwether county. The road was originally contemplated to be built to Rome, a dis-\\ntance of 125 miles. The road is now operated to Greenville, and brings more\\ncotton to Columbus annually than any of the other roads. It was asserted some\\ntime ago that this road would be extended to Atlanta, but if such a thing was ever\\ncontemplated it seems to have been abandoned. And this will, no doubt, be con-\\nceded a good thing for Columbus, as well as a wise one for the Central Railroad,\\nas all the cotton in the sections of country contiguous to the line now finds its\\nway to this market, and aids materially in swelling our receipts. The road is in\\nsplendid condition, and the amount of business done over it is enormous. It is\\nan exceedingly popular road, is run under the right kind of management, and is a\\nblessing to Columbus.", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nTHE COLUMBUS SOUTHERN RAILWAY.\\nThis road runs via Albany to Brunswick, and via Americus to Savannah.\\nIt is an im])ortant outlet for the city,\\nTHE BUENA VISTA AND ELLAVILLE RAILWAY.\\nThis is a part of the Georgia Central system, and extends to Americus. The\\nroad is now in complete running order, and has some important connections.\\nTHE CHATTANOOGA, ROME AND COLUMBUS RAILWAY,\\nIs another important outlet to the city, and when fully completed to its\\nintended terminus, will be of great value to the already large railway system of\\nColumbus.\\nTHE DUMMY LINE.\\nConnecting with all the railroads entering the city, is a Belt Dummy Line,\\nowned by the Columbus Railway Company. It extends through the city and\\nMAGNOLIA\u00e2\u0080\u0094 PHOl EKTY OK MISCOGEK REAL ESTATE COMPANY, EAST II ICll LANDS.\\nsuburbs, and is used for passenger trafic, and for delivering car-load lots of freight\\ndirect to and from the stores and mills of the city. The value of this line to the\\nwholesale and manufacturing interests can scarcely be estimated, as it facilitates\\nthe handling of freights, and saves a large bill of expense for extra handling and\\nhauling. The Compan}- are so accommodating that they agree to put in side\\ntracks in any portion of the city, into the yards or warehouses of any firm\\ndesiring them.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "COMMEKCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 29\\nAnd now, with this wide-spreading, comprehensive system of transportation,\\ntogether with our water facilities, to make trihutary to our market the riches of\\nthe vast scope of country in which we are located, developing our own unrivaled\\nresources, and distributing far and wide our products in manufactures and com-\\nmerce, who can portray in word-picturing the grand and brilliant future in store\\nfor this beautiful city, or doubt that it is destined to rank prominent among the\\nproud array of American cities whose towering strength makes them the marvel\\nof the entire world.\\nCOLUMBUS AS A COTTON MARKET.\\nThis city has always ranked as the best cotton market in the South, and the\\nreceipts during the past year have demonstrated that she is holding on to her\\nreputation. The cotton year closes on the last day of August, therefore, we can\\nonly give the official figures for 1890-91, taken from the Enquirer-Sun of\\nSeptember 1, 189L\\nRECEIPTS.\\nRailroad 37,144\\nWagon 29,148\\nRiver 22,560\\nTotal receipts 88,852\\nCOTTON SHIPMENTS.\\nBy rail 66,333\\nBy factories 19,041\\nRiver 2,774\\nTotal shipments 88, 148\\nSTATEMENT.\\nstock on hand August 31, 1889 500\\nReceived during 1889-90 88,152\u00e2\u0080\u009489,443\\nShipments 88,148\\nStock August 31, 1891 1,294\\nSTOCK IN WAREHOUSES.\\nThe folio wino; is the stock on hand at the various warehouses at the close of\\nbusiness last night\\nPlanters 205\\nAlston 61\\nLowell 585\\nFontaine 193\\nWebster 250\\nTotal 1,294\\nTHROUGH COTTON.\\nThe through cotton since August 31, 1891, which is cotton shipped from\\nother points, compressed in Columbus and shipped to Savannah, thence to New\\nYork, Eastern spinners and Liverpool, amounts to 96,502 bales, divided, as follows:\\nColumbus and Western road 57,320\\nMobile and Girard road 7,222\\nColumbus and Rome road 13,708\\nW^estern Railway of Alabama 17,947\\nBuena Vista and EUaville road 305\\nTotal 96,502", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "t OLUMBUS, GEORGIA IIHR\\nThere are three compresses in this city, with a capacity of pressing 2,400\\nbales per ctay, and in tlie busy season they work both day and night.\\nThere are seven large cotton Avarehouses in the city, with a capacity for\\nstoring 55,000 bales of cotton. These warehouses are substantially built, and\\nmade as near fire proof as it is possible.\\nTHE JOBBING TRADE OF COLUMBUS.\\nIn taking up this department of our labors, wo propose demonstrating, so far\\nas our power lies, the vantage ground Columbus occupies, and the facilities she\\npossesses for the conduct of a successful commerce, not only respecting those\\narticles of manufactured goods turned out from lier industrial establishments, Itut\\nto include all goods imported from other markets, whether of domestic or foreign\\nproduction. Our mammoth establishments for the sale of dry goods, groceries,\\nhardware, boots and shoes, drugs, queensware and all the articles that go to make\\nup a general merchandise trade, contain immense stocks of every description, and\\nare conducted by merchants of acknowledged probity, energy, intelligence and\\nwealth many of whom were engaged in business here previous to the war\\nwhile a host of new houses have sprung up, increasing competition and imparting\\nrenewed vigor to the sinews of trade, which were impaired by the terrible con-\\nvulsions of civic strife. They have thus confidently entered the list of commer-\\ncial rivalry with tlie merchants of the Eastern cities, having themselves })erfected\\nan-angements with the manufacturers of the United States and foreign countries,\\ngaining f;icilities thereby of utmost importance.\\nFormerly, it was the custDm of buying stocks twice a year (spring and sum-\\nmei-, fall and winter), but this plan has been completely changed, and assortments\\nare now kept up by making purchases oftener say, every month or two and the\\nConclusion is, that old goods are rarely, if ever, on hand, and articles are not\\nhandled in the store six months, are kept cleaner and brighter and more attractive.\\nIf, then, the retailer who visits New York and the East cannot afford to go oftener\\ntban twice a year, he suffers loss by being behind the fashion if he does not\\ngo, and loses money and traveling expenses if he does go. If he is an expe-\\nrienced merchant he may perform the labor of selecting without any serious det-\\nriment but even then it is a labor, and consumes all the difference in profit he\\nwould gain l)y purchasing in a nearer market. If he is inexperienced, he is\\nlikely to be led into the purchase of goods which will prove entirely unsalable,\\nand tlie loss thereto incident may ])rove a serious drawback upon the success of a\\nwhole season s business. Hence, it is oltvious that a purchaser of a miscellaneous\\nstock, including everything adapted to the wants of a rural town or city poj)ula-\\ntion in the country, must be, when in Columbus, as near the most desiralde mar-\\nket as it is possible for him to get.\\nThe only practical (juestion for a retailer to consider, then, is, whether it is\\nprobable he can make his purchases in the Columbus market as cheaply as in any\\nother. This we assert he can do, and we leave it to the consideration of those", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 31\\nwho study and appreciate commercial economy. To our own personal knowledge\\nit has been already forcibly and eloquently demonstrated. Is it not probable, then,\\nthat the merchants of Columbus, in view of their advantages, consignments from\\nabroad seeking their shelves, with abundance of capital and good credit, can buy\\nand sell on terms as favorable as any of their competitors\\nThere are a great many other local advantages that might be placed to the\\ncredit side of our account, but such as we have omitted here will be spoken of in\\ndetail in other portions of our book. Those we have considered, however, are\\nentitled to the closest consideration of the country merchant.\\nTHK WIIOLESALE DRY (JOODS AND NOTIONS TRADE.\\nThe trade in dry goods, considered as a branch of commerce, is the most\\nimportant of any now existing in this country. It controls a greater amount of\\ncapital, employs a larger number of persons, and contributes a gi eater value of\\ncommodities than any other branch of mercantile pursuit.\\nIn the dry goods line, perhaps, more than any other, energy and capacity\\ndecide the success of the business man, for it is a business recjuiring great judg-\\nment in the selection of stock, as well as resolution in general management. To\\nbuy at the right time, and the right classes of goods to suit the trade, and in\\nproper quantities, as well as to gather the custom to take the goods, require no\\nordinary class of ability. Commercial prosperity is largely due to the business\\nmen who control this interest, for they have shown a degree of ability and energy\\nin building up tiie wholesale dr} goods trade of this city surpassed nowhere in\\nthe country.\\nOur jobbing trade has a bright record for the past year no failures, increase\\nof territory yearly, a steady increase of sales, consequently increase of stocks\\nand facilities of doing business. It to-day looks forward to the time when it will\\nmake Columbus- tiie Southern market for dry goods and notions for the States of\\nAlabama, Florida and Georgia. If push, capital, accommodation, stocks and\\nprices to meet the wants of the trade mean anything, then it will be done in the\\nnear future.\\nThree exclusively wholesale and importing houses are engaged in the trade,\\nbesidesthirty-three wholesale and retail, and retail houses, making a total of thirty-\\nsix houses engaged in the dry goods and notions business. The total business, accord-\\ning to the data we have obtained, foots up to the enormous sum of $3, 787, 94-5.\\nSome of the retail establishments are mammoth concerns, several of them employ-\\ning at least fifty clerks, etc., each. These stocks in general are of the finest and\\nmost fashionable kinds, and the stores are generally filled Avith customers.\\nTHE WHOLESALE (iROCERY TRADE.\\nIn its wholesale branch, the grocery trade of Columbus engages the atten-\\ntion of more merchants than any other one vocation. In the city s crowded\\nthoroughfares may be found its spacious warehouses, one day being filled, and the\\nnext day, as it were, emptied of their immense stocks, for, of all. the mercantile\\npursuits, none surpasses this branch for vivasity and bustle. On every street and", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nthoroughfare one encounters the throngs of well-laden drays and ponderous\\nfloats, rolling ceaselessly and noisily in their busy career, which, mino-led and\\nconfused with the emphatic and sometimes profane ejaculations of the almost\\ninnumerable army of teamsters, and draymen, and porters, and laborers all\\nhighly essential features of the trade present a truthful panorama of a com-\\nmercial Bable,\\ny e t everything\\nmoves with the\\nr e g u 1 a r i t y of\\nclock-work.\\nSplendidly ar-\\nranged and capa-\\ncious buildino;s,\\nin keeping with\\nthe demands of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a02 the trade, have\\n2 been erected in\\ng the leading marts\\nNew sections of\\ncountry have\\nbeen made tribu-\\ntary, until now\\nthe l\u00c2\u00bbus ine ss\\n5 stands out bold\\ny and prominent,\\nsymbolizing that\\neminent (luality\\nof go-all eadative-\\nnoss that charac-\\nterizes the Col-\\numl)us wholesale\\ngrocery trade,\\neither as individ-\\nual firms, or\\ntaken as a fra-\\ntcrnity. The\\ntotal number of\\nwholesale grocery tinus in the city is thiiti.n. ,ii w in. Icsale and retail grocers,\\nmaking a total of twenty firms carrying on the wholesale grocery business.\\nBesides these, there are one hundred and fiftv-four retail jirocers in the citv,\\nmaking a total of one hundred and seventy-four firms engaged in selling groce-\\nries in this city, the aggregate sales amounting to $6,284,312 i er annum. Our\\nwholesale grocery business is governed 1)y cai)italists and merciiants of long\\nexperience, who sujijily themselves in largest (juantities from original sources.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 33\\nThe low rates of freight to Coluiul u.s 1)y ear-load lots, strengthened by purchases\\nof large invoices and their corresponding discounts, give our wholesale grocers\\nthe opportiniity of dividing the goods to retailers* and country merchants at as\\nlow or lower figures than small or moderate (|uantities can be bought at any\\nother competing ])oint. The rapidity Avith wliich goods can reach interior points\\nobviates the necessity of laying in larger stocks than are wanted for immediate\\nuse, which is a very decided advantage to the retailer, as it prevents the accumu-\\nlation of old stocks, which is a dead weight in business.\\nTHE WHOLESALE CLOTHING TRADE.\\nReady-made clothing in Columbus, as well as in all jobbing markets occupies\\nan important position among business pursuits. It has extended to all sections of\\nthe country, limiting the country merchants sale of piece goods for men s and\\nboys wear, compelling tailors, in some instances, to abandon their trade and\\nembark in the business themselves, or seek other employment. The introduction\\nof sewing machines to this class of work, has greatly facilitated rapid and durable\\nmanufacture, and brought clothing down in price to a wonderful degree. Country\\nmerchants, who have been careful in the selection of sizes and styles, have found\\nthat the sale of clothing can be effected with less trouble than piece goods, and\\nwithout the serious drawback of remnants that there is less competition that\\nt heir daily receipts of cash are thereby increased, as well as other advantages.\\nIndeed, so satisfactory and lucrative has this business proven, that as an addi-\\ntional illustration of the tendency of the age to increased manufactured articles,\\nmention may be made of shirt-making, and of those branches, including men s\\nand boys underwear, which form important adjuncts to the business. Connected\\nwith this department, gents furnishing goods, embracing neckwear, handker-\\nchiefs, gloves, hosiery, etc., etc., come in for a large share of attention.\\nThe Columbus market will favorably compare in this respect with any in\\nextensive and varied stocks, in quality, style, workmanship, fit, reasonable\\nprice and fair dealing. Three firms in the city are wholesaling clothing, and\\nthere are quite a number of retail firms who are not averse to selling a bill to\\ncountry merchants. The total business in clothing Ave estimate to be about\\n;^T60,000 per annum.\\nWHOLESALE ROOTS AND SHOES.\\nNot less important than the wholesale clothing trade is that of boots and\\nshoes, Avhich has also had a wonderful growth in the last few years. Like the\\nold, slow-coach method of making our wearing apparel by hand, the cobbler s\\nbench, with its accompanying kit, which, not many years ago, was an essential\\nfeature upon almost every plantation, as Avell as a fixture of every city, town or\\ncross-road hamlet, has had to go the way of old-time customs. The advance\\nof progress, Avith its pOAverful equipment of labor-saving machinery, hesitates not\\nto destroy ruthlessly the Avell-loved images of our earlier recollections. But\\nregrets are soon dissipated by the blessings Avhich fiow from Avhat at the time\\nis looked upon as tantamount to vandalism. This is fully demonstrated in the fact\\nthat ninety per cent, of the boots and shoes now Avorn are factory-made, and as a", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nresult the world receives coQipensation in a nmltitude of ways, and to an extent\\nthat could never possibly have been hoped for from the ancient system. The\\nmanifold benefits derived by our city from this important branch of business may\\nbe conceived, from the immense annual sales made by the dealers in this city,\\nfooting up over $1,250,000, and yearly being augmented by the expanding trade,\\nwhich is reaching out in every direction through the country now tributary to us,\\nand being added to by the further increase of transportation facilities There are\\nthirty-nine firms selling boots and shoes in this city two ]\u00c2\u00bbeing jobbers. The\\nstocks are all complete and suited to the wants of the Southern trade.\\nWHOLESALE HATS AND CAPS.\\nIn this line we have one wholesale establishment, but the stock is carried in\\nRESIDKNCE H. .1. ARBiiTT, EA.ST IIIGULANDS.\\nconnection with dry goods and notions, but is full and complete, and sold at prices\\nas favorable to the purchaser as any other Southern city can boast. Besides the\\nhouse mentioned, we have nine firms engaged in retailing hats and caps in connec-\\ntion with other goods. The trade in this line is in an exceedingly prosperous\\ncondition, and the annual oj)erations of the establishments engaged in it show that\\ntheir growth is healthy, as well as rapid. The sales will average .fr)00,0OU.\\nWHOT-ESAI.K DRlliS, I ALXTS, ETC.\\nTiOng l)ef(\u00c2\u00bbre the wholesaling of goods of this line was ever thought of as\\na distinct business, or even considered in conil)ination with any other branch in\\nthis city, the great houses of the Kast had already establisheil themselves firmly,", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "COMMERCK, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES, 85\\nas thev thought, in the trade of this whole rei^ioii of country; so that, for every\\n(hillar s worth of custom the liouses of this city o))taiiie(I, they liad to contend\\nAvith giants already in tlie field. The same condition of attaii s, however, held\\ngood in all hranches of our wholesale ti-ade, hut the enterprise, vim, and deter-\\nmined efforts of our drug men have resulted in the most pronounced success, just\\nas the outcome of energies ];ut in every other dejjartment has brought ))ros])erity\\nto those so engaged. Those houses dealing in this line have, by their skill as\\n])harmacists and chemists, and tlieir thorougli knowledge of the Avants of the\\n])eople in the teri-itory tributary to this city, succeeded in fvdly establishing\\nthemselves in the good estimation of their patrons, and building u]) a trade \u00e2\u0096\u00a0which\\nwill not in any wise suffer by comp-arison, i-elatively speaking, with the immense\\nestablishments of the large Kastei-n cities. Carrying nothing but the fi-eshest\\nand piirest goods in the way of drugs, kee];ing every department in their line up\\nto the highest standard, and with ample cajjital, their stocks are constantly\\nenlarging, and their trade extending and growing heavier. There are two whole-\\nsale houses in this city, besides eighteen retail druggists. Tlie annual transac-\\ntions will average S68 J,()()0.\\nTiiK w ii(\u00c2\u00bbLKSAr,K r,r r(ii! trade.\\nThe rKpu)r business is ^ne to be found every whei-e, go where you will, and\\nnotwithstanding it is one which beai-s the unenviable re)\u00c2\u00bbutation, in all quarters of\\nthe globe, as being a destroyer of mankind not without good reason, it is true\\nand p.aradoxical although it may lie, we find it not infre(pientlv in advance of\\ncivilization, and ((//ra//s keeping abreast with the \\\\anguard of progress. It is\\na source of undoubted wealth to all our cities, and contributes unipiestioned\\nstrength and general j)rosperity to the conuuerce and industries of all commu-\\nnities. Candidly s];eaking, it is an evil, hydra-headed, and more venemous than\\nthe tooth of any sei jsent that drags its cold and clanuny folds over the bosom of\\nthis kindly earth, wlien abused liy fallen manhood, and it is this maltreatment of\\nan article, which evidently was not created foi- a lianeful j ur]!ose, and which we\\nknow contains elements highly Iteneficial to the world at large, that has brought\\nodium ujjon the name, and woes unniunbered ujion the luiman race, individiudly\\nand collectively.\\nFortunately, however, for our city, the trade has always been in the hands\\nof perfectly honorable business men, and being not less enterprising and public-\\nspirited than they are upright in character and dealings, they have succeeded in\\nestablishing an exceptionally high reputation for their business throughout the\\nentire country tributary to the trade of this city. The stocks kept here equal\\nthose to be found in any city of the country in (|uality, both in imported and\\ndomestic goods, and they also compare favorably in extent, while the assortment\\nis full and complete in all the various brands of wines, brandies and li(j[Uors. The\\nhigh standard of goods has made this point a wholesale centre for the trade, (|uite\\nextensive in proi)ortions, and highly profitable to those engaged in it. The annual\\ntransactions foot up $480,000.", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nWHOLESALE HARDAVARE, ETC,\\nThis department of trade embraces hardware, heavy iron, steel, hollowware,\\ntinware, etc., and very properly deserves a prominent place among the pioneer\\njobbing lines of the city, having been among the first to take the field against\\nolder and established points. However, it has advanced with steady strides, and\\nis now one of the solid interests of the city. Experience has fully demonstrated\\nthe fact that it cannot only be carried on here with success in the face of all com-\\npetition, but that it is one of the most prosperous and profitable lines of trade we\\nhave. Notwithstanding the formidable proportions the trade has already reached,\\nthere is abundance of room for a large increase of the business. Indeed, no\\npoint in the country offers better inducements than this as the centre of the hard-\\nware business. Last year the total sales amounted to not less than $630,000,\\nand very possibly the actual total exceeds these figures. One thing is assured\\nbeyond all question of doubt, that the future of the trade here is of the most\\npromising character, and must reach that high degree of prominence which the\\ngrand facilities of the locality will fully sustain, and which the entire country\\ntributary to our market demands. There are five houses engaged in the wholesale\\nand retail hardware business.\\nWHOLESALE CKJARS, TOBACCO, ETC.\\nThere is a large business transacted in this city in the above lines. Nearly\\nall of the wholesale grocers carry heavy lines of both foreign and domestic cigars,\\nand all of the leading brands of chewing and smoking tobaccos. Then, there is\\none firm engaged exclusively in the wholesaling of tobacco and cigars. To sepa-\\nrate this branch from the other lines dealt in would be an endless task, therefore,\\nwe can only approximate the sales and place them at \u00c2\u00a7300,000 per annum.\\nMUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.\\nColumbus has three houses engaged in the sale of music and musical instru-\\nments. Stocks are not only extensive, but represent the best quality of goods\\nrare collections of sheet music, adopted to all manner of instruments, with\\nimmense stocks of pianos, organs, melodeons, violins, flutes, guitars, banjos,\\naccordeons, german silver, brass and field band instruments, strings, musical\\ngoods of every variety, from a reed fife to the most elaborately finished and finely\\ncased rose-wood piano, representing all of the most popular and celebrated manu-\\nfactures in the country, and brought to this city in all forms grand, square and\\nupright. The trade in tliis business will amount to fully \u00c2\u00a7220,000.\\nROOKS AND STATIONERY.\\nThe character and standing of those houses engaged in this trade is well and\\nfavorably known throughout tliis section, and their enterprise and liberality to\\nthe trade has kept abreast of our great advancement. The business is in a\\nhealthy condition, and dealers report a large per cent, of gain over the business\\nof preceding years.\\nTHE FURNITURE TRADE.\\nThere are a number of substantial firms engaged in the above business in", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 37\\nColumbus. The businCvSS is iu the hands of men of probity and reliability.\\nThere are eight fi-ms, whose annual transactions will reach $250,000.\\nFRUITS AND CONFECTIONERIES.\\nThere is considerable business carried on in the above line in this city. Tiie\\nstocks carried are full and complete, and all kinds of fruit find a ready sale here.\\nOur dealers are always in the lead in securing the first of the season, which com-\\nmands good prices. In confections, the stocks carried are large and varied, and\\nalways fresh. The business is in the hands of honorable and upright dealers and\\nwill average $120,000.\\nMISCELLANEOUS.\\nIn addition to the leading lines of the wholesale business which we have\\nbriefly alluded to, there are, of course, a large number of other branches, such as\\nare always to be found clustered at a large wholesale centre, which contributes\\nlargely to the general prominence aAd financial prosperity of the community, and\\nits commerce and industries.\\nBut while we cheerfully accord to those varied lines of our commerce the\\nmeed of praise they so justly deserve for their generous contributions to the\\nwealth of the city by their vast sales, annually aggregating millions of dollars,\\nAve have not the space to take them up separately and seriatum, giving to each\\nthe extended notice its intrinsic value so highly merits. Suffice it to say that\\nthey all are in an exceedingly prosperous condition, and that they are extending\\ntheir trade in every direction with great enterprise and commendable energy.\\nIn conclusion, it can be said with truth and pride that, as a wholesale point\\nfor the establishment of any branch of commerce, no city is this country can\\nboast advantages superior to those centered in this particular portion of the Sunny\\nSouth, and which are steadily building up making broad, firm and solid the\\nfinancial integrity, honor, wealth and enduring greatness of the Queen City of\\nthe South.\\nTHE RETAIL TRADE OF COLUMBUS.\\nIt is not expected that a detailed statement could be made of the retail trade\\nhere in its various departments. Such a paper, fully elaborated, would by far\\ntoo greatly transcend the limits not already occupied in this work, delay its\\nappearance, and demand a personal sacrifice of time and means which cannot now\\nbe entertained. Our patrons and readers Avill be content, we are certain, Avith a\\ngeneral outline of it, as furnishing an indication as to its extent and importance.\\nThe benefits of a healthy and progressive retail trade to a city are not easily\\nsummed up or disposed of in a few words. It not only supplies the city and\\ncountry demand, but the inducements which it offers bring hither thousands upon\\nthousands of dollars from all portions of the surrounding country tributary to this\\nmarket, by means of convenient railroads and river communication. Every\\nspecies of goods, from the plain and common to the most superb and costly articles,", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA\u00e2\u0080\u0094 rllER\\nare to be obtained bere at prices wbicb are tbe same as Eastern retail figures,\\nand we believe every article in general use can be found. Tbe retail mercbants\\nof this city are, as a body, men of intelligence and business qualifications, and\\nconstitute an element in our midst wbicb adds mucb to tbe vigor, prosperity and\\ngrowth of our city. Their establishments are scattered over every quarter in the\\nbusiness centres and in tlie sul)nrb3 everywliere a group of dwellings may be\\nfound, some en-\\nterprising retail-\\ner has set up his\\nsign as a land-\\nmark of the ex-\\ntending frontiers\\nof ci vilization,\\nand while driving\\na good business\\nfor himself, is ad-\\n(lino; something!;\\nto the grand ag-\\no;re crate of bustle\\nand importance of\\ntbe city. Al-\\nthough there are\\na great many of\\nthese houses\\nkeeping miscel-\\nlaneous stocks,\\nyet we feel con-\\nfident the follow-\\nin figures wi 11\\napproximate the\\ntrue number, and\\nfor tbe most part\\nthose that have\\nnot been men-\\ntioned before.\\nAltogether there\\nare about o3 firms\\nretailing dry\\ngoods boots and\\nshoes, and leather, 37 clothing and furnishing goods, 10; drugs, 18 groceries,\\n158; saloons and restaurants, 38; bakers, 4; barbers, 21; blacksmiths, 11;\\nbutchers, 17 besides a numerous array of miscellaneous bouses, so varied that\\nit would be a herculean task to give a clear idea of their pursuits. After having\\nmade a careful summary, we are able to j)lace the retail establishments, all", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "COMxMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 39\\nbranches included, at not less than six hundred and twenty-two. We hardly feel\\nlike attempting an estimate of their business, for anything short of a complete\\ncensus would be incomplete, for the man has yet to be born, and besides be vouch-\\nsafed prying qualities and inquisitiveness supernatural, to enable hira to form any\\ncorrect idea of trades where large dealers have a horror of tax-gatherers, and\\nsmall dealers a penchant for making their business appear as large as possible,\\nand oftentimes, swelling their volume beyond such reason that even a newspaper\\nreporter would be put to blush and yet, for the sake of a little mathematical\\ncalculation, even if we cut down the receipts of the houses to ^50 per day each,\\nfor 300 days of the year, we have an annual miscellaneous retail trade of more\\nthan 7iine millions of dolhirs.\\nMANUFACTURES AND MANUFACTURING ADVAN-\\nTAGES OF COLUxMBUS.\\nCAUSES OF SUCCESS.\\nIt is an axiom, as true as trite, that no city has been or can be permanently\\n})rosperous without manufactures. A prosperity based exclusively upon a com-\\nmercial business must necessarily be ephemeral. A city which, for instance,\\ndepends upon any one or more of the great agricultural staples for support, busi-\\nness and growth is liable to become paralyzed in her energies and interests, not\\nonly by failure in the production of such staples, but from tlieir diversion to other\\npoints where eligibility gives them the advantage and preference as markets.\\nSuch, also, are the fluctuations in the price of articles of produce that no cer.\\ntainty of successful operations can be relied upon, and when uncertain, feverish\\nand exciting speculation underlies the business of any community or city, there is\\nno guarantee of permanent prosperity whereas, where manufacturing is carried\\non successfully there is a steady, healthful and substantial growth. These facts,\\nthen, however unwelcome they may be to strictly commercial men, prompt us to\\nthe consideration of Columbus as a manufacturing point.\\nThe term manufacture, in its derivative sense, signifies making hy hand.\\nIts modern acceptation, is directly the reverse of its original meaning, and it is\\nnow applied moi-e particularly to those products which are made extensively by\\nmachinery, without much aid from manual labor. The word, therefore, is an\\nexceedingly flexible one, and, as political economist do not agree in opinion\\nwhether millers and bakers are properly manufacturers or not, we shall, if need\\nbe, take advantage of the uncertainty and consider as manufacturers what strictly\\nmay belong to other classifications of productive industry.\\nThe end of every manufacturer is to increase the utility of objects by modi-\\nfying their external form or changing their internal constitution, and that the\\nlabors of both millers and bakers effect these things stand undisputed. Political\\neconomists also divide the essential re(iiuisites of production into two parts, viz.:\\nlabor and appropriate natural objects. ]jut when apj)lied to manufacturing indus-", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\ntry, success, they say, depends upon a variety, or rather combination of\\ncircumstances, partly moral and partly physical. Foremost among the former\\nare freedom of industry and security of property. Happily for us that our\\nrepublican form of government not only protects, but fosters and encourages\\nindustry, while true republican principles make its faithful pursuit the open\\nsesame to the enjoyments of its manifold benefits; and property is adequately\\nprotected by governmental and legislative action, wherever honesty is the ruling\\npolicy. Another moral cause contributing, and in fact essential to eminence in\\nmanufacturing industry, is the general diffusion of intelligence among the people.\\nBy intelligence, in this connection, we do not mean merely the understanding\\nnecessary to enable an individual to become the maker or master of a machine\\nKESIDKNCE OK GRKJSliV I TUoMAS, Jit.\\nfor capacity to contrive and invent seems a part of the original constitution of\\nman but simply the exercise of ids faculties in the applicsHion of practical\\nimprovements upon successful enterprise in invention or mechanical labor, and the\\napprobation and rewards bestowed thereupon. The eminent position at present\\noccupied by the New England and other manufacturing States, are due rather to\\ntheir sound, intelligent and practical philosopliy than to any physical advantages\\nor original intellectual superiority.\\nAs ingenious mechanics and rapid workmen the Anglo-Americans have no\\nsuperiors. As skilled workmen in departments for which tliey have been specially\\neducated, the English are celebrated. Regular and habitual energy in labor, how-\\never, is a characteristic of both. They have no life but in their work no enjoyment\\nbut in the shop. What other races consider amusement, is no amusement to them.\\nBut in England and America there is a marked difference between the quality of\\nthe labor that can be obtained in the country and in the towns. In fact, in or\\nnear large cities only can labor of the first (piality be obtained.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 41\\nAs iron sharpenetli iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friends;\\nand away from the centres of population and competition the face looseth its\\nsharpness and the hand its cunning. Cities are in nothing more remarkable than\\nin their attractive, magnetic influence upon talent of every discription.\\nThe man who desires to employ his pen, observes Carey, and who\\npossesses only the ability to conduct a country newspaper, removes to the inte-\\nrior, while the man of talent leaves his country paper to take charge of one in\\nthe city. The dauber of portraits leaves the city to travel the country in search\\nof employment, while the painter removes to New York or London.\\nSuperior mechanics and dexterous workmen manifest a similar prefer\\nence for cities and an abhorrence for isolation hence, if for no other reason,\\nextensive mechanical or manufacturing operations must be conducted at a great\\ndisadvantage in isolated localities.\\nPassing to the consideration of the physical causes of eminence in manufac-\\nturing industry, we remark: They are more obvious than the moral causes, but\\nnot more important. To produce manufactured goods of a given quality with\\nthe least expense being the great disidteratum, it follows that whatever con-\\ntributes to economy in production, whaever saves labor, or transportation, or\\nraw material, cannot safely be overlooked or dispised. But to investigate care-\\nfully all the circumstances that have an influence upon economical production\\nwould require a considerable volume and be foreign to our main inquiry. The\\nphysical advantages which have contributed to England s eminence in manufac-\\ntures, and which, we think, would aj^jjly as well to our country, are epitomized\\nby the Edinhurg Revieiv in the following summary\\nPossession of surplus of raw material used in manufacturing the command\\nof natural means and agents best fitted to produce power the position of the\\ncountry as respects others, and the natui e of the soil and climate. As respects\\nthe first of these circumstances, says the writer, every one who reflects on the\\nnature, value, and importance of our manufactures of wool, of the useful metals,\\nsuch as iron, lead, tin, copper, and of leather, flax, and so forth, must at once\\nadmit that our success in them has been materially promoted by our having\\nabundant supplies of the raw material. It is of less consequence Avhence the\\nmaterial of a manufacture, possessing great value in small bulk is derived,\\nwhether it be furnished from native sources or imported from abroad, though,\\neven in that case, the advantage of possessing an internal supply, of which it\\nis impossible to be deprived by the jealousy or hostility of foreigners, must not\\nbe overlooked. But no nation can make any considerable progress in the manu-\\nfacture of bulky and heavy articles, the conveyance of which to a distance\\nunavoidably occasions a large expense, unless she has supplies of the raw material\\nAvithin herself. Our superiority in manufactures depends more at this moment\\non our superior machines than anything else and had we been obliged to import\\nthe iron, brass, and steel, of which they were principally made, it is exceedingly\\ndoubtful whether we should have succeeded in bringing them to anything like the\\npresent pitch of improvement.", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nBut of all the physical circumstances that have contributed to our wonder-\\nful progress in manufacturing industry, none has had nearly so much influence as\\nour possession of the most valuable coal mines. These have conferred advanta-\\nges upon us not enjoyed in an equal degree by any other people. Even though\\nwe had possessed the most abundant supply of the ores of iron and other useful\\nmctal they would have boon of little or no use, but for our own almost\\nin e X h a u s t i b 1 e\\ncoal mines.\\nWater power\\nwas for a long\\ntime considered\\ncheaper, especial-\\nh^ for small manu-\\nfacturing estab-\\nlishments, than\\nsteam power, but\\neminent e n g i n-\\n5 eers have c a r e-\\nS fully investigated\\nr the subject, and\\nare of the opinion\\n2 that in any posi-\\ntion where coal\\nZ can be had at\\n5 ten cents per\\nbushel, steam\\nis as cheap as\\nwater power at its\\nminimum cost.\\nSteam, therefore,\\nuntil superceded\\nby some more ef-\\nfective agent,\\nwill be the power\\nprincipally relied\\nupon to propel\\nmachinery, and\\nas Avood for the\\ngeneration of steam upon an extensive scale is out of the (juestion, we may safely\\nconclude that at no very distant day the centre of our manufactures will certainly\\nbe in or near a district possessing inexhaustible supplies of cheap coal.\\nWhile we concede that coal is a more useful agent in manufactures, still it\\nis equally as essential that the supj lies of raw material be near at hand, and we\\nassert that it is cheaper to transport the coal to Columbus, even from Tennessee,", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "COMMEKCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 43\\nand there is plenty of it nearer, than to send the raw cotton to Ncav Encdand to\\nbe made up. And so it is, despite the pre-eminence of New England, her glory\\nis destined soon to be overshadowed, for the sceptre will, ere long, depart from\\nJudah and fall into the hands of the cities of the South, for the virtues which\\nmake a great people are indegenious to our soil, and will animate and ennoble\\nour population whenever our capitalists and ingenious men have given its o-reat\\nphysical advantages the fulfillment of this manifest destiny.\\nWith regard to the third point, viz.: favorable situation as respects com-\\nmerce with other countries, its importance is second only to that whicli we have\\njust considered. It is in the nature of manufactures to be regardful of its mar-\\nkets, and to supply with cash the demands of these, as well as to obtain the raw\\nmaterial on easy terms. Therefore, it is highly important that there should be\\na complete communication with all parts of the adjacent country by rail or river\\nand establish commerce, or facilities of commerce therewith.\\nA suitable climate is also a consideration of very great importance. The\\ninfluence of climate upon the productiveness of industry, especially in manufac-\\ntures, is very marked. In very cold climates the powers of nature are benumbed\\nand the difficulty of preserving life overrides all consideration for makino- exis-\\ntence comfortable. Climate has also a direct influence upon the durability of\\nbuildings, the workings of machinery, etc., and thus becomes an element of\\nimportant consideration in many kinds of manufactures. Most writers on the\\nsubject insist that the soil of a country or district well adopted to manufactures\\nneed not be naturally very fertile, for when the soil is naturally so rich that\\nagriculture is an easy art, it will not aff ord sustenance to many kinds of manu-\\nfactures. This, to us, seems a mistaken idea, for it is reasonable to suppose that\\nthe cost of transportation to and from manufactories, outside, and Ave mifdit sav\\nfar removed from the districts abounding in raw materials that enter laro-ely into\\nmanufactures, could be obviated by the erection of similar manufactories nearer\\nto hand.\\nLet us now pass to examine the claims of Columbus to the position of a\\nmanufacturing centre. While we do not claim that tliis city has all the requisites\\nfor a general manufacturing city, we do claim that for certain articles of manu-\\nfactured goods we possess all the advantages necessary for the successful prose-\\ncution of such business. The centers of wealth, population and intellio-ence in\\nthe South are not numerous. Communities abounding in iron are few, but we\\nhave the raw material, the cotton, the wool, the timber.\\nOur numerous streams roaring seaward as they go b} fields white with the\\nsnow of Southern summers, have been long calling to us in vain to allow them to\\njoin in the universal anthem of social industry. Capitalists of Columbus saw\\nthe advantages for large cotton factories, and they have been built, a description\\nof which will be found on another page of this work. The jn-ofits of well con.\\nducted Southern factories are so certain and so great that the conversion by us\\nof every pound of cotton into fabric is a mere question of time. The supplv is, or\\ncould be, almost infinite and that the demand for cotton fabrics in the same ratio", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44\\nCOLUMBUS, (lEORGIA HER\\ngrown Avitliin sight, as it were, of the factory walls, Avould cost the manufacturer\\nmuch less than it does his Eastern rival, even at its minimum value at the mills\\nof the latter. The wool of Georgia is unsurpassed flax, hemp and tol)acco\\nyield the best of crops. Nearly all of the cereals of the United States grow in\\nGeorgia. Almost all of the valuable varieties of forest trees grow in abun-\\ndance in close proximity, and are of easy access by rail or river. In fact,\\nthe view is propitious for the manufacturer and for the establishment of manu-\\nfactures from every standpoint. The motives of freedom, the fertility of soil,\\nsalubrity of climate, facilities for commerce and manufactures, and ease of rail-\\nroad and Avater transportation, are the natural advantages which invite the capi-\\ntalist, the tradesman and the manufacturer of every clime and nationality to a\\nFRKXCH PLACE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I UdPKRTY OF IMU8C(lGEE REAL ESTATE COMPAXY. EAST HIGULAXDS.\\nhome in our midst, to co-o])erate in the development of its measureless resources,\\nand to an inriching partici})ation in its prosperity.\\nIMMENSE WATER POWER.\\nBefore quitting the subject of manufactures, it is proper to say that Colum-\\nbus has a water power that is a Avonder of the land that of the Chattahoochee\\nriver, extending northward over forty miles. It is equal to 1,000,000 horse\\npower for the lowest stage, and nearly double that for the average stage. Only\\na small jiortion of this vast power is now utilized. Only one-tenth of the avail-\\nable power near the city is now in use, and the field is a most inviting one for\\nthe establishment of all kinds of manufacturing industries. In this connection,", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES.\\n45\\nit is a pleasure to state that free sites with railroad froutap;e will he donated all\\nAvorthy manufacturing institutions that desire to locate here,\\nCOTTON AND AVOOLEN GOODS MANUFACTURERS.\\nColumhus has long been the largest cotton manufacturing city in the Soutli,\\nhaving gained for herself the sobriquet of the Lowell of the South, but we\\nwe prefer to call her the Queen City, for she will lead in other manufac-\\nturers.\\nColumbus in the manufacture of Cotton goods is rather peculiar in that all\\nits mills manufacture finer grades of goods than those usually made in the South-\\nern factories, embracing cotton blankets, terry cloths, the celebrated INIitcheline\\nquilts, sewing threads, cordage of many varieties, ginghams, cottonades and\\ntickings. Three years ago the Paragon Mills were built, and as an experiment,\\nembarked in the manufacture of the finer grades of ginghams, plaids, etc. The\\nsuccess of the venture has been clearly demonstrated and the Paragon has taken\\nits place among the most successful cotton mills in Columbus. It cannot be denied\\nthat the cotton mills must eventually come to the cotton fields, and the history\\nof mills in Columbus is but another link in the chain of evidence which so clearly\\nestablishes this fact.\\nThe tabulated statement Avhich appears below- Avill give some interesting\\ninformation in reference to the cotton mills of the city.\\nNames of Mills\\nLooms\\nSpindles\\nHands\\nEmploy d\\nCotton\\nUsed\\nDaily\\nCapital\\nAND\\nSurplus\\nEagle and Phenix Manufacturing Co.\\nMuscogee Mannfacturino Co\\n1,800\\n42fi\\n360\\n300\\n100\\n60,000\\n9,000\\n8,000\\n2,000\\n500\\n400\\n300\\n100\\n80\\n300\\n50 Bales\\n9\\n9\\n5\\n91\\n4\\n3,225,000\\n300,000\\nSwift Mann factvi ring Co\\nParagon Manufactnring Co\\nClegg Manufactnring Co\\n200,000\\n100.000\\n50,000\\nBrown s Cotton Factory\\n4,000\\n80,000\\nf Chattahoochee Knitting ]\\\\Iills\\n*266\\n50,000\\nTotals\\n3.486\\n81.000\\n3.680\\n79i B ls\\n$3,100,000\\nf Owned by Eagle and Phenix Mills.\\nMachines.\\nREAL ESTATE HOLDINGS.