The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-24
We ARE ALL PROUD
OF the Big House of Crane s Co. of
Topeka.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE DIRECTORY.
This Firm Secures a Contract From q
Big Kansas City Establishment.

This Firm Secures Contract From a
Big Kansas City establishments.
At first casual examination of the
new city directory one is struck with the
beauty andsstyle of the Typography but
the JOURNAL said nothing about it at the
time, as it seems to be taken for granted
that any work which comes from the
house of Crane & Co., is first class
This piece of work seems so much be-
yond the usual quality that it is worthy
| of special notice.
The present volume is master piece
! of workmanship. consisting, as it does,
of nearly eight hundred pages and
handsome binding that carries with it
substantial appearance.
The finest feature, perhaps, is the
press work on the delicate half tone pic
lures of citizens. 1t has all the appear
ancs of steel engravings, requiring the
most expensive of improved machinery
with the assistance of expert workmen.
The book contains vast amount of
varied information which is intelligently
classified and splendidly printed by this
! firm.
For years the Topeka City Directory,
which has always been printed by Crane
s. Co., has been acknowledged by Rand,
NcNally. s. Co., and r L. Polk s Co.,
the big directory publishers to be the
best and handsomest production of the
kind in the country, not excepting their
own public cations.
This is substantial tribute to Crane s.
| Co., and a deserved award, as it has been
the ambition of this firm to send no work
| from the Office that bore their imprint
save of the best.
| Crane & Co. are now busy with large
and handsomely illustrated catalogue for
Kansas City wholesale firm which bids
fair to prove a better piece of skilled
workmanship, if such were possible,
than the city directory.
Although the bid of Crane & Co. was
! 500 higher than that of the competing
Kansas City firms yet the job came to
Topeka on account of quality. This,
Mr.. Crane considers one of the highest
compliments ever paid him, and when it
| is taken into account that such skilled
workmen as Kansas City affords were
competitors, it is not to be wondered at.
There is no man in Kansas who is
more widely and favorably known than
George w. Crane, and this is largely due
to the fact that his work and is always
done promptly and right and is up 10
date.
Another department in the establish
ment is the blank book and bindery.
Here are made large portion of the
| OOOho US6Q ny GUILTY OIlC6I6 duQ dU-
| stractor5 throughout the state So gen
eral are the books of this firm in use that
it is safe to say that from the Missouri
river to the Colorado line no county clerk
| or clerk of the courts Office can be found
| that does not have therein record books
of this firm. And this is not because they
may be less costly, but because of their
excellence of manufacture.
This firm is not distinctively Topeka
which the people of the whole state is
proud of.
They employ many hands, al
ways paying such wages that the men
| are happy and contented, and strikes and
rumors of strikes are unknown.
Not the least feature is the distinctive
job department, where letter heads, bill
heads, notes, blank checks and other fine
engraving work is done.
Wedding invitations, ball programmes,
calendars and delicate little souvenirs
ere turned out from this department that
would equal anything in its line secured
in eastern cities.
Legal blanks are a specially. A pre-
liminary mention in the new directory
of Topeka publishing houses by Joseph
Waters says:
Zone OF these institutions has become
widely noted through its voluminous
legal blanks originally introduced about
twenty-five years ago by a sp-outing
limb of the law, who, while waiting for
clients, devoted all his time in framing
legal blanks and FORMS which have been
circulated SO numerously and widely
since that the state could raiment itself
with his blanks concerning estrays. Many
an old citizen of Kansas, as he breaks
sod on resurrection day, will be pleasur-
ably surprised at seeing some fragment
of the bleached anatomy of that gifted
pettiIogger lying around bearing his
publishers imprint"
Mr.. Crane claims to have the only
law book store in Kansas, keeping in
stock the general statutes OF Kansas, re-
prints of the supreme court reports,
pleading aud practice, etc This house
has also made a specially of Excelsior
readers and other school books and
proved lively competitor for various
other book companies.
The catalogues of this firm, which will
be mailed to any inquirer, shows that the
founding of the establishment began
along with the "log cabin era, back in
1868, and has grown steadily, in a modes,
way, commensurate with the growth oil
the state.
While reTerses, rainy days, grasshop-
pers and drouths have come and gone
often leaving in their wake tankru ptcy
and ruin, the firm of Crane & Co. has
safely weathered the gale This is. in g
measure, due to efficient work in one
sense and Kansas grit in another
The JOURNAL has seen much of this
work and speaks by the card.
ANY work bearing the imprint of Geo
W. Crane & Co. is standard. What more
can be said.