{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3957", "width": "2595", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class J^^\\nBook. 0 L\\nG3pglit^\u00c2\u00b0_\\nCOPnUGHT DEPOSIT.", "height": "3874", "width": "2517", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3874", "width": "2517", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "Comp/fmeffJ^s oA", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "FLORIDA WESTERN RAILWAY.\\nCELEBRATED WAY CROSS SHORT LINE.\\n0 JLY ^LL-RAIL LINE TO FJLORIDA.\\nTHE SHORT LINE TO\\nSOUTH AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA, MIDDLE AND WEST\\nFLORIDA, PENSACOLA, MOBILE, NEW ORLEANS,\\nTEXAS AND PACIFIC COAST, AND\\nALL POINTS.\\nALSO THE SIIOKT LINK TO\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nJacksonville, St. Augustine, Sanford, Enterprise, and all landings on the St. John s River:\\nand to all stations on the Florida Southern, St. John s and Lake Eustis,\\nand South Florida Riilroads.\\nTo Callahan, Gainesville, Ocala, Cedar Keys, and all stations on the Florida Transit and\\nPeninsular Railroad.\\nTo Live Oak, Lake City, Madison, Monticello, Tallahassee, and all stations on the F. C. W.\\nRailroad.\\nTo New Branford, landings on the Suwannee River, and Tampa, Manatee, Clear Water Harbor,\\nand all points on the Gulf Coast,\\nThe Fast Fi^eicht Sehvice of This Lit(E is Uj^equalled by ny Competitive Line\\nThrough Bills Lading and Guaranteed Freight Rates to\\nall above territory by\\nFAST MAIL AND EXPRESS PASSENGER SERVICE WITH THE MOST ELEGANT\\nEaUIPMENT.\\nPUI.L3IAX PAL.ACE, SLEEPING AND DRAWING-ROOM CARS\\nON THROUGH SCHEDULKS IIKTWEEN\\nWASHINGTON AND JACKSONVILLE, CHICAGO AND JACKSONVILLE, NEW ORLEANS AND SAVANNAH,\\n-Vir IT? H O XJ T XZ .A. rr G^ E! i\\nALSO UETWEEN\\nATLANTA AND JACKSONVILLE, I SAVANNAH AND JACKSONVILLE, AND SAVANNAH AND ALBANY.\\nThrough Tickets, Sleeping and Palace Car Accommodations, and all required information\\ngiven at the Company s offices, 48 West Bay St., Jacksonville; or at the Way Cross Passenger\\nStation, Jacksonville.\\nR. Q. FLEMING,\\nSiiperinlendeiit,\\nSAY AX N AH. A.\\nJAS. L. TAYLOR,\\n(ieiieriil Fryt. and Pass. Agent,\\nKAVANNAH, UX.", "height": "3889", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "S. GUCKENHEIMER SON,\\n^-^^WHOLESALE^^\\nLipOI^ AplD Ym\\\\ DEpi(^,\\n149 AND 151 Bay Street,\\nSAVANNAH, GA.\\nFLOUR WAREHOUSE: 195 and 197 BAY STREET.\\nDur stock is cninplEtB in every dEpartniEiit nf our tiiisiiiESSj\\nand vj-B invite the mer chants visiting nnr city tn call and ex-\\namine same tiefnre purchasing ElseAvhere,\\nWe are headquarters far every article in nur line, and\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0WDuld tie pleased tn iurnish quntatians nn applicatinn.\\nSee page 85.\\n[over. J", "height": "3848", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "THE CELEBRATED\\ndi\\n-IS THE-\\nResult of a long and careful series of experiments through which the proprietors have\\nendeavored to produce an article which in every respect should be superior\\nto anything of the kind in the market. It is distilled from the\\nchoicest qualities of grain and is manipulated with the\\ngreatest care and attention, and for bouquet\\nand mellowness it cannot be excelled.\\nSJ us *i;ii3i \u00c2\u00a3/a:u^u,^ :f\\n3\\nAnd Consequently is Particularly Adapted for Medicinal Use.\\nREAD THIS CERTIFICATE.\\nI have carefully oxaniined and analyzed your well known and popular whiskey\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thistle Dew. This\\nwhiskey must be pn-nounced to ho pure, well matured, and of excellent quality, being soft and niell w to the\\ntaste and having a line boHnuet. The medical profession may place full conrldence in the purity and quality\\nof the Thistle Dew. A. KENNEL,\\nr-m.-iiinnf I iiinn 1 fisn An\u00c2\u00bb1 vf ic.iil And HnnRiilt iniT Ohemist.\\nCincinnati, June, 18S0\\nAnalytical and Consulting Chemist.\\n\u00c2\u00ab^SOLr EVEIIY^\\\\^HERE!^^\\nS. GUCKENHEIMER SON,\\nUos. 149 and 151 BAY STREET,\\nSAVANNAH, GEORGIA.\\nSole Agents for the Entire States of Georgia and Florida.\\nSee page 85.", "height": "3911", "width": "2372", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "SAVANNAH\\nHER\\nTrade, Commerce and Industries,\\n1883-4.\\nManufacturing Advantages, Business and\\nTransportation Facilities,\\nAM A DELINEATION OF\\nREPRESENTATIVE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS\\nOF THE\\nFOREST CITY OF THE SOUTH.\\nHistorical and Descriptive Review\\nBY JNO. E. LAND,\\nAuthor op Chicago, the Future Metropolis of the New World. St. Louis, her Trade\\nCommerce and Manufactures. Milwaukee, her Trade, Commerce and Manufac-\\ntures. Pen Illustrations of New Orleans. Industries of St. Paul.\\nIndustries of Indianapolis. Industries of Wheeling. Indus-\\ntries OF Peoria. Industries of Evansville. Charles-\\nton, s. C, HER Trade, Commerce and Industries.\\nAND Many Other Works on the Industrial\\nGrowth of American Cities.\\nl^-ilP. j\\nSAVANNAH\\nCOPYRIGHTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.\\n1884.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "PUBLISHER S NOTICE.\\nThe design of this work has been to present, in a convenient form for circulation,\\nan outline of the resources of Savannah agricultural, commercial and manufacturing\\ntogether with sketches of her growth, business, industries, etc., and the advantages\\noffered as a place of residence. We have also added special notices of the principal\\nbusiness establishments, of an historical and statistical character.\\nThe benefits such a work, properly executed as we hope this one will be\\nfound to be will confer upon this city can hardly be over-estimated. Savannah\\npossesses extraordinar} advantages for a great business and industrial center. Capital\\nin the East and in Europe is abundant, and is seeking favorable places of investment.\\nWhat we need is to make our advantages known, to show that we have them, and\\nwealth and population will flow in upon us as naturally as the waters of the Savannah\\nriver flow to the sea.\\nThe notices of business establishments, it is believed, will afford a reasonably\\ncorrect encyclopedia of the trade and industries of this city; and they will, doubtless,\\nprove of great value to the parties mentioned, and, therefore, to the business interests\\nof the city, in attracting trade hither by making known our advantages and the facil-\\nities for accommodating it.\\nIn this day of progress and enterprise the business man succeeds best who\\npushes his business most, and this is equally true of a city. When business asthenia,\\nor want of enterprise and public spirit, sets in, the future of the city is doomed. We\\nare happy, however, to say that few cities in the Union possess business men more\\nenterprising and public-spirited than Savannah. This is evidenced n.ot less by the\\nalacrity and energy with which they take hold of every enterprise designed for their\\ngood than by the success with which they have pushed their trade and business in-\\nfluence into the interior.\\nWe desire here to thank them for the encouragement and liberal patronage they\\nhave given us in the preparation of this work, and especially do we acknowledge our\\nobligations to the Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade for their endorsement. We\\nhope, and with all due modesty we may say we believe, it will not prove unworthy of\\ntheir consideration, and of the bright Southern Metropolis whose interests it is\\nintended to promote.\\nJNO. E. LAND,\\nPublisher.\\nCORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SAVANNAH COTTON EXCHANGE AND\\nBOARD OF TRADE.\\nThe Savannah Cotton Exchange, Savannah, Ga., January 9th, 1884.\\nJohn E. Land, Esq.\\nSir\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tlie Savannah Cotton Exchange, by its Boar l of Directors, recognize the fact tliat a properly com-\\npiled Historical and Descriptive lievicw of Savaniiali\u00e2\u0080\u0094 her Trade, Commerce and Industries\u00e2\u0080\u0094 would be of\\ngreat advantage to her citizens, and will, with pleasure, afford you all the information it can to enable you to\\ncompile such a History, and trust all branches of trade will grant vou the facilities vou need that success will\\nreward your efforts. Respectfully,\\nE. F. BRYAN, Supt.\\nSavannah Board of Trade, Savannah, Ga, January 9th, 1884.\\nDear Sir I am directed to inform you that at a meeting of this Board, at which was considered your in-\\ntention to compile and publish an Illustrated Historical Sketch of Savannah\u00e2\u0080\u0094 her Trade, Commerce Indus-\\ntries, etc.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 it was unanimously decided that such a publication would be of benelit to this community at\\nlarge, and that proper facilities would be extended by this Hoard and thev hope the necessary information\\nwill be supplied you by the business men of this city to successfully accomplish your purpose.\\nYours Respectfully,\\nGEO. P. WALKER, Supt.", "height": "3911", "width": "2372", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "GENERAL INDEX.\\nAncient Savannah (with illustration on page 14), 13\\nAcosta, E. J., Jr., Manufacturer of Crackers and Candy, 119\\nAltmayer, A. R., Co., Notions, Millinery, Shoes, 121\\nAllen, G. W., China, Glass, etc., ._..._ i28\\nAllen Lindsay, Furniture and Carpets, _____ 131\\nAppel Bros., Clothiers and Hatters, ______ 138\\nBlun, Henry, Stocks, Bonds and Eeal Estate, -101\\nBennett, Mrs. R. M., Wigs, Curls, etc., _ _ _ _ 103\\nBendheim Bros. Co., Importers of Cigars, etc., _ _ _ 109\\nBond, T. P., Commission Merchant, etc., 115\\nBradstreet s Commercial Agency Local Manager, Geo. T. Nichols, 120\\nBuchanan, Frank, Rice Broker, -----_- 124\\nButler, Osceola, Druggist, ---____ 127\\nBowden, Thomas, Sales Stables, -131\\nBacon, Johnson Co., Planing Mill and Lumber Yard, 133\\nBogart Hammond, Cotton Factors, Commission Merchants, etc., 142\\nCommerce Introductory, --___. .9\\nCommercial History of Savannah, -17\\nCharities of Savannah, -63\\nCassels, R. B., Wood and Coal Dealer, -81\\nCox, Dr. Dudley, Live Stock Commission Merchant, _ _ 129\\nConnor, E. M., Books, Stationery, etc., ______ 130\\nChampion, A. H., Grocer and Commission Merchant, _ _ _ 134\\nCarson, L., Livery and Boarding Stables, _____ 141\\nDavis Bros., Art Dealers and Booksellers, 83\\nDale, Wells Co., Manufacturers of and Dealers in Pine Lumber, 87\\nDe Martin, R., Son, Gray Eagle Livery Stables, 96\\nDasher, I., Co., Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, _ _ lOO\\nDixon, Wm. D., Undertaker, -._--_. 104\\nDorsett, C. H., Auctioneer and Commission Merchant, _ 107\\nDarnall Susong, Dealers in Mules and Horses, 111\\nDorney, John A., Builder, and Mnfr. of Titman s Patent Refrigerators, 138\\nDoyle, M. J., Groceries, Liquors, etc., ______ 139", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "6 SAVANNAH HEK\\nEducational ^Public Schools, etc., -61\\nPackman Vetsburg, Wholesale Dry Goods and Notions, 77\\nEhrlich, A., Wholesale Grocer and Liquor Dealer, 106\\nFerrell,^ W. B., Parlor Restaurant, 94\\nFarley, F. M., Cotton Factor and Rice Dealer, 114\\nFlannery, John, Co., Cotton Factors and Commission, 122\\nFootman Co., Insurance, _---.-. 142\\nGrant, H. Frazer, Co., General Commission Merchants, 82\\nGiles, R. H., Plumber and Gas-fitter, 83\\nGarnett, Stubbs Co., Cotton Factors, etc., 84\\nGuckenheimer, S., Son, Wholesale Grocers, 85\\nGolden, P. J., Millinery and Straw Goods, 86\\nGeorge, F. L., Wholesale and Retail Grocer, 88\\nGuilmartin, L. J., Co., Cotton Factors, etc., 91\\nGnann, Wm. W. Wheelwright, Blacksmith, etc., 112\\nHawkins Gogorza, Dealers and Manufacturers of Yellow Pine Lumber, etc., 74, 75\\nHennessy, J. H., Grits, Meal, Cracked Corn, etc., 88\\nHecker, George V., Co., Self-Rising Flour, Baking Powder, Farina, etc., 91\\nHa3^wood, Gage Co., of the Bay Ice Company, loi\\nHoist Co., Ship Brokers, etc., 108\\nHamilton, S. P., Jeweler, -116\\nHenderson, M. Y., Cotton Factor and General Commission Merchant, 123\\nHaynes Elton, Forest City Mills, 126\\nHanley, Andrew, Paints and Oils, _..__. 127\\nHorse Infirmary Proprietor, Dr. Dillon, 128\\nHess Hermes, Photographers, 132\\nHeadman, H. D., Manufacturer of Iron Railing, etc., 135\\nIlaltiwanger, J. R. Druggist, 135\\nHarmon, A. W., Savannah Club Livery Stables, 136\\nHalligan, Thomas J., Plumbing and Gas-fitting, 137\\nHopkins, Cormack, Tin Roofer, etc., 139\\nHavens, O. Pierre, Photographer, .._-.. 143\\nIndex, ----------5\\nJackson, W. C, Co., Naval Stores Factors, 94\\nKessler, P. O., Co., Guns, Rifles, Pistols, etc., 81\\nKinsey, T. L., Manufacturer and Dealer in Lumber, 89\\nKehoe s Iron Works, -95\\nKnickerbocker Ice Company Manager, J. F. Cavannaugh, 96\\nKrouskoff, S., Millinery and Straw Goods, lOO\\nKennedy, E. J., Merchant Tailor, _....- 102\\nKnapp, E. A., Retail Druggist, -118\\nKoch, J. H., Watchmaker and Jeweler, 137\\nKuckuck Seeman, Editors and Proprs. Georgia Familien Journal, 144", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AKD INDUSTRIES.\\nLeading Business Houses of Savannah, 73\\nLudden Bates, Southern Music House, 78\\nLester, D. B., Grocer, .-------80\\nLindenstruth, Peter, Jeweler, -85\\nLippman Bros., Importers of Drugs, etc., 118\\nLaFar, J. F., Furnishing Goods, etc., 134\\nManufactures and Manufacturing Interests of Savannah, 46\\nMuir, Duckworth Co., Cotton Exporters, etc., 93\\nMorrell, W. G., Rice Broker, 95\\nMyers, H., Bros., Distillers, etc., 98\\nMeinhard Bros. Co., Wholesale Boots, Shoes, etc., 103\\nMeyer, F. H., Jeweler, 106\\nMyers, Lee Roy, Wholesale Tobacco and Cigars, _ 107\\nMcMillan Bros., Southern Copper Works, m\\nMiller, A. J., Co., Furniture, Carpets, etc., 113\\nMiller, Henry, Groceries, Fruits, Wines, etc., 114\\nMcKenna, B. F., Co., General Dry Goods, 117\\nMcAlpin, G. S., Hay, Corn, Oats, etc., 124\\nMills, W. M., Retail Drugs, 130\\nMasters, P. E., Plumber and Gas-fitter, 136\\nMeyer, H. J., Practical Plumbing, etc., 138\\nMcLaughlin, John, Son, Auctioneers, etc., 141\\nNewspapers of Savannah, -68\\nNicolson, John, Plumbers and Machinists Supplies, 92\\nNichols, A. S., Hats and Shoes, 108\\nNoble, G. Ice Cream Garden, etc., 120\\nNeidlinger, E. L., Son \u00c2\u00abfe Co., Saddles and Harness, etc., 137\\nPalmer Bros., Hardware, Rubber Belting, etc., 79\\nPavilion Hotel\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. G. Penfield Bro., Proprs., 102\\nPacetti, E. C, Guttering, Tin Roofing, etc., 125\\nPower, Mrs. Kate, Millinery and Fancy Goods, _ 143\\nResources of Savannah, ----19\\nReal Estate Interests in Savannah, 52\\nRichardson \u00c2\u00abfe Barnard, Ship Brokers, etc., 97\\nReily, J. J., Coffees, Teas, etc., 101\\nRyan, D. J., Art Gallery, -116\\nRussell, Chas, D., Inspector of Naval Stores, 117\\nSavannah Steamship Interests, -22\\nSavannah Railroad Interests, -24\\nSavannah as a Place of Residence, 56\\nSolomon, Henry, Son, Wholesale Grocers, 73\\nSmith, A. E., Bro., Wholesale Dealers in Tobacco, 89", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "SAVANNAH HER\\nSolomons Co., Drugs and Medicines, 90\\nSternberg, M. Diamonds, Watches, etc., _ 104\\nSilva, Jas. S. Crockery, Glass, Lamps, etc., 105\\nSullivan, John, Co., Insurance and Real Estate, 119\\nScreven House Geo. W. Sergent, Proprietor, 123\\nStrauss Co., Cotton and Commission, 125\\nSchreiner, Herman L., Book, Music and Toy House, 130\\nSanders, H., Wholesale Dealer in Lager Beer, etc., 132\\nSouthern Express Company Supt., D. F. Jack; Local Agent, F. L. Cooper, 133\\nThe Commerce of Savannah, -28\\nThe Jobbing Trade of Savannah, 38\\nThe Retail Trade of Savannah, with View of City in 1884, 44\\nThompson, Jo C, Wholesale and Retail Groceries, 84\\nTeeple, J. W., Cotton Ginner, etc., 87\\nTatem, Robert H., Retail Druggist, 133\\nVogel, Louis, Importer Cigars and Tobacco, 93\\nWinn, A. A., Cotton Factor, -------99\\nWeed Cornwell, Hardware and Coffee, 105\\nWeld Hartshorne, Commission and Cotton Merchants, 110\\nWilliams, J. P., Naval Stores and Cotton, 112\\nWest, A. M. C. W., Wholesale and Retail Grocers, 113\\nWest, Thomas, Wholesale and Retail Crockery, 121\\nWalker, Robert D., Monuments, Mantels, etc., 129\\nWeisbein, David, Co., Dry Goods, etc., 140\\nWoodbridge Harriman, Cotton P actors and General Commission, 142\\nWylly, F. C, Stocks, Bonds and Real Estate, 144\\nCOMMEECIAL PRINTINQ CO.,\\nST. LOUIS, MO.\\nFirms having large printing Drders tn give Dut will da well\\ntD Dhtain EstimatE nf cost frnni atnvE firm.\\nCarrEspandencE promptly ans w^ErEdi\\nJ. H. CHAMBERS, President.\\nl .T. ^\u00c2\u00b0;J::T^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0 Commercial Printing Company.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "SAVANNAH:\\nHer Trade, Commerce and Industries.\\nINTRODUCTORY COMMEECE.\\nCommerce is King. Carlyle.\\nCOMMERCE, perhaps by derivation, simply means exchange. Hence Milton\\nspeaks of looks commercing with the skies. It is more usually taken to\\nmean an exchange of movable articles, and implies mutual benefit to the\\nactors. Money is the common representative of value, is its ordinary medium,\\nthough with barbarous nations the exchange is ordinarily direct, or barter. It\\nis foreign or domestic. Trade is usually employed with the same meaning,\\nthough it is also applicable to the home or retail dealings of the shopkeeper.\\nCommerce or trade, in its more extensive sense, supposes travel, a conveyance of\\nmerchandise, or the subject of exchange, and the subject of exchange is the\\nmarket.\\nA disposition to commerce is implanted in humanity, and, like a thirst for\\nornament, distinguishes men from brutes. Man possesses, indeed, far nobler\\ncharacteristics, but, in an age when philosophers gravely seek to show that man\\nis not an immediate creation of the divinity, but a slowly-evolved improve-\\nment of the brute, it will be well to allude to one of the most remarkable of\\nthe many minor traits of our nature which is not inherent in any other of\\nGrod s terrestrial creatures, and is common to all the varieties of our race. We\\nare not aware of any tribe, however imbruted, from the root-digger of the\\nRocky Mountains to the men of the interior of Africa, who have, or are sup-\\nposed to have, tails a foot long, who have not a propensity to exchange or trade.\\nCommerce, like war, springs from a desire of acquisition; but, unlike war,\\nit is consonant with the divine law of love. Like mercy, it is twice blessed,\\nit blesseth him that gives and him that takes. It gives birth to invention,\\nstimulates production, entices laggards to labor, and confirms halting industr}-.\\nMan finds happiness in labor, and he labors to produce materials for the acquisi-\\ntion, by exchange, of things which he desires, but which nature denies him,\\nand he cannot produce. Imagine, if you can, a world whose people do not\\ninterchange goods with each other. Each man would be for himself, and his\\nhand would be against every other man. There, indeed, would man be identi-\\ncal with the brute isolated, unintelligent and predatious. Such a condition of\\nhumanity is impossible.\\nIndeed, from the earliest times men have traded with each other. We have\\nonly to recur to the most ancient and holiest of all books for examples of the", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10 SAVANNAH HER\\nimmediate development of this instinct of humanity. It is so lucid, so per-\\nfectly free from the monstrous fictions and palpable absurdities which disgrace\\nthe earliest productions of profane history, and so consistent with scientific\\ntruth; and then its historic truth is so corroborated by the internal evidences of\\nits divine origin, its God is so God-like, its ethics are so divine, so perfect, so\\nexpansive, adapted to and covering man in every age, in every clime, whatever\\nhis pursuits or intellectual attainments that we cannot but feel that there, and\\nthere only, is embalmed the true history of our race.\\nIn paradise, Adam dressed the garden and subsisted on its fruits. Light\\nwas his labor, if it were aught beyond mere exercise, but when he was driven\\nforth, it was to till the ground, from which he was taken; and he was con-\\ndemned in the sweat of his face to eat^bread. Diversity of employment was\\nmanifested so soon as the first-born of Eve began to toil. Abel was a keeper\\nof sheep; but Cain was a tiller of the soil, And with them, probably, com-\\nmenced the first interchange of the fruits of labor. But these primitive pur-\\nsuits were soon diversified; and in the seventh generation from Adam, Jabal\\nwas the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle; Jubal was the\\nfather of all such as handle the harp and organ; and Tubalcain was an\\ninstructor in every artificer in brass and iron, Here, in this early age of the\\nworld, we have proof that the earth was tenanted by the stationary cultivator of\\nthe soil, by the shepherd, by the wandering dweller in tents, whose wealth was\\nin his herds, by the smith whose work was in brass and in iron, by men who\\ncould construct, and by men who could draw music from the harp and from the\\norgan, !Such a diversity of employments could exist only in a trading world.\\nThe construction of the ark before, and the tower of Babel after, the deluge are\\nalike cogent proofs of the existence of a systematic division of labor, and of\\nthe exchange of its products. Job declares of wisdom, it cannot be gotten\\nfor gold neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. It cannot be\\nvalued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, nor the sapphire. The\\ngold and the crystal cannot equal it; and the exchange of it shall not be for\\njewels of fine gold.\\nBut Job lived long before Abraham, and his allusions to the gold of Ophir\\nwould seem to favor the idea that even in his day caravans traversed, for the\\npurpose of trade, the deserts of Eastern Asia to its southern coast. If Ophir\\nwas, as some have supi)osed, the island of Ceylon, then navigation had become\\nalready an aid to commerce. In the history of Joseph we have a direct proof\\nof a land trade carried on, through the slow, unwearj ing ships of the desert,\\nby the indomitable race which sprang from Ilagar. Joseph was drawn forth\\nfrom the pit into which his brothers had cast him, and was sold for twenty\\npieces of silver to a company of Ishmaelites, who came from Gilead with their\\ncamels, bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt;\\nand Potiphar, an officer of Pharoah, captain of the guai-d, an Egyptian,\\nbought him of the hands of the Ishmaelites, who had brought him down to\\nEgypt,\\nAVe cannot comprehend the philosophy which pronounces money the root", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. H\\nof all evil. The love of acquisition is an instinct implanted by divinity, and,\\nthough it may be perverted, is the animating principle of the world. It is the\\ngreat incentive to industry, to commerce and to intercourse. Truly did the\\npoet designate it as auri sacra fames^ The Creator fosters it by the differ-\\nences of climate which he has impressed upon the earth, and by scattering the\\ninfinite variety of goods which all men crave the wide world through. May we\\nnot reverently say that his penal visitations war, pestilence and famine have\\nin them an element of mercy, and were designed to elicit sympathy and favor\\nintercourse, as well as to chastise stiff-necked and rebellious nations. Famine\\ndrove the inhabitants of Canaan to Egypt to purchase corn and re-united the\\nfamily of Jacob.\\nIt was the sacred thirst for gold which awoke the spirit of discovery, and\\ninduced the Tyrian to tempt in his frail bark the dangers of the middle and\\nsouthern seas. It sent the fleets of Solomon and of Hiram from Tarshish unto\\nOphir, and they brought back gold and silver, ivory and apes, and peacocks,\\nand great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones. This emboldened the\\nCarthaginians to pass the Pillars of Hercules, and brave the terrors of the broad\\nAtlantic; made dimly known to the Roman his Ultima Thule; carried De-\\nGama round the stormy Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Seas; sustained\\nColumbus on his dreary way across the wide Atlantic to this New World;\\nand sent Cook forth to circumnavigate the globe.\\nWe do not mean that the heroic actors in these great achievements were\\nimpelled by the vulgar thirst for gold. An exalted ambition, a pure love of\\nglory, and the humble hope of extending the benefits of religion and the domin-\\nions of the church, may have been their chief incentives; but, as far-seeing\\nmen, they looked to the renown which the augmented commerce of their coun-\\ntries would bring with it. Commerce sustained is power. But for commerce\\nfew would be the keels that would part the blue billows of the ocean; and navi-\\ngation would be but the means of rapine for new sea-kings men full of cruel\\nlusts, mad for battle, and drinking mead from the skulls of their slain foes.\\nNow, in this age, when commerce so intertwines the interests of the chief\\nnations of the world that war seems madness, who, apart from trade, would\\nimperil himself on the still mysterious sea, save to extend it, or to guard its\\nsafety? No expense or danger is too great to prevent strict search for a rock or\\nshoal, suspected to exist in or near the track of trade that its position may be\\nascertained and marked upon the charts. But no one ever gained or sought\\nfame by the mere discovery of lands uninviting to the merchant, and useless\\nas auxiliaries to commerce, save where the discovery put limits to desperate\\nexploration, as in the case of the Antarctic Continent and the impracticable\\nNorthwest passage. Start but a rumor that a group of rocks, capped with\\nguano, has been dimly seen somewhere in the midst of the Atlantic, and in\\nnot many months navies will be crossing and recrossing it in all directions.\\nCommerce brings wealth and power. It may not bring freedom, and may\\ncarry chains and degradation to subjected countries. But it heightens luxury,\\nfosters the fine arts, embellishes great cities, and makes a nation strong. For", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12 SAVAXX\\\\H HER\\ncenturies small nations, as monopolists of the trade of the East Indies, assumed\\nand were able to maintain a commanding attitude in Europe. Witness Venice,\\nGenoa and Holland. iSTow, but for its commerce and dependencies, enabling it\\nto disperse its manufactures the world over, Great liritain could not rank as a\\nfirst-rate power of Europe. AVhat well-directed industry, aided by policy, has\\ngained, maj perchance be hazarded and lost in a daring but injudicious war.\\nCommerce should court peace for when it allies itself to conquest it embraces\\ndanger. Better far is it for a great country that another land should be a free\\nand friendly ally than a doubtful dependency. Commerce will draw far more\\nriches from a vigorous nation than from a curbed and feeble colony. The trade\\nof one year with Great Britain is of more service to her than would have been\\na twenty years monopoly of the trade of what the thirteen colonies would now\\nbe, liad they remained subject to the British crown.\\nFrom the very outset we have been a commercial people and. Heaven\\nfavoring us, we must, with our two ocean fronts and our vast country and\\nenergetic population, furnish the most wondrous spectacle of commercial\\ngrowth and strength the world ever witnessed, provided we cultivate and main-\\ntain amity with the outer world and break not ourselves asunder. The writer\\ndoes not think that we are (as were the feet of the great image Daniel saw)\\ncompounded of iron and clay, and does not wish to be understood as under-\\nvaluing agriculture, manufactures, or the arts. Without them there can be, in\\nthis age, no commerce. They all act in unison to create prosperity. They\\nmust co-exist or languish. Commerce is the creature and stimulant of industry\\nin all its forms. Never again will the world see the time when a nation can\\nmake itself the sole mart of particular commodities, and grow rich from a\\nmonopoly of silks and spices. In substance, trade is now free to general com-\\npetition though, in detail, it is, whether wisely or unwisely, hampered by im-\\nposts and subject to exaction. It is the strongest and most beneficent where\\nfreest. It is not a ferocious animal which must be muzzled and chained down\\nto labor, but a strong implanted impulse wliich will break forth, and needs but\\nthe regulation of justice and humanity to exert the happiest influence on the\\nwhole family of man.\\nMuch of our present greatness and future hopes we owe to the energizing\\nspirit of Commerce. It has prompted to negotiations, and sustained our goyern-\\nment in struggles which have expanded our country to its present amplitude.\\nIt acquired the debouchure of the Mississippi it carried the flag of our Union\\nacross the Eocky Mountains, and planted it at the mouth of the Columbia, and\\nupon the golden hills of California. It must preserve what it has acquired, for\\nwe liave, and can have, no other assured hope of continued union. Heaven has,\\nso far, bidden discovery and enterprise to keep pace with and consolidate our\\ngrowth. The canal, the railroad, the application of steam to ocean navigation,\\nand the magnetic telegraph and telephone, will suffice to hold intact the holy\\nbond of union.\\nWe trust our readers will pardon the introduction of matter not strictly\\nlocal, but which we think has a bearing on the future great possibilities of", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 13\\nSavannah. The future of this city is in the hands of the men who control her\\ncommerce. Her merchants are those to whom the world look to carry out the\\nwonderful possibilities of this city. We predict a bright future for Savannah,\\nbut we depend on her men of commerce to verify that prediction, for a realiza-\\ntion of the fact.\\nThe commerce of all States and cities may be generally traced to the same\\nnatural and never-failing causes local adaptation, enterprise and industry, the\\nsure agents of prosperous trade. Where these concomitants unite, and where\\nthis union is untrammelled by arbitrary enactments, on the one hand, and un-\\nfettered by the over-fostering care of a too wise government on the other, there\\ncommerce flourishes best, and wealth pours in with an open and ready hand.\\nAn attentive observer of events within his own time, and a careful reader of\\nthe past, will not fail to perceive that all attempts to restrain commerce within\\ncertain and specific channels have been destructive to the very interests they\\nhave sought to cherish. All monopolies be they chartered associations, or the\\navaricious and over-reaching acts of an intermeddling government have com-\\nmonly terminated in the ruin of trade and the failure of its grasping partici-\\npants. The policy of all protective and prohibitory laws in relation to trade\\nmay very well be doubted. Wholesome and judicious enactments for the pro-\\ntection of the honest and the correction of the unscrupulous are certainly\\ndesirable, and such come not within the pale of our general objections.\\nANCIENT SAY ANN AIL\\nThe first settlement of Savannah was made in the month of February,\\n1733, by General Oglethorpe and some thirty families. On the 7th of July\\nfollowing, the settlers assembled on the strand (the bay) for the purpose of\\ndesignating the lots. In a devotional service they united in thanksgiving to\\nGod, that the lines had fallen to them in a pleasant place, and that they were\\nabout to have a good heritage. The wards and ti things were then named, each\\nward consisting of four tithings, and each tithing of ten houses, and a house\\nand lot was given to each freeholder.\\nAfter a dinner provided by the governor, the grant of a court of record was\\nread, and the officers were appointed. The session of the magistrates was then\\nheld, a jury empaneled, and a case tried. This jury was the first empaneled in\\nGeorgia.\\nThe town was governed by three bailiffs, and had a recorder, register, and\\na town court, holden every six weeks, where all matters, civil and criminal,\\nwere decided by grand and petit juries, as in England. No lawyers were\\nallowed to plead for hire, nor attorneys to take money, but (as in old times in\\nEngland) each man could plead his own cause.\\nIn October, 1741, the government of the colony was changed from bailiffs\\nto trustees.\\nIn 1750, the number of white persons in Georgia was computed at about\\nfifteen hundred.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14\\nSAVANNAH HER\\nThe first royal governor of Georgia, John Reynolds, Esq.. arrived in\\nSavannah in October, 1754.\\nThe first printing press was established in 1763, and the Georgia Gazette\\nprinted on the 7th April of tliat year.\\nRobt. Bolton, Esq., the\\nfirst postmaster of Savan-\\nnah, was appointed in 17-\\n64, by Benjamin Barron,\\nEsq., postmaster general\\nof the southern district of\\nAmerica.\\nIn 1766, the city con-\\nsisted ol 400 dwelling-\\nhouses, a church, an in-\\ndependent meeting house,\\na council house, a court\\nhouse and. a filature.\\nIn 1770, the city exten-\\nded on the west to what\\nis now Jefi erson Street,\\non the east to what is\\nnow Lincoln Street, and\\non the south to what is\\nnow South Broad Street,\\nand contained six squares\\nand twelve streets, besides\\nthe bay.\\nThe first attack by the\\nBritish on Savannah was\\nmade on the 3d March,\\n1776. It ended in the\\ndiscomfiture of the regu-\\nlars, under Majors Mait-\\nland and Grant.\\nOn the 29th of Decem-\\nber, 1778, Savannah was\\ntaken by the British. In October, 1779, an unsuccessful attempt was inade by\\nthe French and American armies to recapture Savannah from the British.\\nCount D Estaing and General Lincoln were the commanders. Six hundred and\\nthirt^ -seven of the French, and two hundred and forty-one of the continentals\\nand militia, were killed and wounded. In this attack Pulaski fell. The spot\\nwhere he was shot is about one hundred rods from the present depot of the\\nCentral Railroad.\\nOn the 11th of July, 1783, Savannah was formally given up by the British\\nto the Americans, and Colonel James Jackson (afterwards Q-overnor Jackson)", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 15\\nwas selected by General Wayne to receive the surrender of the same from the\\nBritish commander. Colonel Jackson commanded the Georgia Legion, consist-\\ning of horse and infantry, and on the same day he received from the British\\ncommander the keys and took possessioci of the city.\\nThe first session of the Legislature of the State was held in Savannah\\nin January, 1784, in the brick house now standing in South Broad Street,\\nbetween Drayton and Abercorn Streets. This building was afterwards occupied\\nas a public house, and long known as Eppinger s Ball Room. It is the oldest\\nbrick house in Savannah. Dr. Lyman Hall was then Governor.\\nIn December, 1789, a law was passed by the Legislature making Savannah\\na city.\\nThe first mayor (elected in 1790) was John Houstoun.\\nIn November, 1796, the first destructive fire occurred in Savannah. It\\nbroke out in a bakehouse in market square, and destroj cd 229 houses, besides\\nout-houses, etc. Estimated loss of property, one million of dollars.\\nIn May, 1814, arrived in the waters of Savannah the United States sloop of\\nwar Peacock, Lewis Warrington commander, afterwards Commodore Warring-\\nton, bringing in as a prize 11. B. M. brig of war Epervier, Captain Wales, of IS\\nguns. The Epervier had on board $110,000 in specie, which was condemned\\nand distributed according to law. She was built in 1812 and was one of the\\nfinest vessels of her class in the British Navy.\\nIn April, 1819, arrived the steamship Savannah from New York. This\\nsteamer was projected and owned in Savannah, and was the first steamship built\\nin the United States, and the first that ever crossed the Atlantic. She left\\nSavannah in May for Liverpool, and afterwards proceeded to St. Petersburg.\\nIn January, 1820, occurred the largest fire which ever ravaged the city. It\\ncommenced on the east side of Old Franklin Ward. Four hundred and sixty-\\nthree buildings were destroyed, besides out-buildings. Loss, upwards of\\n$4,000,000.\\nAt this juncture in our labors, propriety for the object in view suggests\\nthat we briefly mention only a few additional historical facts in regard to the\\ncity. In a commercial sense these include the monetary troubles, incident to\\nthe disasters of the war of 1815, the bankruptcies of 1837, the monetary troubles\\nof 1842, the national panic of 1857, and the general trouble following upon the\\nunhappy civil war of 1860-65. And yet from the outbreak of the war up to the\\nrestoration of commerce, say in 1867-68, facts indicate clearly that although in\\neach decade depressing periods of business and stagnations of commerce, similar\\nto those of 1873-4 5, have occurred, the city as a whole has continued to increase\\nits population and consequently its business, however individuals may have, in\\nthe crash and wreck of private fortunes and undivided interests, sunk and been\\nforgotten.\\nTherefore, we may say the past of this city has been well cared for its\\nhistorical records are preserved in its own and the records of our country; the\\nfame of its great men will survive fresh in eternal youth long after the humble\\nhistorian has been forgotton. As a Neophyte in Archaeology, one may well", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16 SAVANNAH HER\\nthen despair of success, and devote attention to the actual and The Present\\nof our city, wliicli, sustained by energy, backed by capital, stimulated with\\nfortitude by virtue of success, presents with its material progress, its advances\\nin commerce and manufactures, its maritime interests, its internal navigation by\\nriver and rail, its industrial features, its telegraphy, telephones, electric lights,\\nits enlightened press, its metropolitan advancements in every particular, themes\\nsufficiently comprehensive and voluminous, and to wliicli we invite the closest\\nattention, and in which we promise faithful account of its magnitude and\\ndevelopment. In this respect we may truthfully say,\\nRETROSPECTIVELY AND PROSPECTIVELY,\\nRich land I Xoble history A land so fertile God seemed to have pro-\\nnounced upon it His sweetest benediction, A climate so mildly tempered\\nthe mock-bird has no winter in his song, no sorrow in his year. A soil so\\ngenerous it gave ample competence to all who came, and atibrded ability to\\nindulge not only in those pursuits which tended to satisfy animal wants and\\ndesires, but softened into poetry the selfish passions, improved the moral and\\nintellectual character, and gave leisure for liberal studies and pursuits. Thus\\nwith that tranquility and leisure afforded by the enjoyment of accumulated\\nriches, those sj^eculative and elegant studies which enlarge views, purify tastes,\\nand lift mankind higher in the scale of being were succesi^fuUy prosecuted, and\\nthus do we account for the illustrious names Savannah has furnished to the\\nworld in law, in medicine, in divinity, in judicature, in commerce, in military\\nscience and literary accomplishments names that enrich not only the bio-\\ngraphical wealth of the city, but have been enrolled among the noinina clara of\\nthe Republic.\\nIt should be an accepted fact, therefore, that the barbarism or relinement\\nof a people whether national or municipal, depends more on their wealth than\\non any other circumstance. No people have ever made any distinguished figure\\nin philosophy or the fine arts without being celebrated at the same time for their\\nemployed riches and industries. Pericles and Phidias, Petrarch and lta])hael,\\nadorned the flourishing ages of Grecian and Italian commerce. The influence\\nof productive wealth in this respect is almost omnipotent. It raised Venice\\nfrom the bosom of the deep, and made the desert and sandy islands on which she\\nis built the powerful Queen of the Adriatic. It rendered the unhealthy swamps\\nof Holland the favored abodes of literature, science and art, and it has done as\\nmuch, will do vastly more, for Savannah, the Forest City of the South.\\nWhile it is true there are a few, even of our best informed citizens, wjio are\\nskeptical as tn the continuance of this magnificent prosperity, and are ever-\\nmore on the l(K)kout for sudden and fatal checks to the citv s trade and enlar^-\\nj ment, it is equally as true they fail to notice fully either what has already\\nI been accomi)lished, or the unlimited resources about us yet undeveloped, but\\ncertainly to be drawn upon, in the grander coiKjuests of the not distant fnture.\\nLet us, therefore, be candid with all such, and assert without fear of successful\\ncontradiction, that the very best assurance of the continued healthful progress", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 17\\nof Savannah is found in what she is to day, a centre of enormous trade, in spite\\nof some of the most unfavorable surroundings and drawbacks that ever beset a\\ncitv, more perhaps the creature of the necessities the inexorable demands of the\\nposition\u00e2\u0080\u0094 \\\\\\\\\\\\?i\\\\\\\\ anj American city that has ever struggled for eminence; and yet\\nthe forces that have thus successfully built up the city are far from being ex-\\nhausted or even fully comprehended. Humanly speaking, then, there is no\\npower on earth that can prevent Savannah from becoming a vast commercial\\ncity. It wnll grow in wealth and power, in industry and influence, in spite of\\nitself\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in spite even of the bad fame she has abroad on account of climate.\\nThe demands of commerce, like the demands of necessity, know no law, admit\\nno obstacles, overcome all barriers. Back of the city to North, to East, to\\nWest lies a vast empire of productive wealth with many millions of people, all\\nof whom, in a manner, are ministering to its traflic and wealth.\\nIn truth, the view is propitious from every stand-point. The city is in a\\ncondition of vastly improved sanity and health, and has commenced\u00e2\u0080\u0094 nay, is\\nfar upon the road in a brilliant career of improvement. The motives of social\\nand political freedom, fertility of soil, salubrity of climate, wealth of agricul-\\ntural resources, facilities for commerce and manufactures, and ease of river and\\nrailroad transportation, are the material advantages which invite capitalists,\\ntradesmen and manufacturers of every clime and nationality to a home in our\\nmidst; to a co-operation in the development of its measureless possibilities, and\\nto an enriching ])articipation in its prosperity. A live, intelligent and en-\\nterprising people, now fully aroused to all the recjuirements of the age, have\\npossession of her multifarious labors, and the day is now at hand when many a\\nstately ediflce is musical with clanging machinery and those sounds of diversi-\\nfied industry that quickens the pulse of a nation and prolongs the life of a Re-\\npublic; while her possibilities, thus foreshadowed, dazzle the mind by their\\nvariety and magnitude, and leave the calmest and most unimpassioned observer\\nquite bewildered in the prospect for this magnificent metropolis of the South.\\nTHE COMMERCIAL HISTORY OF SAVANNAH.\\nSavannah is the natural emporium of all the vast tracts traversed by the\\nSavannah River and its tributary streams, and enjoys a greater command of\\ninternal navigation than any other city in the State. Even many years prior to\\nthe late civil war it was the grand entrepot of the States of Georgia, Florida\\nand a large portion of South Carolina, and for many years was regarded as\\nalmost without a rival. Up to 1860, civilization had struck its roots, and began\\nto flourish only in some comparatively small portions of the immense territories\\nof which Savannah is the sea port, and yet its progress was rapid beyond all\\nprecedent.\\nWhile Savannah, even from her inception, has been regarded as an impor-\\ntant commercial point, her true commercial history may be dated from 1822.\\nIt appears from the accounts printed by order of Congress that the receipts and\\nexports of cotton and rice at the port of Savannah for the year 1822-3 amounted\\nto the following figures: Receipts of cotton, 105,261 bales; of rice, 11,232 tierces.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18 SAVANNAH HER\\nWith frequent variations but always on the increase these figures had grown\\nuntil 1843, and for the commercial year of 1843 Savannah exported 285,754\\nbales of cotton; 25,032 tierces of rice; 7,500,000 feet of pitch pine lumber;\\n5,175,000 cypress shingles; 66,000 oak staves. The direct foreign import for\\nthe same period amounted to only $279,896, but as a great proportion of the\\narticles of foreign import consumed in, and transmitted through Savannah,\\narrived coastwise from New York and other northern cities it is dilhcult to form\\na calculation from any very certain data what were the actual value of the ag-\\ngregate direct and indirect foreign imports of Savannah at that time, blended as\\nthe latter were with the coastwise imports during the period of which we have been\\nspeaking, viz.: 1843. The registered licensed and enrolled tonnage of the port\\nof Savannah amounted to 17,920 tons, but the total amount of all tonnage fre-\\nquenting the port at this early date cannot be readily arrived at, since most of\\nthe vessels which were engaged in the coasting trade sailed under licenses which\\nexempted them from entry or clearance at the Custom House at Savannah, ex-\\ncept where they had foreign goods on board.\\nFrom the first of October, 1844. to the first of October, 1846, there entered\\ncoastwise the port of Savannah 719 vessels, comprising an aggregate tonnage\\nof 196,791, and during the same period from foreign ports 26,612 tons of\\nAmerican shipping, and 78,476 tons of foreign, by which enumeration a curious\\nfact is brought to light, namely, that the foreign carriers of our own products out-\\nnumbered the native in the ratio of three to one. The total amount of tonnage\\nof all descriptions entered at the Custom House of Savannah during the two\\nyears last named was 105,089, and the total amount cleared for the same period\\nwas 133,915, the difference between these two sums arising in part from vessels\\nremaining over in port at the commencement of the year, and in part from\\nvessels arriving coastwise with license, taking foreign freights and exchanging\\ntheir licenses for registers, and thereby in clearing obtaining a record on the\\nCustom House books.\\nIn 1847, Savannah began to feel the effect of the internal facilities of trans-\\nport. The Central Railroad had been finished and put in successful operation,\\nand many were the predictions made by the people of Savannah. Gen. Bernard,\\nwho, after carefully examining and weighing all the local advantages of the city,\\nexclaimed, Savannah is destined to become the New York of the South.\\nThe exports for the month of February, 1847, exceeded those of the same\\nmonth the year previous by $839,477.75. For the month of January, 1846, the\\nexports amounted to $262,124.52, while for the same month in 1847 they\\namounted to $1,038,954.41, an increase of $776,829.89 in the one month of\\nJanuary, and a total increase in the first two months of 1847 of $1,616,307.14.\\nWe have thus hastily and briefly, and we grant imperfectly, sketched some\\nof the leading incidents in the history of Savannah, more especially for the pur-\\npose of referring to facts illustrative of her past progress. At the same time,\\nby no means claiming to be the historian of the place, and trenching in no part\\nupon ground that properly belongs to the domain of biography, or personal\\nlaudation, or flattering testimonials as to leading citizens or representative", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 19\\nmen, we have sought only to balance all drafts npon the past by the marvel-\\nlously increased value of the present, demonstrating the philosophy of political\\neconomy in presentation of cause by the grander illustration of effect.\\nAnd for this good and sufficient reason a more extended account would be\\nwithout the scope of this work, besides stretching it beyond the limits to which\\nit was originally intended and necessarily assigned. Besides, our own citizens\\nhardly need such remembrances as these to impress them with full confidence in\\nthe upward and onward progress of a city of which they know so well they have\\nreason to be proud. Strangers, however those who know Savannah only by\\nname, we may say whose ambition and desire may be to know somewhat of\\nthe Southern metropolis, whose faces are set southward with a view to the\\npermanent establishment of their homes, may be interested, even by the imper-\\nfect report made by us, to stimulate further inquiry on their part. Such an\\ninquiry will disclose a thousand additional facts to strengthen the conviction\\nthat Savannah has a rightful claim to the prominence which her friends assign\\nto her. What forbids the realization of their most enthusiastic predictions as\\nto its future growth and greatness?\\nBriefly, the situation is this Here stands a city, already with nearly a\\nhundred thousand population; with a natural highway of travel which reaches\\nnearly one half of the States of the Union, besides her railways, which connect\\nwith the network of similar roads stretching to every quarter of the civilized\\npart of the continent. What shall prevent an aggregation here of inhabitants\\nbeyond anything of which we to-day may dream? Thousands after thousands,\\nuntil there shall have sprung up here a city containing hundreds of square\\nmiles taking in the outlying counties on both sides of the river, with an area\\neven then affording but reasonable accommodations for the vast multitudes col-\\nlected within it. Of course, such visions relate to the future; but that future,\\namidst the growth of such a nation as ours, cannot be long postponed. Mean-\\nwhile the present generation will witness a progress with which it may well be\\ncontent. That progress, it is true, will depend much upon the energy and the\\nenterprise of our citizens. Yet we fully rely on the belief that the people of\\nSavannah will be true to their city and themselves, and it may be no idle dream\\nwhich conceives for Savannah the most exalted destiny, which, with a just pro-\\nphetic forecast, transforms the humble colony of Oglethorpe into the future\\nMetropolis of the South.\\nRESOUKCES OF SAVANNAH.\\nThe State of Georgia is rich in minerals, rich in agriculture, and rich in\\nforests, which abound the State over. Nature, which is only a name for Prov-\\nidence working in disguise upon the plane of ultimate effects, having thus laid\\nup such an abundance and variety of materials for subsistence, let us see where-\\nabouts upon the earth s surface our lot has fallen. Unrolling the map of the world,\\nwe find the people of Georgia holding possession of about 58,000 square miles of\\nits surface, lying very nearly square between the parallels of 32\u00c2\u00b0 and 35\u00c2\u00b0 North\\nlatitude. Moving the finger along these parallels eastward we find them embrac-", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20 SAVAXKAH HER\\niiiof and traversing Palestine, the ancient Canaan, that Glory of all lands;\\nPersia, as it was when its twelve tribes lirst lifted spears to follow the great\\nCyrus over Asia; and Mesopotamian China. Owing to its peculiar physical\\nconformation it enjoys every diversity of temperate climate. If the orange\\nblossoms in her south, the people of the mountain lands of Georgia sleep under\\nblankets in August. Isothermally the State is also related to Italy and Greece.\\nFrom the torrid Atlantic and Pacific belts heavy laden winds, arrested by the\\nforests of the plain, by the hills and mountains that guard our western frontier,\\nprecipitate their moisture in abundant rains to irrigate a soil where there is no\\nwaste land, and re])lenish the innumerable streams.\\nIt would be a reasonable inference that a soil so rich and various, supplied\\nwith abundant moisture, under a range of the most auspicious and delicious\\nclimates with which a beneficent Providence ever blessed any people, would\\ndisplay a corresponding variety and richness of vegetation. While New York,\\naccording to published accounts, has 150 medicinal out of 1,250 species of plants,\\nthe riora of Georgia exhibits 3,500 species, of which over 400 belong to\\nmedicine.\\nOf the Georgia arboretum there are al)out twenty-one varieties of oak, be-\\nginning with Quersus virens, the Live Oak, tougher in fibre and grander in\\naspect than the luitive oak of our Mother England.\\nFor building, upholstery and all mechanical and economical woods, we may\\nmention five varieties of pine, the cedar, cypress, w^alnut, hickory, chestnut,\\nredberry, locust, ash, linden, poplar, birch, elm, hemlock, spruce, basswood.\\nmagnolia, mulberry, and other trees native to our magnificent forests. Our\\nfruit trees are mostly exotics, but they come to perfection in our soil. Of these\\nmay be mentioned the peach, nectarine, apricot, apple, pear, plum, clierry,\\npomegranate, fig and olive. The olive, the sacred tree whose oil furnished light\\nto the ancients, and food as well as unction for the consecration of kings and\\npriests, and which gave the name of Christ, i. e., anointed, to our Lord, is\\nbeginning to be cultivated in our State. The preservation of fruits and vege-\\ntables is a fit emploj ment for our women. J altimore puts up for annual sale\\nforty-eight million cans of such things.\\nConcerning the timber interests of Georgia a writer in a late number of the\\nSouthern Lumberman says:\\nIt is greatly to be deplored that the unmerciful destruction of our forests\\nby the turj)entine industry could not be regulated in some way so as to obtain\\nthe greatest value from the property. It is a fact, well known to the trade, that\\nmillions of acres have been totally destroyed by the turpentine business, as it\\nwill be impossible to reach the timber thus injured and saw it into lumber be-\\nfore it becomes almost valueless for sawmill purposes. If, as soon as the\\nturpentine manufacturers abandoned this timber, the sawmill men could utilize\\nit, it would save millions of feet of lumber to the country, which means millions\\nof dollars to the country. But this seems impossible, as men generally consider\\nthe }5resent and not the future. After the turpentine men abandon the timber,\\nlarge quantities of it burn down, blow down and die before it can ever be reached", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 21\\nby the sawmill men. Cannot some plan be adopted that will save to the\\ncountry so much valuable timber? There is $700,000,000 worth of pine in\\nGeorgia at the market price, and nearly $200,000,000 in value will be destroyed\\nin this way if some practical plan is not adopted by which to prevent it. Nearly\\none-third of the taxable property of Georgia to be lost And what can be said\\nof Georgia, we think, will be the result in other Southern States.\\nIt is true the census claims a stumpage of about 236,000,000,000 feet of\\nyellow pine in the South, with a cut of, say, 1,500,000,000 feet per year. Some\\nargue that yellow pine will last, at the present rate of production, 150 years.\\nNow, we believe the timber available for sawmill purposes will be cut short\\nfully one-third by reason of the devastation caused by turpentine operators;\\nthat is to say, reduced in available stumpage suitable for manufacturing into\\nlumber from 236,000,000,000 feet to about 160,000,000,000 feet. We believe the\\nlargest operators in lumber will grant that the business is in its infancy. Now,\\nsay the annual production is raised from 1,500,000,000 feet per year to 5,000,-\\n000,000 feet, and thirty-two years an average life time would see our yellow\\npine forests a thing of the past.\\nWe do not believe we are extravagant in our estimates. We will venture\\nthe prediction that the production of yellow pine in the South will be 5,000,-\\n000,000 feet a year in from six to eight years. Lumber from the South during\\nthe war rose to $60 and $80 per thousand at the North. May it not reach those\\nfigures again in twenty-five or thirty years is an open question. We lay stress\\nupon all these points, trusting that some may read, reflect and hold to their\\nextremely valuable properties. Patient waiting will surely be rewarded.\\nThe people of the State have begun to see that the lumber interest of\\nGeorgia is enormous and is rapidly increasing. Many men from Minnesota\\nand Michigan have invested large sums in the development of this industry, and\\nare building tramroads at great expense to tap the main lines. The turpentine\\ninterest is becoming a very considerable one, and has spread over a large portion\\nof Southern Georgia, where a great number of hands are employed.\\nAgricultukal. There is no State in the Union that possesses a more varied\\nclimate and a more varied soil than the State of Georgia. For instance, the\\nproductions of the seaboard consist mainly of rice, and latterly of truck farm-\\ning, with small areas in cotton and still smaller areas in corn. The middle belt\\nof Georgia is probably more salubrious than that near the seaboard, and is more\\nvaried in its productions as agriculture is now being conducted. Through Mid-\\ndle Georgia the products are mainly cotton and corn and smaller grains, such\\nas oats, wheat, etc. The average production of corn, take the entire State over,\\nlast year was about 13 bushels, and the average yield of wheat was about 9\\nbushels. The oat crop, which was an exceptionally fine one last year, yielded\\nabout 7,500,000 bushels. The cotton crop was somewhere between 800,000 and\\n900,000 bales. Middle Georgia grows by far the greater portion of cotton that\\nis grown in the limits of this State. It is par excellence the cotton-growing\\nsection of the State. The lands are somewhat thin, and for that reason the\\nplanters have had resort to fertilizers, which are used to an extent of about", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22 SAVANNAH HER\\n120,000 to 150,000 tons per annum. The production of cotton has risen from\\nabout 500,000 bales during the year just after the war to its present sum of\\n900,000 bales.\\nIn order to show how the agricultural resources of the State have been\\ndeveloped the following figures are giv^en: In 1870 there were produced\\n17,646,459 bushels of Indian corn; in 1880, 23,190,472; in 1870, 11,127,017\\nbushels of wheat, and in 1880, 23,158,335; in 1870, 1,904,601 bushels of oats,\\nand in 1880, 5,544,161; in 1870, 5,640 bushels of barley, and in 1880, 19,396;\\nin 1870, 82,549 bushels of rye, and in 1880, 101,759; in 1870, 402 bushels of\\nbuckwheat, and in 1880, 2,439. Nearly all the fruits and vegetables are grown\\nto tine perfection in some sections of the State, and a great industry of ship-\\nping them to Northern markets is springing up.\\nMiNEKALS. Through the State, coal, iron, copper, gold, slate, and marbles\\nof all colors are found in the greatest abundance, and are being worked to a large\\nextent. The marble through the State is so bountiful that in some sections the\\nballast and culverts of the railroads are made out of the finest kind. Manga-\\nnese has also been recently discovered. There is a great development of the\\ncoal interests, as well as of the iron. The coal mining is being enormously\\ndeveloped; improved machinery is being brought into the State, and large sums\\nare being invested by capitalists of our own State and abroad.\\nFrom this cursory examination of our natural resources, we may safely\\naffirm that Georgia is one of the finest countries on our globe, taking into con-\\nsideration its geographical position, climate, soil, mineral productions, water-\\npower, means of inland transportation, and foreign commerce, its health and\\nrare beauty.\\nSAVANNAH STEAMSHIP INTERESTS.