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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
LANPHER, FINCH & SKINNER.
Hats, Caps, Fmrs, Etc

NOS. 1856 AND 1873 EAST FOURTH STREET.
Lanpher established in the wholesale hat,
cap and fur business in little store only
20x30 feet in size on Jackson street. Both
partners had had long experience in retail
trade, Mr.. Albrecht in furs and Mr.. Lanpher
particularly in hats, caps, etc. Rapidly their
business grew and from the contracted limits
of the small warehouse they were forced to
move to quarters of great space and con-
venience. In that noble block which ex-
tends from jackson to Sibley street, and
which is equaled by but few in the country
for substantial elegance, the firm, now
changed to Lanpher, Finch g. Skinner, &C.
cupies the most attractive of all the stores.
1t is of red brick, of highly ornamental de.
sign, and is noticeable from having the
handsomest entrance on the street.
The front, with its massive French plate
windows, is so feet wide, and the fine great
warerooms are 1870 feet deep. Most admira-
bly, is everything arranged the pleasant of.
fees overlooking vast and neat pyramids OF
boxes containing the finest of hats manufac.
tured Below, the basement is crowded with
unbroken packages, while in the upper stories
are immense stocks of goods in all the lines
carried by the house, which may be specified
as follows Hats, caps, furs gloves mittens,
umbrellas and rubber clothing, while they
are the largest and Oldest manufac-
turers of fur coats and robes in the entire
northwest, and in this connection 1t may be
well to state that this house has now on hand
the largest and finest stock of Indian tanned
buffalo robes ever collected here. In all
lines of goods manufactured east this stock
is always full the latest styles being received
as soon as produced. Gloves of all kinds
are specially with them, and their lines are
invariably complete. In the manufacturing
department about fifty women sewers, be-
sides male cutters, are employed. Mr.. e.
Albrecht, the former principle of the firm,
has retired, and is now the president of the
new Germania bank Of st. Paul, but is still
connected with the manufacturing branch.
The assistance of forty men are constantly
required In the sales-rooms, offices and on
the road, and the house is a credit to the city,
there being, of the thirteen establishments
of the kind in Chicago, but two doing larger
business than Lanpher, Finch d Skinner.
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zion of their city warerooms and they are

ton Of their city warerooms and they are
very convenient, spacious and pleasant.
Out on the old Fort road-what is now
known as West Seventh street.-the great
factory of the house stands at the corner Of
Western avenue. 1t is stately building of
four stories, and it is supplied with all the
latest and most approved machinery known
to the industry of shoeing the people. Here
something more than one hundred of tbs
most carefully selected skilled workmen are
constantly employed fashioning the best ma.
teral into boots and shoes The greatest
care is taken in selecting the stock worked,
and no goods are delivered that do not pass
the most critical inspection of experienced
foremen. The members of the firm are all
practical and experienced men in their de.
partments, and the best proof of their capac
ity and knowledge of the wants of the trade
is found in their fast growing business
which already extends over the whole of the
wide domain tributary to this commercial
center.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
HARDWARE.

This branch of bushes is rapidly 1ncreas-
ing in amount, a fact which is easily ac
ounted for when it is remembered that the
articles which are included in a heavy whole
sale stock in this line of goods enter very
largely into the necessities Of new country
for building and furnishing from the claim
shanty Of the settler to the palatial mansion
of the millionaire. The st Paul dealers APP
prcciate this fact and are prepared to meet it.
An idea Of the magnitude of this trade in st.
Paul can be gathered from the fact that the
amount of sales in this line for the first six
months Of the year reached the immense
SUN Of % $50 $50
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achieved as are seen on every side at the
present day.
The original firm of Nicols 81 Dean
consisted of John Nicols and W. B. Dean,
and after the death of the senior partner the
style of the firm was continued, his son, j.
Ross Nicols, who had been brought up in
the house, assuming active relations. From
the original store the firm was finally obliged
to move, and in 1888 they took possession of
the mammoth warehouse at the corner of
Fifth and Sibley streets. 1t is lofty red
brick building, and fine specimen of COM
mercial architecture. The firm occupies a
store SO feet on Sibley and $50 feet on FIFTH
street, with five lofty stories above base
ment. This vast depository is filed with
heavy hardware, steel and nails and the trade
of the concern has grown to immense di-
mansions, its customers being found through
territory of vast extent. 1t is by far the
largest house in its line west Of Chicago and
it is deservedly esteemed for probity and
enterprise.
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CRAIG, LARKIN & SMITH.
CrockeraL China, Glassware, DC.