\\nThe list below gives the real estate holdings of the cotton mills of Colum-\\nbus. Machinery and stocks are exempt from taxation and are not included in the\\nfigures named below\\nEagle and Phenix Manufacturing Company, mills and tenements 729,000\\nMuscogee Manufacturing Company 147,000\\nSwift Manufactnring Company 73,000\\nParagon Manufacturing Company 40,000\\nClegg Manufactuiing Company 20,000\\nBrowne s Cotton Factory 15,000\\nChattahoochee Knitting Mills 30,000\\nTotal $1,053,000\\nThe above figui-es by no means represent the total wealth of the cotton mills", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nof the city. They simply give the value of real estate held by the several com-\\npanies, as taken from the books of the city assessors for the year 1891.\\nThus, it will l)e seen that Columbus has some large establishments manu-\\nfacturing cotton and woolen goods, giving employment to 3,680 hands, to whom\\nis paid annually the large sum of 31,766,400.\\n];arrel manufacturers.\\nThere is one large establishment engaged in the manufacture of barrels,\\nkegs, etc., in this city. The quality of the work turned out is equal to that of\\nany city in the South, and the entire output finds a ready sale in the local and\\nnear markets to Columbus. The company employs a large force of men, and\\npay out annuall}^ as wages $18,200, while the annual sales will amount to SlOO,-\\n000. A more extended notice will ])e found on page 85 of this work.\\nRooi: binders and blank book manufacturers.\\nThere is one large esta1)lishment engaged in the manufacture of blank books.\\nThey have in connection with the same concern, a mammoth job printing office,\\npaper box manufactory, etc. Employment is given to a large force of both male\\nand female employes. The annual business Avill approximate about 850,000.\\nBREWERIES.\\nThe reputation of Columbus beer has continued to strengthen ever since the\\nplant was started, and at the present time the malt litpiors made in Columbus,\\nknown as the Chattahoochee Beer, takes precedence in ever} market where\\nit has been introduced. We have taken pains to give an extended notice of this\\nenterprise in another portion of our book, and we call particular attention to it.\\nThe business runs up into the thousands each year.\\nBRICK manufacturers.\\nThere are four concerns engaged in the manufacture of building brick, tile,\\netc., in this city. Some of the establishments are mammoth concerns, and turn\\nout as many as 100,000 brick per day. The business is in a healthy, growing-\\ncondition, and, will no doubt, l)e largely increased during the coming year, as\\nthe outlook for a large number of new buildings is promising. The annual busi-\\nness will amount to $120,000.\\nCANDY MANUFACTURERS.\\nColumbus has two establishments eno;aii;ed in the manufacture of candies,\\netc. Besides these there are a number of small concerns that make the cheaper\\ngrades of candy, such as taffy and common stick. On account of these small\\nconcerns Ave are unable to give reliable figures as to the transactions. As near\\nas we are able to we place the total business at 850,000 per year.\\nCARRIAtJE AND WAGON MANUFACTURERS.\\nThe manufacture of carriages and wagons is extensively carried on in this\\ncity, there being no less than three firms engaged exclusively in their manufac-\\nture. Some of them are (juite large, and the work turned out is first-class. The\\nannual sales will reach about 845,000.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES.\\n47\\nCIDER AND VINECAR.\\nThere is one large concern in this city manufacturing cider and vinegar, a\\nmore extended notice of ^vhich Avill be fo und in another portion of this Avork.\\nThe ciuality of the goods ma h; las a ^vide-spread reputation for its p.urity, no\\nadulteration ..f any kind being per.nittedin its manufacture. The business is in\\na flourishing condition and steadily growing.\\nCICAR MANUFACTURERS.\\nColumbus has three establishments engaged in the manufacture of cigars\\nand the pro.luct manufactured here is conceded to be e iual to any manufactured\\nin the State. True there are many larger manufactories in the State than Avd be\\nfound in this city, but in none of them is a better -luality of cigars made than\\nri Hit here. The business Avill reacli about S85,0(JU yearly.", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA\u00e2\u0080\u0094 HER\\nCLOTHING MAXUFACTURERS.\\nOne great benefit to the community resulting from the manufacture of cloth-\\ning is the immense field of employment it opens up for the poor, especially for\\nfemales. There are a large number of firms manufacturing clothing in this city,\\nand three of these deserve special mention, as their operations are carried on on\\na large scale, making goods for wholesaling. The prices paid employees, it is\\ntrue, are not a very munificent remuneration for labor, but by respectable clothiers\\nno advantage is taken of the necessities of the helpless. Exceptional cases there\\nundoubtedly are, in -which the poor are oppressed, but we are convinced the business\\nprinciples of our respectable clothiers accord with the principles of humanity, and\\nthat the females they employ are paid reasonably fair prices. The annual sales\\nwill reach $225,000.\\nFERTILIZERS.\\nThere is one firm in this city engaged in the manufacture of fertilizers, the\\nannual sales of which are $100,000. Besides this there are several firms dealing\\nin fertilizers manufactured at other points, which will run the total transactions\\nup to over $275,000 per annum.\\nFLOUR AND GRIST MILLS.\\nIn enumerating the various manufacturing industries of this city, we come\\nto that of flour and meal. By disregarding the conflicting opinions of political\\neconomists as to their legitimate right to such classification, Ave present our\\nreaders with the statistics of one of the most important industries in Columbus.\\nIt is not many years since the idea of establishing a flouring mill in Columbus\\nwas hooted at as an absurd innovation. Exchanges in rival cities ridiculed the\\ntemerity of the venturesome miller w^ho would dare erect his smoke-stack so far\\naway from the grain supply, but the attempt was made, and the venture to-day\\nis far beyond the experimental stage. We have two mammouth mills here, which\\ndo an annual business of many thousands of dollars, gives employment to a\\nnumber of persons, many of them skilled workmen. The machinery is the\\nlatest and most improved that can be found, and the product cjual to any in the\\nUnited States.\\nIRON MANUFACTURES.\\nThe advantages to be found at this point by the iron industries, although not\\nyet developed to anything like the magnitude that circumstances and surroundings\\nwill justify, have still been utilized to a very considerable extent by far-seeing,\\nenterprising men, who, by their energy, genius and go-ahead, determined spirits\\nhave established their business on a firm, paying basis, and which is constantly\\nbeing expanded, bringing in return for the generous outlay of capital, wisdom\\nand pluck, the golden prosperity their sturdy industry so richly merits. One of\\nthese establishments in particular will compare most favorably, indeed, with any\\nAvorks of the kind in the country, having ample facilities of the most improved\\norder for turning out any description of mill and engine work, and, in fact, all\\ngrades of both light and heavy manufactures. Possessed of an abundant capital", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES.\\n49\\nto increase their capacity to any extent made necessary by the demands of their\\nrapidly growing trade, the annual augmentation of business is plainly evident in\\nthe constant increase to their already vast army of employees, and also in the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2wide distribution of the product of this skilled labor. But what is true of this\\none concern applies with equal force to all the establishments engaged here in\\nany branch of the iron industry. The prosperity is abundantly demonstrated by\\ntheir unceasing operation, the large force of operatives constantly employed, the\\nsteady growth of capacities for production, and solid financial condition of every\\nfirm connected with the trade. The vast extent or territory tributary to this\\npoint, and the rapid broadening of the scope which must make our city a base of\\nEESIDENCE OF TOL Y. CRAWFOED, EAST HIGHLANDS.\\nsupplies, together with the excellent character of all other necessary facilities\\nand special advantages required by every department in the iron business to be\\nfound here, makes Columbus an unusually favorable locality in which to invest\\ncapital for prosecuting this highly important industry.\\nICE MANUFACTURERS.\\nThere are three companies in this city engaged in the manufacture of ice,\\nwhich finds a ready sale in the local markets, besides large shipments are made to\\ninterior towns. The quality of the ice made in our factories is of the best, the\\nwater here being considered the purest that can be found in the State. The busi-\\nness will average about $75,000.", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nBAGGING MANUFACTORY.\\nColumbus has the only bagging mill in the State of Georgia, and it is the\\nlargest institution of the kind in the South. The factory has a capital stock of\\n$75,000, and daily converts (3,000 pounds of jute into 3,000 yards of bagging,\\nwhich finds ready sale throughout the cotton belt. The factory employs 100\\nhands, most of whom are females. The annual transactions will foot up S2T5,-\\n000.\\nDRUGS AND CHEMICALS.\\nThe manufacture of chemicals in Columbus is carried on quite extensively,\\nalmost every druggist in the country manufactures some special preparations for\\nthe benefit of his local custom, but the celebrity of these preparations scarcely,\\nif ever, attains unusual runs. A striking exception to this fact are the medicines\\nmade by the W. W. C. Company and others in Columbus that we might name.\\nThere are four firms engaged in the manufacture of medicines whose annual trans-\\nactions will foot up S100,000.\\nGRANITE AND MARBLE WORKS.\\nThis industry is in a thriving condition in this ci -y. The rare skill of\\nthe artizans engaged, together with superior quality of the marble and granite\\nused, which comes, principally from Tennessee, North Carolina and the imported\\nfrom Italy, has given Columbus a name throughout the whole extent of country\\ntributary to her, and sales are made at all of these points. The annual transac-\\ntions will average $60,000.\\nSASH, BLINDS AND DOORS.\\nThe large amount of building in the city makes thriving times for the manu-\\nfacturers of sash, blinds, and doors, moulding and stair work. There are five fac-\\ntories in the city, employing a large number of hands. The product is not con-\\nsumed entirely by Columbus. The trade extends into the States of Georgia,\\nFlorida and Alabama. There is a constant growing demand for these manufactures\\nthat is very encouraging to new capital to locate here.\\nPLUMBING AND GAS FITTING.\\nThis branch of Columbus industries is prosecuted with great zeal and enter-\\nprise, the field being large and the demand rapidly increasing under the stimulat-\\ning effects of general prosperity at home, and the constant development of the\\nSouth. Tinware, though made a specialty by several manufacturers is also\\nturned out in the large plumbing establishments. Five concerns occupy this\\nfield of industry, contributing over 8100,000 to the grand aggregate of our\\nmanufactures.\\nBut limited space forbids our going further into the details of the industries\\nof this enterprising, go-ahead city, or the magnificent advantages each enjoy,\\nhowever entertaining the task would be. Suffice it to say that under a heading of\\nML ^CELLANEOUS,\\ncan be grouped every discription of industry, (not specifically mentioned in the\\nforegoing pages), that can be prosecuted at any point in the country, with the", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 51\\nassurance that tliey will he found existing in Columhus in some stage of develop-\\nment. Many are worthy of extensive mention, for they are indispensihle factors\\nin the make-up of a great city, and have aided not a little in esta1)lishing the\\nfame of Columbus, as may he inferred from ])rief allusions to such lines as\\ntrunk and valise factories, bakeries, sausage making, gunsmiths, blacksmiths,\\nmineral and soda water factories, etc. These innumerable miscellaneous pursuits\\nsupport vast numbers of our p.opulation, and though many of them may be con-\\nducted on a very modest scale, in some very retired spot, not one of them is to\\nbe sneered at, for all are noble, and help to swell the aggregate of our material\\nwealth, thereby conferring special benefits upon the masses, the intrinsic value\\nof which is inestimable.\\n(GENERAL SUMMARY.\\nIn reviewing the Inisiness interests of Columbus, we have Ijorne in mind that\\nour task was to give them a fair and impartial showing, and to benefit the com-\\nmunitv at large by stating facts that could readily be verified to the entire\\nsatisfaction of the world. Having set forth in their proper order these stern\\ntruths concerning the wonderful progress and substantial worth as a centre of\\ncommerce, trade and manufactures, it now remains to demonstrate their vast\\ninfluence by combining their powers and presenting them to the view as a grand\\n-whole a grand review, as it were, of the whole phalanx that has placed the\\ncrown of victory upon Colum1)us, and elevated it to its present high position\\namidst the surroundings of peace and prosperity. The annual transactions are\\nshown in the following tabulated statement\\nWholesale and Jobbing Trade S ir ,.-}29,2o5\\nMaimtaetures II.SS.IOOO\\nRetail Trade 9,000,000\\nGrand aggregate 807. 414. i-\\nThis magnificient showing is the result of industry, perseverance, economy,\\nskill and progressive energy in a community of people, who, less than a quarter\\nof a century ago were pennyless and powerless, with its cit} prostrate in the ashes\\ncreated by the better hatred of civil war that hesitated not to sacrifice friend and\\nfoe alike in the agony of its expiring thores. What city in the annuals of\\nhistory ever achieved grander results in so short space of time. When the great\\nmetropolis of the West was laid in waste by the fire fiend, and its people left\\nhomeless and starving, its ainiihilation was thouglit complete, and its restoration\\nimpossible. But while its inhabitants Avere still fleeing before the wrath of the\\ndestroying enemy, the world outstretclied its loving hand to succor and to save.\\nEven the remotest hamlet was eager in the good work, and the most uncompro-\\nmising foe was touched with pity that put to flight all thoughts but those which\\nprompted relief for the helpless. The result of such an outpouring of sympathy\\ndemonstrative of the power of Peace on earth and good will to man was\\nquickly manifested in the sudden rise of Chicago to a state of grandeur, that\\nmakes it more truly than ever the phenominal city of modern ages and the aston-\\nishment of all who visit it. Compare Columbus with Chicago. Analyze every", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52\\nCOLUMBUS, GEOKGIA HER\\nfeature of their respective conditions at the date of the down fall of each, and\\nevery step in their progress to restoration Chicago with the entire world for a\\nfriend, Columbus left to drink the last dregs in the cup of bitterness, and strug-\\ngle onward alone\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and then, if you can, deny that the metropolis on the banks\\nof the Chattahoochee has Avon a noljler victory and a prouder record than the\\nmetropolis on Lake Michigan s front.\\nBANKS AND OTHER FIXAXCIAL INSTITUTIONS.\\nColumbus has four Xational and three State Banks, making a total of seven,\\nAvith a capital\\nof ;?6o0,000,\\nand deposits\\na m u n t i ng to\\nupAvard of three\\nand a half mil-\\nlions of dollars,\\nand a surplus\\nand undivided\\nprofits of nearly\\n$300,000.\\nOTHER INSTITU-\\nTIONS.\\nThere are in\\nColumbus a\\nnumljcr of im-\\nportant Land\\nand Li vestment\\nu Companies and\\ng Building and\\n2 Loan Associa-\\ntions, Avhich arc\\nproving v a 1 u-\\nable factors in\\nthe up-building\\nof the city, and\\na r e receiving\\nlil eral support\\nand encourage-\\nment from her\\nl)eojile. The\\nnames of some\\nof the leading\\nand authorized capital, are given beloAV\\nCompanies, together Avith their actual\\nliiterHtatc Ltiiildiii;^ and Loan Association S7,. (K(,(i()(l\\nu orgia Home Iiisurancf Co. (toUil assets) 1,ihki,(KKI\\nMiisiogep Keal Kstatc Co. (authorized capita!) 1,(I(KI,{KMI\\nNorth Highland Company (i,(Kl(i\\nColumbus Inve.stmeiit Company 5iki.(IIKI\\nMuscogee Mutual and Columlms Mutual Loan \u00e2\u0080\u00a2l 2ll.0(K)\\nCity Lanii Company l(Hl,(HK)\\nliose Hill Coniiiauy 7. ,(HXI\\nTotal \u00c2\u00a71(1,745,(100", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 53\\nTHE COLUMBUS BOARD OF TEADE.\\nThe following address, delivered by Mr. L. II. Chappell on assuming the\\nduties of President in Januar^^, 1892, gives a brief history of the Columbus\\nBoard of Trade, which is composed of the leading business and professional men\\nof Columbus\\nIt is idle, gentlemen of the Columbus Board of Trade, for one entering\\nupon the office of President of this Board to attempt to express, in well-rounded\\nsentiments, his appreciation of the honor conferred. His acts, and not his words,\\nmust tell the story of his fitness, and his devotion to the true interest of Colum-\\nbus must indicate the sense of obligation and duty with which he accepts the\\ntrust a trust which none among us would accept did we not feel that the obliga-\\ntion to heartily co-operate for the accomplishment of our common purpose is\\nmutual, and rests alike upon each member of this Board, and upon every loyal\\nadvocate of the interests of Columbus. With this co-operation success is assured\\nwithout it, failure must be the portion of the ablest among us. The Columbus\\nBoard of Trade is habituated to success, and success has uniformly marked the\\ncareer of those who have, in the ten years of its existence, administered its\\naffairs, while their individual triumphs in Columbus was in the phenomenal devel-\\nopment of our natural advantages. The first President, ten years ago, was G.\\nGunby Jordan, a man whose very name has become a synonym of strength and\\nprogress and success, and from whose massive brain and indomitable energy we\\nhave seen spring into existence a half score of corporations, employing an aggre-\\ngation of millions of capital, and carrying the fame of Columbus into every State\\nin the Union, and into the financial centers of the world. Next came J. W.\\nWoolfolk, now the leading promoter of important enterprises in the capital city\\nof our neighboring State. Next, the beloved and lamented Hochstrasser, a gen-\\ntleman who stamped the impress of his exalted character upon every act of his\\nlife. Next, J. K. Orr, whose counsel is ever sought in the affairs of our city,\\nand who never fails to respond with heart and hand, encouraging the timid and\\naiding the strong and brave. Next, Mr. C. E. Caverly, who comes to us flushed\\nwith success achieved in the wonderful Gate City of the South, and who blends\\nso harmoniously the genius of his former with the genius of his present home.\\nFinally, our retiring President, to Avhom this board owes, perhajjs, a deeper debt\\nof gratitude than to any of his predecessors, since to him we are indebted for\\nour existence as a corporation, backed by a capital which insures our perpetuation\\nindependently of the limit of human life. At no time in our municipal history\\nhas there been greater need for the concert of action than at present. The begin-\\nning of the year 1892 finds the South struggling to recover from the effects of\\nfinancial disturbances. They may be owing to the revolutions in South America\\nand the consequent failure of the Baring Bros, in London, impairing confidence\\nand credit throughout the financial world or they may be the consequences of\\nextravagance and over-trading during the flush times of 89 and 90 or it may\\nbe the over-production and low price of cotton or it may be the McKinley Bill.\\nWhatever the cause, there is no question about tiie fact that the times are", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nhard. Xortli and South have felt it alike, and no city has been exempt. Colum-\\nbus, in the midst of it all, has continued to progress. It may not be christian-like,\\nbut there is a great consolation in being able to look around at our neigliboring\\ncities and say thank the Lord, we are not as bad as they. Instead of bank failures,\\nAve have a new bank opening, and another doubling its capital. Instead of rail-\\nroad receivers we have a new suburban line opened one of our new railroads\\nreaching out for the snows of the Nortli. and anotlier for tlie orange lilossoms of\\nl;i:.SIl)EN CES I ULK lIAKias AXP .IiiHN U. HENDKKSoN. l;A^T UltiHLAMis;.\\nFlorida. These evidences of progiess and prosperity in times of stagnation and\\ndepression are the legitimate results of conservatism and co-operation and mutual\\nconfidence.\\nSo long as we adhere to these principles we liave nothing to fear. The same\\ncauses which have guided us away from disaster in tiuies of depression will lead\\nus on to the achievment of grand results in the flush times of prosperity, which\\nwill as surely follow as the flood tide follows the ebb.\\nKEAL ESTATE INTERESTS IN COLUMBUS.\\nThe condition of the real estate market during the past few years has been\\none of steady increase in values. All classes of real property have advanced in\\nvalue, and the prices of to-day, as compared with those of past years, show an\\naverage advance of from 25 to 50 per cent. The heaviest demand for property.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 55\\nhowever, has not been from the capitalists and specuhitors, but from persons desir-\\ning homes or places of business for their own occupancy. Never, perhaps, in the\\nhistory of our city have our people been so thoroughly possessed with the deter-\\nmination to own their own homes. This idea seems to have become incorporated in\\nthe warp and woof of every man s life, and to be the object of his exertions in\\nbusiness. This is not confined to one class of our citizens, but comprehends\\nand permeates all classes and conditions. The demand covers every class of\\njtroperty, from the most palatial residence and handsomest stores in our city to\\nthe humblest and cheapest house known to the business. Our merchants and\\nprofessional men who have long since owned comfortable, staid residences, and\\nwhose prosperity now warrants something different, are now purchasing more\\nmodern sites or buildings fiirther North or East, and by building and remodel-\\ning, securing for themselves residences more in keeping with their increased\\nmeans and advanced idea of comfort and elegance of the present day. The man\\nof more moderate means, who has heretofore rented, is straining every nerve to\\nown his own home and rent no more.\\nKeal estate has been too much neglected by investors, and in the mad rush\\nfor wild-cat speculative stocks and bonds, the staid old investment has been left\\nfor a soberer period when the excitement of speculation had spent itself. That\\ntime is now upon us, and the panic which some of our wiseacres see dimly in\\nthe distance is but the bursting of some of the bubbles of their own inflation, and\\ncannot from the very nature of its everescent character, be widespread or general\\nin its effects. Even over guaranteed stocks and bonds all of which are now at a\\nhigh rate of premium does real estate possess positive advantages. The p irma-\\nnent character of it is an investment, the appreciation in value which it must ex-\\nperience in a growing country, the better rate of net interest it pays, all recom-\\nmend real property over personal. The fact that it is not subject to such violent\\nand frequent fluctuations, and is beyond the control of directors and syndicates\\nhaving power to reduce its value to a minimum price without let or hindrance, is\\na powerful factor for inducing men to leave the uncertain ways of incorporated\\nstocks in favor of this class of property.\\nAnother reason for the advance in the price of property in this locality is\\nfound in the advance in rents during the past few years. This advance was a\\nhealthy one, predicated upon the law of supply and demand, and made necessary\\nby the reduction which had taken place after the war, as a result of that calamity.\\nAVe are all forced to study economy in some measure, and the item of house rent\\nis the first to receive attention at the hands of most men. The conclusion is then\\neasily reached that it is an economic measure to save the profits realized by the\\nowner of the house. The desire follows to be your own landlord, and the reali-\\nzation is made possible through the poor man s helper, the loan association.\\nThese institutions have been of incalculable benefit to Columbus. The results of\\ntheir work is the building up of nearly all that part of the city known as Rose\\nHill and East Highlands. Many a man in our midst owns his own home, who,\\nbut for their assistance, would now be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water,", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56\\nCOLUMBUS. GEORGIA HER\\npaying out the larger part of his monthlv earnings for a shelter for his family,\\nand barely eaking out an existence.\\nThese associations have been of great help to men of larger means, who\\ncould aftord to pay a considerable out per month in order to secure a comfortable\\nhome, but who could not afford to jeopardize their business by taking out the\\namount necessary to build a home from their own capital. Again have these\\nassociations been useful in assisting men to accumulate wealth in the matter of\\npurchasing or building tliat class of houses which very nearly or entirely pay\\ntheir own way through the loan associations, and at its termination leave them\\npossessed of the property clear. In this way have some of our citizens amassed\\n^ealth, and added materially to the taxable property of the city. In these ways.\\nHI KdRV HILL I lMrKUTV MUSCO JEE REAL ESTATE COMPAXV, EAST HICHLAXPS.\\nand in others, have loan associations become important factors in building up our\\ncity, and increasing the demand for real estate by simplifying and attaining of it.\\nIn the consideration of the subject of real estate in Columbus, sufficient promi-\\nnence has not been given to our improved condition as a community, as one of\\nthe elements of strength in the market. The financial solidity for which Colum-\\nbus has always been noted is greater and more stable to-day than it ever Avas.\\nWhile we have fewer millionaires than some communities further North, yet we\\nare in a better condition, because the wealth of the city is more evenly distri-\\nbuted, and there are a great number of persons possessing moderate means and\\nfewer extremely wealthy. The increase of wealth by slow accumulations gives", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 57\\nas a population with a vast purchasing ability. The tax digest unfortunately is\\nnot the means of acquiring this information. But daily operations on the street\\nwill prove it, as will the presentation of any scheme which promises safe returns\\nand good management call for the ample and liberal responses of capital. Colum-\\nbus is rich in her resources of capital, and the best informed upon the subject\\nknow that the custodians of it are not to be found only in the recognized marts\\nof the city, but frequently in unpretentious corners.\\nTHE EIsTYIRONS OF COLUMBUS.\\nWe have before remarked the thickly populated condition of the suburbs, in\\neach direction, each quarter possessing some elements of beauty and attractive-\\nness. Property, consequent upon the large influx of population that Columbus\\nhas received in the past few years, has so increased in value that space has be-\\ncome a costly luxury, only to be enjoyed by the more extravagant. In fact many\\npersons who constitute a moving power, and a large proportion of our commercial\\nand manufacturing world, are compelled to seek homes in some one of the many\\nsuburban towns that cluster around the metropolis and are vitalized by its prox-\\nimity. They are as follows\\nEAST HIGHLANDS.\\nTHE PROPERTY OF THE MUSCOGEE REAL ESTATE COMPANY THE MOST DESIRABLE\\nRESIDENCE PROPERTY IN THE SOUTH.\\nThere are two points which particularly impress every stranger who visits Co-\\nlumbus the extreme desirability of its eastern slope for delightful and pleasant\\nhomes, and the astonishingly reasonable prices at which such property can be bought.\\nNor do they fail to note its many facilities for cheap and pleasant living, coupled with\\nthe fact that every dollar of this property must double, and probably treble, in value,\\nwhile its owner occupant has the use of it as a home. Occupying (by actual\\nmeasurement) the highest ground on the Georgia side of the beautiful and fast\\nflowing Chattahoochee river, it is the most delightful place for a home that can\\nbe found. Here in ante-bellum days the merchant prince and Avealthy planters\\nmade their homes, surrounded by all the luxuries that fancy could dictate and\\nmoney purchase. A number of these old Southern homes still adorn the East\\nHighlands. The Muscogee Ileal Estate Company was organized October 23d,\\n1887, by John F. Flournoy, Louis F. Garrard, and others of Columbus, with\\nprominent capitalists of Savannah, Ga., Richmond, Ya., and Rochester, N. Y.\\nThis company is different from most of the land companies organized in the so-\\ncalled boom towns. Its lands were all paid for cash. Its stock is fully paid up,\\nand none of it has been off ered on the market. No auction sale of lots has been\\nnecessary, but a steady, solid, substantial growth has been encouraged. Since\\nthe material for the first new house was placed on the ground, October 27, 1888,\\nthere has been no time that a dozen new and handsome houses have not been\\n(E)", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nunder construction. There has been no ^vild speculation. The lot purchasers\\nhave been, as a rule, home builders, and the hundreds of new and attractive\\nhomes which dot The HighJanch attest the wisdom of the policy.\\nDuring the summer of 1888, the company commenced the development of\\ntheir property by clearing the lands, opening the streets, etc. How well they\\nhave succeeded is told in a brief paragraph taken from the Unquircr-Sun of\\nAugust 31, 1890: The development of the East Highlands within the past year\\nis simply wonderful. The originators of the enterprise gave the signal for the\\nbreaking of the old routine improvement plan, and opened a world of progres-\\nm\\nKEh^IDEXCKS IF C. K. DlilMHOH AND V. K. VdlNti\u00e2\u0080\u0094 EAST HIGHLANDS.\\nsion and rapid growth, and kindled that fire of enthusiasm which has marked\\nevery successful enterjirise in the recent wonderful growth of Columbus I The\\nEast Highlands embrace 750 acres of city and suburban property, all lying\\nwithin a radius of two miles of the business centre of Columbus. The first\\naddition of this property embraces some 200 acres of level land, 100 feet above\\nthe old town, immediately adjacent to, and partly within, the city limits. This has\\nbeen regularly laid oif, conforming to the old town, with wide, well graded streets\\nand avenues, all well set with shade trees. Here where but three years ago\\nstood less than half a dozen old homes are hundreds of handsome dwellings, all\\noccupied by a contented, happy and prosperous people. The flash of the electric\\nlight illuminates the Highlands. The postman makes his rounds and the police-\\nman treads his beat as regularly as in the city, and every advantage that the old", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 59\\ncity has is shared here. The second, or Wihl wood Park addition, embraces about\\n200 acres of beautifully rolling lands, higher than any territory around Colum-\\nbus, except, possibly, the Alabama hills west of the city. Between this and the\\nfirst addition is located Wildwood Park, containing about 100 acres of beautiful\\npark lands, through the centre of which flows Werocoba creek, a beautiful stream\\nof clear water, fed by perpetual springs flowing 20,000 gallons per minute,\\nand all within a stone s throw of the Park. These grounds have been artisti-\\ncally laid off and are traversed by wide drives, shaded by overhanging trees,\\nwhich furnished shelter to the red man long before the sound of the steam whistle\\nwas heard echoing throufj-h the hills and dells of this beautiful Eden. Here no\\nrattle of heavy dray or steady tramp of weary workers disturbs the quiet of this\\nlovely spot, and as one sits under the arching vines and breathes the pure, fresh\\nair, or wanders about amid the perfume of sweet flowers, he can scarcely realize\\nthat he is within ten minutes ride of the busy throng that make up the business\\nof a great and thriving city. Winding walks leading through acres of Kentucky\\nand Texas bluegrass to rustic bridges, which span at intervals the crystal streams\\nthat thread their way through the park, singing as they ripple along the sweet\\nhymns of nature. At night the chirp of the cricket and the song of the mocking\\nbird lulls one to sleep. Surrounding this beautiful place are many old Southern\\nhomes, with stately columns and wide verandas, and here many of the handsome\\nhomes of the future must be erected. Already has the good work commenced,\\nand within the past year or two (|uite a number of handsome modern dwellings\\nhave been built. Here the very best of society can be had, and true, old-fash-\\nioned Southern hospitality is dispensed with a liberal hand. A more cultivated,\\nrefined, hospitable people cannot be found in this beautiful South-land than those\\nlivino; in the East Highlands. A sidendid male and female school is conducted\\nthe entire scholastic year in new buildings located in a tract of ten acres of\\nbeautifully shaded land donated to school use, and which can never be used for\\nany other than educational purposes.\\nThe third addition of this property, embracing several hundred acres more,\\nis devoted to truck and dairy farms, raising all of the fruits and vegetables for\\nwhich the South is fast becoming noted. Through the centre of this entire prop-\\nerty the Columbus Railroad Company operates its belt passenger line, affording\\nample, cheap and rapid transportation to every portion of it. This is said to be\\nthe best built and best equipped dummy line in the South, having standard rails\\nand cross-ties and the track ballasted with gravel. Negotiations are now pending\\nlooking to equipping this line with electricity, by which means ten minute sche-\\ndules will be given to all of this property.\\nThe policy of the company has been from the first to place before the man\\nof moderate means a plan by which he can secure a home with the money he\\nwould pay as rent; hence they inaugurated in this city the plan of building a\\nhouse and letting the purchaser pay for it on the installment plan. In purchas-\\ning a home, it is always desirable to secure a place where you can live the year\\nround comfortably. In a well established residence community, and among", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "60\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nrefined and cultivated people, with good schools and churches, and where there is\\nan abundance of pure water, perfect drainage and pure air; where there is no\\nquestion as to who your next door neighbor will be, and where no grog-shop or\\nother objectionable structure can be built to destroy the quiet and peace of your\\nhome where you have electric lights and free mail delivery, police protection,\\ncheap and rapid transportation, with absolutely correct and certain schedule,\\nregardless of wind or weather, with comfortably heated cars in winter and open\\ncars in summer; where property is steadily advancing in value, and where it will\\ncontinue to do so, because all has been paid for cash, and tlie proceeds from all\\nsales is pledged to building up, improving and developing the property where\\nthe people who manage and control the property, and have the most interest in it,\\nRESIDENCE OF HOX. L. F. GAERAKI), EAST HIGHLAXDS.\\nhave built their own homes, and where, if they succeed, you are bound to be\\nbenefited. All of this and much more you will find on the East Highlands.\\nThe company will sell any size lot wanted. All of the lots front on wide and\\nwell graded streets, with shade trees on either side, and if you have not the\\nmeans to purchase for cash, the company will aid you with cheap money on long\\ntime to help you buy and build a home.\\nThe Georgia Midland Gulf Railroad skirts the Northwestern portion of\\nthe Highlands for over a mile, and on this portion are many eligible sites for\\nmanufacturing plants with splendid railroad facilities. The Company will donate\\nsufficient ground to any worth}^ enterprise wishing to locate here.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 61\\nThe Muscogee Real Estate Company, in addition to the East Highlands, own\\na large amount of imjjroved and unimproved city property, which they offer at\\nreasonable prices and on liberal terms.\\nTo J. F. Flournoy, President and General ^lanager of the Company, the\\npast great success of the work is due. He has given his energy and time to the\\nwork of making the East Highlands what it now is, the most desirable place for a\\nhome to be found. The success of the Company speaks more eloquently than any\\nwords we might write as to how well the work has been done. Mr. Flournoy, in\\naddition to being President of the Muscogee Real Estate Company, is also Presi-\\ndent of the Columbus Investment Company and the Columbus Street Railway\\nCompany Vice-President of the Georgia Midland Gulf Railroad Company,\\nDirector of the Chattahoochee National Bank, and senior member of the large\\nCotton Commission and Warehouse firm of Flournoy Epping. He is a man of\\nno ordinary ability, as is evidenced by the manner in which he handles and\\ndirects the affairs of the various enterprises of which he is the executive head.\\nNORTH HIGHLANDS.\\nPROPERTY OF NORTH HIGHLANDS LAND IMPROVEMENT AND MANUFACTURING\\nCOMPANY.\\nOf the many alluring advantages and eminently grand and noble features\\nAvhich recommend Columbus as a place of residence to the capitalist, the manu-\\nfacturer and the artisan, perhaps none are so highly commendable as the North\\nHighlands addition to the city. These noble grounds, once naught but barren\\nAvilderness and woods with only nature s beauty, are now transformed by the magic\\narts, born of refined tastes and intelligence, into a delightful and healthful resi-\\ndence addition to this busy manufacturing city, teeming with many-hued flowers,\\nstriking landscapes, and scenes and surroundings the most charming that man s\\ningenuity and cultured knowledge can devise. To those who are as yet unfa-\\nmaliar with the location we will say The Company s property is located directly\\nNorth of the city, and has an altitude of 200 feet above the highest point on the prin-\\ncipal street in the city, and partly within the city limits, the entire area under police\\nprotection. It has a river frontage of 1900 yards, and the entire property covers\\nan area of 335 acres, and is accessible to the city of Columbus over one of the\\nbest equipped electric railways in the South, which begins on Broad street and\\nruns out Eleventh street to Second avenue, and out that avenue on an air line for\\nthree miles, on a twelve minutes schedule, the entire length of the property. Let\\nfancy s eye picture a tour over this expansive addition. The broad boulevards,\\nskirted with beautiful driveways, shaded by the green foliage of the grand line of\\nstately trees. Then the extensive and beautiful park, embellished with striking\\nlandscapes and most charming surroundings the view of the beautiful river with\\nits rapids. Look where you may the view changes and fills the heart with some\\nunexpected delight it may be some broad exjmnse, arched grove, or some grotto,\\ndell or leaf-embowered spot, a rustic bridge with blossoming vines, or a rustic\\nfount; some rare tropical plant, flower or fern. Along carriage way, bridle path or", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "62\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\ngraveled serpentine tuniing walks, the scene is ever changing, ever pleasing to\\nthe eye and gratifying to tiie taste. This proj)er v consists of 350 acres, and was\\npurchased bv the North Highlands Land Ini])iovement and Manufacturing Com-\\npany in April, 181M}, the company paying for it in cash. The services of an\\nexpert landscape gardener, J. Forsyth Johnson, was secured, and the work of\\nlaving off and beautifying the projierty immediately began. The lots are laid\\noff with round corners, the centre lot on the end of each block being in a\\ntriangular shape, thus avoiding the backing of any lot on the neighboring front\\nyard. The streets are nicely graded, and a boulevard extends for 1,000 yards\\nalong the steep banks\\nof the Chattahoochee.\\nT\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0N5\\nVA.-^v- J:\\ni Jt\\nHAP OF PROPERT.Y\\nNORTH HIGHLANDS LAND\\nIMPMT MANF-G CO\\nThe scenery is beau-\\ntiful. Rustic bridges\\ncross the ravines,\\ngroves and pine trees\\na b o u n d a n d e very\\nyard of the drive re-\\nveals some strikingly\\nbeautiful scenery in\\nfact, it is inspiring,\\nand just such a place\\nas one can come and\\nspend months and\\nnever grow weary. A\\ndriveway is being\\nmade, twenty-five feet\\nwide, in front of the\\nresidence property and\\noverlooking the boule-\\nvard and the park be-\\ntween the boulevard\\nand the river, and\\nparties purchasing lots\\nalong the boulevard\\nwill be entitled to all\\nthe privileges of the\\nclub room in the large i avilion to lie erected, whicli is free from the general\\npleasure-seekers at the park. For years this has been the rendezvous of the\\nlovers of cpiiet and the beautiful, and now, with the rosaries to be planted around\\nthe pavilion, the beautiful drives, and many other attractive features (including\\nbathing pools, tennis grounds, gun club grounds, etc.), it has a destiny of world-\\nwide popularity. The lots on the boulevard have from 80 to 150 feet front, and\\nfrom 140 to 250 feet depth, Avitli twenty feet alley-way in the rear, and on the\\nstreets 50 to 150 feet depth, with ten foot alley-way. Chicago has her lake view,", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 63\\nPhiladelphia her Fairmount Park, Baltimore her Druid Hill Park, but in natural\\nand rustic beauty North Highlands excels them all. Among the many views are\\nLovers Leap, Sunset Rock, Marie Springs, Murmuring Falls, Eagle s Nest, and\\nthe S view in the river. Just above Lovers Leap is an apparent lake, abound-\\ning in trout and other game fish.\\nMr. S. A. Carter, of the firm of Carter Bradley, one of the leading\\nbusiness men of the city, is President of the company Mr. E. J. Rankin, Vice-\\nPresident; Mr. J. Rhodes Browne, Secretary and Treasurer, and Messrs. J. B.\\nHoist, D. P. Dozier, R. A. Carson and T. F. Smith, all prominent and influential\\ncitizens and business men, complete the Board of Directors. In a limited notice\\nsuch as this must of necessity be, one can but give the bare facts and we would say\\nto those interested, volumes might be filled and then fail to carry an adequate\\nidea so we refrain, and simply add in conclusion If you miss this, you miss a\\nchance of a life-time, for this place, with its noble river and superb scenery, ofifers\\nadvantages unequaled anywhere in the South, and most of the eligible locations\\nwill be quickly taken up. There is no such thing as retrograding, for once let it\\nbe known and an increasing throng of both old and new guests will make it their\\nfavorite resort and stopping place.\\nGIRARD, ALABAMA.\\nTRADE, COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURING ADVANTAGES.\\nThe growth and development of the LTnited States stands pre-eminent among\\nthe most remarkable wonders of ancient or modern history, and yet how little our\\nown people seem to realize its astonishing magnitude. When we stop to reflect\\nupon the prodigious results accomplished by the nation since the close of the Rev-\\nolutionary war, we are filled with amazement by the gigantic character of our\\nown labors. In the century wiiich has elapsed since the thirteen original States\\nwere established as a free and independentGovernment we have grown to a Nation\\nof thirty-eight States and nine Territories, and fifty-six million people, having an\\ninternal commerce spread over an area three and a half million square miles, and\\npossessed of property amounting to the enormous aggregate of forty -five thousand\\nmillion dollars. These brief told facts constitute the very cone of our wonderful\\nprogress and demonstrate the unparalleled wealth of our natural resources, the\\nunceasing industry and the boundless ambition of our people. But as the mental\\neye scans the grand exhibit of this one century of labor, Ave discover that the\\nmost astonishing features have been contributed by that portion of the country\\ngeographically defined the\\nSOUTH,\\nwhich has been actively progressing about one and a half score years. Within\\nthat period, however, the progress has been upon the most gigantic scale con-\\nceivable. A tour of inspection would reveal no more interesting facts concerning\\nthe giant strides of progress in this mighty South than those developed by the\\ngreat State of Alabama. Among the foremost and ambitious to contribute to the", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nfame of Alabama and aid in the general advancement of the State bj properly\\nutilizing its own quota of magnificent advantages, is the city of Girard.\\nIt is located on the opposite bank of the Chattahoochee river from Colum-\\nbus, in the corner of Russell county, which extends up to the river, the river\\nbeing the line between Georgia and Alabama separating Girard from Columbus,\\nbut does not deprive it of any of the advantages of Columbus, as they have two\\nwagon bridges, affording ample transportation.\\ngirard s natural resources.