\\nThere are numerous persons, native here and to the manner burn, who\\nwill remember when our steamship squadron was, in number of vessels and\\ncarrying capacity, almost entirely eclipsed by the sailing fleet that for miles\\nlined our wharves, three and four tiers deep. Such is no longer strictly the\\ncase. Here, as at other leading seaports, the steamship has steadily encroached\\non the domain of the sailing vessel, and still the change goes on. The sailing\\nvessels will perhaps always be seen on the seas, but the sword has indeed\\ndeparted from Judah, it will no longer eclipse the steamer, and therefore a\\nsketch of the regular steamship lines to and from Savannah will be apropos:\\nOCKAN STKAMSHII CO.\\nBeginning with the Ocean Steamship Company, we find that this com[)any\\nhas two regular Tines of steamers connecting Savannah with New York and\\nPhiladelphia. The number of steamers in the trade is six, viz: City of Augusta,\\nChatahoochee, Nacoohee, Tallahassee, Juniata, and Cit} of Savannah. The man-\\nagers report a satisfactory increase in the business for the year just passed, over\\nthat of the previous year, and Savannah, which is the southern termini of these\\nlines, is directly interested in their freight and passenger business to the extent\\nof about 90 per cent. Every new railroad that comes from the interior to a sea-\\nport necessarily calls for an increase in ocean transportation.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 23\\nBOSTON AND SAVANNAH STEAMSHIP CO.\\nThere is a regular line of steamships between this city and Boston. The\\nvessels are first-class iron steamships and are fitted up in a most luxurious man-\\nner for the comfort and convenience of passengers, and to this part of their\\nbusiness they pay the strictest attention. During the winter months the arri-\\nval of every steamer of this line from Boston brings to this summerland num-\\nbers of people who are unable, or rather unwilling, to stand the excessive cold of\\nthe Kew England winters. The wharves in this city are connected with the rail-\\nroads, and very little hauling is necessary. Besides their magnificent passenger\\nbusiness, they do a large freightage business in cotton and naval stores for the\\n]S^ew England manufactories. The vessels plying in the trade are the Gate City\\nand the City of Macon. We learn, however, that the company propose soon to\\nput on another fast and first-class iron steamer.\\nMERCHANTS AND MINERS TRANS. CO.\\nThe trade between Savannah and Baltimore is quite extensive, and is car-\\nried on by the above company with their large iron steamers, viz.: Wm. Crane,\\nJohns Hopkins, and Wm. Lawrence, which sail from Savannah semi-weekly,\\nand do both a freight and passenger business, and are represented by an agent\\nin this city.\\nSEA ISLAND ROUTE.\\nThe steamer city of Bridgeton makes regular semi-weekly trips to Fer-\\nnandina, where connections are made with the railroads to Jacksonville and\\nother points in Florida.\\nAUGUSTA AND SAVANNAH STEAMER.\\nThere is only one boat now running between this city and Augusta on the\\nSavannah river. One trip is made each week. Considerable business is done\\nin carrying cotton from the up-country to Savannah.\\nThe Mary Fisher makes semi-weekly trips to Cohen s Bluff and inter-\\nmediate points,\\nVARIOUS TRANSIENT STEAMSHIPS.\\nThere can always be seen at the wharves in Savannah steamships from\\nEngland, France and other couutries. These steamers of course are not owned\\nhere, but they do an immense carrying trade between Savannah and foreign\\nports. It is not an unusual sight to see ten of these vessels at one time loading\\nwith cotton for foreign ports,\\nSAILING VESSELS.\\nTo walk along the five miles of wharves in Savannah one would be sur-\\nprised to see the numerous barks, brigs and schooners, with the flags of almost\\nevery nation on the civilized globe at their mastheads. Here are vessels from\\nNorway, Sweden, Belgium, Sicily, Spain; from France, Germany, Scotland; all\\nloading with our cotton and naval stores for the other side of the blue Atlantic.\\nThese vessels are generally chartered by some of our enterprising ship brokers,\\nwho drive a prosperous trade in this direction.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24 SAVANNAH HER\\nNo.\\nTonnage.\\nMen.\\n10\\n5,067\\n105\\n29\\n11,640\\n260\\n246\\n136,646\\n3,246\\n257\\n163,319\\n3,668\\n542\\n316,672\\n7,279\\n384\\n498,642\\n13,491\\n346\\n466,527\\n12,753\\n730\\n965,169\\n26,244\\n542\\n316,672\\n7,279\\nFOKEIGN CONSULS AND CONSULAR AGENTS AT SAVANNAH.\\nThe importance and wide-spread character of the foreign coniH)erce of\\nSavannah may be ascertained in the fact that the following foreign governments\\nhave their consuls and consular agents here: Argentine Republic, Austria-\\nHungary, Costa liica, Chili, Denmark, France, German Empire, Great Britain,\\nItaly, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzer-\\nland, United States of Columbia and Venezuela.\\nTONNAGE OF TUE TORT OF SAVANNAH FROM SEl-rKMBER 1, 1882, To AUGUST 31, 1883,\\nINCLUSIVE\\nAmerican vessels entered,\\nAmerican vessels cleared,\\nForeign vessels entered,\\nForeign vessels cleared.\\nTotal Foreign,\\nCoastwise Entrances,\\nCoastwise Clearances,\\nTotal Coastwise,\\nTotal Foreign,\\nGrand Total, 1,272 1,281,841 33,523\\nA large number of vessels arrive and depart coastwise that are not required\\nby the customs regulations to enter or clear. The above statement only includes\\nthose vessels in the coastwise trade that actually entered and cleared at the\\nCustom House.\\nSAVANNAH RAILROAD INTERESTS.\\nTo the railroad interests of the city the year has been of the utmost impor-\\ntance, as it has marked throughout the country a period of remarkable prosperity\\nto railroads in general. During almost the entire year the roads concentrating\\nat this city have been taxed to their full capacity, and in some instances beyond\\ntheir facilities, to perform the work. Both passengers and freights have greatly\\nincreased, especially the former, and it may be stated, without any exaggeration,\\nthat the railroads in which Savannah is interested have never before been in a\\nmore prosperous condition. Not only has there been more to do, but the\\nphysical condition of the property has been better than at any previous period.\\nThe past two years have witnessed remarkable development not only in the rail-\\nroads that were then actually running into Savannah, but in those that in other\\nSouthern States had apparently no definite termini and formed merely a dis-\\njointed system of railways, each looking out for its own local interests. The\\ngreat 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,\\nwhether in the North, West, the far West, or in Mexico, have all liad a direct", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AKD INDUSTRIES. 25\\nbearing upon Savannah. The rapid manner in which he obtained control of\\nroad after road, and combined them into vast but harmonious co-operative\\nsystems, was suddenly followed in the South by several bold railway managers;\\nand the product has been the combination of numerous short and weak roads\\ninto long and self-sustaining trunk-lines, reaching from the Lakes to the Gulf,\\nfrom the Mississippi to the Atlantic. The establishment of these trunk lines\\nhas produced a wonderful activity in railroad circles, the benefits of which to the\\nSouth in the purchase of new material, laying new and re-laying old tracks,\\nsecuring a host of new locomotiv^es and cars, and engaging thousands of addi-\\ntional employees, have been sustained by the competition natural between such\\nstrong and wealthy corporations to add new lines, new territory, and new trade\\nto their resources.\\nGEORGIA CENTRAL RAILROAD.\\nThe Georgia Central Railroad is the oldest of the great lines running into\\nSavannah. It is 386 miles in length. The main line of this road runs to\\nMacon, 192 miles, thence by the Atlanta division to Atlanta, a distance of 103\\nmiles. From Milan a branch road is run to Augusta, 53 miles, and another\\nbranch from Gordon to Eatonton, 38 miles. Connections are made by the\\nGeorgia Central at Atlanta with all points in the North and Northwest, and\\nthis secures for Savannah a straight line to this rich country. This route lays\\nopen the finest and richest cotton regions of the State, and by its connections\\ntaps this wealthy cotton-growing district of Alabama and South Carolina. Sa-\\nvannah suffered long for the want of facilities of transportation, but when this\\ngreat line was completed, her wants were supplied for a short time. But so\\npressing and powerful was the impetus of a mighty and growing trade that she\\nwas compelled to cry aloud for other avenues through which to receive and ship\\nher growing commerce.\\nSAVANNAH, FLORIDA AND WESTERN RAILROAD.\\nThis road is the great highway connecting Savannah with Florida, Southern\\nand Southwestern Georgia, and Eastern Alabama. It extends to Bainbridge, on\\nthe Flint river, a distance of 237 miles. It coimects at Albany by a branch\\nroad, 58 miles in length, with the central and southwestern system of roads, and\\nat Live Oak with the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad for middle\\nFlorida. Its most important branch line is the new Way Cross Short Line, re-\\ncently completed to Jacksonville, 172 miles from Savannah. At Callahan, 150\\nmiles from Savannah, it connects with the Florida Transit and Peninsular Rail-\\nroad for Southern Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. At Jacksonville connection\\nis made with the great artery of Florida commerce, the St. John s river, for all\\npoints reached by that magnificent stream.\\nThis road is successor to the Savannah, Albany and Gulf, and Atlantic and\\nGulf Railroads, It is enabled by the purchase of the franchises and privileges\\nof those companies, which were compelled to succumb to adverse fortunes to\\nmore than realize all the anticipations which suggested the original enterprise,\\nand to secure to Savannah all the advantages which prompted its citizens to first\\nlend their aid to the scheme of its construction.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26 SAVANNAH HER\\nThe depot grounds of this road are in the southeastern portion of the city,\\nfronting on Liberty and East Broad Streets, and contain over eighty acres of land,\\nwell situated for the purpose and affording ample room for the future require-\\nments of the company. It is intended, at an early date, to erect a handsome and\\ncommodious passenger-depot on these grounds, which will prove an ornament\\nto that part of the city and afford the accommodation the largely increasing\\nbusiness of the company requires.\\nThe wharves of this company stretch along the lower river front to the\\ndistance of nearly a mile. Built upon the foundation of a former rice planta-\\ntion, there has grown into existence a magnificent property, capable of answer-\\ning the increased demands of commerce for many years to come. Here, for the\\nyear ending December 31, 1881, 31,000,000 feet of lumber and 146,000 barrels of\\nnaval stores were received, and 13,663 tons of commercial fertilizer were handled.\\nThe earth for filling in has been brought in amount aggregating 250,000 cubic\\nyards from Bruton Hill, immediately in the rear, while the four quarters of the\\nhabitable globe have also contributed their quota in the discharge of ballast by\\nforeign shipping. In this matter a wise forethought has kept the lead of the\\ndemands of business, and abundant facilities can yet be afforded as the exigencies\\nof a prosperous trade will demand.\\nThe equipment of the new company consisting of powerful engines and\\nhundreds of freight cars, together with its perfect roadway and elegant passen-\\nger coaches is fully adequate to the necessities of its business, while, by con-\\nstruction and by purchase, it is continually adding to its stock, always in\\nappliances of the latest and most improved character.\\nCHARLKSTON AND SAVANNAH RAILROAD.\\nThis road is a part of the plant system of roads, and extends from Savannah\\nto Charleston, 115 miles. It is one of the finest equipped roads in the country.\\nThe entire road-bed is now laid with steel rails. The passenger coaches are\\nexquisitely upholstered and finished throughout in a lavish and tasteful manner.\\nRiding on railroads at best is a tiresome occupation, but a trip over this road is\\nreally a pleasure. The advantages of this road to Savannah are many. It opens\\nup to the trade of Savannah a country never before tapped, and lays in her lap\\nthe commodities of that portion of the State through which it runs. It has a\\ndirect connection to the East via Yamessu.\\nSTREET RAILROADS.\\nOf the various street railroads in Savannah it is not requisite here to speak.\\nThere are many of them, enough for the present demands of the city, and sufii-\\ncient capital to build more when it is found necessary.\\nINCREASE OF RAILROADS IN GEORGIA.\\nIn 1880 there were 2,197 miles of railroad in the State, and in 1882, 2,421\\nmiles, an increase of 224 miles. These figures include only the main tracks.\\nSince 1882 a number of miles have been added; so it is safe to say there are\\nnearly 3,000 miles of railroad in the State. The various roads are as follows\\nMacon and Brunswick; Brunswick and Albany; South Carolina; Alabama", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AKD INDUSTRIES. 27\\nGreat Southern Columbus and Rome; Louisville and Wadley; Eaton ton Bran cli;\\nRoswell; Hartwell; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta; Atlanta and West\\nPoint; East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia; Lawrenceville Elberton Air\\nLine; Northeastern; Charleston and Savannah; Georgia Railroad and Banking\\nCompany; Georgia and Cincinnati Division E. T. Va. and Ga.; Savannah,\\nGriffin and JS^orth Alabama; Central Atlanta Division Central Railroad and\\nBanking Company Perry Branch Columbus and Western Railroad of Ala-\\nbama; Upson County; Southwestern; Gainesville and Jefferson; Atlanta and\\nCharlotte; Waycross and Florida; Junction Branch; Florida Branch; South\\nGeorgia and Florida; Talbotton; Port Royal and Augusta; Sandersville and\\nTennille; Savannah, Florida and Western; Marietta and Korth Georgia; Rome;\\nWalton County; Cherokee; Georgia Pacific.\\nThe estimated value of their lands in 1882 was $242,689, of their build-\\nings $455,113, of their aggregate values $18,729,429.\\nAnd now, with this wide-spreading comprehensive system of transporta-\\ntion, together with our unsurpassed advantages of deep water navigation, to\\nmake tributary to our market the riches of the vast scope of country in which\\nwe are located, developing our own unrivaled resources, and distributing far\\nand wide our products in manufactures and commerce, who can portray in\\nword-picturing the grand and brilliant future in store for our beautiful city, or\\ndoubt that it is destined to rank prominent among the proud array of American\\ncities whose towering strength makes them the marvel of the entire world?\\nBANKING FACILITIES OF SAVANNAH.\\nIn the brief financial history of the United States, and even in the still\\nbriefer financial history of Savannah, many important events in the banking\\nbusiness have occurred. We have been blessed with very few good banking\\nsystems and cursed with very many bad ones, and while now the failure of a\\nbank causes astonishment throughout the country, there have been times those\\ninsecure days of the old Wild Cat system, for instance\u00e2\u0080\u0094 when more astonish-\\nment was felt if a week passed without several failures.\\nIt would go beyond the purposes of this work, however, to attempt a full\\nrecord of the disasters and successes, the collapses, failures, stampedes, panics\\nand what not of the past, relieved here and there by a recital of solid foundations\\nlaid and substantial superstructures maintained. In general we may say, that in\\npoint of number the banking institutions of Savannah will compare favorably\\nwith other great commercial centers in soundness, and in the amount of busi-\\nness transacted on the capital invested, they hold high rank with any in the\\ncountry and any one at all observant would naturally be struck with the extent\\nof the business of this city by merely noticing the amount of capital possessed\\nand the prosperity of banking institutions\u00e2\u0080\u0094 for the advance of business is\\nprobably more accurately demonstrated by the growth of the banking interest\\nthan by any other one stand-erd that can be followed with equal precision.\\nAlthough there are a large number of private banks, brokerage firms and\\nothers having control of a large amount of aggregated capital, the leading banks", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28 SAVANNAH HER\\nof Savannah are four in number, all in sound condition, and conducting safe\\nand profitable business.\\nTHE COMMEECE OF SAVANNAH.\\nThis city may claim for itself that happy medium of climate that juste\\nmilien of temperature that quickens without enervating that enjoys the\\ncrescive power of the tropical regions, without their noxious influence. Situat-\\ned on the thirty-second parallel of the north latitude, and eighty-one degrees\\nwest from Greenwich, it enjoys a winter climate which for softness and genial\\ncomfort is unsurpassed, if not unequaled. Its proximity to the Atlantic brings\\nit within the reach of the refreshing sea-breezes, which temper the fervors of a\\nsummer solstice with a renovating coolness.\\nVessels of heavy draft are admitted without hindrance to her wharves.\\nThe water of the river at this point is still fresh and fit for alimentary purposes.\\nThat destructive marine insect so fatal to vessels in salt and brackish water, the\\nsea-worm so called, is unknown in this river, and should it have gained a lodg-\\nment in the bottom of a vessel previous to her entrance into these waters, a very\\nshort time only is necessary for the fresh water to destroy them. At this point,\\nalso, ships take in their water at low tide for their vovasre. The Savannah river\\nis navigable for the most part of the year, for steamboats of moderate draught,\\nto Augusta, two hundred and fifty miles above the city of Savannah.\\nHaving demonstrated the many advantages, both natural and acquired,\\npossessed by Savannah, as concerns geographical location, diversilied and trans-\\nportation facilities for conducting to a successful issue our trade, commerce and\\nindustries, let us briefly examine into the condition of the various lines of the\\nseveral departments which constitute the whole of our business.\\nSAVANNAH AS A COTTON MARKET.\\nUp to the year 1882, Savannah ranked next to New Orleans as a cotton port.\\nThat place she has now lost. The receipts of Galveston for the season just\\nclosed were greater than those of Savannah. The increase of Galveston s\\nreceipts, however, are readily explained. The increase of the cotton production\\nof Texas has been immense, and last year the increase was suflicient to give\\nGalveston the second place. The cotton of Texas naturally goes to Galveston,\\nand the increase of the receipts of that port, therefore, does not indicate that the\\nlegitimate business of other ports has been interfered with. It might be well,\\nhowever, to inquire why it was that the receipts of Savannah last season did not\\nincrease in proportion to the increase of the crop. The chief reason was the\\npooling system, relative to freights, adopted by the railways which transport the\\ncotton of this section. The system gave Norfolk a decided advantage. Cotton\\nwas cari-ied to Norfolk and Newport News from Macon cheaper than it was\\nbrought here. The railways were, perhaps, not so much to blame for this\\ndiscrimination against this port as the Legislature. The Legislature, by enact-\\nments, which hardly can be considered wise, prevented the railways whose\\ninterests are in this direction from chartering lines outside of the State, but\\ngave railways outside of the State the privilege of chartering lines within the", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "TRABE, COMMERCE AKD INDUSTRIES. 29\\nState. The effect of these enactments has been exti-emely detrimental to our\\ninterests. Another thing that was against us was the understanding among\\nthe stevedores not to stow cotton compressed in the interior, and also the higher\\nrates charged for compression. The result of this was to turn this cotton in the\\ndirection of Korfolk and other ports north of that point. These matters have\\nbeen inquired into, however, and no doubt every effort will be made to correct\\nthem. Savannah has great natural advantages, and these of themselves will, it\\nis hoped, overcome ordinary obstructions which may be placed in the way of her\\nlegitimate trade. The pooling system has naturally caused a falling off in the\\ncoastwise through freights from this port. Cotton that ought to come here for\\nshipment North has, on account of this system, gone ]^orth by rail. It is also\\nnoticeable that there has been a falling off in our exports to England. This is\\ndue to the fact that our exporters have been trading direct with the mills on the\\ncontinent. Formerly cotton used to reach these mills by way of England.\\nAnother reason why our foreign exports have fallen off somewhat is that buyers\\nfor the Northern mills are much more active than in former years. The cotton\\ntaken from this market last season for consumption in the New England mills\\nand the mills in the South was greater in amount than in any previous season.\\nRECEIPTS OF COTTON AT THE PORT OF SAVANNAH FROM SEPT. 1, 1882, TO AUG. 31, 1883\\nPer Central Railroad,\\nPer Savannah, Florida Western Railway,\\nPer Charleston Savannah Railway,\\nPer Carts,\\nPer Savannah River steamers.\\nPer Brunswick and Satilla steamers.\\nPer Florida steamers,\\nFrom Charleston,\\nFrom various sources,\\nTotal,\\nStock on hand September 1, 1882,\\n819,378 12,070\\nThe following tabulated statement gives the total exports of cotton, foreign\\nand coastwise, from the port of Savannah, from Sept. 1, 1882, to Sept. 1, 1883.\\nCoastwise. Upland. Sea Island.\\nCharleston, _\\nBaltimore,\\nPhiladelphia, _ _\\nNew York,\\nBoston,\\nI Total coastwise,\\nLocal mill consumption.\\nUpland.\\nSea Island.\\n649,255\\n133,935\\n10,389\\n3,606\\n3,181\\n166\\n16,678\\n4,884\\n59\\n886\\n1,378\\n1,300\\n322\\n12\\n814.047\\n12,004\\n5,331\\n66\\n2,862\\n1,056\\n89,023\\n5,985\\n17,487\\n12\\n211,994\\n4,204\\n73,292\\n185\\n394,658\\n11,442\\n2,100", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30 SAVANNAH HER\\nForeign. Upland.\\nSea Island.\\nLiverpool. 109,729\\n583\\nHavre, 25,628\\n30\\nBremen, 109,992\\nReval, 61,101\\nBarcelona, _ 52,190\\nAmsterdam, 22,479\\nCronstadt, 12,275\\nGenoa, 10,374\\nHango, 3,600\\nSalerno, 2,850\\nGothenberg, _ 1,649\\nCarlshamn, i.ooO\\nNordkoping, 1,360\\nTJddervalla, ._.... 1,336\\nCorunna, 1^200\\nPasajes, 1,190\\nBilbao, 198\\nPalma de Majorca, 34\\nTotal foreign, 418,385\\n613\\nTotal coastwise, 394,658\\n11,442\\nLocal mill consumption, 2,100\\nGrand total, 815,143\\n12,055\\nStock on hand and on shipboard August 31, 1883, 4,235\\n14\\nThe following are the net receipts at all United States ports for the year\\nending August 31, 1883\\nGalveston,\\n863,104\\nNew Orleans, .._.._\\n1,664,532\\nMobile,\\n311,960\\nSavannah,\\n817,670\\nCharleston,\\n570,076\\nWilmington,\\n129,146\\nNorfolk,\\n798,673\\nBaltimore,\\n85,666\\nNew York,\\n162,184\\nBoston,\\n192,084\\nPhiladelphia,\\n99,141\\nIndianola,\\n18,891\\nPort Kojal,\\n19,491\\nProvidence,\\n12,723\\nWest Point and City Point,\\n223,293\\nPensacola,\\n4,529\\nBrunswick,\\nTotal,\\n5,558\\n5,978,721", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "1880-81.\\n1881-82.\\n1882-3.\\nBbls.\\nBbls.\\nBbls.\\n112,162\\n78,000\\n86,000\\n80,460\\n58,000\\n74,000\\n223,000\\n227,583\\n205,763\\nTRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 31\\nTHE KICE TRADE.\\nThe rice market for the past year has been anything but satisfactory, both\\nto the producer and dealer, owing to the large quantities of Sandwich Island\\nrice being allowed to come in free, and the reduction of duty on other foreign\\nrices of Jc. per pound since July 1, which has given us a declining and unsatis-\\nfactory market.\\nThe total yield of the crops of Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana for the past\\nthree years was as follows\\nCarolina,\\nGeorgia,\\nLouisiana,\\nThe bulk of last year s yield of rice has been distributed from first hands\\ndirectly to the consumer.\\nIn the Western, Northern, Northwestern and Middle States our facilities\\nfor shipping direct to the trade are equal and in many cases superior to New\\nYork and other formerly large distributing markets.\\nWith free rice from the Sandwich Islands and Jc. reduction of duty on\\nforeign whole rices, and with granulated or broken rice coming in at 20 per\\ncent, instead of 2Jc. per pound, and the large yield in Louisiana, we can but\\nlook for a low range of prices, which if our holders will meet and dispose of the\\ncrop as it comes to market will enable us to shut out foreign rices to a great\\nextent, and to find a ready sale for all our production, whilst if the holders will\\nnot accept the prices, but store and hold, the foreign rices will come in again as\\nthey did this year, compelling the domestic to be sold at low prices with the\\nadditional changes for carrying, etc.\\nThe following table will give the total shipments of rice from the port of\\nSavannah for the year ending Sept. 1, 1883\\nBbls. Clean. Bags Bough.\\nTo Boston, _ 5,667\\nTo New York, 12,768 2,708\\nTo Philadelphia, 5,598\\nTo Baltimore, 2,164\\nPer Central Railroad to West and interior, 8,470 3,666\\nPer S. F. W. Ry. to West and interior, 5,377\\nTo Providence, via Baltimore, 324\\nTo Western cities, via Baltimore, 10,423\\nTo Boston, via Baltimore, 19\\nTo Liverpool, 29\\n50,839 6,374\\nNAVAL STOKES.\\nConcerning the Naval Store business in this city we quote the following\\nfrom the News of Sept. 1, 1883, and we will take the occasion of saying that", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32 SAVANNAH HEK\\nthe report published by the JVeivs is about the fairest and fullest report of the\\nkind we have seen tabulated by any of the papers in the South. We have found\\nit of great value in making out our report, and have not, nor shall we fail to\\nmake use of it whenever it suits our convenience, acknowledging here and\\nnow our obligations for the facts which it furnishes;\\nIn regard to our immediate receipts, we show a gratifying increase. We\\nrun up receipts of spirits turpentine from 77,059 casks to 116,127 casks, and of\\nrosins from 309,834 barrels to 430,548 barrels an increase of about 50 per cent,\\non spirits and about 40 per cent, on rosins, the difference in the rate of increase\\nin the two articles being caused by the fact that spirits has been closely market-\\ned, while some rosins are still in the country. Comparing our receipts with the\\nother Southern ports, according to the appended table, which has been carefully\\nmade up from the best statistical sources, we ascertain that\\nSavannah increases 50 per cent, on spirits and 40 per cent, on rosin.\\nWilmington decreases 8 per cent, on spirits and 13 per cent, on rosin.\\nCharleston increases 9 per cent, on spirits and 14 per cent, on rosin.\\nMobile increases 46 per cent, on spirits and 18 per cent, on rosin.\\nBrunswick increases 9 per cent, on spirits and 17 per cent, on rosin.\\nCOMPAKATIVE TABLE OF RECEIPTS FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 1882, TO SEPTEMBER 1, 1883.\\nSpirits Turp, Kosins.\\n188\\nSavannah,\\nWilmington,\\nCharleston,\\nMobile,\\nBrunswick,\\nTotal, 282,172 330,686 1,295,006 1,401,235\\nThe following table shows the increase in this branch of business since 1874,\\ngiving the receipts at Savannah for the years named:\\nSpts. tupt. Rosins.\\n1874-75, 9,555 41,707\\n1875-76, 15,521 59,792\\n1876-77, 19.984 98,888\\n1877-78, 31,138 177,104\\n1878-79, 34,368 177,447\\n1879-80, 46,321 231,421\\n1880-81, 54,703 282,386\\n1881-82, 77,059 309,834\\n1882-83, 116,127 430,548\\n1881-2.\\n1882-3.\\n1881-2.\\n1882-3.\\n77,059\\n116,127\\n309,834\\n430,548\\n91,417\\n84,225\\n486,379\\n424,068\\n65,461\\n71,230\\n264,645\\n301,618\\n27,579\\n40,044\\n143,791\\n170,421\\n20,959\\n19,060\\n90,357\\n74,580\\nTotal 404,776 1,809,127\\nThe following tabulated statement shows the Exports of Kaval Stores from\\nthe ]H)rt of Savannah for the year ending Sept. 1st, 1883", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AKD INDUSTRIES.\\n33\\nCoastwise.\\nNew York,\\nBoston,\\nPhiladelphia,\\nBaltimore,\\nInterior towns,\\nForeign.\\nLondon,\\nLiverpool,\\nAntwerp,\\nQneenstown,\\nCronstadt,\\nBarcelona,\\nTrieste,\\nLisbon,\\nPernambuco,\\nGlasgow,\\nAberdeen,\\nStettin,\\nGoole,\\nCork,\\nRotterdam,\\nHull,\\nBristol,\\nHamburg,\\nGibraltar,\\nDantzic,\\nMarseilles,\\nKoningsberg,\\nRiga,\\nMalaga or Carthagena,\\nCadiz,\\nRaima de Majorca,\\nTotal,\\nSpirits.\\nRosin.\\nSpirits.\\nRosin.\\n23,063\\n107,705\\n9,792\\n35,319\\n6,957\\n41,741\\n10,419\\n78,069\\n49,581\\n263,490\\n1,561\\n2,906\\n13,046\\n1,561\\n7,430\\n1,662\\n10\\n2,090\\n200\\n7,487\\n8,517\\n1,694\\n6,971\\n4,950\\n51,142 266,396\\n16,404\\n11,884\\n3,569\\n18,975\\n7,041\\n5,278\\n3,959\\n2,558\\n3,158\\n8,213\\n8,419\\n2,650\\n9,293\\n9,895\\n16,895\\n2,650\\n2,500\\n8,150\\n2,200\\n3,339\\n1,270\\n120\\n61\\n55,618 148,481\\n106,760 414,877\\nTHE LUMBER TRADE.\\nThe lumber business has for many years been an important item in the\\nhistory of Savannah s exports. In 1847 it had become a trade of very much\\nimportance, and employed at that early day two hundred vessels of all sizes to\\ntransport to almost every ]3art of the habitable globe. The Yellow Pine of\\nGeorgia, the pinus australis of Michaud, is confessedly the most valuable,\\nbecause the most durable and the most beautiful of all resinous woods for the", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34 SAVANNAH HER\\npurpose of structure. It diifers from the pine of the same name in Korth and\\nSouth Carolina in many of its features; the most striking one is its grain, for\\nso the various laminal or concentric circles that compose the tree are called.\\nThe grain of the Georgia pine is much closer and finer than that of either of\\nthe other States, and the resinous matter with which all pines abound is more\\nfirmly incorporated with the wood, and less easily extracted by water or climate.\\nSo long as this vital principle of the wood is retained, the wood itself, if free\\nfrom sap, is incorruptible; but when from conspiring elementary causes this\\nnatural aliment is parted with (and this is soonest the case when the grain is\\ncoarse and the laminae far asunder), a space is left open to the alternations of air\\nand moisture, and these are the sure harbingers of decay. The Georgia pine\\nenters largely into the construction of vessels, and is considered jpar excilant\\nfor flooring purposes.\\nApparently, all our lumber men are doing well. It is true that during the\\nyear a few of the smaller mills have been compelled to stop running, which was\\nowing to the fact that all the timber had been cut down in the immediate vicin-\\nity, and, of course, the cost of putting supplies within easy reach would not\\nwarrant their running, because it costs as much to run a mill cutting 20.000 to\\n30,000 feet per day as one cutting 50,000 to 60,000 feet, requiring about the same\\namount of labor. The introduction of labor-saving machinery in the past few\\nyears has enabled the largest mills to run very cheaply, while at the same time\\nthey do a larger amount of work, thereby facilitating the filling of contracts\\nmuch more readily as well as satisfactorily. Appended we give the shipments\\nof lumber and timber for the year, both coastwise and foreign.\\nSHIPMENTS OF LUMBER AND TIMBER FOR THE YEAR ENDING AUGUST 31, 1883.\\nLumber. Timber.\\nCoastwise, feet, 51,944,912 2,412,744\\nForeign, 19,158,792 3,543,947\\nTotal, 71,103,704 5,956,691\\nTHE FERTILIZER TRADE.\\nThe steady improvement in this branch of our trade is due to the fact that\\nour merchants have been reaching out into other States, and competing with\\nNorthern establishments. Our merchants have succeeded in irivintr l)etter terms\\nto the planters of Tennessee and Texas than could the Northern dealer, and, as\\na consequence, our business has been materially increased. The trade during\\nthe past year amounted to about seventy thousand tons, valued at $2,600,000.\\nAppended are the shipments in pounds of commercial fertilizers by way of the\\ndifferent railroad and steamer lines from Savannah during the year. The state-\\nment includes all through shipments from other points in addition to the\\namount shipped by our merchants, and shows that the bulk of the trade is justly\\ncredited to the enterprise of Savannah factors.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 35\\nEXPORTS OF GUANO FROM SEPT. 1882, TO AUG. 31, 1883, INCLUSIVE.\\nPounds.\\nPer Central Railroad, 124,168,507\\nPer Savannah, Florida and Western Railway, 27,384,069\\nPer Charleston and Savannah Railway, 1,850,000\\nPer Augusta River steamers, 3,278,360\\nPer Florida and Satilla steamers, 1,098,016\\nCoasters, 221,000\\nTotal, 157,999,952\\nTHE PROVISIONS TRADE.\\nThe amount of trade during the past year in provisions has been quite large;\\nin point of fact, has shown considerable increase, but in general results has not\\nbeen as satisfactory as in former years, which was due to the gradual shrinkage\\nof values prevailing throughout the summer, the falling off being fully one half,\\nand, of course, jobbers were cut down to the very lowest margins. Consequently\\nthey report the business was not quite as remunerative as formerly, but there is\\na very bright future for the trade, as the opening of new railroad lines in Florida\\nhas opened up territory which this market has failed to cover, owing to the high\\nrates of freight to particular points. It is to be hoped that our leading lines\\nwill offer every inducement to bring the trade to this point, as with low rates\\nand ample shipping facilities our merchants will be enabled to shut out all com-\\npetition. Of course, we have not felt any real competition as yet, but, as this\\nstate of affairs exists, and cannot be ignored, it is better that something be done\\nto meet it, as it will not do to lose our present position as a provision market.\\nIn the years of famine or of plenty Savannah has steadily held the high position\\nas the best market of supply to all who tried her. At all times were her mer-\\nchants in position to supply anything in the provision line; at all times far-see-\\ning and conservative in their views, courteous and straight in their dealings,\\nthey have reaped the reward due to their energy, and the provision trade of the\\ncity stands to-day a high monument of what men can do.\\nWOOL AND HIDES.\\nThis branch of our commerce is gradually on the increase, and Savannah\\nis fast becoming an important point for the handling of wool and hides from\\nthe interior. The following table shows the receipts and exports of hides and\\nwool for the past year. These figures, however, do not include through ship-\\nments:\\nRECEIPTS.\\nWool. Hides.\\nSavannah, Florida and Western Railroad, 636,061 772,279\\nCentral Railroad, 1,101,780 854,560\\nCharleston and Savannah Railroad, 7,500 3,500\\nAugusta steamers, 9,650 6,400\\nFlorida steamers, 121,600 315,000\\nWagons, 32,000 46,000\\nTotal, pounds, 1,908,591 1,997,739", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36\\nSAVANNAH HER\\nEXPORTS.\\nNew York,\\nBaltimore,\\nBoston,\\nWool.\\nHides.\\n3,119\\n210\\n40\\n3,035\\n2,658\\n3,822\\nTotal, bales.\\n5,817\\n7,067\\nFRUITS AND VEGETABLES.\\nWe now come to examine one of the most important branches of Savan-\\nnah s trade. The business in foreign fruits, nuts, etc., is not so large in this\\ncity as one would wish to see it, mainly on account of the quarantine restric-\\ntions. There are, however, fine cargoes of fruits and nuts received at this\\nport. The main business is done in Florida fruits and vegetables and those\\nraised in our own immediate neighborhood. The whole country around Savan-\\nnah is laid out in magnificent truck farms. The salubrity of the climate\\nusually brings vegetation in the South, in this neighborhood, to perfection long\\nbefore the snows have melted from the hills in the North. As a consequence\\nthe gardener in this vicinity is enabled to sell his crop at fancy prices in the\\nNorth and West. We will here remark that there are good openings here for\\nindustrious gardeners in the ]Sorth who will come and settle. Land is cheap,\\nand the profits are large and certain.\\nBelow we give the shipments of fruits and vegetables from the Ist of\\nSeptember, 1882, to 31st of August, 1883, inclusive:\\nWATERMELONS.\\nTo New York, 406,677\\nTo Philadelphia, 117,675\\nTo Baltimore, 61,100\\nTo Boston, 215,401\\nTotal,\\nORANGES, LEMONS, ETC.\\nTo New York,\\nTo Philadelphia,\\nTo Boston,\\nPer Southern Express Company through.\\nTotal,\\nTo New York,\\nTo Philadelphia,\\nTo Boston,\\nTo Baltimore,\\nPer Southern Express Company,\\nTotal,\\nVEGETABLES.\\n800,853\\nBbls.\\nBoxes.\\n1,679\\n132,642\\n350\\n17,591\\n499\\n25,978\\n65,490\\n2,528\\n241,693\\nBbls.\\nPkgs.\\n27,167\\n158,962\\n9,127\\n42,811\\n3,420\\n25,970\\n77,446\\n14,467\\n101,041\\n54,190\\n406,230", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMBIERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 37\\nTHE COFFEE TRADE.\\nCoffee is an article of importation in which Savannah is gradually making\\nher way to the front rank. Whole cargoes come to this port, and from a very\\nsmall beginning the business has grown until now the value of the business for\\nthe last year amounted to over $200,000. Five firms are engaged in the importa-\\ntion of coffee direct.\\nTHE SALT TRADE.\\nThe article of salt is such a necesLsity that the wonder has often been ex-\\npressed where does it all come from. Liverpool, Turks Island, and some of the\\nwells situated principally in Ohio and West Virginia furnish the bulk of this\\narticle consumed in the United States, but the two former are dealt in more\\nextensively by Savannah. The fact that gentlemen of undoubted probity and\\nsubstantial resources have control of the salt market in Savannah should be an\\ninducement to all buyers in the South and West to come to this city for their\\nsupplies. The facilities for importing are unequalled; salt can be brought as\\nballast in ships coming to this port from Liverpool for cotton, and we are sur-\\nprised that more of it does not come in this way. During the past year there\\nwas brought to this market nearly 16,000,000 pounds of salt, valued at $25,000.\\nHORSES AND MULES.\\nA feature of the trade of Savannah is the traffic in horses and mules. The\\nvery best mules raised in America are to be found in the sale-stables of this city;\\nand horses of heavy draught, fed upon the blue grass of the Western States, and\\nnotoriously free from the imperfections and disorders to which horses are liable,\\nare brought to Savannah in large numbers and in better condition than can be\\nfound elsewhere, save where they are raised. In fancy horses for road purposes\\nthe market does not pretend to compete with certain Northern cities, where the\\nbest breeds of trotters are raised, and where the demand is always great; but\\nthe market is always stocked with medium horses at fair prices, and the character\\nof those engaged in the business is a guarantee to buyers that their representa-\\ntions are correct.\\nTHE COAL TRADE.\\nCoal lies at the bottom of all successful manufactures, and as Savannah al-\\nready has a number of manufacturing establishments now in operation, it would\\nbe strange indeed if there were not a number of firms engaged in the coal\\nbusiness. A large portion of the State is underlaid with a rich vein of coal\\nwhich is almost at our very door, and with the cheap rates from the interior can be\\nbrought here and sold to ships. We make the prediction that the time is not far\\ndistant when all the steamships which come into this port will do their coaling\\nwhile here.\\nTHE OYSTER TRADE.\\nThe varieties of oysters used in Savannah are numerous, and every one has\\nhis or her peculiar preference. There are the Montgoraerys, the Isle of\\nHopes, the Skidaways, the White Bluffs, the Daufuskies and the", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38 SAVANNAH HER\\nThunderbolts, all very nearly alike, but the connoisseur, in his cultivated\\ntaste, says they are as different in flavor as they are in name.\\nOver 500 gallons are brought into the city daily from all along the coast,\\nMontgomery and Thunderbolt furnishing the largest bulk. These oysters are\\ntaken readily by the shippers and are at once prepared for shipment. The\\nshipments amount to an average of 400 gallons daily, and nearly every city and\\ntown in the State is supplied from this market, Macon and Atlanta being the\\nheaviest purchasers.\\nThe season proper is from 1st of September the first month with the r\\nto the 1st of May, eight months. On an average of receiving 500 gallons\\ndaily for the eight months the receipts for the season would be 112,000 gallons,\\nwhile the shipments would run up to 89,000. These figures do not include the\\nheavy run of orders during the holidays, but are given as under rather than\\nabove the estimated total shipment. The home consumption will probably\\namount to 350 gallons daily, giving 78,400 gallons for the entire season of eight\\nmonths. It will thus be seen that the oyster business is no small item in the\\ntrade of Savannah, but one which is assuming considerable prominence, and\\nlikely to grow into still larger jjroportions as the demand, for the delicious and\\nsucculent bivalve increases.\\nTHE JOBBING TRADE OF SAYANNAH.\\nIn taking up this department of our labors, we })ropose demonstrating, so\\nfar as in our power lies, the vantage-ground Savannah occupies and the facilities\\nshe possesses for the conduct of a successful commerce, not only respecting those\\narticles of manufactured goods turned out from her industrial establishments,\\nbut to include all goods imported from other markets, whether of domestic or\\nforeign production. Our mammoth establishments for the sale of dry goods,\\ngroceries, hardware, queensware, drugs and all the articles that go to make up a\\ngeneral merchandise trade, contain immense stocks of every description, and are\\nconducted by merchants of acknowledged probity, energy, intelligence and\\nwealth many of whom were engaged in business here previous to the war, while\\na host of new houses have sprung up, increasing competition and imparting re-\\nnewed vigor to the sinews of trade which were impaired by the terrible convul-\\nsions of civic strife. They have thus confidently entered the lists of commercial\\nrivalry with the merchants of the Eastern cities, having themselves perfected\\narrangements with the manufactories of the United States, France and Germany,\\ngaining facilities thereby of utmost importance.\\nFormerly it was the custom of buying stocks only twice a year (Spring and\\nSummer, and Fall and Winter), but this plan has been completely changed, and\\nassortments are now kept up by making purchases oftener, say every month or\\ntwo, and the conclusion is that old goods are rarely, if ever, on hand, and\\narticles are not handled in the store six months, are kept cleaner and brighter\\nand more attractive. If, then, the retailer who visits New York and the East\\ncannot afford to go oftener than twice a year, he suffers loss by being be-\\nhind the fashion if he does not go, and loses time and traveling expenses if he", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 39\\ndoes go. If he is an experienced merchant, he may perform the labor of selec-\\ntion without any serious detriment; but even then it is labor, and consumes all\\nthe difference in profit he would gain by purchasing in a nearer market. If he\\nis inexperienced, he is likely to be led into the purchase of goods which will\\nprove entirely unsalable, and the loss thereto incident may prove a serious draw-\\nback upon the success of a whole season s business. Hence it is obvious that a\\npurchaser of a miscellaneous stock, including everything adapted to the wants of\\na rural town or city population in the country, must be, when in Savannah, as\\nnear the most desirable market as it is possible for him to get.\\nThe only j)ractical question for a retailer to consider, then, is, whether it is\\nprobable he can make his purchases in the Savannah market as cheaply as in any\\nother. This we assert he can do, and we leave it to the consideration of those\\nwho study and appreciate commercial economy. To our own personal knowledge\\nit has been already forcibly and eloquently demonstrated.\\nIs it not probable, then, that the merchants of Savannah, in view of their ad-\\nvantages, consignments from abroad seeking their shelves, with abundance of\\ncapital and good credit, can buy and sell on terms as favorable as any of their\\ncompetitors?\\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\\nin detail in the following pages. Those we have considered, however, are enti-\\ntled to the closest consideration of the country merchant.\\nTHE WHOLESALE DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS TRADE.\\nThe trade in dry goods, considered as a branch of commerce, is the\\nmost important of any now existing in this country. It controls a greater\\namount of capital, employs a larger number of persons, and contributes a greater\\nvalue of commodities, than any other branch of mercantile pursuit. The whole-\\nsale dry goods and notions trade is for the most part confined to Congress\\nStreet, with one exception, one house being located on Broughton Street.\\nIn the dry goods line, perhaps more than in any other, energy and capacity\\ndecide the success of the business man, for it is a business requiring 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 have control of this interest, for they have shown a degree of ability\\nand energy in building up the wholesale dry goods trade of this city surpassed\\nnowhere in the country. The News in its annual review says of this trade:\\nOur jobbing trade has a bright record for the past year; no failures,\\nincrease of territory yearly, a steady increase of sales, consequently increase of\\nstocks and facilities of doing business. It to-day looks forward to the time\\nwhen it will make Savannah the Southern market for dry goods and notions for\\nthe States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama, If push, capital,\\naccommodation, stocks and prices to meet the wants of the trade mean anything,\\nthen it will be done in the near future.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40 SAVANNAH HER\\nWHOLESALE GROCERY TRADE.\\nThe business of last year supasses all that preceded it in volume and extent.\\nThe comparative new industries throughout the country tributary to Savannah\\nhave helped to swell its already well-established and increasing commerce.\\nEvery orange grove in Florida, every turpentine farm, has added itc quota of\\nconsumption. Many other factors in the tield of enterprise have contributed to\\nproduce the result which makes Savannah the market for the retailers of\\nGeorgia, Florida, Alabama and lower South Carolina. Our wholesale grocery\\nbusiness is governed by capitalists and merchants of long experience, who supply\\nthemselves in largest quantities from original sources.\\nThe through low rates of freight to Savannah by car load lots, with discounts\\nfor quantity, strengthened by purchases of large invoices and their corresponding\\ndiscounts, give our wholesale grocers the oj)portunity of dividing the goods to\\nretailers and country merchants at as low or lower figures than small or\\nmoderate quantities can be bought at any other competing point. The rapidity\\nwith which goods can reach the interior from Savannah obviates the necessity of\\nlaying in larger stocks than are wanted for immediate use, which is a very\\ndecided advantage to the retailer. It prevents the accumulation of old stock,\\nwhich is a dead weight in business.\\nTliereare thirteen exclusively wholesale grocery establishments in Savannah.\\nThese thirteen firms do an annual business aggregating $10,000,000.\\nWHOLESALE CLOTHING.\\nReady-made clothing in Savannah, as well as in all large jobbing markets,\\noccupies an important position among business pursuits. It has extended to all\\nsections of the country, limiting the country merchant s sale of piece goods for\\nmen s and boys wear, and compelling tailors, in some instances, to abandon\\ntheir trade and embark in the business themselves, or seek other employment.\\nThe introduction of sewing machines, to this class of work, has greatly facili-\\ntated rapid and durable manufacture, and brought clothing down in price to a\\nwonderful degree. Country merchants, who have been careful in the selections\\nof sizes and styles, have found that the sale of clothing can be effected with less\\ntrouble than piece goods, and without the serious drawback of remnants that\\nthere is less competition that their daily receipts of cash are thereby increased,\\nas well as other advantages. Indeed, so satisfactory and lucrative has this busi-\\nness proven, that, as an additional illustration of the tendency of the age to\\nincreased manufactured articles, mention may be made of shirt-making, and of\\nthose branches including gentlemen s and boys underwear, which form impor-\\ntant adjuncts to the business. Connected with this department, gents furnish-\\ning goods, embracing neckwear, handkerchiefs, gloves, hosiery, etc., etc., come\\nin for a large share of attention.\\nThe Savannah 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\\ncountrv merchants. Tlie total business in clothincr we estimate to be $750,000.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 41\\nWHOLESALE BOOTS AND SHOES.\\nNot less important tlian the wholesale clothing trade is that of boots and\\nshoes, which 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 well as a fixture of every city, town or\\ncross-road hamlet, has had to go the way of all old-time customs^ The\\nadvance of progress, with its powerful equipment of labor-saving machinery,\\nhesitates not to destroy ruthlessly the well-loved images of our earlier recollec-\\ntions. But regrets are soon dissipated by the blessings which flow from what\\nat the time is looked upon as tantamount to vandalism. This is fully demon-\\nstrated in the fact that ninety per cent, of the boots and shoes now worn are\\nfactory-made, and as a result the world receives compensation in a multitude\\nof ways, and to an extent that could never possibly have been hoped for from\\nthe ancient system. The jnanifold benefits derived by our city from this impor-\\ntant branch of business may be conceived of from the immense annual sales\\nmade by the dealers of this city, footing up over $1,000,000, and yearly being\\naugmented by the expanding trade, which is reaching out in every direction\\nthrough the country now tributary to us, and being added to by the further\\nincrease of transportation facilities.\\nWHOLESALE HATS AND CAPS.\\nIn this line we have several wholesale establishments that carry full and com-\\nplete stocks of goods, from which selections can be made to as good advantage\\nas to quality and variety, as well as to prices, as at any other point in the South.\\nRecognizing the fact that to secure custom and prosper in their business they\\nmust not be behind their rivals in the larger cities in any particular, our hat\\nand cap merchants keep constantly on hand a full assortments of goods, which\\nthey sell at prices as favorable to the purchaser as any other Southern city can\\nboast. Here every variety of gents headwear may be had, from the fine silks\\nand furs to the cheapest straws and every-day caps. The trade in this line is in\\nan exceedingly prosperous condition, and the annual operations of the establish-\\nments engaged in it show that their growth is healthy as well as rapid. The\\nsales in 1883 approximated about $500,000.\\nWHOLESALE DRUGS, PAINTS, ETC,\\nLong before the wholesaling of goods in this line was ever thought of as a\\ndistinct business, or even considered in combination with any other branch in\\nthis city, the great houses of the East had already established themselves firmly,\\nas they thought, in the trade of this whole region of country so that for every\\ndollar s worth of custom the houses of this city obtained they had to contend\\nwith giants already in the field. The same condition of affairs, however, held\\ngood in all branches of our wholesale trade, but the enterprise, vim, and deter-\\nmined efforts of our drug men have resulted in the most pronounced success,\\njust as the outcome of the energies put in every other department has brought", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42 SAVANNAH HER\\njirosperity to those so engaged. Those houses dealing in this line have by their\\nskill as pharmacists and chemists, and their thorough knowledge of the wants\\nof the people in the territory tributary to this city, succeeded in fully establish-\\ning themselves in the good estimation of their patrons, and building up a trade\\nwhich will not in anywise suffer by comparison relatively speaking with the\\nimmense establishments of the large Eastern cities. Carrying nothing but the\\nfreshest and purest goods in the way of drugs, keeping every department in\\ntheir line up to the highest standard, and with ample capital, their stocks are\\nconstantly enlarging, and their trade extending and growing heavier. The\\nvalue of the business for last year w^as fully $600,000.\\nTHE WHOLESALE LIQUOR TRADE.\\nThe liquor business is one to be found everywhere, go where we will, and\\nnotwithstanding it is one which bears the unenviable reputation in all quarters\\nof the globe of being a destroyer of mankind not without good reason it is\\ntrue and paradoxic although it may be, we find it not infrequently in advance\\nof civilization, and alioays keeping abreast with the vanguard of progress. It\\nis a source of undoubted wealth to all our cities, and contributes unquestioned\\nstrength and general prosperity to the commerce and industries of all commu-\\nnities. Candidly speaking, it is an evil, hydra-headed and more venemous\\nthan the tooth of any serpent that drags its cold and clammy folds over the\\nbosom of this kindly earth, when abused by fallen manhood, and it is this mal-\\ntreatment of an article, which evidently was not created for a baneful purpose,\\nand which we know contains elements highly beneficial to the world at large,\\nthat has brought odium upon the name, and woes unnumbered upon the human\\nrace, individually and 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 pub-\\nlic-spirited than they are u])riglit in character and dealings, they have succeeded\\nin establishing an exceptionally high reputation for their business throughout\\nthe entire country tributary to the trade of this city. The stocks kept here\\nequal those to be found in any city of the country in quality, both in the\\nimported and domestic goods, and they also compare favorably in extent, while\\nthe assortment is full and complete in all the various brands of wines, brandies\\nand liquors. The high standard of goods has made this point a wholesale cen-\\ntre for the trade, quite extensive in proportions, and highly profitable to those\\nengaged in it.\\nWHOLESALE HARDWARE, ETC.\\nThis department of trade embraces hardware, heavy iron, steel, hollow-\\nware, tinware, etc., etc.; and very properly deserves a prominent place among\\nthe pioneer jobbing lines of the city, having been among the first to take the\\nfield against older and established points. However, it has advanced with\\nsteady strides, and is now one of the solid interests of the city. Experience\\nhas fully demonstrated the fact that it can not only be carried on here with suc-\\ncess in the face of all competition, but that it is one of the most prosperous and", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 43\\nprofitable lines of trade we have. Notwithstanding the formidable propor-\\ntions the trade has already reached, there is abundance of room for a large\\nincrease of the business. Indeed, no point in the country offers better induce-\\nments than this as a centre of the hardware business. In 1883 the total sales\\namounted to not less than $1,500,000, and very possibly the actual total exceeds\\nthose figures. One thing is assured, beyond all question of doubt, that the\\nfuture of the trade here is of the most promising character, and must reach that\\nhigh degree of prominence which the grand facilities of the locality will fully\\nsustain and which the entire country tributary to our market demands.\\nWHOLESALE CROCKERY, ETC.\\nThis department of our wholesale trade is represented by establishments\\ncarrying every variety of goods in their line, from the most costly articles\\nof viiV^w to the plainest pieces of kitchen-ware. These houses keep up with the\\ngeneral progress of the business both as to the quality and quantity of their\\nstocks, and all the latest designs in table-ware, etc., are kept on hand. It is a\\nbusiness requiring thorough training for its management, and unless one has this,\\nand understands perfectly all the details of the trade, it is impossible for him to\\ncarry it on without disaster. That our dealers in china, glassware, crockeiy, and\\nthe sundry other wares embraced in this line of trade, possess every necessary\\nqualification for successfully and satisfactorily conducting the business is con-\\nclusively demonstrated by the eminent degree of prosperity they have enjoyed\\nin the past, and the rapid augmentation of trade making it still more\\nimportant each succeeding year.\\nMUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.\\nSavannah has two houses ensjao-ed in the sale of music and musical\\niastruments. Stocks are not only extensive, but represent the best quality of\\ngoods; rare collections of sheet music adapted to all manner of instruments,\\nwith immense stocks of pianos, organs, melodeons, violins, flutes, guitars,\\nbanjos, accordeons; German-silver, brass and field band instruments; strings;\\nmusical goods of every variety, from a reed fife to the most elaborately finished\\nand finely-cased rosewood piano, representing all of the most popular and\\ncelebrated manufactories in Europe and America, and brought to this city in all\\nforms grand, square and upright, bichord and semi-grand, boudoir and cottage\\ngrand. The importation of the best class of German and French instruments is\\nlargely on the increase. The trade in this business will amount to nearly\\n$600,000 annually.\\nBOOKS AND STATIONERY.\\nThe character and standing of those houses engaged in this trade is well\\nand favorably known throughout this section, and their enterprise and liberality\\nto the trade has kept abreast of our great advancement. The business is in a\\nhealthy condition, and dealers report a large per cent of gain last year over pre-\\nvious years.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44 SAVANNAH HER\\nJEWELRY, WATCHES, SILVERWARE, ETC.\\nIn this branch Savannah is ahead of her neighboring cities. Some of\\nour houses are mammoth concerns and carry extensive stocks of the finer\\nqualities of goods, and all the different styles of jewelry known to the trade are\\nmanufactured or imported, and our jewelers have been quite successful in meet-\\ning popular taste in a business that is excessively variable in this regard. The\\nvarious precious stones, of which large and costly stocks are always on hand,\\nare set in Savannah with an elegance and finish that cannot be surpassed.\\nWatches of all kinds, both of American and foreign manufacture, from the most\\nexpensive to the least costly, are sold by the trade as low as can be obtained\\nfrom the manufacturer.\\nMISCELLANEOUS.\\nIn addition to the leading lines of the wholesale business which we have\\nbrieriy 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 contribute\\nlargely to the general prominence and financial prosperity of the community,\\nand its commerce a\u00c2\u00bbd industries.