Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-31

The total sales of the firm the past year
were in round numbers 100000, of which
$25O,0O0 represented their own manufac-
lures.
The above brief sketch of the firm of @.
Gotzian & Co., presented without embellish.
ment or enlargement, teaches lesson that
all boys of to-day would do we'll to follow
and pattern after. The sketch covers bus
mess career of twenty-one years, in which
time an investment of 5000 has grown to
the magnificent proportions where the sales
of 1879 aggregate 100000. This growth
is not the result, as is too often the case, of
any sharp practice, butrather the legitimate
outcome of steady application to business,
enterprise and answering integrity, "a ~
being the commercial and individual stand
ing of tho firm.
F0repauQh .G TarLor.
There are no twofgentlemen in st. Paul
more widely known or honored in business
circles than J. L. Forepaugh and J. B. Tar
box, composing the boot and shoe firm of
Forepaugh & Tarbox, whose extensive e.
tablishment is located at Nos. 129 and 131
East Third street. Although young men,
they have been identified with the heaviest
business operations of the city, and to their
energy, enterprise and liberality is the city
indebted for much of its present prosperous
condition. MI. Forepaugh was the first per-
son, in company with Mr. Auerbaeh, to en-
bark In an exclusive wholesale dry-goods
trade, and it was he who erected the first
four-story block ION the corner of Third and
"abashaw streets) in the city which for a
number of years bore his name. Mr.. Tar
boz is almost equally as we'll known, as be-
ing among the first persons who embarked
bis capital in manufacturing in this city. Up
to 1868, the firm of J. B. Tarbox & Go.
were engaged in the manufacture
of shoe packs. In the spring of
1869 Mr.. Forepaugh became
interested in the business, and in 1872 the
present firm of Forepaugh & Tarbox was
formed and has continued business ever
since. In July, 1873, they removed to their
present quarters Nos. 129 and 131 East
Third street. This structure is one of the
finest business houses in st. Paul, having a
front of so feet on Third street by $50 feet
deep. 1t has four floors and basement,
every inch of which space is utilized to carry
on their immense business. The two upper
floors are used almost entirely for manufac-
turing purposes. Directly the firm. gives
employment to $50 persons, while indirectly
they furnish work and living to many
more. Their business has grown up within
the past few years from comparatively small
proportions to about eight hundred thousand
dollars annually. They employ in the neigh
borhood of 100000 capital in their bust
ness. Their trade extends over the entire
Northwest, and so well and favorably have
they become known, that the demands for
their home manufactured goods is far in ex-
cess of their ability to fill. Their trade is
increasing from year to year, and already
they have plans on foot for more, space,
Notwithstanding they cover an area almost
equal to an acre in extent now. They en-
ploy none but experienced men in all the de-
partments of their large business, and this
added to the long experience of each mem
ber of the firm, is positive guarantee to the
customer that he will be fairly and honorably
dealt with, and that all goods purchased of
them will be just as they are represented.
They employ none but skilled workman and
every department is carefully watched over,
while the unblemished business record of
Messrs. Forepaugh g. Tarbox, extending
over SO many years, is matter of pride to
every resident of St. Paul.