\\nOf first importance in considering the advantages of a city for building up\\nthe interests of commerce and manufactures are its relations to the natural\\nresources, chief among which rank the agricultural and mineral products. To\\nattempt the discussion of a city s resources for fostering its growth and improve-\\nment, encouraging industry and enterprise, and increasing its Avealth and popula-\\ntion without showing that it possesses favorable advantages as regards agricultu-\\nral resources, is a fruitless waste of time, for without the aid of this highly im-\\nportant factor, none of those much desired conditions of prosperity can be expected\\nto exist to any appreciable extent. Without doubt Alabama is one of the finest\\nagricultural States in the Union, and as to her iron and coal she is second to none.\\nHer soil is highly adapted to cotton, corn, oats, potatoes, fruits and vegetables,\\nthe annual average yield of each being large. Girard receives full benefit of all\\nthe transportation, banking and commercial facilities of Columbus. Although she\\nis eminently qualified to excel as a commercial city, the principal has been to\\ndevelop it as a manufacturing center. The wisdom of such endeavors is not to be\\nquestioned, since it is so plainly apparent that the city possesses in the highest\\ndegree the leading essentials for success in manufactures endless amount of\\nwater power, comparatively no taxes, and a boundless demand for the articles\\nafter they are made, practically at our very gates, thus saving to the producers\\na vast sum in freights.\\nSkilled labor ig as cheap here (as manufacturing statistics show) as in any\\nsection of the country, although the laborers realize more here because of less\\ncost of living. Aside from the price of labor, all expenses to the manufacturer\\nare less at this point than in any part of the South. Girard can lay claim to the\\ntitle of one of the healthiest cities in the Union. The fact of the remarkably\\nlow death rate of mortality among our people has been wondered at by sanita-\\nrians, but when our conditions are carefully studied, it appears perfectly plain\\nand satisfactory, for our city has been absolutely free from epidemics, and such\\ncontagious diseases as scarlet fever, minengitis, diphtheria, etc., are compara-\\ntively unknown. We are likewise free from the malarial influences of the river\\nbottoms, and the few fevers we have are not of a malignant type. Our readers\\ncan see at once that Girard is the place for the manufacturer.\\nRose Hill is another beautiful addition to the city, lying within the corporate\\nlimits.\\nPhenix City, across the river, above Girard, is a thriving town, and many of\\nour business men live in that beautiful suburban town, and quite a number of", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 65\\nlarge manufacturing establishments are also located there, because of the excel-\\nlent condition of the water and the liberal inducements oifered by the authorities\\nto manufacturers seeking advantaffeous locations.\\nCOLUMBUS AS A PLACE OF RESIDENCE.\\nFrom what has already been said concerning Columbus, it is plainly evident\\nthat she possesses very superior advantages for man s abiding place, constraining\\none almost to believe that nature especially designed the site for a residence city,\\nleavinjir nothino; undone that could be deemed essential to the convenience of those\\nerecting habitations thereon. But this is an age of progress, and however per-\\nfect nature may regard its handiwork, man can always find room for improving\\nupon it, Columbus well illustrates this inborn desire of the human race, to tear\\ndown and build over, remove and re-arrange, or tinker in some way with every-\\nthing it becomes possessed of, for man has so altered, rounded up and finished her\\nmarvelously original work that few places of crudity now appear.\\nCLIMATE OF COLUMBUS.\\nProbably the most essential physical advantage of a city lies in its climate\\na climate favorable to vigor of mind and health of body. The climate of Colum-\\nbus, like other portions of our country, has undergone important changes within\\na half century. Ice is a thing that is seldom seen. Sometimes the early riser\\nmay see a thin coating of ice on the gutters, but it never remains until mid-day.\\nSleighing and skating hereabouts are things decidedly out of the question in\\nfact, the weather during January is as genial as spring. In the summer the\\nthermometer sometimes rises for a few consecutive days above 95 degrees but\\nthe temperature invariably diminishes sensibly after sunset, the nights being gen-\\nerally comfortable and refreshing, and often delightful.\\nHEALTHFULNESS OF COLUMBUS.\\nThe comparative healthfulness of various cities has been made a subject of\\ncareful observation by physicians and others for more than a half century, and\\nmany cities have not even hesitated to prevaricate, to draw it mildly, concerning\\nso serious a subject; but in all candor we assert that in a sanitary point of view\\nColumbus is highly favored, and the tables of mortality have uniformly shown\\nthat Columbus is one of the healthiest cities in the United States.\\nSOCIETY OF COLUMBUS.\\nAs Avould be expected all classes of society are represented here. We\\nhave in our city some of the most refined and cultivated peo}:le to be found any-\\nwhere, and unfortunately, some of whom tlie least that can be said is the best.\\nNo matter to what class of people one may belong, he will have no reason to\\necho the sad reflection of Byron I am among them, but not of them. All\\nmay find congenial and kindred spirits here. Upon the whole, however, no city\\ncan boast of better society than Columbus. Manv of our l\u00c2\u00bbest families descended", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "6Q\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nfrom the earliest and most distinguished characters in the history of American\\nindependence. Identified with the city and the South from an early dav, thev\\nhave grown in wealth and prosperity with the growth and improvement of the\\ncountry. Nor have mental culture and social refinement been neglected. For\\nmany years Columbus was noted for her institutions of learning. AYith all these\\nadvantages, it would be strange indeed if our best society did not reflect honor\\nupon the cit}\\nGentle of birth\\nand ambitious of\\nlearning, refined\\nby nature and\\nhospitable to a\\nfault, possessed\\nof great wealth\\nand enthusiastic\\n3 lovers of art,they\\nconstitute an or-\\ng dre de monde in\\nz which the most\\n2 brilliant devotee\\nof letters and\\nZ fasliion may find\\ncom])an i o n i h i p\\nI worthy of his\\nhighest taste.\\nAll the better\\nclasses of society\\nare liberal in\\ntheir ideas, and\\np; welcome all who\\nare worthy of\\ntheir confidence\\nand e s t e e m.\\nThose Avho have\\ncome among us\\nin late years have\\nbeen gladly re-\\nceived into our\\nsocial circles, and\\nmany of them are now the leaders of society in wealth, culture and public spirit.\\nIndeed, a number of our leading fiimilies families whose recognition and\\nhospitality would honor any guest, however high in fame or state are those\\nwho have won their position within a recent period by their own merit and\\ncharacter. Thus, while our personne de qualite are eminently select and rigidly", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "COMiVIERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 67\\nstrict in the observance of all the finer conventionalities of good society, they\\nare generously democratic when merit knocks for admission.\\nCHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS.\\nColumbus has always been noted for the church-going proclivities of its\\npeople, their fervid Christianity and zeal in advancing the cause of morality.\\nThe buildings are large and comfortable, are well ventilated in summer and heated\\nin Avinter, All of the churches have been peculiarly fortunate in the selection of\\nministers, as they are all fine speakers and enjoy the highest moral and religious\\ncharacter. There are nineteen churches in the city, as follows Baptists five,\\ntwo white and three colored; Episcopal, one; Hebrew, one; Methodist nine, five\\nwhite and four colored Presbyterian two, one white and one colored; Roman\\nCatholic one. The total value of church property is about $500,000, and the\\nchurches have a seating capacity for about 15,000 persons.\\nThe limits of our book forbid our giving a more extended write-up of the\\nchurches, besides we could not obtain data from all, though we made repeated\\neftbrts.\\nSUNDAY-SCHOOLS.\\nConnected with all of the churches of the city are interesting and flourishing\\nSunday-schools, where many hundreds of the children and youths of the city are\\ngathered each Sabbath day to be instructed in the great truths of the Bible, and\\nin the religious and moral duties of life. It would be impossible to over-estimate\\nthe beneficent influence these schools have on the community. Nurseries of\\nreligion, and of virtue and good citizenship, they are justly cherished by our\\npeople as the safest guardians of their children s characters, and the surest guar-\\nantees for their future. If it is possible for the departed dead to witness the\\nprogress of human affairs, the spirit of the founder of Sunday-schools could\\nbehold no happier sight than the assemblage of all the Sunday-school children of\\nColumbus in one grand union meeting. We are proud of our Sunday-schools,\\nand justly so. No pains are spared by the teachers and officers, no expense\\nwithheld by the parents and churcees, to make them worthy of our city and\\nsociety.\\nPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF COLUMBUS.\\nEducation is the mortar that holds the social fabric together. Without it\\ncivilization would crumble to the earth. Religion itself would be lost in the\\nCimmerian darkness of ignorance and superstition. Pythagoras puts the neces-\\nsity of education in strong language He that knoweth not that which he\\nought to know is a brute among men he that knoweth no more than he hath\\nneed of is a man among beasts and he that knoweth all that may be knoAvn is a\\ngod among men,\\nCD o\\nGreece, the ])right, particular star in the old dark canopy of antiquity, the\\nmother of the arts and the sciences, was first to declare the necessity of Educa-\\ntion, Her own proud fame she owed to learning, Init unfortunately for her she\\nflourished in an age when the equality of men, the crowning glory of modern\\ntimes, was unknown. She fostered Education, but the education only of her", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "68 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nhigher classes. Her common people, constituting four-fifths of her population,\\nwere left in ignorance. This was her fatal mistake. A grievous fault it was,\\nand grievously hath she paid it.\\nEducation of the higher classes was carried to Rome. She, too, neglected\\nher common people, and Rome as Rome is no more. A dark wave of ignorance\\nand rapine swept over the Avorld. All seemed to be lost. Suddenly a light\\nflashed athwart the Western heavens, and Reformation stood revealed. The\\ntrumpet voice of Martin was heard proclaiming the grand truth Government,\\nas the natural guardian of all the young, has the right to cjmpel people to sup-\\nport schools. That which is necessary to the Avell- being of a State should be\\nsupported by those who enjoy the privileges of the State. Now, nothing is\\nmore necessary to this than the training of those Avho are to come after us.\\nHere the principle of free popular education was first proclaimed. Here\\nit was given birth and life. Holland and Scotland hastened to apply it. Both\\ncountries claim the imperishable honor of having been first to introduce it. The\\nresult of their foresight and wisdom was, that for ages after, these nations were\\nregarded as the most intelligent and thrifty people in Europe. Whatever they\\napplied themselves to they excelled in. Macauley bears eloquent testimony of\\nthe race superiority of the Scotch. From Europe the principle of popular Edu-\\ncation was brought to America Maryland, Ncav York, Connecticut and Massa-\\nchusetts, all contend for the proud distinction of naturalizing it here. Maryland\\ndoubtless had the first free municipal schools, followed by the others in the order\\nnamed, ])ut Massachusetts Was the first to adopt the State system of free schools,\\nsince adopted by all, or nearly all of the States. The Northeastern and North-\\nern States were next to adopt it. Previous to the late war private academies\\nwere almost exclusively patronized by the ])eople of Columbus, but at its close\\nthe uncertain condition and prospects of our citizens caused greater reliance to\\nbe placed upon the free school system.\\nThe Columbus Public Schools were organized in 18GT, and form the second\\noldest system of public schools in Georgia. Their growth has been steady, but\\nconstant, from their organization. The names of more than 2,400 children have\\nbeen enrolled as pupils of these schools this year, and more than $26,000 appro-\\npriated for defraying the expenses of the schools for scholastic year 1891- 92.\\nThe Boys Public School building, a most convenient, handsome school structure,\\ncosting $27,500, was finished and furnished but a little more than three years\\nsince. Since then the Chappell College property and Rose Hill scliool property\\nhave been bought by a generous City Council for the use of the public schools.\\nIn addition to this, there are now in the neighborhood of S20,000 in the city\\ntreasury to the credit of the school fund to be used in erecting a modern school\\nbuilding for the girls. Nearly two years ago a High School department was\\nadded to the primary and to the grammar departments, and is now in a most\\nflourishing condition.\\nIn no schools, perhaps, in the South are teachers doing more in the way of\\nattending Normal Schools, Teachers Institutes, etc., and in reading professional", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 69\\nbooks than are the teachers of Columbus. They are intensely progressive, and\\nthe resul*,s of their teaching are exceedingly satisfactory to the patrons of the\\nschools and the people of the city.\\nWith a generous people to sustain them, a liberal Council to appropriate\\nAvhatever funds that may be found necessary for successfully operating them, Avith\\nwise, progressive trustees to direct their operations, and a superintendent and\\nteachers thoroughly conversant with the history, principles and methods of the\\nbest school systems of the world, the Columbus Public Schools have as bright a\\nfuture as any schools in the South.\\nCHARITABLE AND BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS.\\nAnd now abideth Faith, Hope and Charity, these three but the greatest is Charity.\\nCharity, the first-born of Heaven, is the divine essence Avithin us. It is\\nthat which forms us in the image of our Maker. It is the manifestation of God\\nhimself incarnate in man. It is the lamp which lights our pathway through life\\nand leads us on to heaven.\\nThe mission of charity is gentleness and love. It visits the poor and con-\\nsoles the friendless. It rests the weary and shelters the homeless. It feeds the\\nhungry and clothes the destitute. It soothes the sick and comforts the sorrowing.\\nThe widow and the orphan are its wards. Its rule of life, Love thy neighbor\\nas thyself. Its admonition, though I speak with the tongues of men and of\\nangels, and have not charity, I am become sounding brass and a tinkling\\ncymbal. In the bright galaxy of virtues, philanthrophy, benevolence, kind-\\nness, sympathy, generosity and mercy, it is the central radiant star. It is the\\nbeo;innino; and the end of all virtues.\\nIt breaks the bonds of avariciousness and selfishness, and gives with a\\nwillinii; and generous hand. It strives for the moral culture and elevation of\\nmankind. It has given its apostles and evangelists, its missionaries and martyrs,\\nits ministers and priests to humanity without money and without price. It ani-\\nmates the patriot and inspires the philosopher. It is the source of every gen-\\nerous impulse, the fountain of every noble aspiration. It is the salvation and\\nhope of society. It is the virtue preservative of all virtues. It is the visible\\npresence of God on earth.\\nThe following is a list of the various charitable and benevolent and secret\\norganizations in Columbus: Ancient Order United Workmen, two lodges Inde-\\npendent Order B nai Brith, one Red Men, three Knights of the Golden Rule,\\none Knights of Honor, one Knights and Ladies of Honor, one Knights of\\nPythias, three Masonic, six National Union, two Odd Fellows, three Royal\\nArcanum, one; Typographical Union, one, and four colored secret organizations.\\nBesides the above, Columbus has a Lodge of Elks that she may well feel proud\\nof. It is composed of the best citizens in the town, and their devotion to protec-\\ntion and benevolence is observable in all the walks of life. Their motto,\\nThe faults of our brothers we write upon the sands; their virtues on\\nthe tablets of love and memory.*\\nis strictly adhered to, and coidd their many acts of benevolence be brought to", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "70\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nlight, a volume could be Avritteu. They have a magnificent club room, elegantly\\nfurnished and fitted up, and the latch-string is out to all visiting Elks and\\nstrangers in the city.\\nTHE STREETS OF COLUMBUS.\\nReally, the breadth of our streets, from one point of view, is to our dis-\\nadvantage, as we would look more like the large city we claim to be if the\\nstreets were\\nnot so wide, and\\nthe line of buil-\\ndings closer to\\neach other. But\\nthis fault is\\namply compen-\\nsated b y the\\nknowl edge of\\nthe actual area,\\nand the most\\ndelightful vista\\na n d openness\\nthrough Avhich\\ncirculates invig-\\nc oratini;; breezes,\\nJ, and much of a\\nS city s noise is\\n~l lost in shady\\ndistances. Near-\\nK ly every street\\n5 holds a narrow\\nstrip of park, a\\nbroad space on\\neither side for\\nvehicles, and\\nevery available\\nspot for a tree\\nholds its mon-\\narch or a sturdy\\nsapling.\\nIn the cen-\\ntre of the city is\\nthe Court House I ark, which occu])ies the space of an entire block, and is given\\nover to giant trees, grassy beds bordered with flowers, winding, sanded walks,\\nsmall settees, a handsome fountain presented by the Water Works Company,\\nsome tame sijuirrels, perambulators, nurses and children. In the centre of this\\nstands the grim old court house, built nearly half a century ago, but its walls", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. Tl\\nare so sturdy, and the exterior is so long familiar, that a sentiment clings about\\nit, and many are loath to see it torn down. Progress decides, however, that old\\nlandmarks must go, so in a few years a most commodious modern edifice will\\nstand there.\\nNEWSPAPERS OF COLUMBUS.\\nNewspapers are the nervous system of society. They transmit intelligence\\nto and from all parts of the body politic. Without them, or some substitute for\\nthem, public sensibility would be impossible. And as the state of the nervous\\nsystem is one of the best indications of the condition of the human body, so the\\ncharacter of the newspapers of a community is one of the best evidences of its\\nthrift and -eneral intelli 2;encf\\nColumbus has no reason to fear a judgment by this rule. The character of\\nour papers is highly creditable to us as a community. We have the J^nrjuirer-\\naS uw, daily and weekly issue Evening Ledger ?iX\\\\. evening paper; lUustrated\\nSouth, Sunday Herald, and The Rifle.\\nWe regret that we cannot speak of them all separately, but our space will\\npermit us to mention only one or two.\\nTHE ENQUIRER-SUN.\\nThe Columbus Eviquirer was established by Mirabeau B. Lamar, in 1827.\\nIt was a Aveekly sheet of good size and appearance, and was edited with great\\nability. At that time the population of Columbus was about 1,000. Mr.\\nLamar severed his connection with the Enquirer on the first of October, 1830,\\nand shortly removed to Texas. The paper continued under various manage-\\nments, and from a weekly, in 1850, it merged into a tri-weekly. The Daily\\nSun was established on the 30tli of July, 1855, by Mr. Thomas DeWolf.\\nThere were then three other papers in Columbus. There was no material\\nchange until 1873, when the Enquirer absorbed the Sun, and the paper became\\nknown as the Enquirer-Sun, wdiich title it has since retained. In 1889 it\\npassed under its present management, and since then its progress has been\\nsteady, and it is on a more solid footing and more prosperous than at any time\\nin its career. The circulation has been largely extended its facilities for news\\ngreatly increased, and in all departments it is fully up to the re(juirements of\\nadvanced journalism. It is a strong factor in the development of Columbus,\\nand possesses great influence in the State, and its editorial columns are largely\\nquoted from by the metropolitan journals in the North and West, of both politi-\\ncal parties. The Enquirer-Sun commands the highest respect on account of its\\nreliability, conservative and consistent course on all political measures devoted\\nand loyal to the Democratic party. Col. B. H. Richardson is the editor and\\nmanager, and he has gathered around him an efficient corps in the editorial and\\nbusiness departments.\\nTHE EVENING LEDGER.\\nThe Evening Ledger Avas established in 1880, by E. T. Byington Co.,\\nand has a large and increasing circulation in Georgia and xVlabama. In politics\\nthe Ledger is Democratic, and it has done much toward building up tlie city.", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "72 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA\\nTHE SUNDAY HERALD.\\nThe Sunday Herald^ edited and published bv B. J. Daniel Co., was\\nestablished in 1891, and is forging ahead to a bright future. The firm consists\\nof Messrs. B. J. Daniel, AViley Williams, and R. F. Ellis, all of whom are old\\nnewspaper men, and the combination makes a lively team.\\nTHE PUBLIC LIBRARY.\\nThe Public Library is a constant source of pleasure to its large number of\\nsubscribers, and a subject of pride to all. Numbers of new books are received\\nmonthly, and the best periodicals and newspapers always at hand. The rooms,\\never cheerful and inviting, are a favorite resort for the old and young of literary\\ntastes.\\nThe directors are untiring in their efforts to promote the welfare of this\\nbeneficent institution, in which they are ably seconded by Miss Anna Hull, the\\nenergetic and most efficient librarian.\\nThe association confidently hopes soon to own the most elegant Library\\nhome in the South, having purchased the property of Trinity church on First\\navenue.\\nFIRE DEPARTxMENT.\\nColumbus is also equipped with a paid Fire Department, the excellence of\\nwhich is a matter of congratulation to all our citizens. As an evidence of the\\nefficiency of the department, it may be stated that the total losses by fire, by\\nboth the property holders and insurance companies in the year 1890, was only\\n$9,000, of which amount the property owners sustained only $1,000. The paid\\ndepartment has been in operation for several years, and its efficiency and trust-\\nAvorthiness has been thoroughly and fully demonstrated. The department is\\nsustained by the city at an annual cost of only $15,000, which includes the\\nwages of the firemen and all expenses of the department. The city has a fire\\nalarm telegraph system, which has been in successful operation for a period of\\nseveral years.\\nBut our space allotted to this chapter on Columbus advantages, is ex-\\nhausted, and Ave must cease, though but a trifling part of the whole has been\\ntouched upon. We could fill scores more of pages about the charms of the city,\\nfound both indoors and out of doors, in its old-time houses, among the silent\\ndead the homes of the old age and of the new Avho sleep so calmly among\\nthe beautiful surrounding of grand monuments, guardian giant trees and lovely\\nflowers, cared for so tenderly by gentle hands and loving hearts, or amidst the\\ninnumerable fields, each Avith its OAvn absorbing story, along its brooks and\\ncreeks and river, in its old relics created by limner s skillful brush and the\\nprinters nimble type ever^nvherc there is an attraction that Avill make one\\nlinger long, and finally lonfi to stai/. Truly, a more delightful city than Colum-\\nbus could not be desired for a place of residence. Its attractions are of the\\nmost satisfactory character to the ])hysical, the mental and the moral demands of\\nour nature, and in their enjoyment there most come that feeling of blissful peace\\nthat sooths so gently ojili/ in our oavu home the dearest spot on earth.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "LEADIISTG BUSIISrESS HOUSES OF COLUMBUS.\\nWe present to our readers and business community herewith a l)rief\\nhistorical review of the prominent business houses and manufacturing firms\\nof Columbus.\\nIt will be interesting as an exhibit of the growth of the city for the past\\nthirty years. The notices, as a group, embrace numbers of substantial and\\nenterprising firms in every department of trade, including many specialties not\\nto be obtained in any other market, and will be an assurance to those contem-\\nplating a visit for the purpose of purchasing supplies, that their every want can\\nbe fully satisfied on as favorable terms as at any point in the United States.\\nNo firm of any prominence has been willingly excluded.\\n1630\u00e2\u0080\u0094 THE CHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL BANK\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H. H. Epping,\\nPresident; E. H. Epping, Cashier; A. S. Mason, Ass t Cashier.\\nBanks are designed to afibrd safe places of deposit for money of individuals,\\ncorporations and governments, for facilitating the exchange of funds from the\\nhands of parties who have payments to make to those who are to receive them.\\nThus, they are clearing houses, as it were, for the community in which they are\\nlocated. They also extend aid to business men by granting loans or discounts on\\nnotes, bonds or other securities. Their origin is obscure, hidden in the unpub-\\nlished and dim traditions of the past, though the merchants of Tyre Sidon and\\nancient Rome, it is supposed by historians, practiced some system of banking.\\nIt has come down to us through the unwritten history of cities long buried in\\nol)livion, whose merchants transacted commerce traditionally greater than that of\\nthe present day. Banks are of three kinds, which may be classed as follows:\\n1st. Banks of deposit, which receive money on deposit, subject to the draft of\\nits owner. 2d. Banks of discount, which furnish loans upon drafts, promissory\\nnotes or securities. 3d. Banks of circulation, Avhich pay out their own notes,\\nthe credit of which is guaranteed by the general government. They are oro-an-\\nized under an act of Congress passed in 1863, and are termed National Banks.\\nThe majority of the banks of this country at the present are of this third class,\\nas it is considered the safest and most satisfactory method, as it combines the prin-\\nciple and advantages of the first and second and gives an independent circulation\\nof its own. Among the banks acting under the last named class none in Colum-\\nbus ranks higher than the Chattahoochee National Bank, No. 1630, chartered in", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "74 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\n1865 -with a capital of \u00c2\u00a7100,000, and in 1885 it Avas re-chartered. The bank has\\nbeen managed with rare financial ability and judgment, and added, by its course,\\nmaterially to the financial reputation of the city, and to the facilities of her\\nbusiness men. We do not propose to be fulsome when we state that the manage-\\nment of this bank has evidenced a degree of higli-toned principle and honor,\\nand an intimate and thorough knowledge of finance as possessed by its officers,\\nthat has reflected credit not only upon themselves, but upon the city. The last\\nstatement showed a surplus of $75,000, and undivided profits, $40,000. The\\nDirectory is all that could be desired. All are men of high standing and\\ninfluence in the city. Tlie President, H. H. Epping, is a native of Germany,\\nand came to the United States when quite young, and to Columbus in 1841, and\\nhas always been identified with the city s best interests. He is president of the\\nfollowing companies The Columbus Water Works, the Alabama Connelsville\\nCoal and Coke Company, and the Rose Hill Land Company. He possesses fine\\nability as a financier and business man, and is always alive to any movement\\nthat will redound to the benefit of Columbus.\\nSir. A. Illges and Mr. A. Wittich are capitalists and large real estate own-\\ners James Kyle is a large wholesale dry goods merchant; J. F. Flournoy is a\\nmember of the firm of Flournoy k Epping, cotton commission men he is also\\npresident of the Columbus Street Railway Company, the Columbus Investment\\nCompany and the Muscogee Real Estate Company G. P. Swift is president of\\nthe Muscogee INIanufacturing Company, and one of the wealthiest men in the\\nState; Dr. G. J. Grimes is a noted physician of the city; E. H. Epping, the\\ncashier, is a gentleman of high social standing. Filled with push and enterprise,\\nhis aim is always to push the bank forward to the front rank of the financial\\ninstitutions of the State. He is a financier in every sense of the Avord, and in\\nthe past has done much for the bank.\\nCARTER BRADLEY Fontaine Warehouse, Cotton Factors and Com-\\nmission Merchants.\\nIn dilating at length, and in detail upon the industrial advantages of this\\ncity, it must not be forgotten that they arise, to a large extent, from a fortuitous\\ngeographical position, a climate unusually equable, and magnificent water faci-\\nlities, which place it in direct communication with the finest cotton growing\\ndistrict in the world. These considerations have exerted a vital influence in\\npromoting the cotton trade, which is here carried on upon a scale the magnitude\\nof which cannot be readily appreciated Avithout carefully revicAving the trade\\nin detail.\\nIn undertaking such a Avork, Ave sliall begin Avith reference to the enterprise\\nof Carter Bradley, Avhich Avas established in 1885, and Avho are to-day doing\\na large and profitable business, handling from 18,000 to 20,000 bales of cotton\\nper annum. Eighteen men are required to conduct this business, the pay-roll\\namounting to $200 per Aveek. They carry an average number of 3,000 bales\\nin stock, and are continually receiving and shipping the staple, consignments\\ncoming from this State, Alabama and Florida; a large portion of their business", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. (0\\ncoming from the lower river country in the Chattahoochee Valley a section of\\ncountry that is fertile, and productive of good staple and large crops, which are\\ntransported to this market by packet. The individual members of the firm are\\nS. A. Carter and W. C. Bradley, both young men, and well knoAvn as business\\nmen with unimpeachable reputations for honorable, upright and liberal dealings,\\nand as a firm, they are justly entitled to the esteem and confidence of the general\\npublic. Always active in everything that tends to the advancement of the com-\\nmerce of our city, they are respected by their associates in trade as Avell as by\\nthe large number of customers they have secured by their intelligent efforts and\\nliberal dealings. It may be judged that this firm is composed of brainy men,\\nwhen it is shown that the positions they hold in other enterprises are of great\\nimportance. Mr. Carter holds the position of President of the Columbus\\nGrocery Company, is President of the North Highland Railroad Company; he\\nis also a Director in the National Bank of Columbus, and in the Georgia Home\\nInsurance Company.\\nMr. Bradley is Vice-President of the Columbus Grocery Company, a\\nDirector in both the Third National Bank, and the Columbus Savings Bank, and\\na member of the Board of Trade.\\nMr. Bradley was born at Oswichee, Ala., June 28, 1863. He located in\\nColumbus in 1884. The firm of Carter Bradley is widely known in this sec-\\ntion, and their spacious warehouse of 210x160 feet, situated on Front street,\\npresents a business-like appearance, with its side-tracks to the front, to the rear\\nand inside, where cars are being loaded and unloaded with their burdens of the\\nfleecy staple.\\nM. SELIGMAN Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, 22 Front Street.\\nOf the several firms in this city engaged in the clothing trade, none are\\nbetter stocked, or conducted with a more thorough knowledge of the require-\\nments of the trade, than the establishment of M. Seligman. He came to Colum-\\nbus in 1885, with comparatively no capital, and opened up business for his\\nfather, and with his sterling business qualities, energy and push, he soon built\\nup such an enormous trade that he was compelled to open another store at 1019\\nBroad street, to accommodate his customers and still his trade continued to\\nincrease, and he opened up another store at 1226 Broad, and successfully\\nmanaged the three stores till May, 1891, when he beceme sole proprietor of the\\nstore at 22 Front street, where he still does an overwhelming business. Mr.\\nSeligman deserves much credit for the skilled and successful manner in which he\\nmanaged the three stores. He carries a complete stock of men s, boy s and\\nchildren s clothing, gent s furnishing goods of every description, hats, caps,\\ntrunks, valises, etc. His prices are the lowest. A visit to his busy establish-\\nment Avill convince you that he sells goods cheaper than any house in the city.\\nHe is a native Russian Jew, possessing fine business qualities came to this\\ncountry in 1888, and to Columbus in 1885, and his success in business has been\\nremarkable. We commend our readers to the establishment of M. Seligman.", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "76 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nR. G. DUN CO. Mercantile Agexcy, 1137J Broad Street, J. J.\\nMoBLEY, Manager.\\nThe importance of the line of business carried on by Messrs. R. G. Dun\\nCo. can scarcely be estimated, so vast are its ramifications and so important are\\nits bearings upon the trade of every city. By means of the information -which\\nthey aftbrd to their subscribers, many of whom are saved heavy losses, and unreliable\\nand unscrupulous dealers or merchants are made known to the community. The\\nColumbus branch was started January 1, 1890, with .J. J. Mobley, Manager.\\nThey have taken here, as elsewhere, a front rank and outrank all other agencies\\nin number of subscribers, and this fact is due to the energy and business capacity\\nof Mr. Mobley and his assistant, Mr. I. P. Clark, a young man of marked ability,\\nand also to the exactness of their reports, that come from all parts of the Union\\nand Canada. R. G. Dun Co. have been doing business since 1841, and now\\ncovers the American continent and Europe. They have 150 branch offices, and\\nare considered by far the best agency. The Columbus office covers seventeen\\ncounties in Georgia in a manner characteristic of the Company. Mr. Mobley is\\na native of Georgia, and has been in the employ o i the agency for some years.\\nUnder his supervision the business is increasing rapidly. He is a member of the\\nColumbus Board of Trade, and is a gentleman of excellent standing and marked\\nbusiness capacity.\\nTHE HOWARD SHOE STORE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H. M. M. W. Howard, Propr s, 1112\\nBroad Street.\\nThe design of our volume being to diffuse general information concerning\\nthe industries and resources of Columbus, we would be doing an injustice to\\none of the best firms in the city, to neglect passing mention of the proprietors\\nof The Howard Shoe Store. This house,\\nTjj^\\\\ though not possessing the same claim to\\nI 7(i\\\\ antiquity as some of its contemporaries, is,\\nI nevertheless, ranked as a leading establish-\\n^^Vk ment in the boot and shoe trade of this city.\\nnKv T\\\\us enterprise was started in 1880, by Mr.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0HBI^^\u00c2\u00a3^^;^^-_^\\\\K,.^ AVm. Meyers, the present })roprietors suc-\\n^^^^^^^^^flQ|^M|i|^^^^|^Rc ceding to the business in 1891. Possessing\\n^^^^3 ^^^^^jj^^^P^*^ ample capital, they have, by judicious man-\\naf^ement and strict attention to business, secured a large and lucrative trade in\\nGeorgia and Alabama, particularly in those portions lying contiguous to Colum-\\nbus. They carry a stock of $10,000 worth of goods, made by the best manu-\\nfacturers of the country, and the annual transactions will reach ?20,000. The\\npremises occupied are 30x100 feet in size, and the display of goods is both\\nartistic and satisfactory. Prompt and courteous attention is paid to all customers,\\ntwo assistants being employed, and l)oth proprietors giving personal attention to\\nthe trade.\\nMessrs. H. M. and M. W. Howard are the individual members of the firm,\\nboth natives of our city. Mr. H. M. Howard was born here in 181o,Mr. M. W.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 77\\nHoAvard in 1864; both active, energetic business men, who are pushing the busi-\\nto its greatest limits. Mr. M. W. Howard has been engaged in this branch of\\ntrade since 1883, and in assuming control of this well-known concern has infused\\nnew life into its management. The success which has already attended this\\nenterprise is such as to warrant the prediction that the house will, ere long, rank\\nfirst among similar institutions of the city.\\nTHOS. S. MITCHELL, M. D.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Resident Physician and Surgeon, Office\\n1141 Broad Street.\\nA Avork of this kind would not be complete Avithout the names of some of\\nour most prominent physicians, and none rank higher in the medical fraternity\\nof our city than Dr. Mitchell. He is a man of much experience, both as a\\nphysician and surgeon, graduating tAvice, first in 1854, and again in 1866. As\\nan CA idence of the public appreciation of his (jualities as a physician and public\\nspirited citizen. Dr. Mitchell has been selected to hold positions of honor, trust,\\nand confidence practicing as surgeon two years in the United States army,\\nalso city physician of Columbus for six years. Dr. Mitchell is a native Ala-\\nbamian he practiced for tAventy-seven consecutive years in Hamilton, Ga.,\\nand noAv enjoys a large practice in Columbus and adjoining counties.\\nSWIFT MANUFACTURING COMPANY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Plaids, Cottonades, Ticking,\\nStripes, etc.. Improved Mitcheline Bed Spreads.\\nColumbus has, during the last decade, manifested more spirit of progress\\nand enterprise than at any other period of her history. Evidences of substan-\\ntial prosperity are becoming abundant, and industry, the hand-maid of civiliza-\\ntion, is exercising her potent influence. Manufactories of staples are springino-\\ninto existence, one of the surest harbingers of an aAvakening to the enterprise\\nthat is elscAvhere characterizing this progressive age. In the history of cities,\\nfrom the days of Tyre and Thebes, the first stimulus tOAvards prosperity has\\nbeen from the building of manufactories, and in modern times, no city has\\nbecome truly great and metropolitan that has not encouraged manufacturing.\\nThe great cotton interests of this section demand certain classes of goods Avhich\\nevery kindred interest Avould suggest, could be produced here to a greater\\nadvantage than by importing them from Northern marts.\\nThe SAvift Manufacturing Company, an institution of conspicuous magnitude,\\nwas chartered in November, 1882, by Geo. P. Swift, Sr., Geo. P. Swift, Jr.,\\nW. A. SAvift, Louis Hamberger and G. M. AVilliams, capitalized at S200,000.\\nIn 1888 the mills Avere erected, and a complete outfit of the most improved\\nmachinery put in, and they at once began an active and profitable business,\\nplacing their products throughout the Southern States, and many of them in the\\nNorthern markets. Mr, G. M. Williams is President and general manager, and\\nMr. Sam Salisbury Secretary and Treasurer, and under the guidance of these\\npractical business men, the institution is kept in a most healthy state of pros-\\nperity. Four hundred hands are here given employment, Avhich requires a\\nmonthly pay-roll of $8,000. There are 10,000 spindles and 450 looms busily", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nclattering away, turning out plaids, cottonades, ticking, stripes, and the cele-\\nbrated Mitcheline Bed Spreads, which are produced in various tints and most\\nbeautiful designs. This company has sold enormous (piantities of these spreads\\nin all parts of the United States. It so happened that, among the number of\\nhands brought here from England, there was a weaver named Mitchell, Avho had\\nperfected the system of weaving this peculiar style of bed spread, and from\\nwhence came the name, Mitcheline Bed Spreads, the manufacture and sales of\\nwdiich have been a most flattering success.\\nThe out-put of this company is So50,000 worth of goods per annum. Great\\ncredit is due the officers for the enterprise and ability they have displayed in\\ndeveloping this branch of industry and carrying it to its present successful posi-\\ntion, contributing materially to the reputation of the city, and stimulating enter-\\nprise by their example.\\nCOLUMBUS GROCERY COMPANY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jobbers of Staple Groceries, 1037\\nTO 1045 Front Street.\\nIn all our prominent towns and cities, there are always those whose energies\\nand business abilities qualify them for leaders in business pursuits, and in what-\\never occupation they are engaged, they will be found to excel in excellence of\\nstock, and in ability to meet the requirements of their trade. As an important\\nbranch of the commercial industries of Columbus, the grocery business is entitled\\nto a large share of consideration, and in this connection we direct attention to the\\nwholesale establishment of the Columbus Grocery Company, situated on Front\\nstreet, from No. 1037 to 1045, and running back 1(50 feet, three stories high.\\nThe stock embraces the fullest and most complete line of groceries and articles\\npertaining to the trade to be found in the city, including both staple and fancy\\ngroceries and provisions, canned goods, foreign and domestic fruits and nuts,\\nwooden and willow ware, confectioneries, choice tobaccos and cigars, notions,\\netc. The stock is constantly being replenished by fresh arrivals from producers,\\nmanufacturers and jobbers a flattering patronage from the States of Georgia,\\nAlabama and Florida having been enjoyed since the establishment of the business.\\nThe Columbus Grocery Company was incorporated July 1, 1891, with S. A. Car-\\nter, President; W. C. Bradley, Vice-President; and C. E. Caverly, Secretary\\nand Treasurer, and a stronger quota of officials it would have been difficult to\\nhave secured. Each one of these gentlemen is now classed among the leading\\nbusiness men of Columbus, they having shown themselves to be composed of that\\nmaterial which tends to build an industrial cit}^ into one of prominence.\\nMr. S. A. Carter was born at Florence, Ga., March 4, 1854. He removed\\nto Columbus in 1884, when he became associated with Mr. W. C. Bradley, in the\\nwarehouse and commission business. In 1801, Mr. Carter was instrumental in\\norganizing the North Highland Land Improvement and Railroad Company, which\\nenter])rise is one of the attractions of Columbus. Mr. Carter is also a Director\\nin the National Bank of Columbus, and the Georgia Home insurance Company.\\nMr. W. C. Bradley, the Vice-President of the Columbus Grocery Company, was", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 79\\nborn at Oswichee, Ala., June 28, 1863. He located here eight years ago, -when\\nhe entered the business in Avhich he is now engaged, and although a comparatively\\nyoung man, it has been demonstrated that he has an old head on him, adopting\\nand carrying out a sound and safe policy in the management of affairs in which\\nhe is interested this being evident from the fact that his counsel is required in\\nthe Directory of the Third National Bank, and the Columbus Savings Bank, and\\nalso, as a member of the Board of Trade of this city. Mr. Bradley is ever on\\nthe alert to lend his aid to any undertaking looking to the advancement of the\\ncity and the public interests of the citizens of Columbus. Mr. C. E. Caverly,\\nthe Secretary and Treasurer, was born in Newport, Fla., September 22, 1852.\\nHe began the study of the grocery business in 1875, since which time he has\\ncontinued to give it his close attention, until to-day he is looked upon as a\\nthoroughly posted grocery man, second to none in the country, and it is his work\\nthat is doing so much tOAvards bringing Columbus to the front as a grocery mar-\\nket, which fact, within itself, is of much value to the mercantile reputation of\\nthe city.\\nThe Columbus Grocery Company was organized with a paid-up capital of\\n$50,000, the average amount of stock carried being from 815,000 to 825,000,\\nand the annual business 8500,000. Sixteen men are required to attend to the\\nimmense business of this enterprise, and special attention is given to filling and\\nshipping orders received from a distance. Every facility for handling groceries\\nhas been arranged, side tracks being on three sides of the building, thus enabling\\ncars to be loaded and unloaded at the doors. Directing attention to the manner\\nin which it is conducted, the pmplitude of its resources and facilities, and remark-\\ning that, as ranking first among its contemporaries, the establishment is of that\\nclass which commands the respect, confidence and consideration of the city at large.\\nFLOURNOY EPPING -Warehouse and Commission Merchants, Twelfth\\nAND Front Streets.