Document BRZvdwowvzq9OdZvXoL9nYDeJ

J 0007-SWP-000004691 -Still as if ?rt the body, witnessed I the further growth of my Kingtfeorge company until 1849, whetn th' e factory wts moved toThompson _ ., ^ y.v; -t.....e l rook over.:'fj;'- ami Huntington Streets, the site whereupon it still did stand _____ - my rtnr*itTpelnteti |Vr-.. *. when the dream faded, though much improvement did follow-. .^n.ife*{x-rfcncc.ichari7?rjMiv.M`Tjlie.tujiisfh)meiif whiehwere ! ' from time to time. When"my son* entered upon their eo*` rnilc^r.niir{s.4hritHnK''ih%njHy.'tiwit^!.<lttir'froin.t(ie diflicuftle* j partnership in I8U6 they took offices at 135 South Front-Street whtch wcre; eiiw4cn^l.*hv;tur.|>.*lrlil^.lii.l)ring(!ig tu these (which inter, through change In numbering became 131} and 9Tt(ttv)4.IurfA^iraKB9Kwil*ftra| tin^rV,- -. ' r/ . ;* there I1 fionuisnd' th' em end' th* e'ir successors, ; mcrchnmli.e'ofw_Ji^l\{hV rummy *u*l in my lifelike dretm. in unbroken period, se..us.r.ce.a..pn^ee.ed,Wufur,iffcir'nkVfhdlliM-Timie*.t by any virnu1 -/iirfirnu, .tiitrrj ' " "wr*wlTM*n un til 1909, when i John T. Lewis u Bros. Company, the company found it neees- ships by the wntcfrfulVrnrmy nmlnfi sitry, by reason of the growth of and wtiqimauii land hy . change* in our city, which none can men* enruuvs pcrChimei it'it itlrly^li()iiinl.....| IbtUimtirc, we wvrcjnft^tinvrehll'itjs^**); ami put to 5t' AfVr^lfl|'wsXA*/ UllXliU*.'! lAnsutwr:* '..tnlly encompass who has not had my 'privilege, to move to a wonderful buiUK ;r tog of many stories in height, in the man* lb hn'*evcrl'tbdifvits 'wcreuTr liitiul ili;f . her. of the time. _ The name of the busi supplies ilivl ru.it;bavc^thrir.r>nifiu iri l`i(|i-T ness had changed in 1855 to John T. Lewis - land, with which wc wiVr nT-; uari'|(iyy?l . <Si Bros, after my grandsons; and so ie; wuidvl l*c passes^ safelyvd'^'H'Kh. ,* * ' remained tsetpt for the addition of the 1 suppose thivr,, nty iitfuil Imvinq: f> word "Company,'* when in 1883 the cus thus occupied throunhr(he evviiiutf with', tom of incorporation was followed, the events which cunpUd the uim-r pffi^ provided by the Congress, - - . mir linn with, the' fiisipry id niir 'hew'-.T Tho noiV become a corporation, 1 saw-- nmntry, mid hav'imi Ikfn'iiiC imire srfisihfc v'v my family still perpetuated in the busi.,' than ordinary of thv future |vis>hil?t;csinf. ' ness to the dose of my yisioh, for tn l889, - With, 1 waj rcnilcrcil Very ltuprt-vffiiiiil>le: V/ Edward F. Beflle, my great-grandson by^ to the suggei tiotw tif jtiiiiKinaiMiii. He * ' ' mirrtage tojthe daugnter ofJonnT. Lewis,L that as tluijijs of more Ivmki'ltlialiin liiay ^w |v ,.nnd since 1,880 a parther.m the business,-^. determine,certain l am thar u(m tliclilc' vi Vjh-? becanje Presidenc of-the company and, in-t;, parpire Of :my guests l *i:r fur n v idle T90?ii^ii >ori, L^nrdTr^lB*;alcjmy grerti^%- thinking f what might yet he in the years--;' - great-irrthdsofi<;'bec*me iSecretary^ '. to ramt, of weal nr wne, for tins ouiijtry ? Vl.xrJrril l.ewii, Fnundrf of |l>it Cnmp*nr, newly set frirth ui*jvits indepcinh-ut wiiv, ii ( * (roiifi tit lunit Iwciiir m* In 1|911 our company ncouired a factory;S in Baltimore, Maryland^1 for the making^- ami fur the business iuulcrtaklogs w|v>vh' like my own would he part uml pnrviTuf t/ Tti* t'riiv,ii ii <n>:i itans.iurM to |*aV>rf cur,invi ofbflbbittmctak;>olderiandothersimitar.rv metals which had come inw much use in- our Conn try s prHspecity.ji'r nf its ilvurcss. the industry. All at oncCmcthniiitht lU-xnipe ounoun* nf n whirr expert- So that when the great Uorld War took place, of which l . encc, as if my memory hail InJcn refreshed and the events hiiye set tluwn some reference in. these( pages, my successors - which l hatl heen dvscrihipg tn my cimipnitiuris were only a were ready to supply fej'r sit"' ` ' " smalt part of all 1 Hail witucssi-il in my Jitefime, 1 saw- tnir i|uiintities of red-lead, ji"'"*1 president, the WduycxVWashinguni, suaceded hy John Adams, cuiitcmjiiatcU in my di and he hy JeKerPinj l saw the imuuir^'* frontier* retreat