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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08

life From beyond the great Pacific ocean
come vessel loads of fragrant teas, and the
American slope of the same sea sends vast
supplies of delicious edibles, the products Of
the sunny fields, the golden orchards and the
salmon teeming streams. A larger and more
complete stock of the countless articles in
daily demand in the households of the land
can scarcely be found in the country
Did you ever try to enumerate the
articles carried in a grocery stock? If not
don't try, but step into an extensive, we'll
derment Will discourage you from undertake
ing the experiment.
The original establishment was founded in
1859, time when a grocery business of
SIS, 900 or 100000 per annum was consid-
cred very large. Now the territory to be
provided with goods has increased thousand
fold and the yearly sales amount to millions,
yet the gigantic transactions are conducted
with even greater smoothness and facility
now than then, so admirably and perfectly is
every portion of the intricate machinery of
the business arranged. The ''P. H. Kelly
Mercantile Co." consists of P II. Kelly,
president, and Alfred Dufrene, Jerome Platt,
Rod. c.. Gooding, Alex. W. Barclay, Jason
w. Cooper and Warren Granger, directors.
Each of these gentlemen has his special and
distinct apartment to which he devotes his at
tention, and nearly all of them have been
brought up in the house by the able general
who heads them. There are over one hun
bred men employed by the company in the
various departments.
A large portion of the second building is
occupied as the storehouse for the teas and
coffees of the company and by the Minneso-
to Spice company, separate branch of the
grocery business. The GLOBE representa-
tive, when he dropped in recently, found Col.
Warren Granger, the chief of the depart
ment, deep in the perusal of invoices enum-
Grating the quantities and qualities of new
teas en- route from Japan. The company are
the largest importers of teas west of New
York, except perhaps two. Last year they
imported 10000 chests and this year their
receipts will be double that amount They
find a market for these goods not only
throughout their regular northern territory,
but sell great quantities to dealers in Iowa,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio.
They are also extensive importers of coffees,
of which they received $4,000 bags last year.
The Minnesota Coffee and Spice company
is the successor of the old firm of Granger s
Hodge, established in 1867, and is con-
tinued under Mr. Changers management.
This is the best equipped establishment of
the kind in the northwest, and its goods, in
Guiding the famous white Seal'' baking
powder, are deserve6ly popular throughout
the land.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
C. GOTHAM g. co.
Boots and Shoes.


NOS. 1877 1879 EAST THIRD STREET.
Among the solid and substantial business
houses of the northwest none occupy a high
er or proudcr position in the esteem of the
mercantile fraternity, than does the old and
wealthy firm of Conrad Gotzian Il Co., manu-
fscturers of, aud dealers in, boots and shoes.
Established in 1851, from a very small Begin
ming under the sagaeious and persevering
direction of Mr. Gotham. the house has waxed
strong and prosperous until now it stands
second to but few of the character in the
United States. The firm occupies two great
stores made into one, being Nos. Isl and
1S9 East Third street, the ground dimensions
covering fifty by one hundred and fifty feet,
and the ediiee containing FIVE stories all de-
voted to the storage Of the great variety OF
goods necessary to the trade, and mostly
manufactured on the premises.
But besides the immense warerooms on
Third street the house has found it necessary
to secure other commodious quarters for their
manufacturing and by bridge from the
fourth story access is gained to two spacious
rooms. each 50xI00 feet which front on
Fourth street Here two hundred and fifty
skillful workmen are constantly employed
producing the excellen; goods which have
made the eminent reputation Of the house.
Having grown up with the country these
manufacturers are thoroughly eonYersant
with The goods required in the various sec
tons OF the northwest and they produce just
what is demanded 4 visit to their factory,
which Is fun Of the most improved maciin-
cry, viii be found very interesting and such
an inspection viii give the visitor a grand
idea Of The business. which has reached col
lossal proportions.
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ALLEN, MOON g. CO.
WhoLesnIc Grocers.

