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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
FARwELL, ozMUN & JACKSON.
Wholesale Hard,care, Etc.
nos. 254 TO 262 EAST THIRD STREET.

NOS. 254 TO 262 EAST THIRD STREET.
Nearly a quarter of a century ago-in 1860
"a small hardware business was started in
st. Paul, far up Third street beyond where the
Metropolitan hotel now stands, by two young
men. Slowly the years wore by and slowly
the business gained Reverses came and
were weathered. The world discovered the
importance of the great resources of the
northwest, and then at lightning speed came
growth and prosperity. From the small store
"away up town." has developed the NAM
moth establishment of Farwell, Ozmun 81
Jackson, located in palatial block ''away
down town" The old firm of Farwell Broth
ers was succeeded by George l.. Farwen,
alone, and since 1881 the present firm has
existed, making combination rich in money
and experience. The firm consists of George
L. Farwell, A. NJ. Ozmun and F. Jackson,
the two former conducting the workings of
the business and the latter the Office and
finances.
How different the stocks of twenty-five
years since and to-day. Then the require
ments of frontier village were modest and
insignificant, the simplest and cheapest ar
ticles being used by the few carpen-
tiers in building the plainest houses. Now
the demands of a great metropolis, where
thousands of fine residences are erected an
nually, supplemented with the requirements
Of the multitude of growing cities, towns
and villages throughout the country, require
such quantities and varieties Of goods to
supply them that the monster warehouse,
Nos. 254, ESQ, 25S, 260 and 262 East Third
street, scarcely affords space for their stor-
age. The magniticently solid red brick
structure has five high stories and deep
basement, and in all parts it is crowded with
goods, including an immense variety of
shelf hardware, cutlery, timers stock and
tools, and metals in fact the largest stock
of general hardware in the northwest and
equaled by but one house in Chicago. 1t is
a busy place, fifty men being employed and
tons of goods constantly passing up and
down the two spacious elevators. The trade
extends over great territory, which Is con
stantly extending.
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SCHEFFER & ROSSUM.
Wholesale Dealers IN feathers and FIJI


Wholesale Dealers IN feathers and Find
hugs.
CORNER OF ROBERT AND FOURTH STREETS, ST.
This firm is composed of Hon. Albert
Scheffer and Rudolph Rossum and was es-
tablished in 1880. They deal in leather and
findings and their establishment is situated
on the southeast corner of Fourth and Rob-
ert streets. The junior member of the firm,
Mr.. Rossum, formerly of Indianapolis, Ind,
is the practical manager of the business and
no one who has ever had any dealings with
the house will deny that he is just the man
for the place. Thoroughly acquainted with
every detail of the busincss-earnestly prac-
ticable and honorable in all his dealings and
courteous and high minded in manner, he
is eminently fitted not only to manage the
large business OF the firm, but also to be as
sociatcd with the genial whole-souled Albert
Scheffer, who is known over the entire north
west as not only the prince of good fellows,
but whose name is the synonym for all that
is high minded and honorable. This is the
largest exclusive leather and finding house
in the northwest, and has an immense trade
in leather betting and lace leather! They
claim land probably with truth,) that they
manufacture the best boot and shoe uppers in
the United States Although the firm was
established less than four years ago, their trade
already extends through Wisconsin, Mime
sofa, Dakota, Montana Washington Terri
tory Idaho and Oregon. and is rapidly on the
increase. A customer who once purchases
or orders a bill of Scheffer q Rossum,
never fails to duplicate the order when the
goods are wanted.
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of three tons of manufactured goods eacl
month.
The fourth floor will be filed with glass
bottles of every sort and description.
The fifth floor contains the patent and pro-
prietary goods, gums, seeds, roots, herbs, and
all the goods in unbroken packages.
The cellar contains the heavier chemicals,
paints, oils &c. In the cellar is large
fire proof vault for the storage of expensive
oils and chemicals.
The firm of Merell & Ryan is one of the
most substantial in the entire country being
supported with abundant means. A thor
ough and complete knowledge of the drug
business, and every department is in charge
of men of long experience in that particular
branch of the trade and all under the imme-
diate supervision of Mr. Merell who is a
thorough master of the business, both theo-
retical and practical
The firm make specially ofshe quality of
their goods particularly in essential oils,
powdered drugs, chemicals and their own
preparations of Elixirs. Wines, syrups and
pharmaceutical produ ctions.
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its line west of Chicago and it is deser-
viedly esteemed for probity and enterprise.
ROBINSON s. CARY.