\\nThrough a wise provision of nature, the different sections of this vast country\\nhave each some commercial function or element which exerts a controlling influence\\non trade. This condition is brought about by divers causes geographical posi-\\ntion and natural mineral deposits are most important, while in some localities\\nfacilities for transportation, and the fecundity of the soil for producing cereals,\\nare the basis on which ultimate wealth and commercial prosperity have their\\nfoundation. The West has her great grain products and unequaled facilities for\\ntransportation the middle tier of States have their invaluable coal and iron\\nresources this part, the South, has, to a certain extent, a unification of all\\nthese elements of progress, furnished by nature with a prolific hand, only aAvait-\\ning development by enterprise. These are cotton, the king of vegetable products,\\nand the wonderful deposits of coal and iron underlying the whole section, and\\nlast, and of equal importance, our splendid facilities for transportation, both water\\nand rail. This is particularly true of this section of Georgia. The city of\\nColumbus receives yearly about 90,000 bales of cotton, and it is but natural that", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "80 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nwe should find the live, progressive business men of the city engaged in handling\\nthe fleecy staple.\\nThe most extensive commission men in our market are Flournoy Epping.\\nThe firm, composed of John F. Flournoy, and H. H. Epping, jr.; was started\\nin 1873 by Flournoy, McGehee Co., and changed in 1877 to Flournoy\\nEpping. They have a large capital, and no interior house in the South enjoys a\\nbetter reputation than this. They handle about 20,000 bales yearly. Both\\nmembers of the firm are largely identified with Columbus and her progress, and\\nare heavy real estate owners. Mr. Flourney is President of the following\\nCompanies: Columbus Railroad Company, Columbus Investment Company, Mus-\\ncogee Real Estate Company Vice-President Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad,\\nDirector Chattahoochee National Bank. Mr. Epping is a man of public spirit,\\npushing and energetic. In 1884 he Avas elected Alderman, which office he held\\nwith dignity and respect, and honor both to himself and the city.\\nGEORGE 0. BERRY Steam Brick Manufacturer; Any Style of Brick\\nOR Tiling Made to Order.\\nThe condition of raw material is an item that is of much concern to the\\nmanufacturer superiority of grade produces an increased value to the product.\\nThe abundance of material to be found at this point for the manufacture of brick\\nis peculiarly superior to that to be found at any other place in this section of the\\ncountry, which fact brought forth a remark from a contractor in Albany, who\\nsaid that God must have favored Columbus Avhen he made material for makinor\\nbrick. Hence, it is, that this city has ever been noted for the manufacture of\\nsuperior brick. The pioneer in this industry was W. W. Berry, who came South\\nfrom Wheeling W. Va., in 1815, and shortly thereafter began moulding brick for\\nthe local market, and continued in the business the balance of his life.\\nMr. George 0. Berry, the subject of this sketch, is the son of W. W. Berry.\\nHe was born in Eufaula, Ala., in 1817, coming to Columbus in 1850 with his\\nfather. Here he Avas raised and brought up in the business, thereby gaining a\\nthorough knowledge of this industry. Mr. Berry owns seventy-six acres of\\nground, upon which is to be found the finest brick material, thereby giving him\\nan inexhaustible supply. Mr. Berry is furthermore fully equipped with the\\nlatest improved machinery, among which is to be seen the Penfield, Plunger,\\nFrey-Seckler Company Auger, and H. Brewer brick machines; also, three\\nengines and boilers, two tAventy-five horse-power and one ten horse-poAver. He\\nis operating four plants tAvo machine and two hand this large outfit giAdng a\\ncapacity of 100,000 brick per day, the output being composed of pressed brick,\\ncommon brick, ornamental brick and tiling. Mr. Berry s establishment is situated\\nsoutheast from the jail, at the junction of the Central, Columbus Southern and\\nGeorgia Midland and Gulf railroads. Each of these roads secure hauls from him,\\ntransporting his product north, east, south and Avest, going into the States of\\nGeorgia, Alabama, and Florida. Some of his most extensive shipments go to the\\neastern part of the State, including Savannah and BrunsAvick. Thoroughly iden-", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES.\\n81\\ntified with the progressive spirit of this city, and possessed of the essential\\nrequisites of sound judgment and care of his business policy, he presents the\\nstrongest claims to popular favor Avith those desiring business relations in this\\ndepartment of our business activities.\\nJONES BROTHERS Sash, Doors and Blinds, Lumber, Contractors.\\nStatistics show that out of every hundred men who embark in business,\\nninety-seven meet with failure, while only three succeed in driving their business\\nthrough to a successful termination. We take pleasure in referring to the firm\\nof Jones Brothers as successful business men. They began business in Columbus\\nin the fall of 1888, with small capital, but as their business increased, they added\\nmore machinery, and erected more buildings, and so continued until to-day their\\nplant comprises two acres of ground, nearly half of which is covered with build-\\nings equipped with the very best and latest improved wood-working machinery\\nAvhich is driven by a 100-horse power engine; and they make any and every\\nthing that can be manufactured of wood. Among the employees are to be found\\nsome of the most skillful artisans and experts in the various departments of the\\nbusiness. An inspection of their warehouse will show a complete stock of sash,\\ndoors, blinds, lime, plaster, cement, paints and oil, and everything needed in the\\nbuilding line. In their work-shops are to be found a full assortment of patterns\\nand designs for brackets, scroll work, draperies, newells, ballusters, and all other\\nornamental wood work, with machinery and mechanics ready to turn anything in", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "82 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\na finished style and on short notice. On the yards are to be seen towering stacks\\nof all kinds of lumber, laths and shingles, and the facilities are such that they\\ncan fill any kind of an order for material to build anything from a chicken-coop\\nto a steamboat, figuratively speaking. The success of this firm has been phe-\\nnominal, and although in business for the short space of three and a half years,\\ntheir reputation has gone abroad beyond the limits of Georgia and adjoining\\nStates, and orders are received for lumber in car-load lots from distant sections,\\neven as far oif as Rhode Island. Messrs. Jones Brothers are young men, and are\\nwide awake to the requirements of an energetic and practical business policy.\\nMr, Rufus Jones, the senior member of the firm, is now, and has been from\\nthe beginning, the general manager, and to his close attention, untiring energy,\\nwatchful care and skillful management, the phenominal success of this young firm\\nis chiefly due and while their business career is not yet ended, either in failure\\nor success, we feel confident that when that period is readied, Columbus will add\\nthe name of Jones Brothers to her list of successful men, of whom she has her\\nfull quota of the three per cent wdio never fail.\\nCHATTAHOOCHEE BREWING COMPANY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Office 1205 Broad Street\\nCapital S250,000.\\nA one-horse wagon, on which were two men, drove into Columbus, Ga., one\\nbright spring day in the year 1887. These two persons were brewers from\\nWalhalla, S. C, a German settlement, where, after failing to make the success\\ntheir ambition deserved, were prospecting for a more profitable field. An iron\\nkettle, capable of brewing one and one-half barrels of beer at a time, and three\\nordinary wine butts in which to ferment, age, and store it after brewing, comprised,\\nwith their wagon and horse, their stock in trade. They took a great fancy to\\nColumbus, so much so indeed that they determined to make it their stopping\\nplace, but after having had a careful analysis made of the water, they discovered\\nthat it was not very good for brewing purposes, but just across the river, in Ala-\\nbama, they found an inexhaustible supply having all the natural constituents\\nnecessary for the brewing of the finest beer. Having shown, in a small way, the\\nexcellent beverage that could be made with it, they interested a few of the most\\nprominent citizens, forming a company which finally, from the investment of a\\nfew hundred dollars, have at last created a company whose vested interests in the\\nBrewery now amount to $250,000. Daily the fame of its production increases,\\nand with its popularity, the sales go upward, and with the rapid strides made by\\nthe Chattahoochee Brewing Company, it will soon be among the most prosperous\\nin the entire Southern States. The Directors are the leading business men of\\nColumbus, and characteristic of their enterprising spirit, they decided at the\\nannual meeting of 1891, to have the quality of the beverage made equal to any\\nbeer in the world, regardless of expense and work. Deeming this course a sound\\npolic} they proceeded at once to put it in operation, and forthwith opened com-\\nmunications with ]Mr. E. M. Walsh, of Dublin, Ireland, a man with wide experi-\\nence in the brewing business, and possessed of great ability as a manager, who", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 83\\nwill, under no circumstances, allow any beer to be taken out of tbe brewery that\\nis not perfectly brewed and carrying the proper age and, adhering to tbe policy\\nof making the best beer, the finest German hops and best American malt in the\\nmarket is used. Mr. Walsh will not have any cereoline, rice, grape sugar, glucose,\\nor acids of any kind put in the product, and guarantees that it will stand a\\nchemical test with any beer in the United States, and as a health tonic, is unsur-\\npassed by any beverage whatever and last, but not least, possesses a flavor\\nhighly pleasing to the most fastidious. The brewery has an outfit of the latest\\nimproved machinery, including ice machines, Corless engines, compression ice\\nand ammonia machines. Thirty hands are given employment, among which are\\nskilled brewers from Germany. The officers are: E. H. Epping, President;\\nE. M. Walsh, Vice-President and General Manager; C. A. E])ping, Secretary\\nand Treasurer. The product of this industry is shipped largely throughout\\nGeorgia, Florida and Alabama, and is sold in every ])ar in Columbus, both in\\nliottles and kegs. The Chattahoochee Brewing Company will do much toAvards\\nbringing Columbus prominently to the front as an enterprising manufacturing city.\\nJ. B. HARRISON CO. Real Estate, Stock and Bond Brokers, Twelfth\\nStreet, Near Broad.\\nThe leading real estate dealers in our city is J. B. Harrison Co. The\\nbusiness of this firm is under the personal charge of Mr. Harrison, a man of\\nmarked ability and high business honor, a person above all others to take charge\\nof a business of this kind, and he will always be found to be a gentleman in\\nwhom confidence can be placed. The other members of the firm are John F.\\nFlournoy, a real estate man of note, who is doing much to advance the various\\ninterests of the city, and H. H. Epping, a gentleman of high standing in the\\ncommunity, who is identified with the progress and development of our city.\\nThis firm has much valuable city propery on their books, both improved and\\nunimproved, of which they will gladly give any desired information. The\\nfirm of J. B. Harrison Co. commends itself to the public as one from whom\\nthe most liberal treatment may be expected.\\nT. S. SPEAR Watchmaker and Jeweler, and Dealer in Fine Diamonds,\\nWatches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver and Silver -Plated Ware,\\n1121 Broad Street.\\nColumbus has in every department of trade stores equal to any to be found\\nelsewhere, and of no line is this more true than of jewelry. Each store seems\\nto vie with the other in the beauty and display of their exhibits, and among these\\nthe handsome store of T. S. Spear holds a leading place, both for the elegance of\\nthe line carried, but particularly for the fine Avork done in the watch repairing and\\nspecial departments.\\nMr Spear Avas born in New Jersey, Jan. 19, 1825, but early in life moved\\nto Charleston, S. C, where he learned his trade, in which he has no superior.\\nHe followed the business in Charleston for several years in connection with his\\nbrother J. E. Spear, prior to 1857, in that year coming to Columbus and buying", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "84 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nout L. B. Purple. He had in cash capital about $15,000, and having push, energy\\nand a determination to succeed, he quickly won for himself a high position.\\nBacked by high business honor, he determined to turn out only work that would\\nprove satisfactory alike to himself and his patrons. Mr. Spear is identified with\\nthe progress of the city, and her best interests are ahvays first in his mind. He\\nhas served as Alderman, filling the office with that same spirit of honesty and\\nuprightness that is characteristic of the man. During the war the store was rob-\\nbed of a large stock of costly diamonds by Gen. AVilson s raiders. Mr, Spear is\\nan optician of no mean skill. He carries a large stock of glasses, in which he\\ndoes the largest business in this section.\\nS. L. SIMMONS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Meat Market, 16 Tenth Street.\\nAmong the enterprises most essential to the well being of the people of a\\ncity, none are more important than those which furnish the daily supply of pro-\\nvisions. Among this class we cheerfully devote space to the meat market of Mr.\\nS. L. Simmons. The fresh meats sold by this house are always the choicest, as\\nMr. Simmons does not handle any but stall-fed meat. It has long since been\\ndemonstrated that grass-fed beef does not have the tender, juicy taste that the\\nstall-fed meat has, hence the stall-fed meat has the lead. The sausage put up by\\nMr. Simmons cannot be surpassed in quality. His premises numbering 16 Tenth\\nstreet, occupies 25x60 feet, aifording ample room for his sausage-making machinery,\\nand all appliances necessary to the successful conduct of his business. He also\\nruns stall No. 7 in the market house. Mr. Simmons was born in Macon County,\\nAla., and came to Columbus in 1880; was employed by Cook O Brien to work\\nin their market, where he served two years, then, with D. L. Thomas, five years,\\nand then entering business for himself. Five years has built up a trade second to\\nnone. Mr. Simmons has followed his trade for twelve years, and no one better\\nunderstands its details or the wants of his customers than he. He is a naan of\\nhigh integrity and sterling business qualities, attentive and courteous to all his\\npatrons, liberal and conscientious in all his dealings, he richly merits the success\\nhe lias attained.\\nR. JEFFERSON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Groceries, 1041 Broad Street.\\nIn a history of the advance and development of Columbus, with reference\\nto commercial affairs, the grocery trade must always occupy a very prominent\\nposition as a branch of mercantile industry, contributing is no small degree to the\\npresent commercial importance of the city. Among those houses whose extended\\ntransactions and high standing entitles them to special mention, is that of Mr. R.\\nJefferson, being one of the largest establishments in the city. Mr. Jefferson\\noccupies the building located at No. 1041 Broad street, 35x137 feet in size,\\nwhere he has stored a complete stock of the choisest staple and fancy groceries,\\nreaching S10,000 in value. Four assistants are employed, and the annual trans-\\nactions will reach 865,000.\\nMr. Jefferson conducts business with a capital of $25,000, and is interested\\nin an invention of his own make, which has become very popular with all the", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 85\\nfarmers -who have met -with it. This is Jefferson s celebrated Plow Fender.\\nThis Fender is a wonder to the farmer, saving time and quality in work to the\\nploughman in any kind of crop, cotton, corn, vegetables, etc., and its cheapness\\nputs it in reach of every one. Price, one dollar, while it saves ten dollars, under\\nguarantee. The out-put the first year was 3,000, and they are highly recom-\\nmended by each purchaser. Mr. Jefferson was born here in 1849, and is well\\nknown in business circles as a gentleman of large business abilities. His trans-\\nactions are large throughout Georgia, Alabama and Florida. He is justly\\nesteemed for those attributes which invariably lead to success.\\nTHE COLUMBUS BARREL MANUFACTURING COMPANY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Works,\\nOpposite Central Railroad Compress.\\nFor wood-working establishments it is evidenced that Columbus has an\\nadmirable situation. From the large industries now in operation here, and among\\nthe most prominent, is to be found the Columbus Barrel Manufacturing Company,\\nthe only one of the kind in this part of the South, and one of the most extensive\\nin the entire country, their output being 150 barrels daily. These are used for\\noil, spirits of turpentine, cidar and vinegar, and are shipped to points throughout\\nthe States of Georgia, Alabama and Florida, and besides barrels, this company\\ndeals in staves, headings, kegs, etc. Seventy hands are here given employment.\\nSteam power is used, a Mtj horse-power engine is required to drive the machin-\\nery, the very latest improvements in machinery is included in the outfit, enabling\\nthem to lower the cost of production to a considerable extent, and one feature is\\nconspicuous, which is, the superior grade of the Columbus-made barrels and kegs.\\nThe shipping facilities are fine, as they have side-track connection with every rail-\\nroad centering in Columbus, The officers of the company are: M. M. Hirsch,\\nPresident, and H. Elson, Manager, both residents of this city, and are classed\\namong the most enterprising business men of Columbus. The business was estab-\\nlished seven years ago, and by good management and a straightforward business\\npolicy, they have steadily increased their trade every year, until now the business\\nreaches i?100,000 per annum. The size of the grounds is just one acre, covered\\nwith buildings and material. The weekly pay roll is $350. Columbus is justly\\nproud of this industry, which demonstrates to the outside world that she is a\\ndesirable point for manufactures.\\nTHE EAGLE CLOTHING MANUFACTURING COMPANY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Opposite\\nEagle and Phenix Mills.\\nIn noting the improvements of the New South and the varied industries\\nspringing up, that of the manufacturing of jeans pants has grown ([uite promi-\\nnent. During the past few years a new departure has taken place in the woolen\\njeans and cottonades consumption, inasmuch as the retail merchant, who, foi-merly\\npurchased regularly every year, a stock of jeans and cottonades in the piece, but\\nnow, instead, he buys ready-made pants of these materials, his customers prefer-\\ning the ready-made garments, as they are more regularly put together than can\\nbe done at home, and is just as low in the cost, if not cheapear, hence, the", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "86 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nincreased demand for pants in the South among the farmers, miners and mechan-\\nics, and from the fact that the 60,000 spindles in Columbus produced the material\\nfor making pants, was a sufficient inducement to a party of enterprising men of\\nour city to organize a pants factory, to be called the Eagle Clothing Manufactur-\\ning Company, with M. L. Patterson, President; Abe Strauss, Secretary and\\nTreasurer, and L, Meyer, Manager. This company, though but a few years in the\\ntrade, has gained a reputation on the merits of the work sent out, and one feature\\nof their make is the strong seams and special patterns. Their pants and overalls\\nare made from jeans, cottonades, denims, etc., that are manufactured specially for\\nthem. It is only necessary to select a particular pattern and name the weight\\nand material and place their order Avith some of the cotton and woolen manufac-\\nturers here and thus the exact goods needed are made. Tlie Eagle pants are well\\nmade and are sold to meet any competition, from any market, and this is one other\\nindustry assisting_in bringing Columbus to the front as a manufacturing city.\\nDELMONICO RESTAURANT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H. A. Payne, Prop., 1021 Broad Street,\\n(Opposite Central Hotel.\\nThe popular and fertile section, of which Columbus is the center, gives her\\ngreat importance as a point of distribution for all kinds of supplies. To persons\\nvisiting the city on purchasing tours, or for pleasure, it will be interesting to\\nknow that the city contains a number of establishments designed for the comfort\\nand convenience of guests. No restaurant in the city is better prepared for the\\nentertainment of patrons, or furnishes a table that, for cleanliness, excellence in\\ncooking, and the season s luxuries than the Delmonico. A still greater advan-\\ntage is in having at its head Mr. H. A. Payne, an experienced caterer, whose\\nqualifications as a host are excelled by none frank, genial and with true ideas of\\nhospitality, he gives to the restaurant more varied and greater advantages than\\ncan be enjoyed elsewhere. He and his employees are courteous and obliging to\\nthe patrons of his establishment, and everything is prepared in a way that will\\nmeet the wishes of the most fastidious. The restaurant is run on the European\\nplan, meals are furnished table tVhote^ or a la carte, and can be had day or night.\\nMr. Payne has constantly on hand all the delicacies of the season, which are\\nserved in excellent style. This is the chief restaurant in the city that caters to\\nladies patronage. Ice cream parlors are attached, in which all the popular ices\\nare served.\\nMILLER miller-\\nTwo brothers, T. T. Miller and B. S. Miller, compose the above firm. They\\nare both young men, born and reared in a neighboring county, in the noted little\\ntown of Buena Vista. Although identified with Columbus from their early child-\\nhood, they did not locate here until August 1, 1890. Since that time, by their\\npluck, their skill and merit, they have established for themselves an enviable rep-\\nutation, and are recognized lawyers of ability, enjoying a lucrative practice.\\nOne among the first steps of progress made by this firm was the purchase of a", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 87\\nlibrary, at a cost of $2,500, and not only is it said to be well selected, but is\\nacknowledged to be one of the finest libraries in the city. This makes a fine\\nshowing in their behalf, for, although they may never be looked upon only from\\nthe outside, they give to their office and their surroundings an appearance, a dig-\\nnity, a learning that can in no wise be claimed by the young practitioner who\\nseats himself in an office with no furniture but one chair and a table, and no tools\\nbut the Georgia code and a form book. The firm of Miller Miller is a perma-\\nnent institution. They have become thoroughly identified with the city, and\\nwhether for weal or for woe, their fortunes are cast among Columbus people,\\nwhose destiny shall be their destiny, whose future shall be their future.\\nThe welfare of the city they have thoroughly at heart, and all schemes\\nof public enterprise, in all efforts to advance her material progress and to add to\\nher future glory, they ll be found enthusiastic supporters and advocates. Since\\ntheir location here, the business of Miller k Miller has been largely in excess of\\ntheir expectations, for, within about eighteen months time, they have become the\\nregular retained attorneys of some of the most important corporations and largest\\nwholesale houses in the city. Close application to business, living in your office\\nduring office hours, promptness and reliability, merits success any and every-\\nwhere, and these are the elements most conspicuous with the young men. Mr.\\nB. S. Miller, the junior member, is a graduate of the Lumpkin Law School, of\\nthe University of Georgia. We take pleasure in commending them to our read-\\ners, both home and abroad, as prompt, reliable, energetic and capable attorneys.\\nJ. K. ORR CO. Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in Reliable\\nBoots and Shoes.\\nColumbus a wholesale shoe market and one of prominence it equals the\\nmost extensive Eastern markets as regards prices, grades, terms, rates, etc., and\\nthis fact brought about by the effijrts of one man, who is at the head of the wide\\nawake establishment of J. K. Orr Co. This business Avas instituted in 1884,\\nand although young, has gained a reputation that insures for it at extensive trade.\\nFrom the first year of its life this house has sprung forward with a bound and\\nentered the race for trade that has rewarded it wi*h a first prize. Keeping well\\nup and in advance of their many competitors, they have placed goods with highly\\nsatisfactory results in the States of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida,\\nand are annually reaching out and adding new buyers to their large list. Mr.\\nOrr, who has the management of affairs, came to Columbus nineteen years ago\\nfrom New York city, and entered the establishment of J. Kyle Co., and being\\npossessed of an unusual amount of energy and skill, he was placed at the head\\nof the wholesale shoe department, and in 1884 organized the present firm, and so\\nthorough is his knowledge of the wants of the Southern trade in the shoe line,\\nthat he has rapidly grown in favor as a shoe merchant with this section, where\\nhis lines are so largely used. The business has grown from a small trade to an\\nannual business of over half a million dollars. Mr. Orr begun the study of the\\nshoe business when a youth, and by close application brought himself up to a", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nhigh standard as a shoe man, and after locating in the South, acquainted himself\\nwith the demands of the Southern trade, which is totally different from that of\\nthe Western and Eastern, hence his superior capability for filling the wants of\\nthis section. J. K. Orr Co. represent a dozen of the best factories of the\\nEast; their goods are all made to order, and are sold from Columbus at the same\\nprices as are named by their Boston house. With ample capital, long experience\\nand superior management, the firm of J. K. Orr k Co. are instrumental in gain-\\ning for Columbus the reputation of being a shoe market second to none in the\\nSouth, and one that is a pride to the city of Columbus.\\nBRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY.\\nMr. W. A. Swift was the first citizen to take steps towards having Colum-\\nbus adopt a system of electric lights for the streets, but at first his eftbrts were\\nnot encouraged, from the fact that the city government was part owner of the\\ngas company, and it required some time in which to gain public favor for the\\nsubstitution of electric lights, which was finally done, wlien the organization of\\nthis company was perfected, and during the };ast few years they have taken\\nadvantage of every improvement on this wonderful discovery, and to-day are\\nthoroughly equipped for furnishing lights and power. The officers are: W. R.\\nBrown, President; W. A. Swift, Secretary and Treasurer; and W. E. Boileau,\\nSuperintendent. Mr. Brown is the Chief officer of the Columbus Iron Works.\\nMr. Swift is one of the most prominent business men of Columbus he is also\\nPresident of the Paragon Manufacturing Company, and Secretary of the Mus-\\ncogee Manufacturing Company, and is also a city Alderman, representing the\\nFourth ward. Mr. Boileau, although a citizen of Columbus but three years,\\nhas become identified as one of our most active and progressive business men.\\nHe is an expert electrician, and spares no pains to keep the system in thorough\\nworking order. One hundred and fifty arc and o,(lOO incandescent lights are\\nused. The company is making a specialty of lighting up residences, and noAv\\nhave more than 1,000 lights in this dei)artment. It has recently been necessary\\nto add more power, and noAv the spacious brick Iniilding contains two engines of\\n150 horse power each, and one of oOO horse power; two boilers of 125 horse\\npower each, and two of 150 horse power a total of 550 horse power for the\\nboilers and tiOO for the engines. The lights furnished by this machinery are as\\nperfect as can be made, giving entire satisfaction to patrons,\\nG. J. PEACOCK Clothing Manufacturer, No. 1200 Broad Street.\\nSome sniviling, cynical, threadbare philosopher, poet, nondescript, or what\\nnot, once upon a time gave existence to the maxim, aphorism, proverb or axiom,\\nClothes do not make the man. Pardon us, gentle reader, if we disagree with\\nsuch a notion. John Ruskin, one of the most pleasing writers of the world of\\nmodern literature, made use of the expression, Show me a man s books and I\\nwill read you his character, and the same is true when applied to the outer gar-\\nments of our fellow man. Clothes certainly do not makf the man, but clothes\\nare indicative of the man, and we rate our opinion of strangers just as we see", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 89\\nthem habited. The subject is one that has been discussed and meditated over\\never since the days when Adam was content to pick posies in company with Eve,\\nand she to while away the hours, even in Paradise, made their garments of fig\\nleaves. This commendable taste or habit has been thus handed down to us by\\nour first parents, and year by year some new design springs up, some handsome\\nfashion that, despite the fallen condition of humanity, causes us to revere the\\nmemory of our common primogenitor, and to accept our discomfiture cum grano\\nsails. Each new season brings to us new adaptations, made to beautify and adorn\\nthe figure, as well as for utilities sake. This trade, then, having ramified and\\nexpanded to such an extent, there needs must be capacious houses engaged in its\\nconduct. One of the most prominent houses employed in the business is the\\nreliable, well-known and justly popular house of G. J. Peacock. This concern\\nwas started in 1877 by the present proprietor, with about $2,500 capital, while\\nnow he requires as many thousand dollars as he had hundreds to conduct his\\nbusiness. lie gives employment to eighteen males and fifty females regularly,\\nand sometimes as many more, while he does an annual business of $60,000,\\nextending throughout the Gulf States and in other parts of the United States.\\nHis sewing machines are operated by a gas engine, which is a great saving of\\nstrength to the operator. We place his name here, thus confident that his staunch\\ncharacter, energy and capital has advanced his pursuit to a first class position,\\nand thereby entitles him to honorable mention. Peacock s name has become a\\nsynonym for fair dealing and elegant work, and his trade includes the most fash-\\nionable and tony of the men of this and adjoining cities. Nor have we a\\nmore liberal, conscientious and accommodating tradesman in our city, and if our\\nown personal wishes could be gratified, we could seek no higher purpose in this\\nregard than to see Peacock the absolute controller of ten times the trade he has,\\nfor this state of facts would undoubtedly contribute to a happier and better con-\\ndition of the community in which he and his business are located.\\nRANKIN HOUSE BARBER SHOP\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W. A. Mahone, Proprietor.\\nA first-class barber shop must always, in every community, hold a unique\\nposition, and the best proof of the esteem in which it is held is evinced by the\\namount of patronage Avhich it enjoys. In Columbus one of the oldest and most\\npopular establishment of this character is that of W. A. Mahone. His shop is\\n30x50 feet in dimension, affording ample room for a number of barbers, bath-\\nrooms, etc. Nothing is more refreshing than a good bath, and none are better\\nprepared to accommodate you than the Rankin House Barber Shop. Clean\\ntowels, polite barbers, and prompt attention is the order of the day. They are\\nAvell prepared to satisfy the most fastidious in hair-cutting, shaving or shampoo-\\ning, being posted right up on all the latest styles of hair-cutting, etc. W. A.\\nMahone is a man well-known in Columbus, always sober and attentive to business;\\nhas had a number of years experience in his business*, and always gives universal\\nsatisfaction. The shaving class of this city know W. A. Mahone to be The\\nbarber of Columbus.\\n(0)", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "90\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nJ. KYLE CO. Importers and Jobbers of Dry Goods and Notions, and\\nManufacturers of Ironclad Brand Pants and Overshirts, Nos.\\n1106 AND 1108 Broad Street.\\nThe growth of a city is always an interesting study, especially when viewed\\nfrom some particular standpoint, and with reference to some particular department\\nof human interest. Considering the rise of any populous center from its begin-\\nf5.-\\nning, we find a mvdtitudc of causes contributing to swell the volume of its pros-\\nperity, until the tide of its commercial and industrial progress resembles the\\nfloAv of a mighty river, gathering into its channel the waters of an empire. But\\nwhatever influences may affect the aggregation of men into communities, there are", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES, 91\\ncertain natural conditions that must exist in order to give substantial and perma-\\nnent character to such growth, and without which, increase is almost purely specu-\\nlative, and prosperity temporary and delusive. Given these conditions, however,\\nand they may be Avasted by lack of intelligence to see the opportunity they offer,\\nor of enterprise to make the most of it, while other points, with fewer natural\\nadvantages, but cultivating those with more eneigy, overcome the obstacles to\\ntheir progress, and outstrip the sluggard in the race for wealth and power. Hap-\\npily, the pioneers of Columbus were not lacking in either keenness of vision to\\ndescry the favorable features of the situation, nor in energy and ability to make\\nuse of them as the foundations of a thrifty and thriving community. Columbus\\nis most favorably situated as to the great arteries and highways of commerce,\\nhaving invaluable connections, by river and rail, her mercantile ramifications\\nextending in every direction, and yearly growing larger and more important.\\nOne of the great factors in her progress and improvement has been her dry goods\\ninterest, and the history of her large wholesale jobbing houses, while a necessary\\nand integral part of her statistical biography, is also interesting and valuable as\\nan historical record, and useful for purposes of reference.\\nMr. Joseph Kyle is one of our pioneer merchants in the dry goods line, com-\\nmencing first in the retail business in 1838, under the firm name of Kyle Bar-\\nnett, and only eleven years after Columbus had received her charter of incorpora-\\ntion. In 1843 the firm name became J. J. Kyle, and three years after they\\nmoved into a new store, built by them. No. 111(3 Broad street. After ten years\\nstill larger quarters were required for the volume of business controlled by the\\nfirm and they moved to the building now occupied by Blanchard Booth, and\\nnow owned by Mr. Kyle. Here the firm name was changed to its present style,\\nand for more than a quarter of a century this was the leading retail dry goods\\nhouse in this section. Recognizing the fact that dealers in the greater part of the\\nadjoining States looked to Columbus, with her facilities for shipping, both by rail\\nand water, for supplies in this line of trade, Messrs. J. Kyle Co. decided to\\nengage in an exclusively wholesale business, and moved into their present commo-\\ndious building, which has three times been enlarged, but with abundant capita]\\nand a large, flourishing trade they are able to meet any demands made upon\\nthem. The facilities, so far as regard the premises occupied, are all that could be\\ndesired, 24,000 square feet of space being fully occupied, with a well-selected\\nand comprehensive stock of dry goods suited to the trade in this section, including\\nforeign and domestic manufactures and a full line of notions. They carry an\\naverage stock of $100,000, and their annual transactions reach $500,000. As\\nmanufacturers of the Ironclad Brand of pants and overshirts, this house has\\nattained a wide-spread reputation, and supplies a large and increasing trade, a\\nlarger force of employees being required each year. An eight horse-power gas\\nengine is provided for running the machines and a large number of operatives are\\nconstantly employed in the manufacturing department. The immense business of\\nthis house is thoroughly organized under different departments, managed by com-\\npetent men, all under the constant supervision of tlie proprietors, and in these", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "92 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\ndepartments can probably be found more goods suited to the wants of the mer-\\nchants in this section of country than can be found under any one roof in the city\\nThe number of employees has lately been increased to ninety, of which thirty\\nare males, sixty females, including a number of popular and efficient traveling\\nsalesmen, the monthly pay roll amounting to $2,300. Last year their sales\\nreached $500,000, and their trade this year is much larger. Increasing capital\\nand superior advantages have but prompted them to greater efforts in their lines\\nthan have been marked out. Such an enormous business gives them a great\\nadvantage over their competitors, enabling them to sell goods at close margins,\\nand secure for themselves satisfactory profits. The commercial grasp of this\\nhouse extends throughout Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, and other States.\\nThrough all the years that this house has been in existence, all the changes it has\\nundergone in the personnel of its proprietors, the trade incident to its long career\\nand the depression in business at times, it has maintained, with brightening repu-\\ntation, the perfect system, the high degree of mercantile integi ity, the elevated\\nbusiness enterprise with which it was inaugurated by its founder, Mr. Joseph\\nKyle. Wealth is one of the elements of success, but it is non-effective and a\\nresultless ingredient when not combined with business sagacity, which acts as a\\nbalance valve in the regulation of the supply of motive power which capital fur-\\nnishes. In the narration of the progress and development of this great house, an\\nillustration con be found of the grandly superior power of ability and clear\\nthought, even in prosperity, and the subordination of capital to enterprise and\\nadaptability. The senior member of this firm is of Scotch-Irish descent, and,\\nalthough advanced in years, is brisk and alert, and bids fair to remain at the head\\nof his colossal enterprise a number of years to come. He divides his time\\nbetween his dry goods business and his plantation, called The Bend, seven\\nmiles from the city, Mr. Kyle and his spirited bays being a well-known sight to\\nour residents. Modest and retiring, he has never sought public office, but his\\nvoice has certain weight in public matters. His staff of assistants hold for him\\nfeelings of strong attachment and veneration, and his career is a valuable study to\\nyounger men in the business.\\nMr. Frederick B. Gordon, the junior member of the firm, has been closely\\nidentified with the commercial interests of Columbus, having been formerly sec-\\nretary of the Chattahoochee Valley Exposition Company, and president of the\\nColumbus Board of Trade. He has assumed the active management of this enter-\\nprise, purchases all the goods for the dry goods and manufacturing departments,\\ndictates all correspondence and decides all questions of credit. Under his man-\\nagement the business has received a new impetus, his genial and affable manners\\nand cordial greeting of customers making himself many friends and adding\\npatrons to their already extensive list.\\nMessrs. J. Kyle Co. have the leading representative house in Columbus,\\nand her interests and their name have become co-extensive with the South as a\\nhouse of immense capital, superior stock and admirable business qualifications\\nand judgment, with indomitable pluck, enterprise and energy, coupled Avith inva-\\nriable courtesy and liberality.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 93\\nSOUTHERN PLOW CO, Manufacturers of Plow Stocks, Steel, Wrought\\nAND Cast Iron Plow Hoes, Cast Plows and Cotton Planters,\\nThe prosperity of a manufactory is an indication both of superiority in the\\noutput and of the management. The Southern Plow Company Avas incorporated\\nin 1877, The officers are: W. R. Brown, President, and G. W. Brown, Secre-\\ntary and Treasurer, under Avhose capable management the business is guided in\\na course of true business principles and is enjoying a prosperous career, and it\\nis an institution that Avould do honor to any city. Fifty hands are employed in\\nthe various departments, turning out material to the amount of from $100,000 to\\n$125,000 per aimum The product consists of plow stocks, plow hoes, steel,\\nAvrought and cast iron plow blades, points, plates, lap rings, grass rods, Avings,\\ncastings, mold boards, single trees, heel bolts, clevis ii^ons, cast ploAvs, fixtures,\\netc. in fact, the Company is fully equipped for furnishing every attachment\\nconnected Avith improved implements. Mr. G. W. Brown, the Secretary and\\nTreasurer, has the business in charge, and keeps the popular demand up to a\\nhigh standard, making shipments throughout the Southern States, regardless of\\nsharp competition from other portions of the United States. Besides plows,\\nthis institution is manufacturing various kinds of cotton planters. The buildings\\noccupy a space 300x100 feet, and Ave Avould state that the Southern PIoav Com-\\npany is valuable to Columbus in shoAving to the outside Avorld that Ave have an\\nindustrious city.\\nCOLUMBUS IRON WORKS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Manufactures of Columbus Iron Works\\nAbsorption Ice Machine, Steam Engines, Boilers, Tanks, Saav\\nMills, Cane Mills, Mill and Gin Gearing, Cotton Presses, Cal-\\nender Rolls, Etc., Etc., Eec.\\nColumbus has been brought conspicuously to the front as a manufacturing\\ncity by having within her limits the most extensive Iron Works in the entire South\\nthis side of Riclmiond, Va., and with this exception, there is not a Avide difference,\\nby any means and in the class of Avork turned out there is no institution in the\\ncountry in advance of the Columbus Iron Works. To one unacquainted Avith the\\nmagnitude of this plant it Avould be necessary to make a personal inspection to\\ngrasp the situation, as there are six acres covered with buildings, machinery and\\nmaterial, besides the tOAvering stacks of lumber to be seen outside of the yards\\non the river banks. The hum of flying machinery, the clank of the mechanic s\\nhammer, the puff of various steam engines here and there, the rumbling of planers,\\nthe hustle and bustle of 175 active mechanics, gives the appearance of a human\\nbee-hive. Here is produced and finished The Columbus Iron Works Improved\\nAbsorption Ice Machine, the most popular Ice machine made; there are also\\nmanufactured steam engines, boilers, tanks, saAv mills, calender rolls, cotton presses,\\nshafting, pulleys and hangers, hollow-ware, mill and gin gearing, cane mills, and\\nsash, doors and blinds, the latter department is (juite extensive. They also han-\\ndle largely, rough and dressed lumber, sliingles, laths and lime. The department\\nfor repairing work is also a feature, in this establishment, and quite a novelty in", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "94 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nmechanics is to be seen here, which is in the welding of pipe coils together by\\nelectricity, in this line they are perpared to furnish the electric welded pipe coils\\nof any description, and are executing an extensive amount of work. Pumps and\\nClayton s double Turbine water wheels are other products of this plant. The\\nfoundry is deserving of special mention, having every facility for turning out all\\nkinds of work regardless of size and complication of pattei-ns. About 880,000\\nper annum is paid out for labor. The business extends throughout the Southern\\nStates, and into Kansas, Illinois, Ohio, Indian Territory and Pennsylvania. Mr.\\nBrown, the President, was reared in Columbus. He established these works in\\n1853, and in 1856 the same was incorporated. The officers now are, W. R.\\nBrown, President: W. H, Brannon, Secretary and Treasurer, and W. Cook,\\nSuperintendent. Under this management the already large business, which, last\\nyear was about a half million dollars, is enjoying a healthful growth, ond the\\nestablishment a pride to the State as well as the city.\\nSHEPHERD S BRICK YARDS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Shepherd Brothers, Proprietors.\\nTo the collector of statistical data of the business interests of so great and\\nprogressive a city as Columbus, facts bearing on her most important facilities and\\nresources, are more apparent than to the casual visitor, or even to a citizen.\\nSpecial branches of industry which are contributing more than most others, not\\nonly to her extension and improvement, but to her solidity and attractive appear-\\nance. Amonfi; these, all branches connected with the buildinir facilities and\\nresources, are worthy of special mention, and as Columbus is to-day furnishing\\nmost desirable material for manufacturing brick, and dailv turnino; out larcje kilns\\nof this product in superior grade, this class of industry deserves particular notice.\\nWe are led into these remarks by a visit to the works of Shepherd Brothers, at\\nShepherd s Brick Yards, and an inspection of their products, which are conceded\\nto be the finest in quality, appearance, color, shape and smoothness, so far made.