and ships of wr, which were prop- green fields take the; plnvc jif tinjicnctridile forests, first to the not by wind tmd sail} splueftfi great river anil even to thewmiern iK-eiiip itself, Isihy strange uml innumerable things vi ' sights such as no pint) living Ini t riutyciveilf - grent whgrms, nlws mir ertmpany did ,eli coupled together and drawp imt hy holes', hut benptYiitirer plnncs, as the great attsif belching snuiVe flnd stenmi ruipdug rui,steel rails, fcarriages motor truck* andean,' propelled by theirowti jyiwer nt tiurnlihlo speed in thtt streets. in untultl quantities Jc. I saw mil buddings rc.ich'u(u tiHMh'iuu,|Jt tu the sky, lake the the viud spark to these place of 0'ir_mut thuuyhe of strutM lire*. I saw nuuther War ity. Shrapnel bnlli, uj, break out with our mother tmu,try, in which <mr arms were artillery, were also suppti again vivioririus; l saw njur emmtry "prow.n irii'imcervahly Nn num, niethinks.. great, torn n.vurijer, the north hrniyn| pn;tunt rhe spotlit I nf the supplies needed |l: aw }eiie again and the luiciirh lu-ulrdi I saw a world war {util seen. The ilemant lirek out in I'.u miih .', Siit h njs iine rmddi hot tiiuigmc, hud mil. l*npy were (treat and buns of our descendants sailing- fur iJig 'irld OMiittry !to take tipital buiUlmgs, but .r. their places, 0"t mdy liy tljc side f milH late i'Vvmh: aUteis, niiitf the war, my com; but beside our late cpcmn^, thy Kiiut'oh. th meef and tlefeat n \Vr im tiwiird for distin; criminal attack luVni the wurld'* hirihiiu, j siiwfr^ this wr nut only more mihinus t*f mW cnganrit; the mmd could hitherto have cnnccivrd,' hpr Uithniril rif engines of war, including men flying and tighjiing hi theXr*, l'o you to whom l rehtre i)nt imirvrh'iu,;, ision, Stsftstn.urulhig sweep of creative im.igtnniiou will m-em It* imist rcnuirkahle element, b'ur me whrrTS|K,-rienicd,it,' th'i ntinufenesi lof the vision's detail must nlwnys ftiyuken.lhe jifufuuu'ilest nw!e..Nn< Ttti W. Tnt Um* KtcnoNirw ik riu>: rut tovAtiv, sKtsOr os rn jmw Ainn MAftauLLr o Uximi SrAin > Ams r iC}* OuVIKKMIMt ANO Till )p ARMS OS THt irK*(AiCeM*AK i*o -Hu k o au k only were the Btfaifir'oi n4^im*:wiirifsj*ctl .hy fnej hjUt.tlte course of niy ownjbuslncit* w'As jilhhdy rtyealed. l was given to tltrcct it for a dtfitflicrjtif rears, rmd IhL.IKtf having t>p. My remarkable'glimpse as. far ns the year of bur lii. brriteil the !50ih nnniversbi >bW me to *'' successors ceie*.t oy imyself of the :-, patently given tdncl^mMiin the pteci-Msfevenf was not clenr ' .firm tf Munleeal J>wis \&j 'ew of- the-?.- to mo, as 1 stilr^ftTOT^jii h'e llvhtg, niylsdn* Mordeekl and Samuel Neave Le'^ljKiiritjrd jt*artiicrhin^- AV|th energy they continued whnt t hadjfiiiihdpiii;;; Ih'MJlyliirVdcttriijIttled ftir event* of my own BfjB Wbt l dixl nut witness but ^ saw sjveciitl hurvo which' America, in-V a manufactnrinR h'Wtyc'Vitndlskight thefifttd wtirks pfjWjdt which l opened Mv:ai~ ithad received and Jottn Richards.-iitunted )ii Riiie Jiifcct lwtwcen Idth aml its charter by act.e'f tl wn" strong artd:-: 16th Streets. Spots af^cf, thf^aihlnl fho; hinmifncftife of h'n. great, and U pleased me *wi *r of cele* i, seed oil and colors in oil, in, ririlrr [lint {lii,re wli ftvuml lthetu. o..rfa...t.i.u..n....t.h. se nnceceobuunntt oorf m; hadbebrtrv, with business in whitedend aiid.fed-lrrtil,'W|)k-li Weire in<teei( h goodly number, mieht l>c srrvtil with npi|lly worihy.oil atui colors to go with tncm,'i-TlM* i*ulii-y hii.,l;otuhuied-'v4h tip alive througghhou.t isll-tha,t.j.i contimtotia ll>>nnk naCccco&uUnnttiiir l saw also one of fny old is the oldest.^ 1787, showing^ to the close of my vision,.'..; ".v/ ... .. ;' that I had told to the fit cwt, ofgrouna-ij.' 'Rtlflnr's Motel AfiJnhval I.ewU help vUlciuly rfctiili wiiieh look place in l?v*i. li til* oxrti 'Killlnr't hfntrt The sceouril with the- Sank of North America'> i>irucil January 16, 1762, *nd Tut been e live*eeotint ever since. .- '.'fa X: ' XK ' >" Tlir t.ct ?* ) nf l't.lr, H|i rM, *Iim t.J Otldrl, l.tn'rrd Oil nd Color* r* mnuftelurrJ 0007- SWP - 000004692 ih ;Jf