NO. $50 sIBLEY STREET.
By far the largest dealers in, and distribu-
tors of crockery, china, glassware and kin
bred goods in the entire northwest is the
firm of Craig, Larkin & Smith who occupy
the spacious warehouse, No. $50 Sibley street
where five floors, each thirty by one hundred
and ten feet in area, are crowded with thc
multiplicity of goods pertaining to the bust
ness. This mammoth stock includes every
thing known in croekery, china and glass
ware establishments, and includes besides
the finest wares from the best manufacturers
OF this country, many importations from
famous foreign makers potteries. Many of
these wares are well worth seeing as speci-
mems of high art. In these spacious display
halls are found every class OF ware including
the solid, serviceable crockery for the kitch-
en-, the sets for sleeping apartments, plain or
elaborate, and the service for the dining
table, common and substan tiai, or elegant
and ornamental. Here are the dishes de-
signed to stand the wear and tear of the
humble laborer's cottage. and the grandest
elaborate or delicately beautiful dining and
tea services for the halls of the rich.
But the stock of so extensive and well
conducted house as that OF Craig, Larkin
81 Smith contains more than the household
wares enumerated, for the housekeeper finds
it convenient when fitting up or replenishing,
to select other articles among the multitude
required in we'll regulated household
There arc among these an endless variety
of lamp goods, chandeliers bird cages, water
coolers, oilstoyes for cooking and heating.
and-well it is impossible to specify, each
dealer will find just what his people want
and each housekeeper can be satisfied. The
trade OF the house has, in the IS years it has
been established, grown to very large proper
tons and twenty-six men are employed in
its different departments.
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KELLOGG yoHSsoN& co.
Boofs and Shoes.

CORNER FOURTH AND wAeoUTA STREETS.
This house which 10 engaged IN the manu-
featuring and distributing of boots and shoes
has been established in ST. Paul little more
than year, but their productions have long
been known to the consumers Of the north
west. They sought St. Paul as the most adj
vantageous distributing point and they have
here built up business Of great magnitude.
Their salesrooms are at the northeast corner
Of Wacouta and Fourth streets, where they
have three large floors 50x150 over the ware
room Of Robinson & CARY. These spacious
apartments contain finished goods Of all des-
criptions. A glance through their varied
stock shows that in style and finish their
goods are une1celled By any manufactured
in the country. while the wormauship and
durability is fully vouched for By the large
and rapidly increasing demand for them.
The offices Of the firm occupy the front por-
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WILSON s. ROGERS.
Engines, Boilers, WGcItinery, Etc.
NOS. 316 81 318 ROBERT STREET.


NOS. 316 u 318 ROBERT STREET.
AT Nos. 316 and 31S Robert street, which
is the second street west of, and running
parallel to Sibley street, on which the I'm
ion depot is located, is a large yellow brick
building, within whose walls is conducted a
business of great extent and importance.
The business was established in 1867, at a
time when the goods which the house carries
in such quantities now were in very
limited demand 1t would be difficult to
specify all the lines in which Messrs. Wilson
" Rogers deal, but in a general way may be
mentioned engines, boilers, machinery and
plumbers and gas and steam filters sup
plies. The building is 50x100 feet in ground
dimensions, and has three stories and q
basement, while in the large yard in the rear
is an immense she'd for the storage of the
heaviest goods The opening of the great
northwest has almost entirely occurred since
the house was established, and the demand
for these classes of goods has grown enor-
mouslv. Line after line has been added,
until now the firm includes in its catalogues
articles that are usually distributed among
several establishments. For the benefit of
the trade and others few specialties may be
specified. Taylor Manufacturing company's
automatic cutoff engines; +. G.. Wells
steam pumps the Trahern hand pumps;
Lafferty's wooden pumps: Mitchell, Vane u
Co.'s. chandeliers; futile 81 Bailey's hot air
registers and ventilators; also a complete
line of Hayden Co.'s. goods. The stock is
always full and complete
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RUSSELL & co.
Farm machinery d agricultural Imprt-
1llPDtS.