\\nThey manufacture brick from the Nolan-Madden machine, one of the very best\\nbrick machines, with every late improvement, and having the finest raw material\\nto be found in the South, they are possessed of every facility for making the best\\nbrick to be found, and it is this grade that has brought Columbus to the front as a\\nsuperior brick market. A forty-horse power engine and boiler is used to drive\\nthe machinery. Messrs. Shepherd Brothers own 200 acres of ground at their\\nyards, which gives them an inexhaustible supply of the finest material. Their\\ncapacity is 9,000,000 brick yearly, including pressed, common and ornamental\\nbrick. The individual members of the firm are A. H. Shepherd and A. W. Shep-\\nherd. They were raised in Columbus, and are among our most influential and\\nprominent citizens. This business begun in 1890, and since its inception has\\nenjoyed a large and lucrative trade, which reaches throughout this State, Ala-\\nbama and Florida. Continued on the plan of an honorable, straightforward\\npolicy, with which they have inaugurated their business. Shepherd Brothers will\\nsoon change into steady, vigorous maturity, and, their establishment become a\\nrepresentative one in its line.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIE:\\n95\\nTHE STEAM PLANT PLUMBIXG COMPANY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sanitart Plumbers,\\nNo. 1145 First Avenue, G. B. Hiett, Proprietor.\\nA good and reliable plumber is an indispensible necessity in every commu-\\nnity, and in Columbus Mr. G. B. Hiett ranks with the best in all respects-\\nStarted in 1890 he has, by the excellence of his -work, and the promptness with\\nwhich it is performed, already attained the\\nleading rank. His salesroom and workshop\\nare large and commodious, a number of skill-\\nful hands are employed and the trade extends\\nall over the city and country, and is annually\\nincreasing. Mr. Hiett does all manner of\\nplumbing, gas and steam fitting, and hot air\\nfurnace works, these branches being their\\nspecialty. He also puts up pumps, bath\\ntubs, etc., in the most thorough and work-\\nman-like manner, and every piece of work\\nfrom their establishment is guaranteed. Mr.\\nHiett has been in the business since 1872,\\nand is thoroughly familiar with all the\\nbranches of his business. He is a native of\\nTennessee, but has resided in Columbus for\\nthe past four years. The past honorable\\ncareer of this house is an evidence of their\\nfair and able business transactions, which has\\ncriven universal satisfaction. C)ur readers\\nwill find this house one of the most reliable ones in this line of business in the\\nState, and will reap a benefit in opening business relations with them. All work\\nentrusted to them is sure of prompt attention and of being satisfactorily\\nperformed,\\nM. .JOSEPH Jobber of Dry Goods, Notions, Etc., 1131, 1133, 1135 and\\n1187 Broad Street.\\nThe business prosperity, enterprise and solidity of a city are, in a large\\nmeasure, indicated by the extent and character of her business houses. Among\\nthem, the names of the wealthy old dry goods houses have become as familiar as\\nhousehold words. Their reputation extends that of their cities, and in no other\\nbranch do we find firms whose business transactions cover an extent of territory,\\nlimited only by the natural boundaries of the country. Columbus is favorably\\nsituated as to facilities for the transportation and distribution of merchandise. By\\nrail she reaches the cities and towns of Georgia, Alabama and Florida. She con-\\ntrols the inland routes by river from here to the Gulf of Mexico, through a rich\\nand fertile country\\nOne of the great factors in her progress and improvement has been her dry\\ngoods interests, and the history of her large wholesale jubbing houses, while a\\nnecessary and an integral part of her biography, will be also interesting and valu-\\nable as an historical record, and useful for future reference. The mercantile his-", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "96 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\ntory of M, Joseph is exceptionally interesting. Mr. Joseph begun retailing dry\\ngoods in Columbus in 1852, with a capital of eighty-five dollars, and to-day, is\\ndoing a business of seven hundred thousand dollars per annum, requiring the\\nservices of twenty efficient men to conduct the different departments. The aver-\\nage amount of stock corried is $125,000, and is complete in every particular.\\nThe stand of M. Joseph is at 1131, 1133, 1135 and 1137 Broad street, being\\ncentrally located and possessed of every convenience adapted to shipping and\\nreceiving goods.\\nAbout seventeen years ago the leading merchants began making efforts to\\nsecure reduced freight rates from the large markets to Columbus. Success Avas\\ntheir reward, we were put upon an equal footing with the other principal points\\nof this section, as regards freight rates. Mr. Joseph (then in the retail business)\\nrealizing the situation, changed his system from the retail to the wholesale trade,\\nand soon had his salesmen traveling the rich territory adjacent to this city, and\\nthrough his pluck, enterprise and energy, has reached out further and further for\\nbusiness, and, year after year a large increase has resulted, until now this house\\nhas taken rank with the leading wholesale establishments in this part of the South.\\ndry goods and notions are rolled out of the establishment of M. Joseph every\\nday destined to Mineral regions of Alabama, the Lumber districts of Georgia\\nthroughout the Land of Flowers and fruits, up and down the fertile valley of the\\nChattahoochee, and on the Gulf coast, and into the cities, towns and villages of\\nall this section embraced in the three States. This leading representative mer-\\nchant of Columbus, M. Joseph, is widely known, his name has become familiar\\nthroughout the South, his reputation that of a progressive and thorough business\\nmanager.\\nKELLY CO. ^Wholesale Grocers, Nos. 10 to 16 Tenth Street.\\nThe term grocer was formerly used to signify a merchant who sold the staple\\ncoffee, tea, etc., in gross, but with the progress in trade, the business of the\\ngrocer became more comprehensive and his stock enlarged, including many arti-\\ncles carried by houses or branches as specialties. Mercantile establishments are\\ndivided into two classes: those who deal in necessities or staples, and those who\\ndeal in luxuries and specialties; the latter are useful, but their patronage is con-\\nfined to the wealthy and fashionable the first are indispensible their custom\\ncomes from all classes, their wares supply wants of actual necessity to the health,\\ncomfort and vigor of man. In this class are included grocers whose main stock\\nconsists of articles entering into the food supply, in some instances articles of\\nluxury are included, as liquors, canned goods, tobaccos, etc. There is no more\\nimportant factor in the commercial and industrial growth of a city than the\\ngrocery trade, and no more unerring criterion by which to estimate its enterprise.\\nFlourishing, well conducted and prosperous grocery firms indicate the existence\\nof energy and industry, wliich are the surest evidences of progress and the devel-\\nopment of commercial interests. The wholesale grocery trade will always occupy\\na foremost position in Columbus, as it conduces, in a very great degree, to her\\nimportance as a mercantile point. This city has several houses, the trade of which\\nwill compare most favorably with those of the large Eastern and Western cities.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "COMMEKCE, MA-NUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 97\\nand among these houses there are none better entitled to special mention than\\nthe establishment of Kelly Co. This concern was started by Farmer, Kelly\\nCo. in 1888, the present firm succeeding to the business in 1890. The extensive\\npremises of the establishment are conveniently located on Tenth street, with a\\nbuilding 100 feet square, two stories in height, which is fully utilized in the\\nprosecution of business. The stock carried is always full and complete in all\\ndepartments, and is commensurate with the business, the value being placed at\\n$30,000. An inspection of the business premises evidences the perfect system\\nof the establishment, various departments moving with regularity, all under the\\nmanagement of the proprietors. In the stock will be found every conceivable\\narticle pertaining to the trade. Ten employees are required in selling and hand-\\nling goods and the trade extends throughout Alabama, Florida and Georgia, the\\nannual transactions reaching half a million dollars. The individual members of\\nthe firm are Messrs. M. W. Kelly and John R. Kelly. They were born in Cen-\\ntral Georgia, but moved to Southwestern Alabama when boys, and gained their\\nexcellent business experience there. Mr. M. W. Kelly was engaged in business\\nin Columbia, Ala., until 1888, when he came to Columbus. Mr. John R. Kelly\\nwas in business in Newton, Ala., until the present house was formed, when he\\nbecame a member. These are the qualifications, resources and facilities of a repre-\\nsentative firm of our city s commercial history of this period, a practical illustra-\\ntion that enterprise, sound business principles and commendable ambition will\\nassure success, wheresoever the location may be, and that they, not chance, are\\nthe prime elements in progress.\\nMRS. A. POSADA Dealer in Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, Etc., No. 16,\\nTwelfth Street.\\nIn a careful review of the various commercial industries of Columbus, it is\\nplainly observable that a detailed mention of each evidences great advantages\\nwhich some possess over others in the same line of business. The result of longer\\nexperience and a greater, natural aptitude to their particular trade or profession.\\nIn the cigar and tobacco business, Mrs. A. Posada may be said to have attained\\nher reputation and prosperous trade from both of the essentials above mentioned,\\nbeing one of the pioneers in the business in this section, with an experience of\\nthirty-three years, and a practical knowledge of the business in all of its details.\\nShe established herself in business in this city in 1876 with small capital, while\\nthe city Avas still in its youth, and before it had put on metropolitan habiliments.\\nThis business, conducted with energy, close application and industry, backed by\\nher superior knowledge of its requirements, has been successful from the start,\\nand Mrs. Posada has succeeded in building up a lucrative patronage. She carries\\na complete stock consisting of imported and domestic cigars in all grades and\\nqualities, the most popular brands of chewing and smoking tobaccos, pipes and\\nsmoker s Sundries generally. Iler premises are commodious and convenient,\\n50x100 feet in size. Her trade, besides being largely local, extends through this\\nimmediate section, reaches $5,000 annually. This house is justly entitled to the\\nconsideration and patronage of the public, and the proprietress to the esteem that\\nenergy, honesty and industry always inspire.", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "98 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nTOL Y. CRAWFORD\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Attorney-at-Law, 1155| Broad Street.\\nAmong the young men who have, in a few years, written their names high\\non the tablet of fame, none in our city are more worthy of the success they have\\nachieved than Tol, Y. Crawford, the promising young attorney-at-law, at present\\nCity Solicitor of Columbus. Mr. Crawford was born in Kentucky in 18G0,\\nand came to Columbus in 1883, studying law with Mr. Reese Crawford, and was\\nadmitted to the bar in 1885. He was a student at Center College, Louisville,\\nKy. It was necessary for him to i-emain with the people of Columbus but a short\\ntime ere they discovered his superior ability, as is evidenced by his election as city\\nattorney in 1889, and again in 1890. He is a pushing young man, who is bound\\nto win success in his chosen profession, and in the end hold a leading place in the\\nlaw.\\nCENTRAL LINE OF BOATS.\\nOn the 29th day of November, 1828, a pole boat named the Rob Roy, with\\na cargo of merchandise consigned to J. Fontaine, Maherry, Love cS: Co., landed\\nat Columbus this being the first craft to touch at this point in the history of the\\ntown. The Rob Roy was from\\nApalachicola, Fla., and was\\npropelled with long poles,\\noperated by the roustabouts.\\nThe first steamboat, the Vir-\\nginia, landed here May 25th,\\n1829, from Apahichieola, and on the 28th of December, made her second trip\\nhere and returned ladened with 400 bales of cotton for New Orleans. The first\\nsteamer owned by citizens of Columbus was the Georgian, built at Pittsburg,\\nPa., and made the trip from Pittsburg to Columbus in fifteen days. And with\\nthe progress of time and growth of the country, the river traffic kept pace, and\\nat the present day the amount of business transacted on the Chattahoochee river,\\nbetween Columbus and Apalachicola, is of marked importance, and of the several\\nlines of steamboats in this trade, that of the Central Line of Boats deserves spe-\\ncial mention. Mr. Samuel J. Whitesides is the proprietor of the line, and hav-\\ning the experience of thirty years in the business, and being a successful and\\nenterprising man, he is in a position to know the requirements of his numerous\\npatrons, and by his upright transactions has grown in popularity to an enviable\\ndegree. There are two large packets in the trade, requiring the employment of\\nthirty-seven hands, drawing a pay-roll of $1200 per month. These steamers ply\\nthe Chattahoochee, Apalachicola, Flint and Chipola rivers, doing a large and\\nextensive business. Mr. George B. Whitesides is a son of the proprietor, and\\nfor a number of years has held the position of manager, Avhich position he holds\\nwith ability, and having been reared in the business is, as a natural consequence,\\nquite familiar with every detail in connection, and for this reason is the Central\\nLine of Boats so popular and doing such a thriving business.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 99\\nRIDDLE NUCKOLLS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wholesale Tobacco and Cigars, Corner Four-\\nteenth Street and First Avenue.\\nIn endeavoring to preserve some record of our counnereial firms l)y histori-\\ncal notes, our object in introducing this department of our work is attributed\\nmore to a desire to gather together remembrances of such interesting nature,\\nrather than to seek opportunity for personal compliment. But it is qviite admis-\\nsible for us to say that the house of Riddle Nuckolls, wholesale tobacconists,\\nbelongs to that class of enterprising business firms which have given the city her\\nreputation abroad. This enterprise was started in 1887 by Mr. J. W. Riddle,\\nand in 1889 Mr. J. K. Nuckolls was admitted to the firm. The business premises\\nconsist of half an acre of ground covered with buildings, including their large\\nstore room for tobacco and cii;;ars. Messers. Riddle Nuckolls are agents for\\nthe Humming Bird, Fat Possum, Lucy Neal and Eli Tobaccos, and Big Nickel\\nnavy Tohacco,^^ Little Carrif,^^ Spanish Flag and Custom House Cubanna cigars,\\nand Bower s Three Thistle Snuft A large and flourishing trade is transacted\\nthroughout Georgia, Florida and Alabama. Nine employees are required in the\\nbusiness, and all orders are filled with promptness and satisfaction to all concerned.\\nThe stock carried is valued at $15,000, and the transactions reach 3100,000. All\\nof the business operations of this concern are under the direct supervision of the pro-\\nprietors, enabling them to guarantee the purity and good quality of all goods they\\npvit upon the market, and has given their goods a reputation second to none. The\\ngreatest care and attention is bestowed in every department, making their house\\none of the most jyrominent of ourflourshing business houses. Mr. J. W. Riddle\\nhas lived in Columbus thirty-four years, and may be appropriately classed among\\nour most prosperous and enterprising merchants. He has had fifteen years\\nexperience in this line of trade, and thoroughly understands its requirements.\\nMr. Nuckolls is also a native Georgian, and is widely known for his sterling busi-\\nness qualities. He was connected for a number of years with the firm of J. Kyle\\nCo., of this city, also proprietor of the large wholesale hat house of J. K.\\nNuckolls Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. No firm enjoys a higher position commer-\\ncially, which considering the liberal and enterprising spirit that actuates its opera-\\ntions, is as natural as it is justly deserved.\\nVERNON HOTEL BARBER SHOP\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. A. Neals, Proprietor.\\nWhen yon want an easy shave,\\nAs good as barber ever gave\\nCall on me at my saloon\\n]\\\\Iorning, evening or at noon I\\nI cut and dress the hair with grace,\\nTo suit the custom of the face;\\nMy rooms are neat, towels clean.\\nShears sharp and razors keen\\nEverything I think you ll find,\\nTo suit the face and please the niiiid.\\nAll my art and skill can do,\\nIf you will call I will do for you.", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "100\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nBLANDFORD GRIMES\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Attorneys-at-Law.\\nIn our column, while reviewing the trade and conditions of trade of our city,\\nwe do not wish to pass by that class of men who is so potent in advancing the\\ninterests of every community tlie lawyer. The Bar of Muscogee county might\\nwell be termed a galaxy of stars, but there are none more talented or deserving\\nof more notice than our friends. Judge Blandford and Captain Grimes. Mr.\\nBlandford, the senior member of the firm, is a brilliant man, of unusual learning,\\nfully rounded out in all the departments of his profession. Possessed of judicial\\nmind and force of character, he was placed on the Supreme Bench in 1883, which\\nplace he filled with honor alike to himself and the State until 1801. He is a\\nnative of Warren county and came to Columbus in 1869. He studied law with\\nJudge R. Y. Howderman, in Jones county, and was admitted to the Bar in 1814\\nunder a special act of the Legislature. His health was impaired while suffering\\nthe hardships of a campaign in Mexico in 40 and 48. He served through all\\nthe years of the late war. Pleasant, learned and interesting, he is a superior man\\nwho has hosts of friends, and deserves them. Mr. T. W. Grimes is a native of\\nGreene county. He served through two years of the war, and shortly afterward\\nentered political life. He had been a brave soldier in war and now, in politics, he\\nwas a rival worthy of the steel of a Knight. He was elected to the lower house\\nof Congress in 1868, and in 1875 to the Senate of his State. From 1878 to\\n1880 he was Solicitor-General of the Chattahoochee Circuit. His people again\\ncalled him to represent them in the Fifty-second Congress, and again in the\\nstormy Reed Congress, he nobly defended the rights of the minority. Mr.\\nGrimes has been a close student from boyhood, studying law with Rumsey\\nLamar, he was early admitted to practice. He is an able lawyer, an honest citi-\\nzen and a noble gentleman.\\nM. T. BERGAN Wholesale Liquors, Bottling Works, Manufacturer of\\nIce, and Agent Christian Moerlein Beer, Corner Broad and\\nDillingham Streets.\\nWorthy of liberal mention in any work relating to the general business\\nactivities of a city like Columbus, are all enterprises wdiich conduce to the con-\\nvenience and benefit of the general community, claiming importance as leading\\nindustries, which give reputation to a city for manufacturing enterprise and pro-\\ngressive spirit, whether by individual or corporate action. This city has reason\\nto be proud of her manufacturing interests, and of no one concern more so than\\nthat of Mr. Bergan. This establishment was founded seven years ago by the\\npresent proprietor, who has done as much, perhaps, to extend the reputation of\\nColumbus and bring the excellence of her products before the people of this sec-\\ntion as any other firm in the city. A complete and well selected assortment of\\nwholesale liquors is kept in stock, and in the bottling department a large business\\nis transacted. As manufacturer of ice, iNIr. Bergan fills a long felt want in this\\npart of the South, and supplies a large trade. The business premises are 75x147\\nfeet in size and contain apparatus and appliances of the most excellent character,", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 101\\nthe facilities being fully equal to the capacities of an immense trade. Twenty\\nemployees are required in the transaction of business and in the manufacturing\\ndepartment, and orders are filled in a prompt and careful manner. Mr. Bergan\\nenjoys an extended and flourishing trade throughout Georgia, Florida and Ala-\\nbama, and he is fully prepared to meet any demands made upon him for goods in\\nhis line. The ice factory turns out seven tons of ice per day, and Mr. Bergan\\nhas a branch house in Griffin, -where he manufactures ice also, and supplies that\\npoint and country tributary to it. The career of Mr. Bergan has been most suc-\\ncessful, on account of the ability and skill with which be has operated his estab-\\nlishment, and the liberal, enterprising policy that has characterized its business.\\nMr. Bergan was born in Ireland fifty-four years ago. He has resided in Colum-\\nbus for thirty years, and is well known and popular among our people. He has\\nalways been esteemed a man of unusual energy, strong force of character and\\nliberal business characteristics, his business enterprises always occupying a promi-\\nnent position in the community, uniformly managing his business with skill and\\nsuccess. He deserves the praise and congratulations of the citizens for building\\nup this splendid system of economy and thrift in their midst, and we would here\\ntake occasion to remark that such men build up the reputation and trade of cities\\nand enable them to retain it.\\nSINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 12 Twelfth Street.\\nThe hum of the sewing machine is heard all over the land. There is no voice\\nin which there is more music than in its delicate click, for it means a cessation for\\nweary women, a folding of tired hands, and a closing of weary eyes which before\\nthe sewing machine came to make the tiresome seams, must have worked long after\\nthe rest of the household had sought their couch. There are few houses in the\\nland in which the name of the Singer Machine is not familiar. It is not excelled\\nby any sewing machine in the market, both as to simplicity of machinery and\\nbeauty of woodwork. Its management is so easy that a little child may soon\\nlearn to work it, and its light running is so famous that the most delicate ladies\\nare enabled to use it without detriment to health. The attachments are unsur-\\npassed, and a woman can make almost anything that fancy may suggest. The\\nware-rooms and office for Columbus and surroundino; counties is located at No. 12\\nTwelfth street, being tastefully and handsomely fitted and furnished, with sufficient\\nroom to accommodate many hundred machines. The manager of the Columbus\\nbranch is C. C. Gunter, who gives all his time and attention to this Avork he has\\naccomplished much for the machine in the territory under his supervision and con-\\ntrol. Energy and business tact superior to that shown by this gentleman is rarely\\nevinced, and the company thoi oughly appreciate his success. The high standing\\nhe enjoys is justly due him, being a man of sterling worth and keen intelligence.\\nEverybody contemplating purchasing a new machine should not fail to examine\\nThe Singer before they purchase, as it gives entire satisfaction in every case.\\nIt presents a beautiful appearance, is light running, speedy, silent and easy. To\\ntry it is to buy it.", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "102 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nIIH )DES BROWNE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 General Fire Insurance Agent, Office 1048 Broad\\nStreet, Georgia Home Building.\\nThe principle of insurance is founded upon the doctrine of probabilities.\\nAccording to this doctrine, if we take a sufficiently extended range of instances,\\nthe probability of a certain event happening can be ascertained with a consider-\\nable degree of accuracy. It is in this way that insurers calculate their risks and\\nestimate their premiums. From extended series of observations and carefully\\nprepared tables they know the chances of the event insured against happening,\\nand determine the amount of the premium accordingly. The business of insur-\\nance is generally carried on by companies having a large subscribed capital, by\\nmeans of which they are able without difficulty to meet any heavy loss, while\\ntheir premiums being proportioned to their risks, their profit is, at an average,\\nindependent of such contingencies. The advantages of insurance are very great.\\nAVhile to a merchant the loss of his building and stock might be a very serious\\nmatter, he can thus, by the payment of a certain sum, provide against it, so that\\nhe may carry on his business with a feeling of perfect security. The insurer is\\nusually called an underwriter, because he writes his name at the foot of the policy.\\nColumbus has a number of agencies representing foreign and domestic comjDanies,\\namong tlie most prominent of Avhich is that of Mr. Rhodes Browne. This agency\\nwas originally established in 1859, and represents some of the best and most reli-\\nable companies of the world. A glance at the companies represented by Mr,\\nBrowne will carry the convincing proof of their worth and ability Georgia\\nHome Insurance Company, of Columbus, Ga., Queen Insurance Company, of\\nLiverpool, England, Commercial Union Assurance Company, of London, England,\\nNorwich Union Insurance Society, of Norwich, England, Greenwich Insurance\\nCompany, of New York, and Central City Insurance Company, of Selma, Ala-\\nbama, with combined assets reaching $10,000,000.\\nJ. W. ENNIS General Merchandise.\\nOne of the largest and most prominent retail establishments in the city devoted\\nto the general merchandise business, is that of J. W, Ennis, situated on Rose Hill.\\nThe building occupied is 35x80 feet, and admirably arranged throughout for the\\nhandling of his extensive business. He carries a complete stock of all kinds of\\ngoods, amounting to from $2,000 to $5,000, according to the demands of the sea-\\nson, and does an annual business of $18,000 in the city and surrounding country.\\nThe merchant who heads this article is one of that class, who, through business\\nastuteness, working with small capital, but having that business sagacity and fore-\\nsight, has placed himself on a footing by the side of those whose capital at the\\nstart was much greater. Mr. Ennis is thoroughly posted in his business, has been\\nbrought up in it. He is fully alive to the wants of the public, and has the honor\\nand esteem of all who have business relations with him. He is a live, progres-\\nsive and enterprising citizen, always has the interest of Columbus at heart, ready\\nand willing to do anything to advance the city s interest.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES.\\n103\\nTHE SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Incorporated Aug. 21, 1889.\\nIn the April of 1886 Mme. Antoinette Brousil-Grant and Prof. H. McCor-\\nmack opened a school of music in Columbus, and so thorough and satisfactory\\nwas the instruction given that it immediately met with flattering success. After\\nthree years of ever increasing prosperity, this school was re-organized into the\\nSouthern College of Music, which was duly chartered by the courts Auo-ust 24\\n1889. The object of this change was to enlarge the field of labor, and to plan\\nand follow a more complete course of study than was possible in the smaller\\nschool. In order that the work done by this school may compare favorably with\\nthat of any other similar school, only the very finest teachers and musicians have\\nbeen employed. The faculty for the present year consists of: Mme. A. B.\\nGrant, Piano, Organ and Singing; II. McCormack, Piano, Flute and Theory;\\nAlexander de Czeke, Violin and Theory Carl Hessler, Piano, Violin, Cornet and\\nOrchestra Playing. The preparation of teachers is a specialty, and the fortunate\\nholder of a diploma from the Southern College of Music will have a choice of\\nmany lucrative positions. For catalogue containing full particulars of course of\\nstudy, methods employed, etc., address A. G. Grant, Secretary and Treasurer,\\n1221 Fourth avenue, Columbus, Ga.\\nCOLUMBUS WATER WORKS CO.\\nSince water, like climate, has a sanitary bearing on a city s advantages, it\\nis of the highest importance to have a bountiful supply of that good and whole-\\nsome beverage, so freely bestowed by God himself to nourish and invigorate\\nHis creatures and to beautify His footstool. Then, too, villages and hamlets,\\nand even towns and cities, are oftener than from any other cause located in\\nproximity to good water. For all manufacturing purposes, for laundry require-\\nments and for culinary needs, as Avell as for the extinguishment of fires, Colum-", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "104 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nbus has a water supply that is second to none in the entire State. For many\\nyears Columbus jogged along in the old way without any system of water works;\\ntrue, for drinking purposes, nearly every house had its well or cistern, but there\\nwas no water for fire protection, and when the cit} was visited by this fiend the\\nold Bucket Brigade was called forth to extinguish the flames. Soon, enter-\\nprising men and capital came, and a contract was made by Thos. R. White Avith\\nthe city, and the water works were established. The plant consists of a number\\nof miles of pipe, varying from 6 to 12 inches in diameter; a stand-pipe and two\\nreservoirs the reservoirs being located in Lee County, Ala., about three miles\\nfrom the city, and capable of storing about one hundred and forty -five millions\\nof gallons of water. These reservoirs are fed by never failing springs and are\\nat an elevation of 119 feet above the level on Avhich the city stands, and there-\\nfore the water is delivered entirely by gravity, afi ording an average pressure of\\n40 pounds for fire protection, sanitary purposes and general use by consumers,\\nand no pumping is necessary to produce this pressure. The stand-pipe is 20\\nfeet in diameter and 120 feet high capacity 350,000 gallons. The Company\\nhas a contract with the city and receives in hydrant rentals, together with Avater\\nrents from consumers, about thirty thousand dollars per annum. The expenses\\nof operating the plant are about six thousand dollars per annum, Avhich is a very\\ngratifying showing for the short time it has been operated by the present man-\\nagement. The plant is gradually increasing, it being in contemplation soon to\\nerect another reservoir Avith a storage capacity of four hundred millions of gal-\\nlons Avhich, added to the present one hundred and forty -five millions, Avould give\\na gi*and total of five hundred and forty -five millions storage capacity, thereby\\nlookino; far into the future needs of Columbus.\\nMr. H. H. Epping is President (and also President of the Chattahoochee\\nNational Bank), Mr. J. G. Beasley is Secretary and Treasurer, and Mr. M. 11.\\nTuggle is Superintendent. These are men fully conversant Avith tlie business\\nin Avhich they are engaged, Avith broad and liberal vicAvs and great expectations\\nfor the future of Columbus. They are men of the highest social standing, and\\nenjoy the esteem of their fellow citizens in the highest degree, and to them\\nmuch credit is due for the success their Avorks have achieved.\\nPIEDMONT CIDER WORKS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Corner Fourteenth Street and First\\nAvenue.\\nA man Avho creates a ncAv and profitable branch of manufacture is a pub-\\nlic 1)enefactor, but he Avho, in addition to this furnishes the j)eople Avith an article\\nof drink Avhich partakes of nearly all the nutritive qualities of a beverage with-\\nout the fre(iuent diletarious effects of violent stimulants an article Avhich is\\nhealthgiving in all its properties, and the general use of Avhich cannot fail to ele-\\nvate the health average of the people. A man Avho does this, absolutely deserves\\nthe gratitude of his felloAV man. We desire, therefore, to cite an instance in\\npoint: Prior to 1890 there Avas not a cider manufactory for bottling cider in\\nColumbus, but in that year a factory Avas started by Riddle Nuckolls, Avho\\nbuilt uj) such an enormous trade that it Avas necessary to take another ])artner.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 105\\nin 1892 Mr. Ed, Shepherd was taken in, thus making the firm consist of J. W.\\nRiddle, J. K. Nuckolls and E. A. Shepherd. The Piedmont Cider Company and\\nSoda Works have a daily bottling capacity of 250 bottles of soda water, and 100\\nkegs cider and seventy-five dozen champagne cider, and a specialty is made of bot-\\ntling all kinds of cider, soda and mineral waters. A glance at their price list\\nshows that among their productions in keg, half-barrel and barrel, are refined fruit\\ngrape, peach, orange and cherry, sand refined grape and peach, plain peach and\\nstrawberry, pure apple and crabapple, ginger ale and ambrosia ciders, all of which\\nthey make the highest grade, and are prepared to furnish in any quantities. They\\nuse none but the most improved machinery, a combination of the best English and\\nAmerican manufactures. Their factory covers one-quarter acre of ground, giving\\nemployment to eleven hands, who receive good wages for their labor. Their s is\\none of the largest of its kind in the South, and is under the management of Mr. E. A.\\nShepherd, who is a native Georgian, Avith ten years experience in the business,\\nand is recognized for his excellent business qualities, high integrity, and is a live,\\nprogressive citizen. Such men are the backbone of a city s prosperity. They\\nnever hold back, but move on with the car of progress,\\nTURNER BROS,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Manufacturing Pharmacists, 1002 Broad Street,\\nUnder Rankin House,\\nThe importation, manufacture and dispensing of drugs and chemicals is one\\nof the most important branches of business in this country, as well as the most\\nresponsible and worthy of attention. In old times the medical practitioner com-\\npounded his own preparations, kept his supply of drugs and dispensed them.\\nThe legitimate druggist is of comparatively modern origin, as a distinct profes-\\nsion, in this country. We were until about 1815 dependent on foreign talent and\\nskill, most of the prominent articles and pharmaceutical preparations being im-\\nports from German, English and Erench laboratories. But of late years, the\\neducated druggist having entered the field, the apothecary has been separated\\nfrom the mere shop-keeper, and the business elevated to a professional rank.\\nMuch attention, too, of recent years has been directed to the complete profes-\\nsional education of pharmacists, and colleges for that purpose have been estab-\\n;lished in the metropolitan cities of the country, a diploma being now considered\\na. mie quo non for the successful and reliable pharmacist. The drug business\\ncovers a .large field, embracing a great variety of distinct articles, and the\\nrequisite knowledge of each and its properties and effects, which every competent\\ndruggist should have, makes it a profession requiring unremitting study and\\nprofound research. The character of an establishment, like that of individuals,\\nis generally measured by its success, and, if professional, by its merit. In pre-\\nsenting a record of the commercial industries of Columbus, it is important to\\nselect representative establishments, and to consider those most successful and\\nworthy of confidence. One of the largest, most complete and attractive drug\\nestal:(lishments in the city is that of Turner Bros., located at No. 1002 Broad\\nstreet, under the Rankin House. These gentlemen started in business together\\n(H)", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "106 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nin 1889 with limited capital, and have attained a fair share of trade in their line\\nfrom our citizens. They carry a most complete and well selected assortment of\\narticles usually found in houses of this description, and also are sole proprietors\\nand manufacturers of Turner s Liver Pills, Picine and Diarrhoea Cordial. Their\\nstock is valued at $9,000, and the annual transactions, which are local in char-\\nacter, will reach $25,000. Three courteous, attentive and capable assistants are\\nemployed, the monthly disbursements reaching $225. Messrs. J. P. and J. C.\\nTurner are the individual members of the firm, Mr. J. C. Turner occupying a\\nprominent position with Tarrant Co., of New York. Mr. J. P. Turner was\\nborn in Columbus in December, 1859, and commenced the study of his profes-\\nsion in 1877. The success of Turner Bros, in competition with the old estab-\\nlished houses is not only surprising, but the best indication of their superior\\nmerit and enterprising business policy.\\nN. B. Messrs. Turner Bros, make a specialty of manufacturing fine soda\\nwater. Ask for their recipes.\\nF. B. TOMBLIN Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries, Girard, Ala.\\nThe grocery trade in all towns and cities has its representatives who, both on\\naccount of the superior class of goods they handle and the reputation of the house\\nfor straightforward dealings, are acknowledged to be the leaders. Such a position\\nis occupied by Mr. F. B. Tomblin. He deals in all kinds of Staple and Fancy\\nGroceries and does a large business annually. Mr. Tomblin makes a specialty of\\nBallard s Obelisk Flour and fine water-ground meal. Especial notice is due\\nto his finely and well-selected stock of canned goods, candies, etc. He also car-\\nries a full line of notions. He takes a delight in keeping up with all the best\\ngoods that can be had, giving his customers entire satisfaction in every respect.\\nMr, Tomblin is a native Georgian, but has been in this city for three years, and\\nis well acquainted with his trade. He is a gentleman of pleasant manners, and\\nliolds the respect and confidence of the community in which he lives. As a busi-\\nness man he bears an enviable reputation for promptness, business ability and\\nintegrity\\ny. 11. CANTRELL Groceries, Dry Goods, Shoes, Etc., Hamilton Ave-\\nnue and Robinson Street, Rose Hill.\\nTo no branch of commerce can Columbus point with more pride than to her\\nimmense trade in groceries. Within her incorporate limits are establishments\\nwhose colossal proportions would do honor to much larger cities. As it is not\\nour intention to make compai ative statements in this article? relative to the whole-\\nsale trade of the city, we will at once confine ourselves to the facilities provided\\nfor the supply of our every day wants. Perhaps the most popular grocer in this\\nsection of the city is Mr.A^. R. Cantrell, whose well arranged establishment is located\\nat junction of Hamilton avenue and Robinson street, telephone number 272.\\nMr. Cantrell commenced business at his present location in 1890, and has had a\\nvery satisfactory increase. By his sterling integrity, energy and perseverance,\\nhas built up his trade to its j)resent desirable proportions. His store-room is", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 107\\ncapacious, finished in a neat and attractive manner, and his goods present a very\\ninviting appearance. His stock consists of a full line of well selected groceries\\nof all kinds also staple dry goods, shoes, etc. He employs two assistants, who\\nare ever ready with affable and kind manners to serve his customers. Citizens\\nwill find this establishment a most desirable one with which to form business\\nrelations. His goods are of the best brands, and sold at bottom prices. ^Nlr.\\nCantrell is a native of Georgia, and was born in Paulding county 1845 has\\nresided in Columbus for the past seventeen years. He is a reliable and trust-\\nworthy man, and has established his business on a solid basis, entitling him to a\\nhigh position among the business men of the city.\\nH. F. JACKSON, M. D.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Phenix City, Ala.\\nNo history of a city s trade and commerce and industries would be complete\\nwithout making special mention of those persons engaged in the practice of the\\nlearned arts and professions. In Phenix City the various professional places are\\nfilled with men fitted by nature and education for them, and this is especially true\\nof the o-entleman whose name heads this article. Dr. Jackson is a native of\\nGeorgia, but has been practicing in Phenix City and surrounding country for the\\npast five years. During this time he has made many Avarm friends. He makes a\\nspecialty of female diseases, and owing to his marked success in that line, with\\nhis courteous manner, has made him a general favorite with the ladies. In all\\nthe branches of his profession, his work is the best. We will say to those of our\\nreaders who are so unfortunate as to be sufferers, and especially of the female\\ndiseases, that no one can be employed who will handle their case with more skill,\\nkindness and patience.\\nMRS. S. J. SAULS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Florist, 732 First Avenue.\\nTo the lover of the beautiful in nature there is nothing more grateful than\\nthe presence of flowers nothing that so powerfully appeals to our better and\\nsofter sympathies nothing, in fact, more ennobling and refining than the love\\nand taste for nature s own adornment and decoration, the lovely and fragrant\\nrose and its kindred. The love of flowers is an unmistakable sign of refinement\\nof a people, and where that love or fancy exists the rough side of human nature\\nfinds no abiding place. There can be no more delightful or interesting industry\\nthan that of a florist. Among those, however, that have secured, b}^ their enter-\\nprise and energy, more than usual prominence in this department may be men-\\ntioned Mrs. S. J. Sauls, who possesses qualifications which place her in the first\\nrank as a botanist and florist. Mrs. Sauls commenced this business in 1885, and\\nwith her native industry, energy and adoption to her pursuit soon largely in-\\ncreased. The conservatories, six in number, are tastefully and practically ar-\\nranged with scientific accuracy, and heated with the best approved appliances for\\ngenerating heat with hot water. Mrs. Sauls brings to her work all the devotion\\nand care of a true love treating her plants as a loving parent finding in her\\npursuit personal pleasure. This establishment is spoken of as one of the largest", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "108 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nof the kind in the State, and is to the visitors a shrine where they can see what\\ndevotion and untiring labor can develop, flowers and flowering shrubs so beau-\\ntiful and varied that the eye fairly wearies with their myriad of colors. Here\\nAvill be found a profuse display of exotic and native plants in endless variety to\\ngratify the love of the beautiful roses, the empress of flowers, the gentle gera-\\nnium, verbenas, coleus, the graceful and lovely fuchsias, tuberoses, stately gladi-\\nolies, and matchless lilies, pansies, the cactus of the desert, the fern of the\\nmountain glade, etc, Mrs. Sauls plans rustic rockeries, fancy aquariums, and\\ndesigns any style of floral decorations with perfect taste and artistic skill. She\\nis prepared to furnish bedding or pot plants or cuttings, as desired, from her well\\nselected stock on short notice, and her bouquets, baskets, chaste and appropriate\\nfuneral emblems defy competition. \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Mr, Sauls, an esteemed gentleman of culture\\nand taste, shares with pleasure in these endeavors of his wife, and attends to the\\nAvants of the patrons of the house with courtesy and kindness. He is thoroughly\\nconversant with the details of this most delicate business, and is an experienced\\nbotanist, who has built up a high reputation in his line of business, and who can\\nand will maintain it.\\nTORBERT FLOYD\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Millers and Packers Agents and Jobbers of\\nDressed Meats.\\nOn June 1st, 1891, two young men established a new departure in the\\nmercantile line here, and have grown to greatness in this line, which has done\\nmuch towards bringing Columbus prominently to the front as a commercial centre.\\nThe gentlemen referred to are Messrs, E. A. Torbert and John A. Floyd, the\\nindividual members of the subject of this sketch. Their success, since the in-\\nauguration of the business, has been phenomenal, the transactions reaching to an\\nannual business of \u00c2\u00a71,250,000, the largest of any house in the city. Their trade\\nextends throughout Georgia, Florida and Alabama, their sales on mill products\\nalone reaching $1,500 daily. The actual daily output of their mills being 200\\nbarrels of flour and 500 bushels of meal, and of the verv highest sri ade, and as\\nit is well known that the (quality of flour depends largely upon the miller s\\nability, we make note of the fact that two skilled millers, having twenty years\\nexperience, are employed, which accounts for the popularity of the brands of\\nflour produced by them, the following being a list of these brands: Royal\\nPatent, Peerless, Legal Tender and Regulator. Messrs, Torbert\\nFloyd have displayed an unusual amount of enterprise in gathering the facilities\\nfor handling meats, and it may be interesting to note that they handle a greater\\nvariety of cu s than any house in the South Atlantic States, which is saying a\\ngreat deal but nevertheless it is a fact. iNLany of these cuts were novelties to\\nthis trade until this firm introduced them. Besides the clear, lono; and short\\nribbed sides, both in smoked and dry salted, they have the English square cut\\nribs, backs, bellies, American cut shoulders, English cut shoulders, and bacon\\nand dry salt shoulders of both cuts, and various grades of sugar-cured breakfast\\nbacon, hams, picnic hams, boneless hams, mutton, fresh pork, beef, veal and other", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "COMxMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 109\\nproducts. The stock of meats usually carried varies from 100,000 to 200,000\\npounds. This firm has supplied a long felt Avant in Columbus by erecting a cold\\nstorage for fresh meats, the capacity of Avhich is four cars. A stock of choice\\nWestern beef, pork, mutton, veal, etc., is kept on hand, and dealt out to the re-\\ntailer as he needs it. Their large salesrooms and Avarehouse is situated at the\\ncorner of Tenth street and Seventh avenue. Side-tracks connecting Avith every\\nrailroad centering here are built to their doors, which gives them excellent facili-\\nties for shipping and receiving. Grain is also handled extensively. Their sausage\\ndepartment is deserving of special notice, as they are manufacturing high grades,\\nand in large lots. During the past twelve months their sales have reached 425,-\\n000 pounds. The superiority of the quality is evidenced from the fact that they\\nare shipping this sausage as far as Selma, Ala., on the west to the Atlantic coast\\non the east, and from Tampa, Fla., on the south to Atlanta, Ga., on the north.