Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-24

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On last week there was flied with the Gee
retary OF state the incorporation papers Of
1.-THE Wichita Wholesale Grocer Company
whose capital stock is 100000. This new
organization consists Of four of the oldest.
most successful and most onterprising bust.
ness men Of Wichita, and who compose the
board of directors, namely: a. Hess, II. II.
Richards, J. H. Black, W. S. Corbett and S.
Z. johnson, with Mr.. Corbett as president,
Hess as vice president, and Black as secre-
tary and treasurer. The four first men,
toned names are Of men who are probably
as widely and fayorrbly known among the
business men of this section as any four
men that could be named. For years they
have been at the head and conducted four
OF the great and leading grocery houses of
this city. Three of them are still in the
business and their present trade reaches
not only all over this county, but down to
and into the Indian Territory. They are
known not only us safe and reliable bust
ness men, holding all their old custom and
continually expanding, but men who have
kept pace with the growth of the country
and prospered from the first, thereby DEM
onstrating their superior qualifications as
business men in the particular line in which
they were embarked. There is not a busi-
ness man or banker in the city that would
not promptly back them for almost any
amount. not only because of their ample
means but because Of their universally rec
ognized superior business habits and meth.
DDS. These men, after looking the ground
all over, have concluded to close out their
respective retail houses and business to 9th.
ers who possess the means and experience,
and to build up a wholesale or jobbing gro.
Gerry house at this point. This conclusion
has not been reached hastily, but after the
question involving ireights and transporta-
ton by rail from the east had been gone in
to and settled. All goods will be bought
from first hands. To the manufacturer and
original packer and importer they will go
for everything in ear load lots, SO that the
retail grocer, either in Wichita or within
hundred miles east, north or south or 800
west, can save in freight bills and buy at
the lowest figures furnished by either Chi
cago, st. Louis or Kansas City. In other
words they have so systematized their plans
that with their combined capital they can
make it absolutely to the advantage of all
retailers to buy direct of them, and that the
retailer who buys of them will have an ad-
vantage and superior profit over him who
buys at distance. One hundred thousand
dollars is what they put into the business
70 Start with, but within themselves they
eau double the stock if the trade should de- |
mand. This enterprise means much for
Wichita, especially if successful, and how |
men who have been SO successful and SUBJ |
stantial in the same business in the past. |
should fail, is hard to see. The establish |
ment of such jobbing trade will demand |
aud means manufactures to supply certain |
lines of goods and wares; means other |
wholesale lines and jobbing interests, SO
hat every property-holder and every BUSH
ness man becomes directly interested in the |
success OF the new firm and its business.
The new house will open and be ready for
business March LIST, and when once the re-
al! dealers of the surrounding towns shall
have become acquainted with the character,
Utility and integrity Of the individual MEM
,ers of 1.-The Wichita Wholesale Grocer
company" no assurances or drumming will
DC found necessary TO insure them a solid
md unwavering trade. The success Of this
enterprise means just what Wichita has al
ways looked forward TO and what her loca-
ion originally and always warranted: n
wholesale and iobbing city for vast re-
ZION whose rich valleys are becoming the
wonder of the world.