CHAPTER XII 



ADDED INDUSTRIES 



1% /TORE factories were erected; more houses sprang 

 **'*' up in the little village. The first needle factory 

 changed hands several times until Mr. Rabinovich took 

 charge of it. Twenty-four years before he had come 

 out as the manager of the largest factory, and is to-day 

 the owner of the largest plant in Woodbine. During 

 the World War as many as eight hundred people were 

 engaged in his clothing factory, making war supplies. 

 Needless to say that, coming to Woodbine a very poor 

 man, he is to-day very rich. 



A machine plant was also started by Morris L. 

 Bayard, who, as a poor laborer, at first dug the wells 

 and set the pumps for the Woodbine farms and town 

 homes. He had then only a small supply shop, a 

 shanty eight feet by ten, but through the years he has 

 become the most prosperous man, not only in Wood- 

 bine, but in the whole county. He was always keenly 

 alive to every opportunity, and my husband often re- 

 marked that it was a pleasure to help a man like that. 



"Give him one push," he would often say when other 

 mechanics thought he was partial to Bayard in award- 

 ing contracts, "and he flies so far that it is hard to 

 catch liim." 



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