\\nMr. Torbert is just twenty-two years of age and Mr. Floyd twenty-five.\\nThis is a remarkable age at which to handle such an immense business, but it\\nhappens that their business training has been good, and that they are talented for\\nthis kind of Avork, and that they Avork early and late and do this work on a sound\\nbusiness policy. Such men go far toward building up a city, and Ave bespeak for\\nthem, as we do for Columbus, a solid and prosperous groAvth.\\nWILLIAMS BOOKER\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dealers in Groceries and General Planta-\\ntion Supplies, Phenix City, Ala.\\nThere is, perhaps, no house in the city of Columbus more Avorthy of an\\nextended notice in a Avork of this description, giving, as it does, a detailed revicAV\\nof the trade, commerce and industries of Columbus, than the one Avhich heads\\nthis article. There is no other branch of the mercantile business in Avhich there\\nis so much capital employed actively as in the dry goods and grocery trade.\\nWe take great pleasure in Avriting the history of this house. It is quite admiss-\\nible for us to say that Williams Booker, dealers in all kinds of groceries and\\nplantation supplies, at Phenix City, belongs to that class of staunch, sagacious\\nmerchants, Avho have been prominently identified with the commercial interest of\\ntheir city for seven years, and to Avhose enterprise and perseverance, as Avell as\\nsterling conduct and uprightness, those interests are indebted for much of their\\npresent vigor and development. Mr. Williams runs a large dry goods establish-\\nment next door to his grocery, under the style of Williams Co., composed of\\nMessrs. Warren Williams, John Summersgill and William McCollister, all good,\\ninfluential business men. This house has a very extensive trade, reaching far out\\nin the surrounding country. It is the leading store in Phenix City. They carry\\na varied and Avell selected stock of dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes, hats, etc.,\\nAvith prices that can t be beat by the wholesale houses. The premises consist of\\ntAvo separate stores, 21x60 feet each, in Avhich is carried a large and comprehen-\\nsive stock.\\nMr. Williams is a native of Alabama, and has long been identified Avith the\\npeople of Phenix City. He is a gentleman of high business integrity and hon-", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "110\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nesty, and, like his partner, enjoys the confidence of his fellow-citizens. Mr.\\nLeslie Booker, one of the junior partners, is a young man deserving much credit.\\nHe started with this firm as a clerk about six years since, and, by close attention\\nto business and honorable and fair dealings, has gained for himself an interest in\\nthe business, holding also the responsible position of book-keeper. In Mr, Thos.\\nCoulter he has a clerk of rare business qualities, a strictly temperate, conscientious\\nand moral young man. As a firm, they have all the elements of success, and we\\npredict for them a continuance of their large and lucrative trade.\\nV. J. PEKOR Watchmaker and Jeweler, 1034 Broad Street.\\nThe jewelry trade, with its vast and exclusive American manufactories, has\\nbeen the growth of the last half century. Except in the diamond and richer\\nwork in gold and precious stones, which were formerly confined to the wealthy,\\nit may be said that American ingenuity made\\nit possible for poor men to enjoy this great\\npleasure which the possession and display of\\njewelry has always caused among men. Mr.\\nPekor is now the leading man among the\\nmany jewelers of this city. He succeeded\\n0. H. Lequin in 1880 with very limited capi-\\ntil, now carrying a stock of $20,000 in value,\\nand doing a satisfactory business of about\\nS80,000 per annum-. Mr. Pekor is entitled\\nt^ special mention for the admirable taste\\ntVisplayed in the selection of a very compre-\\nliensive stock of hio-h class goods and rare\\narticles pertaining to the trade. He carries\\nt .ie choicest line of diamonds and fine Avatches,\\nwhich he makes a specialty, besides genuine\\ni rench mariner and bronze clocks also a\\ncomplete assortment of American clocks, tableware, fruit stands, cake baskets,\\nentree dishes, jewelry cases and goods suitable for bridal presents. In sterling\\nsilverware, such articles as knives and\\nforks, spoons, ice cream sets, fish sets,\\nand all the latest designs in fine plush\\nand chamois cases. His stock of plate-\\nware cannot be surpassed in fact, you\\nwill find everything in the line that is\\ncarried as complete an assortment as\\nyou will find in the large Eastern houses.\\nMr. Pekor is a native of Bohemia,\\nEurope, but has been in this city for\\nfourteen years. He is a thorough, trained\\njeweler having served a long apprenticesliij) in Europe, and it may be said that", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. Ill\\nhe has been brought up in the business. He is a public-spirited citizen, an ener-\\ngetic and thorough reliable business man, pos-\\nsessing the entire confidence and respect of\\nthe community in which he resides. He is\\nan example of marked success which industry,\\nskill and integrity will bring to the door of\\na man who begins with nothing but these\\nqualities as his capital. For the finest work\\ndone in the most artistic manner, this house\\nis famed, as it is done directly and entirely under the supervision of Mr. Pekor\\nhimself, their work proving as guaranteed. It is a pleasure to point out Mr.\\nPekor as a self-made man, whose success is notable.\\nU. H. SMITH Druggist, and Dealer in Fancy and Toilet Articles of\\nEVERY Description, Tobacco and Cigars, Garden Seeds and\\nLamps, Piienix City, Ala.\\nThere is no other nation which so fully appreciates the value, or makes such\\nintelligent use of drugs and chemical preparations, as the people of the South\\nnor is there any nation on earth where so high a degree of intelligence and\\nthorough comprehension of their individual properties and virtues is required for\\nthe prosecution of this important branch of trade, which may be appropriately\\nclassified as both an industrial and commercial pursuit. Entitled to favorable\\nconsideration in a review of the representative establishments of Phenix City the\\nwell-known house of U. H. Smith demands more than ordinary consideration in\\nthis connection. Pioneers, not only in their special lines of trade, but in busi-\\nness energy, commercial progress and industrial endeavor, the history of these\\nstaunch old houses makes the material for the biographies of cities, landmarks in\\nthe book of time illustrating the growth and progress of mercantile interest.\\nSuch a history has the drug store of U. H. Smith, established in 1888 and now\\nclaims a prominent rank among its contemporaries in every sense of the term^a\\nfirst-class and reliable pharmacy for the preparation of physician s prescriptions.\\nMr. Smith is a thoroughly educated druggist and pharmacist, having devoted\\ntwenty years of his life to the study of the details of his business in all of its\\nbranches. He carries an extensive stock of pure medicines, drugs and chemi-\\ncals, together with a full line of toilet articles, perfumes, powders, extracts,\\nchoice soaps, brushes, sponges, and a large assortment of everything legitimately\\nincluded in his line of business. Next door to his drug store is the U. H.\\nSmith Furniture Company, composed of Messrs. U. H. Smith, L. T. Jones and\\nE. A. Albright all men of sterling business qualities. This house was estab-\\nlished in 1888 by the above firm. They at once recognized the fact that the\\ndealers who Avere up to the i)rogress of the age were the most prosperous and\\nmost successful in satisfying the demands of the trade. Hence they purchased a\\ncomplete stock of the most desirable articles in that line, embracing an extensive\\nand varied display of fine and plain furniture from the elaborate and costly to", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "112 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nthe plain and inexpensive styles. Parlor, bed-room, dining-room, library, office\\nand kitchen furniture in all styles and prices. The men in charge of this de-\\npartment having a number of years experience, combined with ability, intelli-\\ngence and honest square dealings have made their business a success, and we\\nheartily commend them to our readers.\\nPOWER S CASH STORE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Phenix City, Ala.\\nIn preparing a comprehensive work on the commerce nild industries of a\\ncity, we often meet with men who have had such wonderful success that we pause\\nand wonder if they were not born under some lucky star, and Mrd t ke eispe^\\ncial delight in informing the many readers of our work of the success thdse firms\\nhave attained. In this connection we desire to make mention of Power s Cash\\nStore, dealer in confectioneries, cigars and tobacco, making a specialty of\\ngoobers. He sells more goobers than any house in Columbus. The phenomenal\\nsuccess of Mr. Power is not due, however, to any lucky star, but to his in-\\ntegrity and honest business principles, together with industry and enterprise-.\\nHe also carries a large stock of fruits, nuts, etc., ice cream and cold drinks iri\\nseason. Mr. Power is a native of Savannah, Ga., and has only been here for\\nnine months, but since he first opened has done an excellent business. We\\nheartily commend him to our readers.\\nDR. D. E. MORGAN Specific Remedy Co., of the British Schools,\\nSouth Wales, Eng., Remedies for all Chronic and Female\\nDiseases, Phenix City, Ala.\\nThe drug store of Dr. D. E. Morgan, Phenix City, Ala., occupies a promi-\\nnent position among the leading houses in this line, and as well for the ample\\nqualifications associated in its management as the excellent location, has secured\\na liberal patronage from the medical profession and citizens. He carries a com-\\nplete stock of pure drugs, medicines and chemicals, besides perfumeries, toilet\\narticles, choice cigars and tobacco. Dr. Morgan is a native of England, and a\\ngraduate of the South Wales British schools. He makes a specialty of remedies\\nfor chronic and female diseases and cancer particularly cancer, for which\\nhe has a never-failing remedy. By enclosing a two-cent stamp to any of the\\nfollowing names you can get any information desired regarding the cure\\nMrs. Duncan, Phenix City, Ala.; Mrs. Lamb, Crawford, Ala.; Mrs. Russ,\\nGriffin, Ga.; Mrs. Rogers, Phenix City, Ala.; Mrs. C. Morris, Salt Lake, Ala.\\nRead the following and we think you will be convinced:\\nvery remarkable.\\nMr. Moses ^L Harvey, of Columbus, Ga., has been suffering for a period of\\nten years from a rose cancer, and after trying all the leading physicians of\\nColumbus, and being pronounced incurable, he gave up all hopes of recovery and\\nbecame resigned to his sad fate. By chance he heard of a remarkable cure being\\naccomplished by Dr. Morgan, formerly of England, and like a drowning man\\ngrasping at a straw he at once sought this now famous doctor, and after a con-", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 113\\nsaltation he decided to give the doctor an opportunity to test his remedy, and in\\njust two weeks the cancer was removed from his neck, and now he is fully cured,\\nalthough at the time the cancer was removed his neck was almost eaten through.\\nThe cancer is now in a bottle at Dr. Morgan s Drug Store, Phenix City, Ala.\\nPhenix City, Ala.\\nBefore me, L. Booker, Justice of the Peace for Beat 10, Lee county, per-\\nsonally came Moses M. Harvey, of Columbus, Ga., Avho, being duly sworn,\\ndeposeth and saith that the above statements are true. Moses M. Harvey.\\nSworn to and subscribed before me November 12th, 1891.\\nL. Booker, J. P.\\nWM. A. WIMBISH\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Attorney at Law.\\nThere is no city in the South better provided with brilliant legal talent than\\nColumbus, and no city where those engaged in the practice of law stand higher\\nin the social scale. In this connection we desire to mention the name of Mr.\\nWm. A. Wimbish as a lawyer of sterling business qualities, who has the confi-\\ndence of his fellowman, not only for his ability as a legal adviser, but for his\\nhigh integrity, industry and business qualifications. Mr. Wimbish is a native\\nGeorgian, born in LaGrange in 1859, and graduating with the highest honors at\\nWashington Lee University in 1878; has been practicing in this city for nearly\\nfive years with much success, both legally and financially. Such men go far\\ntowards making a prosperous and thrifty city. We take pleasure in commend-\\ning him to our readers at home or abroad as a prompt, reliable and energetic\\nlawyer, who will attend promptly and properly to all business placed in his\\nhands.\\nS. J. ROGERS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Photographer, lOlOJ Broad Street.\\nBoucicault, in his popular play of The Octoroon, brings doAvn the house\\nby making Salem Scudder say to Simon Legree, when confronted Avith the proof\\noi his guilt in the picture obtained from the camera, The instrument never\\nlies This clever melo-dramatist s touch elicits applause, but with all due def-\\nerence to his dramatic al)ility we differ with him, or rather with the sentiment\\nthere expressed, as a bad disposition or posing of the subject; imperfect and in-\\njudicious lighting and bad development may not only totally destroy the like-\\nness, but render beauty sometime hideous. This is, however, avoided by the\\noperator who thoroughly understands his business, and who, possessed of the\\nartistic element in his training, will so pose his sitter and adjust the lights and\\nsurroundings as to develop into prominence all the beauty and desirable points,\\nand also communicate charms which they hardly may be said to ordinarily possess.\\nPictures are satisfactory or otherwise, according to the measures of his artistic\\nability and skill and wlio has not been charmed by a really fine photograph\\nand disgusted by its opposite These reflections are the result of the pleasure\\nderived from a thorough inspection of Mr. Rogers specimens, which are so per-\\nfect in every essential of fine photography that Ave can hardly restrain and limit", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "114\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nour praise and commendation. Mr. Rogers first entered this ])usiness in 186G,\\nand lias done a successful business since I8ti8. His studio is located lOlOJ\\nBroad street, formerly occupied by A. J. Riddle, who established the place in\\n1852, Mr. Rogers succeeding him in May of this year. He is a Virginian by\\nbirth, and has brought Avith him to his adopted home all the gentlemanly attri-\\nbutes for which those of his native State are so well knoAvn. Mr. Rogers is a\\ncourteous and refined gentleman, a consummate artist, and has for a motto, ele-\\ngance, accuracy, and last, though not least, punctuality.\\ncSt KIDNEY\\nINDOBSED AT HOME AND ABROAD.\\nWRITE FOR TESTIMONIALS.\\nManufactured by W. W. C. CO., Columbus, Ga.\\nsoLl\u00c2\u00bb ICY ALU iHti \u00c2\u00aba;\\nTHE GREAT TONIC.\\nPurifies the Blood. Aids Digrestion.\\nPurely Vegretable.\\nWorks Wonderful Cures\\nWRITE FOR TESTIMONIALS.\\nManufactured by W. W. C. CO., Columbus, Ga,\\nSOLO ItY ALL IHilGUlST-.\\nThe reputation of this wonder extends that of the city in which it is manu-\\nfactured, the success attendant upon the eiforts of the W. W. C. Co. has been\\nphenomenal, and it is with pride that our citizens can point out the fact that the\\nhome office of this great product is in Columbus. So, also, is it the home of its\\nofficers and stockholders, among whom are the leading citizens. Mr. L. F. Hum-\\nber, of Blanchard, Humber Co., w^arehouse and commission merchants, is the\\nPresident, and Mr. J. R. Garrett, for twenty years in the cotton business, is the\\nSecretary and Treasurer. Mr. T. E. Blanchard, President of the Fourth\\nNational Bank, is one of the largest stockholders. Mr. Albert AVooldridge, the\\ndiscoverer of the W. W. C.,is one of our leading cotton merchants. He formerly\\nlived in Chattahoochee county, and it was there he manufactured W. W. C. on a\\nsmall scale, and in a charitable and Christian spirit distributed gratis, more\\nmedicine than was sold, and so wonderful were the cures effected, that the repu-\\ntation of W. W. C. was above par with those who came in contact with it, and\\nin 1889 a party of capitalists here readily took up the necessary stock to have\\nthis medicine put before the world, hence, the W. AV. C. Co. of Columbus. The\\nsales of this Company in 1891 was 300,000 bottles, this output being distributed\\nthroughout the Southern and Western States, and some to the City of Mexico.\\nThis Company issues a challenge to the world, offering a reward of $1,000 for\\nany case of blood poison that the W. W. C. will not cure. Not an instance is\\non record wherein this medicine has failed to perform the functions for which it\\nwas intended. Testimonials from reputable citizens here are in reach of any one\\ndesii ing to fully acquaint themselves with its great value. Mr. John R. Garrett,", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "COiDIERCE, MAXUFACTUBES AXD IXDU5TBIES. llo\\nthe Secretary, is ever glad to furnish a list of names of those who have profite 1\\nby the use of W. W. C. Tne Company having been so fortunate in makiti^\\nlarge sales of their blood purifier, the W. W, C, have decided to manufacture\\nother medicines of superior formulas. These are, pills, cough syrup, diarrhoea\\nmixture, worm candy, linament and arromatic tonic. The splendid management\\nof Mr. J. R. Garrett in putting out the blood medicine insures a bright future for\\nthe entire list. The Company is to be congratulated upon their success, and for\\nthe benefit they have done to suffering humanity in relieving thousands of li\\\\-ing\\nbeings, who would otherwbe to-dav have been in their graves.\\nJ. H. COXXOR i CO. Dealers ix Staple Dey Goods axd Gboceeies.\\n1023 Broad Street.\\nThe reputation and commercial claims of a city centre in the character of\\nits representative business institutions, and, in the historical review of the indus-\\ntries and enterprises of a community, those establishmente of acknowledged men:\\nand true mercantile ability are considered important component parts, worthy or\\ncritical description and justifiable pride. Among the establishments which have\\nmaterially contributed to the fame of Columbus as a commercial centre, possess-\\ning undoubted advantages and facilities and adding to the general progress of the\\ncommunitv, the house of J. H. Connor k Co. claims a decided recoOTition,\\nMessrs. J. H. Connor and William McGovem commenced business here in August.\\n1865, with fair capital, which close attention, thorough knowledge of the busi-\\nness, energetic, prompt mercantile habits and liberal principles has largely in-\\ncreased. The business premises of this firm consist of a lot 35x125 feet in size,\\nwith a building 35x100 feet located upon it, giving them certain facilities for\\nhandling goods that can be appreciated by those conversant with this line of\\nbusiness. The stock is large and well selected, including staple dry goods and\\ngroceries, crockery, glass, tin, wood and hollow-ware, the value reaching, if not\\nexceeding, .$10,000. The trade supplied is local, including the city and country\\ncontiguous, and the annual transactions will reach .$50,000. Xew supplies are\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2eing constantly received, and in every respect this is a most satisfactory house\\nto visit for supplies. Mr. J. H. Connor came here from Ireland in 1848, and\\nMr, William McGovem came to Columbus in 1853. They have done, and are\\ndoing a prosperous and steadily increasing business, retaining their trade by fair\\nand honorable treatment of each customer.\\nL. TORBETT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 UXDERTAKER AXD PRACTICAL EilBAL^IER, 930 AXD 932\\nBroad.\\nEver since the year 1878 the name of C. L. Torbett has been familiar to the\\npeople of Columbus, and a more successful undertaker than he has never entered\\ninto the somewhat grave, though important, business of preparing caskets for the\\nreception of the remains of mortality. His factory, salesroom and wareroom are\\nlocated at 930 and 932 Broad street. His storeroom occupies 40x60 feet, sales-\\nroom 30x60 feet, paint room 15x16, and his work-shop 15x45, affording ample", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "11(3 COLUMBUS, GEORCxIA HER\\nroom for a number of workmen, and within its walls are constantly being made\\ncoffins of every description. Mr. Torbett is thoroughly posted in all the details\\nof his business. He managed successfully for five years the embalming and\\nundertaker department for L. Rooney. He then bought out Mr. Rooney, taking\\nMr. Coleman in as a partner in 1883. The business then flourished under the\\nname of Coleman Torbett until 1885, at which time Mr. Torbett bought out\\nMr. Coleman, giving him the exclusive control of the business, and under his\\nmanagement he has built up a trade second to none in the city. His stock is\\ncomplete, embracing the latest and newest styles of coffins, caskets and ornaments,\\nscrews and all fixtures used in the business. Mr. Torbett has a thorough knowl-\\nedge of embalming, and keeps himself posted right up in all the details and\\nbranches pertaining to it. He is a native Georgian, and is a gentleman possessed\\nof many generous qualities, and is widely known for his high integrity and busi-\\nness qualifications. He is strictly temperate and attentive to business, a genial,\\nwhole-souled gentleman, who will make you feel welcome whenever you enter his\\nhouse, and in his absence you will find his clever and gentlemanly assistant, Mr.\\nF. C. Rummel ever ready to extend the same cordial greeting. Mr. Torbett has\\nofficiated on very important occasions at the obsequies of prominent public men.\\nHe has filled honorably all the high offices of the secret orders to which he be-\\nlongs, and is a member of the Columbus Athletic Club. Mr. Torbett has fur-\\nnished the city with all their embalming and undertaker s work since 1886, thus\\nproving the satisfactory manner in which he does his work. He is always ready\\nto meet any emergency, and we heai tily recommend him to the public.\\nW. H. YOUNG CO. Manufacturers of Pantaloons, Jeans Suits, Shirts,\\nOveralls, Jackets, etc.\\nThe above represents one of the new industries of Columbus. One great\\nbenefit to a community resulting from the manufacture of clothing, is the im-\\nmense field of employment it opens up for females. Our city has, for a number\\ncui.iMins of years, enjoyed a wide reputation as an extensive cotton\\nmanufacturing point, and added to this, is fast developing into a\\nprominent jeans and clothing manufacturing city, the grade and\\n])roduct of this last mentioned branch being of such high class\\nas to attract considerable notice with the trade and among the\\nfinest equipped establishments is the AV. H. Young Co., which\\nwas incorporated in 1891, with C. L. Perkins, President; A. C.\\nYoung, Secretary and Treasurer; and J. W. Boyd, Superin-\\ntendent. Mr. Perkins came here from Chicago, where he for a\\nnumber of years represented several of the largest mills in the South, and having\\na knowledge of the advantages of Columbus, decided to cast his lot here. Mr.\\nA. C. Young needs no introduction to the trade of the South, his long term\\nof office with the Eagle and Phenix Manufacturing Company bringing him within\\ncommunication of the leading merchants of the country, and by his great busi-\\nness enterprise and integrity has established an enviable reputation. Mr. J. W.\\nT I! A 11 K M 1! K", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 117\\nBoyd is a king as a manager fifteen years with the leading clothing factories\\nof the West, has familiarized him with every detail of the business in which he\\nis engaged, and in securing the outfit for the W. H. Young Co., he made it a\\npoint to i^rocure every known improvement in the system of cutting, trimming,\\nand making of garments, hence the advantages of this plant in turning out\\nsuperior made clothing, which is resulting in a surprisingly active demand .for\\ntheir product. When the entire machinery is fitted up, and the business gets\\nunder headway, the trade will amount to a quarter of a million dollars per\\nannum. Columbus has cause to be proud of this institution,\\nMILES LOTT General Agents Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.\\nA life insurance company may be proprietary, mutual or mixed. A mutual\\ncompany is an association of persons, each of whom is an insurer as well as in-\\nsured. Policy holders exercise control through their votes for managers, and\\nare entitled to all the profits or dividends of the society. Policies of insurance\\nare of various kinds. The chief of them are: whole life, endowment, endowment\\nassurance, term, joint life, annuity and survivorship annuity. Other varieties\\nare obtained from these by modification or combination of conditions. A purely\\nmutual company is the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Philadelphia,\\nPa., which was incorporated in 1847, and whose charter is perpetual. It is\\nmost ably represented in Columbus by Messrs. Miles Lott, who established\\ntheir office here in 1891 and do a large local business, as well as an extensive\\nbusiness throughout Southwest Georgia, embracing some of the best cities in the\\nState. No prudent man will fail to leave his family in good circumstances at\\ndeath, when it can be so easily done by a systematic payment of a small sum to\\nthe party who contracts to pay the sum total at his death. In all portions of\\nthe United States the Penn Mutual is regarded as a stable and trustworthy com-\\npany. Messrs. G. G. Miles and W. L. Lott compose the firm. Mr. Miles is a\\nson of the late Rev. Thos. J. ^liles, who spent nearly fifty years preaching the\\nBaptist faith in Georgia and Alabama. In the early part of 18 il Mr. Miles\\nmoved with his father s family to Montgomery county, Ala., where he followed\\nagricultural pursuits, and in the meantime received only a high school education.\\nIn 1878 he left the farm and moved to the city of Montgomery, Ala., where he\\nengaged in the lumber business with marked success. In the fall of 1879 he\\nhad a flattering offer made him by an elder brother to engage in the mercantile\\nbusiness in Birmingham, Ala., which he accepted and followed for seven years,\\nbuilding up an immense trade. Having previously led an active outdoor life, the\\nstore and counting room did not agree with him, so he sold out his interest in\\nthe store and engaged in the real estate and insurance business, Avhich proved\\ne(iirally as successful as former pursuits. In the spring of 1891 he moved back to\\nhis old native State, locating in Columbus, where he accepted, in conjunction\\nwith Mr. W. L. Lott, the general agency for the Penn Mutual Life for South-\\nwest Georgia. Mr. Miles, having had a number of year s experience in the in-\\nsurance business, and Mr. Lott being a man of superior business tact, and repre-\\nsenting one of the strongest and most reliable companies, is no matter of surprise", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "118 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nthat their first year s business has been crowned with phenominal success, Mr.\\nLett was bom in Clay county, Ga., in l8oo. The early part of his life was\\nspent on the farm, where he received a good high school education, and after-\\nwards turned his attention to commercial marts, and in 1882 moved to Columbus\\nand accepted a position as head bookkeeper for the well-known establishment of\\nJ. A. Kirven k Co. The success of this firm is due largely to Mr. Lott s un-\\ntiring energy and careful handling of the accounts and finances. With the\\nmarked success which has already attended this firm the past year, and as they\\nrepresent one of the strongest and best known companies for honest and square\\ndealing in the United States, we not only bespeak for them a successful career\\nin the future, but we can cheerfully add that those who place their insurance in\\nPenn Mutual Life make a wise selection, as is evidenced by the satisfaction\\nalways given to policy holders, both in dividend earnings and prompt settlements.\\nVERANDA HOTEL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W. H. Gibsox, Proprietor, Corner First Avenue\\nAND Tenth Street.\\nIn making mention of the hotels of this city and studying the phases of hotel\\nlife, our attention is drawn to the fact that as the tastes and means of people\\nwidely differ, so must this branch of business vary, in order to meet all the re-\\nquirements of the great traveling public. With this point in view we desire to\\ncall attention to the A^eranda Hotel it is located convenient to all branches of\\nbusiness, on corner First avenue and Tenth street, one block from Broad. This\\nhotel contains fifteen bedrooms, a large, commodious dining-room, convenient to\\noffice and all parts of the house, Avith 150 feet of front veranda s, from which a\\nvery fine view of both business and resident part of the city can be had. All\\nwho wish to procure good permanent or transient board, at moderate prices, will\\nfind this house to meet their desires in exevy respect. Mr. W. H. GiVjson as-\\nsumed control of this hotel October 1891, and since has made many improve-\\nments, and his success in its management has been such as to insure him a liberal\\npatronage for the future. Mr. Gibson is a native of Alabama, born in Macon\\ncounty, where he spent his early life. Later in life he entered the general mer-\\nchanchise business at Mott s Mills, Ala., where he conducted successfully his busi-\\nness till 1890 then moving to this city he secured a position on the police force,\\nwhich he very satisfactorily fills at present. Mr. Gibson is a man of high stand-\\ning, strictly sober and attentive to business, doing justice to all, he has become\\nwell-known and esteemed by all who know liim. To our readers and traveling\\npublic genei ally we commend the Veranda Hotel.\\nEXCELSIOR STEAM LAUXDRY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pea.-^e Brothers, Proprietors, 1211\\nBroad Street,\\nAmong the many industries that tend to make a town metropolitan, none\\nwork with greater force toward this end than the steam laundry. A few years\\nago the Heathen Chinee came with his craft and took aAvay the labor from\\nthe washer woman, and now the laundry run by steam, with patent washer,\\nstarching macliine, ironer, and heat dryer, has almost entirely suppressed the", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 119\\nCelestial as the American washer, where five or ten years ago the Mongolian\\nheld sway with No ticket no washee. The lightning working steam machinery\\nhas taken his place, and in many sections he is as great a curiosity as he Avas\\nbefore he made his advent. Christian invention, with the aid of steam, has\\ntaken his occupation as he took the occupation of the patient females of our\\nown blood. In 1888 Columbus, always alive to progress, established the Excel-\\nsior Steam Laundry at 1211 Broad street, where, from the first, it has taken the\\nlead in this section for the class of Avork turned out, and the rapidity with which\\nit was executed. In 1891 Messrs. Pease Bros, bought out the stock company,\\nand have since that time conducted the business in the same satisfactory manner,\\nincreasing the trade weekly. The laundry is fitted out with the latest improved\\nlaundry machinery, which is driven by a 10-horse power engine and 14-horse\\npower boiler. They occupy a floor space of 40x200 feet, and give employment\\nto nine people. Mr. E. L. Pease, the manager, is a gentleman of high social\\nstanding, having many warm friends here. He is a young man of no ordinary\\nability, as his success shows.\\nH. L. WARE The Hustler, Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes and Gents\\nFurnishings, No. 1007 Broad Street.\\nIn enumerating the industries of a city there are certain controlling staples\\nwhich exercise a vital influence upon its reputation and trade, and no one business\\noccupies this position more prominently than the dry goods trade, and none oflfers\\ngreater inducements to the enterprising business man for the investment of capi-\\ntal, Avhile there is no branch of trade where popular talents contribute more\\nlargely to success than the dry goods store, where patronage depends so much\\nupon public favor. Among the establishments in Columbus who have evidenced\\nthe possession of these qualifications in a marked degree none stand higher in\\npublic estimation than Mr. H. L. Ware. This house was established by the firm\\nof Ware Bohannon, Mr. Ware being sole proprietor at the present time. It\\nwas started with ample capital and energy, industry and enterprise, and a natural\\nadaptability to the business soon attracted and held a remunerative trade. AVith\\nhonesty of purpose and due consideration for the welfare of their customers,\\nwhich is the true foundation of good business principles, this house has become\\npopular wherever known. A full and complete stock of dry goods, notions, shoes\\nand gents furnishing goods is carried, valued at $5,000. The store-room occu-\\npied is 25x70 feet in size and well adapted to the display of goods. A large\\nlocal trade is supplied, the sales reaching $25,000, and three assistants are em-\\n}iloyed, Mr. Ware also giving personal attention to sales. The stock will be\\nfound, both in quality and selection, equal to that of any house in the city. Mr.\\nWare is a native Georgian an energetic, active business, man thoroughly con-\\nversant with his business, and justly merits the esteem and confidence of the busi-\\nness community and trade generally.", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "120\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nA. G. RHODES FURNITURE CO.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dealers in all Styles and Grades\\nOF Furniture Jobbing a Specialty 1029 Broad Street,\\nWithin the last decade, the manufacture of furniture and cabinet makino-\\nhave greatly advanced in this country. The Southern demand, which is prover-\\nbially fastidious in the selection of furniture, is dependent on the Nortli and\\nCOLuMBUS LEDGER ENO.\\nWest for a large portion of their supply, with increasing demand. There has\\nbeen a corresponding improvement of taste in design, and nowhere can there be\\nexhibited a finer display than can be seen at the spacious furniture house of The", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 121\\nA. G. Rhodes Furniture Company, at 1029 Broad street. In this special line of\\nindustrial enterprise there is no house in the city or State hotter known or more\\nentitled to recognition in a work that assumes to make a complete and exhaustive\\nexhibit of the commercial resources of the city. The building occupied by The\\nA. G. Rhodes Furniture Company is commodious and convenient, being 115x30\\nfeet and four stories. Sixteen employees are engaged in conducting the large\\nbusiness transacted by this house, their wholesale trade reaching throughout this\\nState, Alabama and Florida, which gives Columbus a prestige as a wholesale fur-\\nniture market. The average amount of stock carried is about $25,000, this being\\ncontinually replenished as sales are made. The annual sales foot up to about\\n$100,000. The officers of this company are A. G. Rhodes, of Atlanta, Presi-\\ndent; W. J. Smith, of Atlanta, Vice-President, and T. F. Smith, of Columbus,\\nGa., Secretary and Treasurer. The President of the company, Mr. A. G. Rhodes,\\nis more extensively interested in the furniture business than any other man in the\\nentire South, being connected with eighteen different houses in as many promi-\\nnent Southern points, among which are Louisville, Ky., Nashville, Tenn., Mem-\\nphis, Atlanta, Charleston, S. C, Savannah, Ga., Evansville, Ind., Cairo, 111., etc.\\nThe business here is in charge of Mr. T. F. Smith, the Secretary and Treasurer,\\nwho began the study of the furniture business about eighteen years ago, and has\\ndemonstrated that he is thorough in this line by establishing here and taking the\\nlead over every other house in the city much older than his. Mr. Smith is one\\nof our shrewd and wide-awake business men, and a most desirable citizen. He\\nAvill continue to steer the business of the A. G. Rhodes Furniture Company on\\nto success, keeping in the lead of every other craft that might be in the race\\nwith him.\\nCREOLE PILE CURE.\\nAmong the many industries which have had their beginning in Columbus,\\nnone have merited more, nor succeeded better, for the past few months of its\\nexistence, than the manufacturers of Creole Pile Cure. This remedy has\\nproved to be an absolute specific for piles and hemorrhoids of all kinds, fistula in\\nano, ulcerated womb or vagina, granulated eyelids, opthalmia and sore eyes, old\\nsores and ulcers, ulcerated rectum, acute or chronic dysentery or diarrhea, itch,\\nchilblain or frost bite, curing in a few hours or days, without pain or detention\\nfrom business, any of these diseases, it matters not of how long standing, after\\nall other treatment has failed. The price of the medicine is $5 per full package\\ndelivered to you with guarantee to cure any of the above diseases, or trial pack-\\nages 60 cents by mail. The general agent, Mr. E. A. Shiver, to wdiom all\\norders should be addressed, states that he has sold upwards of three thousand\\nfull packages to parties all over the country, Avith not a solitary dissenter from\\nthe universal verdict. The medicine is endorsed by some of the leading citizens\\nof Columbus and elscAvhcre, who have been cured by using it, when evervthino-\\nelse had failed. If you Avishto get cured, try it.\\n(I)", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "122\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nFRAZER HOUSE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mrs. C. B. Frazer, Proprietress, 924 axd 926 Broad.\\nSituated in a most convenient and pleasant part of the city, this hotel is a\\nmost desirable stopping place for all who wish the best accommodations and\\nattention at the most reasonable rates. Its corps of servants are Avell disciplined\\nand attentive, and the tables are supplied with all the delicacies of the season.\\nThe office, parlor and dining room are on the first floor, and the next story\\nfor bed rooms exclusively. Every attention is paid to the guests, and no pains\\nare spared to make it in all respects one of the best in the cit}^ Mrs. Frazer,\\nproprietress, is Avell known and esteemed, and her long and varied experience\\npeculiarly fits her for the present position.\\nBefore Operation. After Operation.\\nNote. The successful termination of this case has caused no little interest with the\\nleading opthalmologists in the United States and Europe.\\nDR. W. L. BULLARD\u00e2\u0080\u0094 OccuLiST and Aurist.\\nIn order to give a full and complete statistical statement of the industries\\nof Columbus, such as this volume is intended to contain, it is necessary to\\ninclude all tlie industrial arts and ],rofessions,as well as the commercial interest.\\nThere can be no question as to the validity of the claims of the profession of a\\nphysician to be specially represented in this work. This })rofession is one which\\noperates effectively in time of need, in arresting and alleviating the most accute\\npains and ailments to which the human body is heir, and therefore deserves the\\nmost thankful and appreciative consideration on the part of the public. We\\nconsider the man who prepares a preparation to cure the eye, ear, throat or\\nnose of his fellow men and women, a public benefactor, Avho deserves Avell of the\\npeople. Dr. Bullard is a native Georgian, and has had a number of years exjieri-", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 123\\nence, taking his first course in Maryland University, and graduated in medicine\\nin Atlanta, 1877. He at once began the practice of his profession at Tennille,\\nGa,, and enjoyed a large and extensive practice there till 1882, at which time\\nhe moved to Columbus, and remained here only a few months Ijefore going to\\nNew York, in the private office of Dr. W. W. Mittendorf. He also attended\\ncourses at the New York Eye and Ear Hospital, and then at Polyclinic, going\\nfrom there to London, where he graduated at the London Opthalmic Hospital.\\nHe also studied at Dr. Morrell McKinzie s hospital for throat and chest. He\\nthen visited hospitals in Atrecli, Holland, and Vienna, Austria, returning to\\nColumbus in 1884, practicing exclusively on the eye, ear, throat and nose\\ndiseases since. Since his advent here, he has gained an enviable position in the\\ncity, both as a practitioner and business man. He is always active in everything\\nthat tends to the advancement of the commerce of our city. He is a gentleman\\nof superior ability, as a physician ho has few equals, and as a citizen he is an\\nhonor to his native State.\\nCOLUMBUS INVESTMENT COMPANY.\\nThe busy world throws angrily aside the man who stands\\nwith arms akimbo set, until occasion tells him what to do.\\nThe earnest workers of Columbus are too energetic to wait for the occasion\\nbut promptly mahe it. Appreciating the advantages offered by Columbus as a\\nhome, and convinced that many who now pay rent Avould gladly own their own\\nhomes if they had the means, or could borrow on long time at a reasonable rate\\nof interest, a number of our far-sighted and progressive citizens in May 1889\\norganized the Columbus Investment Company with a capital stock of $100,000\\nsubscribed, and in June of that year with \u00c2\u00a72,000 paid in they began business.\\nTheir purpose, the upbuilding and development of Columbus, has been followed\\nto the letter. In the past three years they have aided in the erection of and\\nbuilt for themselves and others over one hundred handsome houses. The Com-\\npany has now a subscribed capital stock of ?250,000 with $195,000 paid in, the\\nbalance maturing at the rate of $5,000 monthly.\\nThey have paid the stockholders three handsome cash dividends, have a nice\\nsurplus, and have loaned over $200,000 on city property. We are of the opin-\\nion that no better showing can be made by any Investment, Loan or Building\\nAssociation. This Company is established on a purely business basis with a\\nliberal charter which gives them ample opportunity to earn money legitimately\\nand still give the borrower low rates of interest.\\nThis Company is now contemplating the erection of a handsome office build-\\ning on the corner of Twelfth street and First avenue, immediately opposite the\\nlot recently purchased by the Government for a United States court and Post-\\noffice building. If built in accordance with the preliminary plans and sketches\\nmade it will prove an ornament to the city and reflect great credit on the\\nCom})any.\\nThe Board of Directors consist of the following Avell-known, practical and\\nsuccessful business men, each of whose names will be found identified Avith", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "124 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nalmost every move Avliicli has been made in recent years for the material advance-\\nment of Columbus. They each and all give to the Company s affairs their close\\npersonal attention, which accounts in a large measure for the great success of\\nthe Company\\nOfficers Jno. F. Flournoy, President G, W. McElhaney, Vice-Presi-\\ndent Chas. M. Woolfolk, Secretary and Treasurer.\\nDirectors Jno. F. Flournoy, T. M. Foley, Jas. P. Kyle, I. Joseph, Jas.\\nK. Orr, H. L. Woodruff, G. W. McElhaney, H. H. Epping, jr., Luther Frazer,\\nL. F. Garrard, M. E. Gray, N. P. Banks, Soule Redd, of Columbus, Ga.; Her-\\nman Myers, Geo. J. Baldwin, of Savannah, Ga.\\nAuditing Committee, by whom the l^ooks and vouchers of the Company are\\naudited each month Sam Salisbury, A. S. Mason, L. Meyer.\\nE. JUNGERMAN\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Photographic Studio, lOlli Broad Street.\\nThe vast progress in the photographic art since the days of Daguerre, and\\nits wonderful culmination in the science of the present day, is vividly illustrated\\nby a visit to the gallery of ]Mr. E. Jungerman, who has but recently engaged in\\nbusiness in our city. His rooms are located at lOllJ Broad street, upstairs,\\nwhich is a central location, and the latest improved apjdiances are used, thus en-\\nsuring good workmanship. Mr. Jungerman was born in Germany, and com-\\nmenced the study of this art thirteen years ago, coming to this city in 1891.\\nHis thorough and practical education has been greatly in his favor, as he at once\\ntook a leading position as an artist of true merit, and from the start he has been\\nsuccessful. He has given particular attention throughout his long experience to\\nlight and shade and the art of position, and his Avork is unequaled in its truth to\\nnature and in exquisite finish. His positions are characterized by ease and\\ngrace and his results invariably satisfactory. Every style of photographic work\\nis done in a surprising style and upon lil^eral terms, and a very complete and\\nperfect assortment of photographic instruments, appendages and stock is kept on\\nhand, prompt attention l)eing given to all orders entrusted to him. ^Ir. Junger-\\nman solicits a share of the 2)ublic patronage, confident that he can give entire\\nsatisfaction to all.