\\nBut while we cheerfully accord to these varied lines of our commerce the\\nmeed of praise they so justly deserve for their generous contribution to the\\nwealth of the city by their vast sales, annually aggregating millions of dollars,\\nwe have not the space to take them up separately and seriatim, giving to each\\nthe extended notice its intrinsic value so richly merits. Suflice 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 in this country can\\nboast advantages superior to those centred in this particular portion of the\\nSunny South, and which are steadily building up making broad, firm and solid\\nthe financial integrity, honor, wealth and enduring greatness of the Forest City\\nof the South.\\nTHE RETAIL TRADE OF SAVANNAH.\\nIt is not expected that a detailed statement could be made of the retail\\ntrade here in its various departments. Such a paper, fully elalwrated, would\\nby far too greatly transcend the limits not already occupied in this work, delay\\nits appearance, and demand a personal sacrifice of time and means which can-\\nnot now be entertained. Our patrons and readers will be content, we are cer-\\ntain, with a general outline of it, as furnishing an indication as to its extent\\nand 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 ofi ers bring hither thousands\\nupon thousands of dollars from all portions of the surrounding country tribu-\\ntary to this market, by means of convenient railroads and river communica-", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND ENDUSTRIES.\\n45\\ntion. Ev^ery species of goods, from the plain and common to the most superb\\nand costly articles, are to be obtained here at prices which are the same as\\nEastern retail figures, and we believe every article in general use can be found.\\nThe retail merchants of this city are, as a body, men of intelligence and busi-\\nness qualifications, and constitute an element in our midst which adds much\\nto the vigor, prosperity and growth of our city.\\nTheir establishments are scattered over every quarter; in the business\\ncentres and in the suburbs, everywhere a group of dwellings may be found,\\nwhere some enterprising retailer has set up his sign as a landmark of the\\nextending frontiers\\nof civilization, and\\nwhile driving a\\ngood business for\\nhimself, is adding\\nsomething to the\\ngrand aggregate of\\nbustle and impor-\\ntance of the city.\\nAlthough there are\\na great many o f\\nthese houses\\nkeeping mi seel\\nlaneous stocks, yet we feel confident the following figures will approximate the\\ntrue number, and for the most part those that have not been mentioned before.\\nAltogether there are about 40 firms retailing dry goods; boots and shoes, 50;\\nclothing and furnishing goods, 29; drugs, 29; cigars and tobacco, 25; groceries,\\n237; saloons, 111; bakers, 24; butchers, 47; barbers, 53; commission mer-\\nchants, 85; besides a numerous array of miscellaneous houses, so varied that it\\nwould be an herculean task to give a clear idea of their pursuits. After hav-\\ning made a careful summary, we are able to place the retail establishments, all\\nbranches included, at not less than one thousand one hundred and eighty -four\\nWe hardly feel like attempting an estimate of their business, for anything short\\nof a complete census would be incomplete, for the man has yet to be born, and\\nbesides be vouchsafed prying qualities and inquisitiveness supernatural, to ena-\\nble him to form any correct idea of trades whose large dealers have a horror of\\ntax-gatherers, and small dealers a penchant for making their business appear as\\nlarge as possible, and oftentimes swelling their volume beyond such reason that\\neven a newspaper reporter would be put to blush; and yet for the sake of a lit-\\ntle mathematical calculation, even if we cut down the receipts of the houses to\\n$50 per day each for 300 days of the year, we have an annual miscellaneous\\nretail trade of more than seventeen millions of dollars.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46 SAVANNAH HER\\nMANUFACTURES AND MANUFACTURING ADVANTAGES OF\\nSAVANNAH.\\nIt is an axiom none the less true because trite, that no city has been or can\\nbecome permanently prosperous without manufactures. A prosperity based\\nexclusively upon a commercial business must necessarily be ephemeral. A city\\nwhich, for instance, depends upon any one or more of the great agricultural\\nstaples for support, business and growth, is liable to become paralyzed in her\\nenergies and interests, not only by failure in the production of such staples, but\\nby their diversion to other points whose eligibility gives them the advantage\\nand preference as markets. Such, also, are the fluctuations in prices of articles\\nof produce that no certainty of successful operation can be relied upon; and\\nwhen uncertain, feverish and exciting speculation underlies the business of any\\ncommunity or city, there is no guarantee of permanent and stable prosperity;\\nwhereas, where manufachiring is carried on successfully there is a steady,\\nhealthful and substantial growth. These facts, then, however unwelcome they\\nmay be to strictly commercial men, prompt us to the consideration of an\\neminently favorable manufacturing point.\\nThe term manufacture, in its derivative sens e, signifies making by hand-\\nIts modern acceptation, however, is directly the reverse of its original meaning;\\nand it is now applied more particularly to that class of products which are made\\nextensively by machinery, without much aid from manual labor. The word,\\ntherefore, is an exceedingly flexible one, and as political economists disagree in\\nopinion as to whether millers and bakers are properly manufacturers, we shall,\\nif need be, take advantage of the uncertainty, and consider as manufacturers\\nwhat strictly may belong to other classifications of productive industry. The\\nend of every manufacture is to increase the utility of objects by modifying their\\nexternal forms or changing their internal constitution, and that the labors of\\nboth millers and bakers efl^ect these things stands undisputed. Political\\neconomists also divide the essential requisites of production into two parts, viz.:\\nLabor and appropriate natural objects. But when applied to manufacturing in-\\ndustry, success, they say, depends upon a variety or rather combination of\\ncircumstances, partly moral and partly j9Ay52C\u00c2\u00abZ. Foremost among the former\\nare freedom of industry and security of property. Happily for us that our Re-\\npublican form of Government not only protects, but fosters and encourages\\nindustry, while true Republican principles make its faithful pui-suit the open\\nsesame to the enjoyment of its manifold benefits; and property is adequately\\nprotected by governmental and legislative action wherever honesty is the ruling\\npolicy.\\nAnother moral cause contributing and, in fact, essential to eminence in\\nmanufacturing industry, is the general diftusion of intelligence among the\\npeople. By intelligence in this connection we do not mean merely the under-\\nstanding necessary to enable an individual to become the maker or the master of\\na machine, for capacity to contrive and invent seems a part of the original con-\\nstitution of man, but simply the exercise of his faculties in the application of\\npractical improvements upon successful enterprise in invention of mechanical", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMIVIERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 47\\nlabor, and the approbation and rewards bestowed thereupon. The eminent posi-\\ntions at present occupied by the New Eng-land and other manufacturing States\\nare due rather to their sound, intelligent and practical philosophy than to any\\nphysical advantages or original intellectual superiority.\\nAs ingenious mechanics and rapid workmen the Anglo-Americans have no\\nsuperiors. As skillful workmen in departments for which they have been spe-\\ncially educated, the English are celebrated. Regular and habitual energy in\\nlabor, however, is a characteristic of both. They have no life but in their work\\nno enjoyment but in the shop. What other races consider amusement, is no\\namusement to them. But in England and America there is a marked difference\\nbetween the quality of the labor that can be obtained in the country and in the\\ntowns. In fact, in or near large cities only can labor of the first quality be\\nobtained.\\nAs iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his\\nfriend; and away from the centers of population and competition the face loseth\\nits sharpness and the hand its cunning. Cities are in nothing more remark-\\nable than in their attractive, magnetic influence upon talent of every description,\\nThe man who desires to employ his pen, observes Carey, and who pos-\\nsesses only the ability to conduct a country newspaper, removes to the interior,\\nwhile the man of talent leaves his country paper to take charge of one in the\\ncity. The dauber of portraits leaves the city to travel the country in search of\\nemployment, while the painter removes to New York or London.\\nSuperior mechanics and dexterous workmen manifest a similar preference\\nfor cities and an abhorrence for isolation; hence, if for no other reason, extensive\\nmechanical or manufacturing operations must be conducted at a great disad-\\nvantage in isolated localities. Passing to the consideration of the physical\\ncauses of eminence in manufacturing industry, we remark: They are more ob-\\nvious than the moral causes, but not more important. To produce manufactured\\ngoods of a given quality with the least expense being the great desideratum, it\\nfollows that whatever contributes to economy in production, whatever saves\\nlabor, or transportation, or raw material, cannot safely be overlooked or despised.\\nBut to investigate carefully all the circumstances that have an influence upon\\neconomical production would require a considerable volume, and be foreign to\\nour main inquiry. The physical advantages which have contributed to England s\\neminence in manufactures, and which, we think, would apply as well to our\\ncountry, are epitomized by the ^c^mJ-wr^A ^(gm ew in the following summary:\\nPossession of surplus of the raw material used in manufacturing; the command\\nof the natural means and agents best fitted to produce power; the position of\\nthe country as respects others, and the nature of the soil and climate. As\\nrespects the first of these circumstances, says the writer, every one who reflects\\non the nature, value and importance of our manufactures of wool, of the useful\\nmetals such as iron, lead, tin, copper and of leather, flax, and so forth, must\\nat once admit that our success in them has been materially promoted by our\\nhaving abundant supplies of the raw material. It is of less consequence whence\\nthe material of a manufacture possessing great value in small bulk is derived.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48 SAVANN4H HER\\nwhether it be furnislied from native sources, or imported from abroad, though,\\neven in that case, the advantage of possessing an internal supply, of which it is\\nimpossible to be deprived by the jealousy or hostilit} of foreigners, must not be\\noverlooked. But no nation can make any considerable progress in the manu-\\nfacture of bulky and heavy articles, the conveyance of which to a distance una-\\nvoidably occasions a large expense, unless she has supplies of the raw material\\nwithin herself. Our superiority in manufactures depends more at this moment\\non our superior machines than on anything else; and had we been obliged to\\nimport the iron, brass and steel, of which they were principally made, it is ex-\\nceedingly doubtful whether we should have succeeded in bringing them to any-\\nthing like the present pitch of improvement.\\nBut of all the physical circumstances that have contributed to our wonder-\\nful ])rogress in manufacturing industry, none has had nearly so much influence\\nas our possession of the most valuable coal mines. These have conferred\\nadvantages on us not enjoyed in an equal degree by any other people. Even\\nthough we had possessed the most abundant supply of the ores of iron and other\\nuseful metals, they would have been of little or no use, but for our own almost\\ninexhaustible coal mines.\\nWater power was for a long time considered cheaper, especially for small\\nmanufacturing establishments, than steam power, but eminent engineers have\\ncarefully investigated the subject, and are of opinion that in any position where\\ncoal can be had at ten cents per bushel, steam is as cheap as water power at\\nits minimum cost. Steam, therefore, until superseded by some more effective\\nagent, will be the power princij)ally relied upon to propel machinery, and as\\nwood for the generation of steam upon an extensive scale is out of the question,\\nwe may safely conclude that at no very distant day the center of our manufac-\\ntures will certainly be in or near a district possessing inexhaustible supplies of\\ncheap coal.\\nWhile we concede that coal is a more useful agent in manufactures, still it\\nis equally essential that the supplies of raw material be near at hand, and we\\nassert that it is cheaper to transport the coal to Savannah, even from Pennsyl-\\nvania, and there is plenty of it nearer, than to send the raw cotton to New Eng-\\nland to be made up. And so it is, despite the pre-eminence of New England,\\nher glory is destined soon to be overshadowed, for the sceptre will, ere long,\\ndepart from Judah and fall into the hands of the cities of the South, for the\\nvirtues which make a great people are indigenous to our soil, and will animate\\nand ennoble our population, whenever our capitalists and ingenious men have\\ngiven its great physical 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 which we\\nhave just considered. It is in the nature of manufactures to be regardful of its\\nmarkets, and to su})ply with cash the demands of these, as well as to obtain the\\nraw material on easy terms. Therefore it is highly important that there should\\nl)e a com])lete communication with all parts of the adjacent country by rail or\\nriver, and establish commerce, or facilities of commerce, therewith.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 49\\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 making\\nexistence comfortable. Climate has also a direct influence upon the durability\\nof buildings, 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 adapted to manufac-\\ntures need be naturally very fertile, for when the soil is naturally so rich that\\nagriculture is an easy art, it will not afford sustenance to many kinds of manu-\\nfactures. This, to us, seems a mistaken idea for it is reasonable to suppose\\nthat the cost of transportation to and from manufactories, outside, and we might\\nsay far removed from, the districts abounding in raw materials that enter large-\\nly into manufactures, could be obviated by the erection of similar manufactories\\nnearer to hand.\\nLet us now pass to examine the claims of Savannah to the position of\\na manufacturing center. While we do not claim that this city has all the\\nrequisites for a general manufacturing city, we do claim that for certain articles\\nof manufactured goods we possess all the advantages necessary for the successful\\nprosecution of such business. The centers of wealth, population and intelli-\\ngence in the South are not numerous. Communities abounding in iron are few,\\nbut we have the raw material, the cotton, the wood, the timber.\\nOur numerous streams roaring seaward as they go by fields white with the\\nsnow of Southern summers, have been long calling to us in vain to allow them\\nto join in the universal anthem of social industry. As yet in Savannah there is\\nnot one factory in operation, although we have the raw material at hand to save\\nus from buyer s and banker s commissions, freight, warehouseage, cartage,\\nsampling, classing, marine and fire insurance, beside pilfering in various ways.\\nThe advantage in our favor in this way cannot be estimated at less than 15 per\\ncent., which implies an annual loss to the people of the State of between two and\\nthree million dollars. The profits of well conducted Southern factories are so cer-\\ntain and so great that the conversion by us of every pound of cotton into fabric is\\na mere question of time. The supply is, or could be, almost infinite and that the\\ndemand for cotton fabrics in the same ratio, grown within sight, as it were, of\\nthe factory walls, would cost the manufacturer much less than it does his Eastern\\nrival, even at its minimum value at the mills of the latter. The wool of Georgia\\nis unsurpassed flax, hemp and tobacco yield the best of crops. Kearly all of\\nthe cereals of the United States grow in Georgia. Almost all of the valuable\\nvarieties of forest trees grow in abundance in a close proximity, and are of easy\\naccess by rail or river. In fact, the view is propitious for the manufacturer and\\nfor the establishment of manufactures from every stand-point. The motives of\\nfreedom, the fertility of soil, salubrity of climate, facilities for commerce and\\nmanufactures, and ease of railroad and water transportation, are the natural advan-\\ntages which invite the capitalist, the tradesman and the manufacturer of every\\nclime and nationality to a home in our midst, to co-operate in the development", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50 SAVANNAH HER\\nof its measureless resources, and to an enriching participation in its pros-\\nperity.\\nWe will now proceed to enumerate some of the principal manufacturing\\nindustries of Savannah.\\nRICE MILLS.\\nThe rice mills of Savannah are among the most important industrial con-\\ncerns in the city. They confine their operations more especially to domestic\\ncrops, which are now consumed almost entirely in the United States, but it has\\nbeen found that the supply invariably falls below the needs of the country.\\nAlthough New Orleans leads all other cities in Georgia in this business, the\\nmills are all kept busy when the crop is full. We have four such mills.\\nFLOUR MILLS.\\nA few years ago the idea of establishing a flouring mill at Savannah was\\nhooted at as an absurd innovation. Exchanges in rival cities ridiculed the\\ntemerity of the venturesome miller who 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. A mill is now in successful operation in\\nthis city with all the modern improvements.\\nIn addition to this we have several grist mills doing a large business.\\nCIGAR AND TOBACCO MANUFACTORIES.\\nSavannah has twelve establishments for the manufacture of fine cigars and\\ntobacco. Situated nearer to Cuba and other West India points noted for the\\nproduction of the best tobacco in the world for cigar manufacturing, the facili-\\nties here for obtaining the very best quality in the raw material is unsurpassed,\\nif equalled, in the State. Thus located, Savannah commands a large portion of\\nthis trade, and is one of the best distributing markets in the country. The\\ncommission and jobbing trade, with heavy capital, is enabled to carry large\\nstocks, and, with the forwarding facilities of rail and water, gives us superior\\nadvantages over other cities not so favorably situated.\\nBOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTORIES.\\nThis branch of manufacture is carried on by a host of small concerns. The\\nquality of the work turned out is the best that can be found in any city in the\\nSouth, and the prices are always reasonable.\\nBREAD AND CRACKER MANUFACTORIES.\\nThe increased manufacture of bread, biscuit and cracker goods in Savannah\\nwithin the past few years has far exceeded the most sanguine hopes of those\\nengaged in the business. Although there are, according to the City Directory,\\nno less than twenty-three small bakeries scattered here and there throughout\\nthe city, and supplj ing, for the most part, the demands of families, yet our data\\nrefers alone to those whose business is sufficiently large to enable us to classity\\nthem as wholesale manufacturers. Of these there are two extensive firms.\\nThe sales of these houses will aggregate, in round numbers, $500,000.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 51\\nSAW AND\u00c2\u00abPLANING MILLS.\\nIll our remarks on the resources in another part of our work we dwelt\\nconsiderably on the superior quality of the Georgia pine. As a matter of course\\nthere are a number of firms in this city who handle and prepare timber for the\\nmarket. All of these firms are making money, and there is room for as many\\nmore. The truth of this assertion can readily be acknowledged when we state\\nthat there are thousands of acres of rich timber land about us, as yet untouched,\\nwhich can be drawn on in the grander conquests of that near and swift approach-\\ning future. The supply is unlimited, the demand great, transportation facilities\\nare unexcelled, and all we want is capital to develop the grand timber resources\\nof ours.\\nHere we have two barrel manufacturers doing a large and prosperous\\nbusiness.\\nHere we have a host of blacksmiths, all adding their might to the industrial\\nprosperity of Savannah.\\nHere we have five blank book manufacturers, and the work turned ,out is\\nequal to that done in New York. Our merchants do not have to send abroad\\nfor their blank books.\\nHere we have boiler makers and brass founders, brick manufacturers and\\nawning and sail makers, doing a good business.\\nHere we have carriage and buggy manufactures, and wagon, cart and bar-\\nrow makers. The quality of the work turned out is equal to that done in any\\nother city.\\nWe have three iron foundries in Savannah, large concerns, which would be\\na credit to large Eastern or Western cities. These concerns give employment\\nto a number of men, and pay good wages.\\nHere we have two companies manufacturing gas. Competition in this line\\nworks cheap gas, and the consumer gets all the benefits.\\nWe have furniture manufactories in Savannah; also their accompaniment,\\nupholsterers. We have the wood to support a dozen large furniture manufac-\\ntories. Let some capitalist stick a pin here.\\nHere we have harness and saddle makers and horse-shoers, gunsmiths and\\nlocksmiths, all in successful operation, and in line to swell the grand aggregate\\nof Savannah s manufactures.\\nHere we have machine shops and marble works, milliners, mattress makers;\\nmillers, grist, flour and rice.\\nWe have establishments engaged in making sash, doors and blinds, and\\nthey pay special attention also to fancy scroll work and turning. The quality of\\ntheir products is fully up to the standard established in other cities, and they\\nofier as great inducements to customers as can be obtained anywhere in America.\\nDwellings, oflUces, churches and public buildings are fitted by the trade in a style\\nof taste and elegance unsurpassed elsewhere, and which has commanded the ad-\\nmiration of parties from abroad. As large as the demand is for home con-\\nsumption, it by no means disposes of the material turned out by these establish-", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52\\nSAVAKXAH HER\\nments, and large quantities of sash, window* blinds and general finishings for\\nbuildings, are shipped to other points.\\nHere we have firms engaged in ship and boat building, with yards for the\\nconstruction and repair of sea-going vessels and steamboats.\\nCONCLUSION OF MANUFACTURES.\\nIn the brief space we had, we have noticed hurriedly a few of the leading\\nlines of the manufactures of Savannah, but it must not be inferred that they\\nconstitute all, or even a principal part of our manufacturing industries. We\\nhave a vast variety of manufactures, great and small, that want of space has pre-\\nvented us from mentioning specially, and it is a significant fact that in this great\\nand important department of business there has not been a failure of any con-\\nsiderable magnitude in the entire history of the city. This, of itself, speaks an\\neloquence for the manufacturing advantages of Savannah more effective than any\\nvoice can command, or any pen can indite. Looking at the situation and sur-\\nroundings of this city, considering its manufacturing advantages in the light of\\nthe great laws of industrial economy, no less than as experience in all, or nearly\\nall the leading lines of mechanical production has shown them to be, we are\\nprofoundly impressed with the conviction that Savannah is to become a manu-\\nfacturing city.\\nKEAL ESTATE INTERESTS IN SAA^INNAH.\\nConcerning the real estate interests of this city, we take the following from\\nthe J^evjs, of September 1st, 1883:\\nThe condition of the real estate market in this city during the year under\\nreview has been one of steady increase in values. All classes of real property\\nhave advanced in value, and the prices of to-day as compared with those of a year\\nago will show an average advance of from 25 to 50 per cent. Some classes of\\nproperty notably vacant lots in the older portions of the city and in the ex-\\ntreme southern suburbs siiow a much larger ])ercentage of enhancement b}\\nseveral fold than this, but the rate given is intended to represent an extremely\\nconservative view of the average increase on all kinds of real estate in the city.\\nIn fancy pieces, such as desirable business stands or private residences, the price\\nobtainable is limited by the ability of buyers to pay, as very full prices are easily\\nobtainel for all such as are put upon the market. The year opened with a very\\ngeneral expectation of a much better business in other branches than was realiz-\\ned, and it became apparent very early in the year that there would be some\\ndisappointment in this particular, hence buyers were a little more wary about\\npurchasing real estate than they otherwise would have been, and what the pub-\\nlic has been pleased to call a boom did not assume the proportions it would\\nhave but for this excess of caution. This has acted as some check upon swelling\\nthe volume of transactions, which, though largely in excess of any two years\\nsince 1876, were curtailed by the causes just referred to. Notwithstanding this\\ncondition of afftvirs, all the elements for a greater advance of values existed, and\\nduring the last half of the year, as our people have been able to determine the", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 53\\nresults of the year s business, large investments have been made in real property\\nin the city and county.\\nThe heaviest demand for property, however, has not been from the capital-\\nists and speculators, but from persons desiring homes or places of business for\\ntheir own occupancy. Never, perhaps, in the history of our city have our people\\nbeen so thoroughly possessed with the determination to own their own homes.\\nThis idea seems to have become incorporated in the warp and woof of every\\nman s life, and to be the object of his exertions in business. This is not con-\\nfined to one class of our citizens, but comprehends and permeates all classes and\\nconditions. The demand covers every class of property, from the most palatial\\nresidence and handsomest store in our city to the humblest and cheapest home\\nknown to the business. Our merchants and professional men who have long\\nsince owned comfortable, staid residences, and whose prosperity now warrants\\nsomething different, are purchasing more modern sites or buildings farther\\nsouth, and by building and remodeling, securing for themselves residences\\nmore in keeping with their increased means and the advanced idea of comfort\\nand elegance of the present day. The man of more moderate means who has\\nheretofore rented is straining every nerve to owm his own home and rent no more.\\nThere are good reasons for the present condition of real estate matters in\\nour city, and equally good ones for their continuance and improvement. Savan-\\nnah was just recovering in a measure from the general prostration which follow-\\ned the panic of 1873 when we were visited by the terrible epidemic of 1876.\\nThe damaging effects of this set-back were greater and more lasting than any-\\nthing, except the war, that had ever occurred in our history. Not only were\\nour energies paralj zed for a season, but worse still, public confidence was shaken\\nas to the safety of our location for business purposes and for the investment of\\ncapital. The wonderful commercial strides made since by our city, its great\\nrecuperative energies manifested in every department of business, together with\\nthe determination evidenced by the authorities to prevent such a recurrence if\\npossible, have all conspired to reinstate our locality in the confidence of the pub-\\nlic. That this has been done is proven by the number of people who have (so\\nto put it) taken permanent root here, and are investing their means in homes and\\nbusiness locations. If no other reason existed for the strength of real estate,\\nthis one fact should be sufficient to satisfy reasonable minds that we are only\\nrecovering lost ground. Nor have we yet regained what we have lost. It is a\\nmatter of fact known to real estate men and lawyers, who handle old deeds, that\\nthe prices obtained in the present day for property are in most cases less than\\nthe consideration named in deeds made from ten to thirty years ago.\\nEeal estate has been entirely neglected for some years by investors, and in\\nthe mad rush for wild-cat speculative stocks and bonds which has characterized\\nthe history of the last two years, the staid old investment of real estate has been\\nleft for a soberer period, when the excitement of speculation had spent itself.\\nThat time is now upon us, and the panic which some of our w^iseacres see dimly\\nin the distance is but the bursting of some of the bubbles of their own infla-\\ntion, and cannot from the very nature of its evanescent character be w^idespread", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54 SAVANNAH HER\\nor general in its eflPects. Even over guaranteed stocks and bonds all of which\\nare now at a high rate of premium does real estate possess positive advantages-\\nThe permanent character of it as an investment, the appreciation in value which\\nit must experience in a growing country, the better rate of net interest it pays,\\nall recommend real property over personal. The fact that it is not subject to\\nsuch violent and frequent fluctuations, and is beyond the control of directors and\\nsyndicates having power to reduce its value to a minimum price without let or\\nhindrance, is a powerful factor for inducing men to leave the uncertain ways of\\nincorporated stocks in favor of this class of property.\\nAnother reason for an advance in the price of property in this locality is found\\nin the advance in rents during the past few j^ears. 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 epidemic as a result of that\\ncalamitv. Rents have never recovered that lost orround, but the advance that\\nhas been going on for some years, and which will continue, has forced upon\\nthinking men the fact that it would pay them to be their own landlords; hence\\nthe demand, before referred to, which has sprung up for houses for the multitude\\nto live in. We are all forced to study economy in souie measure, and the item\\nof house rent is the first to receive attention at the hands of most men. The\\nconclusion is then easily reached that it is an economic measure to save the\\nprofits realized by the owner of the house. The desire follows to be your own\\nlandlord, and the realization is made possible through the poor man s helper,\\nthe loan association. These institutions have been of incalculable benefit to Sa-\\nvannah. The results of their work is the building up of all that part of the city\\nsouth of Gaston street from east to west. Many a man in our midst owns his\\nhome, who but for their assistance would now be a hewer of wood and drawer of\\nwater, paying out the larger part of his monthly earnings for a shelter for his\\nfamily and barely eking out an existence. These associations have been of great\\nhelp to men of larger means who could aftbrd to pay a considerable sura out per\\nmonth in order to secure a comfortal)le home, but who could not affbrd to\\njeopardize their business by taking out the amount necessary to build a home\\nfrom their own capital. Again have these associations been useful in assisting\\nmen to accumulate wealth in the matter of purchasing or building that class of\\nhouses which very nearly or entirely pay their own way through the loan asso-\\nciations, and at its termination leave them possessed of the property clear. In\\nthis way have some of our citizens amassed wealth and added materially to the\\ntaxable property of the city. In these ways, and in others, have loan associations\\nbecome important factors in building up our city, and in increasing the demand\\nfor real estate by simplifying the attaining of it.\\nIn specifying the reasons for the present and a continued advance in real\\nestate (and of rents), we should not lose sight of the gradual yet certain in-\\ncrease of population which is continually going on. Our people are wondering\\nwhy it is that with the large number of houses that have been and are still being\\nbuilt that there are no houses fur rent, and that greater difticulty is experienced\\neach year in getting houses. Our population has quietly yet surely increased,", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "TRADE, C03VEVIERCE AJTO IlfDUSTRIES. 55\\nshowing from 5,000 to 8,000 additional souls in the last few years; yet because\\nour old fogy citizens did not see them all come in at one time they cannot admit\\ntheir presence, and expect them to live in the same houses that 35,000 used to\\nlive in. This increase must continue, for despite what rivals may say of our\\ncommunity it is a pleasant place to live in. Our people are hospitable and sociable\\nto the extent that active business will admit. A living is as easily made here as\\nin any place in the country if men are willing to work for it. Labor of every\\nkind is better remunerated and more generally respected and protected than in\\nthe North, and as well, if not better, than in most places in the South. Our\\nclimate is pleasant and healthy, M^hich latter fact is proven by the mortuary re-\\nports of our city, which are open to the world for inspection. Reasons might be\\nmultiplied which render Savannah a pleasant and profitable place in which to\\nlive and rear a family, but to say more on this subject would be too great a di-\\ngression.\\nIn the consideration of the subject of real estate in Savannah, sufficient\\nprominence has not been given to our improved condition as a community, as\\none of the elements of strength in the market. The financial solidity for which\\nSavannah has always been noted is greater and more stable to-day than it ever\\nwas. While we have fewer millionaires than some communities further North,\\nyet we are in a better condition, because the wealth of the town is more evenly\\ndistributed, and there are a great number of persons possessing moderate means\\nand fewer extremely wealthy. This increase of wealth by slow accumulations\\ngives us a population with a vast purchasing ability. The tax digest unfortun-\\nately is not the means of acquiring this information. But daily operations on\\nthe street will prove it, as will the presentation of any scheme which promises\\nsafe returns and good management call forth ample and liberal responses of\\ncapital. Savannah is rich in her resources of capital, and the best informed\\nupon the subject know that the custodians of it are not to be found only in the\\nrecognized marts of the city, but frequently in unpretentious corners.\\nReal estate may properly be considered the barometer of a city s prosperity.\\nThe state of the whole business of the community is indicated by the condition\\nof its real estate market. Unpromising, indeed, must be the future of that com-\\nmunity whose real estate is not wanted, and is declining. Therefore, how blind\\nto patriotism and all else but selfish purposes are those of our croaking citizens\\nwho can see nothing in the present advance in real estate but the inflation of a\\nbubble that may burst next week or next month. If they are prophets, then,\\nindeed, must all the signs of the time prove delusive. Everywhere in the South,\\nand particularly in our own glorious State, every town or city having anything\\nin position or natural advantages upon which to predicate progress has taken on\\nthis boom long before we did. Improvements, building unprecedented and ap-\\npreciation of values are perceptible on every hand in Macon, Augusta, Atlanta,\\nRome, Oolumbus, and numerous smaller places. Savannah is really behind the\\ntimes in many particulars, and is the last to feel the effects of this wave. With\\nwise, economical legislation in our municipal and county affairs, intelligent and\\nliberal policy on the part of our merchants and railroad officials, there need be", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56 SAVANNAH HER\\nno apprehension of the future of our citj. We have all the elements for making\\na large and prosperous business community, and the fault will be in our own\\nborders if this reasonable expectation be not realized.\\nThe conclusion of the whole matter is this The nature of the demand for\\nreal estate and the cause creating that demand, the future outlook and the gen-\\neral prosperity that exists, are the elements of strength in the market. Our city\\nsurveyor says that never in our history have there been so many new buildings\\nerected as in the last year. The end of another year will see a great increase in\\nthis particular. The bugbear of heavy taxation is becoming to be understood\\nby our own people, and by proper effort on our part it may be made intelligent\\nto outsiders, so that they may be induced to invest in our midst. It will be\\nnecessary, however, either to have the sj stem re-adjusted by our City Fathers, or\\nfor them to advertise the fact that the city tax of three per cent, means upon a\\nvaluation of many times less than the market value of the property, and that it\\noftentimes amounts to but two per cent. and sometimes less upon a fair val-\\nuation.\\nSAVANNAH AS A PLACE OF RESIDENCE.\\nTo those who have glanced over the contents of the preceding pages it is\\nhardly necessary to say here that it is not our intention to enter into anything\\nlike a detailed history of Savannah, or to attempt to describe the city with any\\ndegree of minuteness of particularity. Such a work would not only be entirely\\nforeign to the nature and objects of this publication, but would itself exceed by\\nmany hundred pages the proper limits of the present volume. As we have said\\nin the beginning, the principal purpose we have in view in issuing this work is\\nto make known, as broadly as we may, as broadly as the enterprise and public\\nspirit of our citizens will justify, what we conceive to be the unusual and extra-\\nordinary advantages possessed by Savannah to become one of the greatest, if not\\nthe greatest, of commercial and manufacturing cities in the South; to show by\\nreason of these superior advantages, not only that almost every line of commerce\\nand manufacture can be follt wed here with equal or greater success of profit\\nthan elsewhere, but that, for the same reason, this is the best market for the pro-\\nducer, and, at the same time, the cheapest market for the retail purchaser. If\\nwe shall succeed in accomplishing this we may say by way of parenthesis^\\neven to a limited extent, capital and population, trade and business of all kinds\\nwill flow in upon us as naturally as the waters of our rivers flow into the sea.\\nHence this work is addressed to business men almost exclusively, and in such\\na work nothing could be more out of place than a long drawn-out story of the\\nsuccessive pulse beats of the city from the beginning to the present time.\\nThe PRESENT and the future concern us most. That we have made giant\\nstrides in growth and development, in population and wealth, since the evening\\nof the last day that the smoke of battle passed away, let us hope forever, all the\\nworld knows.\\nCLIMATE or SAVANNAH.\\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", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AKD INDUSTRIES. 57\\nSavannah, like other portions of our country, has undergone important changes\\nwithin a half century, ice is a thing that is seldom seen. Sometimes the early\\nriser may see a thin coating of ice on the gutters, but it never remains until\\nmid-day. Sleighing and skating hereabouts are things decidedly out of the\\nquestion, in fact the weather during January is as genial as Spring. In the\\nsummer the thermometer sometimes rises for a few consecutive days above 95\\ndegrees; but the temperature invariably diminishes sensibly after sunset, the\\nnights being generally comfortable and refreshing, and often delightful.\\nPURITY OF WATER IN SAVANNAH.\\nSince water, like climate, has a sanitary bearing on a city s advantages, it is\\nof the highest importance to every community to have a bountiful supply of that\\ngood and wholesome beverage so freely bestowed b}^ God himself to beautify\\nthe earth and nourish and invigorate his creatures. The supply of water fur-\\nnished to the citizens of Savannah is adequate to the demand at the present\\ntime, and, when filtered, the quality is acknowledged to be most excellent. The\\nwater works were commenced in the winter of 1852-3. The water is taken from\\nthe river above the city and carried into a reservoir situated on the low lands\\nwest of the Ogeechee canal), which is divided into four compartments by walls\\nof masonry, pierced by connecting culverts, with strong gates, so that one of the\\ncompartments may be used while the other three are undisturbed for the pro-\\ngress of sedimentary precipitation; each compartment is connected in like\\nmanner with the pump well, from which the water is forced up into the\\ndistributing reservoir in the city, through iron pipes, by means of powerful\\nsteam lift and force pumps. The receiving reservoir is about half a mile above\\nthe city, the tower or distributing reservoir being located in Franklin Square.\\nThe lift of the pumps is about one hundred and twenty feet forty feet to the\\nlevel of the city, and eighty feet from that level to the iron tank at the top of\\nthe tower. At the time of their construction, the estimated supply to the city\\nwas sixty gallons jcer c\u00c2\u00abj)i^a every twenty-four hours. In addition to the water\\nworks, nearly every store house and dwelling has its cistern filled with rain\\nwater, and what liquid surpasses i\\\\\\\\eaqua pura God s free gift from the clouds\\nof heaven? In each of the public squares is located a well, and they are exten-\\nsively used by the public.\\nHEALTHFULNESS OF SAVANNAH.\\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 concern-\\ning so serious a subject; but in all candor we assert that in a sanitary point of\\nview Savannah is highly favored, and the tables of mortality (leaving out the\\nnegroes, who are, as a class, dirty and careless of their health and comfort) have\\nuniformly shown that Savannah is one of the healthiest cities in the United\\nStates. That more than Egyptian plague, the yellow fever, has now almost\\nceased to claim an existence, though so great is the power of prejudice that the\\nidea of its presence at particular seasons will probably never be banished from", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58 SAVANNAH HER\\nthe minds of tliose who now look upon a visit to this city after the month of\\nApril as an omen of certain death. The ravages of this dreadful scourge of\\nhumanity in past times may be traced to the inexperience of physicians, who at\\nthat time felt their utmost skill and ingenuity provokingly baffled by an agency\\nwhich subsequent experience has almost entirely disarmed of its destructive\\npowers. The vigilance of the city authorities has in late years proved successful\\nin removing those local causes of disease, and prohibiting the introduction of\\nforeign elements of mischief, to such an extent as to provide for the public\\nhealth an ample measure of securing during the seasons most subject to their\\ninfluences.\\nInstances of longevity are not at all rare among the citizens of Savannah.\\nThere are still living a respectable number of persons who were ushered in\\nwith the present century, and a few who date their birth in the century preced-\\ning this. Some are actively engaged in the every-day business of life, and\\nenjoying a degree of health to which many of their grandsons and daughters\\nwould be glad to attain.\\nThe rapid strides which the temperance reformation has been making\\ntowards the remodeling of public sentiment with respect to genteel dissipa-\\ntion, that deceitful and alluring, but no less destructive bane of the higher\\nclasses, are the gradual lessons of past experience which have developed the true\\nsources of social degeneracy and waning domestic prosperity. Where habits of\\ntemperance have been formed in early youth, it is not unusual in Savannah to\\nfind cases of individuals who have lived very little short of an entire century,\\nwhose mental and bodily faculties remain as fresh as in the vigor of man-\\nhood.\\nPOPULATION OF SAVANNAH.\\nThe census of 1880 gives the population of this city at 30,681. From a\\ncareful canvas we are enabled to put the present population at 42,000, and we are\\nof the opinion that we are not far out of the way, and that our estimate is likely\\nto be an under-estimate than it is an over-estimate. Of the foreign population,\\nthe Germans predominate; next come the Irish, followed by the Italian, English,\\nScotch, Welsh, French, and nearly every other nationality where emigration is\\npossible, including the Chinese and Egyptians. Thus it will be seen that our\\npopulation is eminently cosmopolitan. This, so far from being an objection, we\\nreo-ard with great satisfaction, since it has the effect not only to multiply the\\nnumber of industries pursued among us, but it gives us a practical knowledge of\\ncustoms, wants and trade of every nation of the globe. For every want and\\nevery trade we have a class of nationality adapted to it. Everything is repre-\\nsented among us, from the metaphysics and beer of the Germans to the red-\\nsigned washee-washee of the Chinese.\\nSOCIETY OF SAVANNAH.\\nAs would be expected, all classes of society are represented here. We have\\nin our city some of the most refined and cultivated people to be found anywhere,\\nand, unfortunately, some of whom the least that can be said is the best. No mat-", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 59\\nter to what class of people one may belong, he will have no reason to echo the sad\\nreflection of Byron I am among them, but not of them. All may find con-\\ngenial and kindred spirits here. Upon the whole, however, no city can boast of\\nbetter society than Savannah. Many of our best families are descended from\\nthe earliest and most distinguished characters in the history of American Inde-\\npendence. Identified with the city and the South from an early day, they have\\ngrown in wealth and prosperity with the growth and improvement of the\\ncountry. Nor have mental culture and social refinement been neglected. For\\nmany years Savannah was noted for the possession of some of the best institutions\\nof learning to be found in the South. With all these advantages, it would be\\nstrange indeed if our best society did not reflect honor upon the city. Gentle\\nof birth and ambitious of learning, refined by nature and hospitable to a fault,\\npossessed of great wealth and enthusiastic lovers of art, they constitute an ordre\\nde monde in which the most brilliant devotee of letters and fashion may find\\ncompanionship worthj^ of his highest taste. All the better classes of society are\\nliberal in their ideas, and welcome all among them who are worthy of confidence\\nand esteem. Those who have come among us in late years have been gladly\\nreceived into our social circles, and many of them are now the leaders of society\\nin wealth, culture and public spirit. Indeed, a number of our leading families,\\nfamilies whose recognition and hospitality would honor any guest, however high\\nin fame or state, are those who have won their position within a recent period by\\ntheir own merit and character. Thus while our personne de qualite are\\neminentl} select and rigidly strict in the observance of all the finer convention-\\nalities of good society, they are generously democratic when merit knocks for\\nadmission.\\nLike the sun true merit shows;\\nBy nature warm, by nature bright;\\nWitli inbred flames lie nobly glows,\\nNor needs the aid of borrow d light.\\nCHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS.\\nAs in everything else we .have been able to show the prominence of this\\nfavored city; so too, in the relation she bears toward the Church of the Ever-\\nLiving God, and the interest her citizens manifest and have manifested in\\nreligious afiairs, can we report mostfavorabl3^ The existence of such a spirit at\\nonce stamps the moral character and excellence of her people, and the devotees\\nof religion in other quarters will rejoice to learn that in laying up for them-\\nselves treasures on earth, our people have not surrendered to a sordid lust for\\ngain that instead of the temple for worship they do not resort solely to the\\nexchange, where the ledger is held, the sacred books and household gods are\\nconverted into money investments. Satisfied with the stream, they have not\\nforgotten the fountain engrossed with the augmentation of mercantile resources,\\nthey have not become blind to the primary, originating source of whatever is\\ndesirable on earth and the stranger will find that the same piety which erected\\nthe first small church over a century ago has difi used itself and kept pace with\\nour rise and progress. As a church-going and church-loving people, Savannah", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "60 SAVANNAH HER\\nto-day, in proportion to inhabitants, is second to but few if any cities of the\\nUnion. In every quarter of the city the spires of the churches pierce the clouds,\\nand the deep-toned organ s solemn swell, the sound of the bells, are neither\\nstrange nor unfamiliar to us. Burke never uttered a grander truth than when\\nhe said True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken\\nby contem])t the whole fabric cannot be stable or lasting. In this important\\nrespect Savannah is peculiarly fortunate. Every shade of IJiblical faith has a\\nstrong representation among us. Our people are pre-eminently a church-going,\\nreligion-respecting community.\\nIn strength of membership the Methodist, including five colored churches,\\nstands lirst next in order come the Episcopal, Baptist, Presbyterian and Roman\\nCatholic, followed by the Jewish, the Lutheran, and so on to the end. We only\\ngive the denominational names of the principal divisions.\\nNone of these denominations are w^ithout one or more church edifices.\\nSome of these buildings are among the finest structures ever dedicated to the\\nservice of religion by a pious and generous people.\\nAmong the most interesting and noteworthy church buildings is Christ\\nChurch, which faces Johnson Square and is situated between St. Julian and\\nCongress Streets, it being the mother parish of the Episcopal communion in the\\nDiocese of Georgia. The original structure built on this spot was commenced\\nin 1743 and was completed in 1750. It was destroyed by fire in 1796, was re-\\nbuilt upon an enlarged plan in 1803, and afterward injured by a hurricane, but\\nwas rebuilt. An entirely new edifice was commenced in 1838, the drawings\\nbeing furnished by Mr. James Hamilton Cowper, of St. Simon s Island, The\\nchancel railing, lecterns, table and stalls are carved, and over the table is a\\npainted window to the memory of Bishop Elliott, given by the Sunday-school\\nchildren, and representing Christ blessing little children. On this site stood the\\nchapel in which John Wesley, The Father of Methodism, preached to the\\nearly settlers.\\nThe new Lutheran Church is situated on the east side of Wright Square,\\nbetween State and President Streets, and is unfinished. The old building M as\\nbuilt in 1843 and the present one was erected over it, while service was held\\nwithin the walls of both. In the rear of the pulpit is a memorial window to\\nThomas Purse. The carpenter work of the interior was done by the young\\nmen of the congregation after the close of their usual daily duties.\\nAt the corner of South Broad and Bull Streets stands the Independent\\nPresbyterian Church, which was commenced in 1815 and dedicated four years\\nlater by its pastor. There are few churches in the L ^nion that surpass this one\\nin the excellence of architectural merits. President James Monroe, on a visit to\\nSavannah, assisted, with his suite, at the ceremonies when it was consecrated to\\ndivine worship in 1819.\\nTo the west of Chippewa Square and on the corner of JjuII and Hull Streets\\nis the Savannah Baptist Church, which was built in 1833 and enlarged in 1839.\\nThe Sunday-school and lecture rooms are in the basement, and a pastor s home\\nwas purchased for its ministers in 1862.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND IJTDUSTRIES. 61\\nThe synagogue Mickva Israel is located to the east end of Monterey Square,\\nbetween Wayne and Gordon Streets. The corner stone was laid in March, 1876,\\nand the completed edifice was dedicated in April, 1878. The architecture of\\nboth interior and exterior is mediaeval in character, and there is not a finer or\\nmore pleasing structure in the city than this place for worship of God s ancient\\npeople. There was an immigration of Israelites to Savannah in 1733, who\\nremained but a short time, but it is supposed that this congregation was then\\norganized. There are no records of its history prior to the charter of November\\n30, 1790.\\nThe cathedral of our Lady of Perpetual Help, at the corner of Abercorn\\nand Harris Streets, is the largest and most imposing church edifice in the entire\\nState. The architecture is French Gothic, in the style of JN otre Dame, of Paris.\\nThree fine altars of white marble, elegantly carved, have been placed within the\\nsanctuary, and above the altar of the Virgin is an excellent copy of Murillo s\\nImmaculate Conception. This noble structure was dedicated to the service\\nof God in 1876.\\nOn the west side of St. James Square, between President and York Streets\\nstands Old Trinity, as it is sometimes called, from its associations with the\\nearly history of Methodism in Savannah. Two thousand persons can be seated in\\nthe auditorium and galleries. The interior is neat and plain, corresponding with\\nthe simplicity of the exterior.\\nSUNDAY-SCHOOLS.\\nConnected with most of the churches of the city are interestine- and flourish-\\ning Sunday-schools, where many hundreds of the children and youths of the\\ncity are gathered each Sabbath-day to be instructed in the great truths of the\\nBible, and in the religious and moral duties of life. It would be impossible to\\nover-estimate the beneficent influence these schools have on the community.\\nJSTurseries of religion, and of virtue and good citizenship, they are justly\\ncherished by our people as the safest guardians of their children s characters,\\nand the surest guarantees for their future. If it is possible for the departed\\ndead to witness the progress of human afiairs, the spirit of the founder of Sab-\\nbath-schools could behold no happier sight than the assemblage of all the Sunday-\\nschool children of Savannah in one grand union meeting. We are proud of\\nour Sunday-schools, and justly so. No pains are spared by the teachers and\\nofficers, no expense withheld by the parents and churches, to make them worthy\\nof our city and society.\\nEDUCATIONAL.\\nPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF SAVANNAH.\\nEducation is the mortar that holds the social fabric together. Without it\\ncivilization would crumble to the earth. Keligion 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 known is\\na god among men.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "62 SAVANNAH HER\\nGreece, the bright, particular star in tlie 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; but, unfortunately for her,\\nshe flourished 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\\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 world. All seemed to be lost. Suddenly a light\\nflashed athwart the Western heavens, and Reformation stood revealed. The\\ntrumpet voice of Martin was heard, proplaiming the grand truth: Govern-\\nment, as the natural guardian of all the young, has the right to compel the peo-\\nple to support schools. That which is necessary to the well-being of a State\\nshould be supported by those who enjoy the privileges of the State. Now, nothing\\nis more necessary to this than the training of those who are to come after us.\\nHere the principle of free popular education was first proclaimed. Here it\\nwas given birth and life, Holland and Scotland hastened to appl}^ it. Both\\ncountries claim the imperishable honor of having been first to introduce it.\\nThe result of their foresight and wisdom was, that for ages after these nations\\nwere regarded as the most intelligent and thrifty people in Europe. What-\\never they applied themselves to they excelled in. Macaulay bears elo-\\nquent testimony of the race superiority of the Scotch. From Europe the prin-\\nciple of popular education was brought to America Maryland, New York,\\nConnecticut and Massachusetts all contend for the proud distinction of natu-\\nralizing it here. Maryland doubtless had the first free municipal schools, fol-\\nlowed by the others, in the order named; but Massachusetts was the first to\\nestablish the State system of free schools, since adopted by all or nearly all\\nthe States, To her, unquestionably, belongs this imperishable honor. The\\nNortheastern and the Northern States were next to adopt it. The benefits\\nit has conferred upon them are well known. Previous to the late war, pri-\\nvate academies were almost exclusively patronized by the people of Savan-\\nnah, but at its close the uncertain condition and prospects of our citizens\\ncaused greater reliance to be placed upon the free-school sj stem. Some\\ntrouble arose between the Catholics and Protestants, which was amicably set-\\ntled by assigning separate school buildings to the Catholics. They nominate\\ntheir own teachers, which are confirmed by the Board of Education on pass-\\ning a required examination. From the beginning our schools have been under\\nthe management of the ablest scholars to be had.\\nDoubtless a better idea can be formed of the importance and efficiency of\\nour public schools from a few leading facts and an outline of the system. The\\nBoard of Education consists of the following gentlemen George. A, Mercer,\\npresident; Dr. J. B, Reed, vice-president; John Williamson, treasurer; W. Hun-\\nter, J, R, Saussy, S. Y. Levy, John A. Douglass, J. O. Ferrell, William Duncan,", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AKD INDUSTRIES. 63\\nM. D., E. E. Lester, S. P. Hamilton and Kobert D. Walker; Mr. W. H. Baker\\nbeing secretary and superintendent. The office is situated in Chatham acade-\\nmy, corner of Drayton and South Broad Streets. The schools are free, with the\\nexception of the high schools, three dollars per month being charged by these.\\nThe boys and girls high schools, and the Chatham academy gramamr school,\\nare held in the Chatham academy building, a portion of which is used as an hotel.\\nThe Barnard Street School, at the corner of Barnard and Taylor Streets, is occu-\\npied by the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades, each grade being under\\nthe instruction of a separate teacher. The Cathedral Grammar School is\\nsituated at the corner of Abercorn and Perry Streets, and is attended by the\\nchildren of Catholic parents. The Massie District School is located at the\\ncorner of Gordon and Abercorn; the St. Patrick s School, at the corner of\\nMontgomery and York Streets, the latter being devoted to the use of Catholic\\nchildren also. For the attendance of colored children are placed the East and\\nWest Broad Street Schools, which are provided with competent teachers. There\\nare comparatively few male teachers in the employ of the board, it being the\\npolicy to appoint males as principals only.