CORNER THIRD AND SIBLEY STREETS.
Occupying the northeast corner of Third
and Sibley streets is one of the handsomest
yellow brick buildings used for mercantile
purposes in the city Of st. Paul. Although
SO ornamental and spacious, it is interesting
to know that it was one of the first buildings
OF any pretensions erected in the city. At
the time the building was designed and built,
st. Paul was brisk little place, yet but few
had an idea Of the magnitude and importance
to which it would develop. Mr.. P. t. McQuil-
Ian, the builder, was one of the pioneers in
the grocery business here, having established
in 1859, and to his sagacity and remarkable
foresight is due much of the prosperity which
has been achieved. He foresaw the newt
able growth OF a city situated as st. Paul is,
and calculated all the factors which would
combine to produce a great distributing
center. His mind grasped the possibilities
OF the immense region north and west of the
capital, and he recognized the boundless re-
sources of the great Dakota plains, and the
inexhaustibe cattle ranges and rich mines of
Montana. He figured on the outcome of the
lumber industries, and calculated his opera
tons with great sagacity. He erected the
building which was then considered unnec-
essarily large, and which stands to-day, the
worthy companion of the great commercial
palaces which surround IT,
OF course a man of such caliber as Mr..
McQuillan could not but found successful
business, and to-day the firm of Allen, Moon
& Co., who have succeeded to it and in
creased it's rank among the very first mer-
chants in any line in the northwest. The
partners have all been brought up from boy
hood in the grocery business, and under
stand most perfectly the manifold and pecu-
liar needs of the consumers throughout the
section of country they serve.
The warehouse is four stories in height
with high basement, and the whole of this
great space is devoted to the storage of the
manifold goods which are necessary in a full
and complete grocery stock. 1t Is unnecces-
sary to introduce this old house to the trade,
for 1t long has been, and will always con-
tinue to be, fayorite with dealers who seek
the utmost integrity and fair dealing, and
who demand goods rs represented, fair
prices aud prompt dealing Allen, Moon d
Co. S business is yearly increasing, and as
the country opens, their statesmen are found
among the very first to supply the demands
of the incoming settlers. Their trade runs
into the millions and over fifty men are con-
stantly employed by them. The firm has
close and advantageous connections with
manufacturers and importers, aud no estab-
lishment in the country can offer more and
better inducements to customers than the
old, substantial house of Allen, Moon " Co.,
corner Third and Sibley streets, st. Paul
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and ship all their car load lots, thereby saw
ing to their customers quite an item of dray-
age, and the extra cost of rehandling all
goods.
The firm have thirteen travelling represen-
tatives on the road, and cover more territory
than any house in the city. Have resident
agent with headquarters in Deadwood, d. T.. /;
representing them in the Black Hills; resi-
dent representative in Minneapolis, MINI !;
<and representatives in Winnipeg and Port
Arthur, Canada; at which points they have a
large and growing trade. -
They have also lately opened a branch
store at Thompson Falls, Montana, at which
point they carry the largest stock of goods of
any house along the line of the Northern
Pucitc Railway between st. Paul & Port
land from their Thompson Falls, branch,
they supply the trade along the Northern Pa
citic Railway, between Helena and Portland;
while from Helena east, trade supplied from
the st. Paul House. fs
The merchants of the northwest are cor
daily invited by this enterprising firm to
make their offices their headquarters when
ever in the city.
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transactions Of this new and prosperous city
are growing. Commencing at the lowest, or
sub-basement, an enormous deposit of dupli
cate stock is found in full, unbroken pack
ages just as they are received from the facto-
ries of Europe and America. The basement,
which is finely lighted and very airy, is de-
voted to domestic goods, blankets, sheetings,
tckings, ETC., and there is a wonderful array
OF them. The first, or principal floor, is an
immense hall, lighted on three sides by mas
sive windows, and here at one side are found
the scores of clerks, industriously engaged
at the accounts, while the members of the
firm occupy private offices adjacent. Ar
ranged in attractive order through the hall
are regular piles of dry goods, including an
endless variety, and here also space is found
for prints and hannels.
In the second story is a wonderfully inter
ssting and bewildering display of notions
aud gentlemen's furnishing goods, and there
are novelties from all parts of the world,
useful, ornamental and curious. The next
spacious hall is filed with white goods Of
every conceivable style, also hosiery, gloves
and shawls In making the grand tour
through these extensive apartments, the Wis
itor is impressed by the perfect order that
prevails and the quiet, methodical manner in
which the business is conducted. The ut
most system is observed and confusion is
impossible. Now as a special favor, perhaps
a visit to the great, airy hall used as manu-
factory is allowed, and here in the lofty upper
story with plenty of light and air, we find
several hundred bright young ladies indus
trously at work producing the numerous lines
of goods for mems wear for which the house
is deservedly famous. Scores of sewing
machines clatter away, sewing fast the
fabric which the def fingers of the
attendant maidens guide through them. The
heavy Mackinaw blankets, are fashioned into
bright, warm clothing for the hardy, winter
toilers of the pine woods Duck, checks and
woolens are made into variety of garments
for laboring men, and an average of three
hundred cutters and sewers are constantly
employed making these goods so popular
among lumbermen, miners and others.
The growth of the business of this house
has been almost marvellous, and it would APP
Dear quite so to one who did not know the
:aliber of the men conducting it; but the
combination Of business talent that forms
The firm is rarely equaled and never excelled.
There are about one hundred men employed
by the firm as CLERKS, statesmen, porters and
packers. The easements and first floor are
lnder the special charge of Mr.. A. H. Lin
ieke the manufacturing is superintendent
~ Mr.. Reuben Warner; the office and finan-
,ial department is conducted by Mr.. T. L.
Schurmeier; Mr.. II. G. Jones has charge of
he notion department. and Mr.. j. T. Sprang
of the white goods line.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
ARTHUR, WARREN & ABBOTT.
Importers and Jo66ers of Notions, Hosier!
and White Goods.