\\nHILL, REESE CO. Real Estate and Insurance.\\nThe place occupied by the firm of ^lessrs. Hill, Reese Co. in this com-\\nmunity is such that, in compiling the commercial, manufacturing and other\\nadvantages of Columbus, our work would be incomplete were we to omit mention\\nof a house which adds to the solvency and solidity of its operations by means of\\nexperience and reliability in its special line of transactions. The business of\\nhandling real estate has become a great factor in the transactions of the world s\\nbusiness, and its uses are becoming the better recognized since its mutual utility\\nhas been discovered. It is a distinct business, in the prosecution of which not\\nonly superior business ability is requisite, but a thorough knowledge of values,\\nunquestioned probity and untiring energy. Applying these positive tests, the", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 125\\nhouse of Messrs. Hill, Reese Co. must be recognized as the representative real\\nestate agency in Columbus. These gentlemen have on their books an extensive\\nlist of city property, also acreage property lying adjacent to the city, and corre-\\nspondence is solicited from outside parties wishing to make good, safe invest-\\nments. Messrs. J. B. Hill, George Reese and D. R. Allen compose the firm, all\\ngentlemen of marked ability in this line of business. Mr. Hill has been engaged\\nin this line here for a number of years, and has a thorough knowledge of the\\nvalue of property located in various parts of the city. They are prepared to\\ntransact any amount of business in the insurance department, and no firm can\\noffer better inducements for the accomplishment of any business entrusted to\\nthem. The office is situated at No. 19 West Eleventh street, between Front and\\nBroad.\\nW. J. GREEN\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Boot and Shoe Maker, 930 Broad Street.\\nThe subject of this sketch, Mr, W. J. Green, is one of the leading men in\\nthis city in the manufacture and repairing of boots and shoes. He is thoroughly\\nposted in his business, serving two years as cutter in the war, besides an appren-\\nticeship of five years under Wm. Myers. Seeing the necessity of time and\\nlabor saving machines, ^Ir. Green turned his attention to the invention of a\\nskiving board, which he has used successfully for a long time, proving it to be\\nvery valuable in repairing and manufacturing shoes, etc. j\\\\Ir. Green makes a\\nspecialty of repairing, and gets a sufficiency to keep him busy all the time, thus\\nproving the style and durability of Ids work. Mr. Green is a native of Mont-\\ngomery, Ala., where he was born in 1838. He came to Columbus in 1862, and\\nhas since made himself a fair and honorable name among our best people.\\nWith his accustomed thrift, he has created a good business and made his sterling\\nqualities felt in the community, and is in every way deserving of a generous\\nsupport.\\nROBT. DAYIS CO.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dealers in Groceries, Liquors, Cigars, Tobaccos,\\nEtc., 1431 First Avenue.\\nIn the preparation of this work, the contents of which are designed to convey\\nto the reader some idea of the business capabilities, industrial resources and\\ncommercial relations of our city, it has been our aim to present to the consider-\\nation of the public only such firms and establishments as may be justly regarded\\nactive elements in advancing the general prosperity of the city of Columbus. In\\npursuit of this aim, we call attention to the house of Robt. Davis Co., dealers\\nin groceries, liquors, cigars, tobacco, etc., at No. 1431 First avenue. This firm\\ncommenced business in 1883 with a moderate capital, and have gained a liberal\\npatronage, with satisfactory increase in business. They carry a stock of about\\n35,000 in value, which is kept in excellent order and condition, and they are in\\nfrequent receipt of fresh goods, keeping the stock thoroughly replenished with\\nthe freshest and best class of articles for home and table use. The trade is gen-\\neral through the surrounding country, Georgia and Alabama, and reaches $32,000", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "126 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA ^HER\\nper annum. Three assistants are employed, who serve their many patrons with\\nthe various articles to be found in this establishment, including family and fancy\\ngroceries, flour, coffees, teas, sugars, soaps, candles, etc., besides a general assort-\\nment of sundries, in fact, almost every article entering into family consumption;\\nalso a specialty is made of plantation supplies. They occupy two store-rooms,\\nwhich are 50x60 feet in extent, and the shelving and counters are loaded with as\\nchoice a selection of goods as can be found in the city and at as popular prices.\\nThe firm is composed of Messrs. Robert Davis and Rollin Jefferson, both natives\\nof this State, who have had some years experience in this line of business. They\\nare reliable, energetic and trustworthy, and have established an enviable business\\nreputation, entitling them to a high position among the business men of Columbus,\\nA. H. GINSBERG^Wholesale and Retail Dealer ix Gexts Furnishing\\nGoods, Notioxs, Clothing, Shoes, Etc., Watches and Jewelry a\\nSpecialty, 1230 Broad Street.\\nAmong the large number of commercial houses which honor and dignify the\\nname of Columbus, we find none more worthy of favorable mention than that\\nwhose name stands at the head of this article. It was started in 1889 with but\\nlimited capital, and now a large and well selected stock is exhibited. As an\\nexperienced buyer, the proprietor, Mr. Ginsberg, is enabled to select those\\narticles best suited to the various tastes shown by customers. Gents furnishing\\ngoods of expensive or the cheaper (|ualities may be obtained here, notions of\\nevery description, a large assortment of clothing, shoes and other articles in this\\nline, and a specialty is made of watclies and jewelry. A store-room 18x90 feet\\nin size is fully occupied, and several employees are in constant attendance. Mr.\\nGinsberg was born in Russia in 1857, and commenced his mercantile career in\\n1875. On arriving in our city he opened up this business for himself, and is fast\\ngaining a high place in the esteem of this community.\\nB. ROTHSCHILD\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Etc., 1216\\nAND 1218 Broad Street.\\nOne of the most enterprising and thorough-going business men in that\\nsection of the city is Mr. B. Rothschild, dealer in dry goods, clothing, boots,\\nshoes, hats, etc. His is the leading establishment in that section, and merito-\\nriously enjoys the patronage of the best class of citizens. This trade, consid-\\nered as a branch of commerce, is the most important of any now existing within\\nthe city s limits. It controls an immense amount of capital, employs a small\\narmy of people, and distributes a greater amount of commodities than any other\\nbranch of mercantile pursuits. Mr. Rothschild opened business here in 1885,\\nand since that time has received a very encouraging support. He started with\\nsmall ca])ital, which his energy, industry and practical ability soon increased and\\nsecured him a remunerative and steadily growing trade. The stock includes\\neverything necessary for the outfit of man, woman or child, from head to foot, of\\nexpensive or clieaper quality, as may be desired, and is valued at SI 0,000.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 127\\nSeveral assistants are employed, who are courteous and aifable to all who may\\ncall in quest of goods in this line. The trade is generally local, and will reach\\n^30,000 per annum. The store-room occupied is 35x90 feet in size, and well\\nadapted to the display of goods of every description. INIr. Rothschild was born\\nin Merchingen, Germany, but has resided in Columbus for ten years past. He\\nhas had twelve years experience in the dry goods and clothing trade, and is well\\nprepared to understand the wants of his patrons. The length of time this estab-\\nlishment has been engaged in business, and the well known honorable basis upon\\nwhich all its transactions have been conducted, has won for its proprietor a repu-\\ntation to which nothing further need be added or required.\\nWM. REDD, JR. Real Estate and Fire Insurance Agent, No. 1047\\nBroad Street.\\nThe most essential qualifications for the successful prosecution of the real\\nestate business in the principal cities of the Union, in addition to a thorough\\nknoAvledge of values, is a keen discrimination and a strict regard for truth and\\nhonor in all transactions, since through the representations of agents large invest-\\nments are made involving immense sums of money. Mr. William Redd, Jr.,\\npossesses in an eminent degree the qualifications we have enumerated above, and\\nhis name is familiar in business circles as one of our most successful, conscien-\\ntious citizens. The facilities enjoyed by him in the handling of valuable real\\nestate, both in the city and country, are unsurpassed, and much desirable prop-\\nerty, both improved and unimproved, is found under his control. Mr. Redd\\nengaged in this business the first of last year, and from the start has been popular\\nand successful. He has now on hand a large number of investments, oftering\\nsuperior inducements, both of city real estate and farm lands. Mr. Redd was\\nborn in LaGrange, Ga., but has resided in Columbus most of his life hence is\\nwell known to our residents. He possesses the confidence of our people, and is\\nheld in the highest respect as among our first citizens and business men. Some\\nof the very best and strongest fire insurance companies are represented by him,\\nand he is prepared to issue policies Avithout delay. By his activity, energy and\\nprompt business characteristics, he has won for himself a high business repu-\\ntation.\\nJ. JOSEPH Dealer in Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots,\\nShoes, Hats and Trunks, 1102 Broad Street.\\nIn recording any adequate account of the industries of Columbus, and the\\nprogress made during the last quarter of a century in commercial and manufac-\\nturing importance, it would be impossible to omit mention of the house of Mr.\\nJ. Joseph. Established by the present owner in 1868, the resources and trade\\nof this concern have more than kept pace with the general prosperity of the city.\\nFounded with but limited capital, but conducted Avith every advantage to be de-\\nrived from a stainless business policy, the success of the house increased Avith\\neach succeeding year, until at the present time it stands on a very solid basis.", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "128\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nMr. Joseph occupies the commodious three-story buikling, 24x76 feet in size,\\nlocated at No. 1102 Broad street, Avhere is displayed a well selected and most\\ndesirable assortment of staple and fancy dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes,\\nhats and trunks, valued at $15,000. Several assistants are employed to attend\\nto customers, and Mr. Joseph gives his personal attention to the business. Cus-\\ntomers patronizing this enterprise are residents of Georgia and Alabama in this\\nvicinity, and the annual transactions will reach 825,000 to $30,000. Mr. Joseph\\nAvas born in Germany in 1845, commenced operations in this line of business in\\n1864, and engaged in business here three years later. He is a man of large\\nacquaintance in business circles, and his reputation as an upright business man is\\nsecond to none in this city.\\nGRIGSBY E. THOMAS, JR. Attorney and Counsellor at Laav, Rooms\\n3 and 4, Second Floor, Georgia Home Building.\\nIn the preparation of these sketches of business and professional men the\\nobject is to preserve, in some way, the biographies of our citizens, and we could\\nnot call the work complete did we fail to make mention of those men who were\\nborn in Muscogee county and spent their lives in developing this section. Mr.\\nThomas was born on Rose Hill, Columbus, Ga., September 7, 1842. xifter serv-\\ning four years in the Confederate army he began the practice of law, succeeding\\nhis father, the late Judge G. E. Thomas, who died July 5, 1865. He now prac-\\ntices in all the courts of this State and Texas. When the State of Texas declared\\nher Independence of Mexico in 1835-36, and appealed for volunteers, Mirabeau\\nB. Lamar, then editor and proprietor of the Columbus Enquirer, espoused the\\ncause of Texas, and Columbus was the rendezvous of all troops from this vicinity\\nwhich went to the aid of Texas. After achieving her independence Texas granted\\nto each of the heroes, or their heirs, of her revolutionary struggles, lands aggre-\\ngating about 4,000 acres. Mr, Thomas father-in-law moved to Texas in 1872,\\nand in going to Texas to visit him parties here would employ him to look up their\\nlands there, and parties there Avould employ him to look up the heirs in Georgia,\\nthus getting into the Texas practice. Previous to the late civil strife our city was\\nsurrounded by suburban homes, comprising some fifteen or twenty acres each,\\nwith beautiful grounds and handsome residences. We give the picture on page 40\\nof one of those typical ante-bellum Southern homes, the birth-place and present\\nresidence of Grigsby E. Thomas, Jr. In 1882 Mr. Thomas, desiring to give\\neveryone an opportunity to secure a portion of these homes, conceived the idea of\\nsub-dividing them into lots and extending the streets of the city through them.\\nIn December, 1882, he ofiered for sale at auction these fifteen acres on Rose Hill,,\\nsub-divided into forty -five lots, and to the surprise of everyone the forty -five lots\\nbrought about $15,000, where the fifteen acres as a whole would not have sold\\nfor $5,000. This broke the ice, and suburban property increased in value from\\n200 to 500 per cent. Then followed the extension of our city limits and the\\ntaking in of the annex, which today adds 5,000 or 6,000 to the population of our\\ncity. Mr. Thomas has built two handsome residences on the terrace just in rear", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 129\\nof his old house, and parties who purchased at his sale have also built several\\nother handsome residences on the old Thomas homestead on Rose Hill. This old\\nhomestead is one of the landmarks of our city, being built in 1837 by the late\\nJudge Thomas, and is today in perfect preservation. This place was selected on\\naccount of its situation, on the West brow of Rose Hill, one hundred feet above\\nthe city, and commands a view of four miles down the river and two miles up it,\\nincluding the North Highlands, with Girard, Phenix City and the Alabama hills\\non the West. To get a view of Columbus and surroundings go to head of Robin-\\nson avenue on the Thomas survey and you will get it. To none more than Mr.\\nThomas is the growth of our city due, more especially the suburbs. Every dol-\\nlar that he has to spare he spends in buying or beautifying some suburban home\\nor other good enterprise looking to the development of our section. There are\\nthose who have invested their money, at the suggestion of Mr. Thomas, in city or\\nsuburban property, and have realized great returns from their investment. He\\nloves his native soil and believes in her future greatness. He says in ten years\\nColumbus will have a population of 100,000, extending from Clapp s Factory on\\nthe North to Bull Creek on the East.\\nT. J. DUDLEY SONS Manufacturers of Doors, Sash and Blinds,\\nRough and Dressed Lumber, Opposite Union Depot.\\nColumbus can well congratulate herself on the number of her manufacturing\\nindustries that manufacturing interests is one of the proudest plumes of her\\ncivic wreath, as it is on industrial enterprises of this character that she must rely\\nfor her future growth and greatness. Live, go ahead, intelligent industry in the\\nfuture, taking the place of the unskilled negro labor, will not only add to her\\nwealth and future importance, but will exert a controlling influence on politics\\nand social standing, by imparting the dignity of a genuine manhood to both, and\\nplacing her in a fair competitive relation with the large manufacturing cities of\\nthe North and West.\\nA proper consideration of the claims of T. J. Dudley Sons sash, door\\nand blind factory, render these thoughts peculiarly appropriate,\\nMr. T. J. Dudley was born in Hancock county, Ga., near Sparta. He came\\nhere in I80I when quite young. He began the study of the lumber business\\ntwenty-six years ago, and in 1872 built the proper buildings in 1882 was burned\\nout, but afterward rebuilt the present plaqt. Several years ago he associated\\nwith him A. T. Dudley and Frank J, Dudley, his sons, who were then just out\\nof school to enter upon their business career, which acquisitions formed the pres-\\nent style of the firm of T. J. Dudley Sons.\\nThese young members have proven to be chips from the old block. They\\nhave taken the reins of the business in hand and familiarized themselves with\\nevery department of the business, handling it with the skill of old veterans, being\\nquick, active and energetic, and to-day are classed among the most progressive\\nbusiness men of Columbus. Since their connection with the firm there have been\\nadded two departments, viz contracting and building, and the manufacture of", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "130 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nsash, doors and blinds, both of which have been made important departments.\\nThat of the sash, doors and blinds has been extended, until now they are selling\\nthis product into the States of Georgia, Alabama and Florida. Their work is\\nsecond to none and their prices on material are such as to come in competition\\nwith any other manufacturer from any market.\\nTheir grounds are 147x438 feet, and covered with buildings and machinery.\\nFour boilers are used having 125 horse power. On the grounds is a dry kiln\\n24x100 feet with a capacity for drying 75,000 feet of lumber per week.\\nEighty hands are given employment by this firm, which brings the monthly\\npay roll up to $2,500.\\nIn the establishment of Dudley Sons are to be found a complete stock of\\nlime, laths, shingles, mantels, builders hardware and rough and dressed lumber,\\nin fact it is one of the prominent institutions of the city, and conduces in a marked\\ndegree to the furthering of the interests of the city and the general mercantile\\nwelfare, increasing every year its sphere of usefulness as well as augmenting its\\nresources.\\nJ. W. PEASE S SONS Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Books and\\nStationery, Pianos and Organs, Art Material, Picture Frames,\\nGlass and Moulding, No. 1140 Broad Street.\\nThe Americans are essentially a great reading people, and every year the\\ntaste for reading solid literature is growing. The cultivation of this taste is an\\nevidence of advancement in refinement and culture, and we believe the readins;\\nnations of the earth are those who excel in business, commerce, science and art.\\nOf all articles of merchandise that a i)urchaser has to take on the representation\\nof the seller the piano is most decidedly the one, in buying which the purchaser\\nhas to take most on faith. xVlmost every other class of goods can be tested and\\nexamined with more general knowledge of their material, construction, durability\\nand ability to perform what is promised, but a piano is an article that challenges\\nclosest scrutiny, and the purchaser, even though he may be an educated musician,\\nunless he is thoroughly familiar with the construction of a piano, can be imposed\\nupon by the many elaborately carved instruments, some of which possess a few\\ngood and redeeming features, but which are exceptions to those usually placed\\non the market. In view of these facts, too much care cannot be exercised in\\nselecting a jnano, and as it is usually, bouglit but once in a lifetime, one cannot\\naftbrd to experiment, but should secure an instrument that will be truly a thing\\nof beauty and a joy forever. The business house of J. W. Pease s Sons in-\\ncludes in its several departments, books and stationery, pianos and organs, and\\nart goods of all kinds. It was established by Sir. J W. Pease, father of the\\npresent proprietors, in 1845, and was successfully conducted l)y him until 1890\\nwhen his sons, William C. and J. Norman Pease, succeeded to the business.\\nCommenced with medium capital, the increase has been commensurate Avith the\\ngrowth of the city, and to attend to the large business requires the services of\\ntwo male and one female employee, in addition to tlie proprietors, who give per-", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 131\\nsonal attention to the trade. The store-room occupied is 25x125 feet in size,\\nand it is admirably adapted to the requirements of the business. As this house\\ndoes both a wholesale and retail business in books and stationery, all articles\\ncoming under this distinctive term are to be found in the stock, enabling small\\ndealers to purchase in any quantity to suit, and the lawyer, physician or reader\\nfor pastime to obtain single volumes on any subject they may wish. The house\\ndeals in books of every description, from the most solid, scientific and erudite\\nworks down to the light literature of the day, offering books suited to minds of\\nall calibers and inclinations. The stock of stationery is the most complete and\\nbest selected in the city, ahvays embracing everything desirable, new andcostlv.\\nOnly the best makes of ])ianos and organs are sold by this house and would-be\\npurchasers can rely upon being furnished with first-class and desirable instru-\\nments from this house. In the art department may be obtained art materials of\\nall kinds, picture frames, glass and moulding. A stock of ^^10,000 average\\nvalue is carried, and a large trade is supplied throughout Georgia and Alabama,\\nthe annual sales reaching i^SO, 000. Mr. Wm. C. Pease was born here in 1856,\\nMr. J. N. Pease in 1859, and they have long been closely identified with the\\ncommercial and industrial growth of Columbus. They have had fifteen years\\nexperience in this branch of business, and they can oft er advantages to the trade\\nand those desiring anything in this line that make it a most desirable house with\\nAvhich to establish business relations.\\nW. J. WATT Wholesale Dealer in Groceries and Plantation Supplies\\nOF Every Description, Office No. 1000, Corner Broad and\\nTenth Streets, Under Rankin House; Warehouse 8 and 9 Ninth\\nAvenue.\\nThere are some houses in this city Avhose long and steady career, heavy\\nand extensive transactions and solid qualities, make them landmarks in the his-\\ntory of the past, and prime factors in the commerce and prosperity of the present.\\nOf such the house of W. J. Watt is a prominent representative, not alone from\\nthe extent of its trade and the force and energy of its management, but also from\\nthe fact that for almost a quarter of a century it has wielded, and continues to\\nwield, an influence on the commercial development of Columbus of the broadest\\nand deepest character. In this connection we give a few brief facts with relation to\\nthe rise and growth of the house of Mr. Watt, which is replete with interest.\\nAlthough founded with small capital in October 18G8, the business has since\\nlargely increased, by honorable business methods and commendable entex prise,\\nuntil at the present day it must be regarded as one of the most prominent firms\\nengaged in this particular branch of industry in the city. Mr. Watt occupies a\\nthree-story building of large dimensions at No. 1000, corner Broad and Tenth\\nstreets, where may be found a most complete and comprehensive assortment of\\ngroceries and plantation supplies of every description, valued at S15,000 to\\nS25,000. Seven employes find occupation with tliis house, and such are its rela-\\ntions and magnitude that it is ena1)led to ofter advantages to the trade not duj^li-", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "132 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\ncatecl by many and surpassed by none of its cotemporaries. The transactions\\nare general throughout Georgia, Alabama and Florida, and will reach $200,000\\nper annum. The amount disbursed for employees wages will reach $400 per\\nmonth, and in every Avay the business is carried on in a prompt and most orderly\\nmanner. Mr. Watt Avas born in Jones county, July 15, 1825, and came to\\nColumbus in 1868 to engage in his present business. He is so widely and hon-\\norably known that it seems superfluous to speak of his many merits. He has\\nmet with that business successs Avhich inevitably folloAvs honesty, industry and\\neconomy, and his establishment compares most satisfactorily with others of like\\nnature in the South.\\nM. H. LEE Dealer ix Fixe Millinery, 1114 Broad Street.\\nThere is no more important branch of commercial industry than that of mil-\\nlinery. AYhile the grocer and dry goods merchants are important factors in ad-\\nministering to the necessities and demands of the community, there is no one\\npursuit to Avhich the elegant and presentable appearance of the female portion of\\nsociety is so much indebted. Nothing pleases the feminine fancy more than to\\nrevel among the beauties and styles of loveliness displayed in a first-class mil-\\nlinery establishment, and if anything could make a lovely woman look more\\nlovely it is a tasteful and bewitching millinery adornment, and in the city of\\nColumbus tliere is no more attractive establishment of this kind than that of M.\\nH. Lee, at No. 1114 Broad street. This enterprise Avas started in 1800 Avith a\\nmedium capital, and has increased most satisfactorily each succeeding year.\\nThe store-room occupied is 35x90 feet in size, and in it is displayed a large and\\ncarefully selected stock and assortment of seasonable millinery goods, consisting\\nof ribbons, laces, floAvers, feathers, hats, bonnets, trimming silks, velvets, etc.,\\nvalued at $5,000. One gentleman assists in the business, and from four to six\\nfemale employes are engaged as the season demands. In all respects the work\\ndone here need not fear comparison Avith that done in any section of the country,\\nand the extensive patronage Avhich the store enjoys is a proof of its popularity.\\nThe local transactions through Georgia and Alabama reach $20,000 per annum,\\nand the Avork of this house is noted for elegance and perfect taste. Mr. M. H.\\nLee Avas born in Ireland, but has resided here since 1857. An experience of\\nthirty-eight years in this trade, and the unvarying success of the house since its\\ninception is sufficient guarantee that the demands of this line of business are\\nfully met and patrons served promptly and in a satisfactory manner.\\nH. F. EVERETT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Stove Man, 1111 Broad Street.\\nIt is questionable if there is any city in the South surpassing Columbus in\\nnatural and ac(iuired advantages as a business centre; certaiidy none offering\\ncomparable inducements for the investment of capital, or a better field for the\\nexercise of enterprise, the assurance having become patent, from her commercial\\nhistory, that either or both, sagaciously and honorably employed, will return\\nsubstantial profits. Appreciating these facts, Mr. H. F. Everett decided to em-", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 133\\nbrace the opportunities offered, and in 1878 the firm of Bradford Everett Avas\\nestablished. jMr. Everett has succeeded to the entire business, and he makes no\\ngrand display merely for effect, but the stock of stoves, tinware, etc., he keeps\\non hand are always of the best and of the very latest popular patterns. Mr.\\nEverett is one of those few men who believe in keeping up with the times, and\\ninstead of having on hand a large assortment of old-style and inferior goods, he\\nmakes it a point to keep the best and most reliable articles the market affords,\\nlie has ere this found that the policy thus adopted is the only correct one, and,\\nof course, being free of a large amount of dead capital, he is enabled to place\\nhis goods down on a small margin. He sells the New Enterprise stoves, Charter\\nOak stoves and genuine Iron Witch and Iron King stoves, leading makes, as will\\nbe seen. A full line of house-furnishing goods of every description is carried.\\nThe stock of stoves and tinware is valued at $7,000, and five employees are en-\\ngaged, including competent tinners, as one of the departments is that of the\\nmanufacture of various kinds of tinware, sheet iron and copper goods. He has\\nprovided himself with the necessary appliances for work of this kind, and per-\\nsonally supervises the business. Mr. Everett was born in Columbus November\\n11, 1843, and has resided here all of his life. Managing his business on legiti-\\nmate mercantile principles, honorable and liberal in policy, we refer to him with\\npleasure, and as a duty, as a representative establishment in his line, contrib-\\nuting substantially to the improvement and progress of the city. This is the\\nlargest and most extensive house of the kind in this section.\\nA. J. BETHUNE Stationery, Fancy Goods and Notions, 21 Tenth\\nStreet.\\nAmong the branches of industry in Columbus, there are none probably that\\nwill aid more effectually in satisfying the wants of tlie general public than the\\nvaried assortment of useful articles to be found in a well supplied variety store.\\nWe are surprised as we enter to find so much that we need, and so much that it\\nseems impossible to do without. Mr. Bethune keeps constantly an immense\\nstock, consisting of stationery, fancy goods and notions of every description, tin,\\nwooden and willow-Avare, crockery and glassware, tobaccos, snuffs, and, in fact,\\neverything a person may call for, as it is headquarters for the above named\\narticles. To our readers we commend the variety store of A. J. Bethune for\\ngood goods and fair dealings.\\nPHILIP EIFLER Dealer in Guns, Pistols, Cartridges, Sporting Goods,\\netc., 1005 Broad Street.\\nA prevailing feature of business in this city, and one which early engages\\nthe attention of the observer of our commercial and industrial operations, is the\\nconservative enterprise with which it is conducted. There is no lack of enter-\\nprise, individual or collective, no scarcity of that spirit of self-confidence which\\nleads men to unite for the o-eneral good, each feelinin; sure of commanding his own\\nshare, no want of vigorous push and willing venture into new fields but neither", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "134\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nis there any wild inflation, any chasing after the ignes fatui of trade. Among\\nthe solid and substantial houses of Columbus is incduded that of Mr. Philip Eifler,\\nAvliich has had a creditable history and a most prosperous career of more than\\nthirty years. Occupying a salesroom 20x70 feet in size, centrally located, he\\ndisplays a full and complete assortment of firearms of ever}^ description, -with\\nammunition in its various forms and sporting goods of all kinds, including fine\\nfishing tackle, seines and nets. In connection with this line of business he is\\nlargely engaged in the manufacture of tents, awnings, etc., which are specially\\ndesirable in this climate. The stock carried is valued at 83,000, and a large and\\nlucrative local trade is supplied, the annual business being placed at i?20,000.\\nThree assistants are constantly employed and courteous attention is paid to the\\nwants of customers. Mr. Eifler is a German by birth, but has resided in Colum-\\nbus thirty-one years. He commenced learning his trade in 1843, and with a\\nthorough knowledge of all its re(|uirements, added to the economy and perse-\\nverance possessed by all of his nationality, he has been most successful in his\\nbusiness and is one of our most highly respected citizens. The aff airs of this\\nhouse are conducted with enterprise and judgment, and it has earned and enjoys\\nthe confidence and patronage of the trade to whose needs it ministers.\\nDAVID ROTHSCHILD Manufacturer of Pants and Siurts and Jobber\\nOF Gents Furnisiiings and Clothing, AVholesale and Retail\\nDealer in Dry Goods, Shoes, Clothing and Notions, 1245-1247\\nBroad Street.\\nAmong the men who, in a few years, have taken a prominent place in the\\ncommercial world of Columbus, we Avould call attention to the gentleman whose\\nname heads this sketch. David Rothschild was born in Germany in 18G0, and\\nat nineteen vears of age he determined to\\nseek fame and fortune in the distant land\\nacross the water. In that year he came to\\nAmerica, and four years later to Columbus.\\nHe, while yet in his native land, evinced a\\ntaste and talent for business, and, turning\\nthis to account, decided to take up dry goods\\nand clothing. After a residence of three\\nyears in Columbus, he opened his present\\nhouse in 1886. From the first his success\\nhas been phenomenal, even beyond his fond-\\nest expectations. His capital was small at\\nthe beginnino;, but what he lacked in cash\\ncapital was made up in push, enterprise, and\\na love of upright dealing, the three charac-\\nteristics of a successful business man. His\\ncapacity is large, and he does a business that\\nruns into large numbers. He employs twelve salesmen, who arc gentlemanly", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 135\\nand polite and vie with one another in a desire to please. His wholesale trade\\ncovers parts of Georgia and Alabama, while he does a large local trade. He\\nhandles the latest styles in clothing and gents furnishings, hats and caps, dry\\ngoods and notions. His stock is most complete, and is being constantly replenished.\\nJACOB BROWDY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hats, Caps, Clothing and Furnishing Goods, 1013\\nBroad Street.\\nIn every city there are certain representative houses of a special line of\\ngoods, founded upon the experience and enterprise of the proprietors, the com-\\npleteness of the stock and liberality of the business policy, to which the public\\nturn Avith a certainty of finding what they want, and that of the best quality. Of\\nthe houses engaged in the clothing business in this city it is entirely safe to assert\\nthat none are more entitled to the merit accruing from the above mentioned char-\\nacteristics than that of Sir. Jacob Browdy, located at No. 1013 Broad street.\\nStarting in a small way with limited capital, Mr. Browdy has enlarged his busi-\\nness to its present extent, increasing his stock from time to time, and now carries\\na full assortment of clothing, hats, caps, fine shoes and furnishing goods, valued\\nat $20,000 to $25,000. A large and lucrative trade has been established in\\nGeorgia and Alabama, principally local in character, and the annual sales will\\nreach $40,000. The building occupied is 30x92 feet in size, and three assistants\\nare constantly employed. Mr. Browdy makes a specialty of fine shoes, does a\\nlarge jobbing trade in hats and makes clothing to order on short notice, satisfac-\\ntion being guaranteed in every respect. He endeavors to please his patrons, and\\nthe large and increasing trade which he has built up shoAvs his success. Mr.\\nBrowdy Avas born in Prussia and came to Columbus nine years ago. He has had\\ntwelve years experience in this line, and in his thorough and detailed knowledge\\nof everything pertaining to or contingent upon his business, has few equals.\\nPrompt, reliable and liberal, with an activity and industry that knows no pause,\\nhe has made his house a favorite one for those who have once appreciated the\\nadvantages to be derived there in prices.\\nJ. W. CARGILL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Staple and Fancy Groceries, Corner First Avenue\\nAND Eleventh Street.\\nEver since the year of 1870 the name of J. W. Cargill has been familiar to\\nthe people of Columbus as a grocer, and there is no branch of business Avhich\\nenters so largely into the general make-up of a city s trade as the grocery busi-\\nness. The city of Columbus has her portion of these important establishments,\\nand none are more deserving of notice than the establishment of J. W. Cargill,\\nwho started in 1870 with small capital, but what he lacked in capital was made\\nup in enteprise, industry and business integrity, resulting in a good legitimate\\nincrease. With Mr. Cargill nothing succeeds like success, and the success of his\\nbusiness has been almost phenomenal. His business career, from clerk to mer-\\nchant, is one that he may well feel proud of. Mr. Cargill was born in Lawrence\\ndistrict, S. C, and has lived in this city since 1869. His present store, corner", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "136 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nof Eleventh street and First avenue, occupies a space 40x75 feet, in which can\\nbe found a complete stock of staple and fancy groceries. His business is con-\\nducted on a basis of honesty, punctuality and fair dealings, and he is a man of\\nexecutive ability and enterprise, and his business conduces to the prosperity of\\nthe city, as does his goods to the health of the people. Mr. Cargill is a gentle-\\nman of high standing, and in all respects is one of the safest and most substantial\\nmen in the country, and, with his good judgment and able management, has\\nprudently provided for the necessities of the future. In his line we can only in\\njustice say: No concern is conducted upon higher principles of mercantile honor,\\nnone rival in financial solidity, while for upright dealings and fairness to cus-\\ntomers it stands Avithout a peer in this great congregation of commerce and\\nmanufacture.\\nE, jNI. AVERETT Wholesale Fruits and Vegetables, Telephone No. 216.\\nWith unequaled transportation facilities, penetrating an immense area of\\ndemand in every direction, Columbus is unsurpassed as a trade centre by any\\nother inland mart in the South, and few Southern cities possess eijual advantages.\\nRecognizing this fact, Mr. Averett established a wholesale fruit and vegetable\\nhouse here in 1891, and from a moderate beginning has increased his business\\ntransactions until now it extends over a large territory, reaching far through the\\nStates of Georgia, Alabama and Florida. Mr. Averett occupies two floors,\\n30x90 feet in size, where he keeps a most desirable stock of apples, oranges,\\nlemons, potatoes, cabbages, onions, turnips, etc., which he is able to sell to whole-\\nsale or retail merchants at lowest possible prices, as he receives these goods in\\ncar lots. The stock is of several thousand dollars average value, and is sold out\\nand replenished so often that the annual transactions reach from $40,000 to\\n$50,000. Mr. Averett endeavors to keep the finest quality of fruits and vege-\\ntables placed on the market, and in every respect this is a leading house in this\\nline. Four emj)loyees are required in handling goods, and orders from near or\\nfar are filled in the shortest possible time, and to the satisfaction of all parties.\\nMr. Averett was born in Muscogee county, Ga., in 1841, commenced work in\\nthis branch of trade in 1880, and in a twelve years residence here has gained the\\nesteem of our citizens. This adds another testimonial to the list of successful\\nbusiness houses, attesting the great advantages of this city as a centre of trade.\\nWILEY WYNNE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wholesale and Retail Tobacconist, 1208 Broad\\nStreet.\\nAll persons who are addicted to the use of cigars and tobacco, and who\\nappreciate the delicious flavor of a prime cigar of choice Havana or domestic\\nstock, as well as those who use good tobacco in any of its various manufactured\\nforms, for chewing or smoking, are directly and personally interested in knowing\\nthe precise place where such articles may be obtained. It becomes our duty,\\ntherefore, to say to tlie devotees of the weed that one of the favorite resorts\\nwith good judges in Columbus is the well known establishment forming the sub-", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 137\\nject of this sketch. Here may be found at all times the most reliable and popu-\\nlar brands, either in large or small quantities, at reasonable prices. Mr. Wynne\\nengaged in this business here in 1867 in a small Avay, and has built up a reputa-\\ntion for straightforward and liberal dealing second to no house in the city. His\\nstock includes fine cigars, tobacco for chewing or smoking, snuff, pipes and a full\\nline of smokers articles, which will reach $2,500 in value. Two assistants are\\nemployed, and the trade, both wholesale and retail, will reach from $7,000 to\\n$8,000 per annum. The store-room occupied is 20x80 feet in size, and in every\\nway will compare favorably with any similar concern in the city. Mr. Wynne\\nAvas born in Putnam county, Ga., in 1856, of colored parentage, coming to\\nColumbus soon after, where he commenced operations in this line at an early age.\\nHe has maintained an enviable name for reliability, enterprise, and all the quali-\\nties that go to make the valuable citizen and prosperous business man. This is a\\nstore to which we take pleasure in recommending the citizens of Columbus, and\\nto add that Mr. Wynne is justl}^ entitled to the liberal patronage which he has\\nreceived from all classes of customers.\\nJ. S. HARRISON BRO.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dealers in Boots and Shoes, 1105 Broad\\nStreet.\\nEvery line of the retail business found in other large cities, has a strong\\nrepresentation here, both in number of establishments and the character of the\\nstock kept. The parties having control of these important interests ai*e almost\\nuniversally gentlemen of enterprise and ability, and have a high standing in the\\ncommercial world for integrity and business capacity. Among the leading retail\\nboot and shoe houses, that of Messrs. J. S. Harrison Bro., situated at No. 1105\\nBroad street deserves mention. Mr. J. S. Harrison started in business for him-\\nself six years ago, with limited capital, but like many of our self-made merchants,\\na quiet perseverance and determination to succeed has placed him, and through\\nhim his firm, on the topmost rounds of the ladder of success. This fashionable\\nemporium occupies a building 30x100 feet in size, where is displayed a choice\\nand most desirable stock of boots, shoes, and slippers for men s, women s, youths\\nmisses and children s wear, of all styles and grades, from the fine and costly\\nhand-made to the coarser qualities, valued at $10,000. This firm handles none\\nbut the very best make of goods, and their full and Avell assorted stock being bought\\ndirectly from Eastern markets, enables them to compete with any contemporaries\\nin price and style, to the decided advantage of the customers. The trade sup-\\nplied includes residents of the city and those visiting the city for supplies, and\\namounts to S25,000 per annum. Several assistants are employed, and the mem-\\nbers of the firm give personal attention to the business. Messrs. J. S. and C. H.\\nHarrison are the individual members of the firm, both natives of this city, and a\\ntho *ough knowledge on the part of both ensures goods that will compare favor-\\nably with, if not surpass in (juality, those of any house in Georgia, while the\\nliberal and prompt way in which the establishment is conducted bespeaks an\\nunusual share of popularity. Mr. J. S. Harrison began the study of this line of\\n(J)", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "138\\nCOLUxMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\ntrade about eighteen years ago, clerking for Mr. W. P. Bedell, an old and expe-\\nrienced shoe merchant, and Mr. C. H. Harrison learned the business Avith Mr. H.\\nMeyers, commencing about fifteen years ago. Mr. J. S. Harrison holds the posi-\\ntion of First Lieutenant of the Columbus Guards, with great credit to himself\\nand the company. Much credit is due this firm for the enterprise and ability\\nthey have displayed in establishing this branch of industry, and carrying it to its\\npresent high and successful position, contributing largely to the reputation which\\nColumbus holds as a center for supplies.\\nW. E. JOHNSON Southern Traveler fur The Kerr Thread Co.\\nNo pleasanter task falls to the duty of the statistician than that of present-\\nto the world the character and personnel of the commercial men, and of review^-\\ning the results of their enterprise and energy in the busy drama of commercial\\nlife. ^len Avho give both imj)ress and impulse to commercial history are not\\nonly the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2abstract chroniclers of\\ntheir day^ but they are the\\nguides of the peojde in mercan-\\ntile life, and the heralds of the\\nbroad progress that distinguishes\\nAmerican trade. Witli the growth\\nof commerce, some men have\\ngained prominence, the record of\\nwhose business lives teaches les-\\nsons of a most salutary character.\\nIt teaches Avhat can be accom-\\nplished by the development of\\nnative ability and innate execu-\\ntive talent, unassisted by the\\nimmeasurable benefits derived\\nfrom mercantile education. These\\nmen, as before remarked, occupy\\nthe position of guides, which posi-\\ntion they have gained by their\\nsuj.erior business ([ualifications\\nand characteristics of sterling in-\\ntegrity, high degree of commercial\\nhonor, clear and decisive thought,\\n(piick, prompt action, and filling,\\nalso when selected, with rare ability the most honorable and resj.onsible stations.\\nWith but few exceptions they are self-made men, who have, aided only l)y their own\\nexertion and energy, fought their way to prominence, and owe solely to their\\nown self-reliance whatever progress they have made in life. In the very front\\nrank ()f this class, and wc but echo public sentiment, we ];lace W. E. Johnson,\\ntraveler for Kerrs Six-Ci\u00c2\u00bbrd Spool Cotton, one of tlie foremost men and", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 139\\none of the most active Avorkers in the advancement of commercial interests. Mr,\\nJohnson is a Virginian by birth, and possesses all the gentlemanly attributes for\\nAvhich those of his native State are so well known. He began traveling about\\nthree years ago for his present employers, although under some disadvantages\\nhe pursued his business industriously, and with the determination of building up\\na trade that would eventually stand in the front ranks. He worked steadily and\\nbravely on, by degrees making a lasting impression on the existing trade, and\\nof his success it is not necessary for us to make extended comment like an\\naxiom in mathematics, it is a self-evident fact the great (|uantities of Kerrs\\nSix-Cord Cotton that he places in his territory, Avhich reaches from Chatta-\\nnooga, Tenn., to Cuba, tell it in more expressive language than can we with pen\\nand paper. Few men in the country of his age can boast so long, continuous\\nand honorable a business career, and but few in any branch have attained so\\nwidespread a reputation for uniform courtesy as has Mr. Johnson, (better known\\nto the trade as Billie, the Hustler. With the sterling business qualities of\\nAddison C. Hook as Southern Manager, and W. E. Johnson as traveler, the\\nSouth will continue to be stocked with Kerrs Six-Cord Spool Cotton.