\\nIn the list of academies and schools comes the Academy St. Yincent De\\nPaul Convent, at the corner of Liberty and Abercorn, a boarding and day school,\\nunder control of the Sisters of Mercy; the Georgia Military Academy, on\\nAbercorn, south of Huntingdon Street; the Sacred Heart School, on St. James,\\nbetween Habersham and Price; and the Savannah Academy, at No. 86 Bull\\nStreet. To these, in addition, are the following schools for the colored people:\\nThe Beach Institute, at the corner of Price and Harris Streets, organized in 1867,\\nand under the control and care of the American Missionary Society; the Georgia\\nMilitary Cadet School, at the corner of East Broad and Harris Streets; the St.\\nJoseph Academy, at the corner of Habersham and Charlton Lane, which is under\\ncontrol of the Sisters of Mercy; and the Sacred Heart School, for colored\\nchildren, in the basement of the Church of the Sacred Heart, which is conducted\\nby the Sisters.\\nOHAEITIES OF SAYANNAH.\\nAnd now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest is cliarity.\\nCharity, the firstborn of heaven, is the divine essence within us. It is that\\nwhich forms us in the image of our Maker. It is the manifestation of God\\nhimself incarnate in man. It is the lamp that 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 sorrow-\\ning. The widow and the orphan are its wards. Its rule of life, Love thy\\nneighbor as thyself. Its admonition, Though I speak with the tongues of\\nmen and of angels, and have not charity, I am become sounding brass and a\\ntinkling cymbal. In the bright galaxy of virtues, philanthrophy, benevolence,\\nkindness, sympathy, generosity and mercy, it is the central, radiant star. It is\\nthe beginning and the end of all virtues.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64 SAVANNAH HER\\nIt breaks tlie honds of avariciousness and selfishness, and ^ives with a will-\\ning and generous hand. It strives for the moral culture and elevation of man-\\nkind. It has given its apostles and its evangelists, its missionaries and martyrs,\\nits ministers and priests to humanity without money and without price. It\\nanimates the patriot and inspires the philosopher. It is the source of every\\ngenerous impulse, the fountain of every noble aspiration. It is the salvation\\nand hope of society. It is the virtue preservative of all virtues. It is the\\nvisible presence of God on earth.\\nIn Savannah, Charity has erected a number of institutions, among which are\\nthe following asylums and hospitals Abraham s Home, Xo. 2 Broughton\\nStreet, a Jewish institution for destitute widows the Episcopal Orphan Home,\\nat the corner of Liberty and Jefferson, organized in 1854 the Female Orphan\\nAsylum, at the corner of Bull and Charlton, established in 1839 the Indus-\\ntrial Relief Society and the Home for the Friendless, at the corner of Drayton\\nand Charlton Streets, incorporated in 1849, and organized in 1875; the Minnie\\nMission Orphan Asylum, a home for infants, at the corner of Jones and Lincoln\\nStreets St. Joseph s Infirmary, at the corner of Taylor and Habersham Streets,\\nin charge of the Sisters of Mercy it was organized in June, 1875, and is sup-\\nported by voluntary contributions andpay patients the Savannah Hospital, at\\nthe corner of Huntingdon and Drayton Streets, first incorporated in 1835, and\\nthe Union Society, instituted in 1750, the Orphan House being located at\\nBethesda. The Georgia Infirmary is provided for the colored people, and is\\nsituated east of White Bluff road, near the tollgate.\\nThe list of Relief and Benevolent Associations is as follows Citizens\\nSanitary Association, organized for the better protection of the public health\\nGerman Friendly Society Hebrew Benevolent Society Hibernian Society\\nMetropolitan Benevolent Association St. Andrew s Society St. Patrick s\\nBenevolent Society; Savannah Benevolent Association; Savannah, Florida and\\nWestern Railway Employees Mutual Relief Association, organized for the\\nrelief of its members in case of sickness or accident Savannah Port Society;\\nSociete Francaise de Bienfaisance Union Society, founded by George White-\\nfield, organized in 1750; Workingmen s Benevolent Association Workingmen s\\nLiterary and Relief Association.\\nThe Secret Societies are well represented among us. We have five lodges\\nof Master Masons and five lodges for colored people, a Knights Templar, R. and\\nS. M. and Royal Arch being also represented here. There are five lodges and\\none encampment of the I. O. O. F., also an Odd Fellows General Relief Com-\\nmittee five lodges of the Knights of Pythias, two of Knights of Honor, two of\\nA. O. U. W., one of A. O. IL, one of Catholic Knights of America, one of\\nKnights of the Golden Rule, one of D. O. II., one of I. O. G. T., one of S. of T.,\\ntwo of L O. B. B., two of O. K. S. B., one Royal Arcanum, one Home Circle and\\none American Legion of Honor.\\nPARKS OF SAVANNAH.\\nLove of the beautiful is implanted in our natures it is a natural sentiment\\nof the human heart. It finds expression among savages in their desire for", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND IJTDUSTRIES. 65\\npersonal adornment, and in their conception of the happy huntin^^ ground in\\nits rudest form, indeed, but manifesting its presence nevertheless. So in all\\nraces of men and among all nations it has revealed itself in one form or another.\\nLike all the finer and nobler sentiments, it too is broadened, refined and elevated\\nby the advancement and culture of the people and when a high degree of\\nenlightenment and refinement is attained, it displays itself in various forms\\nin appreciation of articles of virtu, in love of sculpture, in admiration of the\\nproductions of the artist s brush, in the charms of natural scenery, in the\\nbeauties of landscape gardening, and in a thousand other forms unnecessary to\\nmention. Indeed, love of the beautiful, or aesthetics as it is called, is regarded\\nas the safest criterion of the social elevation of a people. It is found in its\\nhighest conception only in the most polished and finished communities.\\nTo say that it obtains here in a high degree, as illustrated by the well\\nrecognized taste of our people in all matters of art and natural beauty, is but to\\nrepeat a well-known fact. In truth, pages might be occupied, if our space\\npermitted, with proofs that in many instances we have given it its highest\\nexpression. In the present connection, however, we will speak only of the taste\\nof our people as displayed in the embellishment and ornamentation of our\\npublic parks.\\nThe ideal park is two-fold in its conception, (1) to delight the mind and (2)\\nto refresh the body. In fact, whatever afibrds the mind a natural, healthful\\npleasure necessarily refreshens both the mind and the body. So that the first, the\\nmaking a pleasant impression on the mind, must be regarded as of the first\\nimportance. Whatever appears out of place, or unnatural, or awkward in a park,\\nto that extent defeats the very object which it was designed to accomplish. On\\nthe other hand, the pleasurable emotions intended to be aroused may be multi-\\nplied and intensified by increasing and blending the natural and artificial\\nattractions, having proper regard for the efiects produced by harmony, variety,\\netc.\\nNothing speaks plainer in language for the culture or vulgarity of a\\ncommunity than the style of its parks, for popular taste is the arbitrary umpire\\nthat regulates and controls them, whatever officials or single individuals may\\nsay or think. Parks, like actors, must please the public when they appear, or\\nfail.\\nThe benefits they confer upon a community are incalculable indeed, they\\nare indispensable to a large city. A large number of our people are compelled\\nto remain in the city from year to year, and if they had nothing to relieve the\\ndull monotony and wear and tear of daily business life, their lots would be hard\\nin the extreme besides, the women and children, and especially the children,\\nwould suffer incalculably. The absence of parks has a marked effect upon the\\nmortality of the people the increase of deaths among children, as shown by the\\ninvestigation of the park officials of New York, in localities far removed from\\nthe parks, is almost incredible. Their sanitary importance, in fact, is always\\nrelied upon, and justly so, too, as the chief reason for providing them in all\\nlarere cities.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "66 SAVANNAH HER\\nOur parks are four in number the most attractive one being Forsyth Park,\\nthe main entrance of which is on Gaston Street, opposite BiilL It contains\\ntwenty acres, and was laid out in 1853, its arrangements being similar to that of\\nthe Grand Park of the City of Mexico. A handsome iron fence surrounds the\\ngrounds, and the gates fronting on Bull Street are surrounded witli unexploded\\nshells, relics of the late civil war. The entrance to the broad central walk is\\nguarded by sphinxes, from which a fine view of the fountain which occupies\\nthe center of the park can be obtained. This fountain cost the city $3,000, and\\nis said to have been modelled after the design that took the prize at the first\\ninternational exhibition in London, in 1844. Walks are laid out in all direc-\\ntions from the center, and clumps of roses, coleas, cacti, dahlias and fanciful\\nmounds and structures of ivy and other running and climbing plants, and a\\nstatue of Mercury, and vases of flowers are all placed in the spaces between the\\ntrees, which are the native forest pine, and are so thick that the entire grounds\\nare shaded. This is one of the handsomest parks in the South, and an extension\\nhas been recently added, containing about thirty acres. This extension is not\\nimproved as yet, but the Confederate monument, erected to the memory of the\\nConfederate dead, or who died of wounds received in the late civil war, adorns\\nthe center. It is now the drill and parade ground for the volunteer soldiery of\\nSavannah, but when the plans for making it a riding park are completed, the\\ncity will possess a l)eautiful pedestrian and riding pleasure grounds combined.\\nIn the suburb known as Brownsville is situated Battery Park, at the\\nterminus of the Barnard and Anderson Street Railway. The directors of this\\nrailway purchased this site from the city, and the grounds occupy a portion of\\nan earthwork for a battery throwm up during the civil war for the defense of\\nthe city. Upon the crest of the earthwork is a pavilion for dancing, from which\\na view of the surrounding country is obtained. Picnics and other social parties\\nmeet here in the warm summer weather a good rifle range for target shooting\\nis provided, and street cars leave Market Square every eight minutes for the\\npark.\\nConcordia Park is situated at the east side of White Bluff road, south of\\nthe toll-gate.\\nSituated on Warsaw or Thunderbolt River, about three miles from the cit}\\nand directly east of Bonaventure, is Schuetzen Park, prepared by our German\\ncitizens, who delight in out-door recreations. It occupies a bluff over-looking\\nthe river, which is quite broad at this point, and a fine view is obtained of both\\nBonaventure and Thunderbolt, which are below on the same river. There is a\\nlarge dancing pavilion which will accommodate a thousand dancers, rifle\\nranges, swings, ten pin alleys, saloon and convenient dwelling in the center of\\nthe grounds. This park is the headquarters of the Scheutzen and other German\\norganizations, and the annual Scheutzen Fest, which is always anticipated\\nwith pleasure by all classes, is held here, and attracts visitors from all parts of\\nthe country. It can be reached by the trains of the Coastline railroad, and\\na smooth shell road leads direct to the park.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 67\\nSTREETS OF SAVANNAH.\\nFew advantages are jnore important to the prosperity of a city than\\ngood streets. They are to it what circulation is to the human body. Business\\nlife cannot long continue without them. Suffer them to become impaired, and\\nevery interest is more or less affected. What a story a year s trade with good\\nstreets compared with defective ones would tell Tbe loss a city sustains by\\nneglect of its streets is incalculable. Good streets should be made a sine qua\\nnonixi every city where the science of commerce is not an unexplored mystery.\\nThey are the channels through which the life current flows.\\nThe present condition of our streets is not a subject of unqualified praise.\\nLike most of our sister cities, with regard to their streets, we think ours are not\\nall they should be. Still, they compare very favorably with those of other\\nSouthern cities, and in some respects are superior to them. In the resident\\npart of the city they are fringed on either side with rows of handsome shade\\ntrees, and it is from the number and stateliness of these shade trees that\\nSavannah is styled The Forest City. The streets and intermediate lanes,\\ncutting each other at right angles, divide the city into rectangular squares, with\\nsmall parks at the alternate intersections of the streets, which are much admired.\\nThe plan was designed by Gen. Oglethorpe, and the square with each ward and\\ntithing was the general rendezvous of the colonists living around it in case of\\nhostile attack by Indians or Spaniards. Once commenced, the system was\\nadhered to for its regularity, beauty, comfort, health and pleasure.\\nBull street is the fashionable promenade of the city. It receives its name\\nfrom Colonel William Bull, who assisted General Oglethorpe in laying off the\\ntown in 1733, and it is lined on either side by shade trees. Handsome\\nresidences and imposing public buildings attract attention on this street, and\\non pleasant days it presents an animated appearance, the squares it crosses\\nbeing filled with nurses and baby carriages and small children.\\nSouth Broad Street crosses Bull Street at right angles, and in olden times\\nwas one of the boundaries of Savannah. Four rows of shade trees provide the\\navenue with two carriage streets and a shady, grass-covered walk between them.\\nThe effect is charming and we question if there be another such tempting\\navenue in the United States, with its trees, handsome dwellings and fine public\\nstructures.\\nBay Street is the great commercial street of Savannah, is paved, and is\\nlined on both sides with mercantile houses, banks and business ofiices. The\\nExchange, or more properly the City Hall, the Custom House and Post Office\\nare located on Bay Street.\\nLiberty Street is a broad and beautiful avenue, with three rows of shade\\ntrees, situated in the residence portion of the city, and crossing Bull Street.\\nThere are twenty four small parks or squares in Savannah, five of which are\\nsituated on Bull Street. Four of them have monuments or mounds in the\\ncentre.\\nJohnson Square is laid off by flagged walks into green plats, and the Greene\\nmonument stands in the centre. On March 21st, 1825, General Lafayette laid", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "G8 SAVANN-VH HER\\nthe corner-stones of this moument and one in Chippewa Square, in memory of\\nGeneral Nathaniel Greene and Count Casimir Pulaski, companions in arms of\\nLafayette in the Revolutionary war. The monument to Greene was finished in\\n1829, and there not being in hand sufficient monej to erect the monument to\\nPulaski, this mysterious stone mysterious because there is neither inscription\\nnor symbol to indicate its design was known as the Greene and Pulaski\\nMonument for many years. At some future time, no doubt, a suitable inscrip-\\ntion will be placed upon its disk.\\nIn Wright Square repose the remains of Tomochichi, the friend of Ogle-\\nthorpe and the protector of the early settlers. The Q,xact location of the grave\\nis not known, but a mound of ivy, surmounted by a Grecian vase in which an\\naloe is growing, serves for his monument for the present, and until another,\\nmore lasting, replaces it.\\nThe Jasper Monument occupies the centre of Madison Square. It was\\nerected to the memory of Sergeant Jasper, of Revolutionary fame, who lost his\\nlife in the siege of Savannah by the allied American and French forces while\\nattempting to replace his regimental colors within the British lines, where they\\nhad been carried by an assault and their bearer shot down.\\nIn the centre of Monterey Square stands the Pulaski Monument. In 1853\\nthe corner-stone laid by Lafayette in Chippewa Square in 1825 was removed to\\nMonterey Square, and relaid, with an additional corner-stone, on the 11th of\\nOctober. The monument is from the hands of his fellow-countryman, Launitz,\\nand was completed in 1854. Brigadier-General Casimir Count Pulaski was a\\nnative of Poland, and being exiled from his home came to America. After\\nserving bravely in the American army, in 1778 he raised a corps called Pulas-\\nki s Legion, with the approbation of Washington, and was ordered with it to\\nSavannah in 1779. He was mortally wounded by a cannon-shot in an assault\\nupon Savannah, then held by the British, and died two days afterwards at sea.\\nNEWSPAPERS OF SAVANNAH.\\nNewspapers are the nervous system of society. They transmit intelligence\\nto and from all parts of the body politic. Without them, or some substitute\\nfor them, public sensibility would be impossible. And as the state of the ner-\\nvous system is one of the best indications of the condition of the human body,\\nso the character of the newspapers of a community is one of the best evidences\\nof its thrift and general intelligence.\\nSavannah has no reason to fear a judgment by this rule. The character of\\nonr papers is highly creditable to us as a community. We have the Savannah\\nMorning Neivs, daily and a weekly issue; Savannah Daily Times, an evening\\npaper; Georgia FamAlien Journal^ a weekly; Abend Zeitung, the Mystic\\nBrotherhood^ Weekly Echo and Penny Local.\\nWe regret that we cannot speak of them all separately, but our space will\\npermit us to mention only two or three.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES.\\n69\\nTHE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS.\\nThe Morning News is the only paper in Georgia, with one exception, print-\\ning the full dispatches of the Associated Press, and the only paper published\\nevery day in the year. It was established in 1850, and has been issued con-\\ntinuously ever since that time, over a third of a century. Besides its large city\\ncirculation, the daily is taken at 215 post-offices in Georgia, 62 post-offices in\\nFlorida, and 20 post-offices in South Carolina. Its mammoth Sunday edition is\\nsent to all subscribers, giv ing them a paper every day in the year. Price,\\nincluding Sunday, $10 a year.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "70 SAVANNAH HER\\nTHE SAVANNAH WEEKLY NEWS\\nis a mammoth eight-page paper, 38x52 inches. It is tiie favorite paper of the\\nfarmers and merchants of Georgia and Florida, where they have not the facili-\\nties of a daily mail. It is a strictly cash-in-advance, $2.00 a-year paper, but withal\\nhas the largest circulation of any paper published in the South. It has sub-\\nscribers at 429 post-offices in Georgia, 320 post-offices in Florida, and 39 post-\\noffices in South Carolina, and also in every State in the Union.\\nTHE SUNDAY MORNING NEWS\\nis another mammoth eight-page paper, 38x52 inches, combining all the freshness\\nof a dail} paper, with locals, telegraph, and that of a society and literary jour-\\nnal. It is an unrivalled advertising medium, having for its constituency the\\nentire city and the reading population along the lines of three railroads. It is\\nsent to all subscribers to the daily News. The price of the Sunday News is\\n$2.00 a year.\\nThe editor and proprietor oi\\\\\\\\\\\\QS%Lnday Ne\\\\os\\\\% Col. J. H. Estill; he has\\nowned and managed the entire establishment for the last seventeen years. It is\\none of the few large printing houses in the country owned by one person.\\nTHE MOKNING NEWS BUILDING,\\nLocated at No. 3 Whitaker Street, corner of Bay Lane, was erected in 1875,\\nespecially for the purpose and with a single view to its adaptation to the pub-\\nlishing and printing business, and at that time it was thought large enough to\\nmeet all requirements of the paper for the next quarter of a century. This idea,\\nhowever, proved to be a mistake, and it was found necessary two years since to\\nadd the building adjoining it on the north. From this building are issued the\\nDaily Morning News, the Savannah Weekly News, the Sunday News and the\\nMorning Neios Library. The arrangement of the main building is very com-\\nplete, and is as follows:\\nThe basement contains two engines (with separate boilers, that in case of an\\naccident to one there will be no delay in issuing the paper); a large three-revo-\\nlution Hoe press; a mammoth double cylinder press; one Forsaith and one\\nChambers folding machine, mailing tables, etc. The double cylinder is one of\\nthe largest presses of the kind ever built, being forty*four by sixt}^ inches. The\\nstreet floor is the publication office, and the stock and the superintendent s room\\nof the printing and binding departments. On this floor is also the proprietor s\\noffice. On the second floor are the editorial rooms.\\nThe third floor is entirely given up to the book and job printing depart-\\nments, in which everything that is needed to do good work can be found.\\nExperienced printers who have been employed in it say it is the best place of\\nthe kind they have ever worked in.\\nThe top, or fourth floor, is devoted to the newspaper composing room, a finely\\nlighted and well ventilated apartment.\\nThe new addition is connected on each floor with the main building, the\\nentrances being protected by iron doors, so as to prevent the spreading of a Are\\nshould one occur.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 71\\nIts basement forms a part of the press-room department already described,\\nthe wetting room, where the newspaper is wet before it is printed, and is also\\nused as a store room for paper, a large supply of which is always kept on hand,\\nso that no ordinary accident to a paper mill can endanger an issue of the various\\npublications of the establishment. On the first or street floor of this building is\\nthe job press room, where there are eight steam presses, often run eighteen\\nhours out of the twenty-four.\\nOn the second floor is the stereotyping room, fitted up with Hoe s latest\\nimproved machinery. The front rooms on this floor are occupied by the engra-\\nving and lithographing departments. The third floor is devoted exclusively to\\nthe book bindery and blank book manufactory. Here is every facility for bind-\\ning books and making blank books, the latest machines for ruling paper, and\\ncutting and paging machines, etc.\\nAn elevator driven by steam extends from the basement to the top floor of\\nthe main building, with openings on each floor, and all rooms are connected with\\nthe business departments on the street floor by speaking tubes, while the tele-\\nphone connects the establishment with the railroads, the steamers, the wharves,\\nthe public ofiices and the principal business houses, by means of the telephone\\nexchange. A wire also connects the ofiice with the signal station at Tybee,\\neighteen miles distant. In addition to all these facilities, the building is well\\nprotected against fire, having hydrants on each floor, and hose and pipe attached\\nat all times on three floors.\\nOver one hundred names are on the pay rolls of this establishment, which\\namount to from $1,200 to $1,400 per week. The success of this paper is remark-\\nable when it is remembered that there are a number of daily papers in Georgia\\n(saying nothing of the good weeklies), with which the Savannah Morning News\\nhas had to contest every inch of ground; while newspapers published in other\\nSouthern States have had but few other dailies to contend wdth in their own\\nState, this paper has not only held to itself its own legitimate territory, but\\nalmost monopolizes the lower half of Georgia, three-quarters of the State of\\nFlorida, and a part of South Carolina.\\nTHE SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES.\\nThe Times is the best evening newspaper in the State of Georgia. It owes\\nits present position at the front of the best evening journals to the able and enter-\\nprising manager, Mr. B. H. Richardson. This paper is issued every evening,\\nexcept Saturday, and on Sunday morning, by the Times Publishing Company, of\\nwhich Mr. Richardson is president, at No, 94 Bryan Street, It is well estab-\\nlished and is rapidlj growing in popular favor. In size and appearance it com-\\npares very favorably with the evening papers of the South, while its editorial and\\nlocal columns are far superior to most of them. Its success is already assured.\\nTHE GEORGIA FAMILIEN-.JOUKNAL,\\nThe Georgia Familien- Journal is an eight page German weekly, the only\\nGerman family paper in the South. It is published every Saturday by Kuckuck\\nSeeman, at 102 Broughton Street, and has a large circulation in Georgia,\\n!Nortli and South Carolina, Florida and Alabama.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "L. J. GUILMARTIX. CHARLES R. HERRON.\\nV\\nCOTTON FACTORS\\n-AND\\nCOMMISSION MERCHANTS,\\nS20 BAT \u00c2\u00a7T-BEE-T-,\\nSAVANNAH, GEORGIA.\\nLiberal advances made on consignments of Cotton. Bagging and Iron Ties for sale\\nat lowest market rates.\\nDEN^IS o Co:nnell,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094DEALER IN\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nJUNK, COTTON, PAPER,\\nAND METALS,\\nNo. 200 BAY STREET.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMEKCE AND INDUSTRIES.\\n73\\nLEADING BUSINESS HOUSES\\n-OF-\\nSAVANNAH\\nWe present to our readers and business community herewith a brief historical\\nreview of the prominent business houses and manufacturing firms of the City of\\nSavannah.\\nIt will be interesting as an exhibit of the growth of the city for the past thirty\\nyears. The notices, as a group, embrace numbers of substantial and enterprising\\nfirms in every department of trade, including many specialties not to be obtained in\\nany other market, and will be an assurance to those contemplating a visit for the pur-\\npose of purchasing supplies that their every want can be fully satisfied, on as favor-\\nable terms as at any point in the United States. No firm of any prominence has been\\nwillingly excluded.\\nHENRY SOLOMON SON Wholesale Grocers, Dealers in Pure Liquors,\\nCigars and Tobaccos, 173 and 175 Bay Street; Warehouses, 200 and 202 Bay Street.\\nProminent among the list of wholesale grocers in Savannah stand the firm of Henry\\nSolomon Son. Enjoying the highest confidence of our citizens, they are well and\\nfavorably known in the business circles as honorable and enterprising men. For\\nupwards of a quarter of a cen-\\ntury the senior has been num-\\n.^Ol OJr^ ^^^^K^V-^ bered among the enterprising\\nand the substantial citizens of\\n1^- Georgia, having resided in the\\nvicinity of and in Savannah\\nsince 1851. This establishment\\nhas reached its proud position\\nin the commercial annals of Georgia by the SUPERIOR KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR\\nBUSINESS, and steadily adhering to the principle of GIVING THEIR CUSTOMERS\\nFULL VALUE FOR THEIR MONEY. There are few firms in Savannah who have\\ndeveloped such enterprise, and been so pre-eminent in the several branches of the\\nwholesale gr6cery business. They are not only celebrated over a greater part of this\\nState, but also in Florida and South Carolina, where their business extends. This is\\none of the largest establishments of its kind in the State ofjGeorgia. Their capacious", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "74 SAVAXNAH HER\\nstores, 173 and 175 Bay Street, and their warehouses on Bay Street, which run from\\nthe bay to the river, are replete with everything required by the retailers of groceries,\\nliquors, cigars and tobaccos. Their stock comprises a complete and endless variety\\nof groceries, an enumeration of which would fill many pages of this volume, and\\nstill be inadequate to do the contents of their establishment anything like justice.\\nWe may however mention a few articles most conspicuous. Of flour, they own the\\ncelebrated brands of Georgia Belle and Savannah Roll both possess a high\\nstate of excellence, and have for years given complete satisfaction to the retail trade.\\nThey also control the two best flours manufactured in the United States, Ceres\\nand Water Lily. In liquors this firm has always occupied a leading position in\\nthe trade. In point of magnitude of business done, and reliability of pure goods\\nfurnished the public, no house in the city is its superior, and it has few equals. They\\ncarr} the largest stock in Georgia of a fine selected assortment of brandies, whiskej^s,\\nrums and gins. The famous Old Fashioned Rye whiskey is controlled by them,\\nand is endorsed by every lover of good and pure liquor. They have never knowingly\\nsold a gallon of impure liquor. Long years of experience in this branch of business,\\ncoupled with a knowledge of the leading distillers, has enabled this house to carry a\\nstock and acquire a reputation beyond rivalry offering pure and unadulterated\\ngoods at prices not to be undersold, and not easily duplicated. In cigars and\\ntobaccos they have achieved a reputation, and acquired a trade, that places them in\\nthe front rank of enterprise and success. They possess a thorough appreciation of\\nthe wants and demands of the trade their intimate knowledge of the business\\nenables them to offer marked advantages to their patrons. The volume of their sales\\nof cigars and tobaccos surpasses that of many who make a specialty of this branch\\nof trade. Wherever you travel South, Our Major cigar has the preference.\\nThis brand and the numerous others sold by this house enlarge the sales and increase\\nthe profits of the retail dealers. The lover of the weed would as leave forego\\na meal as be without a chew of Henry Solomon s (5s) Fives or Planters\\nChew tobacco. The former has been on the market since 1857 without a peer\\nits well-earned reputation is a guarantee to any who have not availed themselves of\\nintroducing it to their customers. Although it is one of the best tobaccos made, it\\nis not sold at wholesale at a fancy price, and is the most profitable tobacco the\\nretailer handles. Minnie Lee, Good Morning, Pearl T3^e, Unique,\\nContinental, Champ Carter, Oak Dale, Nancy, H. Solomon Sixes,\\nH. Solomon Eights, are among the popular brands, besides a galaxy of others\\nonly to be found here. Those who patronize the firm in this branch are little likely to\\ntransfer their patronage elsewhere. We call particular attention to this house and\\ncheerfully recommend it. Their prices compare favorably with the East, North or\\nWest, with whom they compete successfully. We are confident that those who estab-\\nlish relations with it will find their advantage very much promoted.\\nHAWKINS COCORZA Dealers and Manufacturers of Yelloiv Pine Lumber\\nand Timber, Hani Wuods, Shinyles, Planed and Dressed Woods, etc., 67 Bay Street.\\nThe situation of Savannah with reference to the timber growing districts of the\\nSouth has always conduced to give her importance in the lumber trade (representing\\nat the present time not less than S3, 000, 000 worth), a trade that has in a targe degree\\nadded to the general prosperity, and there is no branch of her mercantile interests\\nwhich is so well calculated to give her wide-spread reputation and enure to her future", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 75\\nprosperity. There are several firms engaged in tliis branch, employing in the aggre-\\ngate large capital. Some are almost mammoth in their proportions, and are supplied\\nwith every requisite facility for the manufacture and handling of lumber in all its\\nvarious forms. At the very head of these is the firm of Hawkins Gogorza. Their\\nbusiness is one of such large proportions and of such systematic arrangement, and\\noccupies such a prominent position among the commercial and manufacturing in-\\nterests of Savannah, as to demand especial mention in a work devoted to the mer-\\ncantile history of the city. This house was originally started in 1880, by Haslam\\nand Hawkins. In 1883 Mr. Haslam withdrew, and early in 1884 Mr. A. Gogorza\\nbecame a member, the present firm name being then adopted. The plant of the firm\\nconsists of a fully equipped sawmill at Wheaton, Georgia, and a planing mill at\\nSavannah, with a complete complement of machinery and appliances of the best\\nmodern design and construction. They deal specially in hewn and sawed yellow pine\\nand hard woods cypress shingles tongued, grooved and planed boards mouldings,\\netc. Their sawmill at Wheaton is most advantageously situated in close proximity to\\ntheir wood lands and to facilitate the transportation of lumber they have built, for\\ntheir own purposes, ten miles of railroad, which they operate, owning a full comple-\\nment of cars and two locomotives. The output of the mill is about 27,000 super-\\nficial feet of merchantable lumber daily. In hewn timber it is difficult to make an\\nestimate, but large quantities are gotten out. At the planing mill the output in\\ndressed lumber, tongued and grooved boards, mouldings, etc., is about 20,000 feet\\ndaily, and about 200,000 cypress shingles per month. Their trade extends all over\\nthe country, yellow pine lumber growing yearly more in favor for interior finish and\\ndecoration. They export largely to Spain, South America, South Africa, and the West\\nIndies. Some two hundred and thirty hands are employed in the various avocations.\\nFor the accommodation of their employees the firm own some fifty cottages, besides\\nthe necessary barns, stockyards and outbuildings, some seventy head of stock being\\nrequired in the prosecution of their large business. In hewn timber the firm supply\\nwhite oak, white ash, hickory, poplar, cypress, sweet gum, curly pine, etc. The\\ntransactions of the firm will reach $550,000 annually. Mr. Antonio Gogorza is vice-\\nconsul of Portugal and secretary of the consular corps he is a native of Spain,\\nand a resident of Savannah since 1874. Mr. W. A. Hawkins is a native of Georgia.\\nEstablishments of this class, which contribute so materially to the manufacturing and\\nproductive resources of the city, are of incalculable benefit, attracting attention to\\nthe facilities of this section, and stimulating enterprise by their energy and business\\nvim. Both members of the firm are thoroughly experienced in the business in all\\nits departments, and devote their constant personal attention to its management.\\nNo city ever became great or specially prosperous without successful manufacturing-\\nestablishments they are the muscle and sinews of commercial progress and develop-\\nment, and should be encouraged. Messrs. Hawkins Gogorza conduct their\\nbusiness on the most elevated plane of commercial honor and legitimate commercial\\npolicy. They have achieved success, which enures substantially to the city s ad-\\nvantage as well as their own.\\nHAWKINS y GOGORZA Fabricantes y Exportadores de Maderas de todas\\nclases, Savannah, Georgia.\\nLa posicion geografica de Savannah respecto a las regiones de bosques de Maderas\\nde estos Estados del Sur, le ha dado siempre gran importancia en el negocio de", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "6 SAVANNAH HER\\nMaderas. La industria en este articulo esta hoy representada en Savannah por mas\\nde S3, 000, 000 y no hay rarao del coraercio de esta Plaza que ofrezca a la raisma tan\\nsolida riqueza y futura prosperidad. De las varias casas que en Savannah se ocupan\\nen la industria maderera, algunas de ellas son casi colosales por los grandes intereses\\nque abarcan y capitales erapleados en bosques y maquinaria. A la cabeza de ellas\\nesta la casa de Hawkins y Gogorza sus relaciones con el Pais y el Estrangero son\\nde tal magnitud, estdn tan sistematicamente montados y ocupan tal posicion en el\\nmundo comercial y manufacturero, que exijen una mencion especial en esta obra\\ndedicada a la historia mercantil de Savannah. Esta casa fu6 establecida en Enero de\\n1880 bajo la razon social de Haslam y Hawkins. En 1883 Haslam se retir6 de la\\ncasa y el 1.\u00c2\u00b0 de Enero de 1884 Antonio Gogorza entro en la misma, tomando la casa\\nsu nombre actual de Hawkins y Gogorza. Este sociedad posee un molino di sierra\\nd vapor, en el pueblo de Wheaton, al interior de este Estado, y otro Molino para\\nmachihembrear, cepillar, tornear en esta Plaza. Ambas fabricas estan dotadas\\ncon maquinaria e instrumentos de construccion y sistema mas modernos. Los nego-\\ncios de que se ocupa esta casa son, en Maderas aserradas y hacheadas, tanto de Pino\\ntea como de Roble, Nogal, Fresno, Cipr^s, tejamaniles de cipres, tabloneria\\ncepillada y machihembrada, molduras, torneos El molino de sierra en Wheaton\\nesta situado cerca de los Bosques de madera de la propiedad de dicha casa, y para\\nfacilitar el transporte de troncos desde dichos bosques al molino, los Srs. Hawkins y\\nGogorza han construido para su solo uso, diez millas de ferro-carril con el necesario\\nniimero de wagones y dos locomotoras. P21 rendimiento diario de dicho molino de\\nsierra, en madera de primera clase solamente, es de 27,000 pies superficiales. En\\nmaderas hacheadas es dificil calcular el movimiento de esta casa pero grandes can-\\ntidades son embarcadas para el Estrangero. La produccion diaria de su Fabrica de\\ncepillar machihembrar de esta plaza, es alrededor de 20,000 pies superficiales,\\nademas del incalculable niimero de molduras, cornizas, c. Su produccion en\\ntejamaniles es alrededor de 200, 000 al mes, aunque esta produccion pueden facil-\\nmente duplicarla cuando la demanda asi lo exige. Esta casa, ademas de su negocio\\ncon este pais, exporta sus productos a Espaiia, Portugal, costa occidental de Africa,\\nAntillas, y Sur de America. Los operarios empleados por esta tirma en sus diferentes\\nmolinos y dependencias, asciende a 230 hombres y para su albergiie la susodicha\\nsociedad posee unas 50 casas ademas de las cuadras, ganaderos y corrales necesarios\\npara la proteccion de unas 70 mulas y caballos que usan en el negocio. El Sr.\\nHawkins es natural de este Estado de Georgia. El Sr. Gogorza es nacido en Espafia\\ny vino a esta plaza en 1874 ocupa ademas la posicion oficial de Vice-Consul de Por-\\ntugal y es Secretario del cuerpo Consular de esta Plaza. Establecimientos como el\\nde los SiVs. Hawkins y Gogorzas, contribuyen i)oderosamente al dcsarrollo 3 pros-\\nperidad de la Ciudad que los alberga y Uaman considerablemente la atencion del\\nmundo comercial por su actividad y energia. Ambos miembros de dicha firma\\nposeen una consumada experieYicia en el negocio de Maderas y dedican su personal\\ny estricta atencion al manejo y desarrollo del mismo. Ninguna Ciudad puede llegar\\na ser notable y prospera sin6 posee establecimientos manufactureros que formen el\\nmusculo y nervio para su desarrollo. Los Si^. Hawkins y Gogorza manejan sus ne-\\ngocios bajo el mas elevado plan de honor e intogridad mercantil, y sus esfuerzos por\\neste camino les ha alcanzado un resultado sumamente beneficioso no solo para cllos\\nraismos sino para la Ciudad y puerto de Savannah.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMIVIERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 77\\nECKIVIAN VETSBKJRC\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wholesale Dry Goods and Notions, Nos. 131 and\\n153 Congress Street; New York Office, 39 Worth Street.\\nIn the commercial history of all cities there are some staid old houses, connecting links\\nin the chain of mercantile annals, associating the present with the past houses, some\\nof whose founders have been busy actors in the drama of events long since buried in\\noblivion, still on the busy stage of business life, enacting their parts with conservative,\\ncareful and honorable policy, tempered with prudential enterprise. Such a position\\nis occupied in the biography of Savannah by the firm of Eckman Vetsburg, whole-\\nsale dealers in dry goods. The business enterprise and solidity of a city are in a\\ngreat measure indicated by the extent and character of her jobbing houses. The\\ngreat dry goods houses of the country have ever exercised a powerful influence, and\\nthe old, wealthy and successful establishments have become familiar by name and\\nreputation in all sections of the land. Savannah is most favorably situated as to the\\ngreat arteries and highways of commerce, having invaluable connections both by\\nwater and land with all parts of the South, her mercantile ramifications extending\\nthrough it in every direction, and yearly growing larger and more important one of\\nthe chief factors in her progress has been her dry goods interests, and the history of\\nher largest wholesale jobbing house, while a necessary and integral part of her statis-\\nical biography is also interesting and valuable as an historical record and useful for\\nreference. In 1845, R. Einstein and S. II. Eckman associated themselves under the firm\\ntitle of Einstein Eckman, for the purpose of carrying on the dry goods business.\\nFrom the outset they pushed their business energetically, soon taking rank as the\\nleading wholesale house in this part of the country. In 1870, Mr. Abraham Vetsburg\\nwas admitted to the firm, the style becoming Einstein, Eckman Co., which continued\\nuntil 1877. Mr. Einstein having died in 1875, the family interest was continued,\\nthe sons managing the interest of the estate. The firm title was changed at the\\nwithdrawal of this interest to the present style, Eckman Vetsburg. The same\\npolicy which characterized the operations of the house through the preceding 30 odd\\nyears of its successful existence has been adhered to. Still pushing their trade,\\ntheir transactions have been carried into the neighboring States, their influence and\\nreputation gradually and surely extended, until it is now the ranking establishment\\nin the South, a position to which it is justly entitled, and which is freely accorded it\\nfrom their long experience, their extensive transactions, the magnitude of their stock,\\nand the well-known characteristics of the gentlemen composing the firm. Through\\nall the years this house has been in existence, the change it has undergone, the muta-\\ntions in trade incident to its long career, it has ever maintained with brightening\\nreputation the perfect system, the high degree of mercantile integrity and the\\nelevated business enterprise with which it was founded, and which has rendered its\\nsuccess assured. They occupy one of the most commodious business houses in the\\ncity the building is constructed of brick, with a frontage of 50 feet on Congress\\nStreet and a depth of 90 feet, four-stories in height, including a finished basement,\\ngiving them 18,000 square feet, which is utilized in the prosecution of their large\\ntrade. The business operations are thoroughly organized into different departments,\\nmanaged by competent hands, all under the direct personal supervision of the pro-\\nprietors. The stock carried will average $150,000 in value, the annual transactions\\nwill reach $750,000. They employ sixteen assistants. Their trade extends through\\nGeorgia, Florida, South Carolina and Alabama. To successfully manage such a\\nbusiness requires a system of complete thoroughness, and a knowledge of business", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "78 SAVANNAH HER\\nonly acquired by years of education and experience. Eckman Vetsburg are the\\nleading house in the Southeast, and their name has become known as a house of\\nample capital, superior stock and the most admirable business qualifications. Mr. S.\\nH. Eckman has resided in New York for the past ten years as the buyer of the house,\\nwhile Mr. Abraham Vetsburg attends to the business in Savannah.\\nLUDDEN BATES Southern Music House, Southern Distributing Depot for\\nSliPet Music, 142 atid 144 Congress Street.\\nOne of the best evidences of the dawning of an era of progress and material\\nadvancement in the enterprise of the Southern States is the establishment, in the com-\\nmercial centers, of houses of the go-ahead determined business ability of foreign\\ncapitalists, and the push of their invincible management. The stimulus of their\\nexample exercises a most wholesome influence, and those cities in which thej have\\nestablished themselves during the last 15 years already exhibit indisputable evidences\\nof modern enterprise and mercantile activity. This was the electric spark nepessary\\nto kindle the slow burning fire of Southern ambition and manhood, and teach them to\\nforget past glories and subsequent disasters in heroic efforts to develop their natural\\nresources and build up a country commercially great. This has been nowhere better\\nverified than in Georgia her cities have attracted more attention than those of sister\\nStates, l)y the determination and effective energy they are evincing since the civil war\\nto make themselves prosperous, and metropolitan Savannah, with perhaps less bluster\\nand froth, has kept even pace with the foremost, aud a bright future is in store for\\nher. In Savannah, Messrs. Ludden Bates are the best exemplars of this class.\\nBringing with them from the West the irrepressible vim and fearless mercantile spirit,\\ncharacteristic of that section, they have in a limited period, despite strenuous compe-\\ntition, built up a business without a j^eer in their line in the entire South, from the\\nPotomac to the Gulf, and in accomplishing this their example has been of incalculable\\nbenefit to the city and section. Teach a people the possibilities that exist within\\nthemselves and they will essay a like venture. In 1870, W. Ludden and J. A. Bates,\\nof Chicago, established the nucleus of their present magnificent business with a\\ncapital of $20,000. Starting with full confidence in their own ability and a true\\nconception of the latent possibilities of the city, they have taken advantage of every\\nlegitimate business factor and principle that would advance their purpose, and they\\nhave won the fight, and to-day they employ a bone fide capital of their own earnings\\nof $150,000, and represent the most prominent and meritorious musical houses in\\nthis country and Europe. Their trade has not l)een trammeled b^ the trade limits of\\nthe cit}^, they recognized no special tributary countr} but pushed their transactions,\\nuntil their books show customers in ever} Southern State and Mexico. They carry\\nan average stock of $100,000 in value, and their annual transactions will reach dver\\n$500,000. They emploj^ twenty-five assistants. Their business premises are com-\\nmodious, well lighted, and convenient, among the largest in the South the building\\nhas a frontage of 00 feet by 60 in depth, four-stories in height, including the base-\\nment, giving them 15,000 square feet of floor surface, which they utilize in their busi-\\nness. They, in addition to their own make, are agents for the very best pianos and\\norgans in the world, for musical publicatious and musical merchandise. Alwa3 s on\\nthe alert to improve their own facilities, and recognizing the fact that anj under-\\ntaking that attracts favorable attention to the city has an indirect beneficial influence\\nupon their own business, they have manifested their public enterprise by establishing", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 79\\nthe publication of a family monthly magazine, called Home, Sioeet Home. They con-\\ntemplate the establishment of a piano factory in this city at an early date. The house\\nhas branch establishments in Macon, Augusta, Columbus and Rome, Ga. Goldsboro\\nand Charlotte, N. C. Greenville, S. C. Jacksonville, Fla. Meridian, Miss. Knox-\\nville, Tenn. and New York City the headquarters for their importation. Mr. J. A.\\nBates, the managing partner, has been educated in the business and has a valuable\\nexperience. Business men of this undaunted spirit are those who build great cities\\nunceasing and untiring in their exertion, and irresistible in their ambitious enterprise,\\nthey create a wholesome business activity and competition that result in vast good\\nto all branches of trade. Honorable and liberal, the house of Ludden Bates is a\\ncredit to themselves and to the city.\\nPALMER BROTHERS Hardtvare, Rubber Belting, Agricultural Implements,\\nDnp\u00c2\u00abnVs Poivder, Fairbanks^ Scales, 148 mid 150 Congress and 149 and 151 St.\\nJulian Streets.\\nIn the enumeration of the commercial enterprises of cities it is interesting to note\\nthe ratio of influence exercised by the different branches of trade comparatively. The\\nstatistician, in collating data and tabulating the results, has unusual facilities for form-\\ning estimates, and observing the bearing on the general thrift and progress exerted by\\neach in the special inducements presented by cities to capitalists in quest of invest-\\nments, or business men seeking favorable locations. Among these, basing our judg-\\nment on an experience of several years in the business, we would unquestionably give\\nprecedence to the various business branches connected with iron in its manifold com-\\nmercial and manufacturing industries. The generic term hardware includes all\\narticles fabricated out of iron and, its chief result, steel, the application being general\\nin its signification. Its utility, in its influence, comprehends all pursuits, whether of\\nart, science, mechanics or labor, and there is no branch of business that is such a\\npotent auxiliary in extending and enlarging commercial and mechanical progress,\\nand fostering business relations with other States and cities among the houses devoted\\nto this branch in Savannah. That of Messrs. Palmer Bros, may be justly regarded\\nas the foremost regarding an exclusively hardware business. This establishment was\\nfounded in 1866 by Palmer Deppish, with a capital of $1,200, and conducted suc-\\ncessfully by them until 1876, when Mr. D. died, and the present firm succeeded\\ncomposed of S. B. Palmer and H. A. Palmer. In 1882 Mr. H. W. Palmer became a\\nmember of the firm. Experience in any pursuit in life is justly regarded as equal to\\ncapital when the ability exists to profit by it, and when this exists, in connection with\\nintelligent enterprise and sterling business principles, success is but a question of\\ntime. The senior of this firm, Mr. S. B. Palmer, evidently merits to be ranked in\\nthis class, his experience being reckoned by a period of 40 years, and singular to note,\\nhe began the study of the business in 1844 in the store he now occupies. In the\\nestimation of his fellow citizens he has been found worthy of entire confidence and\\nconsideration. The firm in the management of their entensive business have mani-\\nfested a rare judgment and thorough comprehension of its various details always\\nalive to improvements and modern ideas, their stock is kept fully up to the standard\\nobserved in the large Eastern and Western cities; as importers and jobbers the} have\\nestablished an enviable reputation for keen discrimination, and may be fairly\\nregarded as experts. They occupy the large four-story double brick building\\n148 and 150 Congress Street, with a frontage of 42 feet on both Congress and St. Julian", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "80\\nSAVANXAH HER\\nStreets, with a depth of GO feet, thus utilizing 10,080 square feet of floor surface in\\nthe prosecution of their business. They carry an average stock of 850,000 in value,\\nincluding all articles pertaining to the hardware business, for mechanical, agricul-\\ntural, artistic and scientific purposes. The}^ employ nine assistants. The trade of\\nthe house extends throughout the States of Georgia, South Carolina, Florida and\\nAlabama, the transactions amounting to $250,000 annuall3\\\\ S. B. Palmer is a\\ndirector of the Southern Bank H. A. Palmer is a director of the Skidaway Shell\\nRoad. The relation of bare facts in connection with this house is argument enough\\nwithout comment on our part.\\nD- B. LESTER\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Grocer, 21 Whitaker Street.\\nIn an historical review of our mercantile interests, there is no department of trade\\nwhich forms so directly the connecting link between the avenues of mental and\\nphysical labor as that branch which supplies the needs of every home and table.\\nOf the man}^ firms and individuals in this city\\nengaged in the grocery business, it may be safe\\nto assert that none in this section of the city pre-\\nsents a more full and complete stock, or is con-\\nducted with a more thorough knowledge of the\\nrequirements of the trade, than the establishment\\nof Mr. D. B. Lester. Mr. L. started his present\\nbusiness here in 1874, and always keeps on hand\\na choice assortment of fine family groceries, and\\neverything pertaining to this line of trade, the\\namount of stock varying somewhat with the sea-\\nson of the year. Four floors of the building at\\niS u. 21 Whitukur Street are required in storing the supplies of this well-known house.\\nThe first floor (or cellar) is used exclusively for a wine cellar, and is filled with a\\nlarge stock of the various brands of wines and liquors, such as old Duff Gordon Sherry,\\nOporto wines, old Madeira, Sweet Catawba, Georgia Scuppernong, fine French\\nbrandies, Jamaica and Santa Croix rums, Old Tom gin, peach and apple brandy, and\\neverything in that line to complete a first-class stock. The second floor is the retail\\ndepartment. The shelves of this entire floor are enclosed with a glass front, show-\\ning off to great advantage every article kept in this large establishment. The third\\nfloor is used for storing heavy groceries, such as flour, rice, bacon, soap, starch,\\ncoffee, and all kinds of canned goods. The fourth floor is used for vegetables, wood\\nand willow ware, etc. Five assistants give courteous and prompt attention to all who\\nvisit this establishment, and goods are delivered promptly to customers in all parts\\nof the city. Mr. Lester is sole agent in Savannah for the celebrated Mohawk\\nwhiskey, the price being but $3.00 per gallon. Orders are received from both city\\nand suburban customers for goods in the grocery line, and the transactions of the\\nhouse compare favorably withj those of contemporary establishments. Mr. Lester\\nwas born in Bullock county, Georgia, in 1851, and is comparativel}- a young man.\\nHe has resided in Savannah for fifteen years, and deserves credit for the large busi-\\nness he has built up and the systematic manner in which he conducts it. Not only\\nfor the excellence of stock, but for the promptness and efficienc} of the business\\ntransactions, is this house entitled to liberal mention among the progressive mer-\\ncantile enterprises of this cit3\\\\", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 81\\nR. B. CASSELS Wood and Coal Dealer, Taylor and East Broad Streets.\\nThe manner in which the wood and coal business is conducted in this city gives it a\\nwider range and scope than is usually attached to it. It has attracted a vast amount\\nof capital, and numerous houses have been established for the handling of large or\\nsmall quantities. Mr. R. B. Cassels started in this business here in 1871, and has\\nachieved a very prosperous career. With a comprehensive knowledge of its require-\\nments and by straightforward business transactions he has established a flourishing and\\ngradually increasing trade. The premises occupied by Mr. Cassels are ample for the\\nprosecution of his business, and are conveniently supplied with sheds and coverings,\\nand all the latest appurtenances for sawing or splitting wood to any desired length.\\nHere will also be found a large supply of wood, and anthracite coal from Pennsyl-\\nvania, which is delivered to purchasers in any part of the city, and orders filled for\\nparties residing on the Savannah, Florida and Western, and Charleston and Savannah\\nrailway lines. The sales in wood constitute the main portion of this business, and\\nfifteen employees are required during the busy season in handling the stock. The\\nbusiness policy of the house is enterprising and liberal, resulting naturally in the\\nmarked success which has attended its operations. Orders by telephone are promptly\\nfilled, and this house compares favorably with similar concerns in the city. Mr.\\nCassels was born in Liberty County, Ga. and upon coming here, in 1871, embarked in his\\npresent undertaking, which has enjoyed a continuously successful career. He is pre-\\npared to furnish supplies in this line to the public promptly and satisfactorily, as a\\ntrial will convince any one.\\nP. O. KESSLER CO. Importers of and Dealers in Guns, Rifles, Pistols and\\nSporting Goods, 1 74 Broughton Street.\\nIn a city whose vicinity, like that of Savannah, abounds in the choicest game of all\\ndescriptions, including some of the most tempting and delicate of the game birds,\\nsuch as partridges, grouse, woodcock, etc., not to speak of larger game, the necessity\\nof an establishment dealing exclusively in sporting goods and ammunition has long\\nbeen felt by its sportsmen, but until lately that want was unfilled. On January 1st,\\nhowever, Mr. P. O. Kessler started such an establishment at 174 Broughton Street.\\nHis stock is as complete as can be desired, embracing all the most celebrated brands\\nof shotguns and rifles, pistols, and in fact everything which the most ardent hunter\\nand lover of the chase could desire. He is agent for the best English, Belgian and\\nGerman makers, of whose best goods he has a complete line, his entire stock amount-\\ning to $5,500 in value. His business, for so short a space of time as up to date, has\\nopened well, and promises at no distant period to assume very large proportions.\\nMr, Kessler is a native of Sahl, Prussia, but has resided for some time in America.\\nHis profession, which he has followed all his life, was learned in Germany, he having\\nfollowed it from boyhood, and is therefore thoroughly qualified for it. He has made\\nseveral important inventions and improvements, among them a very ingenious car-\\ntridge shell, and also a powder flask. He is a gentleman of good character and\\nstands well in the community, and with his determination to succeed will no doubt,\\nwith the excellent beginning he has made, realize all his hopes. His store fills an\\nimportant want in Savannah, and we cheerfully recommend it to all who wish the very\\nbest goods at the most reasonable prices. A visit to his establishment will be appre-\\nciated, as he is always pleased to show his goods to any who may desire to see them,\\neven if not with the intention of purchasing.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "82 SAVANNAH HER\\nH. FRASER GRANT CO. General Commission Merchants, Cotton, Rice\\nand Naval Stores, Agents for Standard Fertilizers, 72 Bay Street.\\nThe situation of Savannah with reference to the great cotton and rice growing and\\nnaval-stores producing districts of the South, and her geographical position on one of\\nthe great estuaries of the Atlantic ocean, has given her unsurpassed advantages which,\\nwith proper development, will in the not far distant future class her among the com-\\nmercial cities of the countr)^ The magnitude and extent of her trade in these staples\\nis represented by millions, and it is yearly growing, bringing her forward, overshad-\\nowing the claims and pretensions of rival cities in the South. The lack of public\\nspirited enterprise, which has heretofore retarded the development and utilization of\\nthe latent resources of the South, is being supplied by the present generation of bus-\\niness men, and the stigma of slothful incapacity being rapidly removed. This is\\nespecially observable in Georgia, and in no locality more than in Savannah. Without\\nthe frothy, noisy pretensions of some of her sister cities, she is quieth and with\\nself-assertion making solid, permanent progress built on the firm foundation of facts,\\ntangible evidences of material strength, her growth is not ephemeral. Prominent\\namong this class of bi^siness men, who in their desire for personal aggrandizement\\nnever lose sight of their city s welfare, we place by general concession H. Fraser\\nGrant, the present President of the Savannah Board of Trade, and Treasurer of the\\nRice Planters Association, positions accorded him in acknowledgment of his enter-\\nprise, ability and disinterested public spirit. In 1870 Mr. Grant established himself\\nin the cotton factorage business, to which he afterwards added rice and naval stores.