NO. 331 EAST 81 STREET.
The location at st. Paul OF one of
the branch Offices of this ex-
tensive and wel-known mauufac-
turing establishment whose works and CEN
trail Office are at Massillon, Ohio was to be
expected of so energetic and popular an in
stitutfon. The Massilon threshers horse
bowers and portable and traction steam farm
engines have made reputation ali over the
country and particularly in the great terri
tory tributary to ST. Paul. Their
branch Office here having been burned
out in the great lower 81. street fire, the COM
pany at once began the erection of three
story and basement brick block one hundred
feet square on the same ground
where their warcrooms and branch
office are now located. Their bust
ness at the St paul Office is under the man
agement of Mr.. H. B. Burnside and is con-
Quoted in the name of Russell Il Co. In
addition 10 the articles before mentioned
the company manufacture saw mill adapt
cd to farm engines. An extra large tbrcsh-
er called the Red River Special and the most
complete and practical straw burning engine
now in use which is also made to burn coal
or wood The Russell Co. also handle the
the hose and betting of the Cleveland rubber
company.
The officers of the company are y. S. Rus
sell, President; J. y. MeClymonds See. and
Treas. c. NJ. Russell, asst. Sec. and Treas.
I. Il. Russell, Superintendent. They
have branch offices at Indianapolis,
Council Bluffs. Iowa, St Joseph, Mo. Mil
waukee Wis, Dallas, Texas x St. Paul MINI.
All the information or advertisement the
public need is the fact that they have :
branch house at s.. Paul fer them 10 get al
the business they can handle.
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AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

1t is not surprising that the sales of agri
cultural implements are on the increase
from year to year, when the vast area of the
finest land in the world comprising almost
every acre of the Northwest, most of which
is still waiting to be ''tickled by the plow."
is taken into account. During the six
months Of the present year ending June S0th
the st. Paul dealers made sales to the enor-
nous sum of 81, 3S9, 800. This demonstrates
that st. Paul is the great distributing point
for this class of goods.
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L. +. OSBORNE.
Stealm Heafinn.
No. 229 EAST FOURTH ST.

No. 229 EAST FOURTH ST.
In all the lines of business conducted in
this bright northern country, none are Of
more Importance than that of Mr.. Osborne:
the fitting of buildings with efficient and
economical heating apparatus. This gentle
man is an engineer, contractor and manu-
facturer of all that pertains to the bushes
and his success has been so complete as / .
give him and his work national regulations
He has been engaged in this line since 1868,
and has been established in St. Paul since
1876 in his present location. A practical and
scientific man, he has devoted his talents
and studies to the perfection of a system of
steam heating and he has produced what is
acknowledged to be the most economical and
thorough plan yet devised in the world
While he attends to I'll branches of the
steam fitting business, he makes speciality
of providing large buildings, hotels, business
blocks, public buildings, ETC., and he num-
bers among the large jobs he has DONG in
the northwest the new West Hotel at Min
neapolis, the largest and most complete hotel
job in the United States; Nicollet Hotel anu
Academy of Music, Minneapolis; Grand
Hotel, Fergus Falls; Grand Pacific,
Moorhead; Inter Ocean Mandan, the Bank
and Chamber of Commerce building owned
by Hon. Alexander Mitchell at Milwaukee;
the Northern Pacific Office building of St
Paul etc.
This system is being adopted throughout
the country and he has an agency at Pitts
burg Pa. He is how filing large contracts
in New York city and Chicago, In connee-
ton with the contract work Mr.. Osborne
carries an immense assortment OF speciali-
ties pertaining to steamheating, all OF which
were invented and patented by himself.
Those requiring work in this line should GER
tainly examine the advantages of this re-
markable system of heating.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
proof vault for the storage of expensive oils