\\nPATTERSON THOMAS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Manufacturing and Wholesale Drug-\\ngists, Fancy Goods, Druggists Sundries, Etc., Etc., 1127\\nBroad Street.\\nThe importation, manufacture and dispensing of drugs, medicines and chemi-\\ncals may justly be ranked, at the present day, among the most important and\\nlucrative branches of business and there are circumstances connected with the\\nprogress and present condition of its several departments which are worthy the\\nattention of the mercantile public. The original apothecary, in primitive times,\\nwas the practicing physician, who imported his own supply of drugs and dispensed\\nthem himself. It has not been many years since the first legitimate druggist was\\nfirst known in the United States. Bishop, in his History of American Manu-\\nfacture, says: The war of 1812, and the commercial restrictions which pre-\\nceded it, caused such a scarcity and dearness of chemicals that numbers attempted\\nthe preparation of the more prominent articles, and the complete establishment of\\nthe manufacturing business dates from that period. Many of these works were\\nundertaken by foreigners, Avho had learned something o\u00c2\u00a3 chemical manipulation\\nin German, French and English factories, or by capitalists among our own drug-\\ngists who made use of foreign skill in getting their works into operation. The\\ndruggist entering the field soon relieved the physician from compounding pre-\\nscriptions, and thus separated the apothecary from the mere shop-keeper, and\\nelevated the business to a professional rank and, insomuch as the business\\ntouches the science of medicine on the one hand and that of chemistry on the\\nother, it may be logically added that he Avho is best educated who combines\\nworldly common sense and jirudence with scientific skill is the one destined to\\nbe successful in the pursuit of wealth. Our purpose in this work is to refer, in\\ndescriptive sketches, to representative houses in every branch, selecting promi-", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "140\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nnent establishments, as is necessary considering more jx^rticularly those Avhose\\nsuccess has made them conspicuous, and gained for the })ro]:;rietors positions in\\nthe mercantile history of the city, the character of a Inisiness man being prop-\\nerly measured by honorable success. The drug trade of this, or any other city,\\nis one of the most important factors in the make-up of commercial interests, and\\nit exercises an influence not out-measured by any other branch.\\nThe establishment of Patterson Thomas -was founded in 1887. This\\nhouse took a position in the front rank at the beginning, and has held it yearly,\\nincreasing their trade in all sections. With regard to so Avell known a house\\nbut little can be said that is not already known of its importance as a mercantile\\nindustry, beyond giving the plain facts of this, the largest, drug house in AVest-\\nern Georgia. The extent of their trade, which radiates through p.arts of Georgia\\nand Alabama, fully attests the success they have achieved, and the high stand-\\nard of business ability, scientific attainments, integrity and energy, with which\\nthey have conducted tlieir business. The premises occupied, at No. 1127 Broad\\nstreet, are commodious, convenient and attractive. They have a frontage of\\nfifty feet by seventy-five in depth, and three floors. Everything evinces con-\\nsummate and cultivated taste in all the appointments of this establishment.\\nThey carry a complete and comprehensive line of drugs, chemicals, medicines\\nand pharmaceutical preparations and appliances, and a large assortment of such\\nsundries as pertain exclusively to the business, fine grade brushes and combs,\\ntooth brushes, toilet soaps and fancy articles of all kinds. They make a spe-\\ncialty of surgical instruments and appliances, of Avhich they carry a most com-\\nplete stock. The firm is composed of Messrs. E. M. Patterson and A. P.\\nThomas. Both are young men of skill, and Mr. Thomas is a scientific and\\n])ractieal druggist of no ordinary ability. In the prescription department of\\nthe business they enjoy a high reputation. The most careful attention is given\\nto compounding physicians prescriptions in an accurate manner, only the purest\\ndrugs being used. They are the sole proprietors and manufacturers of Dr.\\nHood s Eureka Liver Medicine, a remed} having a high rejiutation, l)oth at home\\nand abroad. The Eiireka is entirely vegetable in its composition. It is not a\\npatent medicine put up to cure all diseases, but only those diseases which attend\\na diseased inactive liver, such as headache, loss of appetite, nausea, bilious-\\nness, heartburn, vertigo, costiveness, chills and fever, etc. It has many Avarm\\nendorsers, as will be seen by the following from Dr. N. J. Bussey, President of\\nthe Eagle and Phenix Manufacturing Co., of this city: I have used Hood s\\nEureka for a number of years in my family, and I consider it a valuable family\\nmedicine, and I do not hesitate to say it is all he claims for it.\\nIn addition to the Eureka Liver Medicine, they own and manufacture the\\nfollowing: Hood s Eureka Liver Pills, Gossypedia, the great remedy for sufter-\\ning females; Dr. A. W. Allen s Celel)rated Liniment, the greatest jiain de-\\nstroyer ever discovered. They also manufacture a full line of flavoring extracts,\\nextra pure, and soda syrup and fine German cologne.\\nBoth the partners are young men of high social standing and high business\\nhonor, and their establishment is equally an honor to themselves and Columbus,", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES.\\n141\\nTHE VERNON HOTEL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 George A. Riddle, TRorRiETOR, Corner First\\nAvenue and Thirteenth Streets.\\nThere is no more valuable or necessary convenience in a city than a well\\nregulated, comfortable, home-like hostelry. Columbus has a number of hotels,\\nbut none more popular, well regulated and comfortable than that which bears the\\nname of the VERNON, located on the corner of First avenue and Thirteenth\\nstreet. This hotel ranks as the oldest hostelry in the city, and it preserves\\nmany curious and interesting associations. The location is an admirable one, in\\nevery respect the most desirable and central in the city, close to the business\\nand financial sections, only one block from the post office, and as convenient to\\nthe depots as any in town. It has been the site of a hotel since 1856, when the\\npresent magnificent structure was erected by William and Madison Perry, at a\\ncost of !?TO,000. For many years it was known as the Perry House, the name\\nbeing changed about four years ago, when the present owner of the building,\\nJames A. Lewis, made extensive improvements throughout the whole building,\\n})utting in tile floors in the office, etc. In 1885 the house was leased by Mrs.\\nA. E. Riddle Son, and successfully run until 1892, when Geo. A. Riddle\\npurchased his mother s interest, and since that time has spared neither pains nor\\nexpense to render this the most comfortable hotel in the city, and he has suc-\\nceeded in the most marked degree. The building is a substantial three-story\\nand basement structure, specially designed and constructed to secure plenty of\\nlight and ventilation, having wide corridors, immense dining halls and parlors,", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "I\\n142\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nlarge and airy bed-rooms, and many arranged en suite -with parlor and Ijed-room\\nconnecting. All the modern improvements have been introduced, including\\nelectric lights, electric bells and annunciator connecting every room direct with\\nthe office. The office is large and airy, and the rotunda is noted as the coolest\\nplace in Columbus on a hot summer s day, and is a place Avhere prominent citi-\\nzens and strangers can be seen every day. The YERNON covers, together\\nwith yard, a full half block of ground, and is entirely surrounded by most\\nbeautiful shade trees. The bathrooms, washroom, barbar shop and bar are in\\nthe basement, the bar being stocked with the finest grades of wines, liipiors and\\ncigai S, and pool and billiard tables. Mr. Geo. A. Riddle, the present })ro])rietor\\nof the YERNON, is recognized as one of the most genial landlords in the\\ncountry, and under Ids watchful supervision a thorough system of organization\\nis enforced. The staff of fifty servants and employees know their duties and\\nperform them. The house is clean and bright, cheerful, quiet and home-like,\\nAvhile the table is supplied with all the delicacies of the season. It has the\\nlargest and best equipped kitchen in the city, in charge of a superior che_f\\\\ and\\ncompetent staff of assistants. The rate, $2 per day, is remarkably moderate,\\nconsidering the character of table and accommodations. Special rates will be\\nmade to troupes or combinations when clubbing rates are desired, also to families\\ndesiring board by the month. Mr. Riddle, though a young man, has a wide\\nrange of experience, and is a practical business man, successful in all he\\nundertakes, and the hotel is deservedly prosperous under his guidance, while\\nsocially he is known and esteemed by the entire community, the YERNON\\nbeing the recognized headquarters for all the social clubs in the city, where they\\nhold all their parties, balls and germans. We cordially commend the YERNON\\nand its genial bonifaco to our readers, and l)espeak for all who patronize this\\nhotel, the best of treatment.\\nD. F. WILLCOX SON Fire, Marine, Life and Accident Insur-\\nance, Telephone No. 7, No. 1149 Broad Street.\\nIn these days of push and progress, Avhen the population and prosperity of\\nthe largest cities are increasing at an unheard of rate, the risk of fire and flood\\nare necessarily materally increased, and conseijuently the guarding against such\\ncatastrophe becomes a matter of gravest consideration. Insurance is the only\\nmeans of remedying such contingencies. Columbus has ample insurance facilities,\\nall the largest and best companies 1)eing re})resented here. The oldest and strong-\\nest agency in the State is here in the firm of D. F. Willcox Son. D. F. Will-\\ncox, the senior member of the firm, is a native of Hancock county, Ga., born there\\nover sixty years ago, and coming to Columbus in 1 841 He is a pleasant gentleman\\nof the old school, that class of grand old men of whom there are so few left to\\nteach us of a time when chivalry reigned. A. A. Willcox is a j^oung man of\\nsuperior ability. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1880, and\\nimmediately went into his father s office. The following are among the leading\\ncompanies that they represent: Hartford Fire Insurance Company, ^Etna Insur-", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "COMxMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 143\\nance Company, North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, Royal Insur-\\nance Company, Phoenix Assurance Company, Commercial Union Assurance Com-\\npany, Orient Insurance Company, Lancashire Insurance Company. They are\\nthe agents for the Traveler s Accident Insurance Company, of Hartford. In the\\nMutual Life Insurance Company, of New York, they have the longest list of\\nmembers of any agency in Georgia or Alabama. Those wishing to insure in\\neither Fire, Life, or Marine Companies can obtain from them the most reasona-\\nble rates and best indemnity.\\nTHIRD NATIONAL BANK\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Corner Twelfth and Broad Streets.\\nIt leads. This is the motto of the above bank. Safe, sound and progress-\\nive, its success has been phenomenal, and, though to-day only three and a half\\nyears old, it leads all the other banks in the city, both in deposits and in the\\nvolume of its business. Very much of this, of course, is attributable to the\\nmanagement of the bank, the very strong Board of Directors being one of the\\nmain-springs of the bank s success. The courtesy and attention on the part of\\nits employees, and the progressive and energetic action of the officials, all con-\\nspire to the success which it has attained in so short a while.\\nThe banking house of this institution is probably one of the handsomest in\\nthe South, and not only pleases the eye and carries with it an air of comfort, but\\nin addition to all this, every modern convenience for protection of the business of\\nthe bank, and the convenience of its patrons, have been happily blended in the\\nbuilding located as shown at the head of this article, and which to-day is the most\\nconspicuous in the city of Columbus.\\nEverybody admires success. Capital always prefers to be attached to insti-\\ntutions which lead. There is a seductiveness about success which lets a bank\\nmake its own way, after the people have once had confidence instilled, and learned\\nto patronize the institution.\\nThis bank is a regular dividend-paying one, but its Boai d very conservatively\\nand successfully have adopted the rule of passing the major portion of the profits\\nto the surplus and undivided profit accounts, so as to build the bank up in the\\nestimation of depositors and customers, instead of declaring large dividends to\\nplease shareholders. This course has largely strengthened it, and at the same\\ntime entirely satisfied those who helped to inaugurate it, and the present price of\\nits stock in the market, and the utter inability to obtain any of it, is the best\\nindex of the estimation in which it is held by the public and shareholders.\\nOrganized in 1889 with a capital of $100,000, with a surplus at present of\\n$30,000, its annual transactions will reach many millions of dollars. From the\\ntime of its organization to the present day, it has always wielded a controlling\\ninfluence upon the finances of this section an influence uniformly of a beneficial\\ncharacter, of course consistent with its financial management. This is one of the\\ninstitutions of special prominence, from the fact that it has never faltered, and\\nits obligations have been carried out to the letter. The character of the business\\ncarried on is of a purely legitimate banking nature, and the policy upon which it", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "I\\n144\\nCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nhas been conducted is amply shoAvn by the follo\\\\Ying the first and last state-\\nments of the bank:\\nFIRST STATEMENT FEBRUARY 26, 1889.\\nRESOURCKS\\nLoans and Discounts 46,788 14\\nOver drafts, secured and unse-\\ncured 435 4o\\nU. S. Bonds to secure Circnlat n 25,000 00\\nDue from Ajiproved Reserve\\nAgents 43,778 38\\nDue from other National Banks 1 ),1)1)7 38\\nDue from State B ks and B krs 6,801 49\\nReal Estate and Furniture 2,034 81\\nCurrent Expenses and Taxes p d 2,475 02\\nPremiums paid 7,312 50\\nChecks and other Cash items. 225 95\\nBills of other Banks 24,500 00\\nFractional Paper Currency, cents\\nand nickels 71 63\\nSpecie S,455 00\\nLegal Tender Xotes 50,000 00\\nRedemption Fund with U. S.\\nTreas r 5 ^f of Circulation. 1,125 00\\nTotal 236.650 25\\nLIABILITIES.\\nCapital Stock paid in 100,000 00\\nUndivided Profits 1,638 65\\nXafnl Bank Notes outstanding 22,500 00\\nIndividual Deposits subject to\\nCheck 107.427 46\\nDue other National Banks 2,710 41\\nDue State Banks and Bankers. 2,367 73\\nTotal $236,650 25\\nThe above was the first statement issued. The followino; statement, issued\\nduring the present year, will show the great increase\\nLAST STATEMENT 1892.\\nRESOURCES.\\nLoans and Discounts 358,232,54\\nOverdrafts, secured and unse-\\ncured 14,419 40\\nU. S. Bonds to secure Circnlat n 25,000 00\\nDue from Approved Reserve\\nAgents 76,930 74\\nDue from other National Banks 8,515 03\\nDue from State B ks and B krs 3,957 36\\nBanking House Furniture and\\nFixtures 15,000 00\\nCurrent Expenses and Taxes p d 2,080 83\\nPremium on U. S. Bonds 4.000 00\\nChecks and other Cash items. 2,359 84\\nBills of other Banks 14,330 00\\nFractional Paper Curency, Nick-\\nels and Cents 56 07\\nSpecie 23.184 90\\nLegal Tender Notes 40,000 00\\nRedemption Fund with U. S.\\nTreas., 5^;? of Circulation. 1,125 00\\nDue from U. S. Treas. other\\nthan 5 Fund 000 00\\nTotal 8 589,791 71\\nLI.\\\\CILITIES.\\nCapital Stock paid in 100,000 00\\nSurplus Fund 13,500 00\\nUndivided Profits 15,165 86\\nNatn l Bank Notes outstanding 22,500 00\\nDividends unpaid 93 00\\nIndividual Deposits, subject to\\nCheck 425,159 74\\nDemand Cirtificates of Deposit. 221 10\\nDue other National Banks 4,201 48\\nDue State Banks and Bankers 8,950 53\\nTotal 589,791 71\\nThe Third National Bank has correspondents in all of the principal money\\ncentres of the United States on which exchange is sold. The building occupied,", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 145\\nlocated as above indicated, is in every way eligible in location and convenient for\\nthe conduct of the business. The present officers are G. Gunby Jordan, Presi-\\ndent; J. W. Murphy, Cashier; gentlemen too well known in this community to\\nrequire personal mention or individual assignment. Filling an invaluable place in\\nthe monetary system of this city, the Third National Bank exhibits in itself all\\nthe advantages that accrue from an enterprising, liberal and discerning policy, a\\npolicy that confers benefits upon others, while in the pursuit of legitimate gain.\\nAND SCHOOL OF SHORT-HAND.\\nW. C.HOWEY AND R. W. MASSEY, Principals, R. W. Massey, Business\\nManager.\\nThis is an institution which has enjoyed phenominal success and growth.\\nThe most })ractical and modern methods are employed in all its departments, and\\nthe courses of study are thorough and practical in every detail. This is essen-\\ntially a commercial age, and one of the iraparative demands of the times is that\\nthose who would successfully engage in business should be trained. To meet\\nthe increasing popular demand for practical business training, the Columbus\\nBusiness College was established, and that faith in Columbus as a location for an\\ninstitution of this kind was well founded, is evidenced by the great success and\\nprosperity which is has enjoyed. Columbus possesses unrivaled advantages, as\\na city, for the successful up-building of a school of this character, situated as\\nshe is, at the head of navigation on the Chattahoochee river, with splendid rail-\\nroad facilities, and in the centre of a region the most thriving and prosperous in\\nthe South. The school is easily accessible to the hundreds of young people in\\nGeorgia and adjoining States who appreciate the value of a business education.\\nA familiarity by the Principals, Avith the workings of the leading business\\ncolleges of the United States, has enabled them to formulate superior courses of\\ninstruction, embodying all excellencies and excluding all obsolete theories. In\\nfact, no pains have been spared in elevating this college to a plane equal to any\\nin the land. That this has been achieved, all who will examine the curricu-\\nlum and investigate the practical results attained, may readily satisfy themselves.\\nEndorsements by business men, of a school of practical training, is the best\\ntestimony of its efficiency, and this the Columbus Business College has received\\nenthusiastically, both by business men who have secured the services of its\\ngraduates, and through the Columbus Board of Trade, Avhicli body, on the invi-\\ntation of the Principals, appointed a committee to investigate the methods, etc,\\nof the school. The committee, consisting of representative business men, after\\na careful and searching examination, rendered a report highly laudatory of the\\ncollege, and unqualifiedly commending it to the public, Columbus is to be con-\\ngratulated on having a college of business training worthj^ of such high endorse-", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "146 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nment by practical men of affairs. The curricvilum eml)races those branches\\nAvhich are most necessary in the preparation for a successful business career.\\nIn the Business Course the stvident receives instructions in book-keeping, bank-\\ning, penmanship, business arithmetic, commercial law, business and legal forms,\\nand business correspondence. The student is familiarized -with all kinds of\\ncommercial ])aper, notes, drafts, checks, mortgages, deeds, etc., and goes through\\nbusiness operations of great variety, so that he becomes fully equipped for the\\nactive duties of l usiness life.\\nThe Short-hand Course includes office reporting, general reporting, type-\\nwriting, orthography, paragraphing, punctuation, etc. Personal instruction and\\nassistance is given in all departments by instructors who will be found zealous in\\npromoting the wellfare and advancing the interests of the students, taking\\npleasure in providing them with every means that may contribute to their\\nthoroughness of preparation and rapid advancement.\\nTuition rates are reasonable, and from three to four montlis are re(|uired to\\ncomplete a course, which will be of lifetime benefit. Good family board is\\nprocured for studen.ts at $12 to $14 per month, which is a much lower rate than\\ncan be obtained in other cities, and is a leading point in favor of this school.\\nWe bespeak for this Avorthy institution the patronage and abundant prosperity\\nAvhich it deserves, believing that great numbers of young people throughout this\\nsection of the South Avill avail themselves of its practical training. On applica-\\ntion to the Principals, a beautifully illustrated catalogue and circulars will be\\nsent to any address.\\nWM. MUNDAY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Livery, Feed and Sale Stables, 934, 936 and 933\\nBroad Street.\\nWhen and how the system of hireing horses, for longer or shorter periods\\noriginated, it is probably hard now to determine, but to Avhatever date and cause\\nit is to be attributed, certain it is that the system as it is now carried out is not\\nonly one of our greatest modern conveniences, but an absolute necessity. With\\nthe growth of our population has increased the demand for livery teams, carri-\\nages, etc., and the business has assumed great proportions. Among the several\\nlivery establishments in Columbus, the stables conducted by Mr. Wm. Munday\\ndeserves especial mention in this work, as being in every way, a representative\\none. of the best class of such establishments. These stables, situated on 934,\\n986 and 938 Broad street, are complete in every way, and are arranged in a\\nmanner that aflFords the greatest convenience in every department. This enter-\\nprise was started by Mr. Munday twenty -six years ago with no capital, but with\\nhis integrity, industry and honesty he has made a iTiarked success, and attained\\nthe highest position among similar establishments in the city. The stables are\\nbuilt of brick, and are tAvo stories high\u00e2\u0080\u0094 occupying a space of 125 feet front ])y\\n150 feet deep, containing seventy-five stalls, to say nothing of the spacious lot in\\nthe rear, besides ample accommodation for vehicles of every description. Mr.\\nMunday has in his charge about sixty-four head of horses that he boards, besides", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 147\\nthe twenty -five he keeps for riding and driving purposes. Single or double teams\\ncan ahvays be secured, and special attention is given to supplying carriages for\\nparties, balls, weddings and other occasions. Ten employees are required in the\\nbusiness. The line of vehicles kept on hand are stylish and of the most popular\\nand recent manufacture, and a most satisfactory and lucrative trade is enjoyed\\nthroughout the city. Mr. Munday is knoAvn for his honesty and straghtforward\\ndealings, and a business man in the fullest and best sense of the term, and his\\ngenial disposition and cordial sincerity have made him extremely popular with\\nall. To our readers, whether residents of Columbus or from abroad, we particu-\\nlarly commend this establishment, which, in the style of stock, turnouts and mod-\\neration in price, is not eclipsed by any competitor in the Sunny South.\\nHAMER EASON Wholesale Grocers, 1109 Broad Street.\\nAn important feature in connection with the progress and prosperity of the\\nbusiness interests of cities are their well-conducted wholesale houses. In a com-\\nplete and comprehensive work, professing to present in a reliable manner the\\ncommercial facilities of a city, the wholesale grocery establishment of Messrs.\\nHamer Eason deserves more than a passing notice. These gentlemen estab-\\nlished their enterprise September 1, 1891, and it has assumed a prominent posi-\\ntion in the trade. The large and commodious building at 1109 Broad street,\\nwhich is fully occupied by them, is 35x125 feet in size, and a fine display of goods\\nin this line is made, including meat, corn, oats, hay, flour, tobacco, cigars, bag-\\nging and ties, soap, soda, potash and canned goods, which are offered to the trade\\nat bottom prices. Five employees are required in handling goods, filling orders\\nand attending to the various departments of the business. The stock is valued at\\n$5,000, and the trade is principally local, including many planters who come from\\nsome distance to obtain their supplies of our merchants. Tlie individual members\\nof the firm are Messrs. George W. Hamer and James T. Eason, live businessmen,\\nwho are well-known and popular with our citizens. Mr. Hamer resides on his\\nfarm, three and a half miles from the city, situated on the Georgia Midland Rail-\\nroad, and is fully conversant with the needs and wants of planters in this section.\\nMr. Eason came here from Russell county, Ala., about twenty miles from Colum-\\nbus, in December 1890, and has assumed a prominent place in business circles.\\nLiberal, enterprising and energetic, they promote to a large extent the industrial\\nthrift of the community.\\nREID LENOIR\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Painters, Paper Hangers and Decorators, Deal-\\ners IN Wall Paper, Paints and Oils, Picture Moulding, Etc.,\\n1039 Broad Street.\\nOur purpose in this w5rk is not to over estimate one house at the expense of\\nothers. We merely wish to give, by a truthful narration of facts, a representa-\\ntion of the resources of the city. The past few years liave witnessed wonderful\\nadvancement in the art of both exterior and interior house decorations, and the\\nbusiness men of Columbus have ever been foremost in catering to the fastidious\\ntrade which seeks this market as the source of its supplies. The growing taste", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "148 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nfor interior decorations of the people of all classes of society is a sure indication\\nof culture and refinement. In this connection we call attention of our readers to\\nthe firm of Keid k Lenoir, located at No. 1039 Broad street, who as painters,\\npaper hangers and decorators are entitled to a prominent position among our\\nenterprising houses. This firm have been engaged in this business here for t^vo\\nand a half years, and possessing enterprise, ability, a thoroughly comprehensive\\nknowledge of the requirements of the trade, and industrial courage, they have all\\nthe necessary elements, backed by ample capital, that win success in any of the\\nactive pursuits of life. The premises occupied are 25x100 feet in extent, and a\\nfine stock of wall paper, paints and oils, picture moulding and such articles and\\nmaterials as are included in this line of business are displayed to great advantage,\\nthis being the leading house in this branch of business in Columbus. They give\\nemployment to twelve skilled workmen, to whom the highest wages are paid, and\\nthe large amount of satisfactory work finished fully testifies to their thorough and\\ndetailed knowledge of everything pertaining to or contingent upon this business.\\nSign and fresco painting are a specialty, and in painting, paper hanging and dec-\\norating, this house is the equal of any in this section. Messrs. Alexander Reid\\nand Frank Lenoir are the individual members of the firm, both prompt, reliable\\nand liberal gentlemen, with an activity and industry that knows no pause. They\\nhave made their house a favorite one for those who have once appreciated the\\nadvantages to be derived there in prices.\\nTHE COLUMBUS SAVINGS BANK.\\nIn every community, especially so in a manufacturing community, there\\nshould be at least one strong, solvent and liberal savings institution.\\nThe national sin of America is extravagance. xVnything which tends to\\ncorrect this should always command the good will of all well thinking men.\\nNothing so quickly transforms a community from a condition of extravagance to\\none of iudependence as a Savings Bank, which not only properly cares for the\\nmoney of the depositors, but pays interest for doing so.\\nThe Columbus Savings Bank, located in the Third National Bank building\\nin this city, is an institution which strongly appeals to the confidence of the entire\\ncommunity, and, with a paid-up capital of $100,000 and $20,000 undivided\\nprofits, its solvency is beyond question. The statement published by this insti*\\ntution the 1st of July shows that a large part of its assets is invested in such\\nbonds as State of Georgia and City of Columbus, securities which always com-\\nmand ready cash, no matter what panic may aff ect the markets, and giving assur-\\nance that depositors in this bank, when they call for deposits, will know that tiie\\ndeposit Avill come.\\nThis bank leads all other savings institutions in the city, doing an active\\nbusiness in the amount of deposits, and has the- confidence of this locality in the\\nsafety of the rules which govern it.\\nAttached to the bank is a modern Safe Deposit Vault, with boxes for the\\nuse of customers and the public at a nominal rental. An elegant coupon room,\\ncomfortable, convenient, and with pleasant surroundings, is an additional attrac-", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AXD INDUSTRIES. 149\\ntion which makes this is a favorite bank with investors and the small savers of the\\ncommunity.\\nThis bank has always been foremost in educating the public in habits of\\neconomy, and with no stinted hand has at all times generously contributed to the\\nreading public, literature which told not only of the comforts of independence,\\nbut showed the way to attain it. One of the most efficient means which the bank\\nhas adopted for training the young idea in the proper way, is a nickle -plated\\nauxiliary savings bank, which it very kindly loans to any one feeling economi-\\ncally inclined. This bank is not a toy, but a strong, durable piece of mechanism,\\nwhich answers its purpose admirably, and as the bank retains the key, when a\\ndeposit has once been made in it by the youthful depositor, it cannot be taken\\nout until brought to the Columbus Savings Bank, where the contents are counted\\nin the presence of the owner, and placed to his credit to bear interest.\\nThe President of this institution has had an experience running over tAventy\\nyears in Savings Banks, and has an intimate acquaintance with that class of de-\\npositors throughout this section. The Vice-President, Treasurer, and Assistant\\nTreasurer are all well known business men, who stand deservedly high, and who\\nare intimately actjuainted with their duties, and who acceptably perform them to\\nthe satisfaction of the depositors of the bank. The Board of Directors embrace\\na list of strong names selected from the diiferent avocations incident to business\\nof the community, and are: Messrs. H. L. Woodruff, Louis Hamburger, L. H.\\nChappell, J. D. McPhail, Robert E. Carter, W. E. Bradley, A. C. Prather, W. R.\\nMoore, .James A. Lewis, G. Gunby Jordan and J. W. Murphy.\\nDR. D. A. HOLMES\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Veterinary Surgeon, Offices Vernon Hotel and\\nHoward s Livery Stable.\\nAlthough Dr. Holmes is a recent arrival in Columbus, his fame as a thor-\\noughly practical operator in veterinary dentistry and surgery preceded him, he\\nhaving been located for several years in the neighboring State of Alabama. As\\nan expert veterinary surgeon he is without a peer in this country. A graduate\\nfrom one of the best colleges of veterinary surgery in the Union, a deep student,\\nand thoroughly in love with his chosen profession, he is in step with all the pro-\\ngressive theories and practices of the best schools at home and abroad, enabling\\nhim to treat upon scientific principles all the diseases of the animal kingdom and\\non all matters pertaining to horseflesh, likewise canine and bovine diseases, he\\ntakes rank with the leading veterinarians in this country.\\nDr. Holmes is also well versed in the training of horses, having spent a num-\\nber of years of his life on the plains among wild and untamed horses. He made\\na deep study of the horse in his wild state. He can train the most vicious kicker\\nto be as docile, enduring and gentle as a dog. He can break the wildest horse\\nfrom any and all bad halnts. The writer had the pleasure of seeing the Doctor\\nenter the stall of a regular man eater, and in ten minutes time the animal was\\nfollowing him all around the lot. A great many persons imagine that a trainer\\nhas some mesmeric or magic power over the animal that no one else possesses,", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "150 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA HER\\nwhile others suppose them to use some drug or opiate not so, it is only the appli-\\ncation of a principle, and if you work upon proper principles and make no mistake\\nin your work, you will get a proper result. If you employ a principle that will\\ngentle the wild animal, a continuation of the same principle will certainly keep\\nhim gentle afterwards. The Doctor can explain to you the principle and mode of\\napplication in an incredibly short time. Dr. Holmes is among the best exemplars\\nof his profession. He is a native of Texas, bringing with him that irrepressible\\nvim and peerless spirit characteristic of that section. He is a gentleman of supe-\\nrior business qualities, high standing and good judgment, always conducting his\\ntransactions in the legitimate channels of honorable business, liberal in his policy,\\nhe has achieved success and gained the esteem and confidence of all who\\nknow him.\\nL. A. SCARBROUGH Dealer in Groceries and General Merchandise,\\n1015 Broad Street, Opposite Rankin House.\\nThere are a number of houses in this city which, without any ostentation or\\nstriving for prominence, yet transact a business of unusual magnitude, and em-\\nploy capital and labor very extensively. Of such, that of L. A. Scarbrough is\\nan excellent example, and is most certainly entitled to recognition in this work.\\nThe enterprise under consideration was started in 1888, and at once began doing\\na thrifty business, each year showing a flattering increase over the former. The\\nbooks of 1891 show a business of S135,000, proving conclusively that Mr. Scar-\\nbrough is a thorough business man of tact and skill in the manipulation of the\\ngrocery trade, with which he is so familiar. Mr. Scarbrough began the study of\\nhis business sixteen years ago, at which time he came to Columbus from Russell\\ncounty, Ala., and entered the old grocery house of J. W. Clements as clerk, and^\\ninfluencing a large trade, proved himself to be a most valuable acquisition to the\\nestablishment. He remained at this stand with William Redd (who succeeded\\nJ. W. Clements) until four years ago, when he began business for himself. His\\nold customers have stood by him, and numbers of new ones have been added to\\nthe list.\\nThe stock embraces a full and complete line of groceries and general mer-\\nchandise, including tobacco, bagging and ties, etc. Seven employees are re-\\n(juired to attend to the immense business of the house, and special attention is\\ngiven to filling orders from the large planters and merchants of the smaller points\\nin Southern Georgia, Southern Alabama and Florida.\\nMr. Scarbrough is agent here for the celebrated Lucy Hinton 11-inch 5 s\\nTobacco, which brand to-day holds a firm grip upon the large trade handling it\\nthroughout the South. He also has the agency for two other brands that are\\nvery largely sold in this section; they are Gilt Edge and Brigham Young,\\n11-inch 5 s.\\nThe identification of this house with the staple industries of the community\\nfor the past four years, and the honorable, liberal policy upon which its business\\nhas been uniformly conducted, makes it a representative institution of the city.\\nCordially commending his house to the trade and the public, and directing atten-", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. 151\\ntion to the manner in which it is conducted, the amplitude of its resources and\\nfacilities, and remarking that, as ranking first among a number of contemporaries,\\nthe establishment is of that class which commands the respect, confidence and\\nconsideration of the city at large.\\nR. HOWARD Board and Sale Stable, and General Transfer Line, East\\nSide First Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets.\\nAs a convenience to the general public there are few business enterprises\\nthat can compare with the livery and boarding stable system of America. One\\nof the most popular and representative establishments of this character in\\nColumbus is that above mentioned. This enterprise was founded in 1885 by the\\npresent proprietor, with but a limited capital, in fact, his main stock in trade was\\nenterprise, perseverance and industry, backed by honesty of purpose. The\\nresult has been very gratifying to the owner, as is evidenced by the fact that he\\nnow employs in and around his stable about twenty -five men. Mr. Howard made\\nhis first start about ten years ago, Avith one mule and dray, and worked daily\\nhimself. From that small beginning he now has the largest transfer business in\\nthe city, besides running a number of sprinklers. Mr. Howard is an acknowl-\\nedged authority upon all aftairs concerning the selection, care and recjuirements\\nof the horse, hence his stable has acquired a very liberal and inflviential patron-\\nage. His stables are spacious and commodious, covering 50x170 feet of ground,\\nthoroughly equipped with every re(|uisite, well ventilated, lighted and improved\\nsanitary conditions. First-class and ample accommodations are provided for 200\\nhead of horses, and every care and attention is given to those entrusted to him\\nby experienced grooms and stablemen, and the provender is of the very best\\nquality and supplied bountifully, while extra vigilance is exerted over all vehicles,\\nharness and e([uipments. Mr. Howard is also a dealer in horses, and when he\\ngives his guarantee that a horse is sound and safe he means what he says, and\\nfor this reason his patronage is derived from among our best classes of people\\nand is steadily increasing. Orders by telephone receive immediate response at\\nall hours, and all transactions are based upon a liberal and satisfactory footing.\\nJ. J. KAUFMAN Wholesale Candy Manufacturer, No. 1026 Broad\\nStreet.\\nThe increased manufacture of confectionery within the past few years in\\nthis country has far exceeded most co-relative branches of trade. In its present\\ndevelopment it has many of the distinctive artistic characteristics of French inge-\\nnuity and invention, and the preparations of sugar and gum and pure extracts\\nabsorbs large capital and affords a livelihood to many persons. Until a recent\\ndate most of the confectionery sold in Columbus, and territory tributary to it,\\nwas manufactured in Northern or Eastern cities. Now we have a home institu-\\ntion which will supply the trade with pure goods. So great is the competition in\\nlarger cities that the ingenuity and inventive talent of manufacturers is exercised\\nto find some substitute for the costly sugar, flavoring extracts, and essences, and\\ncoloring material, and frequently noxious and poisonous substances are resorted\\nto by manufacturers who manufacture for exportation to smaller cities. These\\npoisons, which are generally mineral substances, are much cheaper than genuine\\nextracts. There is, w^ feel confident in saying, no more careful and conscientious\\nmanufacturer of candies in the country tlian Mr. J. J. Kaufman. He takes the\\ngreatest i)recaution to exclude adulterated and poisonous ingredients, using noth-\\ning but pure sugar, genuine fruit extracts and flavoring essences, and no where\\ncan there be produced more brilliantly colored or pleasantly flavored, and what is", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "152 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.\\nmare important, purer confections than Mr. Kaufman s. Not an ounce of terra alba\\nverdigris, mercury, paris green, analine, prussic acid or counterfeit imitations of\\nany kind can be ibund in his establishment.\\nThis important enterprise was started in 1885, with small capital, and the\\nincrease in business has been so marked that to-day it ranks among our foremost\\ninstitutions. The building occupied is three floors, each 35x90 feet in size, and\\nis admirably fitted up for the manufacture of candy, containing a number of\\ncandy machines and various appliances by which the cost of production is mate-\\nrially reduced. The capital invested is placed at 8 ),000, and a large trade can\\nbe supplied at short notice. Four male and one female employes are engaged in\\nthe Avork, at a monthly outlay of 3125. The States of Georgia, Alabama and\\nFlorida each contribute their quota of trade to this leading enterprise, whose\\ntransactions will reach S40,000 per annum.\\nMr. Kaufman was born in Columbus in July, 1870, and has spent his life\\namong our citizens, where he is Avell known and very popular. He is an ener-\\ngetic, active business man, thoroughly conversant with his business, and justly\\nmerits the esteem and confidence of the business community and the trade\\ngenerally.\\nDRS. SIMS SIMS Physiciaxs and Surgeons, First Avenue and\\nThirteenth Street.\\nAs scientific, practical and experienced professional gentlemen, the above-\\nnamed firm is deserving of special mention. The firm is composed of two broth-\\ners, both natives of Georgia, and was started in 1888. Their superior skill as\\nphysicians and surgeons soon placed them in the front rank of the profession in\\nthis city. The senior member of the firm. Dr. J. Henderson Sims, began the\\nstudy of medicine under his father, who was a physician of much prominence, in\\nCovington, Ga. After reading in his father s office, he went to Atlanta, Ga.,\\nwhere he took a full collegiate course in the Southern Medical College, and had\\nthe houDr of Valedictorian of his class in 1881-2. In 1887 he went to Xew\\nYork for the purpose of more fully perfecting himself in the profession he had\\nchosen. He first entered the Post Graduate School of Medicine, which is one of\\nthe most popular institutions of the kind in the world, and took a full course of\\nlectures there, also a full course in the Polyclinic School. While taking these\\ncourses of lectures Dr. Sims was not idle in the way of o1)taining all the informa-\\ntion to be acquired by ])ractieal work among the hospitals both in Xew York and\\nBrooklyn, and iiad the honor of being chosen first assistant to Dr. Andrew\\nCurrier, the celebrated gyneacologist, of New Y ^ork, and also private assistant to\\nDr. Camman, the noted and Avorld-famed specialist in chest diseases, thus giving\\nhim the very best of practice even while he was attending lectures. He also\\nattended tiie Clinics at Rosevelt, New Y^ork, St. Luke and Mt. Sini Hospitals,\\nthus fitting him to practice with eminent success in any part of the United States.\\nDr. E. II. Sims, the junior member of the firm, also began the stud^^ of med-\\nicine with his father, after which he attended the leading medical colleges and\\ngraduated with high honors. He has also had a wide and extended experience in\\nhospital practice in the North and Soudi.\\nAs a firm they stand deservedly high in the estimation of the public as phy-\\nsicians and surgeons of ability and learning, whose opinions on diseases of all\\nkinds is looked upon as authority, they being often called in consultation with the\\nolder physicians of the city. Socially they are both gentlemen of refinement,\\nhonorable, upright and straightforward in all their dealings, they have attained a\\nposition in this community of which they may well be proud.", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "J. W. RIDDLE,\\nJ. K. NUCKOLLS.\\nRIDDLE NUCKOLLS\\nWHOLESALE DEALERS IX\\nCIGARS andTOCACCO\\nSELLING AGENTS FOR\\nHmming M, Fat Possm, LiitylEal, ad Eli Ikmi,\\nAND\\nBIG NICKEL NAVY TOBACCO.\\nALSO\\nLITTLE CARRIE, SPANISH FLAG SCUSTOM HOUSE CUBANNA CIGARS,\\nAND\\nBOWERS THREE THISTLE SNUFF.\\nCorner Fourteenth Nt. and First Ave,\\nSEE PAGE 99.\\nJ. W. RIDDLE.\\nJ. K. NUCKOLLS.\\nE. A. SHEPHERD.\\nPIEDMONT CIDER WOffKS,\\nD\\n\\\\j\\nRE Cii\\nManufacturers of\\nMPAGNE\\nJi\\nOI]VOE IC iVrvE\\nSoda and Mineral Waters,\\nOFi^FlCEJ A.:iVI WrOKtlidS s\\nCorner First Avenue and Thirteenth St.\\nSEE PAGE 104.", "height": "3812", "width": "2450", "jp2-path": "columbushertrade00land_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "BEGINS Oct, 26th.\\nMiMmifi^\\nCLOSES Nov. 5th.\\nm\\nCOr^UJ^dTBTTS, O^^.\\nMAIN BUILDING\\nA Soason of Usrivakd Attractions\\nMAGNIFICENT RACES\\n-AND-\\nLIBERAL PURSES,\\nfor County and Individual Exhibits.\\nA World of Amusements of Every Character.\\nOBTE CENT A MIT.E ON AL.L RAILROADS.\\nEVERYBODY IS COMING TO COI.IJMBUS.\\nC. A. ETHREDGE, Sec y.\\nSAIM L A. 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