\\nThis branch of the commission business is peculiar to the South, resulting from the\\ninabilitj^ of the planter and producer to cultivate, harvest and market his crop, from\\nvarious causes, the principal of which is limited capital, or indisposition to sacrifice\\nvaluable time to effect results which can be better accomplished through the offices\\nof the commission merchant, who is educated to the business. Its importance to the\\nagricultural interests, after all the main dependence of the South, can be readily in-\\nferred, and but for the assistance thus rendered, the efforts to regenerate and\\nstimulate the material interests of the fairest portion of this country would be but as\\nthe labors of Sisyphus unending and ever resultless. It is therefore also patent\\nthat this business, from the confidential nature of its relations, and the strict integrity\\nreciuisite to make it effective and mutually profitable, should be in the hands of active,\\nable men, of unimpeachable reputation and spotless character. Of course, as in the\\nfairest creation of the human intellect, there will always exist a blemish or flaw, which\\nofttimes renders the tout ensemble only the more attractive and seductive so in busi-\\nness pursuits, those who stray from the paths of rectitude and conscientiously fair\\ndealing, only render the straightforward, upright merchant the more successful, the\\nl)etter appreciated. Men form the character t)f a business the reflex of their own\\ncharacter gives it commercial prestige and status. H. Fraser Grant brought to this\\nbusiness his high-toned ideas of personal and mercantile honor, and success rewarded\\nhis efforts. In 1880 Mr. E. E. Cheatliam became a partner in the business. Mr.\\nGrant having been raised a rice planter, enjoys peculiar advantages as a factor. Both\\ngentlemen are native Georgians. The transactions of the firm extend through Geor-\\ngia, South Carolina, Florida and Alabama, the handlings amounting in a season to\\nsome 8,000 bales of cotton, 7.5,000 bushels of rice, and 30,000 liarrels of naval stores.\\nThis is one of tlie most prominent factorage commission firms in the South.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COM5IERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 83\\nDAVIS BROS* Art Dealers, Booksellers, Stationers and Printers, 42 and 44\\nBull, Cor. York Streets.\\nThe Americans are essentially a great reading people, and every year the taste for\\nreading solid literature is growing. The cultivation of this taste is an evidence of\\nadvancement in refinement and culture, and we believe the reading nations of the earth\\nare those who excel in business, commerce, science and art. Of the several firms in\\nthis city engaged in the book and stationery business, it may safely be asserted that\\nnone are better stocked, or conducted with a more thorough knowledge of the require-\\nments of the business, than that of Davis Bros., located at the corner of Bull and York\\nStreets. This enterprise was started an 1879 and has enjoyed a prosperous career.\\nA fine and well selected stock of artistic goods is carried, as well as a full supply of\\nstationery, both fancy and staple. Straw and manilla wrapping papers, paper bags,\\ntwines, ink, school books and supplies, and artists materials, are also included in\\nstock, and the trade is principally with the Host intelligent classes, to whom they can\\nalways offer advantages in the purchase of books and the selection of libraries not to\\nbe excelled by any contemporaries, either here or elsewhere in the State, and which\\nhas given them a position in the trade rarely acquired except by many years of\\nexertion and experience. Seven assistants are required in the business, and the\\nbuilding occupied is admirably adapted to the proper display of goods in this line.\\nThe stock of stationery carried by this establishment is the most complete and best\\nselected in the city, always embracing everything desirable, new and costly. Besides\\nthese essentials, they make a specialty of supplying commercial blank books, blanks\\nand printed forms of all kinds, evincing a taste and discrimination in this department\\nhighly conducive to the wants of the trade and healthy enlargement of custom in this\\nline. The minor articles pertaining to the business are by no means overlooked.\\nThe best grades of pens, lead pencils and various sundries are kept in ample quantity\\nand different qualities. A fine collection of fancy goods pertaining to this class of\\nbusiness will be found here, especially during the holiday season of the year.\\nMessrs. H. C. and L. E. Davis compose this most popular firm, both natives of\\nAtlanta, Ga., and residents of this city for the past five years. Indefatigable in the\\npursuit of this business, for which they possess marked talent and appreciative\\ncomprehension, Messrs. Davis Bros, supply a large city patronage and receive\\norders in large number by mail. With seven years experience, their success and the\\nhigh estimation in which they are held by those who have had dealings with them, as\\nwell as the public generally, are suflicient guarantees not only of integrity in business\\ntransactions but of general characteristics, entitling them to the entire confidence and\\nrespect of the community.\\nR. H, GILES Plumber and Gas Fitter, 36 Drayton Street.\\nMr. Giles, who is a thorough and practical plumber, conversant with the minutest\\ndetails of his profession, is an energetic and practical business man, who by his\\nindustr}^ has fully merited the success which has come to him. Owing to his favor-\\nable location, general reputation, and the excellent character of the work which comes\\nfrom his establishment, there is to-day no one here more trusted than himself. He\\nsuperintends all work done in his establishment, and his guarantee is sufficient to\\ninsure its being good. His stock is varied and complete in all its details. Mr. Giles\\nis a gentleman of high character, both in and out of business circles, and his work\\nhas a reputation which is second to none in Savannah.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "84 SAVA^^s AH her\\nCARNETT, STUBBS CO.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cott07i Factors and Commission Merchants, 94\\nliiiy Street.\\nAmong the many industries that have tended to enlarge and extend the commercial\\nimportance of Savannah, perhaps no one has had a more favorable inliueuce upon\\nthe mercantile relations of the community than the cotton trade, and certainly no\\nhouse in the trade exhibits more energy and enterprise than that of Garnett, Stubbs\\nCo. This establishment enjoys a reputation of which the proprietors have a right\\nto be proud, and deserves more than a passing notice in a work devoted t the indus-\\ntries and commercial pursuits of Savannah. The business is conducted on the\\nhighest principles of honor, with great energy and ability, and to these facts, to-\\ngether with the genial, courteous manners of the members of the firm, is due the\\neminent success it has obtained and the prominent position it occupies in the com-\\nmercial affairs of the city. This enterprise was founded in 18GG by Groover, Stubbs\\nCo., and this firm being dissolved in 4876, the business was continued by C. F.\\nStubbs Co. In 1881 the senior member of this firm died and the present one was\\norganized. The business of this firm is large, requiring the assistance of sixteen\\ncompetent and experienced men in the various departments of the establishment.\\nTheir consignments are largely from South Carolina and Georgia, but obtain some\\nsupplies from Florida and Alabama also, and are amply prepared to make liberal\\ncash advances on consignments, also furnish bagging and ties. They handle between\\n35,000 and 40,000 bales of cotton each year, and this house ranks among the largest\\nin the city. The individual members of the firm are Messrs. John K. Garnett, Thos.\\nF. Stubbs and M. Y. Maclntyre, all native Georgians, who have been engaged in this\\nline all their business lives. Prompt, reliable and honorable in all transactions, this\\nhouse is justlj^ entitled to the esteem and confidence of the general public.\\nJO C. THOWPSOH\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wholesale and Retail Groceries, No. 166 BrowjMon,\\ncorner Barnard.\\nThe best evidence that the South, and particularl}^ that Savannah, is as wide-awake\\nand energetic as any other portion of the Union, is evinced b} the number of j oung\\nmen who of late years have started business on their own account, and persevering in\\nthe face of every difficulty have disputed, and still dispute, the palm of business enter-\\nprise with old and long established houses. No better evidence of this fact is shown\\nin Savannah than by a glance at the grocery store of Mr. J. C. Thompson. This\\ngentleman, though established onl}^ since 187G, has already won a position in the\\nmercantile world for energy and reliability, and all the qualities which make a suc-\\ncessful business man, not excelled by firm or individual in Savannah. He was\\nformerly in the cotton and commission business, but determined to start for himself in\\n1876, and has succeeded beyond his expectations. His store is 35x50 feet in dimen-\\nsions, well ventilated and arranged the stock is valued at $6,000, and the annual\\nsales amount to upwards of $100,000. Mr. Thompson deals largely in all kinds of\\ncountry produce, rice, hides, tallow and other articles of general use, of which he\\nreceives large consignments. Six hands are employed at good wages. Mr. Thomp-\\nson is a native of Augusta, Ga. but has lived in and identified himself with Savannah\\nand its interest since boyhood. He stands well in all respects and is generally popu-\\nlar with all classes. His success is an eloquent lesson to all who may falter in the\\nwork of life and a visit to his bus} establishment will well repay the time spent there.\\nWe would recommend him to all who would wish fair dealing and the l)est articles to\\nbe obtained.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES.\\n85\\nPETER LINDENSTRUTH\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Je^re/er, Broughton Street.\\nAmong the jewelry establishments of Savannah, noted as they are as being equal\\nto any in the country for elegance and taste, there is none more conspicuous than the\\nwell-known one of Mr. Peter Lindenstruth. Situated in the central portion of the\\ncity, in a locality most favorable for trade, it has since its inception taken and re-\\ntained u position second to none. Here may be seen all the latest and most popular\\nstyles of jewelry, selected from the leading manufacturers of the country, and\\narranged with a taste and eye to effect which enhance their beauty in a marked\\ndegree. Mr. Lindenstruth sells the finest watches of American and European make\\nall guaranteed, and which invariably give satisfaction to the buyer in all respects.\\nThe stock is large and varied, and the sales (which extend over the city and State)\\nreach a large yearly amount. Mr. Lindenstruth is a native of Sweden, but has re-\\nsided in America for many years. He has had a long and thorough training at his\\nprofession, and is a careful and conscientious workman, and commands the respect\\nand esteem of his numerous customers. His workmen are all skillful, and under his\\nsupervision turn out work equal to any in the city. No establishment in the city is\\nmore deserving of patronage than this popular and well-known house.\\nS. CUCKENHEIMER SON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wholesale Grocers, 149 and 151 Bay Street.\\nIn the history of the advance and development of cities from the condition of\\nvillages, through the period when, throwing off the habiliments of uncertain youth,\\nthey begin to assume the lusty, vigorous characteristics of self-reliant manhood, and\\nassert their claim to metropolitan recognition, the wholesale grocery trade must\\nalways occupy a prominent posi-\\ntion, as it conduces more than any\\nother branch to a prosperous and\\nprogressive passage through that\\ncritical age in the lives of all com-\\nmercial centers the future being\\ndependent entirely on the enter-\\nprise and fearless business opera-\\ntions of their merchants. There\\nis no more important factor in this commercial growth, no more unerring index by\\nwhich to judge of the possibilities of a city, than the grocery trade. It is the mer-\\ncantile barometer, by which to foretell approaching prosperity or wrecked antici-\\npation. Savannah has a number of grocery establishments, all we believe in a\\nprosperous condition, the most prominent of which (forming our judgment from\\ngeneral acknowledgment) is that of S. Guckenheimer Son. A striking example of\\nprogress, and of what energy, quick perception of business and fair dealing may\\naccomplish, is afforded by the history of this well-known house, wliich has become\\none of the landmarks of the city. We accord them this position, not from any claims\\nmade by themselves, not from any desire to make invidious comparisons, but from\\nthe fact of their long connection with the business, their extended transactions, high\\nstanding and marked reputation. This house has from the outset taken a conspicuous\\nposition for energy, industrious application, and rapid and solid increase in their\\nbusiness. The commercial biography of all prosperous cities evidences in no uncer-\\ntain language that the first architects of their mercantile structure were houses such", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "86\\nSAVANNAH HER\\nas this. Sedulouslj attentive to their own affairs, and ever quick to exert their\\ninrtuenee for the general thrift, they have pursued their course in legitimate channels,\\nand gained prosperity by honorable, upright business policy. This business was\\nestablished in 1860 by S. Guckenheimer, the senior of the present firm, with small\\ncapital. In 1S65 the firm title became Guckenheimer Selig, which firm was dis-\\nsolved in 1872 Mr. Selig having died in 1870. The terms of partnership permitted\\n(while it did not enjoin) the continuance of the family s interest in the business for\\ntwo years subsequent to his death. Mr. Guckenheimer continued the business alone\\nfrom that date until 1877, when by the admission of Mr. E. J. Acosta, Jr., the firm\\nwas changed to S. Guckenheimer Co. In 1880 this firm changed, and Mr. Gucken-\\nheimer succeeded; and in 1881, by the admission of his son, Mr. Sam. S. Gucken-\\nheimer, the present firm name of S. Guckenheimer Son was adopted. From the\\nsmall beginning before alluded to, this business has grown to be one of the largest\\nin the whole South, the stock carried being very large and comprehensive, including\\nevery article pertaining to this line, and the yearly transactions approximating almost\\n$1,000,000. The extensive buildings occupied are hives of industry and activity;\\nthe main building has a frontage of 60 feet on Bay street by a depth of 90 feet.\\nThe carrying on of operations in this building under the direct supervision of the\\nproprietors enables them to guarantee the purity and quality of all goods i)ut upon\\nthe market, and gives them a reputation second to none. In addition, they have a\\nwarehouse for storage 60 feet by 90 feet. Some idea of the extent and magnitude\\nof their transactions may be had from the fact that they emplo} over twenty hands in\\nvarious capacities, and that their trade radiates through the States of Georgia,\\nFlorida, South Carolina and Alabama, reaching all important centres. Another fact\\nwhich will give some idea of the stock carried: the}- l)ring flour in train loads one\\npurchase requiring a train of fourteen cars to transport it. In every characteristic\\nindicative of business enterprise and management they are well endowed. As an\\nevidence of the public appreciation of his qualities as a business man and public\\nspirited citizen, Mr. Guckenheimer has been selected to hold positions of honor,\\ntrust and confidence. He is a commissioner of the Sinking Fund of the City of\\nSavannah, and a director in the Merchants National Bank. He is a member of the\\nBoard of Trade and of the Cotton Exchange.\\nP. J. GOLDEN Millinery and Stratv Goods, 134 Broughton Street.\\nThis well known and extensively patronized estal lisbment was, until recently, con-\\nducted by Mrs. Anna Golden, but on her death Mr. P. J. Golden assumed the con-\\ntrol, and has vigorously advanced it in every respect. The business was started in\\n1865 by Mrs. Golden, with moderate capital, since increased, and by care and atten-\\ntion it has grown until now the stock is estimated at S3, 000, and the annual sales at\\n\u00c2\u00a715,000. The store is 60x30 feet in dimensions, and contains a complete and fine\\nassortment of all that pertains to the millinery trade, all of the goods being of the\\nbest quality and finish. An important brancli of the business, and one to which\\nparticular attention lias been paid, is the manufacture of Hair goods, and in this\\nrespect the establishment can boast of producing an article not inferior to any made\\nin the country. Mr. Golden is a native of New York, born there in 18. }4, but has\\nlived in Savannah since 1855, participating in the rapid and lu-altliy growth of the\\ncity from that period up to the present time. He is a gentleman of excellent stand-\\ning and business capacity, generally popular with his numerous customers.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COIVEVIERCE AND INDrSTRIES. 87\\nJ. W. TEEPLE Cotton Ginner and Purchaser of Cotton in the Seed (Uplands,\\nSea Islands, etc.), and Dealer in Cotton Seed, Nos. 2 and 4iWilJiainson Street.\\nCotton, above all other products of the soil, requires a careful and thorough cleans-\\ning from all impurities, Jbefore being fitted to be baled for export, and to accomplish\\nthis ginning is necessary. The immense amount of cotton received at Savannah has\\ngiven rise to several establishments for ginning, and among these the largest by far is\\nthe well-known one of J. W. Teeple, which has been in existence since 1867, and has\\nalways maintained its place at the head. His trade is now general through Georgia,\\nSouth Carolina and Florida, is rapidly increasing, and swells the aggregate amount\\nof trade in Savannah. The establishment comprises one gin-house, 50 feet square,\\nwhich contains one engine of twelve-horse-power one warehouse, 24 feet square, in\\nconnection with gin-house, and a building, 75 feet square, for storage and salesroom.\\nHis oflSce is at Nos. 2 and 4 Williamson Street, where he transacts a lucrative and satis-\\nfactory trade, which is steadily increasing. The ginnery is situated on the Thunder-\\nbolt road, one of the most beautiful suburbs of Savannah. He gives employment\\nto upwards of twenty hands, who receive ampleTpay for their services. Mr. Teeple\\nis a native of Canada, but having lived in Savannah for the past twenty years is\\nas much interested in the city and her development as any native-born citizen. He\\npurchases, at the best prices, upland and sea island cotton in the seed, also deals\\nlargely in cotton seed, and buys cotton in bulk at liberal prices. We cheerfully\\nrecommend him to all who need work in his line, as one who is most liberal and fair\\nin all transactions, and with whom it is a pleasure to deal.\\nDALE, WELLS CO. Manufacturers and Decders in Yellow Pine Lumber and\\nTimber, Wheaton, East End of Liberty Street.\\nThe history of the lumber interests of this city presents to the gatherer of statistics\\nfacts of unusual interest. Savannah is most advantageously situated in a section of\\nthis country remarkable for the prolific growth of timber. The development of this\\nimportant trade in its various branches has given constant employment to numerous\\nlaborers and skilled mechanics, and listed in active service as much executive and\\nfinancial ability as any branch of business in which human energy and enterprise have\\nbeen employed. Among the most prominent establishments in this connection, the\\nmills of Messrs. Dale, Wells Co. may be said to occupy a leading position, not only\\nfor the magnitude and range of their operations, but also for the excellent quality of\\ntheir products. This enterprise has been in continuous operation since 1868, and\\nhas had a most successful career in every respect. The present firm are successors\\nto J. J.Dale Co., Mr. F. W. Dale having bought one-third interest in the business,\\nand he is now superintendent of the mill in the timber district. The mill is situated\\n66 miles out on the Savannah, Florida Western R. R. in a part of the country\\nabounding in timber, and is provided with all the modern machinery and appliances,\\nfor insuring rapid and perfect work in this line. Fourteen miles of tram-road are\\nused by this firm in carrying timber to the mill, and three engines are required in\\nprosecuting the work. Every facility that could be desired is enjoyed here. In the\\nseveral departments of the work 175 employees are engaged constantly, who receive\\nliberal wages. Mr. J. J. Dale is from Wisconsin, is experienced in the lumber busi-\\nness, and under his careful and conservative management the operations of the house\\nare sure to be extended. Mr. David Wells, the other member of the firm, is from\\nPennsylvania he has resided here thirty-four years, possesses many friends and", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "SAVANNAH HER\\npatrons in business circles, and is energetic and in every wsij reliable, meriting in\\nthe fullest degree the consideration awarded him by the public. Collectively, this is\\none of the most extensive and best known establishments in the South, and a large\\nforeign trade is supplied with lumber and timber, as well as tbat of the United States,\\nwhich is extensive. This tirm have achieved a place in the esteem of the community\\nas richl} deserved as it is sincere.\\nF. L. GEORGE Wholesale and Retail Grocer, No. 32 WJiitaker, corner State St.\\nThe immense growth of the grocery trade throughout the Union has stimulated and\\naided that of all other branches in more ways than one, and has also induced\\nmany young men to strike for themselves in this particular line. In Savannah no\\nfirm has a more promising future, and none stands higher in all respects than the well-\\nknown establishment of Mr. F. L. George and his success has been as gratifying to\\nhis friends as it has been beneficial to himself. Commencing in 1881 with small\\ncapital, but an abundant fund of energy and determination, he has worked himself up\\nto a position not inferior to that occupied b} any similar firm in the city. His store is\\ndivided into one large main room, 40x40, and a wing 20x15, and a cellar, and con-\\ntains a complete and carefully selected stock of groceries of all st^des and grades,\\naveraging in value $3,000, while the annual sales amount to upwards of $35,000,\\nthus making a replenishment of the stock necessarj^ several times in the course of a\\nyear. Four hands are employed, who are kept busy attending to the numerous\\ncustomers who come and go constantlj throughout the entire day. The store is\\nadmirably situated for trade, being in a central part of the city and between the two\\ngreat thoroughfares. Bull and Broughton Streets. Mr. George is a native of Savannah,\\nborn there in 1856, and has during his entire business career been in the business\\nwhich he now follows. He is well-known throughout the community, is prompt,\\nindustrious and reliable, and enjoys the confidence of all classes. His success is\\nremarkable for one of his age, and is a brilliant prestige of the future.\\nJ. H. HENHESSY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Grits, Meal, Cracked Corn, Etc.; Mill at Cor. Hull and\\nEast Broad Streets.\\nIt is the purpose of this work to aid in the development of the manufacturing and\\ncommercial interests of the city, by disseminating such intelligence regarding the\\nadvantages possessed by our manufacturers and dealers as will draw attention to their\\nfacilities. The Industrial ISfills, owned and operated by INIr. J. H. Hennessy, were\\nestablished ten years ago, and a trade has been built up in the city and vicinity which\\nwill compare most favorably with that of anj similar concern in Savannah. Mr.\\nHennessy dealslargely in grits, meal, cracked corn, oats, bran, hay, feed and wood, and\\nmill and residence are located at the corner of Hull and East Broad Streets. The\\nbuilding occupied is two stories in height, fifty feet square, with additions, and in the\\ngrinding department are two run of stones, which are operated by an engine of twentj-\\nhorse power. Six emplo3 ees are required in the prosecution of the business, and a\\nfull line of goods in this department of trade is kept on hand at all times, the sales\\nreaching S5,000 per annum. Orders bj^ telephone will be promptly and carefully\\nattended to, and none but the best and most desirable articles are kept in stock. Mr.\\nHennessy is a native of Ireland, but is strongly identified with the progress and\\nprosperity of the city of his adoption. Savannah owes much of its business pros-\\nperity to such establishments, which not only produce excellent goods, but whose pro-\\nprietors are alike noted for probity and honorable business transactions.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "TKADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 89\\nT. L, KINSEY Manufacturer and Dealer in Lumber; Office, No. 178 Bay Street.\\nThe lumber trade of Savannah is of much greater magnitude than many people\\nsuppose and it occupies, in some of its various ramifications, a force quite formidable\\nas to numbers. There are but few, even of our best informed citizens, who have\\nwatched with sufficient interest its late developments and enlargements, or who have\\nreflected upon the unlimited resources about us, yet undeveloped, but certainly to be\\ndrawn upon in the grander conquests of that near and swift approaching future. One\\nhalf the territory of the United States is destitute of a surplus of timber, and depends\\nupon what the other half can supply. The location of Savannah, and its favorable\\nsituation and accessibility to the immense lumber region of this section, place us on\\nthe favored, exceptional side of the subject, and render our facilities, in this respect,\\nunsurpassed, if equalled. Mr. T. L. Kinsey came to this city from New York in 1865,\\nand engaged in business as a manufacturer and dealer in lumber and timber, makino-\\na specialty of yellow pine, and has attained a most prominent position in the trade.\\nHis saw mill on Hutchinson s Island is the largest in this locality, the building occu-\\npied being 40 by 180 feet in size, two stories high, and it is provided with the latest\\nand best improved machinery and appliances for work in this line, including two cir-\\ncular saws and gang edgers, the two engines required for motive power aggregating\\n180 horse power. Thirty employees are engaged at work at all times, and their pro-\\nducts are shipped to foreign and domestic ports^ in fact, all over the world. The\\ncapacity of these works is 40,000 feet per diem, and the annual business transacted\\nreaches $150,000.\\nA. E. SIVIITH BRO. Wholesale Dealers in Tobaccos, Cigars and Liquors,\\nNo. 141 Bay Street.\\nSavannah is now recognized as one of the greatest distributing points of the South,\\nmerchants from all sections coming to her to purchase articles of food and luxury\\nwhich can be obtained there cheaper than elsewhere. Especially is this noticeable as\\nregards the wholesale tobacco and cigar as well as the liquor trade. Among the firms\\nwhose sales extend over a vast section of country, we notice the well-known firm of\\nA. E. Smith Bro., whose trade extends over Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and\\nAlabama, and amounts to over $175,000 per annum, and is growing rapidly. Their\\nestablishment comprises two floors, each 30x90 ft., and filled with a large and care-\\nfully selected stock. The tobacco and cigars are all of the best known brands, and\\nare warranted. They embrace Havanas, Manillas, Key West, the most celebrated\\nmanufactures of Virginia, New York and other cities. Their liquors are the very\\npurest obtainable and, in this age of adulteration, it is with pride that any house\\ncan say this. Their wines, brandies and other liquors are selected from the best\\nmanufacturers in the country, and are invariably the best, being selected by the firm\\nthemselves. Mr. A. E. Smith and Mr. H. L. Smilh comprise the firm. They are\\nboth natives of Germany, but have lived in Savannah since 1865. They are well\\nknown as straightforward and honorable dealers, both here and throughout the South,\\nand stand well in other respects. Those who wish the best cigars, tobacco and\\nliquors, and at the most reasonable prices, can do no wiser thing than to call at this\\nestablishment, or send their orders by mail, which will receive immediate attention,\\nand will be satisfactorily filled. Messrs. Smith Bro. watch keenly the markets\\nwhere they purchase their goods, and are always wide awake to secure bargains. No\\nfirm stands higher or is more respected than they.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "90 SAVAXNAH HER\\nSOLOMONS CO.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Drugs and Medicines, No. 167 Congress Street.\\nThe imijortation, manufacture and dispensing of drugs, medicines and chemicals,\\nat the present day, may justly be ranked among the most important and lucrative\\nbranches of business in our city, and there are circumstances connected with the pro-\\ngress and present condition of the several departments which are worthy the attention\\nof the mercantile public. The original apothecary in primitive times was the practicing\\nphysician, who imported his own supply of drugs and dispensed them himself. It\\nhas not been many years since the legitimate druggist was^first known in the United\\nStates, for Bishop, in his History of American Manufactures, says: The war\\nof 1812, and the commercial restrictions which preceded it, caused such a scarcity\\nand dearness of chemicals, that numbers attempted the preparation of the more prom-\\ninent articles, and the complete establishment of the manufacturing business in this\\ncountry dates from that period. Many of these works were undertaken bj foreign-\\ners who had learned something of chemical manipulations in German, French and\\nEngHsli factories, or by capitalists among our own druggists, who made use of for-\\neign skill, or pretentions to skill, in getting their works into operation. The drug-\\ngist having entered the field, he soon relieved the physician from compounding\\nprescriptions, and thus separated the apothecar} from the mere shop-keeper, and\\nelevated the business to a professional rank. And inasmuch as the business touches\\non the one hand the science of medicine, and on the other that of chemistry, it may\\nbe forcibly added, he who is the best educated, who combines worldly common sense\\nand prudence in managing his business, the greatest scientific skill in his calling, is gen-\\nerally the one destined to be most successful in the pursuit of wealth. Our purpose in this\\nwork is to refer, in descriptive sketches, to the representative houses in every branch,\\nand in doing this it is necessary to select prominent establishments, considering more\\nparticularly those whose success has made them conspicuous, and gained for the pro-\\nprietors positions eminent in the mercantile history of the city, the character of a\\nbusiness man being properly measured by honorable success. The drug trade of this\\nor any other city is one of the most important factors in the make-up of her commer-\\ncial interests, and it exercises an influence not out-measured by any other branch.\\nThe establishment of Solomons Co. was founded in 1845, by A. A. Solomons, who\\nafterwards associated his brothers J. M. and M. J. Solomons in business with him, the\\nfirm style being changed then to A. A. Solomons Co. Without an 3^ change in personnel\\nthe present style was adopted in 1871, and the house has maintained a position in the\\nfront rank throughout its career. The premises occupied at No. 167 Congress Street\\nconsist of a brick building, 22 by 90 feet in dimensions, three floors and a basement\\nbeing twWy occupied in tiie transaction of business, while a warehouse 30 by 60 feet\\nis also required for storing surplus supplies. They carry a complete line of drugs,\\nchemicals, patent medicines and pharmaceutical preparations, surgical instruments\\nand appliances, and such sundries as pertain exclusively to their business the stock\\nis large and complete, the transactions being commensurate in magnitude, while\\ntwelve assistants are constantly busy attending to the business of the firm. The ex-\\ntent of the business, which radiates through this State, Florida, South Carolina and\\nAlabama, fully attests the success this firm has met with, and the ability and integrity\\nwith which the trade has been managed. They are proprietors of Solomon s pills, and\\nother preparations which have gained a wide-spread reputation. The individual\\nmembers of the firm are Messrs. J. M. and M. J. and I. A. Solomons, the two for-\\nmer gentlemen having been residents of Savannah for the past forty years, the latter", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMJIERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 91\\nbeing a native of our city. Mr. M. J. Solomoms is president of the Southern Mutual\\nLoan Association, and Mr. I. A. Solomons is a member of the Cotton Exchange, also\\na director in the Pulaski Loan Association. Mr. J. M. Solomons is a member of the\\nBoard of Management of the City Hospital and Savannah Benevolent Association.\\nThese gentlemen give personal attention to the business, ensuring customers and cor-\\nrespondents just and liberal dealing, accuracy in filling orders and prompt attention.\\nThis establishment is one of the largest in this line in our city; its proprietors have been\\nengaged in this business since boyhood, and are fully identified with the progress\\nand prosperity of the city, and the house is equally an honor to them and a credit to\\nthis, the Forest City of the South.\\nCEORCE V. HECKER CO. \u00e2\u0080\u0094llcmufacturers of Self-Bising Flour, Baking\\nPoicder. Farina, etc., No. 176 Bay Street.\\nFew business houses in this city, or indeed anywhere, have advanced to a position\\nof greater prominence in the commercial world, or attained a reputation extending\\nthroughout a larger scope of territory, in so short a space of time, as has the subject\\nof this sketch. It has been the aim of Messrs. Hecker Co. to produce a superior\\nquality of articles manufactured by them, and their success is shown by the large\\ntrade supplied by them. The farina, wheaten grits and baking powder, flour, and\\nself-rising flour made by this firm are considered among the best put upon the market\\nand are universally used throughout the country, merchants keeping them on sale,\\nhotels, steamships and private families being the consumers. Messrs. Hecker Co.\\nhave purchased and adopted the best modern machinery, to be used in the production\\nof these articles. The firm packs their goods in barrels, half barrels, bags and smaller\\npackages for retailers, and most convenient for shipment. Their baking powder\\ndefies competition with others manufactured, enjoys a ready sale and wide-spread\\npopularity. The premises are located on the principal business street of the city,\\nconvenient for shipment, and the trade is conducted with promptness and ability,\\ngoods being delivered promptly to all parts of the city. The territory supplied by this\\nhouse consists of a large portion of this part of the South, and in amount of business\\nranks equal to first-class houses of Savannah, The business is conducted upon a ba-\\nsis of liberality and equity that redounds to the great popularity that the house\\nalready enjoys. The firm is composed of men of executive ability and enterprise, and\\ntheir business conduces to the prosperity of the city, as do their goods to the health\\nof our people.\\nL. J. CUILMARTIN CO, Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants, No.\\n120 Bay Street.\\nAmong the representative and staunch firms, that have maintained their standing\\nand integrity through a long and successful business career, that of L. J. Guilmar-\\ntin Co. holds by general consent a prominent place. Mr. L. J. Guilmartin, the\\nsenior member of the firm, with one exception is the oldest merchant in Bay Street,\\nhaving gone into the commission business in 1856. Since 1865, though having differ-\\nent partners, the firm name has continued L. J. Guilmartin Co. Dr. Charles R.\\nHerron, late of Pensacola, Florida, the junior partner, became a member of the firm\\nin June 1880. This firm has ample means and facilities to manage all business that\\nmay be intrusted to it, and is too well known throughout Georgia, and many parts of\\nSouth Carolina, Florida and Alabama to require any further notice from us.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "92\\nSAVANNAH HER\\nJOHN NICOLSON Dealer in Plumbers Gas and Steam Fitters and Machiiiists\\nt^uppUes, SO and 32 Drayton Street.\\nThe eslablishment of Mr. John Nicolson is centrally located on Drayton Street,\\nand occupies a very conspicuous place in the business community of Savannah.\\nMr. Nicolson was born in Scotland, and served an apprenticeship in his chosen pro-\\nfession with the thoroughness characteristic of the Scottish people. He came to\\nSavannah at an early date, started his present business in 1853, and by thoroughness,\\nreliabilit} and excellenee of work has risen to be, beyond dispute, the leading plumber\\nof Savannah. The premises occupied are 30 by\\n60 feet in dimensions, and are filled with a va-\\nried and complete assortment of goods. There\\nis also a beautiful display room for chandeliers,\\nfancy and plain globes, brackets, and, in fact,\\nan endless variety of goods. The house makes\\na specialty of pump fitting in all its branches,\\nrubber hose and steam packing, and cut and fit\\nall sizes of pipes up to six inches in diameter.\\nEstimates are cheerfully furnished, on applica-\\ntion, to all who may desire them. Mr. Nicolson\\ngives employment to from fifteen to twenty hands,\\nall well paid and first-class workmen. He is assisted by his son, an active and ener-\\ngetic young gentleman, who ably seconds his father in his work. He is agent for the\\nbest manufacturers of goods in his line in the country, and always carries a full and\\nwell-selected stock of their goods, which he sells at most reasonable figures. In all\\nrespects the establishment of Mr. Nicolson is a model one, and he himself is re-\\ngarded as one of the most reliable, conscientious and far-seeing business men in\\nSavannah, and worthy in all respects of the most liberal patronage from all.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COJEVIERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 93\\nLOUIS VOCEL Importer Cigars and Tobacco^ 22 Drayton Street.\\nA good cigar is one of the consolations of life which cannot be too highly esti-\\nmated. It soothes and calms the nerves, after the excitement and rush of business,\\nand aids the digestion, thus being a boon and blessing to all who use it. In view,\\ntherefore, of the immense consumption of tobacco and cigars in the United States,\\nit is very important to know where to get the best brands of these articles at the\\nmost reasonable prices. la Savannah no establishment sells better cigars or tobacco\\nand all smokers articles, and few as good, as the old and well-known stand of Louis\\nVogel. Started in 1866, by the present proprietor, it has from the beginning occu-\\npied a leading position among the tobacco stores of Savannah the elegant quality of\\nits goods is attested by all who deal there and their name is legion. Mr. Vogel s\\nstore is of ample proportions, and stands in a thoroughfare most favorable to trade.\\nHe keeps a complete stock of domestic and foreign cigars and tobacco, which he\\nimports direct from the factories. Mr. Vogel was engaged in the tobacco trade\\nfifteen years in Germany, and his products have gained the favor of his customers\\nhere. Being a practical workman, his manufactures have taken the first prize at\\nthe Savannah fairs. Among the brands of his make are Vogel s Punch, Favorite,\\nSavannah, Centennial, and others. On account of his long experience, Mr. Vogel\\nenjoys unusual facilities, which place him beyond competition. His stock of pipes\\nis varied, consisting of all styles of meerschaums, brier-root, etc. Mr. V. is a\\nGerman by birlh, but has resided in America for a number of years.\\nMUIR, DUCKWORTH CO.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cotton Exporters and Commission, 132 Bay St.\\nGeographically situated in that section of this continent where vegetation in-\\ndigenous to tropical latitudes flourishes to its greatest perfection. Savannah, by natu-\\nral laws as well as those of political economy, is dependent for commercial progress\\nand prosperity on the quality and fecundity of her agricultural resources. The fos-\\ntering and stimulation of these interests logically becomes the most important factor\\nin her mercantile growth and financial solidity. To this end branches of business\\nwhich encourage production, by facilitating the profitable disposition of these pro-\\nducts in the centres of demand, exercise a healthy and progressive influence. The\\nmarkets of England control, to a great extent, the temper of the demand for cotton\\nand the ruling rates domestic markets consume but a fractional portion of the sup-\\nply, hence the coast cities directly, and through them the producer indirectly, are\\ndependent on foreign demand for profitable results for labor expended in production.\\nFor the purpose of facilitating their own affairs, English dealers have established\\nbranches in this country, managed in most instances by one of the senior partners,\\nas they realize that a business transaction can be better accomplished in person at the\\ncentre of production than by middle-men. Savannah has several of these, they\\nmay be termed Anglo-American houses, the oldest and most prominent of which is\\nthat of Muir, Duckworth Co., established in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1810,\\nby Walter Duckworth, who was succeeded there by Joseph Battersby, about 1820\\nin Savannah, in 1842, under firm title of Wm. Battersby Co., which was changed\\nin 1870 to Muir Duckworth, the present style being adopted in 1881. The part-\\nners are Francis Muir, who resides in Liverpool, England; Joseph Battersby Duck-\\nworth, the resident partner and Lewis Tatnale Turner. The firm have houses in\\nLiverpool and Manchester, England, and in Galveston, New Orleans and this city.\\nThe operations of the house are very extensive, their long connection with the trade", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "94 SAVANNAH HER\\nand high commercial standing having given them a world-wide reputation and remark-\\nable prestige in the business and we question whether any branch of commercial\\npursuit creates equal or more widel} extended reputation than those connected with\\nthe cotton trade of England. The transactions of this firm are amongst the most\\nextensive in this countr}-, reaching 180,000 bales annually, 50,000 of which are handled\\nby the Savannah branch. Mr. Duckworth is president of the Savannah Cotton\\nExchange, and a director of the Cotton Press Association. Mr. Muir is vice-presi-\\ndent of the Liverpool Cotton Association. Mr. Duckworth is a native of England,\\nresident of this city since 1867. Mr. Turner is a native Georgian. The biography\\nof such houses, brief though it must be- in our circumscribed space, is especially\\ninteresting in connection with the rapidly growing cotton trade of the city, which in\\nthe last few years has assumed the second position in the United States gained,\\nagainst strenuous rivalry, by the sheer enterprise and ability of her merchants.\\nW. C. JACKSON CO.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xaval Stores Factors, 138 Bay Street.\\nThe sudden development of anj^ one branch of trade in a city like Savannah is\\nalways a healthy sign. It evinces an energj^ and push among those most actively\\nengaged in that branch, whatever it be, which must eventually place it among the\\nleading interests. Such has been the case with the naval stores trade of Savannah,\\nwhich within a few years has attained such proportions as to entitle the city to the\\nrank of the greatest naval stores depot in the countr} Among the firms who have\\nbeen most engaged in this line, and to whom a great part of the increase is due, we\\nnotice the firm of W. C. Jackson Co. Founded in 1877, it assumed the present\\nstjde in 1873, Mr. J. B. Chestnut being the Co. Both these gentlemen are natives\\nof North Carolina, but have resided in Savannah seven years. Having been in this\\nbusiness all their business lives, the firm have ample experience, and their general\\nhigh reputation and capacity insure them the confidence of the community. Their\\nextensive business connections and ample capital make them as desirable a firm to\\ndeal with as can be found anywhere and being in constant communication with the\\ngreat naval stores markets of the world, they can dispose of consignments at the\\nhighest prices. Correspondence with them will doubtless result in profit and satis-\\nfaction to all concerned.\\nW. B. FERRELL Parlor Restaurant, llGh Broxighton Street.\\nThis restaurant, though recentlj^ opened, has already become one of the insti-\\ntutions of Savannah, and people who partake of its toothsome and well-prepared\\ndishes wonder how they ever managed to get along without it. Situated on the great\\nthoroughfare of Savannah, and attractively and handsomelj^ fitted up, it is well cal-\\nculated to tempt the passer by to step in and examine the bill of fare. Everything\\nabout the premises is neat and orderly, and conducted with system and regularity.\\nThe waiters are well trained and attentive, and always on the alert to serve custom-\\ners, and the proprietor superintends in person all the work of the establishment,\\nthereby insuring perfection in the smallest details. The table is alwaj^s well sup-\\nI plied with the best that can be obtained, regardless of price. Mr. Ferrell is a native\\nof Milledgeville, Georgia, but has resided in Savannah since 1845, and is therefore\\nentitled to rank as a Savannahian. An experienced and conscientious caterer, he is\\nwell fitted to preside over the establishment and we advise a call on him at an early\\ndate, knowing that he who goes there once will most surely return.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COJIMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 95\\nKEHOE S IRON yNORKS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Corner Broughton and Randolph Streets.\\nIn all Savannah, teeming as it is with industry and enterprise, there is no more\\nstriking example of what can be accomplished by energy and perseverance than this\\nestablishment. Mr. Kehoe is a natural mechanic, and to this has added twenty-five\\nyears of steady and persistent attention to his\\ntrade, and now stands as high in his profession as(\\nany man in Savannah. Within the past year he\\nhas built his new foundry, and made additions\\nwhich have materially increased the productive\\npower of his establishment. Mr. Kehoe frequently adopts new im-\\nprovements and modifications in his business, and is always on the\\nalert for such. An eminently practical workman, all work which\\npasses through his shop is planned and finished under his eye, and the slightest\\nimperfection or blemish is carefully noted, and rectified immediately. With his\\npresent facilities, he is enabled to be prompt in all his work, and also to guarantee it.\\nHe has adopted the MacKenzie cupola and blower, the best in the market. His trade\\nextends over the Southern States. About thirty-five hands find steady employment\\nhere, at liberal wages. He makes a specialty of sugar mills and pans, of which num-\\nbers have been sold, and also does all kinds of brass and iron castings, architectural\\niron work, and work for churches, stores and dwellings. A native of Ireland, he has\\nspent most of his life in Savannah, and is fully identified with the city of which he is\\nso worthy a representative.\\nW. C. MORRELL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 i^tce Broker, 76 Bay Street.\\nRice, which is the food of more than three-fourths of the human race, was for a\\nlong time only an experiment in the South. The first rice planted was in Charleston,\\nbeing a small quantity brought from Madagascar by the captain of a trading vessel,\\nand by him presented to a gentleman of Charleston, who, more froin curiosity than\\nanything else, dropped them in his garden, where they grew and flourished as natu-\\nrally as in their native clime. From this grew the cultivation of rice in the South,\\nand with such rapidity that in 1724 over 100,000 bogheads were exported to\\nEurope, the consequence being that the South was probably the richest section\\nof the Union. The war of 1861 only temporarily checked the growth of rice cul-\\nture, and to-day the annual crop of the South is greater than ever before. Savan-\\nnah has several houses who deal largely in rice, and among them as one of the\\nmost prominent and enterprising, and who by competent attention to their business,\\nand unceasing vigilance in watching the most advantageous markets for the sale of\\nrice consigned to them, we may instance Mr. W. G. Morrell. He has had a life-long\\nexperience in the business, and has thoroughly studied the rice question, and to-day\\nno man in Savannah understands more thoroughly his business than he. His favor-\\nable location in the most prominent part of the city enables him to keep posted on all\\ncurrent items, of which he is not slow to avail himself. His receipts amount to\\n25,000 barrels of rough rice and 15,000 of clean rice, and are increasing. His sales\\nextend over the Eastern, Western and Southern States, and being in direct communi-\\ncation with the largest houses in these sections, he is enabled to offer inducements to\\nconsignors which but few can offer. Mr. Morrell is a gentleman of high standing in\\nevery way, and planters and others having business in his line would do well to\\nopen correspondence with him.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "96 SAVANNAH HER\\nKNICKERBOCKER ICE CO 142, 144 and 146 Bay Street, Dealers in Ice,\\nCoal, etc.\\nIt is our duty not only to give a correct history of the business interests of Savan-\\nnah, but also to note the enterprises of the city individually, and among these, one\\nof the most important in every respect, both from its general usefulness and its im-\\nportant bearing on the other branches, is the Knickerbocker Ice Company. This\\ncompany is a branch of the Knickerbocker of Philadelphia, and has been established\\nin Savannah about seven years. During that time its trade has increased in a\\nmost gratifying proportion. Its sales of ice wagons, tools and niachinerj extend\\nover Florida, South Carolina and Georgia, in all parts of which the company is well\\nknown. The city trade, which consists of the delivery of ice to hotels, steamers and\\nprivate families, is quite extensive. About five j ears ago the company also added\\ncoal to their business, and its success in this line has been most gratifying. Thirty\\nhands are employed, at good wages, and a large number of wagons and carts. Mr.\\nJ. F. Cavannaugh, the manager, is a native of Savannah, and is a gentleman of\\nbusiness ability and tact. Having been connected with the company from its in-\\nception, he understands all the details of the business and its management. As the\\nrepresentative of the company, and in other respects, Mr. Cavannaugh is highly\\nesteemed by all, and under his efficient management the company will no doubt con-\\ntinue on its prosperous career.\\nR. De MARTIN SON Gray Eagle Livery and Boarding Stables, Corner\\nDrayton and Congress Streets.\\nThis branch of business is one which must elicit the attention of all who are\\ninterested in the general welfare of the city and the public at large, as well as form-\\ning an important record of prominence among the various industries of the city and\\nState. It is one of those branches whose patrons are found at home and with the\\ntraveling public generally. The popular and model establishment in this lifle is\\nmost conveniently located at the corner of Drayton and Congress Streets, in close\\nproximity to the best hotels in the city and the prominent business houses. Ample\\nfacilities are provided for a number of animals, and the business is prosecuted in all\\nits details, in that prompt and efficient manner which should characterize these stables\\nas the most complete of any in Savannah. The rigs are acknowledged to be among\\nthe finest turnouts in the city, and comprise buggies, single or double carriages,\\nhacks, etc., with all the necessary equipments to meet the wants of an extensive and\\nliberal patronage. Parties wishing to board their horses will find this a most desira-\\nble stable, as under the personal supervision of Mr. De Martin boarding horses as\\nwell as others receive strict care and attention. From twelve to fifteen horses are\\nkept in the stables, the property of Mr. De Martin, and a tine supply of horses, bug-\\ngies and carriages can be furnished for wedding parties, funerals, depot and pleas-\\nure calls at short notice. Five employees are required here, and horse clipping is\\ndone with neatness and dispatch. Mr. De Martin is a native of New Haven, Conn.,\\nwhere he had some cx])erience in this line, but upon coming here, in 1848, was at\\nfirst engaged in the grocery trade, and subsequently started in his present business,\\nwhich he has conducted successfully for fourteen years, and enjoys a large city trade.\\nPossessing that adaptation to the business which comprehends its full requirements\\nto meet the public demand, this enterprise -enjoys a prosperous and increasing busi-\\nness which fully justifies the liberal mention here accorded to it.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 97\\nRICHARDSON BARNARD Comviissiun Merchants^ Ship Brokers, Agents\\nBoston Steam Ship Line, 1 00 Bay Street.\\nTransportation is the foundation of commercial prosperity. The supremacy of all\\ngreat mercantile centers has been achieved by the development of facilities for mov-\\ning the products of the country, attracting trade, and becoming centralizing marts for\\nthe resources of tributary country and inductively distributing depots. The history\\nof all cities, both in ancient and modern times, demonstrates the fact that their posi-\\ntions and reputation have been due to the enterprise and foresight of their merchants,\\nwho encouraged and fostered natural and artificial facilities for transportation, Ven-\\nice, as far back as 1100 A. D., ranked commercially as the leading city of the world.\\nShe was for centuries the admiration of all Europe and the chief instrument of her\\nprosperity, and the main facility of a commerce not equaled by any nation, was her\\nshipping, her merchant marine interests as in modern times, in this country, cities\\n(as Chicago) have become phenomenally great and prosperous by developing to the\\nutmost all possible facilities for transportation. Coast cities, like Savannah, which\\nrely almost for their very vitality on the agricultural resources of the country geo-\\ngraphically tributary to them, are more than, others dependent on marine facilities for\\ntransportation, for moving their resources, these cities being the depots both for de-\\nposition and distribution. Cotton and naval stores are the main factors in Savannah s\\ncommerce, are shipped here to be disposed of for the benefit of the producer, and so\\nsuccessfully have her merchants conducted their business that she now ranks as the\\nsecond cotton and first naval store port in the South and while credit is certainly due\\nthe merchants, the ship-broker and steamship agent is entitled to equal consideration.\\nThe most prominent firm in this business in Savannah is that of Eichardson, Barnard\\nCo., established in 1864. Like most other lines of business, ship-brokerage re-\\nquires special adaptation and education. The gentlemen composing this firm brought\\nto their aid an experience of years the chief business of the firm is in chartering and\\nloading foreign vessels, both sail and steam. The prompt manner in which this busi-\\nness has been conducted by Savannah operators has attracted to this port thousands\\nof bales of cotton which but for their energy would seek sale and shipment at other\\nports. In the export of this staple this season to foreign ports Eichardson Bar-\\nnard have furnished tonnage for about 40 per cent. Where there is necessarily so\\nmuch competition, this fact is stronger comment on their enterprise, business ability\\nand faithful discharge of transactions intrusted to them, than any opinion we could\\nexpress. In addition to this branch they also transact a large commission business,\\nwhich in mutual influence to producers and consumers, or purchasers, is in all com-\\nmercial centers one of the most important mercantile pursuits, attracting supplies to\\nthis market and benefiting domestic trade and demand. In no single way has Savan-\\nnah been more profitably favored than by the establishment of lines for marine\\ntransportation to Northern ports supplying facilities for moving products, and\\nbringing stock to the trade in all branches at a more economical rate and almost\\nas expeditiously as by rail. Another feature in the progress of both Savannah and\\nFlorida is the large winter travel of Northerners seeking the salubrity and clemency\\nof the Southern climate. For evident reasons the sea voyage is preferable to the long\\ntedious and uncomfortable trip by rail, and three-fourths of the invalids and visitors\\ncome by the steamships. Messrs. Eichardson Barnard are the agents at this termi-\\nnal point for the Boston and Savannah Steamship company, who have a regular line\\nof first-class iron steamships sailing weekly from each port. These vessels are pro-", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "98 SAVANNAH HER\\nvided with all facilities and convenioncies used in first-class steamships, and their\\nmanagement has given universal and unqualified satisfaction. Edward C. Richardson,\\nJames M. Barnard, jr., and Clarence S. Connerat compose the firm. Their transac-\\ntions extend through Georgia, Florida, Alabama, the New p:ngland States, and to\\nP^urope. As a factor conducive in a very great degree to the prosperity, commer-\\ncial progress and reputation of the city, this firm occupies a prominent position in the\\ncommercial history of Savannah conducting their transactions in the legitimate\\nchannels of honorable business, and liberal in their policy, they have achieved success\\nand gained the esteem and confidence of the community.\\nH, MYERS BROS. Manufacturers of Tobacco and Cigars, Importers and\\nUistillers of and Wholesale Dealers in Whiskies, Liquors, etc., 135 and 187 Bay Street,\\nIn reviewing the more prominent branches of trade in Savannah, many facts of\\nspecial interest are demonstrated to the statistician. P^vidences of intelligent enterprise\\nand business sagacity are met with in interests, which in the hands of men of enter-\\nprise materiall}^ contribute to the commercial advancement and prosperit} of a city.\\nBusiness men who have the ability and judgment to forecast the mercantile possibili-\\nties of cities, and the intelligence to successfully organize and manage large estab-\\nlishments and meet the demands of growing trade, not only achieve their own inde-\\npendence and business success, but by their efforts and energy stimulate others to\\nindustrious enterprise, and give tone to the commercial reputation of their city.