Importers and JoJJers of Notions, Hosiery
and White Goods.
NOS. 213 215 EAST THIRD STREET
This firm are importers and jobbers of no
tons, hosiery and white goods, and their
present place of business is at numbers 213
and 215 East Third street, few doors below
the Merchants hotel. This wide awake and
enterprsing firm started on their very sue
cessful career in st. Paul some four years
ago, and within that time have demonstrated
not only to their own satisfaction, but also
to the business community, and the public
generally, the fact that the trade will sustain
and fully appreciate a specially house. They
had the misfortune to be burned out last
December in tbs great fire
which destroyed the Drake build
ing, but Notwithstanding their
heavy loss and interruption to their business
they were not discouraged or dismayed. In
short time they were located in their pres
entquarters, and they still keep in the front
rank with constantly increasing trade until
their business has grown to such proportions
that they have leased for term of years an
elegant new building erected for their special
convenience, and now almost completed,
upen the site of the building formerly occu-
pied.by the firm previous to the fire above re-
ferEedto This new building is located at
Nos. 1SS and 100 East Third street, almost
opposite the Merchants hotel The building
is specially arranged with every facility for
handling a large business, snch as this
firm is carrying on. Its loca-
ton is probably the best and
most convenient of any wholesale house in
st. Paul, being scarcely a block from the
railroad depot and the steamboat landing.
As stated above this house makes speciality
of notions, hosiery, laces and white goods,
bat in their stock is also embraced embroi-
derics, gents furnishing goods, stationery,
etc The firm are heavy buyers as their sales
are large and evidently increasing, and
hence they can aud do afford not only
larger and better assorted stock to select
from to the trade and at better prices than
any house carrying their line OF goods in
connection with general stock of dry goods,
Already their trade Is extended from the
great lakes to The Pacific ocean and is rapid
ly Increasing Orders by mail always re-
ceive careful attention and are promptly
filed. They make no charge for case or
carriage, The members Of the firm are all
live, wide awake, enterprising honorable
business men who have earned and deserve
the success they have thus far met with in
st. Paul
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GROCERIES,.

From the very nature of things this branch
OF business is the heaviest in St Paul 1t
has reached giant proportions, the sales last
year reaching the colossal sum of $14, 000.-
600. Enormous as are these figures how
ever, they win be ovcrreached the present
year by fully twenty per cent The almost
marvellous rapidity with which this grand
Northwest, the land of plenty and promise
Of more, has been, and is being settled up,
carries with it the necessity for feeding the
constantly increasing millions The whole
sale grocery houses of st. Paul, the grand
gateway and distributing point Of this vast
area, are prepared to meet this necessity
and win probably do 50 TO the extent of $780,
100000 The present year as the sales up to
lune 30 amounted to SS.6S5,000 That is
kind Of business the wholesale grocery
houses of st. Paul do.
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KELLOGG, JOHNSON s. co.
Roots and Shoes.

CORNER FOURTH AND WACOUTA STREETS.
This house which is 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 mp 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
wareroom of Robinson & Cary. These spa
cious apartments contain finished goods of
all descriptions. A glance through their va
ried stock shows that in style and finish their
goods are unexcelled by any manufactured
in, the country, while the workmanship and
durability is fully vouched for by the large
and rapidly increasing demand for them.
The offices of the firm occupy the front por-
ton Of their city warerooms and they are very
convenient, spacious and pleasant.
Out on the old Fort road-what is now
great factory Of the house stands at the cor
ner of Western avenue. 1t is stately build
ing of four stories, and it is supplied with
all the latest and most improved machinery
known to the industry of shoeing the people.
Here something more than one hundred Of
the most carefully selected skilled workmen
are constantly employed fashioning the best
material 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.
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MAxFIELD s. sEABURY.
Wholesale Groccrs.