Machinery, Railroad Supplies, Etc.
CORNER FOURTH AND wACoUTA STREETS.
On the northeastern corner OF Fourth
street, at its junction with Wacouta is loca-
ted the important firm of Robinson q Cary,
which since the year 1871, has been well and
extensively know throughout the northwest
1t is engaged In branch of business of the
first Importance to developing country as
it aids not only in the construction CT rail-
roads, but it supplies the machinery required
in manufactures of all descriptions. The
warehouse it occupies consists Of two floors
each 50X150 feet, and they are crowded with
massive machinery required in the most i'm
portant and particular manufacturing. They
carry the highly esteemed Buckeye engines,
steam boilers; railroad supplies, and the
largest and most complete assortment and
stock of implements and material for con-
tractors in the whole United States. The
house has large storage capacity outside OF
their Fourth street warerooms, and the detail
of their stock is something fearful to con-
slider; Throughout the northwest, from
central Iowa to Hudson's Bay, snd
from Michigan to the Pacific coast, there is
scarcely city, town or hamlet, but what
contains some goods supplied by Robinson u
Cary. Where a great enterprise is in pro-
gress there are the tools and material
furnished by this house, and every railroad
in this portion of the broad republic looks to
this fully equipped depository for many OF its
supplies. Such an establishment is a lasting
credit to new country and it has great
and good influence in maintaining the COM
mercial reputation of a growing metropolis
such as St. Paul.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08

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 done in the
northwest, the new West Hotel at Minneapo-
lis, the largest and most complete
hotel job in the United States !;
Nicollet hotel and Academy of Music Mime
apolis; Merchants hotel st. Paul ;Grand hotel,
Fergus Falls, irand Pacific, Moorhead Inter
Ocean Mandan; the Bank and Chamber of
Commerce building owned by Hon. Alcxan-
der Mitchell at Milwaukee; the Northern Pa
cific Office building st. Paul ETC..
This system is being adopted throughout
the country and he has an agency at Pitts
burg Pa. He is now filing large contracts
in New York city and Chicago In connec-
ton with his contract work Mr.. Osborne car
ries an immense assortment of specialities
pertaining to steam heating, 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.
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MOVES BROS. & CUTLER.
Wholesale drugs, Etc.

CORNER SHELLEY Il FIFTH STREETS.
The story of the rise and development Of
many in fact of most, of the older and larger
mercantile houses of st. Paul would read like
II fairy tale, so wonderGul-almost fabulous
has been their growth and their present mag
nitude. This is true of no house to greater
extent than-of the mammoth drug, medicine,
paint and oil establishment of Noyes Bros.
~ Cutler, whose reputation extends over one
quarter of the continent among consumers,
and over the world among producers of the
goods they handle.
In the year 1865 before st. Paul was large
enough to be considered Of any importance
in commercial circles, the firm Of Moves,
PETIT " Co. was formed and venture was
made on very small scale in the drug bust
ness in old Union block. Third street. The
first firm was succeeded by Noycs Bros. Mr..
G. ?. Noyes joining his brother, Mr.. D.. Il.
Noycs. In 1874 Mr.. Cutler was admitted
and the present firm has existed since that
time. During the first year of business the
old firm thought they were doing remarkably
well having sold $4,000 of goods, an
amount that they would consider small for
any single month in the year now. The
first month in business the sales of the
young house reached the handsome sum of
$4,000 Last month, June, 1854, the books
of the firm show sales amounting to about
Sl4S, 900! There are the statistics of the de-
vclopmcnt of st. Paul told in line.
From the little Union block store see to
what mercantile palace the house has
grown. Here at the southeast corner of
Fifth and Sibley streets stands the great yell
low brick cdiice, G3x1l0 feet on the ground
with four stories and a basement, and it was
designed aud built especially to meet the de-
mauds of the peculiar business. Nothing is
lacking in this tire-proof structure, and the
process OF carving on the traffic is reduced
10 the utmost simplicity. Back Of the ware
house is Il large yard with extensive shed
storage. and on East Fourth street the firm
has an iron warehouse connected directly
with the railroads, where carbon oils, gaso-
line aud all dangerous goods are deposited.
Ninety men are employed in this great in
dustry, and the mass OF goods handled is
simply marvellous 1t is by far the largest
institution of the kind in the northwest.
Their trade extends throughout the states
OF Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska
and Oregon, and the territories Of Dakota.
Idaho, Wyoming, New Mexico, Washington
aud Montana, as we'll US through the
western British possessions. At Helena
Montana the house has resident agent who
devotes himself 10 the interest Of the great
trade through that part Of the country.
The firm has agents in Paris and London,
aud are constantly receiving shipments from
these great foreign commercial centers.
These imported goods can to-day be bought
In st Paul as low rs in New York, as this is
port of appraisal as well as Il port of entry.
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FAIRBANKS, MORSE & co.