proof vault for the storage of expensive oils
and chemicals.
The firm of Merell 6 Ryan is one of the
most substantial in the entire country being
supported with abundant means thor
ough and q complete knowledge of the drug
business, and every departments in charge
of men Of long experience In that particular
branch of the trade and all under the imme-
date supervision of Mr.. Merell who is a thor
ough master of the business, both theoretical
and practical.
The firm make specially of the quality
of their goods particularly in essential oils,
powdered drugs, chemicals and their own
preparations of Elixirs, wines, syrups and
pharmaceutical productions.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04

classes of goods in their line they make
specially Of American painted and decorated
china and glassware which as Is well known
is vastly superior to any imported goods.
Their present quarters are overfowing with
goods and it is only question OF very short
time when they must seek more spacious
buildings for already they are obliged to seek
storage in outside warehouses. AS import
ers they import largely and directly from
foreign manufacturers while their facilities
for procuring desirable American goods di-
rectly from first hands are excelled by none
in their line. Resting upon their thirty years
record they can reasonably look for contip-
ucd favor and prosperity.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
CHARLES G. SCHMIDT.
Saddiery, Hardware, leather, Etc.
No. 354 sIBLEY STREETS.

Saddteiy, Hardware, Leather, Etc.
NO. 354 sIBLEY STREETS.
If there is any jobber in st. Paul more ex-
tensively acquainted with the business men
of the northwest or more generally liked
than another his name is Charles G. Schmidt.
A wholesale dealer in saddlery, hardware,
leather, ETC., he has the pioneer record in his
line in this city, established in 1867, seven
teen years of successful business entities
him to the reputation which he has earned.
The building which he occupied No 354
Sibley st. was built expressly for the business
which he carries on and is admirably adapted
for the purposes required.
The manufacturing department OF Mr..
Schmidt's establishment turns out horse col
lars, fly nets and strap work. and
the quality of the work is
always to be depended upon. The bust
ness reputation which Mr.. Schmidt has es-
tablished through so many years OF success
full business has been honestly and fairly
earned and when his travelling representa-
tives who cover the whole northwest as the
waters do the sea, meet dealer they have
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
CROCkERY AND GLASSWARE.

While not counting up into the millions
so far as sales are concerned, yet when the
reader stops to think a moment in regard to
this branch of business, he will come to the
conclusion that half a million dollars rep
resents an immense amount Of these articles.
This branch of business is ON the increase
and whereas the sales last year were nearly
$780, 900, the sales bid fair to reach nearly
double that sum as they amount to $312.000
for the first half of the year.
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MACHINERY, STEAM HEATING
SCALES. ETC.

This branch of business covers wide
field of industry and gives employment to q
large number of men. It requires heavy
capital to carry on its manufacture. Yet by
far the largest portion of the sales is that of
machinery manufactured at home. Few
cities of 125, 600 have more money invested
in this branch of business than st. Paul,
and the people of the northwest are fast find
ing out that they can obtain better article
here at much less cost than they can in
any other city, The sales for the first half
of the year amounted to 1886, $50.
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MATTHEW, HAYNIE & co.
Manufacturer of Buffalo Fur Goods.
276 JACKSON STREET.

