The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06

The twenty-five years continuous ap-
plication as member of the firm of
Waldron & True, places to the credit
of Mr.. Samuel 4. True, period of thirty
odd years of experience in the handling
and marketing of flour and grain. Mr..
John II. True was formerly the Mr.. True
IF Mari e. True in the same line. Both
gentlemen are natives of Maine, the
birthplace of Mr.. S. A. True being in
Portland and Bangor that of MI. John
Il. True.
The Company as now organized is
thoroughly equipped with elevators,
warehouses and storage for the convent
ant handling of flour and grain and grain
products, with spurs of railway track
turning onto wharves at which yes
sells OF any tonnage may load or unload
cargo.
Gait Block Warehouse Co.
IN the venient and profitable con-
l!uct OF commercial affairs the storage
and care of goods and merchandise be.
comes factor of no trivial Importance.
L he Gait Block Warehouse. Co.. with
onices ana warehouse at Nos. 1. 5
~no 0diU DOCK, and located at %
commercial street, affords to the bust
ness interests, OF Portland com modious
space and watchful care over all Goods
and merchandise entrusted to their Ieen.
ing. The premises of the company aro
located in the very heart of the business
district, on tide water wharves frontine
on the marginal railway that skirts the
city, and connects with all the trunk and
branch roads that come into Portland.
The construction of these storaoe
rooms is such that the interior contains
pure, dry atmosphere, and the fire risl,
is reduced to minimum that warrants
the lowest possible rates of insurance.
The affairs of the company are man
aged by Mr.. Simeon Malone, most effic-
lent manager, and Mr.. S. A. Norton az
president of the company.
Paris FIGURING Co.
The business now conducted by the
Paris FIGURING Co. at No. 179 CONNER.
cial street, was first established at Minot.
Me-, by Messrs. Ansel r. and Roswell f.
Doten who there engaged in the milling
business and in its development acquired
a success that prompted their removal to
q point that would admit of more ex-
tended business with better shipping
facilities,
Since their removal to Portland. the
business has continued to meet with
success which has not been retarded by
the change in ownership and manage
ment brought about through the illness
OF the first founders of the business.
Messrs. Augustus j. and Edward II.
Nickerson who are now the company,
are both young men in the active years
Of life, thoroughly trained to aad CONVEX
SAINT with all that pertains to the hand
ling aid marketing of grain. Their bust
ness is confined to the handling of grain
in cargo and car load lots, in the sale of
which they are most admirably located
for the transfer of cargoes for reshipment
without expense of unloading or reload
ing. They accept orders for the prompt
delivery of any kind of grain raised in
any one section of the country to be
delivered in any other.
The Norton-Ch apman Company
of which Hon. Charles J. Chapman is
the treasurer and managing spirit is the
successor Of the old commission house Of
Norton, Chapman & Company which for
great many years was one of the most
honorable and largest business houses in
its line in Maine. The business begun
ana successfully carried on by the origi-
nal firm has been greatly increased and
enlarged by It's business offsprings.
While -four has been tho chief product
handled by this concern it has branched
out into the handling of other we'll
known food products and now disposes
Of great quantities of them every year.
Tho company is sole Maine agent for the
great Pillsbury Flour Mills, Crystalline
Salt, Wheat Germ Meal and other we'll
known staple articles beside being agent
for numerous other smaller mills and
more or less noted patent products. They
are large receivers and sellers of sardines
all kinds Of canned fish, and goods Of
various kinds.
Hon. G. j. Chapman the m a mayer Of
the corporation has long been known as
one of the shrewdest and ablest business
men OF the state and the appreciation In
which he is held by his fellow citizens of
Portland is best evidenced that for three
successive terms "a most unusual honor,
he was chosen by handsome majorities
to be the chief magistrate of the Forest
City and while Mayor conducted the
famous centennial celebration of Port
land which reflected so much honor upon
the CITY and the grace and executive
ability of her chief magistrate. Mr..
Chapman is always identified with ali
measures that tend to the advancement
of his native city and State.