1t seems almost unnecessary 10 tell the
trade of the great northwest anything about
this wonderful old establishment that has
kept so even balance throughout the coun-
try, and indeed the world, for somany years,
since 1925, but it would obviously be impro-
per to omit a mention among the most
prominent business houses of new metro
polls, SO popular, extensive and well con-
Quoted house as is the St. Paul branch
under the management of Mr. George B.
Woodward. This branch was established in
st. Paul six years ago the I'd of this month
in contracted quarters on East Third street.
1t practically controls the central northwest
to the Rocky Mountains and its business so
Hourshed and grew with the development of
the country that it was forced to seek much
larger quarters, and, in March 1888, when
the splendid new building on Sibley street
between Fifth and Sixth was completed, the
establishment was removed to Nos 81 and
373 The building is one of the handsomest
and most stately in st. Paul, and the stores
occupied by Fairbanks, Morse u Co. are 33x
$50 feet with five stories and a high base
ment. This vast storage capacity is crowded
with goods.
Fairbanks scales are universally
acknowledged to be the most accurate and re-
liable, the strongest and most durable
They are the standard of the world; they are
used by the U. S. government; they are
made of the best material and are the best
finished; they are all carefully inspected
and are most delicately adjusted. There are
over 500 varieties of the Fairbanks standard
scales, ranging for every purpose and every
business, from the massive platform scales
for railroads to the most delicate balances
required by druggists and jewellers. Those
requiring the best, most accurate and most
durable want nothing but the Fairbanks,
and over so, 900 were sold in 1888! Besides
Fairbanks scales this house provides the
popular Eclipse windmills for pumping or
gearing, tanks, pumps and ali attachments.
They erect water tanks for towns and rail-
roads complete, and have just closed a con-
tract with railroad company to complete a
number of water stations, the foundations
and wells alone being provided for them.
Among their goods are also grain testers,
Smith-Vaie steam pumps; boilers and stand
pipes; patent water pipe; trucks; grain
wagons; cookie mills; lever and jack-screws :;
hand, push and velocipede cars; Hancock
inspirators, and a thousand other articles
which it will be found interesting to examine
in their WarerOoms
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
MERELL 4 RYAN.
Wholesale Druggists aud Import eys.
l91 \ 1q2 EAST THIRD STREET.

NHotFSNte AFNNVtNtN uPau Ah poFfcfS.
191 \ 1872 EAST THIRD STREET.
This firm is successor to Mereu, Sahlgaard
& Thwug who started in June 1859 and did
large and successful business. from the
day they opened their doors to the trade.
The firm IS composed OF \. T. Merell of
the old firm Of Merell Safeguard 4 Thwing.
ami Dennis Ryan who is known over the
gaest northwest as one Of the most success
ful business men. Mr.. Merell during the
two years he has been known to the trade.
has made many friends by close attention to
the wants OF their customers, selling only the
Rest goods and keeping pace with grea, an
vaucement in the sciences connected with
their business they viii take their place in
the front rank OF Wholesale drug houses in
the United States
They sre now citing up the elegant new
stores Nos. 225, 297, sud 229 East Third ST.
which viii be occupied about August 1st
The stores are 50 Y $50, five stories aud base
ment with every improvement that can be
introduced in The saving of time and labor.
The entire first floor viii be used entirely for
offices and sample rooms. The second floor
is the order floor where the goods from all
parts Of the world are put up, packed and
shipped to their trade extending over west
ern Wisconsin, northern Iowa, Minnesota,
Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming Oregon
Washington and Manitoba.
The third hoar Is occupied by the Iabratory
from which At PFssen! is turned oct upwards
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MAST, BUFoKD & BURwELL co.
agricultural implements.