276 JACKSON STREET.
No maxim is truer than the fact that liberal
treatment Of customers by commercial
house will invariably win and retain large
clientage; and in the case Of the firm above
mentioned this course has proven eminently
successful, their methods are to pay In cash
the highest market price for furs, hides, pelts
tallow, wool, &C., and the result has been
that their quick remittance system, persist
emily pursued, has permanently placed the
names Of over 300 shippers on their books.
1t may not be uninteresting to our readers
to call brief attention to the ability Of this
house to meet any demands Of trade that
may be made upon them. Their extensive
wsrerooms at 276 Jackson street are crowded
with 8 heavy stock Of goods which they are,
as they come in preparing for export; indeed,
their export business in raw furs is phenome-
nal In its magnitude, extending throughout
all the fur buying countries of Europe They
have organized their business into three de-
partments, each Of which is ably managed
by skilled chief. The manufacturing de-
partment is devoted to the production Of fur
coats and robes, they are using in this branch
all kinds Of furs from buffalo to seal, and
something over thirty different styles Of gar
ments are produced and finished In truly per-
feet style as regards cut and finish. 1t has
always been conceded that there are great
difficulties in the way of giving perfect ft
to fur coat aud their success in this line
has made their products popular favorites on
the market, and is q witness to the thorough
knowledge Of their business which they pos
sess.
In the hides department the buying and
preparation Of hides, pelts, and wool arc
given special attcntion-aIl consigamenN
made to ttem in this line are ike all theiI
other speciaties paid for cash doacu, making
very desirable feature for the shipper, as
spot money always talks and talks loudly. In
fact, taking into account the perfect system
which reigns In this house in the disposal
and handling Of merchandise, their popular
ready cash methods Of buying and the per-
sonal respect and esteem in which the MEM
beers OF the firm are held, we are not sur
prised at the strides which their business 10
making annually, especially throughout the
inlands Of the Dakotas. and We predict re-
marksble future for these bright and enter
prising young EIen
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NICoLs X DEAN.
Heavy Hdrdtrare. Iron, Steel. Etc.

CORNER FIFTH AND sIBI8Y STREETS.
Away back in 1860 the firm Of Nieols &
Dean was formed in s.. Paul to prosecute
the business OF dealing in heavy hardware
aud carriage and wagon builders supplies
1t was started on a small, modest scale, as
the territory tributary to this now large city
Was then extremely limited. 1t will be re-
membered that the firm for many years oc-
cupied limited quarters in two-story build
ing on East Third street, near Wabasha.
That old store could almost be placed intact
ia one story of the magnificent store the firm
now occupies, and there would be room left
to drive Il team sill around it. Such has been
the entire history of ST. Paul; from small be-
gtnnings such mighty results have been
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no trouble to fill his orders. The stock now
on hand is large and well assorted and is
always kept full and prompt attention is
given to the filing of orders all of which
makes his house the popular institution
which it is.
Orders given to the travelling salesman of
this house or sent in by dealers will receive
prompt attention and careful execution.
Mr.. Schmidt is always at home to his custom
ers.
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BOOTS AND SHOES.

Perhaps no branch of business is Of more
importance to st. Paul than the boot and
shoe business. 1t gives employment to q
very large number Of both men and women,
and requires large capital to carry it on.
The goods manufactured in this line in st.
Paul have most excellent reputation and
the trade is constantly on the increase. The
sales up to June 30 for 1884 amounted to
81 .746. 600.
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HATS, CAPS AND FURS.

1t would naturally be supposed that in
new country where to large extent style
and fashion is ignored that this branch of
business would not reach very large proper
tions. This is mistake, however, as the
figures will show, the sales of these articles
amounting to $4,000 for the six months
ending June 30. Tn is trade also gives en-
ployment TO very large number of persons,
as no inconsiderable amount of these articles
are manuf actured by dealers in st. Paul.
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Iron Works engines, boilers and saw mills;
Watertown automatic engines; Lidgerwood
hosting and piledriving engines; Pickering
governors; Branch, Crooks & Co.'s saws !;
Boston Betting Co.'s betting, hose and pack
ing; Deane steam pumps: Sturtevant fans
and blowers; wood and iron working ma
chinery, pipe and fittings, brass goods, pop
valves, Duplex injectors, wire rope, mill sup
plies of all kinds, etc.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04

Although the firm was established less than
four years ago, their trade already extends
through Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota,
Montana, Washington Territory, Idaho and
Oregon, and is rapidly on the increase. A
customer who once purchases or orders
bill OF Scheffer 6 Rossum, never fails to du-
plicate the order when the goods are wanted.
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have chosen st. Paul as their base of opera
lions, and they are reaching out all over the
northwest for trade and during the first haIf
of the year 1884 they have made sales to the
amount of $780, 500 and dealers report con-
stantly increasing orders. Although we have
no extensive tanneries, yet the trade has
found out that they can buy to better advan-
tage in st. Paul than in Chicago or other
eastern or southern cities.