\\nSavannah is fortunate in the possession of some business men who b}^ energy and\\nthrift, vigilant appreciation of her natural and acquired advantages, and who by not\\nonly fostering that trade geographically tributar} to her, but with shrewd business\\npracticality have reached out, won and held that of other trade centres. They have\\nthus built up establishments and formed business connections not equalled by rival\\nSouthern cities, and made Savannah not only a centralizing point of trade, but a\\nradiating one as well. In no branch have these facts been more fully borne out than\\nin the tobacco and liquor business, and in this dual line we find by general acknowl-\\nedgment the house of H. Myers Bros, classed first, from their very extensive\\ntransactions, the completeness of their stock, and the well-known characteristics of\\nthe members of the firm. This house was established in 18G7 as Goodman Myers\\nin 1873 the interest of Mr. Goodman was purchased by the Myers Bros., and the pres-\\nent firm title was adopted. The resources in the outset were but moderate, finan-\\ncially speaking, but the Messrs. Myers had abundant capital in enterprise, activity\\nand business sagacit} and their business increased rapidly and surely. They pushed\\ntheir trade with determination, and carried their transactions into neighboring States,\\nextending their reputation and infiuence graduall}^ and certainly, until tlie house took\\nrank as the leading one in their lines in this section. Believing in and adhering to\\nthe maxim that the true road to success was by honorable dealing and handling first-\\nclass goods, they built tlieir reputation on this foundation, and their success has\\nbeen most gratifying and substantial. They handle the most reputable brands of\\nwhiskies, imported and domestic brandies, wines and general liquors, their stock being\\nprobably the most select in the State. The Stonewall Jackson Pland-made Bourbon\\nand Rye whisky handled by them has a reputation for purity and excellence not sur-\\npassed by any brand in the country. They manufacture these at their own distillery\\nin Madison County, Kentuck}^ and they are able, from experience and the zealous\\ncare exercised in manufacturing, to guarantee this brand as being almost without an", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COIOIERCE AND rNDUSTRIES. 99\\nequal. They handle large quantities of these whiskies, and they have given general\\nand unqualified satisfaction. In tobacco and cigars they are among the largest\\noperators in the country. They are proprietors of the Old Dominion Tobacco Works\\nin Richmond, the largest factory in that city, another factory in Lynchburg, Va. the\\nEl Modelo Cigar Factory, Jacksonville, Florida, and the Anchor Cigar Factory, New\\nYork City besides which they are agents for some of the most prominent brands in\\nthe country. They manufacture also popular grades from carefully selected leaf, and\\nexercise the greatest care and judgment in all the processes of manufacture. Their\\nbusiness premises are large, well arranged, and conveniently located on one of the\\nprincipal business streets of the city. The building has a frontage of 48 feet by 90\\nfeet in depth, two stories high, and a warehouse 30 by 75 feet, three stories high.\\nThey thus utilize 15,400 square feet of floor surface in the prosecution of their busi-\\nness. The stock carried in this city, which is but fractional, will average $50,000 in\\nvalue. The transactions will reach $750,000 annually. Fourteen assistants are\\nemployed, of whom six travel through Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, in which\\nStates the trade of the Savannah house is located. They also have a branch house\\nin Charleston, S. C. Myers, Edel Co. H., S. and F. Myers are the members of\\nthe firm, the two first natives and residents of Savannah, the last named of Rich-\\nmond, Va. Mr. H. Myers is a member of the Board of Trade. The relation of bare\\nfacts in connection with a house of this character, as to its importance and influence,\\nis argument enough, without comment on our part, to direct attention to the position\\nheld by the proprietors for sterling qualities, and the estimation of the public.\\nA. A. WINN\u00e2\u0080\u0094 CoWon Factor, 98 Bay Street.\\nThe cotton factors of Savannah must always hold a most important position in the\\nrecord of her business and industries. The vast number of bales of cotton which an-\\nnually pass through the city must necessarily be distributed among a number of\\nfirms. Among these we take occasion to mention that of Captain A. A. Winn. He\\nis about entering upon his third year of doing business in his own name, and has built\\nup a very snug trade upon a solid foundation. He has had a long experience in the\\ncotton trade, entering the service of Groover, Stubbs Co. in 1870 filling the posi-\\ntion of cashier and correspondent for the greater part of the time which elapsed\\nbetween that date and 1877, when the firm was dissolved by the death of Judge Chas.\\nE. Groover. He then became interested with Mr. C. F. Stubbs, the successor of the\\nfirm of Groover, Stubbs Co., subsequently a full partner in the firm of C. F. Stubbs\\nCo. In 1881 he opened business on his own account, and as yet has had no cause\\nto regret the step then taken. Captain Winn is a native of Georgia, and entered the\\nconfederate army in 1861 as a private in the Athens Guards, of Athens, Georgia,\\nwhich became one of the companies of the famous 3rd Georgia Eegimerit. He fought\\nthrough the greater part of the war with this regiment, filling the positions of sergeant-\\nmajor and adjutant. In the latter part of 1864 he was promoted to a captaincy\\nand assigned to the command of company D, Cobb s Georgia Legion Infantry.\\nHe participated in nearly all the great battles of the army of Northern Virginia, and\\nmade for himself an enviable record. He brings to his business the same thorough\\nqualities which won him success as a soldier. He is a close and constant observer of\\nthe cotton business, is active and energetic and looks after the interests of his patrons,\\nand takes a lively interest in the welfare of Savannah and his native State.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "100 SAVANNAH HER\\nS. KROUSKOFF Wholesale Millinery and Straw Goods, Flotvers, Feathers,\\nliibbons, Etc., Manufacturer of Ladies^ Trimmed Hats, No. 19 and 19)4 Whitaker\\nStreet.\\nThere are few industries of the city of Savannah, which this comprehensive work\\nwill record, which require a higher and more refined taste than that of the milli-\\nnery business but the eminent success which has attended the establishment and\\nconduct of this branch of trade by Mr. S. Krouskoff for the past seventeen years is a\\nsufficient evidence of his thorough adaptation to its requirements. This house was\\nfirst started in 1865, and two years later was changed to an exclusively wholesale\\nmillinery establishment. The stock embraces, in wholesale quantities, millinery and\\nstraw goods, flowers, feathers, ribbons and other articles coming under this head, and\\nthe manufacture of ladies trimmed hats and bonnets is also extensively carried on.\\nTwo floors of the large building 19 and 19^ Whitaker Street are occupied by Mr.\\nKrouskoff as salesrooms and workrooms, and a large, increasing and lucrative trade\\nhas been attained. Twelve girls are employed in this enterprise, and two traveling\\nsalesmen are representing the^interests of the house throughout this part of the\\nSouth, large orders being sent in from all the towns and villages in this section.\\nThe amount of stock averages from $25,000 to $30,000 in value, a larger supply of\\ngoods being required to supply the demands of the spring and fall seasons. Mr.\\nKrouskoff is a native of Europe, has been a resident of Savannah for so many years\\nthat it is needless to dwell more fully upon his career in this community, his long\\nresidence here and well-known business qualities having gained him a reputation no\\nwords of ours could add to. Our readers at a distance, desiring to purchase or\\nreplenish their stock, cannot do better than to consult Mr. K. before placing their\\norders elsewhere.\\nI. DASHER CO.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, 145 Broughton Street.\\nThe dry goods trade of late years has begun to compete with the grocery in\\nmagnitude and this result has been brought about by the enterprise and push of a\\nfew large firms in every center of trade. Savannah has contributed her full quota to\\nthis development, and may well be proud of the number and standing of her drj^\\ngoods firms. The firm of I. Dasher and Co. is in all respects worthy to be called a\\nrepresentative one. Commenced in 1868 as Rogers, Dasher Co., in 1872 it was\\nchanged to Rogers Dasher, and in 1877 to present style, the Co. being Mr. F. W.\\nDasher, son of Mr. I. Dasher. Their establishment is 30x90ft. in dimensions, four\\nfloors in height, and contains a most complete and varied stock of dry goods of all\\ndescriptions velvets, laces, silks, fancy goods, and in fact everything which can\\nplease the most fastidious and particular purchaser. The stock carried amounts to\\nupwards of $45,000 in value the annual sales reach $125,000, and are increasing\\nrapidly. The trade embraces the city and surrounding country, and they employ ten\\nefficient and polite clerks. Mr. I. Dasher, the senior member of the firm, is a native\\nof Savannah, and has been in the business all his life, having been formerly con-\\nnected with Lathrop Co. His long and varied experience, sound judgment, and\\neminent business qualities fit him to be the head of such a firm. Mr. F. W. Dasher\\nis also a native of Savannah, born there in 1852. Like his father, he has had a\\nthorough business education and ably seconds him in his business. This firm is one\\nof the landmarks of Savannah, without which a histor} of the business development\\nof the city would be incomplete.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "TKADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 101\\nJ. J. REILY Dealer in Coffees, Teas, etc., No. 139 Broughton Street.\\nIn recording the industries of Savannah and the progress made in the last decade\\nin commercial and manufacturing importance, it would be impossible to omit mention\\nof the enterprise of Mr. J. J. Reily. Succeeding A. J. Maloney in 1879, the trade\\nand resources of this concern have more than kept pace with the genuine prosperity\\nof the city. Conducted with every advantage to be derived from a stainless business\\npolicy, energetic and enterprising habits, managed with ability and judgment, the\\nsuccess of the house increased with each succeeding year, until at the present time it\\nstands at the head of similar establishments in this section of the country. The\\npremises occupied at No. 139 Broughton Street are ample and commodious, and con-\\ntain a full line of coffees, teas, paper bags, wooden butter dishes, etc., in which he\\nenjoys a flourishing local trade. Mr. Reily has had experience in this line of busi-\\nness, and is, therefore, a good judge of coffees and teas, and handles only pure and\\ndesirable qualities. He is a native of Savannah, and has gained the esteem and con-\\nsideration of our citizens. Conducing in so great a degree to the substantial benefit\\nof the community, and contributing so strongly to the reputation of the city, Mr.\\nReily is entitled to the high position he has attained in business circles.\\nHENRY BLUN\u00e2\u0080\u0094 StocA;s, Bonds Real Estate, 110 Bryan Street.\\nThe negotiations of loans, and speculation in stocks, bonds and real estate, is in all\\nlarge cities a very important branch, and the stock brokers of Savannah are not\\ninferior to any in their clear sightedness and business ability. Among those who\\noccupy a prominent position in this line we notice Mr. Henry Blun, who in all the\\nqualities which constitute a successful broker is notjsurpassed by any gentleman in\\nSavannah. Mr. Blun has had an experience of many years in his business, and con-\\nsequently is well fitted to transact every detail in the most thorough and successful\\nmanner. He is in constant communication with all the great business centres, and is\\ntherefore prompt to buy or sell as occasion demands. All business intrusted to him\\nis faithfully carried out. He also attends to the sale of real estate, of which a large\\namount passes through his hands each year.\\nHAYWOOD, CAGE CO.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0/ the Bay Ice Company, 188 to 194 Bay St.\\nThe old Bay Ice Company deserves a prominent place in a history of the develop-\\nment of the industries of Savannah, constituting as it does one of the most solid and\\nreliable enterprises in the city. The company handles only the very best Northern\\nice, free from the impurities which so often ruin the inferior product, and kept care-\\nfully stored away in their immense warehouses. It is a branch of the Boston House,\\nwhich has also branches in Charleston, New Orleans, Galveston, Mobile and Bruns-\\nwick. The storage capacity is ample, and the central and convenient location, as well\\nas the high general reputation of the company, bring it a leading share of the ice\\ntrade of this place. They supply steamers, hotels and private dwellings, their large\\nforce of hands and wagons insuring prompt and safe delivery. The capital of the\\ncompany is large, and they are prepared to sell by cargo, car load or package on the\\nmost reasonable terms in fact, we do not think there is any company in the State\\nwhich can offer similar inducements to purchasers, nor does any in the United States\\npossess a more firm and solid foundation for their business prosperity. All inquiries\\nare cheerfully answered, and they have the esteem and confidence of their numerous\\ncustomers.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "102 SAVANNAH HER\\nPAVILION HOTEL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S o; ^/i Broad and Bull Streets, J. G. Penfield Bro.,\\nProprietors\\nThe first outlook of the traveler on coming into a city is to find a good hotel, and\\nthere is nothing which adds more to the prestige of any place than the posses-\\nsion of at least one of those places of public entertainment. In this respect Savannah\\nhas quite a number, and among the many houses which have given character to the\\ncity, none have contributed in a more marked degree to this end than the well-known\\nand popular Pavilion Hotel, located at the corner of South Broad and Bull Streets,\\nconvenient to the business center of the city and within easy distance of the railway\\ndepots. The building is a large brick of modern construction, is three stories in\\nheight and contains ail the improvements usually found in first class hotels, including\\nthe telephone. Messrs. Penfield Bros, succeeded W. H. Johnson in 1880, and the\\nhouse has been entirely renovated. There are accommodations for seventy-five\\nguests, and the rooms are all well ventilated, handsomel}- furnished and strictl} clean\\nand comfortable. Fourteen employees are required to wait upon those who patronize\\nthis house. Families are specially provided for and entertained in first class style.\\nLadies and gentlemen, visiting Savannah, will find at this hotel the best of accommo-\\ndations and a table unsurpassed by that of an} other house in the country, being sup-\\nplied with the choicest viands the market affords, and, what is equally as important,\\nhas one of the best and most experienced cooks, and polite waiters. No pains are\\nspared to make the sojourn of guests pleasant, and the genial proprietors are well-\\nknown citizens, remarkable for their cordial and courteous manners and untiring\\nefforts to sustain the reputation of the house. Messrs. Jas. G. and M. R. Penfield\\nare the proprietors, natives of Bridgeport, Conn., and have been engaged in this\\nbusiness since residing in Savannah. These gentlemen have both been connected\\nwith the New York steamers for years and are widely and most favorably known in\\nour city. Transient trade is solicited, and these gentlemen are thoroughly conversant\\nwith their business, polite and attentive. To the traveling pul)lic the editor of this\\nwork would state that no more comfortable hotel can be found within whose walls the\\nease and luxury of a home are furnished to a greater extent than at the Pavilion\\nHotel. The house is under the personal management of Mr. J. G. Penfield.\\nE. J. KENNEDY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J/erc/icm^ Tailor, 41 Bull Street.\\nThe tailoring establishments of Savannah occupy a prominent position in the his-\\ntory of her industries, and among these none have a more extended reputation for\\ngood and reliable work in all branches than the well-known store of Mr. E. J. Ken-\\nnedy. Mr. Kennedy, during the fifteen j^ears of business in this line, has alwa^ s\\ngiven satisfaction, and to-day has the reputation of being one of the best cutters and\\nfitters in Savannah or the State. He carries a very full and varied stock of the best\\nforeign and domestic goods, including English, French and German fabrics, from\\ntheir most celebrated makers, and which stock is always kept up and replenished\\nfrom time to time to keep up with the styles. In his establishment are always found\\nthe latest novelties and fashions of New York and Philadelphia, purchased by him\\ndirectly and selected under his supervision. Ten to fifteen hands are constantly\\nemployed, all skillful workmen. Mr. Kennedy, though born in Europe, is by his\\nresidence here of thirty 3 ears entitled to rank as a Savannahian. No establishment\\nis more deserving of patronage than this pne, and in none can more satisfactory work\\nbe obtained.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COiOIERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 103\\nMEINHARD BROS. CO.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wliolesale Boots, Shoes and Clothing, 129 and\\n131 Broughton Street; Xew York Office, 34 Thomas Street.\\nAmong the various enterprises whieli have contributed to the commercial pros-\\nperity of this city as a distributive center, in the extent and importance of its opera-\\ntions, should be mentioned the house of Meinhard Bros. Co., wholesale dealers in\\nthe best grades of boots and shoes adapted to the requirements of the general trade.\\nComprehending the amplest facilities for procuring and controlling the products of\\nthe best and most reliable manufactured and custom made work, this house presents\\nto the trade unsurpassed inducements, both in quality and variety of the stock carried.\\nDating its origin from 1867, by the consolidation of the firms H. I. Meinhard and\\nWeil Meinhard, this firm early produced a favorable impression upon the market by\\nthe adoption of a wise business policy, which has been largely instrumental in securing\\na reliable and gradually growing trade. The premises occupied aonsist of two three-\\nstory buildings, with a frontage of 60 feet and depth of 90 feet, stocked with a full line\\nof goods which are included in the wholesale boot and shoe trade, also of ready-made\\nclothing. In this latter department unusual facilities are possessed, as the firm are\\nengaged in the manufacture of clothing in New York, and are thus enabled to offer\\nready-made garments at most moderate prices. Clerks, salesmen and porters, num-\\nbering twenty-one in all, are busily engaged in the various departments of the estab-\\nlishment here, and all orders sent to this house are filled promptly and in a reliable\\nmanner. The immense stock in the several lines aggregates $175,000 in value, and the\\nsuccessful career of this enterprise is shown by the fact that the capital which\\napproximated $50,000 at the start has been increased from year to year until now\\nit is placed at $900,000. The trade supplied is large throughout the States of\\nGeorgia, Florida, South Carolina and part of Alabama, the transactions reaching\\n$950,000 per annum. Messrs. Henry, Isaac and Samuel Meinhard and Elias A.\\nWeil are the individual members of the firm, all natives of Bavaria, Germany, the two\\nfirst named brothers residing in New York, the latter members of the firm in\\nSavannah, where they are well known for enterprise and ability. Mr. Weil held the\\nposition of alderman in 1879-80, and is now a director in the Southern Bank of the\\nState of Georgia. The transactions of this house are characterized by liberality, uni-\\nform reliability and fair dealings and the prominent position they have obtained in the\\nmercantile community, as the representative wholesale dealers in boots and shoes and\\nready-made clothing of the Forest City of the South, has been secured through their\\nenergy and individual efforts to supply to the trade the best articles at the lowest\\nruling rates.\\nMRS. R. M. BENNETT Dealer in Wigs, Curls, etc.,- Cor. Whitaker and Hxdl\\nStreets.\\nAn enterprise especially pleasing to the ladies of Savannah is that of Mrs. R. M.\\nBennett. Thoroughly acquainted with the manufacture of hair goods in all its details,\\nand by a long experience amply fitted to successfully superintend and carry on the\\npresent estalDlishment, she has a reputation not inferior to any in Savannah. She\\ncarries a handsome and well selected stock of the best goods in her line, all selected\\nwith a view to meet the wants of her numerous customers. All orders sent are faith-\\nfully and promptly executed, in a manner not surpassed by any similar establishment.\\nMrs. Bennett is a lady of high standing, well liked and esteemed, and her establish-\\nment enjoys a deserved popularity.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "104 SAVANNAH HER\\nM. STERNBERG Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jeioelry, Solid Silver and\\nPlated Ware, No. 24 Barnard Street.\\nThe prominence which has been given to the trade in articles of adornment for the\\nl^erson as well as of elegant objects of virtu for household use and display in this city\\nin the past few years is something remarkable. Any merchant or manufacturer who\\ncan produce something that will please the eye and at the same time render it of use\\nto his fellow-citizens is a public benefactor. This is true in any branch of business,\\nbut more especially so in the jewelry business. Mr. Sternberg, the gentleman whose\\nname heads this article, comes often under the head of a public benefactor. He has\\nbeen the means of laying before our citizens and the surrounding section of country\\nsome of the most elegant works of art in clocks, silverware and jewelry that the eye\\nhas delightedly rested on, and he has met with corresponding reward. Mr, S. started\\nhis present enterprise in 1873 in a moderate way and has annually added to his\\nbusiness, his sales increasing each year, and he enjoys a fair share of patronage of the\\ncity and vicinity. Four assistants are employed, who give prompt and courteous\\nattention to all who visit this establishment while the annual sales reach $60,000.\\nHis storeroom is forty feet front and admirably adapted to the display of goods in\\nthis line, of which he carries a full and carefully selected assortment, a specialty being\\nmade of diamonds, of which a complete line is kept in stock. Mr. Sternberg is a native\\nof Europe and learned his trade there. His enterprise is located in the strictly\\nbusiness portion of the city, on Barnard Street, between Congress and Broughton\\nStreets, and he gives his personal attention to the trade, special attention being given\\nto the repair of watches and jewelry and executing all designs of engraving. Mr.\\nSternberg is justly entitled to his present success, it having been gained by a strict\\nattention to business, an agreeable manner and a commercial honesty second to none\\nin our midst.\\nWM. D. DIXON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Undertaker and Funeral Director, No. 43 Bxdl Street.\\nWho, that has read of the people who have lived and died before him, has not\\nwondered at the tales of the old Egyptians, and their wonderful storehouses of the\\nbodies[of their forefathers preserved for thousands of years, and then of the loss of the\\nart by which it was effected, and of the many attempts and failures to regain it. In\\nconnection with this subject, the undertaking business of the present tine is of no\\nlittle importance, and among the houses engaged in this branch of trade in Savannah\\nthat of Mr. Wm. D. Dixon is among the most prominent. This enterprise was\\nestablished here in 1865, and he supplies goods in this line to our citizens and\\nthose living in the vicinity, who depend upon Savannah merchants for supplies of all\\nkinds. Mr. Dixon has everything ready for at once answering calls, and keeps on\\nhand a large stock of funeral paraphernalia of every grade, some embroidered by\\nhand and of exquisite taste, and all kinds of artistic designs for the ornamentation of\\ncaskets, coffins and biers, and is provided with everj thing requisite to perform in a\\nsatisfactory manner the last rites for the loved and lost. He has three assistants and\\nhis establishment is large and convenient. He is prepared to furnish hearses and\\nfuneral director when desired, and having had large experience in this department of\\ntrade is enabled to attend to his duties in a most satisfactory manner. Mr. Dixon\\nwas born in Savannah in 1840, is well and favorably known to all our citizens,\\nand further comment at our hands is unnecessary. This is one of the most extensive\\nand best arranged undertaking establishments in the city.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "JAS. S. SILVA\\nTRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES.\\n105\\n-Crockery, Glassware, Timvare, Cutlery Lamps, 140 BrougUon St.\\nProminent among the many business liouses on this busy\\nthoroughfare is the establishment of Jas. S. Silva, a fine brick\\nstructure, four stories high, each floor thirty by ninety feet,\\nand packed with crockery from cellar to roof. Mr. 8ilva com-\\nmenced business in this city as junior member of the firm of\\nBolshaw Silva in 1866 after a prosperous connection with\\nthis firm for seven years, he branched off on his own account,\\nand by strict and prompt attention to the wants of the people\\nmade them his patrons, and with their assistance has succeeded\\nin placing his business on the substantial basis it now occupies.\\nHaving accumulated ample capital, he is able to take advantage\\nof the cash bargains so frequently offered, and consequently\\ncan afford to sell his goods at lower prices than most of his\\ncompetitors. A visit to his establishment will convince any\\n^one that the assertions in this article are not mere buncombe\\nJ; but solid facts, and after pricing his goods you will be further\\nconvinced that the place to buy crockery, glassware, tinware,\\ncutlery, etc., is at Jas. S. Silva s, 140 Broughton Street. To parties living out of the\\ncity he will be pleased to furnish prices on application by letter.\\nWEED CORIMWELL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 /ZanZware, anf? Importers of Rio Coffee, 173 and 175\\nBroughton Street.\\nThe best and surest test of the prosperity and onward course of a i:\\\\tj is shown\\nby the statistics of the annual business of her wholesale establishments, and more\\nparticularly by those who import any staple article of food or general use by the\\ncargo. Savannah is probably, outside of New Orleans, the only city south of Rich-\\nmond which imports by the cargo the great staple\u00e2\u0080\u0094 coffee and in Savannah this\\nbranch is limited to two firms, of one of which, and probably the more important,\\nour article treats. The firm of Weed Cornwell dates far back into the beginning\\nof the present century, and has witnessed the growth of the city from a compar-\\natively insignificant place to one of the leading cities, not onl}^ in the South, but in\\nthe United States, and by its staunch business principles and high and unblemished\\nbusiness reputation has materially aided and fostered that growth. Founded in 1816\\nby N. B. and H. D. Weed, from its inception it took rank among the leading firms of\\nthe city, and has throughout an existence of sixty-six years, unharmed by war or\\nfinancial panic, borne and maintg,ined a reputation without stain. The present mem-\\nbers of the firms are Joseph D. Weed and George Cornwell, both gentlemen known\\nand respected by the entire community, and who wear right worthily the mantle which\\nhas fallen on their shoulders bequeathed them b}^ their predecessors in the firm.\\nThey present the unusual spectacle of a large and important house engaging in two\\nseparate and entirely distinct lines of trade, and in each being pre-eminent.\\nTheir hardware establishment is one of the largest in Savannah in all respects and in\\ncoffee, as already stated, they occupy a unique position. It is to such firms as these\\nthat the lesser lights of trade, in time of distress and panic, look for aid and advice\\nand as they have never yet in the hour of trial been found wanting, we may be\\nassured that they will continue to be, as they are now, one of the three or four\\nrepresentative houses in Savannah.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "106 SAVANNAH HER\\nF. H. MEYER Jeioeler, 126 Bronghton Street.\\nSavannah has in every department of trade stores equal to any to be found else-\\nwhere, and of no line is this more true than of the jewelry. Each store seems to vie\\nwith the other in the beauty and artistic display of their exhibits and among these\\nthe handsome store of Mr. F. H. Meyer holds a leading position, both for the elegance\\nof the stock and the superior quality of the work done there. Mr. Meyer started in\\n1881 with small capital, and by skillful management has increased until now his stock\\nis no less than $8,000 in value, and his sales foot up $8,000 to $10,000. ]\\\\Ir. Meyer is\\na jeweler by profession, having learned his trade in Germany, which is a guarantee of\\nits being thorough. He was born there in 1854, but has for a number of years lived\\nin Savannah, which he considers his home. His store, which is 22 by 50 in dimensions,\\nis very handsomely arranged, and the stock, consisting of the finest watches, clocks,\\njewelry sets of all descriptions, is selected by himself from the very best makers,\\nboth home and foreign. His general stock of scarf-pins, studs, chains, etc., is of\\nexceeding beauty and variety, some being of a design and finish not to be found\\nelsewhere. He makes a specialty of Waltham watches, of which he has a large stock\\nof the latest designs. He employs two capable assistants. Mr. Meyer has attained\\nhis present position in the face of great difficulties, which he has bravely overcome.\\nHis establishment, both in exterior and interior decoration, and judicious and careful\\narrangement of stock, will stand comparison with any in the city, and the business\\ntransacted is as safe and his customers as reliable and trustworthy as can be found in\\nthe city. We cheerfully recommend him to all of our readers who wish the best\\narticles in his line, and which always are as guaranteed.\\nA. EHRLICH Wliolesale G-rocer and Liquor Dealer^ 157 Bay Street.\\nThe wholesale grocery trade, which is invariably the great interest by which the im-\\nportance and prospective growth of a city are measured, has few better representa-\\ntives of its wealth-commanding power in the South than Mr. Ambrose Ehrlich, now\\nrecognized as one of the largest and best wholesale grocery men in this section of the\\nSouth. While wealth is one of the elements of success, it is a resultless factor with-\\nout the combination of business sagacity, which acts as a regulator in the government\\nof the force which capital impels. In the history of the rise, progress and develop-\\nment of this great grocery house, an illustration can be found of the part which\\nability plays in prosperity and the true subordination of capital to adaptability and\\nenterprise. In writing the history of representative institutions it is generally by\\ncomparison but occasionally there is found a branch of business so far in advance of\\nits particular trade that no comparison is possible, save to make it the standard, and\\nspeak relatively of the others. Such is the position occupied by Mr. A. Ehrlich, not\\nonly in Savannah, but in this and adjoining States. This large grocery house was\\nstarted in 1877 by Messrs. Loeb \u00c2\u00abfc Ehrlich, and in 1883 Mr, Ehrlich became proprietor.\\nThe premises in which the business is conducted consist of the three-story brick\\nbuilding, 30 by 90 feet in size, situated at 157 Bay Street, and the stock kept on hand\\nis immense, being of wonderful variety, including syrups, molasses, sugars, coffees,\\nteas, tobacco, canned goods, nuts, crackers, candies, etc., a specialty being made of\\nrice and liquors of every description, the average value being placed at $75,000.\\nWhen the house was started in 1877, with small capital, the sales reached $15,000\\nper annum, but by industry and close application to business the sales, at the present\\ntime, aggregate annually $350,000, a truly colossal showing. The trade is general", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COIMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 107\\nthroughout this State, South Carolina and Florida, and the assistance of eight em-\\nployees is required in the prosecution of the business. Mr. Ehrlich is a native of\\nMacon, Georgia, but has resided here for nearly thirty years, having in that time laid\\nthe foundation and attained the success of his present enterprise. He has been en-\\ngaged in the grocery trade for seventeen years and possesses a large experience\\nin it, besides fully understanding the requirements of such an important business,\\nin this part of the Union. The history of his house is interesting, and shows what\\ncan be achieved by the energy and business qualifications of one man, also to what\\nextent a business can be pushed by enterprise and honorable dealing. Prompt, relia-\\nble and enterprising, he is deserving of the most flattering success, is fully competent\\nto maintain the high reputation he has built up, and will always be found fully abreast\\nof the times. Mr. Ehrlich has won a wide-spread reputation for honest and upright\\ndealings with all his customers, and there are few business houses in this or any other\\ncity that can show such a successful business record.\\nC. H. DORSETT Auctionetr and Commission Merchant, 156 Bay.\\nThe auction and commission business of Savannah forms a very important item in\\nthe list of her industries, and prominent among the houses in this line we notice the\\nwell-known enterprise of Mr. C. H. Dorsett. Mr. Dorsett does a general commission\\nbusiness in consignments of goods or products. His knowledge of all the markets,\\nand of the business generally, eminently fits him for the high position he occupies\\nin the business community. Mr. Dorsett disposes, at public or private auction, of\\nall goods, chattels, furniture, etc., always realizing the most advantageous terms for\\nhis patrons, who testify their confidence in his judgment and business ability by the\\nlarge and increasing patronage he receives from them. All his dealings are based on\\nhigh and unswerving principles and such is his general reputation, that to have anj\\nproperty, real or personal, in his hands is a guarantee of its being advantageously\\ndisposed of. We cheerfully recommend him to our readers who may wish business\\nin his line.\\nLEE ROY MYERS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 F/io^esaZe Tobacco and Cigars, No. 133 Bay Street.\\nThe present age is a progressive one, with competition in all lines of business so\\nenergetic as to call into active exertion the best business talent, unceasing perse-\\nverance and indomitable energy in order to succeed. There are a great many houses\\nin this city which without any ostentation or striving for prominence yet transact a\\nbusiness of unusual magnitude and employ a large capital. Among those houses\\nthat have been greatly instrumental in promoting the interests of the tobacco trade\\nin Savannah the establishment of Mr. Lee Roy Myers stands prominent. This\\nenterprise was founded in 1873, under the firm name Goodman Myers, the present\\nproprietor assuming control in 1880, since which time the business has been enlarged\\neach year and the scope of its operations extended. At No. 133 Bay street, a\\nbuilding well adapted to the business in which he is engaged is occupied by Mr.\\nMyers. It is 30x90 feet in dimension, and the four floors are fully stocked with a\\ncomplete assortment of various brands and makes of tobacco and cigars. Their\\nsupplies have a very wide reputation for superiority, and great care is exercised in\\nthe selection of the best tobacco and cigars manufactured. Eleven employees are\\nrequired in handling the large amount of goods required for the trade of this well-\\nknown house, which extends throughout Virginia, North and South Carolinas,", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "108\\nSAVANNAH HER\\nGeorgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, the sales aggregating $500,000 in value\\nduring the year 1883. This is one of the largest establishments in this line of trade\\nin this part of the Southern country, and the facilities for supplying an extended\\ntrade are unsurpassed. Mr. Myers was born in Virginia in 1852, but has resided in\\nSavannah since 1869, and having been engaged in this deptrtment of trade all his\\nbusiness life, is a good judge of tobacco in the several forms in which it is used.\\nHe is numbered among our best known and most influential citizens and is a director\\nin the Southern Mutual Loan Association. In every respect this enterprise is worthv\\nof commendation relial)le in all transactions, it is the determination of its proprietor\\nto offer the best goods in the market, at the most reasonable prices, an effort which\\nhas been crowned and rewarded with solid and permanent success.\\nHOLST CO. Ship Brokers and Commission, No. 136 Bay Street.\\nNew Orleans excepted, more vessels enter Savannah than any other city in the\\nSouth, and the importance of reliable and energetic brokers, to whom to intrust the\\ninterests of vessels coming here, will be at once recognized. Undoubtedly the most\\nprominent ship brokers in Savannah are Hoist Co. and the skill with which they\\nmanage the vessels intrusted them is evidenced by the fact that they have about\\nseventy vessels consigned to them each year one season as raanj as ninet3 -six\\nand among them are included vessels of all nationalities, though principally Norwe-\\ngian, Swedish and Danish. The proper care of such a number of vessels requires\\neminent business tact and ability, and these Mr. Hoist possesses in an eminent degree.\\nBorn in Denmark, he has resided in Savannah for thirt3 --four years, being all that\\ntiine intimately connected with the city and her interests and to-day no man stands\\nhigher in qxqvj respect, or is more universally esteemed in and out of business cir-\\ncles, than he. He is vice-consul for Sweden and Norway, which offices he has filled\\nfor the last nineteen years. Besides this, he is a member of the Cotton Exchange\\nand the Board of Trade. He also successfully conducts a large commission business.\\nHis success in both branches is the result of his own energy and untiring industry.\\nShip-owners and captains, both native and foreign, will find it to their interest to\\nconsign their vessels to Mr. Hoist, as in his hands tiieir interests will be well cared for.\\nA. S. NICHOLS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 -STote and Shoes, 128 Broaghton Street.\\nIt is a momentous period in the life of any young man when, throwing off all\\ndoubts and fears, and heedless of the evil forebodings of those who think they know\\nbetter than himself, he determines to strike out alone and unaided in a bold search\\nafter fortune and success and such a step should onlj be taken after due deliber-\\nation, and with the resolve not to be turned from his original intention by trifles or\\neven calamities. AVith the advantages of youth, a good name, and energy, to such a\\nman there is no such word as fail, and the history of every city and town presents\\nexamples of those who, thus starting, have achieved success in the face of what\\nseemed insurmountable obstacles. Savannah is not behind her sister cities in this\\nrespect, and as example we can offer none more striking and suggestive than the\\nbusiness career of Mr. A. S. Nichols. Starting in 1S75 with only S300 capital, he\\nhas in eight years built up a trade and reputation second to none in Savannah. His\\nstore is 20x75 ft. in dimensions, and the stock carried amounts to S16,000, and the\\nannual sales foot up $45,000 an enormous increase in the capital with which he\\ncommenced, his present capital being S1(!,000. His trade extends throughout South", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES.\\n109\\nCarolina, Georgia and Florida, including Savannah and vicinity. His stock embraces\\nboots and shoes and hats from all the best known manufacturers. He has in his shoe\\ndepartment shoes from the house of Hanan Son, of New York Zeigler Bros. Kelly\\nMoore Evan, of Phila. Curtis Wheeler, of Rochester, and others, all of\\nworld-wide reputation. Hs also sells the celebrated Button s Raven Gloss, a\\npreparation of inestimable value to those who wish a dressing for shoes which will not\\ncrack the leather. His success is a matter of pride to himself and his friends, who\\nby their large and increasing patronage evince their appreciation of his reliability\\nand enterprise.\\nBENDHE8M BROS. CO. Manufacturers and Importers of Cigars, Pipes and\\nSmokers Articles, and Jobbers in Tobaccos, No. 148 Bay Street.\\nSavannah, in statistical comparison, both with sister Southern cities and her own\\ncommercial condition of a quarter of a century ago, presents striking evidence\\n-^^till^E. IVf^/l^^ individual enterprise. Not only have her merchants built\\n^^^j y^^^^ Z^ j^T ^^1 splendid establishments, extending her trade to every sec-\\ntion of the State, but, with keen foresight and conception,\\npenetrated other States, gaining and holding that geographi-\\ncally tributary to other cities, bringing their city prominently\\nforward as an important distributing centre. This is more\\ndistinctly pronounced in those branches connected with the\\ntabacco business in its various departments than in any other.\\nA comparison with other branches shows five large and flour-\\nishing establishments in that line we mean jobbers which,\\nin the generally observed ratio, is more than an average.\\nBesides, other branches, notably grocers, handle tobaccos, to\\nThe tobacco business in this country must, from its magnitude,\\nbe always regarded as an interest of the utmost importance. Millions of capital are\\ninvested in it, thousands of operatives are afforded employment by it, and the taxes\\npaid to the government by the manufacturers of and dealers in it compose a large por-\\ntion of the national revenue. Among those houses that have been largely instru-\\nmental in promoting the interests of this branch of trade, and who are known wher-\\never in this country tobacco is dealt in and imported cigars are used, Bendheim\\nBros. Co. rank prominently in the trade. Louisville, Ky. has the Finzer Bros.\\nNew York, the Lorillards Savannah, the Bendheims. In the summer of 1869 they\\nestablished themselves, the firm title being Bwhm, Bendheim Co. They soon took\\nposition as an enterprising, energetic addition to the city. Beginning originally in a\\nmoderate way, contending with difficulties incident to new enterprises, they gradu-\\nally augmented the resources of their house, extended their operations, and eventu-\\nally acquired a position in the community attained by but few. Men of comprehen-\\nsive Aaews, large capacity and intelligent appreciation of their business, they very\\nsoon succeeded in taking a prominent rank among the business men of this section.\\nIn 1879, by the retirement of Mr. Boehm and the admission of Messrs. Meier and\\n1 Henry Bendheim, the firm style was changed to Bendheim Bros. Co. The partners\\nare Adolph D., Meier and Henry Bendheim and L. Kaufmann, of New York. Their\\nmanufactory is in New York City, where they have extensive works and employ a\\nlarge number of hands. In addition, they are large importers of cigars, in which\\nthey have a very large trade, extending all over the United States. They are the\\nmore or less extent.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "110 SAVANNAH HER\\nsole agents for goods of Lorillarcl s manufacture for Savannah and Florida. Their\\ntrade in domestic cigars and tobacco and smokers articles extends through Georgia,\\nSouth Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and South Tennessee.\\nOf late their trade has increased in such a manner, and especially extended in a\\nnorthern direction, that they, with the foresight they always exhibited, found it expe-\\ndient, in order to accommodate their customers and increase their own facilities, to\\nopen a house further North, in a city offering all the necessary geographical advan-\\ntages in the way of transportation, etc. For this purpose they have selected the city\\nof Baltimore, Md., where they will estal)lish themselves in time to open for the fall\\nseason. The style of firm will be Bendheim Bros. Co., composed of the same\\nmembers as the Savannah house. They will be located there in the most prominent\\npart of the city, 244 West Baltimore Street. The stock carried is commensurate with\\ntheir large business, averaging \u00c2\u00a775,000 in value. Their transactions will reach over\\nS500,000 annually. Fourteen hands are emplo^^ed in the various capacities. Their\\nbusiness premises are among the most commodious and convenient in the city,\\nconsisting of a large brick building, with a frontage of 30 feet on Ba} Street\\nby a depth of 90 feet, four stories in height, including a finished cellar.\\nThis is one of the largest tobacco houses in the South, and they are the only\\nimporters in the State. Mr. Bendheim is a member of the Board of Trade. The\\nMessrs. Bendheim are natives of Darmstadt, Germany, residents of Savannah for\\nfrom five to fifteen years. Their experience in their business is measured by the period\\nof their business lives. As an evidence of their enterprise and liberal policy, they\\nhandle consignments of hides, wax and wool, from patrons, free of commission.\\nThose having relations with this house ma} depend upon receiving all the advantages\\nto be derived from long experience, large facilities and undoubted reliability.\\nWELD HARTSHORN E Commission and Cotton Merchants, General Agents\\nfor the Boicker Fertilizer Company, Dealers in Kainit, Dissolved Bone Phosphate, etc., No. 7S\\nBay Street.\\nOf late years the amount of fertilizers used in the United States and Europe has\\nincreased so rapidly that it is now closely pushing other interests which formerly\\nfar overshadowed it. Manufactories have been established all pver the South and\\nNorth, and the amount of capital invested runs up into the millions. Savannah has\\nnot been behind in being represented in this industry, and some of the largest dealers\\nin fertilizers are found among her business men. Among these, and occupying a\\nleading position, is the well-known firm of NVeld Hartshorne. Founded in 1881 by\\nMr. J. D. Weld, the present firm was formed in November of the same year bj the\\nadmission of Mr. L. Hartshorne, and has continued to advance, until now it stands\\non an equal footing with any in the country, considering its duration. The unceasing\\nenergy and push of both of the partners have widely extended the sales of their\\ncommodity, which now aggregate $250,000 to \u00c2\u00a7300,000 per annum, distributed\\nthrough the States of Florida, Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina, in which\\nsections it has found universal favor, in many instances supplanting older and better\\nknown brands. This gratifying result is due to the excellent quality of the fer-\\ntilizers sold bj the firm, and also to their general reputation for fair and upright\\ndealing with their customers. Their specialties are Dissolved Bone Phosphate,\\nKainit (guaranteed the best on the market), Cotton Seed Oil, and other articles of\\nminor importance, but which all go to swell the sum total of their large and in-", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 11 L\\ncreasing business. Tliey are also agents for the Bowker Fertilizer Company,\\nwhose manufactories in New York and Boston are among the largest and most im-\\nportant in the world. Besides their fertilizers, these gentlemen do a large commission\\nbusiness, receiving consignments from all parts of the South and by their liberal\\nterms, and the favorable inducements they offer, they attract a class of customers\\nwhose influence brings others no less desirable. It is to such firms as this that the\\nmain prosperity of a city is due and when we consider the solid and substantial\\nfoundation of capital and energy on which their business is founded, we may well\\nconclude that there are no bounds to their future advancement.\\nDARNALL SUSONC Dealers in Mules and Horses, West Broad Street,\\nHead of President.\\nIn making a detailed review of the commercial interests of this city, prominent\\namong these will be noticed the Kentucky Sale Stables of Messrs. Darnall Susong,\\nwhich, from the special character of its business and the magnitude of its operations,\\nshould not escape mention in any work relating to the development, resources and\\nindustries of this city. This establishment was started in 1872, and is located on\\nWest Broad Street, at the head of President, where they occupy large and commo-\\ndious quarters, and 150 horses and mules can be accommodated at one time. The\\nstables are divided into several departments, made necessary by the various kinds of\\nstock always kept on hand. From four to six employees are required in the care of\\nstock, and farmers in this section, as well as citizens of Savannah, are supplied with\\nmules or horses as desired. Mr. Darnall was born in Fleming Co., Ky., Mr. Susong\\nin Green Co., Tenn., and they possess a thorough appreciation of the wants and\\ndemands of the public, which fact has enabled them to so adjust prices and conduct\\ntheir business as to draw, in this line, an exceedingly large patronage. The rapid\\nrise and success of this establishment is a remarkable one, and speaks well for the\\nenterprise and probity of the firm. Any style of horse or mule desired may be found\\nhere at all times, and Messrs. Darnall Susong are men of experience and good\\njudges of animals. They occupy a prominent position among the successful business\\nmen of the Forest City of the South.\\nMcMillan BROS. southern copper works, 32 Liberty street, corner Price.\\nThis well-known establishment was started in 1880, and now ranks among the\\nmost progressive manufacturing houses of Savannah. The Messrs. McMillan started\\nwith but small capital, but an abundance of energy, pluck, and, above all, a thorough\\ntraining in their profession, and have slowly but surely worked their way up, until\\nto-day they rank as one of the best establishments, not only in Savannah but in the\\nSouth. They have put up a new two-story building, 80 ft. deep, and they have large\\ngrounds. They are equipped with every convenience for carrying on the large and\\nincreasing business. The firm make a specialty of turpentine stills, in which they\\nhave made many and valuable improvements. They also do all kinds of work in\\ncopper, and such is their reputation that their trade already extends through Florida,\\nAlabama and the Carolinas. The members of the firm are Messrs. D. G. R. and\\nT. H. McMillan, all experienced and practical workmen. They have an experience\\nof twenty years in their profession, and are consequently eminently fitted to carry on\\ntheir trade. They are all gentlemen of high character and standing, and are prompt\\nand reliable in all respects. Ten to fifteen skillful workmen are employed, at good\\nwages.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "112\\nSAVANNAH HER\\nWM. W. CNANN Wheehvright, Blacksmith and Horseshoer, 6 and S New\\nStreet, near West Broad.\\nMr. Gnann has undoubtedly one of the largest and best establishments of the kind\\nin Savannah, and his present handsome business is the result of his own energy and\\nperseverance. He builds wagons, buggies, carts, drag s, in fact every species of\\nvehicle in the most substantial manner, and\\nequal to any made at the North, and also\\ndoes a general jobbing business in all its\\nbranches, having acquired in this line a rep-\\nutation second to none in Savannah. Horse-\\nshoeing is also carried bj a practical shoer,\\nwho understands the nature of the hoof, as\\nwell as the acquired knowledge of fitting on\\nthe shoe. Mr. Gnann is a native of Ger-\\nmany, but has been in Savannah manj^ j^ears,\\nand being a practical mechanic is well fitted to pursue his present line. His work is\\nwell-known as equal to any, and his general reputation as an honest and reliable man\\nhas also aided in bringing him a large and constantly increasing business. He keeps\\non hand a large stock of tough and seasoned timber, which he uses in his business.\\nHe is prompt in finishing work, efficient, and is generally liked and popular. All\\nwork performed by him is guaranteed, and is invariably up to standard.\\nJ. P. WILLIAMS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 JVai oZ Stores and Cotton, 122 Bay Street.\\nThe very great prominence which Savannah commission merchants have gained for\\nfaithfulness to the interests of their patrons, has had the effect of bringing onl} men\\nof the most unflinching integrity and business capacity to engage in that line of\\ntrade. It is a well-established fact that not onlj^ do this class of merchants make\\nSavannah a splendid market, but it also proves that their past commercial lives are\\nthe means through which they obtain and hold their already splendid business. Of\\nthis class just mentioned the firm of J. P. Williams is an example. Started in 1879,\\nas Williams Watson, in 1882 it was J. P. Williams Co., and in 1884 the present\\nstyle. That he has well sustained the credit of the former firm is proved by his\\nreceipts of the past year, constituting him the second largest dealer in naval stores\\nin Savannah. He employs four capable hands. The consignments come from all\\nparts of Georgia and South Carolina, in which sections he has the respect and confi-\\ndence of his numerous customers. Mr. Williams is a native of North Carolina, but\\nhas been in Savannah for the past four years. He is a director of the Board of\\nTrade and member of the Cotton Exchange. Having devoted his entire business\\ncareer to the cotton and naval stores branch, he is peculiarly fitted to conduct his\\npresent large and increasing business. His extensive foreign connections, ample\\ncapital, and thorough knowledge of the markets of his two specialties, enable him\\nto offer inducements to consignors which few others can. His facilities in all respects\\nare unsurpassed, and quick and profitable sales, accruing both to the advantage of\\nhimself and his consignors, is his motto, and which he has successfully carried out,\\nyet at the same time he is prudent and cautious. In his hands the interests of his\\ncustomers are as carefully guarded and promoted as possible and planters and\\nnaval stores men from the interior, who may be on the look out for a reliable and\\ncapable consignee, can find none better than he.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "TRADE, C050IERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 113\\nA. M. C. W, WEST Wholesale and Retail Grocers^ Corner Liberty and\\nWhitakev Streets.\\nThe grocery trade, in all towns and cities, has its representatives, who, both on\\naccount of the superior class of goods they sell and the general reputation of the\\nfirm for straightforward dealing, are generally acknowleged to be the leaders. In\\nSavannah such a position is occupied by the old and long established house of A. M.\\nC. W. West. Founded in 1868, with a very moderate capital, and when the city\\nwas absolutely poverty-stricken by the effects of the war, this house has steadily\\narisen to the position it now occupies. The store is 20x90 feet in area, two stories,\\nwith elevator and all other modern appliances for dispatch and quickness, the neces-\\nsity for which is very evident when we see the steady stream of trade which is con-\\nstantly coming in, and which keeps the proprietors and their five assistants always on\\nthe go. The stock carried averages $4,000 to $5,000, and the annual sales amount\\nto over $50,000. The special pride of the firm, however, is in the superior class of\\ngoods sold, and which, in some brands, cannot be found elsewhere in the city. Their\\nstock embraces the finest teas, coffees, sugars, butter, domestic and imported cheese,\\nflour, lard, hams, spices, biscuits, cake and crackers (of which they carry the best\\nline in the city), chocolate, honey, canned goods of all descriptions and brands,\\nwooden ware, and, in fact, everything comprised in an establishment which has the\\nreputation of this one. They make a specialty of fine imported fancy groceries, such\\nas French peas, olives, mushrooms, preserves, pickles, in fact everything for which\\nthere is a demand. Both members of the firm are natives of New York, but have\\nlived in Savannah since 1858, and have thoroughly identified themselves with the city\\nand its welfare. They are of high standing in every respect, staunch and reliable\\nbusiness men, and the fact of an article being bought from them is a guarantee of\\nits purity. It is by such firms as these that the commercial standing of a city is\\nenhanced and strengthened, and those who need an example in business can find\\nnone more fit to follow than this well-known and respected firm.\\nA, J. MILLER CO. Wholesale and Betail Furniture, Carpets, and Manu-\\nfactxirers Parlor goods and Bedding, 148 to 152 Brotighton Street.\\nBroughton Street, which is unquestionably the business portion of Savannah, can\\nboast of many and splendid stores, both wholesale and retail, devoted to all branches,\\nand her furniture and carpet establishments can vie with any in the South in size and\\namount of trade transacted but beyond doubt or cavil the largest in this line is the\\nimmense wholesale and retail establishment of A. J. Miller Co. which occupies the\\nstores from 148 to 152. In all, it comprises nine floors, each 30x90 ft. in dimensions,\\nand three attics and the stock carried averages $50,000, while the annual sales\\namount to $108,000 and are increasing. Twenty-five capable and efficient hands are\\nemployed. There is also a Branch House in Atlanta, which from its inception has\\ntaken a leading place in the trade. The stock is too varied and extensive for a full\\nenumeration in our limited space. All the latest and most improved styles of bed-\\nroom and parlor furniture from the best makers are kept on hand, ranging from the\\ncostliest and most elaborate to the plainest and most unpretending and in looking at\\nthe finest, one can scarcely believe that such marvels of beaut}- and finish could be\\nsold at such reasonable prices. The carpet department is also very complete, the\\nbest home and foreign makers being represented. Some of the designs are\\nwonderfully beautiful, and all display taste and conscientious workmanship. The", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "114 SAVANNAH HE R\\nhistory of this well-known house from its foundation is practically that of Savannah.