The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-31
AN IMPORTANT INSTITUTION.
The Kansas sash and Door Company Enjoy
ing the Fruits OF Better Times.

ing the Fruits OF Bette Times,
The Kansas Sash and Door company
who are located on South Mosley avenue,
is one of the institutions of the city that
is feeling the effects of the good times
which are now prevailing in Wichita. OF
course good times will not cause boom
in any particular business; those who
manage it must have brains TO take ad-
vantage of the opportunity and in this es-
sential the Kansas Sash and Door COM
pany are well equipped. Mr.. Parks, the pres
ident of the company, IS thorough sash
and door man, having been brought up, as
the boys around the institution claim, on
saw dust and pine knots. He is a business
man from the soles of his feet TO the crown
of his head and is additionally blessed
with very even and affable disposition
which enables him TO make friends and
hold them. Another great factor IN the
success of the Kansas Sash and Door
company is Mr. J. a. Van Denberg, the
secretary of the company. Like Mr.. Parks,
Mr.. Van Denberg was reared where he
could hear the noise Of the
axe and saw every day and he lost nothing
by being raised in such surroundings, for
he is one of the best sash and door men of
the west Both Mr.. Van Denberg and MIR
Parks make first-class team and pitched
together as they are in the management of
the business in this city, 1t is no wonder 1t
! is a success.
| The business of the firm has Increased so
much recently that their present building
became entirely too small for them and
! yesterday morning they commenced the
! foundation for large addition to it. The
present building is 75x10e feet, and when
! the addition is completed it will be 75xl59
| feet and three stories high All this vast
building is so crammed full of goods that
another stick can't be piled into it, and yet
there gre six or eight car loads of goods on
the track which can not be unloaded until
| the addition is completed.
Mr.. Parks expresses himself as being de-
| lighted with the trade of the year just
closing, and looks forward to the coming
year with expectations of making it the
| banner year.
The Kansas Sash and Door company has
I connections with the largest sash and door
| factories in the United States, which is
| located at Oshkosh, Wis, the city which
manufactures more doors and windows
than any other city in the world. The
doors and windows come to Wichita I'M
constructed. This is the secret of the
| compaDy's success in meeting the prices Of
! other cities, and in many instances under
selling them. They get ali the sections
dressed and ready to put together and in
this way they not only save the freight on
unserviceable lumber, but save good
Il ao1O of hut h. izi Of
| in cars as we'll When these sections
| arrive thev are all numbered and are put
| together in the work shop of the company
! by joiners, who are kept as busy as nailers
from one end of the week to the
other in order TO be able to fill
the increasing orders for the goods which
are coming in daily from almost
every city in Kansas, Oklahoma, the Pan
handle, northern Texas, Colorado, New
! Mexico and western Missouri. The COM
pany's trade extends as far east as Joplin
and as.far west as Las Vegas, in both of
which towns they are doing a nice bust
ness.
/ The glass is put in all the windows In
the company's own glazing room and Is
a sight to see how rapidly 1t is done. The
chief glazier, Mr. Clark, is dandy at his
business, and there is not day passes over
his head, while he works, that he does not
put in 700 panes of glass. The company is
a credit to Wichita and on every occasion
they speak good word for the city. The
managers of it are certainly rustlers after
trade, and their rustling qualities are
bringing them the success they merit
Yesterday, alone, they loaded five cars for
shipment to as many different points Of
the compass, embraced in the territory
heretofore mentioned. They carry a stock
valued at about $3.50, 900, and the managers
having made the sash and door trade the
study of lifetime, they are always pre-
pared to fill orders, as they allow no line
of goods to run low, and for this reason
they are always prepared to fill orders with
promptness.