Newspapers / The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, … / May 3, 1890, edition 1 / Page 3
Part of The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
X w W AGO f: r . Patience t ; -1 X ' ' . 1- "FT 1 OTDHNX II V. I I push I came to this city (thou :i town) a poor, unknown, friendless loy to be a clerk in what was then the largest House in Charlotte. It was very large for those times, r.s its annual sales reached what then was a princely sum that of $-o.c per Minum Friends I had ncne. nor had I much money. Saving the sum of 140 which I deposited in th" State Ivuik. staniPn where now stands Dr. Mc Aden's drug store. It affords me much amusement now to loi k l ack with what solicitude I morning and evening looked at that Ba lk Building and its content?. I grew n ties., however, of the monotony of clerkship, and in 1856 commenced vith my late lamented partner, Mr. Rintels, a business for ourselves in the Mountains, with a joint CASH CAPITAL OF $550. My motto then as NOW, and ever will bc.Uhe talismanic 1 CTflVWri T ! Fit PiT"t-TTl VIZ: CD )IRa . mm 5 Tp) IP 'Y I EdJS) ft fl f HI (p fqj Which, coupled with fair, ncst. upright, business-like dealings, have been the SHIBBOLETH OF MY SUCCESS, so that to-day I have reached a point of success never dreamed of either by myself or by Charlotte's most sanguine optimist. To day I am on the vortex of siu-h successful business career that my friends and every honest lover of the Carolinas points to jav establishment with honest pride, aa makes every well wisher of successful eflort say: "BEHOLD what wit'a the tali-manic 3 P's can be accomplished in good old North Carolina. In July. 1865, I rented . s a Store what at one time was the Parlor of the residence of the late James Irvine, of the dimensions of 21x21 :rt. ami a pitch of ceiling 9 feel, or 441 superficial flooring space, (and it was as large as 1 could till with goods,) b ,u;ht an 1 Id plank partition out of which I put up shelves and a counter (there was no lumber then to be had to'm. ike shelve s). and advanced thus st -p U step until today, I have reached a point where it requires a building 50x92 feet, of FOtfft floors, and an annex of 75x9- feet to give me moderately sufficient space to do my bu ineess in; aadVhcn my store now in our so of enlarge neat will b- completed. I will have about 2$,ooo supc ficial feel of flooring space, and 1 16 counters of 46 feel long each, to hold the goods, which put lengthwise, one by the other, would 'reach the enormous leng th of 5,336 feet, or about of a mile. It requires 3 BooyCeepcrsT a Packers, r aping Clerk. 5 Stock Keepers, 2 House Salesmen, and 6 Traveling Salcsmeiv-S Complete my force to keep business in motion." Such is a short history of my business in the past and present. Visitors would not be true to themselves, to Charlotte, to North Carolina, if they failed to visit and inspect my establishment, so that when they go to their respective homes they may return not only as BETTER, but WISER by reason of having seen my Mammoth "Wholesale House." and be enabled to say to their friends and neighbors, that we have heard since our childhood day of the big concern of S. VVittkowsky, but we can exclaiii as did Queen Sheba of old, that "The half had not been told" of the wonderful business and collossal propor tions of the house of the undersigned. r . ; . . . .... 1 ... . J . i &iK. a : , v f " PUC
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 3, 1890, edition 1
3
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75