\\nSuccess has crowned the efforts of the proprietor, and he has achieved what few men\\nhave ever done, built up one fortune on the ruins of another. This result can\\nonly be achieved by indomitable energy, prudence, and unswerving integrity, and\\nthe success which has come to him \\\\9 an eloquent lesson to all who may falter in the\\nwork of life. The house is universally esteemed by the business community, and by\\nits numerous customers, who are found in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. A\\nvisit to their establishment, even if not with the intention of purchasing, will be a\\nsource of pleasure both to the visitor and to the proprietor, who is always pleased to\\ndisplay his goods for inspection.\\nF. M. FARLEY Cotton Factor and Bice Dealer, No. 95 Bay Street.\\nThe favorable facilities which Savannah enjoys as a distributing center of cotton\\nand rice, the principal products of the South, by means of her natural as well as\\nacquired advantages for transportation and inter-communication, aided by the enter-\\nprise and ability of her representative merchants and commission houses operating in\\nthis special branch of commerce, has given to the city a wide celebrity. Among the\\nleading houses whose extensive operations have been largely instrumental in develop-\\ning the growth of her commerce in this direction, none are worthy of more favorable\\nconsideration than that of F. M. Farley, whose office is located at No. 94 Bay Street.\\nMr. Farley engaged in this business here in 1870, and has since that date monopolized\\na fair share of the trade in cotton, and more recently in rice, conducting now one of\\nthe largest enterprises in these lines in Savannah. The operations of this house have\\nalwa3^s been characterized by that integrity and liberal policy which have given it the\\nhighest standing among its contemporaries, and in business circles. From 25,000 to\\n35,000 bales of cotton are handled annually by Mr. Farley, and the assistance of seven\\nexperienced employees is required to carry on the business. Consignments are\\nreceived from South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama, and cotton and rice\\nare both handled by this well-known house. Mr. Farley is from Florida, but has\\nlived here since 1869, and has been engaged in his present business continuously since\\n1870, thus being enabled to combine experience with capital in the prosecution of the\\nline of trade in which he is engaged. He is a member of the Cotton Exchange and is\\nranked among the leading commercial operators, whose enterprise has given to the\\ncity the prominence she enjoys as a commercial and distributive center.\\nHENRY MILLER Dealer in Groceries, Provisions, Fruits, Wi)ies, Liquors,.\\nImporter of Foreign Fancy Groceries, No. 21 Barnard Street.\\nE^very business venture that evinces in its conduction genuine enterprise and\\nenergy is entitled to due consideration in a work of this character. A well located,\\nwell arranged family grocery is of especial interest to housekeepers, inspiring them\\nas it does with confidence that they will be furnished with choice, fresh articles for\\nfamily consumption. The establishment of Mr. Henry Miller is pre-eminently one\\nof this class. Although only started recently, the proprietor of this house being a\\nlive and energetic man, thoroughly acquainted with the business and its requirements,\\nhas alread} obtained a good-paying and growing business. Located at No. 21 Bar-\\nnard Street, in the best part of the city, his customers are of the best class of citizens.\\nThis business is carried on with untiring diligence and excellent management a full\\nline of groceries (staple and fancy), provisions and liquors is constantly kept on", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COaOIERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 115\\nhand, the stock being frequently replenished, thus insuring fresh and desirable goods\\nat all times, and the trade is quite large in the city, with orders from the country in\\nwholesale quantities. Six assistants are engaged in attending to the numerous orders\\nand large number of customers, and goods are delivered to any part of the city.\\nThe stock is always of the best quality to be found in this market, the prices as\\nreasonable as any first-class grocery in the city, and Mr. Miller is prepared to fill any\\norder from city or country. Mr. Miller is a native of Europe, but he has resided in\\nSavannah for the past four years, and having a life-long experience in the business\\nis enabled to satisfactorily meet the wants of all who visit his establishment, which\\ncompares most favorably with similar concerns in the city. He is well known as a\\nbusiness man, enjoj^s a high reputation as a straight-forward, honorable dealer, and\\nto this fact is due the flourishing trade he has attained.\\nT. P. BOND Commission Merchant, Wholesale Dealer in Meat, Hay, Grain,\\nBice, Country Produce^ Foreign Fruits, Florida Oranges, Apples, Vegetables, 153 and\\n155 Bay Street.\\nMeasuring the relative importance of a branch of business by its influence and\\nresults, give^ the most correct standard articles entering into the food supply, by the\\nlogical laws of trade take precedence. Staples, or articles of necessity, control the\\nmarkets of the world, others occupy merely the position of auxiliaries. In this con-\\nnection are included articles formerly classed as luxuries, wliich have come into such\\ngeneral use as to be now considered indispensable. In all cities this branch of trade\\noccupies a leading position, as its influence extends to all classes of society. The most\\nprominent house engaged in the business in Savannah is that of T. P. Bond, estab-\\nlished in 1867 by Bond Schlaj% with but limited capital. In 1869 Mr. Schlay\\nretired and Mr. T. P. Bond became proprietor of the business. Pursuing his business\\nwith enterprise and industry, Mr. Bond has built up an extensive trade, radiating\\nthrough Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. He is the largest dealer in this section\\nin Western grain and hay, vegetables and fruits, supplying the main portion of the\\ndemand from the territory tributary to Savannah. Mr. Bond is a director of the\\nBoard of Trade, and a representative of the new era of progress and go-aheadativeness\\nin the South, and especially of Georgia, which has Igiven her the title of the Empire\\nState of the South. He brings to his business that nervj vim which made metropol-\\nitan trade centers spring up like magic from prairie wastes in the West, and which\\nwill yet make the South proportionately as progressive and prosperous. State pride\\nand public enterprise, characteristics of the present generation of business men in\\nSavannah, with a just share of favorable seasons, will win her a place rivalling in\\ncommercial importance the phenomenal cities of the Northwest. To this class Mr.\\nBond belongs, and his individual success in business is but indicative of the future of\\nthis cit3\\\\ His transactions are mainly in hay, grain, fruit and vegetable produce. He\\ncarries an average stock of some $20,000 in value, his annual transactions varying\\nfrom 8300,000 to $350,000. He employs fifteen assistants, including clerks, porters\\nand draymen. His business premises are commodious, conveniently arranged and\\nspecially adapted to his purposes, with a frontage of 64 feet on Bay b} a depth of 90\\nfeet, three-stories in height, giving 17,280 square feet of floor surface utilized in the\\nprosecution of his business, Mr. Bond is a native of Bryan County, Georgia, a resi-\\ndent of Savannah for the past 37 years, and thoroughly identified with her interests\\nand prosperity.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "116 SAVANNAH BHER\\nD J\u00c2\u00ab RYAN Art Gallery Fhiesf Photographs and Stereoscopic Vie/rs. 139^\\nC omjretis Street.\\nThe art of photography has within the past twenty j ^ears made wonderful advances\\nin all its branches, so much so, that the photographer of 1800 would be astonished to\\nsee work executed with a precision and fidelity compared to which his best efforts\\nwere indeed a poor comparison. Savannah has photographic establishments which in\\nworkmanship and other details will compare favorably with the best Northern work,\\nand among these the well-known art gallery of Mr. D. J. Ryan stands pre-eminent.\\nFounded in 18(36, it has from its inception had an uninterrupted career of prosperity-,\\nand to-day its trade extends over the States of North Carolina, South Carolina,\\nGeorgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, in all of which the work and stock of Mr.\\nRyan bear a high reputation, and are also well-known elsewhere. The premises in-\\nclude an area of 10x90 feet, three floors, and contain a very complete stock of every-\\nthing pertaining to the photographic art. Among these we notice his celebrated\\nstereoscopic views of Southern scenery, which are well-known all over the I nited\\nStates. Mr. Ryan is a native of Ireland, born there in 183G, and has resided in\\nSavannah for the past eighteen years. He commenced the study of his profession in\\n1859, and is therefore as competent as a long and careful study and practice can\\nmake him. He stands well in all respects, is energetic and capable, and has built up\\na business and reputation of which any one might be proud.\\nS. P. HAMILTON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J e?oe?er, 125 Broughton Street.\\nThe art of tiie jeweler and worker in gold, silver and precious stones, dates back as\\nfar as the records of the human race. Ornaments found in Egyptian and Etruscan\\ntombs, as well as in the buried cities of Assyria, and the wonderful relies exhumed by\\nLayard, George Smith and Di Cesnola, are designed and executed with a skill which\\nin many instances is the despair of modern artisans. Besides the high perfection of\\nthe art, they prove that the ancients possessed the precious metals in an abundance\\nwhich to us, even with the gold mines of California and Australia at our own con-\\ntrol, seems incredible. Coming down to a later period we find the goldsmith s craft\\nflourishing even in the middle ages, when other branches of industry were so nearly\\nforgotten and the work of the mediivval goldsmiths forms the most precious portion\\nof many museums both in America and Europe. Within the past few years a\\nrevival has taken place in the jewelry trade, which has already revolutionized it com-\\npletely. Simultaneously with the demand for antique furniture came that for antique\\njewelry, and old and forgotten family heirlooms were l)rought to light to serve as\\nmodels. For once the public taste and opinion, generally faulty, has proved correct,\\nand it is now understood and admitted that in this respect at least we have much to\\nlearn from our forefathers. Every city can boast one or more extensive jewelry\\nestablishments, but there is generallj^ one which is confessedly .su/ generis. New\\nYork has the world-renowned Tiffany s; Philadelphia, Bailey s; and other cities\\nestablishments less renowned. In Savannah umpiestionably the highest rank is occu-\\npied by the splendid store of Mr. S. P. Hamilton, who is a native of Virginia, and came\\nto Savannah in 1805, in which year he commenced business; his profession, which he has\\nfollowed all his life, was learned in AVashington, D. C. His store, which is 30x90 feet\\nin dimensions, contains a very complpte stock of jewelry, valued at S40,000, while the\\nannual sales foot up a very large amount. Six elKcient and capable hands are\\nemployed. The stock, which is very varied, comprises watches from the most cele-", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COIVIMERCE AND ENDUSTRIES. 117\\nbrated makers, native and foreign, cloclis, silverware, bronzes, placques, statuettes,\\nand in fact everything that can be enumerated in the list of a first-class establish-\\nment. The trade, which is by far the largest in the city, is confined thereto entirely.\\nThe store is illuminated by the electric light, and at night presents a most beautiful\\nappearance. Mr. Hamilton is in every respect one of the most prominent and\\nenergetic citizens of Savannah, and enjoys the esteem and confidence of all classes.\\nHe is president of the Electric Light Company, and is interested in every enterprise\\nwhich may redound to the benefit of Savannah. Visitors to his establishment are\\ncordially welcomed and shown around, even though they have no intention of\\npurchasing.\\nCHAS. D. RUSSELL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Insjyector of Naval Stores; Office, S, F. W. R y N. S.\\nYard.\\nIn a descriptive revision of the trades and industries of Savannah, it is highly per-\\ntinent that all those vocations contingent upon any staple line of commercial enter-\\nprise should be noted and mentioned in this work, as having no little to do with the\\ngeneral facilities and advantages for the prosecution of business in this city. In\\nsuch a connection we may not overlook the fact that Mr. Chas. D. Russell, as inspector\\nof naval stores, occupies a position as useful as it is unique, and, pursuing a profession\\nof importance to the industrial community, should receive some consideration here.\\nAt the Savannah, Florida and Western railway yards ample grounds are occupied by\\nMr. Russell for the prosecution of his business, and sixty-five employees are required\\nin handling the stores coming under his inspection, Mr. Russell was born in Wil-\\nmington, N. C, came to this city in 1877, and in the same year was elected inspector\\nby the city, is under bond, and it is estimated that 250,000 barrels of rosin are\\ninspected by him, on an average, each year. Any commendation of this gentleman\\nat our hands is unnecessary, as he is well and most favorably known by our citizens\\nand those in any way connected with the manufacture or handling of naval stores,\\nand his long-continuous cccupation of this office is sufficient assurance of a pro-\\nficiency in the complete knowledge of his profession.\\nB. F. McKENNA CO.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 General Dry Goods, 137 Broughton Street.\\nThere are in all communities certain houses which by virtue of long standing, high\\nreputation, and general character are tacitly accorded precedence above others in the\\nsame. Of such a class is the old and long established house of B. F. McKenna\\nCo. This house throughout an existence of many years has always kept in the front\\nrank in all respects, and to-day can proudly point to a record unsurpassed by that of\\nany firm in Savannah or elsewhere. The establishment on Broughton Street contains\\nan immense and well selected stock of dry goods, silks, velvets, and in fact every-\\nthing to be found in a first-class establishment. The stock carried is valued at\\n$25,000 (twenty-five thousand dollars), and the annual sales amount to not less than\\n$80,000. Mr. B. F. McKenna, the senior member of the firm, is a native of New\\nYork, and was for some time with the great firm of Lord Taylor. He is probably\\nthe oldest merchant in this line in Savannah, and from his energy and activity will\\nprobably continue to be so for many years. Mr. J. F. Crohan, the junior member, is\\na native of Ireland. Both gentlemen are well-known and respected by all. Their\\nestablishment is one of the landmarks of the city, and worthily upholds the reputa-\\ntion of the business to which the talent and ability of these gentlemen are directed.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "118\\nSAVANNAH HER\\nLIPPMAN BROS- Importers and Jobbers Drugs^ Medicines^ Notions and Glass-\\nicare, Lippman^ s Block, Corner Congress and Barnard Streets.\\nThe drug stores of Savannah, in completeness of equipment and general outfit, will\\nbear comparison with any in the United States and among the most reliable, and those\\nwho have the highest reputation for ^ellins: the purest and best drugs and chemicals,\\ndomestic and foreign, the firm of\\nLippman Bros, undoubtedly holds\\nthe front rank. Established 18\\nyears ago, it has steadily risen to\\nits present position, always re-\\nliable and trustworthy, and gain-\\ning and retaining the confidence\\nof its patrons. Their establish-\\nment, at the corner of Congress\\nand Barnard Streets, is a model\\nof taste and handsome fitting up.\\nIt comprises nine extensive rooms,\\nall packed with a complete and\\nvaried assortment of drugs, chemi-\\ncals, and other articles found in a\\nfirst-class drug store. Twenty-five\\nhands are employed, and the annual sales reach upwards of $350,000, and the trade\\nextends through Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and Alabama. Being agents for\\nsome of the largest English manufacturers, and importing direct from them, they are\\nenabled to offer inducements which probably no other house in Savannah can dupli-\\ncate, and the gratifying increase of sales from year to year proves the liberality and\\nwisdom of their policy. Messrs. Lewis, Jacob and Lawrence Lippman comprise the\\nfirm, all gentlemen of high standing and reputation, both in and out of business\\ncircles. Their reputation is well established, and no house in the South stands\\nhigher in any respect than this well-known and thriving firm.\\nE. A. K.H^PP\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Retail Dnu/gist, 48 Jefferson Street.\\nThe profession of a druggist is undoubtedly one which above all others\\nrequires a careful and strict preparation, an accurate knowledge of all the many and\\nvaried poisonous and non-poisonous preparations used in the pharmacopeia, and a\\npower of concentrating the mind on the business in hand to the exclusion of every-\\nthing of minor importance. These are the requisites of a successful druggist and\\nof such men Savannah, in common with other cities, has her full share. Among these\\nwe will by general consent place Dr. E. A. Knapp, who although established here\\nonly since 1882 has already won an enviable position among his frateruitj\\\\ The\\ndoctor is a native of Prescott, province of Ontario, Canada, and there commenced\\nthe study of his profession. In 1882 he started his present business at 48 Jefferson,\\ncor. South Broad Street. His store, which is very commodious and convenient, is\\n60x20 feet in dimensions the stock carried is valued at S2,000, and the annual sales\\namount to $5,000, and are increasing. He sells only the very best and purest\\nmedicines, and pays particular attention to the compounding of prescriptions.\\nWithin the short space of his business career he has gained the confidence of the\\nentire community, and will no doubt continue as he has begun.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 119\\nE J. ACOSTA) JR. Manufacture} of Crackers and Candy, Cor. Bay and\\nBarnard Streets.\\nAssociated in a direct or indirect way witli all other industries through the rela-\\ntions it sustains to eveiy family and home in city or country, this business has a\\ncorresponding importance in a work devoted to the various avocations and activities\\nof a community. In the preparation of an historical review of the industries of\\nSavannah, we take pleasure in noting the important business relations which %he\\nsustains to this and adjoining States, and the prominence of her trade and business\\nestablishments. Among the leading houses of this city is the manufacture of\\ncrackers and candy, as conducted by Mr. E. J. Acosta, Jr. This enterprise was\\nstarted in 1878 under the firm name Guckenheimer, Schwarz Co., of which firm\\nMr. Acosta was a member, and he succeeded to the entire control in 1881. The\\npremises occupied at the corner of Bay and Barnard Streets are ample and commo-\\ndious, are 60x90 feet in dimensions, two floors and the cellar being used in the\\nmanufacture and storing of supplies, an additional building being required, which is\\n30x60 feet, making this one of the largest enterprises of the kind in the entire State.\\nAll the modern machinery and appliances in use for the manufacture of crackers and\\ncandy are found in this establishment, and an engine of 35-horse power is provided as\\nmotive power. A large force of employees are engaged here at work, consisting of\\n54 males and 17 females, a total of 71, and the goods manufactured by them are made\\nwith the view of giving the consumer good value for his money and the retailer some\\nprofit on his investment. A neat catalogue and price list has been prepared by Mr.\\nAcosta, which gives a detailed list of crackers, fancy cakes and confectionary made\\nat his establishment, with the wholesale prices attached. The amount of stock carried\\nby him is estimated at $15,000 value, while supplies aggregating $175,000 in value\\nare distributed throughout the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and\\nFlorida. Among other important products of this establishment are prize- packages,\\nsugar toys and fruit syrups and nuts oranges and fire- works of every description are\\nalso kept in stock. Mr. Acosta is a native of Southern Georgia, and has resided in\\nSavannah since 1865. He has brought to the enterprise in which he has embarked\\nample capital, and a determination to succeed which entitles him to the favorable\\nconsideration of the trade in this section of the South.\\nJOHN SULLIVAN CO. Insurance and Real Estate, 114 Bay Stre^.\\nIn these days of rush and progress, when the population and prosperity of the\\nlargest cities are increasing at an unheard of ratio, the risks by fire and flood are\\nnecessarily materially increased, and consequently the guarding against such catas-\\ntrophes becomes a matter of the gravest consideration. Insurance is the only means\\nof remedying such contingencies, and the firm which represents the best and most\\nreliable insurance companies is consequently the one to which all who wish to\\nprovide against loss naturally go in Savannah, the firm of Jno. Sullivan Co., of\\nwhich Mr. E. B. Philput is the company. These gentlemen represent the following\\ncompanies The North British Mercantile, The Lancashire and The Norwich Union,\\nof England, and The Phrenix, of Brooklyn, all fire. These four companies are the\\nlargest in the world, and the importance of their being represented in Savannah by\\nsuch a well-known firm can scarcely be over-estimated. The present firm was\\nstarted in 1874, and has since its inception taken a leading rank among the compa-\\nnies of the place. Mr. John Sullivan is a native of Savannah, Georgia. Mr. E.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "120 SAVANNAH HER\\nB. Philput is from Alabama, and has resided here since 1867. In addition to their\\ninsurance, they also attend to the renting and selling of real estate in all its forms.\\nThe firm in all respects will compare favorably with any in the city. Mr. Sullivan\\nholds the position of treasurer of the Union Society and of Oglethorpe Club. Having\\nbeen all their business lives in insurance, we cheerfully recommend this promising and\\nreliable firm to the public.\\nt\\nBR ADSTREET S\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Executive Offices, 279, 281 and 283 Broadway, Neic York;\\nSavannah Office, Cor. Drai/ton and Bay Streets.\\nThe importance of a commercial agency cannot be overrated in any respect. On\\nits faithful and accurate reports of the standing of the various firms in the\\ncountry depends the welfare of thousands, whose credit may be ruined or irretriev-\\nably hurt by a misrepresentation of even the smallest and apparently most\\nunimportant fact. In order to avoid the unpleasant consequences arising from such\\na contingency, the Bradstreet commercial agencj^ was established in 1849, and from\\na small beginning has spread until now it has branch offices in all the principal cities of\\nthe United States and Canada, in London, P^ngland, and also on the continent and in\\nAustralia. The head office is located at 279, 281 and 283 Broadway, N. Y., and the\\nSavannah branch at the corner of Drayton and Bay Streets. It was established in\\n18G9, and controls the entire State of Georgia and part of Florida. The two rooms\\nwhich they occupy are 20x25 ft. each in dimensions, and are neatly and conveniently\\nfitted up and well ventilated. Four clerks are employed in transacting the business,\\nwhich amounts to $5,000 to $6,000 per annum, and is increasing. Mr. Geo. T.\\nNichols, the manager, is a native of Savannah, and has lived here all his life. His\\nintimate acquaintance with all the leading men of the city enables him to fill accept-\\nably the position he occupies. During his term of office he has given general\\nsatisfaction to all, and has very materialh^ advanced the interests of the company in\\nthis section. He is courteous, affable, and is generally liked and esteemed.\\nC. NOBLE Greenhouses and Ice Cream Garden; Plants, Bouquets and Cut\\nFlowers; Entomological Specimens for Sale or Exchange; 60 Bull Street.\\nOf the notable establishments in Savannah, that of Mr. G. Noble, on Bull Street,\\noccupies a unique position. Being the only one in his line in the city, he is without\\ncompetitioo, and is thus enabled to perform the best work on the most reasonable\\nterms. He is a skilful taxidermist, and can stuff in the most artistic manner any\\nvariety of bird or beast, from the tiny humming bird to the huge bear or elk. In\\naddition to his profession, he has also extensive greenhouses and an ice cream garden,\\nwhere all the delicacies of the season can be procured, and the rarest flowers and\\nplants purchased, at a moderate price and in any quantities. He also sells canaries,\\nhanging baskets, Noble s Improved Bird Invigorator and Mocking Bird Food, an\\nexcellent food for birds, prepared by himself, and other articles. Mr. Noble is a\\nnative of England, but has resided in Savannah for sixteen years, and in that time\\nhas become a complete Savannahian, and by his industry and energy has made his\\nestablishment one of the features of Bull Street, it being a favorite resort of ladies\\nand their escorts, and an excellent place in which to while away the long, hot summer\\nevenings. His work is well-known, and generally conceded to be equal to any. In\\nall respects this establishment is worthy of the patronage of the public, and we\\nwould advise all who need work in his line to give him a call.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AJTO INDUSTRIES.\\n121\\nTHOMAS WEST Wholesale and Retail Crockery, 185 and 187 Broughton\\nStreet.\\nMr. West s establishment is undoubtedly ranked among the representative ones of\\nSavannah. He started in his present line some twelve years ago, and by industry,\\napplication and reliability has worked himself up\\nto the position of one of the leading men in his\\nbranch of trade in Savannah. From a small be-\\nginning, his trade has gradually increased until\\nnow it reaches the handsome total of $40,000 per\\nannum, and is increasing in a most gratifying\\nproportion. His customers are residents of Flor-\\nida, Alabama, the Carolinas, and also of Georgia.\\nHis establishment, a handsome, three-story brick\\nstore, is conveniently located in the business\\nportion of the city, is well fitted up with every\\nfacility for carrying on the business, and the dis-\\nplay of goods is not inferior to any in the city,\\neither for completeness or variety. Mr. West\\nmakes a specialty of the world-renowned Havi-\\nland French China, and also carries a full and\\ncarefully selected stock of crockery, and glass,\\ntable cutlery, silver-plated ware, toys, and house\\nfui nishing goods. No house in Savannah can\\noffer better inducements to purchasers than this.\\nMr. West has made a life-long study of his business, and is in every way fitted to\\nconduct it on its present extensive scale. He can offer inducements to buyers which\\nfew others can, and we cheerfully recommend him to all who wish fair and open\\ndealings in all respects.\\nA- R. ALTMAYER CO, Notions, Millinery, Fancy Goods, Shoes, etc.,\\n135 Broughton Street.\\nHonor in business always pays a fair and sure dividend and those establishments\\nconducted upon principles of unflinching integrity are certain to advance in public\\nfavor and to command a liberal patronage. Such has been the experience of A. R.\\nAltmaji-er Co. who for the past ten years have been in the front rank in the trade,\\nrequiring at present to conduct their business no less than forty hands. The large\\nstock, liberal prices, and liberal treatment of its patrons, have caused the house to\\nbecome known, and the trade at present reaches over the entire State, Florida and\\nother sections. Such an extensive trade requires purchasing in large quantities, and\\non this account they are able to offer goods at much less prices than their would-be\\ncompetitors in trade. They carry a most complete stock of millinery, fancy goods,\\nnotions, etc., all tastefully displayed. Mr. A. R. Altmayer, the proprietor, resides in\\nNew York but Mr. L. Adler, the manager, is a 3^oung man of ability and busi-\\nness capacity, and looks closely after the interests of the firm. Dealers and others\\ngenerally will find it to their advantage to do business with this enterprising firm,\\nas they offer inducements which scarcely any other can offer. Everything which\\ncan possibly be thought of in their line is in their stock, comprising the finest silks\\nand satins, as well as the commoner grades, and all placed at prices which defy com-\\npetition.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "122 SAVANNAH HER\\nJOHN FLANNERY CO. Cotton Factors and Commission^ Bay Street.\\nThe elements of wealth of every country are in the agricultural products, and all\\nmercantile branches which act as auxiliaries to the productive results and commercial\\nmovement of these prime factors are of co-relative importance. Savannah is the\\nmarket for a large cotton-growing country, and the enterprising policy and liberal\\ndealing of her merchants handling the staple are yearly augmenting the receipts at\\nthis port, and stimulating the planters to re-invigorated efforts and increased produc-\\ntion. The commercial status of the Southern coast cities is determined by the cotton\\nreceipts, as is that of Western cities by the receipts and transhipments of cereals,\\nand Savannah is indebted for the progressive strides she has made and the mercantile\\nreputation she has gained abroad during the last decade more to her cotton merchants\\nthan to any other class. Their active enterprise and sound business methods have\\nswollen the receipts until she now is rated as the second cotton city in the United\\nStates wresting supremacy from older and larger cities by sheer vim and ability.\\nThe planter, actively occupied with the care of his plantation, the cultivation and\\ngarnering of his crop, and afterwards in its disposition in the market, is dependent\\non the assistance of the factor to accomplish these results in a satisfactory and profit-\\nable manner. The factorage business is peculiar to the South the planters, espe-\\ncially since the war, are unable to carry on their avocation from limited means. The\\nfactor supplies the sinews of war, for which he receives a small per cent, of inter-\\nest. When the crop is gathered he receives it, disposes of it to the best advantage,\\nfor which he also receives a fee, and remits balance of proceeds to the planter. It\\nis a system of agency, banking and commission combined. There are, of course,\\na number of business men engaged in this branch in all the coast cities and as in all\\ncompetitive occupations some will outrank, overdo and succeed better than others, we\\npropose, in the interests of our work and of that of the city, to allude descriptively\\nto the more prominent factors in Savannah. Among them we find classed, by general\\nopinion, from the amount of business transacted, mercantile position occupied, and\\ninfluence exercised, the house of John Flannery Co., which was established in\\n1877, Mr. Flannery previously being a member of the firm of L. Guilmartin Co.,\\nwhich firm was dissolved that year, the control of the entire assets passing into his\\nhands by purchase. Mr. John D. Johnson became a member of the firm in 1877,\\nunder the present firm title. Having, in all positions occupied and in all business\\noperations transacted, evidenced the possession of abilities of a high order, and\\nin all situations displayed the most scrupulous honor and intelligent enterprise,\\nbusiness came almost unsought, and the success of this firm has been equal to any\\ncompeting house in the South. From the close confidential relations existing between\\nthe factor and the planter, the greatest trust must be reposed in the honor and offices\\nof the factor it is essentially a position of implicit confidence in all its operations.\\nTheir transactions extend to the States of South Carolina and Florida, although they\\nprincipally are confined to Georgia. Some 40,000 bales of cotton are handled in the\\nseason. Sixteen assistants are employed eight in the office, and eight in the\\nwarehouse. Mr. Flannery, from his well-known ability and position, has been\\nselected to occupy offices of public trust, confidence and honor. He is president of\\nthe Southern Bank, a director in the Cotton Exchange, and in the Tyler and\\nHydraulic Presses, and chairman of the City Sinking-Fund Commission. He is a\\nn^ative of Ireland, a resident of Savannah for the past thirty years, and thoroughly\\nand actively identified with her interests. Mr. Johnson is a native Georgian.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 123\\nM. Y. HENDERSON Cotton Factor and General Commisson Merchant^ 180\\nBay Street.\\nAmong those houses which are most intimately connected with the history of\\nSavannah, its struggle, growth and subsequent prosperity, sharing and promoting\\nevery matter of public interest, the house of M. Y. Henderson will assuredly take a\\nprominent position.- For a number of years its career has been closely allied to the\\ncotton and commission business in its various stages, and in a marked degree con-\\ntributes to the thrift and importance which place this branch of commerce upon so\\nsolid and substantial a footing. Established in 1850, it has gone through a long and\\nuseful career up to the present time, and to-day with renewed vigor looks for-\\nward to many years of usefulness and success. Mr. Henderson is a native of Savan-\\nnah, and having lived here all his business life is thoroughly acquainted with the\\nfinancial and general history of the city, a fact which is of great service to him in his\\nextensive business connection. His premises are 40x60 feet in dimensions, three\\nfloors, and conveniently situated in the very heart of the great business street of the\\ncity. Five competent hands are employed. His trade, which is chiefly with Boston,\\nextends also through New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia. He receives large con-\\nsignments of cotton from all parts, but his chief trade is in wool, hides, wax and\\ndeerskins, of which he yearly buys immense quantities, and pays cash for them at fair\\nand liberal prices. His annual business compares favorably with similar houses and\\nis increasing. The demand for the products which he buys is daily increasing, and\\nthe supply is some imes far short. This is one of the representative houses of\\nSavannah, and pays the best and highest cash prices, and also having other facilities\\nis a proper one to which farmers, planters and others should consign. He is too well\\nknown to need any further recommendation at our hands. Parties who wish to open\\ncorrespondence with one who will look most closely after their interests, will find it\\nto their advantage to write to or call on him.\\nSCREVEN HOUSE Geo. W. Sergent, Proprietor, cor. Bull and Congress Streets.\\nAs the social and moral qualities of men and women are rated according to the\\ncompany they keep, the pretensions of a city are generally judged by the character\\nof her hotels. Comfortable quarters and generous fare are inducive to good humor,\\nliberality and fair dealing. On the contrary, it is equally true that cramped, gloomy\\nquarters and unpalatable cooking are formidable agents in driving trade from those\\npoints where they are too often the chief characteristics of trade establishments.\\nA good hotel, well kept, most comfortably furnished, thoroughly ventilated, and in\\na central locality, actually amounts to thousands of dollars to the business men of a\\ncity where such an hotel is located. All travelers use hotels for their special purpose,\\nshelter, sleeping and eating. Such an one is the Screven House, established about\\nnineteen years ago. This house has maintained a leading position among the hotels\\nof the city. Tourists, and parties of onr own country in search of a mild climate\\nduring the winter months, seldom fail to visit Savannah, and among the first-class\\nhotels of our city the Screven House stands prominent, enjoying a fair share of\\nthe patronage of visitors to this, the Forest City of the South. Located at the\\ncorner of Bull and Congress Streets, in the strictly business portion of the city,\\nconvenient to all places of amusement and the several depots of the railroads center-\\ning here, this is a most desirable resting place. The building occupied is a four-\\nstory brick, containing one hundred rooms, and all the modern improvements,", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "1^4 SAVANNAH HER\\nincluding a passenger elevator, this being the only hotel in the city having the latest\\nconvenience. The parlors are spacious and elegant, and the clerks are thoroughly\\nconversant with their business, polite and attentive. The table is set with the best\\nthe market and season affords, and the cooking leaves no room for other than\\ncongratulations. The full capacity of the house is for two hundred guests, and an\\nelegant billiard parlor and a first-class bar are connected with the house also, a\\nbarber shop, presided over by competent barbers. These attractions, backed by an\\nattentive corps of servants, make it one of the most desirable stopping places in the\\ncity. Mr. Geo. W. Sergent is the proprietor, a native of Charleston, and possesses\\na life-time experience in this line. He and the manager, Mr. Harr} A. Kilburn, of\\nVermont, are well known to the traveling public and our citizens as successful and\\nefficient hotel men. The Screven House is officered, from host down, by considerate,\\ngenial gentlemen, never neglecting the comfort of guests, but always promoting their\\nease and enjoyment, adding to the esteem they richly merit and possess of the public.\\nFRANKlBUCHANAN\u00e2\u0080\u0094 /??oe Broker, 54 Bay Street.\\nAs a branch of industry of considerable magnitude, and a peculiarly successful\\none in Savannah one, at the same time, forming an important factor of the commer-\\ncial prosperity of the city the rice trade and those engaged in it, either directly\\nor indirectly, are entitled to consideration in the compilation of a work having for its\\nobject an historical review of the mercantile and industrial resources of the city.\\nMr. Frank Buchanan commenced business here as a rice broker in 1H79, and has\\nsince that time been favored with a liberal and steadily increasing share of the\\npatronage of merchants and dealers in this and adjoining States. There are few that\\nrealize the magnitude and importance of this line of trade, and it can onl}^ be appre-\\nciated properly when we state that Mr. Buchanan, as perhaps the largest rice broker\\nin the city, disposes of 250,000 bushels of rice each j-ear. Close attention to busi-\\nness, ability to anticipate the wants of the trade, and reasonable prices, have justly\\ncontributed toward his success, and though there have been rival firms to contend\\nwith, he has fairly encountered and successfully overcome all obstacles. Mr.\\nBuchanan is a native of Annapolis, Md. but has lived in Savannah for eleven\\nyears. He has been in this business since 1873, but established himself alone in\\n1879, and his transactions are principally confined to Georgia and South Carolina.\\nThe business enterprise which has marked his career is worthy of iiriitation, placing\\nhis house, as it does, in the front ranks of high commercial circles.\\nC. S. McALPIN\u00e2\u0080\u0094 //o.v, Corn, Bran, Peas, Rye, Oats, etc., 172 Bay Street.\\nIn a city like Savannah the consumption of cereals, as well as hay, bran, etc., must\\nnecessarily be enormous, and to meet its demands there are several large and impor-\\ntant houses which devote their exclusive attention to this branch of trade, importing\\nlargely from all the great grain centers of the country. Occupying a leading place\\namong these is the well-known establishment of Mr. G. S. McAlpin, which from its\\ninception in 1883 has risen slowly but surely to the position of one of the most reli-\\nable and energetic houses in this line, and by its energy and reliability has usurped a\\nlarge trade from less enterprising competitors. The establishment comprises three\\nfloors, each 30x75 feet, and the stock carried includes a full line of all kinds of feed\\naud hay, while the annual sales foot up about $150,000. Six capable and active\\nassistants are employed. Tiie trade extends throughout the entire city and sur-", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AKD INDUSTRIES. 125\\nrounding country, and is rapidly growing. Mr. McAlpin, buying as lie does direct\\nfrom the great grain centers and paying cash for his goods, is enabled to offer terms\\nto dealers, buyers, planters and consumers which cannot be surpassed. He watches\\nthe fluctuations of the market closely and keenly, and is consequently always able to\\ndispose of stock to the best advantage. He is a gentleman of high character, and\\nthroughout all his business relations has gained and retained the esteem of the com-\\nmunity of which his house is so important a member. Combining as he does ample\\ncapital and business experience with a thorough knowledge of present occupation,\\nfarmers and planters who wish to find a profitable market for their goods can find\\nnone fitter than he to whom to sell. Buj^ers will find his stock always full and often\\nreplenished, and from which they can make selections to suit.\\nE. C. PACETTI Guttering, Tin Roofing^ Leading anil \\\\Repairing, No. 33\\nJefferson Street.\\nRoofing and guttering form one of the most important constituents in building\\nand the importance of having these well and thoroughly done is at once evident to all\\nwho understand the necessity of having the roof under which they live water-tight.\\nOne of the best roofers and gutterers in Savannah is Mr. E. C. Pacetti, who by a long\\nand diligent study of his profession has attained a proficiency and competency which\\nfew can boast of. His work, of which he is justly proud, can be seen in many of the\\nfinest residences in Savannah, and has stood the test of many years of rough and in-\\nclement weather successfully. Mr. Pacetti has resided in Savannah for seven years,\\nand during that time has won an enviable reputation for himself. His appliances\\nand tools for carrying on his business are of the most improved and modern make,\\nand his assistants are skillful and competent. All work is guaranteed and invariably\\ncomes up to standard. All who wish the best class of work will do well to corre-\\nspond with or call on him.\\nSTRAUSS CO. Cotton and Commission, 132h Bay Street; E. Karoio,\\nManager.\\nThe pre-eminence of Savannah as a cotton port is due in a great degree to the\\nenergy and push of foreign houses, who, establishing agencies here, have given trade\\nan impetus and life it has never known before. Among these the house of Strauss\\nCo. occupy a leading place. From the beginning this house has actively promoted\\nthe cotton interests of Savannah in every possible way, and to-day it ranks as one of\\nthe largest in Savannah, and when the total exports from the branch houses at New\\nOrleans, Galveston and Savannah, which amount to 150,000 bales, are considered, it\\nranks as one of the greatest firms in the world. From Savannah 40,000 bales are\\nannually exported to all parts of England and the continent. The two heads of the\\nfirm, Messrs. Bernhard and Fritz Strauss, reside in Liverpool and New Orleans. In\\nEngland there is an office at Liverpool and one at Manchester. To manage success-\\nfully a business so immense and varied in its aspects requires, besides the necessary\\ncapital, no ordinary amount of talent and business capacity, and these qualities the\\nheads of the firm possess in an eminent degree, as does also their Savannah manager,\\nMr. Edward Karow, who conducts this branch with an energy and ability which\\nentitle him to rank among the best business men in Savannah. He is a native of\\nGermany, but has resided in America for several years, and having had a long and\\nthorough training is thoroughl}^ fitted to conduct the affairs of this house.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "126\\nSAVANNAH HER\\nHAYNES flr ELTON Forest City 31iUs, cor. Congress and Montgomery Streets.\\nThere is probably no enterprise wliich can engage the attention of an individual,\\nor firm, which contributes more directly to the prosperity and business interests of a\\ncommunity than that of merchant flouring mills, and at the same time occasionally\\nmeets with uncalled-for complaints and lack of appreciation from those it directly\\nbenefits. In addition to the natural advantages possessed by Savannah as a dis-\\ntributing center for this section,\\n\\\\_ the enterprise of her merchants\\n^i :ind manufacturers has given to\\nP?5S^^^ ihe city an enviable reputation, as\\nj^g: a base of supplies for many of the\\nindispensable articles of every-day\\nuse and consumption, among which\\nflour, as the recognized staff of\\nlife, occupies a prominent po-\\nsition. The Forest City Mills\\nhave been familiar to the resi-\\ndents of this section since 1865.\\nThey are provided with extended\\nfacilities, and have a large producing capacity, have acquired a wide-spread celebrity,\\nand the various brands manufactured here have come to be regarded as standards of\\nvalue among dealers and commission merchants in this part of the South. The build-\\ning is a three-story brick, supplied with all the requisite machinery for prosecuting\\nthe manufacture of flour, which is operated by an engine of 60 horse-power, requiring\\nthe assistance of a large force of experienced hands. Four run of stones, of the\\nBurr sj stem, are used, two for wheat and two for corn. Among the leading brands\\nfor which these mills have acquired a deservedly high reputation may be especially\\nmentioned the Haynes Patent, Oglethorpe, Half Patent, Choice Fancy Family, Fores\\nCity Family, Oconee E^xtra, Jos. Wheeler Extra, Rock Falls Superior, XXX Superior,\\nand Pine Grove Flour. The local popularity of these well-known varieties ensures a\\nlarge sale for home consumption, and their reputation in Southern markets creates a\\ndemand which taxes to the utmost extent the already large capacity of the mills. In\\nconnection with the flouring mills, this firm carry a full line of grain, flour and pro-\\nvisions, including grits, meal, corn, oats, hay and bacon, for which they enjoy a good\\nshare of patronage throughout this and adjoining States. Messrs. S. G. and L.\\nHaynes and J. H. Elton are the individual members of the firm, and they probably\\nare the most extensive manufacturers and operators in flour in the State, their annual\\nbusiness reaching $1,000,000, with prospects of steady increase in the future.\\nMessrs. Haynes came here eighteen years ago from Baltimore, Md., and are mem-\\nbers of the Board of Trade in this city. Mr. Elton is an old resident of Savannah,\\nand well-known among our citizens. These gentlemen are interested in all public\\nmatters pertaining to the development of the commerce and resources of the city,\\nand it is largely due to the enterprise and sagacity of such representative manufact-\\nurers that the city of Savannah is indebted for the proud position it occupies to-day\\nas an industrial and commercial metropolis. The States of South Carolina, Georgia\\nand Florida are largely supplied with grain, flour and provisions from the establish-\\nment of Messrs. Haynes Elton, and sixty experienced and competent employees\\nare required to attend to the work in the various departments of the business, and", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 127\\ntwelve teams or wagons are constantly engaged in transferring supplies to and from\\ntheir place of business. Thoroughly identified with the progressive spirit of this\\ngrowing city, and possessing the essential requisites of sound iudgment and care in\\ntheir business policy, they present the strongest claims to popular favor with those\\ndesiring business relations in this department of our business activities.\\nOSCEOLA BUTLER\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Druggist, 125 Congress Street.\\nThe drug business throughout the United States has within the last ten years as-\\nsumed such vast proportions that a complete survey of it in our space would be\\nutterly impossible, and we must unwillingly confine ourselves to a notice of the\\nleading houses in Savannah, and among which the house whose name heads this\\narticle holds first rank, being one of the three largest in the city. The handsome and\\nwell appointed store of Mr. Butler is conveniently located on Congress Street. It\\ncomprises a space of 30x60 feet and two stories, while six efficient and attentive\\nassistants are employed. The stock is valued at $15,000 and the annual sales amount\\nto $50,000, and are rapidly increasing, the sales extending through Georgia, South\\nCarolina and Florida. The stock comprises everything to be found in a first-class\\ndrug store: American and foreign chemicals, dye stuffs, drugs, patent and pro-\\nprietary medicines, perfumes, toilet articles, etc., and from the best houses, American\\nand European, and in fact everything which constitutes one of the best drug stores in\\nthe South. Mr. Butler is a native of Virginia, but has lived in Savannah for twenty-\\neight years. In 1858 he commenced business as Stewart Butler, and in 1876\\nassumed his present title. He is an old and experienced druggist, having been in the\\nbusiness since 1856, and throughout his whole career has gained and maintained a\\nhigh reputation and character both as a druggist and otherwise. His establishment\\nis a representative one, and will doubtless continue so througliout its existence, which\\nwe hope may be many years.\\nANDREW HAN LEY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Patnte and Oils, 37 and 39 Whitaker Street.\\nIt has been said by an eminent statician, that the growth of the world in all the\\narts, manufactures and luxuries of life has been greater proportionately within the\\nlast thirty years than for any hundred years preceding, and this statement, which\\nseems at first rather exaggerated, is proved by a glance at and comparison of the\\ncommercial and manufacturing statistics of any civilized country of the former period\\nwith the present. Formerly it was the work of a lifetime for a man to accumulate\\nwhat in these days is the result often of one brilliant speculation or business venture\\nnow a man can by industry and business vim and pluck, in a comparatively brief\\nperiod, raise himself to the summit of prosperity and affluence. America above all\\nothers offers a field for bold and energetic spirits, who, full of energy and ambition,\\nleave the overcrowded and cramped existence of the Old World to seek fame and\\nfortune in the New. To men like these, who come to work and devote their talents and\\ntime to the welfare of their adopted home, a warm welcome is always accorded, and in a\\nshort time they become an important part of any community in which they settle.\\nSavannah, by reason of her immense and growing trade both in cotton and naval\\nstores, and also in the other branches of trade, affords afield of enterprise not inferior\\nto any city in the South, and can boast of establishments in all branches equal to any\\nand it is a matter of pride that many of her very largest business houses, and in this\\ninstance the largest, are owned and conducted by foreigners, who, however, take as", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "128 SAVANNAH HER\\nmuch pride in their adopted city, and often more, than any native. Undoubtedly the\\nlargest paint and oil store in the South, outside of New Orleans, is the immense whole-\\nsale establishment of Mr. Andrew Hanley on Whitaker Street. The building, like the\\nbusiness, is apart from and larger than anj^ on the street. It occupies a space G0x91\\nfeet in dimensions and is six stories in height, being surmounted by a handsome\\ncupola. Within is a small world of activity and rush. Twenty-six hands are kept\\nconstantly busy filling orders and arranging the stock, which amounts in value to\\n$50,000, while the annual sales run up to the enormous total of $175,000. The man-\\nager and conductor of this vast business, Mr. Andrew Hanley, is a native of Dublin,\\nIreland, was born there in 1847, having lived in Savannah fifteen years. He com-\\nmenced his present business in 1872, and by his energy and activity has in eleven\\nyears built up the largest trade in this section, extending through Georgia, Florida,\\nAlabama and South Carolina. Mr. Hanley is too well known to require any special\\nnotice at our hands. Starting with no capital, he has attained* his present position by\\nbravely battling with Fortune and now, while yet in the prime of life, has achieved a\\nsuccess vouchsafed to but few men of raaturer years.\\nHORSE INFIRMARY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I r. J. J. Dillon, Proprietor, West Broad and York\\nStreets.\\nIn compiling statistics of business for Savannah, and in making up a business his-\\ntory, no enterprise is of more importance to our people than our infirmaries, whether\\nfor the treatment of mankind or of dumb animals. Dr. Dillon s horse infirmary is\\nsituated in a most eligible location, and has every facility for the successful treatment\\nof all classes of horses and mules. Many valuable animals have been saved from\\ndeath by the skillful treatment they received here. Dr. Dillon has an experience of\\ntwenty-five j-ears in his profession, and is therefore thoroughly fitted for its success-\\nful pursuit. He can accommodate 100 head of animals in his infirmary, and employs\\ncapable and skillful help in attending on his dumb patients. His charges are reason-\\nable, and for a few dollars many a valuable animal has been saved. The Doctor\\nstands high in all respects, is an honorable and upright gentleman, and has the con-\\nfidence of his patrons and the community.\\nC. W. ALLEN China, Glass and House Furnishing Goods, 165^ Broughton St.\\nThe immense demand for crockery and glass has for some years past been on the\\nincrease, consequently the number of establishments for the sales of these wares has\\nincreased in a proportionate degree. Savannah has several large and complete crock-\\nery warehouses, and among these that of Mr. G. W. Allen holds a prominent position.\\nEstablished in 1805, it has increased until now the stock carried amounts to about\\n$25,000, and the sales annually to $20,000. Four eflScient hands are employed, and\\nthe trade embraces the surrounding country and Florida, the high grade and quality\\nof the articles sold being everywhere acknowledged. Mr. Allen is a native of\\nIreland, tbut fhas, with the exception of some years spent in Florida, lived here\\nsince 1854. His stock embraces all varieties of crockery and glassware, from the finest\\nto the most common, to suit all classes of purchasers, and is well selected and\\narranged. His assortment of house furnishing goods of every description is also very\\ncomplete, embracing all articles necessary to the outfit of a residence. He is a\\ngentleman of excellent standing, prompt and reliable, and attends closely to business.\\nIn all respects his establishment is worthy of the patronage of the public.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AJSTD INDUSTRIES. 129\\nDR. DUDLEY COX Livestock Commission Merchant and Proprietor Savannah\\nSale Stables and Stock Yards, Corner West Broad and William Streets.\\nUndoubtedly our work on the business industries and trade of Savannah will pass\\nthrough the hands and undergo the critical inspection of merchants and business men\\nof all classes, and, among these, many live stock dealers and others who devote their\\nattention to the rearing and selling of mules and horses, and to these the establish-\\nment of Dr. Dudley Cox must possess a peculiar interest, constituting as it does\\nprobably the largest and most important place in its line in Savannah. He does a\\nstrictly commission business, and consequently can offer and obtain the best rates for\\nhis patrons. His long and thorough experience in his line has made him familiar\\nwith his business in its minutest details, and he enjoys facilities which cannot be easily\\nsurpassed or equalled anywhere. His yards can accommodate at least 500 cattle, 100\\nhead of horses, and 100 of other animals. His assistants are liberally paid, and are\\nthoroughly trained and competent to manage the large consignments which he receives\\ndaily from all parts of the United States. His account sales and transfers are prompt-\\nly forwarded to his patrons and always give entire satisfaction. Possessing ample\\ncapital, he is enabled to conduct his business on the most liberal principles.\\nROBERT D. }N ALKER\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Monuments, Mantels, Grates, etc., York Street,\\nopposite Trinity Church.\\nWhatever may be said in praise of the attainments in designs or sculptured in-\\ngenuity of former days in the old world, it must be admitted that the skill and genius\\nof American productions in this department\\nwill not suffer, at the present day, by the\\nmost critical scrutiny in comparison, and it\\nis not an unjustified boast to assert that the\\nability and productions of Savannah will\\nmake a favorable showing with any city in\\nthe South. If you will visit the works of\\nMr. Robert D, Walker on York Street, and\\nexamine the various styles and specimens\\nalways to be found there, in marble and granite monuments, you cannot fail to receive\\na profound impression of the high attainments of American sculptural art. This\\nestablishment was founded in 1840, and has attained a prominent position among\\nsimilar concerns in this part of the country. The grounds occupied are ample for\\nthe prosecution of the business, which embraces not only transactions in marble and\\ngranite, but every description of cemetery work in either, and also fine parlor grates,\\nmantels of all kinds, in iron and slate, etc. Ten skilled and experienced mechanics\\nare employed, and every article turned out at this establishment is most satisfactory\\nin every respect. The success which has attended the operations of this house is the\\nhighest public tribute to the superior skill and business ability of the proprietor, and\\nmay be found in the fact that some of the finest monuments in our cemeteries have\\nbeen produced at these works. Shipments are made to all parts of Alabama, also\\ninto Florida and other adjacent States. It is but a true tribute to skill and ability to\\nrecord the fact that the citizens of Savannah and contributory territory may congrat-\\nulate themselves upon the facilities and high artistic accomplishments here displayed,\\nwhich find no superiors and few equals in this section of the country.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "130 SAVANNAH HER\\nW. M. MILLS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Retail Drugs, 61 Jefferson Street.\\nAmong the prominent drug stores of Savannah, we unhesitatingly place that of\\nW. M. Mills, on Jefferson Street. Started in 1873, with moderate but sufficient capi-\\ntal, he has, by diligent and strict attention to business, increased, until now his stock\\nis valued at $5,000, and his annual sales amount to $10,000, and are increasing.\\nHis store, which embraces an area of 30x60 ft., contains a large and very complete\\nassortment of the best drugs and medicines, all selected by himself from the\\nbest manufacturers in the country. There is also a very choice assortment of\\nfancy goods, combs, toilet articles, perfumes, and other articles of use and luxury.