Toujours Jeune was the motto of the luxurious New Frontenac Hotel on Round Island in the Thousand Islands area of the St. Lawrence River. The New Frontenac was the crowning project of Charles Goodwin Emery an entrepreneur whose life straddled the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emery's first enterprise was the purchase from his uncle Eben Goodwin of the tobacco company, Goodwin & Co. in New York. Were he introduced a cigarette making machine and was the first to use baseball cards as a promotion. He placed them in packages of his Old Judge cigarettes. In 1890, Emery joined Goodwin & Co. with James Buchanan Duke's American Tobacco Company. American would go on to become the tobacco trust. Emery was also part of the watch trust through his investment in the Crescent Watch Case Company. Abendroth and Root manufactured a handmade automobile called the Arco. Emery purchased the company around 1906 and changed the name of the car to the Frontenac. It was a high end car costing $4,000...

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