The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-02-21


The great house of Jordan, Marsh 4
Co., of Boston, is said to be the mos
wonderful of its kind in the world. Thi:
house raised the first United States flag in
this city when the war broke out. and
armed and equipped forty-five of its EN-.
| ployes as soldiers for the union, and kent
all the survivors on it's pay rolls until
their return after the war; and when
| Charleston, S. O., was visited by earth.
quakes in 1886, they were the first to re.
spoDd in Boston, and Mr.. Jordan, az
treasurer of the citizens committee
promptly forwarded $4,000 to relieve the
distressed of that city. Loyalty to the
Tag IN 1861 was not greater than
loyalty to suffering humanity in 1885
There are ten acres of selling space upon
the floors of this mammoth concern, and
it has about 5000 employees on its paw
rolls. They sell everything that men and
women wear, and all articles for the fam
lily and household, and a more complete
variety of such articles cannot be found
under one roof on the habitsble earth.
| think am safe in saying that 1 saw
5000 peoFl, in this store during a visit
| made there a few days before Christ
mas. They sell much at Wholesale as we'll
as retail, and Texas shows largely in this
trade. Many of our Texas ladies buy
through their order department. Mr..
Ebon ID. Jordan, of this firm, is one of
the foremost men in New England, and
started life as floor sweeper IN mer-
camille house, and he is prince among
men, socially as we'll as in business. He
is principal sto kholder in the Boston
Globe, one of the greatest daily news
papers in the world, and this paper has
forwarded $25 to Texas to help the Con-
federate soldiers.
The great importing and jobbing tea
and coffee firm of Chase O. Sanborn, of
this city, have interested themselves for
our Confederate home and have con-
tributed 800 toward it, and Mr.. Chase
has bsen especially kind in introducing
me to leading and wealthy gentlemen of
his acquaintance. This firm does the
largest and most extensive business of
the kind in this country, and their trade
extends into every state in the
union. Some idea of the magnitude of
their business may be had in the fact that
they roast about 100000 pounds of coffee
monthly or 400 tons and sell about 10000
chests of tea annually-coffee and tea
enough, it would seem, to supply cup of
each to every inhabitant of these states at
every matutinal meal the year round,
They control their own coffee planta-
tions in Guatemala, and the warehouse
room, machinery for handling, roasting,
separating, ETC., in their great establish
ment here are next to phenomenal. Ar
buckle, of New York, is the only coffee
rooster on the continent that approx
mates this great house in the volume of
business done of this character, and Ar
buckle prepares the lower while Chase a.
Sanborn engage only in the higher grades
of coffee. Mr.. SanbOrn, of this firm, has
invented coffee extract which is becom
ing In general use in many parts of the
old and new world-an extract of the best
grade OF Jaw. Two teaspoonfuls of thi,
liquid in cup of hot water supplies
cup OF coffee that cannot be equalled
when prepared by any other method.
They have branch houses in Montreal
Chic go, Cincinnati, st. Louis and Kansas
CITY, and they engage very extensively in
the sale of green as we'll as roasted coffees.
1t Will doubtless be of interest to our
wool growers to learn something of the
details of handling and marketing woods
from the time it is clipped from the mild.
hammered sheep until it reaches the spin
ner. l can best present this subject
matter by referring to the great wool
house of Luce g. Manning, of 1873 Federal
street, Boston, the largest and most extern
slve OF its character in the country, which,
as has been mentioned in our Texas
papers, contributed 800 to our Confeder-
ate home. In 1866 Manning, Rowland d
Luce lnaugurated the business that has
grown and extended into such mammoth
and they were succeeded by
Rowland, Luce d Co, which continued
until 1879, when the mantle fell upon Luce
g. Manning, which firm name has con-
tlnued to the present time. Mr.. Luce is |
now only As years old, and Mr.. Manning
four years his junior, and yet these gen
tlemen are at the head of the greatest
wool firm in the country, though |
Mr.. Luce embarked in business
in this great city when lad,
and without money or business reputation |
to secure status for him. And Just here
would remark that it is but another evil !
dence of what brains, pluck, energy and
may accomplish in so great and |
so conservative and SO old city as this !
intellectual and moral club" During the
year just closed this firm handled about !
100000 pounds of wool, much of it
from England and Australia, bat mostly .
from the United States. Much of this was
BY purchase, but by far the largest
part was handled on commission. |
About 20 per cent of the woods marketed
oy this house are graded before arriving
acre, especially the English, Australian
Ind California fl ,eces and what are known
"a commercial circles as "ptl ed wools;"
The other rs per cent they grade them
selves. 1t is generally shipped to them in
'acks containing from thirty five to forty
leeces, weighing about 225 pounds each.
The unwashed woods of Texas and the
territories furnish from three to four
grades per sack, and washed woods from
ohio and some other states at
lord as many as four to five
grades per lot and one sack
nay sometimes represent five grades. 1t
'equires a we'll educated eye and touch to
grade these woods for the miller and this
house of Luce Manxing employs a
grader" who grades and classes all woods,
Ind who does nothing else, aud his ipse
iiKit is the law of the market.
When so graded each grade is placed in
separate lot and then sold to the manu-
acturer. This great task of asserting
md grading necessitstes much labor and
more hOnsa rOnm md Iuca 4 Mo,n;n, I