﻿Duke's 
  Factory. 
  Ill 
  

  

  he 
  began 
  an 
  itinerant 
  tobacco 
  traffic. 
  By 
  dint 
  of. 
  indefati- 
  

   gable 
  energy 
  and 
  keen 
  business 
  sagacity 
  he 
  wrung 
  success 
  

   from 
  the 
  very 
  jaws 
  of 
  adversity, 
  and 
  was 
  enabled 
  in 
  the 
  fall 
  

   of 
  1865 
  to 
  engage 
  in 
  the 
  manufacture 
  of 
  smoking 
  tobacco 
  in 
  

   the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Durham, 
  and 
  soon 
  moved 
  his 
  business 
  into 
  

   the 
  town. 
  Since 
  this 
  transfer 
  of 
  localit}' 
  his 
  business 
  has 
  so 
  

   rapidly 
  expanded 
  as 
  to 
  require 
  increased 
  facilities, 
  from 
  time 
  

   to 
  time, 
  until 
  now, 
  when 
  his 
  new 
  four-story 
  brick 
  factory 
  — 
  

   which 
  will 
  front 
  184 
  feet 
  on 
  R. 
  R. 
  street, 
  running 
  84 
  feet 
  

   back, 
  containing 
  40,000 
  square 
  feet 
  of 
  floorage 
  — 
  shall 
  have 
  

   been 
  completed, 
  it 
  will 
  be 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  largest 
  smoking 
  to- 
  

   bacco 
  and 
  cigarette 
  enterprises 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States. 
  In 
  

   1878 
  he 
  took 
  into 
  copartnership 
  three 
  enterprising 
  and 
  ex- 
  

   perienced 
  members 
  of 
  his 
  family, 
  and 
  now 
  occupy 
  two 
  large 
  

   wood 
  buildings 
  for 
  manufacturing 
  purposes, 
  — 
  one 
  for 
  smok- 
  

   ing 
  tobacco, 
  shipping 
  rooms, 
  offices, 
  etc., 
  three 
  stories 
  high, 
  

   70 
  feet 
  long, 
  with 
  a 
  frontage 
  of 
  80 
  feet, 
  the 
  other 
  being 
  used 
  

   principally 
  for 
  the 
  manufacture 
  of 
  their 
  deservedly 
  popular 
  

   cigarettes, 
  known 
  as 
  " 
  The 
  Duke 
  of 
  Durham." 
  This 
  building 
  

   also 
  contains 
  a 
  superbly 
  equipped 
  job 
  printing 
  office, 
  where 
  

   the 
  company's 
  printing 
  is 
  most 
  artistically 
  and 
  expedi- 
  

   ciouly 
  executed, 
  under 
  the 
  supervision 
  of 
  an 
  experienced 
  

   printer, 
  Mr. 
  John 
  T. 
  Britt, 
  assisted 
  by 
  a 
  corps 
  of 
  gentle- 
  

   manly 
  and 
  thoroughly 
  competent 
  compositors. 
  On 
  the 
  

   premises 
  are 
  several 
  other 
  buildings 
  — 
  box 
  shops, 
  engine 
  

   house, 
  and 
  (recently 
  erected) 
  a 
  very 
  large 
  four 
  story 
  storage 
  

   house. 
  The 
  trade 
  of 
  this 
  house 
  extends 
  throuahout 
  the 
  

   United 
  States, 
  and 
  large 
  shipments 
  are 
  made 
  to 
  sixteen 
  for- 
  

   eign 
  countries. 
  The 
  stock 
  used 
  is 
  bought 
  on 
  the 
  Durham 
  

   market, 
  and 
  is 
  the 
  finest 
  tobacco 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  grown 
  in 
  

   any 
  country. 
  

  

  This 
  firm 
  commenced 
  the 
  manufacture 
  of 
  cigarettes 
  in 
  

   1881. 
  There 
  being 
  several 
  brands 
  of 
  very 
  excellent 
  ciga- 
  

   rettes 
  on 
  the 
  market, 
  popular 
  prejudice, 
  to 
  a 
  large 
  extent, 
  

   had 
  to 
  be 
  combatted 
  and 
  supplanted. 
  Keenly 
  alive 
  to 
  the 
  

   importance 
  of 
  these 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  other 
  difficulties 
  which 
  inevi- 
  

   tably 
  and 
  formidably 
  confront 
  the 
  introduction 
  of 
  "anew 
  

   thing," 
  these 
  gentlemen 
  wisely 
  determined 
  that 
  the 
  only 
  

   medium 
  of 
  successful 
  competition 
  consisted 
  in 
  the 
  use 
  only 
  

   of 
  the 
  very 
  best 
  material 
  on 
  the 
  market, 
  and 
  hence 
  the 
  to- 
  

   bacco 
  used 
  is 
  selected 
  with 
  the 
  most 
  scru[)ulous 
  care. 
  Their 
  

   " 
  Duke 
  of 
  Durham 
  " 
  cigarettes 
  have 
  elicited 
  such 
  grjat 
  pop- 
  

   ularity 
  and 
  increasing 
  demand 
  in 
  this 
  and 
  foreign 
  coun- 
  

  

  