CoRNRR THIRD AND SHELLEY SHEETS.
Among the youngest firms in st. Paul con-
neeted with the wholesale grocery business,
is that of Maxfeld Il Seabury, and it may
truthfully be added that it is one OF the most
substantial popular and enterprising firms.
This establishment is the direct and legiti-
mate outgrOwth of a business founded u
number OF years since by the Messrs. Max
field, their specialities being the grain, pro-
vision and commission lines. Their opera
tons extended over the entire northwest from
the great lakes westward with civilization,
and often beyond it, and from central Wis
consin and Iowa to and through the British
Provinces. Thus establishing sn extensive
acquaintance and an even more extensive
reputation for enterprise and probity, the
transition to the wholesale grocery business
came naturally and easily. Having long
been in the markets as purchasers VI all
goods pertaining TO the grocery line, they were
in a position to give customers many benefits
in direct way, and hence the business was
founded.
The handsome, solid, granite block which
stands at The northwest corner of Third and
Siblcy streets is occupied by this firm Of which
Mr.. C. seabufy is the office head aud Mr. L.
f. Maxheid the superintendent of the de-
tails Of purchase and supply. The elegant
building is one Of the first attractions that
meet the eye Of the visitor to St. Paul after
he alights at the Union depot. The ware
house is very spacious having four stories
and basement al 95xl50 feet. aud mostly
toe who!e is used by the firm foF is vast bus
mess.
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In the manufacturing and iobbing lines. To
this firm belongs the credit and name of
running the first steam shoe factory in the
state. As stated above their salesroom was
removed to ST. Paul in July Of last year, and
at once took front rank in the leading
business houses of st. Paul. The members
of the firm are s. B. Foote, w. s. Johnson
and g. R. Sterling as general partners and
James Lawther as special
p:~tner. They are all practical men in their
line of business, having been "born in a
shoe box" to use homely phrase. Each
and every member of the firm is thoroughly
acquainted not only with the management
OF a large and important business requiring
heavy capital and careful attention to de-
tails, but also the practical part of the bust
ness. There is nothing which enters
into their business from the purchase
of every kind Of raw material
used in the mechanical labors necessary that
they do not understand thoroughly. With
this practical experience it is matter OF little
wonder that from small beginning they
have built up trade which is rapidly being
extended over the whole northwest. They
use only the finest and best leather stock,
which is selected by an experienced expert
and judge of the material, and they employ
only the best and most experienced work
men. These facts have become known,
and the consequence is that all
goods In their line from the
''stoga" of the cowboy to the finest shoe that
graces ladys foot stands deservedly high
with the trade and meets large and ready
sale. Durability and style of finish is what
they aim at in all they manufacture. In adj
dition to their own manufacture the firm
carries full line of eastern made goods
complete to fill any order, and Of every
grade and of every style and price.
Every member of the firm is a
driving, wide-awake, honorable and
practical business man, and the day is near
at hand when the firm of Foote, johnson q
Co. will take rank among the leading whole
sale business houses of st. Paul and the
northwest. They will win success because
they deserve it, and not one among their
friends will rejoice more sincerely over the
fact than the st. Paul GLOBE.
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LANPHER, FINCH s SKINNER.
HITS, Caps. Furs. Etc.

Nos. 1856 AND 1873 EAST FOURTH STREET.
In the year 1876 the firm OF Albrecht i
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.. Lanphcr
particularly in hats, caps, etc. Rapidly their
business grew and from the contracted lin
its 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 & Skinner, oc-
,cupies the most attractive of AL tie 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 100 feet deep. Most admira-
bly, is everything arranged, the pleasant Of
fees overlooking vast and neat pyramids of
boxes containing the finest of hats
manufactured. Below. the basement
is crowded with unbrokeu packages,
while in the upper stories are immense stocks
of goods In al the lines carried By the house,
which may be specified as follows: hats, caps,
furs, gloves. fnittcns, umbrellas and rubber
clothing, while they are the largest and old
est manufacturers of fur coats and robes in
the entire northwest, and in this connection
it 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 wo-
men sewers, besides male cutters, are en-
ployed Mr. Z. Albrecht, the former prin-
cipie of the firm, has retired, and is now the
president of the new GeTmznia bank OF ST.
Paul, but is still connected with the manu.
featuring branch. The assistance of FORTY
men are constantly required in the sales
rooms, offices and on the road, and the
house is q credit to the city, there being, of
the thirteen establishments Of the kind in
Chicago. but two doing larger business
than Lanpher, Finch & Skinner.