EAST THIRD STREET.
This extensive house is composed of men
who have for many years been identified with
the agricultural interests of the northwest,
and the goods they manufacture and repre-
sent enjoy a reputation second to none that
have ever entered the bright, breads field of
the FEgolden northwest - The parties have
been doing business here since 1879 as B. d.
Buford q Co., and their goods have been
known here through their travellers
and agents from the original house
at Rock Island for the past
seventeen wears. The needs and require
ments Of the whole northwest have been
studied by these manufacturers and no
establishment of the kind doing business in
this territory is in fuller sympathy or closer
connection with the farmers than is this
house. Their spacious warerooms are
crowded with the multitude of goods they
handle, and their productions are shipped
by the carload to all points north and west.
Among their speciaties may be specified
the famous Buford plows, harrows, cultiva7
tors, land rollers, drills, Buckeye
seeders, Buckeye force pumps, Buckeye lawn
mowers. iron turbine wind engines, the Balm
of Middleton, Ohio, fine buggies, Racine
Wagon and Carriage company's productions,
including spring and express wagons, road
wagons, buck-boards and many other styles
Buford's new patent wheel land
side sulky pillow is one of their
best specialties. 1t may be described as
an oblique wheel Landslide sulky, the oblique
wheel running in the corner of the furrow,
so as to overcome the weight of the pillow and
side friction, thus saving 25 to 40 per cent.
OF the draft, according to the condition of
the ground. This wheel is of gas pipe, twenty
inches high, and does not clog either in trash
or mud. The sulky is improved in other re-
spects-one of the improvements allowing the
plowman to turn corners without lifting the
pillow from the ground; another is that steel
wheels are substituted for the old style sulky
wheels. The sulky is therefore stronger yet
lighter than before and it is claimed for it,
that, turning the same burrows, two horses
viii pull 1t as easy as three horses viii pull
any sulky pillow heretofore introduced.
The enterprise and the resources of this
firm were illustrated in February last, when
ION the 4th Of that month) the great st. Paul
warehouse of the firm was completely de-
stroyed by fire, with all its contents, aud yet
within a few DAYS they were again ready to
deliver goods from here. 1t is a prompt
wide awake, energetic house and viii next
month be back at its old location, corner of
Third and Broadway, occupying and filing
four story and basement warehouse, $4,000
feet.
A word more, to partly supply omissions
as to their specialties. These include, be-
sides the above mentioned, the Acme hay
raker and loader, something new and good;
the Walter Wood pump, made at Goshen,
Ind; the Stowbridge broadcast seeder, to be
attached to the tail of an ordinary farm
wagon and feed from the load; and as auc-
ton hand bills say, other novelties ''too
numerous to mention
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AvERILL, RUSSELL & CARPENTER.
HnDer Hoslse.

CORNER FOURTH AND wACoUTA STREET.
Along about 1854 it became imperatively
necessary that some depot should be estab-
lished in st. Paul from which the stationers,
newspapers, ETC., should be able to draw
supplies. There was no whole sale establish
ment Of the kind within hundreds of miles,
and it was impossible to fill immediate
wants. Then Gen. John 7. Averin started
in, and organized a base of supplies, and ne
Aourished and grew in business until the re-
suit is what is seen to-day, house doing an
immense traffic through an immense terri
tory, and enjoying immense popularity
From an Insignificant beginning the house
Of Averin, Russell & Carpenter has developed
and It's shadow is constantly increasing.
There is scarcely store or a newspaper Of
fee throughout the length and breadth of the
great northwest but what handles the goods
Of this firm, and the newly estab-
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CAMPBELL, WALSH s. JILSON.
Machinery 4e Supplies.

NOS. 173 & It's EAST THIRD STREET.
In a growing country of such great dimen-
sions as that which forms this vast north
western empire, no branch of business is OF
more importance than is that of providing
machinery for the innumerable industries
that are being constantly established. AS
the thousands of new settlers are arriving,
taking up the land and forming homes and
communities, manufactures quickly follow
the church and the school house. Back in
1867 the prospect for any great demand for
machinery did not look particularly bright,
but Mr.. j. G. Freeman established business
in that line, and with the majority of the
pioneers who had the pluck to ''stick," he
was amply rewarded, and built up trade of
splendid dimensions.
The firm of j. G. Freeman & Co. has re-
recently been succeeded by that of Campbell,
Walsh & Jilson, energetic, practical, active
young men peculiarly qualified to conduct an
enterprise of such extent and Importance.
Their showrooms, where samples of the null
titude of goods they carry are displayed, are
at Nos. 173 and IT'S East Third street, in the
Merchants hotel block, and here can be seen
many intricate and efficient machines of the
best models and makes.
The lines carried by the house include a
great variety of goods many of which they
represent exclusively in the northwest;
among these are the following: Erie City
Iron Works engines, boilers and saw mills;
Watertown automatic engines; Lidgerwood
hosting and pile-driving engines; Pickering
governors; Branch, Crooks 81 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
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WILSON & ROGERS,
Engines. Boilers, Machinery. Etc.
~os 216 g. 21S poprpr srRrET

Engines. Boilers, Machinery. Etc.
nos. 316 & 31S 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 Union
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 q Rogers
deal, but in q general way may be men
toned 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 a
basement, while in the large yard in the rear
Is an immense shed 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-
mously 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; f. G..
Wells steam pumps; the Trahern hand
pumps: Lafferty's wooden pumps; Mitchell,
Vane & Co.'S. chandeliers: Tuttle S Bailey's
hot air registers and ventilators; also a com
plete line of Hayden Co.'S. brass goods. The
stock is always full and complete.