Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-26
WALLACE & GREGORY BROS. Their Extensive Cider and Vine-
 gar Business.
LARGEST IN THE WORLD.
The Birmingham Branch and Its Firm Grasp on the Southern Trade
 Large Shipment.

The growing importance of Birming- ham as a central distributing point for all kinds of goods throughout the south is amply demonstrated by the rapidly in- creasing number of outside firms who have found it to their advantage to es- tablish branches here. Among the most valuable additions thus secured of late to the trade and commerce of the Magic City is the firm of Wallace 6 Gregory Brothers, of Paducah, Ky, the largest manufacturers of pure juice cider and vinegar in the world. This business was established in 1868 by Joseph L. Friedman, who was succeeded by the present firm in 1894 An immense trade has been developed and the com pany found 1t necessary, about four months ago. to open a branch establish ment in this city in order to successfully meet the demands made upon them by the southern trade. Its management has been intrusted to MT. M E. Ham, a young and enterprising gentle man, who brings to bear thorough knowledge Of it's every feature and detail, and an nti- mate acquaintance with the requirements of the trade. He has four men travelling from this branch and has succeeded fns adding considerable to the large business of the company in the south. H has ex- elusive charge of the business in the southern states east of the Mississippi ] and south of the Mason Dixon line. Thel premises utilized in this city are located1 at 2O14 Avenue A, and comprise two-i story brick building, extending from Avenue A to Powell avenue. |
 The company employs in all thirty seven travelling men, and aside from the Birmingham branch they have branch houses at Pueblo, Col, Dallas, Texas, Montreal, Canada, and Richmond, Va.
 The factory of the company, which is located at Paducah, Ky, has a capacity of 300 barrels per diem. Their leading brands of vinegar, which, by-theway, are known throughout the United States. Canada and Central America are "Elko County" and "Sprit Esseg," made, as iS all their vinegar, from pure juices. We may say, eD passant, that purity Is the motto of Wallace & Gregory Brothers, and this motto they live up to in every sense of the word. The fruit they use is carefully selected and the best that money can buy.
 The processes, through which it is made to pass are perfectly pure, and not a, feck or taint is permitted to come near the products from the moment of their inception, or in any of the many phases of manufacture through which they pass. Purity is not only cardinal virtue in the Wallace & Gregory Brothers factory, but it is the keystone and cor nerstone of the policy that this establishment has followed in the past and will pursue until the end. Their laTBtSI tfaue comes IrOnl SlateS where pure food laws exist. They esta blished al plant in Montgomery some years ago, at a cost of $25000 for the manufacture of corn and malt vinegar, but on account of the pure food laws existing in other states, and the demand of the south- erners for the pure article or pure apple vinegar, mellow and ripe by age, the enterprise was not success and had to be abandoned None of their "Elko' vinegar leaves the storage warehouse un- til it is four years old.
 Tine cider manufactured by Wallace & Gregory Brothers Is all from pure fruit. They make a speciality of fine fruit sher- bets made from pure, unfermented fruit juices. These sherbets are great favor ties in prohibition towns, and for that reason there has been many attempts by interruptions dealers to counterfeit the products of this concern.
 The Wallace & Gregory Brothers goods are all sold through jobbers with the exception of perishable elders, which cannot be stored by the latter.
 The largest shipment of vinegar in the United States. so far as records show, was two train loads shipped by this conn pany, June 27, 1895 from their factory at Paducah, Ky, to Texas jobbers. The shipment represented 2.400 barrels, or 1000 gallons of vinegar.
 The Wallace & Gregory Brothers look more to the quality of their goods to in- crease their sales than to any other means, but the business is nevertheless pushed with an aggressiveness certainly not surpassed by any corporation in the whole wide-sweep of our ,states-repub-