\\nDr. Mills is a native of Savannah, born in 1849, and has all his life been in the drug\\nbusiness, being thus as fully qualified as possible for the responsible position which\\nhe holds in the community. He is well known in the community as a conscientious\\nand reliable druggist, and has the entire confidence of his customers and the com-\\nmunity at large. Among his many excellent preparations we would notice his cough\\nmixtures, which are very popular, and his diarrhoea mixtures, which effectually check\\nthe most aggravated form of that disease. To those who wish either a prescription\\ncarefully prepared, or the best medicines and toilet articles, we would advise an early\\ncall at his establishment.\\nE. M. CONNOR Boolis, Stationery, etc., 126 Bronghton Street 23^ Bull Street.\\nThe establishment of Mr. Connor is undoubtedly the leading book store of Savannah.\\nOccupying as it does a favorable location in the central part of the city, it is fre-\\nquented and patronized by the best classes, who find here the choicest literature of\\nthe day at the most reasonable prices. Mr. Connor carries a very complete stock of\\nbooks, comprising the works of the most popular authors, American and European,\\nbound in all styles, from the costliest to the cheapest. His supply of fancy articles,\\nwriting desks, blank books, photographs, paper cutters and other articles of use and\\nvirtu is also very complete, and is constantly being replenished by fresh arrivals.\\nMr. Connor is a gentleman of long experience and business ability, and is generally\\npopular with all his customers. He is ably seconded in his business by his daughters,\\nand the stock therefore receives more attention and is better kept than it would be in\\nthe hands of hired clerks. The store is well deserving the liberal patronage it re-\\nceives from all, and is a pleasant place in which to while away an half hour.\\nHERMAN L. SCHREINER\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ^ooA;, Stationery, Music and Toy House,\\n120 Congress Street.\\nThis house has been in existence in this State over a quarter of a century, and is the\\noldest in that line in Savannah. Mr. H. L. Schreiner visits Europe every j car, and\\nthere selects all the latest novelties. The sales of toys and fancy goods amount\\nyearly to a very large sum and are increasing rapidl3% Although there are in this city\\nseveral establishments which deal exclusively in these articles, the largest by far and\\nthe most important one is that of H. L. Schreiner, which has for years been one of the\\nfeatures of Savannah. The establishment comprises three floors, and the stock is as\\ncomplete and varied as possible, consisting of wax and china dolls, wood and papier\\nmach^ toys, Bohemian glassware, vases, inkstands, willow ware, besides all the\\ndomestic toys manufactured. The stationery department contains the finest impor-\\ntations as well as the best domestic products of writing paper, envelopes, pens, ink,\\npencils, etc. One of the leading departments of this establishment is that of musical", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 131\\ninstruments and music. Mr. S. has lately imported from Europe a fine stock of\\npianos selected by himself while in Europe during the past summer. Mr. S. ranks\\namong the best musicians and pianists of the South, and his thorough knowledge and\\nlong experience give him advantages enjoyed by few if any in the trade. The stock\\nof violins, guitars, flutes, accordeons, brass band instruments, etc., is selected every\\nyear in Europe, and the house can compete with any music house in the country. The\\nsheet music department contains the latest publications of the day. The celebrated\\npianos of Wm. Knabe Co., and Ernst Gabler Bro., as well as the well-known\\nparlor organs of the Bridgeport Organ Co. and Peloubet Co., are regularly kept in\\nstock. The assortment of small instruments is complete, containing full sets of brass\\nband instruments of the best manufacture. Also violins, flutes, guitars, banjos,\\ntambourines, drums, and violin, guitar, banjo and violoncello strings of the best quality.\\nIn the stationery department, the finest imported and domestic writing papers, pens,\\npencils, inkstands, form a beautiful array for the supply of banks and mercantile\\noflSces. An examination of these particular goods, styles and prices is worth the\\nattention of purchasers.\\nTHOMAS BOViDEN^Sales Stables, 214 Broughton Street.\\nThe establishment of Mr. Thomas Bowden, on Broughton Street, is one of the\\nbest known and most liberally patronized in the city. This is owing to the general\\nhigh reputation of the place in all respects and also to the energy, industry and\\nbusiness capacity of the proprietor, which all combine to render it one of the most\\ndesirable places at which to purchase a first-class animal at most reasonable price.\\nMr. Bowden is one of the best judges of horse-flesh to be found in Savannah, and all\\nof his stock is invariably what he represents it to be. He keeps on hand a number of\\nthe finest Kentucky horses, all tested and proved, and which he sells at a most reason-\\nable figure. Competent assistants are employed, who all thoroughly understand their\\nbusiness. All who desire to examine or buy some of the finest horses found any-\\nwhere, will find it to their advantage to call on him. Mr, Bowden is generally liked\\nand esteemed in the community, and is well deserving the liberal patronage accorded\\nhim.\\nALLEN LINDSAY Furniture and Carpets, 169 and 171 Broughton Street.\\nThe reform which of late years has taken place in every style of article or utensil,\\neither necessary or ornamental, has extended in perhaps a greater degree than in\\nany other to the furniture, and in scarcely a less degree to the carpet trade, which\\neither separately or collectively engage the attention and best talents of thousands of\\nworkmen and designers in all the great manufacturing centres of the Union. The rage\\nfor the antique has culminated in a complete revival of styles once considered obsolete,\\nbut now acknowledged to be the perfection of beauty and elegance. The graceful\\nand elegant sideboard of one hundred and fifty years ago is now confessedly superior\\nboth in design and finish to the best efforts of modern workmen and the same is true\\nof all other articles of furniture. The reason of this is apparent to one who has\\nstudied the matter closely. The workmen of the past devoted weeks or months to the\\ndecoration of a single panel, and when finished it was at once recognized as among the\\nmasterpieces of art. His whole soul and genius were in his work, and the result was\\na triumph of art, ingenuity and patient application to-day a set task is given each to\\nperform at so much per day, and when finished, his work, though coldly correct, can-", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "132 SAVAXNAH HER\\nnot for one moment bear comparison with that of his fellow. The revival of the old\\nstyles is therefore a most happy augury of the future of the furniture trade con-\\nsidered as an art, and workmen are already rivalling the masterpieces of by-gone days,\\nand will no doubt in time fully equal if not surpass them. Of carpets the same maj^\\nbe said the E^nglish factories, particular!}^ the Axminster, taking the lead of all\\nmodern factories. In Savannah there is as keen an appreciation of the beautiful in both\\nthese department as elsewhere and foremost among the houses whose stock is remark-\\nable for beauty and elegance, we notice that of Allen Lindsaj Started in 187G with\\nsmall capital, it has within this short space increased, until now the stock carried\\namounts to $40,000, and the annual sales to $100,000 and over. On an average\\ntwenty hands are employed. The establishment comprises two stores, 30x90 feet\\neach, with three stories and cellar, and the stock is all that could be desired both for\\nbeauty and variety. Mr. D. G. Allen, the senior member of the firm, is a native of\\nIreland, has lived in Savannah for ten years Mr. W. J. Lindsay, a native of New\\nYork, in Savannah sixteen years. Both are gentlemen of high standing and reputa-\\ntion, and their present splendid business is the result of their own energ}^ and appli-\\ncation. In all respects this firm is a representative one, and a credit to the com-\\nmunity by which it is so liberally patronized.\\nH. SANDERS Wholesale Dealer in Lager Beer, Ale, Porter, etc., 185 South\\nBroad, corner Jefferson Street.\\nThis well-known establishment is undoubtedly one of the most reliable and trust-\\nworthy in Savannah, worthy both as regards the general reputation of the proprietor\\nand the quality of the liquors there sold, and its reputation is not limited to Savannah,\\nbut extends throughout the State and adjoining ones. Mr. Sanders commenced in\\n1873, having first expended a considerable sum on his buildings, fitting them up with\\ncellars, refrigerators, etc., in order to make it what it is, a first-class place in every\\nrespect. He is now able to offer the citizens the best liquors at a most reasonable\\nprice and at all seasons in a perfectly cool and fresh condition. He has every\\nfacility for bottling and handling all kinds of imported ale, porter and beer. He is\\nalso agent for the world-renowned beer of John F. Betz Son, of Philadelphia the\\nEmpire Brewery, of New York, and other well-known establishments, and is prepared\\nto offer it either by barrels or cases in perfect condition. His trade at present is\\nlargely in Savannah, where he enjoys a liberal share of patronage. One single and\\ntwo double teams are constantly employed in delivering his goods all over the city. No\\nestablishment in the South offers better facilities. Mr. Sanders is a gentleman of\\nhigh standing and is generally liked and esteemed.\\nHESS HERMES\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Photographers, 177 Congress.\\nPhotography has made as much advance and progress as any enterprise during the\\nlast twenty-five years, and now we get likenesses where we were formerly satisfied\\nwith pictures, at least so we find in the new and handsome gallery of Hess Hermes,\\nat 177 Congress Street. They have just opened up, and as a matter of course have\\nthe newest and best processes for taking likenesses. The rooms are selected\\nespecially with a view to doing good work, and are well fitted up and lighted. They\\nkeep on exhibition fine specimens of their work, from which the public maj judge of\\ntheir work. Enterprising men, they well deserve the handsome patronage which has\\nalready been accorded them.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 133\\nROBERT H. TATEM Retail Druggist^ 146 Liberty Street, cor. Whitaker St.\\nA first-class drug store must always in every community hold a unique position,\\nand the best proof of the esteem in which it is held is evinced by the amount of\\npatronage it enjoys. In Savannah, one of the most popular and reliable establish-\\nments of this character is that of Mr. Robert H. Tatem, on Whitaker Street. Estab-\\nlished in 1861, with small capital, it has steadily increased both in capital and sales,\\nand is now one of the most popular in Savannah. The store is 18 x 65 ft. in dimen-\\nsions, and contains a large and well-selected stock of drugs. Mr. Tatem is a native\\nof Virginia, but has resided in Savannah since 1857. His establishment under his\\nsupervision is well maintained, and compares favorably with any in the city, Mr.\\nTatem has also a fine vineyard near the city, in which he grows the finest qualities of\\ngrapes, the grounds embracing seventeen acres. He is a gentleman of excellent\\ncharacter and reputation, and in all respects merits the success which has attended\\nhis efforts.\\nSOUTHERN EXPRESS COIVIPANY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 i^. L. Cooper, Agent, Bull Street,\\nCorner Bryan.\\nA business history of Savannah without some mention of the Southern Express\\nCompany would be an omission not to be overlooked by the mass of our business\\nmen, who look upon it as a great convenience, and an enterprise of which the city\\nmay feel proud. The inception of this enterprise in this country dates back for a\\nquarter of a century at least, and the extent of country over which it operates makes\\nit a gigantic industry. It reaches from Richmond, north, where it connects and\\noperates with the Adams Express Co., to New Orleans, south, where similar connec-\\ntions are had with the Texas Express Co., and so systematic and perfect are the\\narrangements that there is no delay, express matter reaching its destination promptly,\\nwhere it is delivered as directed the transmission of money .and all valuables, as\\nwell as packages, boxes, goods of all kinds, fruits, vegetables and all perishable\\narticles that must receive prompt attention. Early vegetables, fruits, fish and oysters\\nare shipped from points all over the South by this express to the North, and there is\\nno loss by delay, as often occurs when shipping by freight, thus proving economical.\\nMr. F. L. Cooper, the local agent, is from Augusta, Ga. has had fifteen years expe-\\nrience in this business, but has recently been appointed to his present position, and\\nhe has filled it most satisfactorily. Mr. D. F. Jack, the superintendent, makes\\nSavannah his headquarters, and the popularity of the company is largely due to his\\nexecutive ability.\\nBACON, JOHNSON CO.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Planing Mill, Lumber and Wood Yard, corner\\nLiberty and East Broad Streets.\\nWe are free to admit, in descanting upon the many advantages in all departments\\nof trade, manufactures and commerce, that pertain to Savannah, that one of the most\\nimportant enterprises connected with this community is that which relates to the\\nlumber trade. What the magnitude of these interests are, will appear by comparative\\nstatistics in the editorial portion of this work, our intention now being to state some\\nfacts with reference to the firm of Bacon, Johnson Co., successors to Bacon\\nBrooks, a house which has promoted the business to which we allude to a remark-\\nable degree. This establishment has been in existence for twenty years and is a\\nprominent enterprise of the kind in this city. The yards at the corner of Liberty and", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "134 SAVAN AH HER\\nEast Broad Streets are ample, and the various mills planing, turning, moulding and\\nsaw mills are provided with all the necessary machinery, which is run by ample\\nsteam power. Twenty-five experienced and competent hands are employed, and the\\nproducts of the establishment consist of mouldings of every description, newels,\\nbalusters, brackets, pickets, laths, shingles, scroll work and wood, A full stock of\\nseasoned lumber and wood is always kept on hand, the varieties of lumber being\\nyellow pine, cypress, white pine, black walnut, Florida cedar, mahogany, poplar, ash\\nand white oak, also light wood, oak and pine, kindlings, cut or in stick. The trade is\\nlargely a local one, orders being also received from other places, the sales reaching\\n$75,000 per annum. All kinds of lumber, either dressed or rough, can be obtained\\nfrom this firm at the lowest market prices, and the entire establishment compares most\\nfavorably with any similar concern in the South, The utmost capacity of these mills\\nis being tested by the immense demand made upon them at the present time. The\\nindividual members of the firm are Messrs. A. S. Bacon, L. Johnson and C. W. Pike,\\ngentlemen so thoroughly identified with the trade as to need no personal comment at\\nour hands. We may be pardoned, however, for sajing, in conclusion, that the\\nstanding and reputation achieved by the house is such as to warrant the entire confi-\\ndence of those with whom it has business relations, and entitles it to the considera-\\ntion of that community whose general interests the concern has done so much to\\npromote.\\nJ. F. La FAR Gents Fashionable Emporium for Furnishing Goods, Hats, etc., 23\\nBull Street.\\nUndoubtedly the leading establishment in Savannah in the furnishing goods line is\\nthat of Mr. John F. La Far, which, situated in the most fashionable portion of the\\ncity, has for some time occupied without dispute this position. Mr. La Far carries a\\nvery large and select stock of goods, embracing all fancy articles, such as neckties,\\nscarf-pins, etc., and also the more necessary ones. Coming as the patronage of this\\nestablishment does from the more select and fashionable portion of the young men of\\nthis city, he is obliged to keep onl} the very best and choicest goods in the market,\\nand with his long experience in this line no one in the city is more fitted to conduct\\nsuccessfully this well-known house. Thoroughly acquainted witli the grades of the\\nNorthern markets, he is always enabled to purchase the best of ever3^thing, selecting\\nhis goods with the skill of one long accustomed to the business. His present position\\nas leader of the fashion in Savannah has been obtained b} unceasing application to\\nbusiness, and a nice appreciation of the wants of his patrons, and we can safely rec-\\nommend him to all who wish the best goods in Savannah at the most reasonable\\nprices.\\nA. H. CHAMPION Wholesale and Retail Grocer and Produce Commission\\nMerchant, 154 Congress and 153 St. Julian Streets.\\nIn disclosing the advantages that pertain to Savannah in the great channels of com-\\nmerce and manufactures, it is our intention, while avoiding unnecessar} minutise, to so\\nrepresent the industries of this community as tO leave no doubt in the minds of\\ndistant readers that this market not onlj can, but does, compete as a source of\\nsupplies with any in the South. In so doing we can not ignore the claims to promi-\\nnence of Mr. A. H. Champion, who is engaged as wholesale and retail grocer and\\npi oduce commission merchant at Xos. 154 Congress Street and 153 St. Julian Street,", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COIUMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 135\\nand who, from the extent of his operations, is entitled to recognition in this work. This\\nenterprise was established in 1853 by Messrs. Champion Watts, and in 1860 the\\nname was changed to Champion Freeman, Mr. C. having succeeded to the entire\\ncontrol in 1878. The building occupied is four stories in height, 23x60 feet in size,\\nand is well adapted for the display and storage of goods ia this line. The stock\\nembraces the freshest and best grades of groceries and provisions, choice canned goods\\nand every variety of commodities usually found in establishments of this description,\\nand is estimated to average $10,000. Six competent and courteous assistants are kept\\nconstantly employed, and the sales throughout South Carolina, Georgia and Florida\\nreach $60,000 per annum. Mr. Champion is a native of this State, and has been\\nengaged in this branch of trade all his business life, being now at the head of a house\\nthat compares most favorably with similar concerns in the South. He has been a\\nmember of the Chatham Artillery since 19 years of age, and in mercantile relations he\\nhas, by the energetic business methods and courteous disposition manifest in his\\ntrade relations, secured a liberal share of public patronage, which must continue to\\nincrease with the insured growth and development of the city.\\nH. D. HEADMAN Manufacturer of Iron Railing, and Ornamental Iron and\\nWire Work, etc., 117 Broughton Street.\\nIn a detailed review of the manufacturing industries of Savannah the above well-\\nknown enterprise ranks as one of the oldest and best known, having been here for\\ntwenty-five years. He learned his trade in Philadelphia, which is a guarantee of its\\nbeing thoroughly learned, and thence came to Savannah, where he has since resided.\\nHis present work is mostly in iron railing and ornamental iron and wire work. He\\nalso does a large business in fencing cemetery lots, and handsome examples of his\\nskill can be seen in the cemeteries around Savannah. He employs six to eight com-\\npetent hands, who ably second his efforts. Mr. Headman has a wide reputation for\\nthe excellence and stability of his work, which in all respects can bear comparison\\nwith any in the country. He is prompt in performing all contracts, and has a high\\nreputation in the community both as a competent workman and reliable and straight-\\nforward man.\\nJ. R. HALTIWANCER Drtiggist, Northeast Corner Brouglitoyi and Drayton\\nStreets.\\nOne of the best and most popular drug stores in Savannah is undoubtedly that of\\nDr. J. R. Haltiwanger, at the corner of Broughton and Drayton Streets. Situated on\\nthe most important thoroughfare of the city, it is equal in every respect to any there,\\nboth as regards the excellency and purity of the articles sold and for the general\\nreputation of the establishment. It embraces an area of 25x35 feet, facing on Drayton\\nand Broughton Streets. The stock carried is valued at $3,500, and the annual sales\\namount to $10,000 and are rapidly increasing. The Doctor and his able and courteous\\nassistant, Mr. Hill, compound and sell a number of valuable remedies, which have a\\nwide reputation. Among these we will mention Ilaltiwanger s Balsam, Haltiwanger s\\nMay Apple Pills, Fever and Ague, and many others. Special mention should be made\\nof the Golden Injection prepared by them. This medicine is the best and most\\nharmless remedy for gonorrhea known, and as an evidence of its popularity we will\\nmerely mention that an order for New York was not long since filled and forwarded.\\nThe Artillery Cologne is also having an extensive sale. Dr. Haltiwanger is by pro-", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "136 SAVANNAH HER\\nfession a physician, and commenced the drug business in 1869, being thus doubly\\nfitted for his present occupation. He is a native of Lexington County, South Carolina,\\nbut has resided here since 1869. He is well-known throughout the community as a\\nconscientious and careful druggist, as is also his assistant, INIr. Hill, and we willingly\\nadvise those who are suffering from anj^ disorder to go to him for consultation.\\nA. W. HARMON Savannah Club Livery, Sale and Boarding Stables^ Drayton,\\nHull and McDonmigh Streets.\\nWhen and how the system of hiring horses, for longer or shorter periods, originated,\\nit is probably hard now to determine, but to whatever date and cause it is to be\\nattributed, certain it is that the system as it is now\\ncarried out is not onlj one of our greatest modern\\nconveniences, but is an absolute necessity. With\\nthe growth of our population has increased the\\ndemand for livery teams, carriages, etc., and the\\nbusiness has assumed great proportions. Among\\nthe several livery establishments in Savannah, the Savannah club stables, conducted\\nby Mr. A. W. Harmon, deserves especial mention in this work as being one in ever}-\\nway a representative of the best class of such establishments. These stables, situated\\non Drayton, Hull and McDonough Streets, are complete in every way, and are ar-\\nranged in a manner that affords the greatest convenience in every department. This\\nenterprise was started by Mr. Harmon four j ^ears ago, and has attained a high posi-\\ntion among similar establishments in the city. The stables are built of brick, and are\\ntwo stories high, and contain sixtj^-two stalls, besides accommodation for vehicles of\\nevery description. Riding or driving, single or double teams, canalwa3^s be secured,\\nand special attention is given to supplying carriages for parties, balls, weddings and\\nother occasions. Fifteen employees are required in the business, the line of vehicles\\nkept on hand is stylish and of most popular and recent manufacture, and a most\\nsatisfactory and lucrative trade is enjoyed throughout the cit3\\\\ Mr. Harmon is a\\nbusiness man in the fullest and best sense of the term, and his congenial disposition\\nand cordial sincerit}^ have made him extremely popular with that part of the public\\nwith whom he comes in contact. To our readers, whether residents of Savannah or\\nfrom abroad, we particularly commend this establishment, which, in the style of stock,\\nturnouts and moderation in price, is not eclipsed by any competitor in the Forest\\nCity or elsewhere.\\nP. E. MASTERS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Plumber and Gas-fitter, 187 State Street.\\nThe profession of the plumber, like all others, requires no little amount of skill\\nand judgment, as well as close application to all its details; and in Savannah, which\\ncan boast of many first-class plumbers, none are more competent workmen, or\\nare more reliable in every respect, than Mr. T. E. Masters. Himself a master work-\\nman, he employs only the best and most experienced hands, who like himself are\\nthoroughly acquainted with the trade in its minutest details, and who are prompt in\\nits execution. Mr. Masters is a native of St. Augustine, Florida, but has resided\\nin Savannah for twenty-four years, and has always identified himself with Savannah\\nand its interests. We take pleasure in calling attention to this establishment as one\\nat which the best work, as well as the promptest, is always guaranteed and carried\\nout, Mr. Masters stands well in all respects, is well liked and generall}- popular.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COlVEtfERCE AND ESTDUSTRIES. 137\\nTHOMAS J. HALLICAN Plumbing and Gas-Fitting, 45 Bull Street.\\nIn connection with the manufacturing history of Savannah and her other industries,\\nthe establishment of Mr. Halligan is well worthy of notice as one of the best and most\\nreliable in his line to be found in the city. With an experience of eighteen years, of\\nwhich he has most faithfully availed himself, Mr. Halligan is now amply fitted to\\nundertake any contract, large or small, in his line, and also to perform it, as he invari-\\nably does, in the most thorough and workmanlike manner. His store is well\\narranged, and fitted out with the best and most modern appliances and the stock is\\nhandsome and varied, embracing brackets, chandeliers, drop lights, pendants, port-\\nable stands and plumbing material in general. He does all description of plumbing,\\nfitting out stores, private residences and other buildings in the most thorough and\\nworkmanlike manner. He employs competent assistants, who are under his personal\\nsupervision. Mr. Halligan is a native of Ireland, but has resided here for nearly\\nthirty-five years, and has gained an enviable reputation for himself during that period.\\nHe is always prompt and fulfills faithfully all contracts undertaken by him.\\nE. L. NEIOLINGER, SON CO.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dealers in Saddles and Harness Belting\\nSaddleryware-, Harness and Sole Leather, 156 St. Julian and 153 Bryan Streets.\\nThis well-known firm, which has been in existence since 1860, is by far the largest\\nand most important in Savannah, having survived the vicissitudes of the war\\nunscathed, and throughout a business life of twenty-four years has stood, as at pres-\\nent, at the head of similar firms in Savannah. The firm was founded in 1860 by Mr.\\nE. L. Neidliuger, the senior partner, who in 1881 admitted his son, Mr. W. C. Neid-\\nlinger, and Mr. J. W. Rabun, the Co. Their premises occupy three floors of 30x90\\nfeet each, and filled with a complete stock of the most improved saddles, harness,\\nbelting of all sizes and varieties, harness and sole leather, etc., all from the best\\nmanufacturers in the country, and selected with care to suit their numerous custom-\\ners. Their trade extends through Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, and is yearly\\nincreasing. The stock is valued at $18,000 to $20,000, and requires the con-\\nstant attention of five employees, while the annual sales foot up $50,000 and are\\ngrowing rapidly. All the members of the firm are natives of Savannah, and have had\\nlong experience in their line. All stand well in every respect, both in and outside of\\nbusiness circles. Persons visiting Savannah, and in need of goods in their line,\\nwould do well to call on them before going elsewhere.\\nJ. H. KOCH Watchmaker and JeiveJer, 22h WhitaJcer Street.\\nThe establishment of Mr. Koch is eligibly situated on Whitaker Street, and ranks\\namong the leading jewelry stores of the city. The store is admirably fitted up with\\nhandsome show leases and other appurtenances for the advantageous display of the\\nhandsome and varied stock he carries. Mr. Koch has an especially fine lot of\\ndiamonds, all handsomely mounted and set. He also carries a complete line of\\nAmerican and foreign watches, from the most noted manufacturers, and a most\\nelegant assortment of jewelry of all kinds of the most exquisite pattern and designs,\\nsilver and plated ware, and in fact everything which constitutes one of the best\\nappointed jewelry stores in the city. He is also agent for Dr. Julius King s cele-\\nbrated combination spectacles, of which over a million are in use, and which are pro-\\nnounced by experts the best in the market. In all respects Mr. Koch s establishment\\nranks among the best in Savannah, and is well deserving the extensive and increasing\\npatronage which it enjoys.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "138 SAVANNAH HER\\nJOHN A DORNEY Carpenter and Builder and Manufacturer of Titman s\\nPatent JieJ riyerators, 141 President Street.\\nThe contracting and building industry forms in all large cities a most important\\nbranch of trade, and in Savannah, which has made such vast strides within the last\\nfew years, this line deserves especial notice and among those who have the highest\\nreputation for excellence of work and reliability in performing conscientiously all\\ncontracts we notice Mr. J. A. Dome} who embraces in his establishment all lines and\\nbranches of contracting and building. In addition to the general business of con-\\ntracting and building, he is also the only manufacturer of Titman s celebrated refrig-\\nerators, which have a wide reputation all over the United States, and which possess\\nadvantages over the ordinary refrigerators which at once stamp its superiority.\\nOrders for this refrigerator either by mail or otherwise will receive immediate attention,\\nand satisfaction is guaranteed. Mr. Dorney is a gentlemen of high standing in all\\nrespects and is well deserving of the patronage of the community.\\nAPPEL BROS.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Clothiers and Hatters, No. 163 Congress Street.\\nThe wholesale and retail clothing and hat trade is in all cities an important branch,\\nand in Savannah there are houses which for quality and variety of stock carried, as\\nwell as fair and open dealing and low prices, can compare with any in the country.\\nProminent among these we may notice the well-known firm of Appel Bros., whose\\nstore on Congress Street is among the leaders of fashion and prices. The members\\nof the firm are Mr. Charles Appel and Mr. H. G. Appel, both gentlemen well-known\\nas prudent, energetic and reliable business men. Their store, which is 23x90 feet,\\ncontains a stock valued at $20,000, while the annual sales amount to S60,000, and are\\nincreasing, the trade extending through Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. The\\nstock carried is as complete and varied as possible, embracing all the latest novelties\\nin gents clothing, from the full dress suit to the plainest business suit, gents under-\\nwear of every description, collars, cuffs, shirts, etc. They also carry a very fine line\\nof hats from the most celebrated makers, native and foreign, which are sold at as low\\na figure as their clothing. All their goods are guaranteed and always come up to\\nstandard. Besides this they are sole agents for Tower s celebrated oil clothing and\\nrubber goods, which are world renowned. Country merchants and farmers, as well\\nas others who come to Savannah, can find no better and more reliable store than this\\none. Their money will be well invested, and as the first sale lays the foundation of\\norders they will most surely return. Orders sent by mail will also be promptly and\\nsatisfactorily filled.\\nH. J. MEYER Practical Plumbing, Gas aud Steam Fitting, 46 Wliitaker Street.\\nSavannah, like other cities, is well represented in the plumbing line, and it forms\\nan important item in an account of the industries of the city. Among the best estab-\\nlishments in the city is the well-known house of IVIr. H. J. Meyer, at 40 Whitaker\\nStreet. With new and improved tools, a fresh and complete stock of plumbers\\nmaterials, and a fine and elegant line of chandeliers, brackets and gas fixtures, tliis\\nhouse is prepared to compete with any, both for quality and cheapness of work.\\nMr. Meyer is a young and enterprising man, well acquainted with all the details of\\nhis trade, and has ever} prospect of success, backed as he is by energy and honesty.\\nHis store is a neat and attractive one, and the stock is full and varied. We\\ncheerfully recommend him to all who wish the best work in his line, promptly and\\nthoroughly done.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES.\\n139\\nM. J. DOYLE Dealer in Groceries, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars, Grain, Hay, etc.\\nMarket Square, East Side.\\nThe grocery trade in Savannah represents a larger amount of capital than other\\nlines, and, extending as it does through many of the Southern States, its representa-\\ntives demand more than a passing notice. No house in the country stands higher\\nthan the more prominent ones, their integrity, promptness and general reputation\\ninsuring them always extra facilities and accommodations from the large Northern\\ndealers. Among those who may be classed thus is the well-known establishment of\\nMr. M. J. Doyle, which, for twenty years, has occupied a leading place in the busi-\\nness of Savannah. Established in 1864 when the South was lying helpless and bank-\\nrupt, Mr. Doyle has steadily fought his way up, and to-day no merchant is more\\ntrusted or looked up to than he, and none do a safer or more reliable business. His\\nstore is 60x90 feet in dimensions, and has three floors, containing goods valued at\\n$10,000, while his annual sales amount to $150,000, distributed through Georgia,\\nSouth Carolina and Florida. His stock embraces the choicest groceries, liquors,\\ntobacco and cigars also grain and hay. His groceries are all carefully selected and\\nare the best his liquors are pure, and guaranteed the finest. He also receives and\\nsells large quantities of grain, hay, etc. Mr. Doyle is a native of Ireland, but has\\nlived in Savannah for thirty-five years. He is a gentleman of high standing, courteous\\nand polite, and has the confidence of his customers. As this is the only exclusively\\ncash house in the city, he is enabled to buy at much lower rates than other dealers,\\nand consequently to offer inducements to his customers such as none other can.\\nCORMACK HOPKINS Tin Roofer and Manufacturer oj Tinware, Stoves,\\nCopperware, Tin and Sheet Iron, etc., 167 Broughton Street.\\nSavannah undoubtedly contains\\nestablishments in all branches of\\ntrade and manufactures which may\\nchallenge comparison with any\\nsimilar ones in the country, and\\nprominent among these is that of\\nMr. Cormack Hopkins on Brough-\\nton Street. Started by the present\\nproprietor in 1868, just after the\\nwar, he has by industry and steady\\napplication attained a rank in his\\nprofession not inferior to that of\\nany in the same branch of trade in\\nSavannah. His establishment is 20x90 feet in dimensions, two stories in height, with\\na warehouse 20x50 feet. His stock is extensive and varied, comprising every article\\nin demand. His trade is far reaching, and embraces Georgia, Florida and South\\nCarolina, and will doubtless under his efficient management reach even farther. Mr.\\nHopkins is a native of Georgia, being born in 1832, and having lived in this section\\nall his life. He employs upwards of twenty hands, who perform well and faithfully\\nall contracts undertaken by him. Mr. Hopkins is a gentleman of good standing in\\nthe community, and is respected by all classes with whom he comes in contact. His\\nwork is always well performed, and his house is well-known in Savannah for stability\\nand general excellence.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "140 SAVANNAH HER\\nDAVID WEISBEIN CO. Dry Goods, Hosiery, Laces, Embroidery and Fancy\\nGoods, and Manufacturers uf Ladies Underxcear, 153 Brotighton Street; Neio York Office,\\n369 Broadway.\\nTo build up a large and successful business is, with most men, the work of a life-\\ntime, and it is only in exceptional instances that a man of more than ordinary ability,\\ntact and energy can proudly point to an establishment which, in magnitude of busi-\\nness transacted, far surpasses his neighbors, and say, All this in a few short years\\nI have done, which my rivals in trade have not accomplished in a life-time. In\\nSavannah this can with truth be said of the firm of David Weisbein Co. In 1870,\\none of the most unpromising business years in the history of the country, they started\\nwith small capital, but backed by energy and a determination to succeed. How they\\nhave succeeded can best be told by visiting their immense establishment and watch-\\ning the ceaseless stream of trade which all day long throngs its counters. Their store\\noccupies an entire building, four stories in height, each story 35x90 feet in dimen-\\nsions, and contains a stock valued at $75,000, while the annual sales foot up the\\nenormous total of $300,000\u00e2\u0080\u0094 $100,000 wholesale and $200,000 retail, thus making\\ntheir retail trade by far the largest in the city. To transact this immense business\\nforty hands are kept constantly busy. One of the most noticeable features of this\\nestablishment is the admirable system and order which is required and maintained.\\nEach clerk knows his or her allotted task, and performs it without interfering with any\\none else each article has its place, from which it can be taken and displaj^ed at a\\nmoment s notice; and seeing all this, one can understand the success which has at-\\ntended this firm in its business transactions. Each story, too, is filled with a partic-\\nular line of goods, arranged as follows: the first floor to display and retail sale of\\ndry goods of all varieties, fancy goods, trimmings, notions, laces, embroideries, etc.,\\nall selected with taste and judgment to suit his numerous customers. The second\\nfloor to cloaks, shawls, and suits. They have undoubtedly the finest cloak and shawl\\nparlors in the State, and their stock in this line is by far the handsomest in the city.\\nThey also have one of the finest assortments of blankets in the South, of all styles and\\nprices. The third floor is devoted to the wholesale department exclusively, and the\\nbasement to the storage of reserve stock. Messrs. Weisbein Co. also have a resi-\\ndent buyer in New York City, who, ever watching the variations of the market, and\\nalways on hand at forced sales, enables them to sell goods at prices which defy all\\ncompetition. The New York oflfice is at 369 Broadway. Mr. Weisbein is a native of\\nPrussia, born there in 1842, but came to America in 1859, and since 1869 he has lived\\nin Savannah, with whose interests he has thoroughly identified himself. He com-\\nmenced his present line of business in Stettin, Prussia, and has thus had the expe-\\nrience of a lifetime in it, of which he has made good use, and the result is his present\\nsplendid establishment and business, which business has no limits in the future, if\\nconducted as heretofore, under his supervision, and administered with his financial\\nability. His standing, both in and out of business circles, is excellent in all respects,\\nand he is by all regarded as one of the representative business men of the place. If\\nthere be any man, young or old, who is discouraged at seeming obstacles in his busi-\\nness, let him read this article and ponder on the lesson it teaches. Let him see what\\ndetermination, energy, and straightforward, honorable dealings have done, and with\\nthis example before him resolve to do likewise. All things come to him who waits\\nnot with folded hands and despondent heart, but who can toil patiently and uncom-\\nplainingly, waiting for the reward which will one day be his, as it has been that of\\nthe firm of which this article treats.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 141\\nJOHN Mclaughlin son Auction and Commission and Real Estate,\\n166 Bay Street.\\nIn a town so active and bustling as Savannah, where improvements are constantly\\ngoing on, and also where property is changing hands frequently, there must neces-\\nsarily be one or more firms who make the details of such transactions their specialty.\\nUndoubtedly the largest, by far, in this line is the well-known house of John\\nMcLaughlin Son, which has been established since 1865, and has, by attention and\\nstrict and reliable action in all dealings, obtained the largest and best business in\\nSavannah. The firm occupies the spacious building at 166 Bay Street, which is well\\nfitted up with every convenience for the various lines which they so successfully con-\\nduct. They employ four competent hands, who thoroughly understand the business,\\nbeing trained under the watchful eye of the proprietors in all its details. An enor-\\nmous commission business is transacted, amounting yearly to not less than $170,000,\\nand increasing. They also dispose of, at auction, property, real and personal, of all\\ndescriptions, including provisions, furniture, horses and carriages, etc., some of the\\nmost valuable in the State having passed under their supervision, and in every in-\\nstance have given satisfaction to all concerned. Besides this they transact a gen-\\neral real estate business, buying and selling, renting, caring for property, paying\\ntaxes, etc. Messrs. Laughlin Son enjoy advantages in this business which few\\nhave. Their ample experience, sound judgment, large correspondence, and general\\npush and energy, amply qualify them for their responsible position, and no similar\\nhouse in Savannah is more fit to be intrusted with business of this nature. They\\nenjoy an enviable reputation for business integrity, and are highly esteemed for per-\\nsonal qualities. Consignments of stock, of goods, or any property on which immediate\\nmoney is desired from, will receive their prompt attention and be put on sale at the\\nfirst favorable time.\\nL. CARSON Livery and Boarding Stables, Broughton Street.\\nA first-class and reliable livery stable is a necessity in every community, the\\nimportance of which cannot be overestimated. Every one who owns a fine horse is\\ndesirous of seeing him well treated and cared for, because such is the constitution of\\nthese animals that the slightest mistake or wrong treatment may injure them forever.\\nMany fine animals worth thousands of dollars have no doubt been ruined by careless-\\nness and inattention, which were called by other names. It is, therefore, of |the\\nutmost importance to know, when one wishes to board a valuable animal, where to put\\nhim. In Savannah this question is easily answered by all who have had dealings\\nwith Mr. L. Carson, the popular livery stable keeper of the Marshall House, on\\nBroughton Street. Mr. Carson keeps a fine establishment and has thirty horses of\\nhis own for hire, no less than thirty-five horses boarding, some very fine animals. He\\nis prepared to contract for funerals, parties, weddings, etc., and is always punctual\\nto his engagements. He also buys and sells. His stables are two in number, two\\nstories each in height, and are thoroughly fitted out for the carrying on of his large and\\nincreasing business. Mr. Carson is a native of Downs County, Ireland, but has been\\nin Savannah since 1845, thus being practically a Savannahian in all respects, and has\\na force of assistants all capable and attentive. He has had eighteen years experience\\nin this profession, and is therefore as competent to assume the control of such a busi-\\nness as experience and knowledge can make him. He is popular, reliable and\\nstands well with all classes of the community.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "142 SAVANNAH HER\\nBOCART HAMMOND Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants, General\\nAgents for Chesapeake Guano Company s Standard Brand Ammoniated Guano, No. 96\\nBay Street.\\nWithin the last few years Savannah has assumed the rank of the second cotton port\\nin the Union, a proud distinction, and which has been won only by the indomitable\\nenergy and perseverance of her merchants. In addition to this she has become the\\ndistributing point for fertilizers, an article so much needed, and which brings the\\nfarmer so bountiful and ready a return. The firm of Messrs. Bogart Hammond\\nare general agents for the celebrated Chesapeake Guano Company s Standard Brand\\nB H Ammoniated Guano, the merits of which are too well established to be a\\nmatter of comment here. Country merchants in Georgia, Florida and Alabama can\\nget the article at producers prices through this firm. They conduct also a general\\ncommission business in cotton, extending such favors to their patrons as they are\\njustly entitled to, while all their consignors of cotton receive prompt attention and\\nearly remittances of all money. Their experience and ability render the firm one of\\nthe best in Savannah with which to conduct business. Enjoying the confidence of the\\nbusiness community as honorable and reliable men, and financially on a solid basis,\\nthe house well deserves the extended and increasing trade it is enjoying, and must\\nassuredly continue to stand among the prominent merchants in this line of business.\\nWOODBRIDCE HARRIMAN Cotton Factors and General Commission\\nMerchants, No. 54 Bay Street.\\nThis well-known house enjoys a reputation of which the proprietors may well be\\nproud, and in a work of this nature deserves more than a passing notice. Its busi-\\nness is conducted on the highest principles of honor and integrity, together with\\nenergy and ability, and these facts, combined with the genial and courteous manners\\nof the members of the firm, have brought to it the eminent success it has attained,\\nand its importance in the business community of this place. Founded in 1865 as\\nBothwele Woodbridge, in 1870 it became AV. B. Woodbridge in 1878 B. W.\\nWoodbridge, and in 1881 the present firm. Their business, which amounts to 15,000\\nbales of cotton per annum, is yearly increasing, extending through Georgia, Florida\\nand South Carolina, in all of which .States they enjoy the confidence of their numerous\\ncustomers. The members of the firm are B. W. Woodbridge and Orlando Harriman,\\nMr. Woodbridge being a native of Savannah, and Mr. Harriman of New York. Mr.\\nWoodbridge s father was for many years collector of this port, a position which he\\nacceptably filled. They offer the most liberal inducements to consignors, making\\nlarge cash advances on consignments and guaranteeing prompt returns and com-\\nmanding, as they do, a large and infiuential class of buyers both here and in Europe,\\nnone are more suited to receive and dispose of all goods sent them.\\nFOOTMAN CO. Insurance, Life, Fire and Marine, 118 Bay Street.\\nThe necessity of insurance is fully recognized by all classes, from the merchant\\nwho, shut up in his counting-room, never sees the ocean from year to year, to the\\nship-owner and captain whose all depends upon the fickle winds and waves. Amidst\\nthe dangers which every day pass us by, we know not how near, we may soon fall\\nin view of such a continguency it is the duty of every man to provide for those who\\nlook to him for support. Savannah has ample insurance facilities, all of the largest\\ncompanies in the world being represented here, and among the most prominent and\\nreliable agencies maybe classed that of R. H. Footman \u00c2\u00abfe Co., whose business and", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES. 143\\ngeneral standing will bear comparison with any. Mr. Footman is a native of Georgia,\\nand has lived here all his life. He first commenced in 1859, and established the firm\\nof R. H. Footman Co. in 1866, since which year they have successfully conducted\\nthe business. Mr. C. F. Prendergast has been a member of the firm since 1879.\\nThey are agents for the following companies: Home and Continental, of New York;\\nPhoenix, of London; Queen, of England Virginia Home, of Richmond, Va. Man-\\nhattan Life Insurance Company of North America. All these companies are of\\nworld-wide reputation both for solvency and prompt payment of claims. Mr. Foot-\\nman and Mr. Prendergast are both gentlemen of high standing in all respects, and\\nthose who wish to insure in either fire, life or marine companies, can obtain from\\nthem the most reasonable rates and the best indemnity.\\nMRS. KATE POWER Straiv, Millinery and Fancy Goods, 168 Broughton.\\nThe neatest and most attractive establishment in Savannah in the millinery line is\\nthat of Mrs. Kate Power, on Broughton Street, and we doubt if any can exhibit as\\npleasing and attractive a line of goods as hers. Mrs. Power commenced her present\\nbusiness about seven years ago, and has throughout that time conducted her business\\nwith an energy and enterprise which command the respect and patronage of all. She\\ncarries a good stock of children s goods of all kinds, and also makes a specialty of\\nribbons and fancy goods, laces, flowers, feathers, hats, bonnets, trimmings, and an\\nunequalled line of embroidery of beautiful designs and patterns. Four skilled assist-\\nants are employed. The work coming from this establishment has attained a wide\\npopularity for its elegance and taste and superior finish. Mrs. Power is a native of\\nSavannah, and is therefore well entitled to the extensive patronage which she enjoys.\\nHAVENS Photographer, Photographer s Stock and Materials, Engravings and\\nFine Art Goods, 141 and 143 Broughton Street.\\nForty-five years ago, an obscure French chemist made the first steps in what was\\nthen deemed the wild dream of an enthusiast, which to-day has risen to the position of\\nan art, to be master of which requires as thorough study, application and perseverance\\nas any of its sister arts. Journals, as well and ably edited as those of painting or\\nsculpture, are devoted entirely to its study and advancement, and the photographic\\nstudio of the present will contest the palm of beauty and elegance with that of the\\nmost eminent painter. This result has been brought about by the unremitting labors\\nof those who have made this branch their life study, one improvement following\\nanother, and each one benefitting by the experience of his neighbor. Among this\\nband of handiworkers we will include the proprietor and owner of the best photograph\\ngallery, not only in Savannah but in the South, and, we may add, one of the best in\\nthe United States. Mr. Havens is a native of Sing Sing, New York, born there in\\n1840, and has resided in Savannah for the past ten years. In 1874 he opened his\\npresent establishment with a small capital, which has since been increased to $10,000.\\nHis stock averages $8,000 in value, and the annual business transacted amounts to\\n$16,000, and is rapidly increasing. He employs six capable assistants, who are con-\\nstantly kept busy filling orders, which come from all parts of the South, including\\nNorth Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. His rooms are most elegantly\\nfitted up, and the walls are hung with fine engravings after the most eminent masters.\\nAmong these, occupying a conspicuous place, we notice a magnificent one of the cele-\\nbrated picture The Pursuit of Pleasure, by Sir Noel Paton, which is of itself a\\ngem. There are also some very fine German photographs, that of The Fisherman", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "144 SAVAXNAH HER\\nbeing especiall} noticeable. His stocli of engravings and artists material is probably\\nthe finest in the South, Of the quality and excellence of Mr. Havens work mention\\nis almost superfluous. Known as it is everywhere as equal to any, and equalled by\\nbut few, to make it better known is almost impossible. For delicac}^ of finish, grace-\\nful posing and life-like expression, they may well challenge comparison without fears\\nas to the result. In addition to his skill as a photographor, Mr, Havens has made an\\ninvention which has excited considerable comment among photographic journals, so\\nmuch so that a prominent paper has sent to him for a cut of his invention. It is a\\nskylight of a new and novel design, which he has tested in his own rooms, and has\\nfound to answer every expectation and to be far superior to the old style. Mr.\\nHavens is known in the community as a prompt and reliable gentleman, and is as\\npopular among outsiders as with his customers. In conclusion, we would state to all\\nwho may ever pass through Savannah, that a visit there is incomplete without going\\nto Havens as all who go there are welcomed, whether customers or not.\\nF. C. WYLLY Stocks, Bonds and Real Estate, 120 Bryan Street.\\nNo business requires more attention, diligence and reliability than the above enter-\\nprise and Mr. Wylly is in every respect fitted to conduct it, both by his long and\\nvaried experience and sound judgment. He buys, sells and rents all manner of real\\nestate, including stores, warehouses, blocks, hotels, residences, vacant lots. etc.\\nHe gives his closest attention to all property entrusted him, and inconsequence enjoj^s\\nthe fullest confidence of his patrons. His list of property on sale is large, and\\nincludes some of the most desirable property in Savannah. In stocks and bonds, Mr.\\nWylly also does a large and increasing business. Being in constant communication\\nwith the great money centres of the Union, and watching closely the prices of stocks\\nand other securities, he is always ready to buy or sell as the case may be, and his\\nsound judgment and business tact are invaluable to him in this difficult branch of\\nbusiness. He^also stands well in all other respects, is well liked and popular, and is\\ngenerally regarded as one of the most promising business men in Savannah.\\nKUCKUCK SEEM AN Editors and Proprietors of the Georgia Familien\\nJournal.^ 102 Bruughton Street.\\nThe press everywhere wields an influence far mightier than that of any other single\\nprofession, and that State or city which has the best paper is the most progressive.\\nIn Savannah the large and increasing German population demand a paper in their\\nown language, and this want, for some time past very sensibly felt, has been at length\\nsupplied by the editors of the above journal. These gentlemen, recognizing the\\nnecessity of a German paper, in 1882, November 18th, commenced its publication,\\nand their success has been all they could desire. The Journal is an eight-page\\npaper, published weekly, and contains all the latest news, together with interesting\\nstories and sketches by the best German authors. Its circulation extends through\\nGeorgia, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina, and is yearly increasing. In\\naddition to their newspaper the proprietors have a neat bookstore, containing text\\nbooks in German and English, stationery, etc. Mr. Kuckuck is a native of Hanover,\\nGermanj^, has resided in America for a number of years, having been for twelve\\nyears in the office of the Philadelphia Democrat, and all his life directly or indi-\\nrectly connected with journalism. Mr. Seeman is a native of Schlesien, Germany.\\nBoth gentlemen are able and energetic journalists, of excellent character and standing\\nin the community, and deserve and get the support and patronage of all classes in\\ntheir praiseworthy enterprise.\\n\\\\K", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "Decatur and Evansville Railway\\nSHORT LINE AND QUICKEST IN TIME\\nTO ALL POINTS\\nNORTH. AVEST, A.ND IS^ORTH-^^^Ji:8T.\\nONLY LINE RUNNING SOLID TRAINS\\nBETWEEN\\nEVANSVILLE,\\nMATTOON,\\nDECATUR,\\nAND PEORIA.\\nAt Evansville connection for both passenger and freight with this line is made, and\\nthus taps the whole Northern Railroad System, giving it\\nTHROUGH CONNECTIONS AND FACILITIES\\nTO\\nPEORIA, ILL\\nROCK ISLAND, ILL.,\\nBURLINGTON, IOWA.\\nOMAHA, NEB.,\\nST. PAUL, MINN..\\nMINNEAPOLIS, MINN.,\\nCHICAGO, ILL.,\\nAnd all points in the North- West, as well as all points in the States of\\nILLINOIS, IOWA, WISCONSIN, MINNESOTA, DAKOTA, OREGON, MONTANA,\\nNEBRASKA AND COLORADO.\\nThe road is thoroughly equipped with the latest improved and best rolling stock!\\nThe track laid with Steel Rails\\nSafety appliances on passenger trains I Courteous and attentive train officials!\\nTAKE A TRIP OVER THIS LINE AND BE CONVINCED\\nGEO. L BRADBURY, H. C. PARKER, S. M. MILLER,\\nVice-Pies. and Gen l Manager. Traffic Mana;rer. Gen l Pass, and Tkt. Agt.", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "THE GRAND MUSICAL EMPORIUM OF THE SOUTH\\n4LUDDEN Z BATESV\\nSOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE,\\nSAVANNAH, GEORGIA,\\n\\\\ND CHAIN OF IIUANCII HODSES:\\nAUGUSTA, GA., 3IACOX, GA., ROME, GA., CHARLOTTE, X. C,\\nGeo. 0. Robinsomf Co. E. D. Trvine. II. A. Smith. Mc Smith Mxisic Iloiise\\nGOLDSBORO, X. c, JACKSONVILLE, FLA., COLUMBUS, GA.,\\nimi. B. Line. A. B. Campbell.\\nD. C. Shutse.\\nMERTDIAX, MESS.,\\nA. Gressett.\\nKNOXVILLE, TENN.\\nPrice Richards.\\nPIAKOS.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cluckerinp; and Sons,\\nI.udden Bales, Malhushek Orches-\\ntral, Arion Grand Square. Soiitli-\\nern Wliolesale Distribuliug Depot.\\nPrices same as at Factories.\\nSHEET MLirSIC; .KTin MUSIC\\nBOOKS.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ditpon s ^l)eclal Agency.\\nTlie onlv Wholesale Stock Snuih.\\nLarsc-^t Oiscoiuits to Scliools.TeaQh-\\ners and Dealers.\\nKANI IXSTRUMENTS-Brass\\nand Silver, in whole sets or single\\niiieces. Oourtois Cornets, French\\nLight Pist n Valves, llolary Valve.s.\\nBest American and Foreign Manu-\\nfacture.\\nFREKC H MUSIC BOXES,\\nMusic Folii s, Piano Stools, I iiuo\\nCovers, Fine Accordeons, Music\\nStands, Kichter Harmonicas.\\nOR\u00c2\u00abAXS Mason Hamlin, Bay\\nState, and Packard Orchestral. Over\\n200 styles, from %ii to |750. Prices\\nsame as at Factories.\\nIMPORTED OODS.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Violins,\\nGuitars, Flutes, Fifes, Clarionets,\\nVioloncellos, Harmonicas, Accorde-\\nons. Banjos, Dnims, Strings, and\\neverything known to tlie music trade.\\nOUR SPEC IAI.TIES.-Genuine\\nCourtois Cornets, Martin Guitars.\\nDiibson Banjos, Paganini Strings.\\nNEW YORK BRANCH, under\\ncharge of Mr. \\\\V. Lndden, Kesident\\nNew York Buyer.\\nliUDOEN A BATES Silver\\nTone Pianos. Our own Manufact-\\nure, from the case up. I erfection\\nin Tone, Touch and Finish.\\nA MAMMOTH HOUSE THAT DOES CREDIT TO SAVANNAH\\nAND THE SOU TH\\nEstablished in 1870. First year s sales f50,000. Last \\\\e;u marly $500,000. Brau^i Hou c\\nami Piano Factory in New York City. Nine Southern Branch Houses, Over 200 Agents\\nand Employees. Over 2,000 Pianos and Organs sold yearly. Goods .shipped to\\nevery Southern State. One thousand dealers and teachers regularly sup-\\npliod. Large double store at Savannah six floors and basement.\\nBusiness thoroughly systematized. Over 200 letters re-\\nceived and answered daily. \u00c2\u00a75,000 worth of postage\\nstamps, and 200,000 envelopes used yearly.\\nOur own printing ollice. Five Tumrs.\\nTen Traveling Salesmen.\\n7\\\\\\nSOUTHERN WHOLESALE PIANO AND ORGAN DEPOT.\\nMoney Saved to every Piano and Organ Purchaser.\\nay TE V Gli i \\\\D MAKERS to select from. Oivr 300 different .ifi/lrs and pi ices, and aU from old and reliable\\nMakers. Xo .stencil in strmnents sold. Makers names on all. Over 200 Pianos and Orflan.s displavcd in our imrc\\nrooms All sti/les and all prices. EoRlest In. itallment Terms, Every inducement that an;/ responmble\\noffer. Competition with the world. Don t fail to send for Catalogue and Prices. Address,\\nLUDDEN BATES SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE, Savannah, Georgia.\\n8^f\u00c2\u00b0See I ii ,iiirs notice oil itAtsc 7S.", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3880", "width": "2377", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3864", "width": "2357", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3974", "width": "2566", "jp2-path": "savannahhertrade00land_0156.jp2"}}