Identifier: upliftserial132852ston (find matches)
Title: The uplift (serial)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School (Concord, N.C.)
Subjects: Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School (Concord, N.C.) Reformatories Juvenile detention homes
Publisher: Concord, N.C. : Board of Trustees of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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eof this great city of spindles, withits mills among the best in the world,was a barren, unproductive stretchof improverished farm land. Todayit is a modern, sanitary, beautifulindustrial city of 10,000 prosperous and contented people. With eightsplendid manufacturing plants, with185,000 spindles and 5,000 looms turn-ing out daily approximately 45,000dozen towels and millions of yardsof splendid fabrics of various kinds;with two fine grammar schools andone high school building unsurpassedby anything in the state; with splen-did churches; with places of amuse-ment and entertainment; and withthis magnificent structure, with allmodern facilities for the developmentof the mincl, heart and the body-—aY. M. C. A. building that would bea credit to any city of 100,000 inhabit-ants. If a weary traveler lost in a des-ert should, just before closing histired and burning eyes in sleep, lookaround as far as the eye could seeand behold nothing but vast stretch-es of sand dunes, with an occasional
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JAMES WILLIAM CANNON. In whose memory the $200,000 Y was erected by the Cannon Manufac-turing Company for the benefit and pleasure of the magic city, which heconceived and huilded. THE UPLIFT 9 * Mr. C. A. Cannons Statement. As my father, the late James * William Cannon, of Concord, * North Carolina, who planned * and built and, until his death, * directed the successful opera- * tion of the mills making up * the community known as Kan- * napolis, recognized the wisdom * of caring for the spiritual * mental, physical and social wel- * fare of the employees of the * mills and directed or assist- * ed in directing the Young * Mens Christian Association, * school, and church building * when the original mills were * built; and as the Y. M. C. A., * at Kannapolis, has outgrown * its quarters, the directors and * officers of the Cannon Manu- * facturing Company, in keep- * ing with the policy of the late * James William Cannon, con- * sidered it wise and to the best * interests of the comp

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